Upon entering the age of 30s, the ability to think someone could have started to decline. Even at the age of 60, aging nerve cells in the brain can not be avoided, so that often trigger a senility or dementia.
Although this aging process is unavoidable, but there are efforts undertaken so that senility can be avoided or at least postponed. According to experts, dementia can be avoided with healthy lifestyle and get used to cognitive stimulation in order to keep the brain cells active. Thus, nerve cells continue to produce the required brain neurotransmitter substances.
Well .. so that your brain's ability maintained until old age. There's a good idea to do some activity below the age adjusted.
Age 30s:
Flossing every day:
Habits like candy and forget about flossing anything in common. Both contributed to cause dental plaque, and also turned out very bad on your brain.
"Plaque on the teeth can cause immune reactions that can attack the arteries, so can not send nutrients vital to brain cells," says Michael Roizen, MD, author of YOU-The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body That Will Make You Healthier and Younger. Then what is the solution? Make flossing every day during a morning commute began.
Eating fish:
Look to the sea to give a "feed" your brain to eat. DHA, a type of omega 3 fatty acids found in salmon, trout, and some fortified foods, like yogurt can improve your memory.
"DHA reduce inflammation of the arteries and increase the repair of protective coating around the nerves," said Dr. Roizen. "As a result, related to age, reduced memory impairment, reduced Alzheimer's disease, depression, and thoughts more quickly."
40s
Steal Little toys:
There is a new version of the Rubik's Cube you ever loved as a child. Three-dimensional shapes such as 360 degrees and this is very good for the brain at each age, as they may sharpen the ability to solve the problem, said psychologist nerve, Karen Spangenberg Postal, PhD, who is also president of the Massachusetts Psychological Association.
The key: When you play, you work with memory, spatial skills and strategies needed to improve brain health. What if you are frustrated playing Cube? Do not worry: every game that demands you think would be helpful.
A time to exercise:
Paculah your heart rate three times a week for 20 minutes. Even just by walking, will supply your brain with oxygen and help grow new cells.
"Aerobic exercise two to three times as effective as brain exercise activities," said Sam Wang, Ph.D., professor of neuroscience at Princeton University and author of Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life.
No problem if you do not have time to go to the gym on weekends.
Recent research shows, despite the exercise of moderate to severe
only once a week (eg weekends jogging) can make
your 30 percent to maintain your cognitive functions, such as your age.
Begin your bridge club:
If you are bored and tired with the book club with a party that night, bridge card game faster is recommended by doctors. A combination of strategies and memory on the bridge to challenge the brain to learn new information and training so that cells do not die, said Dr. Postal. Socialize while playing cards also provide refreshment for the brain, which can not be offered on a solo game.
Age 50s to top
Use a chopstick
Research shows that by involving nerve cells at the tip of the finger directly stimulate your brain, "said Maoshing Ni, PhD, author of Second Spring: Dr. Mao's Hundreds of Natural Secrets for Women to revitalize and Regenerate at Any Age.
Using a chopstick, knitting, or play with a pen or pencil between your fingers, can help the brain by improving blood circulation.
Playing video games
You need not feel too old to play the Wii or other games that train the brain. "When there is something new in the video game, you'll stimulate different parts of the brain that usually you do not use from day to day," says Reon Baird, PhD, psychologist nerve from Long Beach Memorial Medical Center.
Be careful with drugs
Careful use of sleeping pills or pain relievers. Research in the Clinical Interventions in Aging shows without a prescription drugs can cause "cognitive impairment" such as confusion in middle-aged people. Drugs known as diphenhydramine (found in many allergy medications and pain relievers at night) has the effect of "Anticholinergic", which blocks the connection between nerve cells.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Ways to Stay Sharp Until Old
Avoid senility with the Mediterranean Diet
Maintaining healthy eating habits is the key to excellent memory and avoid the risk of dementia (senility). Thus the latest conclusions of a study published in the journal Archives of Neurology.
Mediterranean diet full of fresh materials and low-fat foods was mentioned very useful to prevent senility. The experts believe, the combination of nutrients contained in fish, nuts, and vegetables, commonly consumed by Mediterranean peoples can maintain the function of brain cells.
