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Walking Slowly, Dead Fast

Posted by Shisuka Friday, March 5, 2010 0 comments

Scientists from the institute of medical research in France, Inserm, found that older people and walked slowly almost three times more likely to die from heart disease and other causes compared with older age and run faster.

Alexis Elbaz, Research Director of Inserm told to Reuters Health that maintaining fitness in old age is important to help preserve life and muscle function",.

Study published by BMJ Journal has also shown, walking speed tests can be used to check the health of the elderly. Several previous studies correlated this slowly walk with an increased risk of death during a certain period, but did not show whether it was due to heart disease or other disorders.

Studies for five years, which was a series of Three Cities Study in France, involving over 3200 male and female healthy 65-85 year.  At the beginning of the study, in 1999, scientists assess the health of participants and calculate their speed while walking in the corridor.

Next five years, 209 participants died, 99 percent of cancer, heart disease 59, 53 due to infectious diseases and other causes. Overall mortality rate of almost seven percent.

The death rate in one-third of participants who walked at the latest (the man who walked 3.4 miles per hour or slower, and women who walk three miles per hour or slower) 44 percent higher than the other two-thirds of participants who walked more quickly.

Deaths from heart attack, stroke, and other related causes 2.9 times more common in one-third of participants who walked the walk slowly than the fastest. The increase in death rates from heart disease seen in men and women, not related to age or physical activity. Researchers found that there is no link between walking speed and other causes of death, including cancer.

Then, what is the connection between walking slowly and deaths due to heart disease? Possibility, expressed Elbaz, the same factors that increase the risk of heart disease such as hypertension and diabetes that also resulted in "silent stroke", makes people difficult to walk fast.

Improve your Personal Life with Yoga

Posted by Shisuka Thursday, January 21, 2010 0 comments




Yoga is not an exercise it is a practice. Yoga is intended to redirect your entire body to make it all come together. Yoga works the mind combined with the body to make it fall into place, which helps one to improve personal overall life.  

Everyone needs a little help one time or another to get their health and thinking on track.  Practicing yoga brings the perfect out of all of us, teaching us to meditate and at the same time, helps relieve that awful stress. Along with helping to relieve stress, yoga strengthens our limbs, mind, refreshes us and even helps us lose weight. Our energy level will increase because we feel better.

When starting to practice Yoga take it slow and easy. Don’t force your body into the different postures all at once.  If you do more than your body says it can do, you could hurt yourself.  Like any exercise program, you need to go slow and stick with it.  You might not notice a difference right away but hang in there and it will come in time.
 
Don’t go out and buy all new exercising cloths just to practice yoga.  All you need is sweats and a comfortable loose fitting top.  Maybe after awhile you might want to buy a yoga mat but most gyms will furnish them. Wherever you are you can practice using a towel for the floor mat they work just as good. 

If you’re a person that can’t stand and if you are not flexible, this can be done in a chair.  So, stand or sit. You can become the person you’ve always wanted to be.  Make those muscles stronger and get that mind into shape along with feeling better and you’ll get to your goal.

Do you have allergies; the noise runs and your eyes water, you are congested, and just don’t feel good especially in the cold weather.  Practicing Yoga can help strengthen and balance the immune system with its slow breathing and posture.  The nervous system will relax and it calms down the virus.

Is it hard for you to fall to asleep or stay asleep?  Try laying on the bed or floor before crawling into bed.  This is a good time to practice meditating to relax.  Lay on your back with the palms up and start at your head.  Start with the head and relax it then the neck and on down slowly until you reach your feet.  Practice as often as possible and this one will help you sleep once you’ve relaxed the whole body.

You can practice Yoga at the office sitting at your desk, in the park anywhere you can meditate. When sitting in a chair twist from side to side, rotate your head side to side and to the front and back, put you arms above your head and stretch. While doing these movements in your chair as you relax shut your eyes and let all thoughts come in and go out. 

Stressed and need to learn how to breath slow and then sleep will come, Yoga can be useful for all ages from children to Grandma and Grandpa. The children can practice to strengthen the mind and body by standing beside you and Grandma and Grandpa can sit in the chair.  Strengthening and relaxing along with the meditating is good for everyone. It all gets easier to you.

