The Danger of Metabolism Syndrome in You

Women are in risk of depression and metabolism syndrome if they never exercise. Metabolism syndrome is one of the problems that could occur to you, besides high cholesterol and hypertension. In addition, increasing weight also leads to increasing risk of coroner, stroke, and type-2 diabetes, if they’re lazy to do any exercise.

A Research by Oregon University in USA has recently found that women only exercise for approximately 18 minutes. Meanwhile men typically exercise for 30 minutes. The fact is based on the research conducted to 1,000 men and women. The result is, one out of three women experience metabolism syndrome and one out of five has depression symptoms.

‘Those who regularly exercise for 30 minutes a day rarely experience depression, high cholesterol, and metabolism syndrome,’ said Paul Loprinzi, one of the researchers.

They were initially interested to find the correlation between physical activities, depression and metabolism syndrome. However, eventually gender difference determines the amount of physical activities.

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Easy Diet With Banana

The easy and delicious way to lose weight is by eating banana. Banana diet can help suppress appetite. In addition to body detoxification, bananas also increase metabolism rate which will makes you healthy.

Ourvanity Media reports that bananas combine a fun flavour with healthy properties. Bananas are the greatest medicine for indigestion problems. Additionally, it’s rich of vitamins, micro-nutrition, fiber and natural sugar. Although the calorie content is considerably high, bananas are considered good for diet because they’re low in fat.

Banana diet can last for three to four days and can help lose weight up to 10 kilograms. Daily intake should include 3 bananas and a glass of milk. Plan your whole day intake and drink green tea or water between dishes.

Another variants for banana diet can last longer up to seven days. You can eat bananas for the whole day but no more than 10 bananas per day. Green tea and water are allowed. You will only consume 1,300 kilocalories, that’s why long-term diet may lead to protein shortage. As a result, complete your diet by eating poach eggs.

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Soy Milk Helps Cool Down Body’s Heat

Taking 2 glasses of soymilk a day apparently helps cool down heat sensation in the body. Researchers have recently found that some foods and drinks made from soybean alleviate the frequency of hot flash on women as much as 26%.

As published by Zeenews, from the latest evidence of 19 researches involving more than 1,200 women, soybean contains isoflavone, which is a kind of estrogen hormone found in plants. It is considered beneficial for health, especially for relieving 4-minute hot flashes, which can cause inconvenience for women.

‘When you combine them all, you’ll get a positive effect. If you’re 50 and have never consumed soybean before, it’s not too late. We’ve found that soybean still helps,’ revealed the researchers’ representation, Prof. Melissa Melby of Delaware.

Melby stated that if women consume soy bean for 12 weeks or more, they will experience hot flashes three times less frequent than in probationary period. Melby, who researched the isoflavone’s effect, said that chemical compounds found on soy bean produce similar effects with the estrogen hormone.

She’s been consuming 54mg isoflavone of soybean everyday for six weeks until a year long. She found that the frequency of hot flashes decreases as much as 26%. ‘Eating soybean or consuming supplements made of whole soy bean is extremely beneficial for women,’ added Melby.

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Prevent stress and sickness with music

Studies have showed the benefit of music in increasing immunity and medication towards sickness. Recent analysis for more than 400 scientific reports even stated that music is probably better than medicines for several type of sickness.

A study leads by Professor Daniel K. Levitin from Psychology Department of McGill University analyzed hundreds of study about how music affects the body. Mainly there are two main areas that benefits from music, immune system and mental health in dealing with stress.

“We found strong evidence that music intervention has an important role for health ranging from surgery room to family clinics. But even more importantly, we were able to document the neurochemical mechanisms by which music has an effect in four domains: management of mood, stress, immunity and as an aid to social bonding." Says Prof. Levitin.

Here are some of the conclusions

• Listening to music is better than medicines to reduce stress level before a surgery.
• Those who hear music have higher level of immunoglobulin A, an antibody on the mucous system and the one that can help prevent infection.
•     People who listen to music have more immune cells that act as natural killer cells; these cells attack germs, bacteria, and cancer cells invading the body.
•     Listening to music can reduce cortisol level, which is a stress hormone that has lots of negative psychological impact and may trigger obesities.

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Coffee Habit Trigger Enlarged Prostate

Prostate gland tend to enlarge as you age. It usually occurs when you are around 50 years old. The actually reason of this enlargement is still unknown, but coffee habit are suspected to be its trigger.

Tame prostate enlargement is also called hyperplasia prostate. Patients will have a hard time urinating. Urine retention can increase the risk of bladder infection and damaged your kidney.

Medicine may control tame hyperplasia prostate syndrome, but surgery and changing your consumption habit matters too.

Coffee and other beverages that contain caffeine may worsen prostate symptoms, so it is best to avoid consuming them. This is mainly because caffeine is diuretic by nature; it may increase the urine flow and the need to urinate.

To men who suffer prostate enlargement, with irritated bladder or pressures on urethra, caffeine consumption will worsen the symptoms because the increasing frequency of urine.
Coffee and prostate enlargement connection is still unclear, researches shows the opposite result. But in 2002, study found that coffee consumption significantly increases the risk of prostate enlargement. Other than coffee, consuming vegetables and fruit can also trigger prostate enlargement.

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