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Latest study from Texas Tech University shows that women with asthma symptoms have 3% lower in getting ovarian cancer compare to normal women. And also, child who is allergic to mold or dust has 4% lower in getting leukemia. Reports from Harvard University also proves that people with asthma, eczema, hay fever and other allergic symptoms are less likely to get brain tumor compare to normal person.

According to HKUST Epidemiologist from Texas, when allergies are activated in the body of patient, it temporarily strengthen the immune system and increase the resistance to disease. This theoretically proves that people with allergy is less likely to get cancer compare to normal people.

Spice up your dishes with extra peppers and if you can’t take the heat, do not worry; the not-so-spicy peppers also work to burn fat and speed up metabolism, declared by the researchers at the Experimental Biology 2010 in Anaheim, California, recently.

The team of researchers from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) found out other than using substance of caffeine as fat burner, by eating dihydrocapsiate (DCT), a non-burning substance akin to capsaicin, the peper-derived substance which have the same potential benefit as hot pepers at least in part by increasing food-induced heat production.

According to the result of the experiment, DCT is significantly increased fat oxidation, pushing the body to use more fat as fuel. Commented by David Heber, professor of medicine and public health of UCLA, peppers should be added into low-calorie diet as it may help people lose weight by increasing metabolism.

Botox is currently the second most-requested, non-surgical procedure at the cosmetic clinic after laser hair removal. Recently, more and more men are increasingly asking for anti-sweat Botox treatment, according to one of the UK’s most prominent cosmetic surgery providers.

There is increment of 26% of Sweatox intervention in men where Botox is injected into the armpits or palms in order to freeze sweat glands and stop perspiration. According to Harley Medical Group, such treatment costs from £550 and lasts for 6 to 12 months.

 Sweatox reduces sweating for majority of patients up to 80%. It can be painful and cause minor paralysis on hands in some rare cases (depends on the health condition of the patient).

1. Correct sitting posture.

What does it mean with correct posture? All you have to do is to make sure your spine is in neutral and straight position while you’re sitting. Long period of hunchback-ing or swinging to the side would add more pressures to your back muscles and spines, and this outcomes incurable back pain. Selecting an appropriate chair would be a crucial task to conserve healthy posture to our backbone.
To choose a correct chair, all you have to do is to make sure that the chair you’re using is able to support your lower back with arms parallel to floor resting on arm support. Your back-thigh must also fully fit and rest on the chair and soles of the feet must be flat on the floor. Lastly, you have to ensure the top of the computer screen is at your eye level.

2. Move around frequently

Stand up and walk around for every 30 minutes. You may also try moving yourself to Pantry / Washroom to answer your personal phone call. The best way for moving around is to do all the minor works by yourself instead of asking your assistants to do them for your i.e. collecting files or deliver the documents to another department.

3. Back Stretching.

You may also do the stretching exercise every half an hour during working time. To stretch your body, sit on the chair, place both of your hands on the lower back, slowly lean down to your upper body towards your knees. Bear in mind that stretching movements must be performed in slow and steady pace.

4. Back Support

Adding a small pillow or cushion on the back while you’re sitting could constantly change the inclination and posture of your back. Such way can provide lower back support and reduce excessive pressure on the back muscles.

5. Diet Plan

More intake of calcium is the key to conserve health back bone. Especially for middle-aged women who has menopause, imbalance of Calcium could easily lead to Osteoporosis and spinal fracture. Adequate intake of calcium (by pill or milk) must be made to ensure our bones are healthy (not only backbone).

6. Hot Bathe and Cold Compress

Hot water shower can relax our muscles, relieve back pain. Do not use hot compress on as it would cause muscle swelling and increase the pain on your back.
You may use ice compress to relieve back pain, make sure that the ice is not in direct contact with the skin, but wrapped in a towel.

7. Massage

Due to repetitive sitting posture, muscle tension, pain and muscle strain could occur especially for middle-aged people. Providing massage to your back can greatly relief the back muscles as well as the back bone, in which spinal massage on is particular effective on acute back pain.

8. Back Strengthening exercises.

Taking at least 15 to 20 minutes of exercise in a week through exercise can not only strengthen our back. Undergoing stretching and crunches on the back muscles is to ultimately create a better support and protection to the spine, so that the soft muscles and tissues can absorb all the impact that would pressure the spine, tendon and ligaments.

There are hundreds of reasons and ways constipation could occur. In fact, it is easy to solve such matter by following the below tricks (except for psychological or pathological caused of constipation):-

1. More exercise;

Many people are having the problem of constipation due to having less exercise movement, especially for those people who maintain the same postures for the whole day (i.e. sitting on the chair and facing computer from 9 to 5). Such routine causes the digestive system and intestines in our body to hold still all the wastes and outcome not moving action, this resulted difficulty in achieving bowel movement. 
Walking is the best solution to solve constipation, take a walk after a meal,  you may also swing your waist for few rounds. Pick up the habit of walking up the stairs. Such simple exercise could be the savior for removing the problem of constipation.