Yoga can also be good for your heart. The heart will become stronger, Someone who suffers from epilepsy can benefit from practicing Yoga because it stimulates the brain; some people in a study that was taken says it decreased the amount of seizure’s they were experiencing. Yoga is known to help the mentally handicapped by relaxing their minds, letting them think well.

I’ve given you a few ideas on why a person might want to try practicing Yoga so go for it and enjoy
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Stop Smoking, Please

Posted by Shisuka Thursday, October 29, 2009 0 comments


Stop smoking now means you could live a happy and healthier life. As you already know smoking is bad for everyone, not just the ones that smoke but the ones that breath in the second hand smoke. Second hand, smoke is harder on you then smoking. Forty-five hundred Americans start smoking every year. Why would they want to do this to them self I can’t truly answer you. Because once you get started, you cannot stop. You are hooked and that is not very good for you. Most people start at an early age in life, they are curious or they want to be cool. The biggest problem is most people lack education that helps them to see how smoking causes them to age faster.
 
The problems smoking can cause:
Smoking can cause many problems when it comes to your health not to think about the expense. Smoking can cause cancer, heart disease, and strokes, increase cholesterol and so on. Your heart is affected, since smoking causes your blood vessels to build up with cholesterol and fat. The results leads to harden of the arteries. Harden arteries mean that the blood flow will not pump fast enough to support the heart’s natural requirements. This starts blood clotting, broken blood vessels etc. It can also cause angina which will make you think that your having a heart attack but your aren’t its just not getting enough blood to the heart to make it pump right. Then it can cause you to have a heart attack, since smoking is a blockage so that there is no blood going to the heart.

Smoking can cause strokes or bronchiolitis. This disease is contagious, which most people do not realize it. The viral infection affects the airway, which affects breathing. The common cause of this contagious disease is smoking or second hand smoke. Smoking promotes bad breath, stained teeth, smelly furniture and clothes. You also get common colds and flu more often. You will start to cough and then you won’t be able to breath they even may put you on oxygen. In addition, smoking is so expensive now days. It is not worth it you will end up regretting it in end. On top of this, you get addicted to the nicotine once you are hooked your hooked.

Bronchiolitis is a common viral infection, which affects the respiratory syncytial. The condition causes inflammation. Once the inflammation accumulates the airway is blocked, since the nicotine consumptions and infections causes the airway to narrow, which the flow of air is obstructed.
 
Why is nicotine addictive?
You get addicted to the nicotine because of all the chemical put into the tobacco. It’s not so much as the nicotine that makes you sick it’s the chemicals that they put in the tobacco, that cause you to get the disease like lung cancer and heart disease. In addition, what ever you get from smoking. Nicotine or cigarettes have several chemicals incorporated into it to causes addictions, and finally death.
 
How can I quite smoking?
Once you are hooked, it is going to be hard to quite. You have to decide that you’re going to quite regardless of what it causes, such as weight gain or being on edge.

You have to pull up the will power to do this and stick to it. You can say I will have one now and no more, yet it don’t work that way. You have to find the way that best fits your needs and build the will power. You may want to consult with your doctor who can offer you helpful suggestions on stop smoking.

Symptoms of Male Menopause

Posted by Shisuka Wednesday, October 7, 2009 0 comments


The condition and the symptoms of male menopause are comparable to the ones women experience and can sometimes be as worse. However male menopause does not affect all men, at least not with the same inclusion. Only some of the men between the age of forty and fifty can experience the condition and most of the symptoms of male menopause.

All the changes that occur in every man during the male menopausal period can affect every aspect of their lives. Male menopause is recognized as a physical condition and manifests in personal, psychological, social and spiritual dimensions.

Men also experience difficulties in hormonal fluctuations that affect their sexuality, mood, and personality like women. It is only one of the manifestations of the aging process of a man, where changes comes and make the person better out of it.

All men going through male menopausal can experience hormonal changes that greatly affect their lives. The levels of hormones will lower at their mid-life and may have changes which are usually associated with male menopausal. It is important to mark that every man has a unique personality and their individual levels of hormonal loss may vary widely. They have different outlook in life and strategies of living with satisfaction.

