The Facts About Sneezing

Sneezing can occur at any time such as while cleaning the house, exposed to the flu or cold air. But there is another fact that not many people know about the sneeze.

Some people can sneeze every day while others only at certain times only. Sneezing is one way the body to remove foreign objects from the nose which can cause irritation such as dust, flour, bacteria or viruses. (QMKWJPVKXED6)

But the process is not as easy as sneezing people think, because it still involves many organs and functions of the body.

As quoted from Fitsugar, Thursday (4/2/2010) There are 5 facts associated with this phenomenon is sneezing:

1. Exercise can make people sneeze.
When people train too hard, and breathing becomes heavy, then automatically the mouth and nose became dry. As a result of the body will react with water dripping that trigger people to sneeze.

2. Sneezing speed is very high.
When someone sneezes, the mucus or foreign objects in the mouth and nose will come out with a speed of 100 miles per hour. When sneezing is usually issued 100,000 germs into the air, because it should hold my nose and mouth with a hand or elbow coverage when sneezing so as not to endanger the people around.

3. People will not sneeze while sleeping.
Someone does not have to worry about going to wake up during sleep due to sneeze. This is because while sleeping, sneezing nerve will also be rested.

4. Exposed to the sun can cause sneezing.
Approximately 1 in 3 people will sneeze when exposed to bright sunlight. Sensitivity to sunlight is influenced by genetic factors.

5. Sex can trigger a sneeze.
Stimulation that occurs in the parasympathetic nervous system was not only gives a signal to someone to enjoy sex, because in some people it can trigger sneezing after intercourse is completed.

Testing Quality Toothpaste Through Egg

Jakarta, Want to know how good quality toothpaste you currently use? A simple experiment can be done at home to prove the content of fluoride in toothpaste. With capitalize eggs, you can know whether the toothpaste is used for porous enough to prevent tooth or not.

Rotten teeth is damage to the tooth structure which affects the outer layer that protects the teeth, namely email. This damage can continue to spread until the layers in the teeth (dentine and pulp). If left over time, not just a toothache that will be felt but can also be a serious illness.

"I once had a patient a former officer's wife. He was sentenced to only a stroke because of an infection in his teeth. And it all happened after 2 years of dental infections," said Rosa, Rai Djalal drg on the show 'Eggsperimen, Only the Strong Proves Lasting' at Plaza Sentral, Jakarta, Wednesday (3/2/2010).

According to a beautiful doctor who is also Presidential Spokesman wife SBY, Dino Pati Jalal, the tooth will easily porous if there are four factors, namely the tooth itself, the substrate (food scraps), microorganisms and time.

"Plaque or food scraps that contain carbohydrates and sugar is converted by bacteria in the mouth becomes acidic compounds. Acid issued long plaque can erode tooth enamel, causing thinning," said Rosa drg.

Therefore, to prevent and protect teeth from thinning, be sure to use toothpaste that contains enough fluoride. Substance of fluoride will prevent tooth pengeropposan by inhibiting demineralisasi and harden tooth enamel

How to know fluoride is enough or not? Try doing the following simple experiment:

1. Provide an egg, a bowl and toothpaste.
2. Toothpaste Pour into a small bowl that has been filled with water, stir and dissolve with the average
3. Immerse the egg into the solution of toothpaste, let stand for 4 days
4. After 4 days, rinse the eggs that have been soaked until clean and dry
5. Once dry, insert the eggs into a glass containing a solution of vinegar and let stand for 3 hours

If within 3 hours of the eggshells that have been soaked in vinegar solution becomes incomplete, meaning the content of fluoride in toothpaste is not maximized. There should have fluoride in toothpaste can keep calcium in egg shells for 5 hours.

The characteristics of the coated eggs toothpaste to low fluoride include:

1. Quickly produce air bubbles when I first dipped in acid solution
2. Fast floating because egg density is reduced due to the release of calcium from egg shells
3. experiencing rapid peeling eggshell within 3 hours

In these experiments, the egg analogy as teeth because both have calcium network vulnerable to acid. Meanwhile analogous vinegar as the acid in the mouth. Acid in vinegar and sour mouth pasa both are corrosive and reacts to calcium.

A good toothpaste is toothpaste that calcium can prevent tooth damage from acidic compounds. In the egg test, a good toothpaste should be able to prevent damage to the shell to remain intact and not be separated from its shell.

In addition to using a toothbrush, toothpaste with fluoride is, the consumption of vegetables and fruits should also be copied because it can be as self-cleaning. "Fruit and vegetables will trigger saliva production, thereby reducing the level of acidity in the mouth and reduces the risk of brittle teeth," said Rosa drg.

Brushing your teeth 2 times a day also should not be underestimated because the impact can affect the aesthetic one.

"Appeal to brush your teeth 2 times a day (after meals and before bed) is not playing games. Kerapihan dental hygiene and is an important factor supporting the aesthetics, especially women. Even if her teeth pretty but hollow, it would seem so bad," he said.

