hidden killer

Diabetes mellitus is a disease that becomes "hidden killer" because its complications can cause serious diseases, such as heart, kidney, and blindness, and many more. For women, one of the ways to prevent diabetes is by feeding the baby.

Providing breast milk (milk) not only ensures that babies get the full nutritional and intelligence support, but also beneficial to the mother. Various research has proven the benefits of breastfeeding.

In a recent research examining 2200 women aged 40-78 found 27 percent of respondents who do not give milk type 2 diabetes compared with mothers who breastfeed their babies.

Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body's cells gradually lose sensitivity to insulin. The disease is also one of them caused by obesity.

"Setting diet and exercise is an effective way to prevent diabetes. However, not many people know that breastfeeding can reduce a woman's risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life," said Dr. Eleanor Bimla Schwarz of the University of Pittsburgh.

The Central General Hospital Yogyakarta

The Central General Hospital Yogyakarta
Midbrain activation in children related to the notion needs to be examined by activating the brain can make a child into a genius, says child psychologist Dr Central General Hospital Yogyakarta HOSPITAL Indria Gamayanti Laksmi.
According Indria, growth and development and children's behavior can not be changed in an instant, let alone can make a child into a genius. He said that mid-brain activation can not instantly make a child into a genius or have the potential compared to children who have not activated the brain center.
"It should be studied first the concept of a child genius is like what is said, and terminology of brain activation must be presented with a clear center," he said in Yogyakarta, Saturday (28/08/2010).
He said that child development is a process, so it can not be instantly changed in a short time and quickly.
"Until now there has been no research on whether the activating this midbrain in a child can ensure that relevant and potentially can be a genius," he said.
According to him, with more in-depth research dilakukanya and involving the expert, of course, can know the actual activation of the midbrain that is guaranteed to grow flowers and mindset of a child or not.
He said, in ways that made this point in the midbrain activation process must be proved first.
"In general, the things done by the institutions of the activation of the midbrain, which provides suggestions and motivate a child to do things, creates a state of relaxation that is the child who brought in a state of calm without charges and without fear of doing something," he said.
Lakshmi said, it is better for the children so that they can assist the process of child growth mindset, but it would be better if done research about it beforehand.
According to him, activation of the midbrain which is now mostly done just as a child development agency business trends alone. "The world is actually the child's education can not be confused with the business world," he said.

The Health Warnings

Even though they've lived with the health warnings much of their lives and doubtless seen the ill effects on friends, relatives and even themselves, about 4.5 million older Americans continue to smoke.

 

Finally, Medicare is catching up to most private insurers by providing counseling for any beneficiary who's trying to quit smoking. Dr. Barry Straube, the program's chief medical officer, says it's never too late, even for lifelong smokers.

"The elderly can respond to smoking cessation counseling even if they have been smoking for 30 years or more," says Straube. "We do know we can see a reduction in the death rate and complications from smoking-related illnesses." Not only cancer, heart disease and lung problems, which can kill, but also gastric reflux, osteoporosis and other ailments that undermine quality of life.

 

Medicare already covers drugs used to help smokers quit, as well as counseling for those who have developed a smoking-related illness. But starting immediately, the program will expand the benefit to cover up to eight counseling sessions a year for any beneficiary who wants to quit. And next year, such counseling will be cost-free, under a provision in President Barack Obama's health care law that eliminates co-payments for preventive services. 

Older smokers often don't get as much attention from doctors as do younger ones. "They just figure, 'Well, it's too late,'" said Straube. That may start to change now.

About one in 10 seniors smoke, compared with one in five people among the U.S. population as a whole. It turns out that smokers age 65 and older present a medical paradox.

Many started when it was fashionable to light up. They are more likely than younger smokers to be seriously hooked on nicotine and

less likely to attempt quitting. But research shows that their odds of success are greater if they do try to give up the habit. 

And older smokers who receive counseling are significantly more likely to quit than those who only get standard medical care.

One study of elderly heart attack patients found that those who got counseling to help quit smoking were more likely to be alive five years later.

It's unclear why older people who try to quit have better luck than younger smokers.

Some experts think it's because older smokers are more motivated, perhaps from having seen a loved one die of cancer or heart disease, or by recognizing how the cigarette habit has left its mark in their own bodies, anything from wrinklier skin to shortness of breath.

Straube has his own theory: "They're under less stress," he said. "They are not working anymore, and they have more time." 

Medicare's new smoking cessation benefit will also be available to younger people who are covered by the program because of a disability. About 1 million of them are smokers.