If the level of hormones lowers, it can be the cause to the decrease in sex drive and the general well being of their health. The occurrence of these things will also lead to the increase of depression and weight gain and absolutely will change the day to day living as compared to their lives before the onset of male menopause.

During the menopausal period, some men can experience problems with regards to impotence. Wherein it is the constant inability to achieve and maintain an erection that is enough to have a satisfactory sexual performance. And because of impotency, men are having lowered sexual desires.

How can a man recognize that he is going through that certain stage in life, the menopausal period? There are some symptoms to be aware of. Some are physical, some are psychological, and some are sexual. The following are the symptoms that a male is going through a male menopausal period.

Physical symptoms of male menopause include:

• Recovery from injuries and illness takes longer
• Less endurance for physical activity
• Gaining weight
• Difficulty reading small print
• Loss or thinning of hair
• Sleep disturbances
• Low libido
• Lack of energy


Psychological symptoms of male menopause include:

• Irritability
• Hesitancy or difficulty in making decisions
• Worry and fear for life
• Depression
• Having low self-esteem, self-confidence and joy
• Loss of purpose and direction in life
• Feeling alone, unattractive, and unloved
• Lack of memory and complexity in concentrating
• Mood swings

Sexual symptoms of male menopause include:

• Decreased sex drive
• Fear of sexual impotency
• More relationship problems and fights occurs with regards to sex, love, and intimacy
• Incapacity to erect during intimacy
• Increased of attraction to a much younger opposite sex

All the symptoms that a male can experience during the male menopausal period can be treated. Although men have been suffering from either physical, emotional or sexual symptoms of male menopause, you need to control it not through attempting self-diagnosis but by talking to a doctor, this will lead to being better informed and getting the proper treatment to alleviate the symptoms of the condition.

Grapes for Health

Posted by Shisuka Tuesday, October 6, 2009 0 comments


Grape has many health benefits due to chemical contained in it, one of whom is flavonoids. Flavonoid phytochemical compounds that provide color purple in grapes. Flavonoids can prevent LDL oxidation 20 times more powerful than vitamin E, which is known as a natural antioxidant.


World Health Organization classifies the types of wine for lowering unhealthy cholesterol, because it has high fiber in water (soluble fiber), just like as carrots, oranges, and apples.

Grape is really good for those who have problem in sleeping. A study in Italy showed that the Grape is melatonin, a hormone that helps to regulate the human biological time. Melatonin hormone will usually appear at night. Melatonin is also very effective to deal with hypertension. A study conducted by Frank Scheer from Harvard Medical School proved that the man who had intake of melatonin for three weeks will experience a decrease in systolic blood pressure significantly.

Grape is proven to help women in preventing the pain of breast cancer treatment. The doctors at the Institute of Cancer Research show that the antioxidants contained in grapes may protect against radiation fibrosis, the hardening of breast tissue around it due to radiotherapy effect which is extremely painful.

Shiuan Chen, PhD, from the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, reported that grape juice successfully suppress the growth of cancer cells by preventing the synthesis of the hormone estrogen that plays a major role in the development of breast cancer.

According to research Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, ptrestilbene content in grapes showed a strong inhibitory power against breast cancer cells. The French researcher also found that in red wine, there is Acutimissin A that can inhibit enzymes causing cancer cells.

In addition to health, grape is believed to maintain the softness or smoothen the skin. Vitamin C and antioxidants can keep skin healthy, because it can fend off free radicals such as pollution and sunlight.

Vitamin C is known as the main body compounds required in many important processes, ranging from the producing of collagen (fibrous protein that forms connective tissue in bones), fat transport, electron transport from various enzymatic reactions, hyper healthy gums, regulating cholesterol levels, and trigger immunity .

In addition, vitamin C is required for wound healing and improve brain function in order to work optimally.

Busu Japa (Corn and Papaya)

Posted by Shisuka Saturday, October 3, 2009 0 comments


MATERIALS
1 Liter Soy milk
100 g sweet corn
200 g papaya
2 tablespoons of sugar
2 tablespoons of herbs honey (made from mahkota dewa).

