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Health Benefits of Consuming Sugarcane

June 17th, 2013

Health Benefits of Consuming Sugarcane

Do you wish to know some health benefits of sugarcane? Following are some that may interest you.

It is low in glycemic index which means it Is absorbed late from the GIT.

It is good for staying away from conditions and also treating conditions such as flu, cold and sore throat.

It may be used by diabetics as well.

It is somewhat alkaline in nature and it also has potential to fight tumor cells.

It is a source of enormous amount of energy.

Sugarcane juice keeps you hydrated for long.

It is thought to be good for different organs of the body like eyes, kidney etc.

It is a great alternative for sodas and carbonated drinks.

It clears the urine flow and thus proves to be great for the kidneys.

Sugarcane juice when t=given to a patient with febrile disorder helps in replenishing the basic protein needs of the body

If you mix ginger juice, lime juice along with coconut water with sugarcane juice you will get great result of kidney improvement.

If you do not know, let me tell you that sugarcane juice is good for patients with jaundice.

People who eat sugarcane or drink sugarcane juice are energized and said to perform well in sport activities.

Other than that, sugarcane is quite good because of the fact that it is rich in potassium. Potassium not only plays a great role maintain blood pressure but also acts as a mild laxative to the digestive system.

Rye

June 17th, 2013

Do you know 100 gm of Rye has the following nutritional value? If you don’t find out now:

Calories: 338

Protein: 10.34 gm

Fiber: 14.6 gm

Minerals in Rye:

Following is a list of minerals that are found in rye while some are present in very low amount:

Potassium – 510 mg

Phosphorus – 332 mg

Calcium – 24 mg

Magnesium – 110 mg

Iron – 2.63 mg

Sodium – 2 mg .

Manganese – 2.577 mg

Zinc – 2.65 mg

Copper – 0.367 mg

Selenium – 13.9 mcg

Also contains trace amounts of other minerals.

Vitamins in rye:

Following is a list of vitamins that are found in rye while some are present in very low amount:

Vitamin B1 (thiamine) – 0.316 mg

Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) – 0.251 mg

Niacin – 4.27 mg

Pantothenic Acid – 1.456 mg

Vitamin B6 – 0.294 mg

Folate – 38 mcg

Vitamin A – 11 IU

Vitamin E – 0.85 mg

Vitamin K – 5.9 mcg

Health Benefits of consuming Rye:

Good for cardiovascular system.

Good for respiratory system

Good for women who are in a fight against postmenopausal breast tumors.

Acts as a detoxifier by removing toxins from the body

Helps prevent colonel cancer.

It is highly rich in magnesium.

Helps you stay away from gall stones.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

People with gluten sensitivity (celiac disease) should stay miles away from rye as it is rich in gluten which may worsen the GIT condition. Talk to your doctor of what to eat and what not to.

Trouble after child’s birth

June 13th, 2013

The newborn babies are quite newborn burden on parents themselves. Parents are in constant state of anxiety. There are a few common health conditions in newborn children for instance:

Spitting up
Puking
Behavior changes
Infections
Skin diseases
Fever
Diarrhea
Constipation
Rashes

1: The newborn children don’t have the safest of skin around as evident from the TV commercials. There are a number of skin conditions and birthmarks as well. It can take off guard a person initially. A few birthmarks vanish after some years. Some remain for the rest of lifetime.

2: The newborn kids have feeble immune system. This is why breastfeeding is important for a child. It assists in combating skin infection. The kids who are bottle fed develop problems and breastfeeding kids have few problems.

3: If a skin infection is diagnosed, then it becomes a problem for child and parents alike. The treatment is possible if infection is diagnosed. Begin a course on antibiotic course immediately. Fever and diaper rash are the first diseases a baby suffers from. There is a change in child’s behavior too. The level of activity and weeping can increase or decrease.

4: After feeding children often spit out the milk. The breast milk is not all taken inside. Spit comes out of the child regularly. Puking is sometimes more powerful than spitting up. There is an infection inside a person which means more puking is to follow. It can be a reaction to a child’s feeble intestine with food.

5: Diarrhea is another dark period in a child’s life when watery excretes are regular and steaming all the time around. Sometimes, it’s nonstop and sometimes there aren’t any. It is due to viral infection and sometimes due to bacterial infection.

6: Another ailment a kid suffers from is constipation. Constant excrete is also seen more than often.

The patient father

June 13th, 2013

Being father is fun, put mildly. But after child birth a person feels emotionally washed out. There is intense drama, planning and planning on the way as a child is delivered. There is sleep deprivation and there is exhaustion down the line. There are baby blues for the dad. Ten percent of daddy’s feel the baby blues. The coming weeks are dramatic and emotional.

It’s time to be strong and patient. Fathers have to act saintly and endure the drama followed. The temper fuse must be one mile long because there can be sudden outbursts of anger. A sense of humor is also needed and its time of great adjustment. It takes true grit and temper control to endure it all without uttering a word.