Women Need More Sleep 20 Minutes Lots Of Men

New York, Women need to sleep 20 minutes more than men. Female brains are more complex and a lot of thinking and doing (multitasking) made to rest more than men.

Professor Jim Horn of the Sleep Research Center, Loughborough University says more women need to sleep because of its multitasking nature of the larger and more complex brains than men. The more often the brain is used, the more brain cells to be rested.

"Women do work more in one time. They are also used his head more often than men. For this reason, time to sleep even more," Prof Horne said, as quoted from Newyorkdailynews, Thursday (28/1/2010).

Men also actually need more sleep when many jobs that require heavy thinking, but still not as much as she needed.

"Women have more commitment to do something, for example a new wife could not sleep after all the homework done," says Michael Breus, author of "Beauty Sleep: Look Younger, Lose Weight, and Feel Great Through Better Sleep '.

In The American Academy of Sleep Medicine, researchers from North Carolina says that women are more disturbed sleep than men. And one intruder sleeping woman is a man who slept beside her.

Pregnant women are also more difficult to sleep because of the position is rather disturbing stomach. In addition, a mother is also more sensitive and will wake up when his son was crying. But according to Prof Horne, it was actually caused her brain aging more slowly than men.

"A 75-year-old woman will have the same brain structure with a 70-year-old man. That is to say, man's brain faster than older women means greater risk of dementia in men," explained Prof Horne.

The average adult needs to sleep 6 to 8 hrs, but each individual can be different needs. To be sure, if you feel your brain is too often used, so sleep even more.

The puzzle of HIV AIDS drugs began to lift

London, scientists began to solve an important puzzle about the AIDS virus. Research over the past 20 years has led to the discovery of better treatments for people living with HIV.

British researchers and the United States has managed to grow a crystal that allows researchers to see the structure of an enzyme called integrase. This enzyme is found in retroviruses such as HIV and is a target for a new HIV drug.

"Although initially working too hard and our efforts often fail, but we do not give up and eventually our efforts rewarded," said Peter Cherepanov from Imperial College London, who conducted the study with scientists from Harvard University, was quoted as saying by Reuters on Monday (1 / 2 / 2010).

Scientists from Imperial and Harvard announced that it has successfully had the structure of the integrase of the virus. This means that researchers can begin to understand how the work of the integrase inhibitor drugs and how to stop the development of HIV.

In the journal Nature, explains when Cherepanov human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to infect a person, use the enzyme integrase to insert copies of genetic information in DNA that person.

Some new drugs like Isentress for HIV from Merck & Co. and Elvitegravir (experimental drug from Gilead Sciences) works by blocking integrase. But the scientists do not yet know exactly how the work of the integrase and how to fix it. The only way to know is to get high-quality crystals.

"When we decided to start with, we know this is a difficult project.'ve Tried many tricks but always failed, so had to return to the starting point for models of HIV integrase better crystallization process," said Cherepanov.

It takes more than 40,000 tests in order to obtain a high-quality crystals that allows researchers to view three-dimensional structure.

Researchers grow crystals by using loans from the retroviral integrase similar to HIV. Researchers examining crystals from Merck medicines and Gilead in order to see how these drugs bind and inhibit integrase work.

Since the beginning of AIDS epidemic nearly 60 million people have been infected with HIV and 25 million people died related to HIV. Although the combination of several drugs can make patients still look healthy, but until now there is no vaccine or medicine that can cure her.

Data of the United Nations in the year 2008 there were 33.4 million people infected with HIV and 2 million of whom died of AIDS. The worst hit region is the impact of sub-Saharan Africa.

Hazards of Asbestos Roof House

Asbestos was widely used for the roof of the house. In the long run continuously inhaled asbestos can cause health risks. Asbestos enters the body through inhalation.

The impact of hazards of inhaling asbestos fibers can not be seen in a short time. Sometimes the symptoms only appear within 20-30 years after exposure to asbestos fibers first time.

As quoted from Health.nsw, Friday (29/1/2010) asbestos fibers are inhaled and enter the lungs can cause Asbestosis (scarring incidence in the lungs), lung cancer and mesothelioma (cancer that attacks membrane mesothelium).

Risk of this disease will increase equal to the number of asbestos fibers are inhaled. Besides the risk of lung cancer due to inhaling asbestos fibers greater than cigarette smoke.

This was caused by asbestos made up of tiny fibers are easily separated, so that if the fibers are flying in the air and inhaled by the body will be harmful to health.

Usually this asbestos fibers can cause health risks if it enters the body through inhalation. The number of small asbestos fibers in the air that is inhaled one moment to breathe will not cause pain.

The average person only inhaled asbestos in a number of very small and low risk to health. several studies have shown that the shape of a sheet of asbestos showed no significant health risks.