Boil the soy milk, put sweet corn and boil again, add sugar and herbal honey. Pour into a glass and add a piece of papaya. Enjoy while warm for breakfast menu (for 4 people).

Busu Japa menu is made from soy milk that is very good to prevent disruption of stroke and high protein, also it’s useful for the growth, especially for brain cells and bone formation. Papaya fruit itself contains a high beta-carotene functioning as an anti oxidant.


MATERIALS
4 tablespoons non-fat milk
4 slices white bread or sweet bread
200 gr diced musk melon (orange melon)
4 tablespoons sugar
1 Iiter water

How to make:
Milk and boiling water are stirred with sugar. Put in the diced melon and 4 slices white bread or sweet breed. Enjoy while warm.
Romen Sabusu menu is made from musk melon contains of potassium, calcium and high phosphorus, it’s very healthy and good for cooling the blood.

Preventing Bone Disease in Healthy Aging

Posted by Shisuka Saturday, September 26, 2009 0 comments


Each day we live, we grow older failing to see that our bones and muscles demand activities to continue strength, endurance and resistance to life’s nasty living demands. Our bones need continued activities through out our lives starting as a child. Until we turn 30, the bones continue to build. After this age, the bones begin to disintegrate. You can cutback this degeneration process by taking care of your bones in youthful days.

How it is achieved:

Bone health is achieved through activities, such as exercise. In addition, you maintain healthy bones by increasing calcium. Supplements are available, which include the FDA marked remedies to help reduce bone loss from natural aging.

Taking calcium is very important during our entire life. Children should drink 2 cups of milk each day and adults 3 cups. Calcium in food is better to take than pills because you get more of it; food sometimes doesn’t have the right amounts in it due to the way it has been processed. Get that calcium in your body at an early age and keep it there. Besides calcium however, your bones demand a mixture of magnesium. You will also need a healthy dose of phosphorous. Vitamin D facilitates calcium to flow through the bloodstream. Free flowing bloods make a healthier you.

To improve bones, we also need to start at an early age getting plenty of vitamin D. As we get older, we have a tendency to stay out of the sun more. Don’t sit in the house all day. Rather try to get outside around noon and get some sun with all those vitamin D rays. Supplements can be used but again the sun is better. Maybe take a walk for 15-20 minutes each day to get the sun.

As we aging into the later years of our life, we have to keep those bones strong. You can benefit from weight bearing works, such as walking. Keeping those bones strong will help you survive falls. Falls is one of the leading reasons of bone breakage or fractures, especially as we grow older.

Unfortunately, adolescents don’t realize the importance of taking care of our bones. As these adolescents pass puberty however, their bones start to decline. Once a person reaches 50, the bones start to deteriorate, which puts you at high risk of fractures, disease and breakage. As the bones weaken, the muscles and joints will also degenerate. Injures then can lead to gouty arthritis, arthritis, osteoporosis and so on.

The high-risks of bone fractures are charted, which include hip fractures being the most common injure amongst the elderly. Hip fractures may sound like a minor ordeal, yet the truth is hip fractures are responsible for some deaths.

Weak bones are avertable even once you are middle age. It’s never to late to repair or mend our bodies.

Staying fit is the key to preventing risks of disease, hip fractures etc since the bones will stay healthy. In view of the fact, you want to consider a daily schedule, which includes activities and exercise. You want to keep those muscles free to move, since the muscles protect the bones. Stretch workouts and exercise will prevent your joints from feeling stiff as well, which joints support the muscles and bones.

When you exercise you, maintain weight. As you start to age, the body fat increases to more than 30%. This is too much added weight for the muscles, joints and bones. Carrying around this kind of weight on the feet, legs, etc will cause problems later. Maintaining your weight will help prevent and lower your risks of heart disease, bone disease, high-blood, high-cholesterol, diabetes and so on.

Sometime we do not get the proper rest we need. For this reason, we are suffering poor health, depression and so on. Getting proper rest will help you keep your health in good condition. When you lack proper rest, it affects your concentration. To stay health you need proper rest, sustenance and exercise daily.