2. Drink plenty of water;

Most of the people prefer sweet drinks or coffee rather than take in the tasteless water. Although beverages contain water, the ingredients and substances are not favorable to our health. People who dislikes drinking water are commonly encounter with ‘Rocky Shit’ matter.
By drinking more water, it can achieve natural detoxification, and enriches the water content for our skin

3. Consume more Dietary Fibers

Everyone knows that meat and proteins are yummy, especially after furnished by fantastic cooking method. According to Survey done in U.S, 60% of adults who like to eat meats are having bowel problems. Furthermore, processed foods, junk foods with extra artificial ingredients are also aiding in constipation.
Eat more fruits and vegetables to achieve higher dietary fibers to balance your daily meal. Fibers absorb and store water, it could easily smoothen all the movement of effluent in your rectum for easier bowel movements
 

4. Do not hold urination (pee) and defecation (bowel movement)

Either you wan to pee or wan to defecate, do not hold them in you as longer the wastes kept in you, the toxic would run off to all over your body. Especially for women, pee holding could highly affect their urinary system.

5. Relax

Sometimes constipation is caused by psychological problem. Always try to relax your body, by not making so much pressure to yourself, it may easily solve all your bowel matters.

We as human, our body are maintained in constant temperature which is at approximately 37ºC for optimum organs function. Too high or too low temperature will cause the body to produce series of problems. Therefore, when your body is in abnormal change, it would lead to the state of hypothermia i.e. reduction of body temperature which slow down the metabolism rate. Such occurrence may not be life-threatening, it could arise symptoms such as shivering and mental confusion. Such matter needs immediate attention as the person may collapse if the body temperature is largely varied from optimum temperature.

The most common recommendation to attend such problem is by using hot or cold compresses. However, most of the people do not know hot and cold compresses should be used on what kind of circumstances. Wrong condition of using compresses could cause the opposite effect such as Exacerbation (a state of inflammation or painful reaction to allergy or cell-lining damage) to our health instead of making you feel better.

The following guides will briefly explain the roles of hot and cold compresses.

Hot Compress can be used to increased body temperature, relaxing the walls of nerves and blood vessels, promote blood circulation to higher metabolism rate. It also helps to reduce the symptoms of neuromuscular tension and as well as muscle pain.

Circumstances to apply Hot Compress:-
a) Injury occurred with no wound / with no red patches (i.e. internal bleeding);
b) After Fourty-Eight hours of injury
c) Symptoms such as swelling, heat, pain and inflammation;
d) Sub-acute and chronic symptoms of muscle pain;
e) Physiological contraction of uterine muscle pain;
f) Stuffy nose caused by headaches.

Tips: Do not use the hot compress continuously for more than 30 minutes, it could outcome adverse effect to our body.

Cold Compress can be used to reduce the body temperature, causing vasoconstriction, decreased metabolic rate, slow nerve conduction velocity. It also contains the analgesic effect on inflammation (i.e. relief the inflammatory regions in our body).

Circumstances to apply Cold Compress:-
a) After Twenty-four hours of the injury
b) still in the red, swollen, hot, pain, and acute inflammation.
c) Symptoms of Inflammation: fever, pain, bleeding,  sprains, bruises, minor cuts, minor burns, nose bleeding, insect bites, and also high IOP (Intraocular pressure).

Tips: Do not use the time for continuous use for more than 20 minutes as it could outcome adverse effect to our body (i.e. freeze our muscles). You may continuously apply cold compress for an interval of 5 to 10 minutes.

Hot and Cold Compresses can also be used together under certain condition. By applying hot and cold compresses alternatively to regulate the physiological mechanism in our body in order to restore normal operation / functions.

Circumstances to apply Hot and Cold Compresses Alternatively:-
a) Relief Dark circle – After using cold compresses to relieve pressure in the eye, you may apply hot compress on the eye again to promote blood circulation. Such method may help to remove puffiness, fine lines at the eyes and also reduce the probability of myopia progression (Nearsightedness);
b) For muscle fatigue after exercise.

Furthermore, people with heart problems / disease should seek consultation from doctor before you undergo using any compress on yourself. Bear in mind that hot compress produces infrared, it could possibly make the skin turns darker if hot compress applied onto your skin for too long. The dark skin will naturally fade away as long as you suspend the usage of hot compress for some period of time (1 or 2 weeks).

The abovesaid method could be one of the most effective and the simplest way for immediate alleviation of physical discomfort, it also helps to increase body immunity.

Have you ever wondered why obese or overweight people sweat less than normal people? Some people even believe that such matter is due to the blockage of sweat glands (fats block all the accessibility of sweat glands etc.).