The new normal

Normal is a new word and takes a whole new meaning. Men are waiting the pregnancy period to end and longing a normal life once again. Those days are not coming back and develop new routines now.

Men are now responsible for the laundry and shopping now. There is a whole new routine to speak of. The baby needs bath and makes a mess out of its surroundings.

Life becomes a train wreck after a child is born. Life takes a complete 360 degree turn. It takes time to change and fall in a flow which evens out.

Interruptions while sleeping

It’s not fair. But take turns on attending the child at nights. Baby wake up at nights frequently and this is a time of great disdain.

There are breastfeeding periods and there are diaper change occurrences. Well love the child, its yours by the way.

Take good care of the wife too as she needs some vacations from her nine months of baby development. This means that men have to become a job boy along with an aspiring father.

The child’s skin

June 13th, 2013

During the first year of a child, skin rashes are bound to appear. It is inevitable. The human skin is a protective barrier to all exterior unsafe elements such as air, dust dirt, sun and bacteria. The epidermis becomes a stable after first year. It then functions effectively.

The epidermis is thinner and less pigmented; therefore it can’t regulate temperature that well. Theadult’s skin is much stronger and tougher. The diaper rash is the first of many issues faced by children all across the globe. Area around diaper is warm and cozy. The skin breaks down as tender tush. With more pee and poop popping all over the area, it is a perfect time for diaper rash. The diaper rashes are unavoidable but do change them seldom.

Use petroleum jelly or cream to protect the bum. The cream must have zinc oxide in it. Also, let the child without diaper occasionally. Use mild products for instance fragrance free soaps, hypoallergenic, lotions and washes. The parents can relax for a while after first year as skin becomes rash proof and thicker.

Rashes called intertrigo

This is a rash found in child’s skin around the neck. It forms in the initial six months in plump children. These intertrigo rashes are red and raw. It’s a weepy rash and looks painful from skin creases. Child will never notice for that matter. On skin friction, this rash can pain.

Causes behind it

The moisture from drool as well as spitting is all over the mentioned area. It doesn’t get air and forms rashes.

Prevent it

Wash the child from time to time with water. Use zinc oxide cream and petroleum jelly for securing the area. With older age, the kids lose these rashes away. It’s just the first few years which are troublesome.

Sleep pattern of a child

June 13th, 2013

If a child loses half an hour of sleep, it doesn’t seem much. Bur doing so over a period of two years can really become problematic. It can cause depression and self-esteem problem in kids. This is the latest research done from university of Massachusetts. Loss of sleep is normal in adolescent kids. It’s better to keep them asleep. Not doing so can result in kids developing problems.

The kids who snore have high blood pressure as well as high heart rate. It is alarming for kids to be snoring. It is a new Australian study. The researchers are blaming waking up at night due to less oxygen intake is the culprit here. Its time to see a doctor for kid’s who snore in early life.

Kids who slept less than 12 hours were prone to being overweight. When they reached three years, they were plump already. Sleeping more is recommended for kids. The research was done by Harvard medical school. Also, sleeping more and more resulted in lowering the risk of weight gain by 9 %. So while they can kids should sleep for most of the day causing less trouble to themselves and parents alike. Ensure that room is noise proof.

After sleeping extensively, children become brainier than not sleeping. They use four area of mind to work a problem. The kids were examined for this and found great results. The response rate of kids was better who slept a lot. Loss of sleep makes a kid less efficient and coordinated. The ability of a child to concentrate also lessens with less sleep.

Also, kids who slept a lot missed out a number of diseases too. Kids who didn’t caught a cold. Lack of sleep makes kids vulnerable to diseases. Kids who sleep less have more accidents too.

Sex after child delivery

June 13th, 2013

After a having a child, sex is not an option really. The person is exhausted not to mention tired. Ninety percent of the time, women who deliver from the vagina have torn tissue which is termed as episiotomy. It’s a small cut. The wound hurts. Having sex right after child delivery is just a personal decision. It is advised that six weeks must be waited upon. All the doctors advise this. Women were also tested for vaginal healing. It was a practice which didn’t work out well.

It has been seen that 41 percent of the women had sex during the crucial six weeks. After twelve weeks, that rate had risen to 78 percent. Women can have sex after six weeks after the child has been delivered vaginally. Only a fraction of women had commenced sex after six weeks as recommended by doctors.

The studies done in the 1970’s showed sexual intercourse after two weeks or even four weeks. This means that women in the 1970’s had stitches and had bleeding too. Apart from that, they felt normal and fine to have sex.

So, sex can be waited upon for a few weeks after the troubled ordeal of child delivery. It’s just adding insult to injury.