As a person ages the body goes through senescence, or changes out of the ordinary. The bodily functions start to decline its actions. For that reason we may suffer, sleep disorders, including insomnia.

What you should know:

According to philosophers, theorists, experts, etc women are likely to experience insomnia more so than men. While many citizens find it difficult to fall asleep, some of us suffer insomnia, which is harder on our health. On the other hand, if you sleep too much during wake hours, it will affect your concentration, impair your memory and cause other problems as well, such as sleeping at night. If you get too much sleep, just like insomnia you may incur high blood pressure. Heart disease and strokes are commonly caused from insufficient or oversleeping as well. You should also learn about Sleep Apnea, which is a common sleep disorder. This disorder is harder to detect than any other sleeping ailment. Sleep apnea is often noted by sleeping partners. Doctors can rarely detect the disorder until a sleeping partner comes forward. The disorder causes the person to wake up all through the night gasping for air. During the day hours, the person often drifts into sleep uncontrollably.

The factors behind sleep disorders:

Sleep disorders, which causes interruption of restful relaxation can alter your internal organs. Your patterns and rhythms may change often. Your bodily functions will flip out and feel confused, causing a series of interruptions. You may experience joint and muscle pain, especially at the legs, or you may snore at night. The factors can lead to high risks of illnesses, depression, etc. To avoid such complications you will need to reduce stress and perhaps seek help for your sleep disorder.

What should I avoid?

When you find it difficult to sleep, try staying away from caffeine after 7 p.m. Avoid nicotine and alcohol also before going to sleep. If you find it difficult to drift into sleep, try counting sheep. This will bore your mind watching visual captures of sheep jumping over a fence repetitiously. Some people can fall asleep watching television. If it works for you do it. If you are one of those people who listen to music and television and it starts your adrenaline flowing, then leave it alone. You want to avoid eating or exercise before heading to bed as well. Exercise will boost metabolism. Eating may cause indigestion.

Helpful tips:

If you find it difficult to sleep at night, try adjusting the room temperature, especially if you feel uncomfortable. Turn out the lights so that the room is dark, unless you need a night light due to consistent waking at night due to restroom visits. If you are afraid of the dark, keep in mind that burglars can easily trip in dark areas verses lighted areas. This gives you the advantage of calling for help, since you are aware that someone is in your home. If the lights are on, you are inviting the burglar to stroll freely, tip-toeing through the house without awakening you. This country unfortunately teaches us to run to a lighted area when in danger. Sometimes the light can get you killed.

If you find it difficult to sleep at night, you will likely need medical attention, especially if the problem is on going.


You have to stop believing that snoring is a sign of a good night sleep. It's not! And it will never be. It may be cute in the first few minutes. After a while, it starts to sound as if woodworking is happening in your room in the middle of the night. And this is annoying. But if you have been snoring for days and your whole family cannot sleep, then you have to act now. Try these tips to put an end to their misery.

Stop drinking and smoking – These two can cause you to snore and wake up the whole block. The reason? Alcohol causes a partial collapse on your airways which can immediate start snoring. Smoking on the other hand causes blockage on the small vessels of the lungs and swelling on the tissue in the throat and mucus membrane in the nose. Smoking can result to sleep apnea. Take note that if you stop drinking and smoking, you are stopping other health risks as well.

Sleep regularly – Sleeping for few hours each night can cause snoring. Why? Unbalanced sleeping patterns develop into respiratory instability while asleep. And there is nothing good about respiratory instability because it can lead to unstable breathing. Hence, you need to regulate your sleeping patterns. Set a specific time of sleeping. Wake up in the morning on the same time, every day. Sometimes, 7 to 8 hours of sleep is all you need.

Use anti snoring devices – There are many of them in the market. You can get homeopathic throat sprays and tablets, throat sprays, sleeping pillows, or nasal strips and dilators. These devices help your air passage to relax and take in and out the right amount of air needed for a silent sleep.

Cure nasal congestion and allergies – If there is an inflammation on your of adenoids and/or tonsils which are caused by nasal congestion (cold) or allergies, you have to take decongestant or antibiotics. It is simple: treat nasal congestion or allergies and you will stop snoring.

