Hormones control your emotions?

Monday, September 15, 2008

Posted by zchelle

Hormones does not control your emotions. Pregnant women may disagree, but it's actually more often the other way around. Emotions control your hormones through biochemical changes in the brain. Fear, for instance, is accompanied by the production of one set of brain chemicals that can make you alert and ready to flee, while pleasure triggers the release of other chemicals that soothe and calm. Stress can cause a sustained production of stress hormones, which can then damage the hippocampus, a part of the brain that's crucial to learnign and memory

You can take a vitamin instead of eating?

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Posted by zchelle

Sometimes true, as, for instance, with calcium supplements (with vitamin D). But don't be misled into thinking that it's better to down pills than to down vegetables. Orange juice has more in it that just Vitamin C. And foods don't just have a biochemical importance; they can create a kind of energy force in your body. For example, it may be that it's not one nutrient that helps prevent cancer or reduce heart disease, but rather the combination of several ingredients that does the trick. And that's the kind of nutritional power you find only in the way nature makes our food. In fact, we believe that the study of how food can heal is the next frotier in medical research. (Reader's digest)

Is cracking your knuckles will cause arthritis?

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Posted by zchelle

Ofcourse, the answer is no. It makes you sound like a bowl of Rice Bubbles and never goes over well in church. While it's painful for us to hear, you're not doing any harm to your joints, bones or muscles when you crack - unless you feel pain as you do it. The noise is caused buy the high-pressure suction of gas being expelled when your joints move apart. If it hurts when your knuckles or kness crack, you may need to see your doctor to assess what kind of joint damage you may have.

You'll know if you're having a heart attack?

Monday, September 8, 2008

Posted by zchelle

Not necessarily. About half of all people who have had heart attacks never felt a symptom - or didn't recognize it. The most commin signs are:

1. Chest discomfort (pressure, fullness or squeezing)
2. Discomfort in upper body (arm, back, neck, jaw or shoulder)

3. Shortness of breath

4. Cold sweat
5. Nausea
6. Sudden extreme fatigue (without lack of sleep)

Symptoms can be unpredictable. For example, talk show Larry King felt intense pain in his right arm, not the usual side for heat pain. Why? The heart's nerve don't fell pain directly. But when something goes wrong, its nerves may become electrically unstable. When they cross the spinal column, they may short-circuit other nerves - so your arm arches, or your chest, or even your jaw. But if the nere fibers don't cross, you may not have any discomfort at all.

You can work out your brain with weights?

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Posted by zchelle

Yeah, its true. According to reader's digest that your sense of balance in one sign of brain strength, and you can use free weights to develop better balance. Try this: Stand on one leg and close your eyes. The longer you can stand without falling, the better (20 seconds is very good if you are 45 or older). Working out with dumbells develops your proprioception, the complex action of body orientation that helps you balance and stimulates neural pathways. Weight machines don't have the same effect because the weights are attached to a foxed suraface, so you don't develop your balancing abilities as you lift them.

Pampering can speed recovery from back pain

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Posted by zchelle

False. If you've ever strained your back, you know that on a scale of 1 to 10, the pain ranks a 692. It can be paralyzing making it difficult to walk, sit, get up, sleep or anything else. All you want to do is lie down, prop your head on some pillows, flick on the television and remain still. You can think of nothing better than having your spouse deliver ice packs, ibuprofen and the latest issue of reader's digest directly to your bed. But your spouse shouldn't play nurse. Why? Attentive mates may be doing the right thing emotionally, but by encouraging you to stay in bed they're doing the wrong thing physically. If you stay in bed more than two or three days, your back muscles weaken and can slow your recuperation. In order to recover from strain, your muscles need to grow stronger and stay active, and the only way they'll do that is by working, even if it's just a little bit. The best method : walking.

Some Advice to Nursing Mothers

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Posted by zchelle

If you don't have enough milk for the first few days, no worries okay? Let me share to you what I've read in the Book.

First thing you do is to let the baby suck your nipples but don't keep her on your breast for about 20-30 min. Begin with 3 min. the first day, 5 minutes the second day, and so on until you work up with 15-20 min. Be sure that you let your baby suck your two breasts to promote milk production in both breasts. In lactating women, soreness or tenderness is common. To avoid this, use one breast longer that other during each nursing period. For example, during your first feeding of the day you nurse your baby on the left breast for a long time and the right for a short time so during your second feeding of the day, let your baby suck your right breast for a long time and left breast for a short time. Few weeks later you should nurse the baby on the first breast for 20 min and the other breast for 10 min.