Dr.Yian Gu and colleagues from Columbia University Medical Centre in the United States observed diet 2148 the retirees who live in New York, USA. During the four-year study period, 253 elderly people are suffering from Alzheimer's disease, the main cause of demenisa.
When tracked eating patterns of the respondents, they are often known to eat a salad, beans, fish, fruit and vegetables, and rarely eat foods high in fat and red meat, is the respondents who were free of dementia.
The researchers speculate that the combination of nutrients contained in a varied diet is extremely important. Mediterranean diet rich in contents note-3 and omega 6, vitamin E and folic acid and vitamin B12.
Nuts, Friends of Bile
High cholesterol can not only trigger a blockage in blood vessels, but also can cause abnormalities in the biliary tract. Precipitation of cholesterol that hardens to form gallstones, and usually followed by inflammation and leading to pain in the bile duct.
Researchers from Harvard Medical School said, good fats like nuts monosaturated and polyunsaturated to be able to help us to control blood cholesterol, prevent gallstones, and accelerate the healing of gallbladder surgery. Of the 81,000 women followed for 20 years, found in 7800 women had undergone surgical removal of the gall bladder caused by gallstones.
But in the group of women who ate 500 grams or more of nuts, peanut butter, nuts or other healthy every week, have a risk of gall bladder surgery 25% lower than women who rarely or not eat nuts.
Securing Yourself from Stroke
One in four people who have a stroke die within a year. Those who survive can suffer brain injuries that affect speech, memory, and mindset, as well as paralysis.
The good news, if you are prepared directly from now, you can reduce your risk most, both now and with increasing age. Process towards the stroke began in the early 40s or earlier. Therefore, now is the time to begin to prevent them.
Turn off cigarettes
If you stop smoking, the risk of heart attack and stroke is reduced by half. However, do not reduce cigarette. Smoking a lot or a little basically the same. You have to stop it altogether.
Check your blood pressure
Stroke occurs when blood vessels rupture of the brain or any loose pieces of atherosclerotic plaque and clog the blood flow to the brain. Stroke is more common in people with high blood pressure. Research has shown that controlling high blood pressure can cut the risk of stroke by 40 percent. In this case the blood pressure of 140/85 is considered high.
Reduce weight
If the weight gain, which increases the most is the fat tissue. Excess fat is also associated with increasing bad cholesterol and triglycerides. Over time, changes in blood fats have role in the formation of fat deposits (plaques) in arteries, a condition known as atherosclerosis. Weight loss no matter how small would be useful to health.
A time to exercise self
Less body movement adds a risk factor for suffering a stroke. Research shows people who started to exercise regularly between the ages of 15-25 years have less risk to suffer a stroke than those who did not exercise.
Expand fiber
Limit your fat intake of all types, including red meat and fried foods, and replace it with a soluble fiber that can lower total cholesterol. Foods that contain soluble fiber, such as oatmeal, beans, grade oranges, strawberries, and apples.
Avoid stress
Happiness is like music to the cardiovascular system. Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch, United States, mentioning, among the elderly, those who have a positive and happy mood is more rare to have a stroke. The researchers said that happy people generally have a spirit of exercise and healthy lifestyles. Combinations that lead us away from the risk of stroke.
Watch out, Parasites Can Cause Stroke
Stroke, which occurs more often in people with high blood pressure, it can also occur due to parasitic infection Trypanozoma cruzi. This bacterium is a major cause chagas disease. People who are infected have a risk of stroke, especially if they suffer from complications of heart and blood clotting.
Actually chagas disease is more prevalent in Latin American countries. However, the migration of millions of people across the country led to the spread of this disease occurs in many countries. A person can be infected with the disease when bitten by an infected insect cruzi parasites.
Most people do not realize they are infected so that would unknowingly spread the infection. In a study conducted Dr.Francisco Javier Carod-Artal from Spain known chagas half the patients who had no previous stroke diagnosed chagas infected.
