Archive for the 'General Health' Category

Young adults are using cholesterol drugs due to their unhealthy lifestyle. The unhealthy lifestyle includes smoking, drinking alcohol, and being sedentary. Being sedentary makes you obese. The workplace environment makes you sedentary.

As now-a-days, everyone works in front of computers, there is no physical work done by the body. During break hours, almost everyone takes junk and fast foods. These junk foods lead to obesity. Obesity is the risk factor of high blood pressure.

High cholesterol can result from diet with saturated fats, lack of exercise, being overweight, and drinking more than the recommended alcohol.

High cholesterol levels are associated with heart disease. High cholesterol causes blood vessels to become narrow with fatty deposits called plaques. This can result in strokes, heart attacks and blood vessel problems.

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Stress can reduce the libido and destroys sexual relationship. Reduced interest in sex can be due to increased psychological stress and decreased sexual drive is a common complaint in people who have stressful jobs and long work hours.

If you are obsessed with thoughts about the stresses of the day, you cannot think about love and tenderness. In the work place, you are prevented to express anger or anxiety on others. After coming home, you show your frustration on family members.

You will try to put the stress and strains of the everyday life on bed and it leads to reduced interest in sex. Stress from job, marriage, financial issues, family members, health problems and other issues can decrease the sexual drive. It is hard for you to feel desire for sex when you are thinking about bills and other issues on the bed.

According to a study, married couples who argue constantly have the risk of damaging their health.

The couple in satisfying relationships is less likely to have the risk of heart problems than in unsatisfied relationships.

The stress that comes from unhappy marriage slows the blood protein production that is important for healing wounds.

Couples in unhappy marriage are stressed and therefore their blood pressure increases.

The stress hormone makes it harder for insulin process, putting in diabetes risk, which in turn becomes a risk factor for heart attacks.

According to the researchers, men and women who are in bad marriages suffer from increased levels of stress throughout the day at work place and at home.

Due to increased stress, they suffer from high blood pressure, which can raise the risk of heart failure or stroke.

We all know that there are many health risks with obesity. But, obesity during pregnancy can put you and your child at health risks. Find out the risks associated with obesity during pregnancy to you and your child.

Risks for pregnant women due to obesity:

Preeclampsia:

Preeclampsia is a disorder that occurs during pregnancy and affects both mother and child. It is a condition characterized by high blood pressure, fluid retention and swelling during pregnancy. Sudden weight gain, swelling and headaches are the symptoms. Proper prenatal care is important to diagnose and manage eclampsia.

Cesarean section:

If the pregnant woman is overweight, she has to go for cesarean section. Reason for cesarean section in obese women is longer labor. Another reason for obese women to go for C-section is they often have larger babies.

GERD or Gastro Esophageal Reflux Disease is a condition when stomach acid seeps into the esophagus. Esophagus is a tube which leads from throat to the stomach and causes heartburn symptoms, bitter taste in the mouth and regurgitation.

If you eat highly acidic foods like tomato sauces, fatty foods, fried foods, your stomach has to process overabundance of acid. Too much acid pushes back through a valve between stomach and esophagus called lower esophageal spinchter (LES).

When it comes to boosting antioxidant intake, recent research indicates there’s little benefit from taking diet supplements. A better way, according to a report in the September issue of Mayo Clinic Health Letter, is eating a diet rich in antioxidant-containing foods.For related information on anti-oxidants, visit:

http://www.sciencedaily.com

Antioxidants are substances that reduce, neutralize and prevent the damage done to your body by free radicals. Free radicals are electrons that do not attach to atoms. Free radicals are formed by process of oxidation and this process occurs due to normal metabolic process and exposure to everyday environment.

Breathing, eating and exposure to sun contribute to process of oxidation and free radical formation and the damage is caused to the cells of your bodies. The damage can be of any type like bone loss, weakening of joints and connective tissues, immune system decline and visible effects of aging.

The free radicals can also cause damage to the brain’s nerve cells, which can cause Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease, joint inflammation leading to arthritis and increased risk to heart disease.

Women who are obese before pregnancy may have a higher risk of giving birth to a baby with major birth defects, new research suggests.

If pregnant women are obese, they face a risk of having babies with birth defects than women who are with a healthy weight. If a pregnant woman is obese, she has to face many health complications like premature delivery, seizures, and fetal death.

Prenatal care is important because it is complicated as uterine size measurement and ultrasound test can be more difficult.