Wait it out

It has been recommended to wait three weeks for sexual activity. It takes time to patch up when placenta comes out. A wound in uterus is left behind. Give some time to heal. The wound closes up after a while as the blood vessels spring into action. The blood clotting works as vessels starts to shrink. All of this process takes three weeks at the most.

Hard sex can bring air in the vagina with force of inexplicable magnitude and blood vessels can become airy. This can stir an air embolus. It is lethal and uncommon.

Keeping teeth clean

June 13th, 2013

Keep the child’s teeth clean and its care exceeds brushing them daily. Sometimes the doctors examine a child’s teeth and inquire about water supply. Fluoride is a substance in the water supply and can play a pivotal in protecting the teeth in a kid’s mouth.

It plays a critical role in cavity protection and teeth growth.

A background on fluoride

Fluoride occurs in water naturally as it’s a derivative of fluorine. It’s the thirteenth most common element appearing in the earth’s crust. Fluoride assists in prevention from tooth decay. It’s such an excellent substance working in favor of a child’s health.

Tooth decay happens when plaque appears in the sticky film as it piles up on teeth. It breaks sugar from food. Bacteria which make damaging acids dissolve hard enamel present on surface of a kid’s teeth.

If this damage is not treated, bacteria storms through enamel wall and causes tooth decay. It invites cavities to prosper and flourish. These cavities weaken teeth and cause tremendous pain. Tooth loss is another problem to deal with. It causes an epidemic with severe consequences.

Fluorine combats rotting teeth as mentioned below:

It is embedded in a child’s teeth after ingestion.
It also enables teeth protection when coming in contact with teeth surface.

Also, fluoride helps with preventing the bacteria from destroying the enamel base in the teeth. The enamel layer is shiny and hard protecting the teeth. With fluoride, the teeth have a backing and support of a stronger element.

Of course, fluoride won’t repair the damaged cavities. It can reverse the tooth decay levels for good. It prevents cavities from developing a stronghold on the teeth.

The tooth decay is still an annoying problem with kids of age below 2. Kids above age 2 have cavities due to negligence. But it affects kids of all ages.

It takes longer to deliver a baby

June 13th, 2013

Giving birth to a child takes longer now. Fifty years ago in America, it took shorter time to deliver a baby. The writers believe that doctors could have made the procedure a bit longer now and a few other factors may have been responsible for it. At least, 140,000 child deliveries were taken in consideration.

1: The writers proposed more studies to be done to establish the cause of longevity of this child delivery. The present child delivery practices are surely causing a stir. From the last fifty years, the timespan has increased to 2.5 hours today. The data from 1960’s was taken. The early stage child delivery took two hours longer. The cervix dilates in initial stage labor.

2: Babies were born five days earlier than the ones born in 1960’s. They had more weight too. Also, the women who gave birth in 2000’s were a bit heavier than women fifty years ago. The body mass index of women fifty years ago was 23. Now the body mass index of women is 25. Aloes, the age of women who deliver babies was four years old than now.

3: The aged ladies take longer time to deliver a child while young ladies take shorter time. But still, that doesn’t account for labor times because that is a different factor.

4: Four percent of women took pain killer injections as compared to that half a century ago. It is for the spinal fluid called epidural anesthesia. It increases delivery time too. But still, this does not account for the high delivery time half a century later.

5: Half a century ago, oxytocin was a hormone given to 31 percent of women in 200’s at the time of childbirth. Half a century ago, that rate was just 12 percent. This hormone reduces childbirth time and speeds up labor.

Healthy child has a healthy mind

June 13th, 2013

The students who are active in class are those who are involved in outdoor gaming activities, according to a new study published. Children must be fit physically to perform well in class, that is a given. The study is linking academic grades with physical fitness. The research was done in Michigan State University. The academic performance was related to outdoor gaming activities. It is directly related to body fat, muscular strength, endurance and flexibility.

If kids are doing well in studies, then it’s a matter of one of these elements. The research was done by a doctoral student in Michigan State University.

A group of 312 students were taken up for examination. Children underwent many exercises including physical fitness exercise, pushups, runs and other exercises. The resultant scores were compared with their academic records. Their test results were also observed and the results were eye opening. Clearly, the results showed that the children who performed better in classes and exams were involved in outdoor gaming activities. That way, they were able to achieve better grades irrespective of their gender. It doesn’t matter what their age level as it goes for all age groups.

Children these days are into indoor games and various gaming consoles have sprung up to consume their precious time. There are PlayStations, Xbox, PC games to speak of. This trend is making children couch potatoes as well as obese. It makes them unfit for outdoor activities and affects their upbringing. Along the way, they are exposed to various health ailments and remain vulnerable to small time diseases.

The result sets the parents on back foot who discourage outdoor activities and think it’s a total waste of time.

Do remember that all day work and no play make jack a dull boy indeed. Promote outdoor games rather than indoor console games.