People who are at risk to have health problems due to asbestos typically working in mining or industry.

But that does not mean the roof of a house made of asbestos is not dangerous at all, only the risk of disruption health lower. Various forms of asbestos materials to make the level of different health risks.

If the asbestos fibers in a stable form such as sheets and in good condition, then a small health risk. However, if the sheet is already damaged, perforated or wrong in terms of its use, it can menimbilkan higher risk.

Asbestos building materials commonly used as a sheet of cement (fibro), drainage, flue pipes, roofs or other building boards. Starting in the 1960s and 1970s, the asbestos fibers are widely used by the public as roof insulation.

To reduce the exposure of asbestos fibers and to prevent short-term can be done several ways:

1. Spraying water into the sheet of asbestos to prevent soil, dust or fibers flying through the air.
2. Closing the asbestos with plastic sheeting or tarpaulins to avoid exposure to the weather.
3. Preventing child to play on the roof of the house made daria asbestos.
4. Replace the asbestos sheets that have been damaged or perforated.
5. As much as possible to the boundary between asbestos premises of the room in the house.

Many Source of Diseases Comes from Protein

Many people do diet foods by reducing fat and increased protein. The man who wants to have big muscles also intentionally expand the protein in food intake. Though the concept was wrong, the excess protein is precisely the source of the disease for the body.

Protein is necessary to build body muscle, skin tissue, hair, nails and more. But be careful, mostly eating protein could endanger health. There have been many scientific studies that prove the dangers of excess protein for the body.

"The number of proteins that more than 30 percent of calories your body needs can be a health hazard," says Gail Butterfield, PhD, RD, director of Nutrition Studies at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Medical Center and nutrition experts from Stanford University, as quoted Medicinenet, Friday (29 / 1 / 2010).

Unlike fat cells that can be stored in fat tissue if the excess, the body does not have a place to store excess protein. Therefore, most proteins will be diuban body fat beforehand to be saved. This is the key of the dangers of excess protein.

The more protein that is converted into fat in the body's fat stores to grow, and that means the risk of disease will come from fat, ranging from high cholesterol to heart disease

In the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society is mentioned, the excess protein is bad for the kidneys, liver and causes the body to vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Excess protein is also closely linked to osteoporosis and cancer.

Gail says that excess protein can produce compounds that are toxic ketones. These compounds will cause the kidneys work harder to get them out of the body. As a result, the kidneys will need more water and hence dehydration appear.

If the body is dehydrated, weight can be decreased due to muscle and bone mass decreases. As a result, there is the risk of osteoporosis. Dehydration also causes the kidneys to stress and its effects will impact on the heart.

Ketone compounds and dehydration also causes the body to become weak, dizzy, bad breath and others. Protein can also cause allergic reactions, such as dermatitis topic, chilblain, collagen disease, ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Excessive animal protein can damage DNA and cells change into cancer cells.

How much protein your body needs?

According to the Recommended Daily Allowances (RDA) which created the Food and Nutrition Board, ideally someone needs 0.72 grams of protein for each kilogram of body weight. So if you weight 80 kg, the protein that is required is about 57 grams.

If someone reproduce the consumption of protein without carbohydrate intake, the body will turn protein into glucose that should be the task of producing glucose carbohydrates.

But the changed proteins are not able to build muscle. Needed to build muscle is to exercise regularly with a sufficient protein intake. However, the body still needs protein to mensistesis enzymes, hormones, and others against infection.

For that, you should behave if they want to consume balanced high-protein foods like meat, cheese, milk and eggs.

Blueberry Improve Brain Damage

Cincinatti, blueberry fruit can provide increased capacity to remember and learn  significantly. Blueberries are also shown to reduce damage to brain cells, thereby reducing the risk of dementia or other problems in the brain.

Blueberries effects of increased brain power not only been tested on mice, but researchers also proved that in humans.

Researchers from The University of Cincinatti doing tests on two small groups consisting of 18 participants aged 70 years. At the beginning of the study, participants reported to have signs of memory disorders.

One group was given two cups of blueberry juice every day for 3 months, whereas the other group was given only a placebo drink (pseudo) but thought the drink contains blueberries.

Both groups were given the same test, the memory test to determine the effect of blueberry beverage brain function, especially memory.

Only within 3 months after blueberry juice, the participants could remember names more quickly, produce high scores on tests of words and tend to decrease depression.

Researcher Robert Krikorian reported the results of these findings in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. He concluded that blueberries can provide increased capacity to remember and learn the significant.

"The results of this study can hopefully encourage someone to eat blueberries as a supplement to prevent or improve brain deterioration," Krikorian said as quoted Telegaph, Wednesday (27/1/2010).

Blueberries contain chemical compounds known antosianin that can accelerate the delivery of messages or information to the brain and inhibits the cells from damage associated with age. Blueberries are one super fruit because of other properties that can fight cancer, heart disease, asthma, cataracts and more.