Verily, such is connected to our body of water. When we were born, our body had stored 75% of water. By the time we reach middle or old age, our body retains 50% or less water. Generally, overweight or obese people have less than 50% body water. Women tend to have more body fat than men, so they also have lower percentage of water compared to men.

For your information, fat cells cannot store water. Water is stored mostly in muscles. People with low mass of muscles tend to have less body water; this is why sportsmen can easily get sweat and fat people take so much of efforts to secret a drop of sweat. The lack of body water is referred to as ‘dehydration’. Many people do not even notice anything abnormal with small loss of water from their bodies. Water is important to us in the way that mental and physical functions are being compromised by content of body water. If your body water drops by as little as 2% of your body weight, your physical and mental function as well as the performance would start to be impaired. When water loss reaches up to 7% of body weight, the body may start to collapse.

We lose about 2 litres of water per day depending on our body mass, working / living environment, diet, lifestyle and physiological problems. 2/3 of water loss is through urine; 1/3 is lost through sweating, breathing or even bowel movements.

In state of dehydration, most water loss comes at the expense of our cellular health. Without healthy cells, we cannot have healthy organs for our body to function at its optimum.

It’s been common to use the sentence “An apple a day keeps the doctor away”. Among all the fruits, apple is the most common fruits which high content of nutrients and vitamins.

According to the nutritional value report on apple, it is contained with highest content of fructose and contains a various essential organic acids, pectin and trace elements. Especially for Pectin, it is a highly soluble fiber which use to reduce the cholesterol level in our bloodstream and promote excretion of fats.

Experiment was conducted by French on a group of healthy middle-aged men and women with daily consumption of two to three apples which last for a month. Result shown that 80% of human blood low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL) which is called bad cholesterol are decreased; the same time, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL) which is also known as good cholesterol are increased.

Furthermore, trace elements in apple, Potassium is able to dilate the walls of blood vessel, a natural high blood pressure medicine for patient with hypertension. However, trace element of Zinc is necessary for the sexual reproduction system in man as well as the breakdown of glucose in our body.

To consume apples, it is good to eat with raw together with the apple skins. It is because apple is rich in dietary fibers, which help for body’s drainage system. On the other hand, people with diarrhea condition should eat more apples as Malic Acid from the apple helps to boosting immunity, maintaining oral health and reducing the risk of poisoning from a build-up of toxic metals.

Moreover, Apple is not high in calorie, thus it is a good fruits to be included in dieting plan of weight loss.

Most people think that a glass of warm milk could aid in sleeping, in fact, warm milk give completely opposite effect to us – clear our mind. Doctors point out, if you want to sleep better and prevent insomnia, you may consume some snacks with high sugar, such as sweet pastries (i.e. cakes etc.) as glucose slows down the blood flows throughout our body (increases the weight of blood) and eventually reduce the metabolism rate (this is why you would feel sleepy after having the meal with high content of  carbohyrates).  You also may drink a glass of honey, fruit juice. Bear it mind that people with diabetes disease is not suitable for using such method.

In addition, to maintain consistent of sleeping time (without sudden wake up in the middle of the night), you should take less caffeinated drink (i.e. coffee and tea), no alcoholic drink, no  smoking, and of course, a comfortably well bed. On mental belief, Remove the worries and mind thinking, make sure you do not get too hungry before you sleep. Some people do not know that regular exercise is one of the effective sleep remedy.

1. Rest or sleep

After strenuous of exercises, you are not allow to immediately stop down all the workout and rest. This could halt the muscles contraction after aggressive exercises, such act would stop all the blood from muscles to flow back to the heart and outcomes low blood pressure. Symptoms such as transient ischemic brain, flustered shortness of breath, dizziness, pale or even fainting.

2. Bathe

Immediate bathe after strenuous exercise could result sudden contraction of blood vessels, this increase the counteraction of blood circulation at the same time decrease the body resistance. Moreover, hot bath increases the blood flow within the skin, this outcomes excessive blood flow into muscles and skins and results insufficient blood supply to the heart and brain. Symptoms such as dizziness, collapse and sometimes it could also cause chronic disease.

3. Consume sugars

Some people believe that by consuming some high sugar item (i.e. sweets, chocolate, etc.) after aggressive exercise could relief our body and muscles. In fact, eating too much of sweets after exercise could deplete the vitamin B1 stored in our body, it makes us feel more fatigue, loss of appetite and affect our body recovery. Therefore, after intense of exercise, it is best to eat foods containing high in vitamin B such as vegetables, eggs etc.

4. Alcohol

After intense of exercises, our body will be high in metabolism rate, by drinking alcohol. It causes the body to absorb more alcohol into the bloodstream. In long term, it could cause us liver disease, cirrhosis, gastritis, even gastric ulcer. By drinking beer after exercise could increase the blood level of uric acid, it could affect our joint and lead to arthritis.