Find a better sleeping position – Some people find it relaxing to sleep on the back while others are comfortable sleeping at the side. However, if the position you are comfortable sleeping in causes you to snore, better find another one. Sometimes, all you need to do is to change your sleeping position to open your airways and stop snoring.

Lose some weight – There is nothing good about being an obese. It causes several health risks and of course, it causes that load noise you create while asleep. Lose some weight by getting regular exercise and taking, eating the right diet, and living a healthy lifestyle.

Steer away from snore-triggers – If you are taking sleeping pills and products that contain antihistamines, then you are most likely a snorer. These are sedating medicines that relax the muscles and nerves. As a result, the muscle tone in the tissues of the throat relaxes and collapses. This triggers snoring just like the effect of cigarette smoking.

Consult a doctor – Mild snorers can easily be cured. But there are cases in which snoring is a sign of other serious medical condition such as hypothyroidism or diabetes that requires surgical procedures. If you are snoring for some time this is the right time to consult a doctor.

Breast Exercise

Posted by Shisuka Thursday, September 24, 2009 0 comments


Doing breast exercise is one of the most effective and safe way to overcome the loose and sagging breast. The benefit of breasts exercise is to keep the chest muscle (pectoral) as the support, in order to stay tight, also to prevent sagging breasts ahead of time.

Here are the movements:
Firstly, brought together the hands palm in front of your breasts. Hands fingers are holding onto and pulling up. Stand up and do push each other's movements. Hold for 5 seconds. Just relax, and repeat the movement 10 times.
Secondly, hold the left forearm by right palm and hold the right forearm by left palm.
Pull in two directions (in and out), do not let it loose. Repeat this movement for 10 times.

Third, brought together the fingers of both hands under your chin, and bend both fingers with interlocking position, then pull, hold for 5 seconds. Repeat this movement 10 times.
Fourth, squatting with your hands and knees pressed to the floor, make sure that your hands stretched over your shoulders and knees away from the waist and slowly bend your elbows and pull it to the first position, do it for 10 times.

Tips To Lessen Oily Skin

Posted by Shisuka Saturday, September 19, 2009 0 comments


Every people has different types of skin, like dry skin, normal skin and oily skin. Oily skin is shiny, thick and dull colored. Often a chronically oily skin has coarse pores and pimples and other embarrassing blemishes. It is prone to blackheads. In this type of skin, the oil producing sebaceous glands are overactive and produce more oil than is needed. Sebaceous glands is useful to smooth the skin and maintain skin moisture. But if our face is too oily, our face skin doesn’t look shine. Here are tips to lessen oily skin, quoted by Dr. Sandra Widaty, SpKK from FKUI:

  • Washing your face is an easy way to remove the oil. But if you wash it too often, it will lead to reactive Seborrhea which will remove sebum, the skin becomes dry, scaly and itchy.
  • Washing the face once a day with a soft foamy soap
  • Drinking lots of water, if you are following the diet program.
  • If you want to use facial soap that contains no chemicals, you should avoid soaps that contain alcohol. Choose a soap-based nature, such as olive, almond or avocado that has a function of the absorption and will help turn the skin and maintain skin moisture.
  • Limiting eating spicy foods to reduce the oil content in the face.
  • Using the appropriate cosmetics for facial skin.


Grapes are small round or oval berries that feature a semi-translucent flesh encased by a smooth skin. Some contain edible seeds, while others are seedless. Like blueberries, grapes are covered by a protective, whitish bloom. Grape grows well at altitude of 300 meters above sea level. In grapes contained a variety of vitamins A, C and B6, folic acid and minerals phosphorus, magnesium, manganese, potassium, selenium, iron and copper.

Grapes also contain fiber and a variety of flavonoids. Flavonoids can act lower cholesterol. Grape also contains resveratol, saponin, anthocyanins, quercetin proanthocyanins and that is anti imflamasi and anti-cell proliferation, which can prevent cancer, especially breast cancer and kelon.