According to Ahmed Sharlin from the Stroke Association, chagas disease can trigger a variety of cardiac disorders that eventually lead to stroke. "The heart became weak and unable to pump blood strongly. In the end will be a blood clot if the clot is carried to the brain and consequently brain is clogged artery stroke," he explained.
That's why experts recommend the doctors from endemic countries to conduct screening chagas disease in stroke patients.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
"Fast Food" Making People Impatient
Fast food (fast food) not only makes the body more quickly expanded, but also can eliminate the patience. People are accustomed to eating fast food is reported to be less patient and versatile in a hurry.
Although not known with certainty a link between fast food and patience, the study conducted a number of researchers from Canada showed that those who like to eat fast food tend to become less patient.
"Fast-food restaurant is one of the impact of modernization that enables us to save time. But, ironically, things that reminds us of the efficiency of time makes us so to be less patient," said Sanford DeVoe, researchers from the University of Toronto, Canada.
In experiments conducted at several respondents note, they are exposed by the symbolism of fast food restaurants tend to be faster to read than those who were not shown symbols. In addition, respondents who frequently eat at fast food restaurants tend to be in a hurry while shopping and lazy to queue at the checkout.
The experts argue, a fast food restaurant that is a symbol of efficiency of time may affect psychologically and unconsciously affect our behavior, in this case become more like things fast.
Above age 20, Can Height increase?
Height can be a serious and sensitive issue, especially for men. That's because the "demand" of society about the ideal male figure is tall strapping. To get the ideal height, it needs three things are interrelated and support, ie, genetic factors, nutrition, and inactivity.
Willy complains that her height is only 155 cm. "I was signed in the shortest category among my friends. I am often ridiculed 'The Kate' or slim, aka the semester not to," says this medical student.
At the age of 21 years, he still had some hope to add to her height. "I know it's too late, but I want to grow high-five cm longer," he said. Could it be?
Explained by Dr. Wibisono Andito Spot, orthopedic surgeons from the Hospital Bintaro, height influenced genes. "If someone has a good height genes, there would be high. This gene is obtained from the offspring. For example, African nations are generally thin, tall because they have a good height genes," he explained,
Influenced gene
Results of recent research uncovered a gene that determines a person high in short, his name is HMGA2. Changes in a "letter" on the basis of the genetic code of HMGA2, ie, C (cytosine) would be influential.
Someone who only get a C from one parent, 0.5 cm taller than that have only T (Thymin). When you have a C double, will be 1 cm higher than having a double T. Of course there are other genes associated with height. HMGA2 explains only 0.3 percent from a high diversity of human beings.
Some experts claimed, everyone still more likely be higher if a great-grandfather with a high posture. This explains why some children higher than parents. In this condition there is a kind of luck. So high gene was only a "stepping over" the parents of the child, whereas the high-grandson of genes inherited from his grandfather.
Plate "epiphyseal"
Center for human growth, continued Dr Andito, located on the plate epiphyseal plate, located at the end of each long bone. Epiphyseal plate since humans have been born and close the aliases stopped working at age 16 years (women) and 18 (men). "Maximum age of 20-21 years. If this plate is closed, high growth also stopped," he said.
High Growth someone could be disrupted if something happened to the epiphyseal plate. Injury, trauma resulting from accidents, diseases of bone cancer can damage the work of this disc.
This plate does not work alone. "Growth hormone and many other hormones involved to determine their performance," he said. To support these hormones work needed adequate nutrition.
According to Dr Andito, the Japanese people once known short-or dwarf. Now they are the same height with the average Indonesian. "That's because there are nutritional improvement from generation to generation," he said.
To become upward, the body needs all the substances and minerals found in food. "Healthy Eating four or five perfectly balanced diet is enough. So, not only food that contains calcium and through.'ll Bones strong, but other parts of the body lacks essential nutrients," he said.
There was no standard size
Everyday activities-also play a role in the affairs of height. Activities that can stimulate epiphyseal plate work, such as athletics, basketball, swimming, and jumping rope. "Sports is supposed to do in its infancy. If done after the growth period, so in vain," he said.
