Good Reasons to Quit Smoking Cigarettes...!!!!!

Smoking can cause emphysema, lung cancer, and heart disease. But none of this is new, none of it is news. All smokers know about this, but they tune out and gloss over the possibility of coming down with smoking-related diseases so that smoking does not feel like a fearful, guilty experience. But the sooner you take off the blinders and carefully consider the damage nicotine addiction causes, the sooner you can quit smoking cigarettes. Here are five good reasons to go easy on the cigarettes.

1. Heart Disease

In the U.S alone, coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death, and the leading cause of the disease is smoking. Cigarette smoke toxins cause plaque to form in arteries. This leads to atherosclerosis, or the hardening of arteries. Put more simply, smoking is hard on the heart.

2. Lung Cancer

The American Cancer Society estimates that in the U.S alone, hundreds of thousands will be diagnosed with cancer every year, and three-fourths of these cases will result in death.

Lung cancer is the cancer that causes the most number of deaths in both women and men. Worse, 87 percent of lung cancer cases involve tobacco. The silver lining in the dark cloud is that lung cancer is completely preventable, and the best way to prevent it is to quit smoking cigarettes.

3. Stroke

According to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, stroke kills more than 150,000 people every year. It's the third most frequent cause of death in the U.S. The risk of suffering a stroke is higher for smokers than that of non-smokers - roughly 2 and 1/2 times more, in fact.

4. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

This lung disease either narrows your airways or blocks them altogether. When this happens, air flow in and out of your lungs is reduced. It's a slow, progressive disease that is irreversible. Tobacco is the leading cause of COPD. If you're a smoker and want to halt the damage, stop smoking. There is no other way. In the U.S alone, an estimated 14 million suffer COPD undiagnosed.

5. Oral Cancer

According to statistics, 70 percent of all oral cancer cases are due to heavy tobacco use and alcohol consumption. Why risk coming down with oral cancer? Quit smoking cigarettes while you still can.

Do not wait till you're sick to quit smoking cigarettes. Learn just how destructive tobacco really is, and start fighting your nicotine addiction today!

Cholesterol symptoms and prevention

The risk of high cholesterol

 

High blood cholesterol is one of the main risk factors for heart disease, along with smoking, high blood pressure, carrying excess weight, family history and a sedentary lifestyle. So it pays to have your doctor check your cholesterol regularly (particularly if you’re over 50) and look at ways to keep it down.

High cholesterol is usually defined as over 5.5 millimoles per litre (mmol/L).

However if you already have heart problems or have one or more risk factors, your doctor may prefer to keep it lower at 4.5 mmol/L or less. You need to discuss any blood tests with your doctor to work out the best course of action for you.

10 steps to lower your cholesterol

Here are 10 steps to help reduce your blood cholesterol if it’s high. They are listed in order of priority with the most important steps at the top.

1. Maintain a healthy weight. Often just losing excess weight if you’re overweight will automatically bring your cholesterol down.

2. Steer clear of saturated and trans fats. These are the ‘bad’ fats that raise cholesterol. You’ll find them in fried fast foods, salty snack foods, commercial pies, pastries and biscuits, fatty meat, deli meats (salami, bacon, sausages), chips, fries and doughnuts.

3. Eat small quantities of ‘good’ fats which are monounsaturated and polyunsaturated. These are found in oils, soft spreads/margarines, nuts, seeds and avocado. Allow 1-2 tablespoons of oil for cooking and salads plus 1 tablespoon spread/margarine a day.

4. Eat 3 serves of sterol-enriched foods each day. Currently there are spreads (Logicol, Proactiv), milk and yoghurt (Heart Active).

5. Eat a handful of nuts (30-50g) a day, preferably unsalted.

6. Eat plenty of soluble fibre in oats, barley, psyllium and legumes (beans, peas). This can sweep cholesterol out of the body via the bowel.

7. Eat generous serves of vegetables and fruits for their antioxidants. Aim for at least 5 serves of vegetables and 2 serves of fruit a day. Red wine, tea and dark chocolate also add antioxidants, but you don’t need heaps of these, 1-2 serves is ok.

8. Buy ‘whole grains’ whenever you can. Shop for grainy bread, muesli, oat cereals, cereals marked ‘whole grain’, and brown rice.

9. Swap to low-fat or skim milk and yoghurt. Buy reduced-fat cheese or use cottage/farm cheese.

10. Limit cholesterol-rich foods such as liver, kidney, brains, egg yolks, prawns and calamari (squid). You can eat them twice a week and make sure they’re cooked in a good oil. For most people, eggs are the food they miss most, so it pays to find egg replacers or recipes that don’t use eggs as binders (meat loaf or muffins).

The mobile and Alzheimer's and human beings

Researchers from the University of South Florida to find evidence that waves? ? electro magnetic of mobile phone used to avoid disease Alzheimer may help also in contrast to raise for those who are infected . It was  (Journal of Alzheimer's disease) in accordance with the results of research, published in the magazine waves a significant impact on the memory of mice recovery and those that are supposed to be infected with the disease, which led to reducing the amount of protein in the brain believed most specialists working negative statute which accompanies . After fears spread by some that the use of mobile may cause suffering brain cancer confirms the results of the study  that use in the protection of nerve cells as researchers found no evidence to suggest that brain damage or cancerous cells

Olive oil protects the skin of ageing some fearful

Olive oil protects the skin of ageing some fearful. From the spectre of obesity were reluctant to deal with fat food and fatty foods, which reap skin to women that pay the price. Recalling specialist U.S. nutrition air Boran many young women suffer from dry skin because they do not eat enough of fat if you are you eat less than 20 grams of fat a day, the skin may not be able to grease himself and that your body would not be able to absorb adequate amounts of vitamin needed by the skin to prevent early senility. And advises air port that you have in addition to olive oil to power, as well as avocado and nuts

Is it true tea reduces the level of iron in the body

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