Resveratol also suppress the production of amyloidal-beta peptides in Alzheimer's patients. Grape also contains water and carbohydrates, especially fructose and glucose are useful for stamina. Color, size, taste and physical characteristics differ amongst the varieties. Grapes come in a variety of colors including green, amber, red, blue-black, and purple. In general, whole grapes have a slightly crunchy texture and a dry, sweet and tart taste.

Antioxidants.

Grape contains antioxidants such as anthocyanin polyphenolic flavan-3-OLS. Content of more anthocyanins found in red grape. The presence of antioxidants in grape may help to prevent free radical damage to these cells causes many diseases such as heart disease and cancer.

Grape seed contains antioxidants, antrocyanidin, tannins and polyphenols which are useful to prevent cancer and heart disease. In the skins of grapes contain polyphenols (resveratrol) as an antioxidant that can prevent cellular damage from free radicals, such as cell wall damage blood vessels and help lowering blood pressure in people with high blood pressure. Another benefit of resveratrol as an antioxidant is to lower the risk of cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease.

Cataracts

Elegat acid content in grape could destroy the hydrocarbons, compounds which can cause cancer caused by cigarettes. Vitamin C, karetoniod, selenium and a variety of flavonoids contained in grapes have antioxidant capabilities. Various antioxidants can prevent cataracts.



Human skin consists of several layers, starting from the outer layers of the epidermis layer, dermis layer and sub cutis. It also consists of supporting tissue, such as sweat glands that regulate body temperature. In addition, the skin also has oil glands that produce sebum so that the skin will be moist, chewy and not easily wrinkled.

The cause of oily skin

Ø The production of excessive oil glands will make your skin oily, said Dr. Sandra Widaty, SpKK from FKUI.

Ø According to Didik Gunawan, herbalist of Indonesian Medicine Plant and the lecturer of Science Pharmacology Faculty in UGM, the causes of oily skin come from two types of fat in the human body, namely:

§ blood fat, is a fat mixed with blood and follow the blood circulation. It is called HDL (high density lipoprotein) and LDL (low density lipoprotein). The blood fat comes out of the body through the skin pores in liquid form, like oil.

§ Lepo fat, is fat under the skin, known as fat. Someone who has a blood fat in high amounts does not automatically get fat. Greasy hair with dandruff and oily face skin with acnes are the symptoms of people with high fat.

Reducing oily skin by Carrambola or starfruit:

Carambola or starfruit is the fruit of Averrhoa carambola, a species of tree native to Indonesia, India and Sri Lanka. The tree and its fruit are popular throughout Southeast Asia, Malaysia, the South Pacific and other parts of East Asia. The tree is cultivated also throughout the tropics such as in Trinidad, Guyana, and Brazil, and, in the United States, in south Florida, and Hawaii.

The carambola is closely related to the bilimbi. The fruit in cross section is a five-pointed star, hence its name.

Carambola fruits are light yellow to yellow, translucent, crisp and very juicy, without fiber. The fruit has a more or less oxalic acid odor and the flavor ranges from very sour to mildly sweet. The fruit is rich inVitamin C and antioxidants, and low in sugar, sodium and acid. Star fruit is a potent source of both primary and secondary polyphenolic antioxidants.[5] Starfruit is believed to reduce the oil on the face. By eating (Averrhoa carambola) and (Averrhoa bilimbi), we can handle oily skin. According to Dr. Sandra, star fruits contain a lot of water and acid, so it’s good to clean the excess oil on the face. Acid content of the star fruit also contains many beneficial antioxidants to prevent free radicals on the skin.

Niacin content of the star fruit is useful for reducing blood fat, anti-allergy in the body and lowers blood sugar. Zinc content of the starfruit is useful for lowering blood fat, preventing acne and preventing dandruff fungus. Sinapat acid as an antioxidant. Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is useful to reduce the formation of blood fats cholesterol, and as an antioxidants and immune control.

How To

1. Squeeze out starfruit until watering, or slice starfruit thinly.

2. Extracted water and sliced starfruit are dabbed to the face skin for 15 minutes.

3. For maximum results, use it once a day. We will feel it’s benefit after applying it for

two weeks.

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