These three factors were interrelated. "If you have a high gene but not supported nutrition and exercise, can become stagnant and growth was not optimal," he added.
Regarding the high standard one, according to Dr Andito, there is no standard size. "For Indonesia, height 170 cm is considered adequate, even for Europeans considered not high enough. So depending on the height of standardization found this community," he said.
Chemical Exposure Increase the Risk of Breast Cancer
Exposure to chemicals and pollutants in the workplace before a person aged 30 years will increase the risk of breast cancer after the age of menopause.
Some researchers found a link between breast cancer and a number of hazardous chemicals. They conduct investigations to determine the level of exposure to large sebarapa the respondents against 30 types of hazardous materials in their work environment. The result, those affected by breast cancer at the age of menopause is more often exposed to hazardous chemicals before the age of 36 years.
Thus the conclusion of a study of 556 women aged 50-75 diagnosed with breast cancer in Canada and 613 women in the control group that is free of breast cancer. All respondents had the menopause.
Hazardous chemicals which are intended, among others, acrylic fibers, nylon fibers, and aromatic compounds. These materials are commonly used in the womb wall paint, furniture, and so forth.
The results, published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine, is consistent with the theory that states the breast tissue is more sensitive to chemicals hazardous if exposed when cells in the breast is still active (before age 40 years).
Prevent Cancer Do not Just Rely on Fruits and Vegetables
Eating fruits and vegetables are highly recommended for health, but do not expect that eating habits are two types of these foods will provide more protection against cancer.
Experts in the United States in its latest research says fruits and vegetables are nutritious prevent cancer. However, the effect is not too large.
"Fruit and vegetables tend to be protective, but the effect is not huge," said Paolo Boffetta, Dr.Paolo Boffetta from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, USA.
Foods from plants containing more than 100 vitamins, minerals, fiber, and other useful materials. Foods that contain fiber, such as fruits, vegetables and grains known to reduce colorectal cancer risk.
Bofetta stressed, eating fruits and vegetables in a number of really good enough for a number of reasons, such as reduce the risk of heart and blood vessel disease (CVD). Not even impossible, some specific types of fruits and vegetables with the substances contained therein can provide greater protection against cancer.
Bofetta and his team analyzed data for more than 470,000 men and women in 10 European countries in a study titled European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). Research results show a weak link between the food derived from plants and lower risk of cancer.
"Basically, eat vegetables and fruits are not the only cancer prevention. There are still other factors, such as not smoking, avoiding fatty foods and exercise that reduces risk of cancer," Boffetta said.
Arsenik has Potential to Cure Leukimia
Arsenic, the poison favorite since Roman times, it can work to destroy specific proteins in blood or leukemia cancer cells. Scientists from the Chinese feel confident, arsenic possess great potential to be a cure for cancer in the future.
"Our results show how the arsenic directly to the protein target and kill him," said lead researcher Zhang Xiaowei from State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Shanghai, China.
Another advantage of the arsenic, Zhang added, is not causing side effects like chemotherapy. "No effect hair loss or bone dysfunction. Therefore we are interested to explore whether arsenic can also be used in other cancer types," he said.
Arsenic compounds are deadly poison because it has no smell, no taste and soluble in water so it is difficult to detect. Moreover, the symptoms resemble those poisoned who experience common digestive disorder, ie vomiting, diarrhea and excessive perspiration.
In China, arsenic has two functions, as well as toxic substances, since thousands of years ago arsenic was also used as part of traditional Chinese medicine.
In 1992, the number of doctors in China reported 90 percent of arsenic can cure acute leukemia. But there was as yet be explained how the workings of arsenic until later Zhang and his colleagues used modern technology to find out.
In a report published in the journal Science, Dr. Zhang and his team, including the Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu, explaining how sophisticated modern equipment capable of seeing the workings of arsenic in the search for cancer cells.
"This shows how Western technology can be used to open the mysteries of traditional Chinese medicine," said Zhang.
Although not all doctors in the world recommend the use of arsenic to treat acute leukemia, but, according to Zhang in Chinese leukemia patient's life expectancy rate is very high, which reaches five years.