Radiation

Hearing the word itself makes us annoyed and worried. Radiation is indeed a very scary word that marks tremendous negative effects throughout the history of mankind. From the disaster of nuclear bomb planted on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and to the latest nuclear plant disaster at Fukushima, Japan. Radiation can be extremely dangerous, especially in large doses. Though dramatic events like nuclear meltdowns and the possibility of nuclear war are the risks we most readily connect with radiation, it is the constant everyday lower level of radiation that we should be most concern about.

Radiation is in fact, a regular part of the life. From the day we were born to the day we die, our bodies are subjected to expose to persistent barrage of the energize atomic particles of radiation. The sources of everyday radiation are far more common than people are aware – being out in the sun (sunlight contains ultraviolet radiation), getting a dental x-ray (x-rays are forms of radiation), flying in an airplane (at higher altitude, you have less of the earth’s atmosphere to protect you from cosmic radiation- including from the sun), or even spending time in concrete building (concrete contains small amounts of uranium that emit radioactive radon gas) – Radon is the leading source of natural radiation exposure and the second leading cause of lung cancer.  Where does it come from?  Well, usually from soil, but it is found everywhere. The ground that we all walk and build our homes upon contains varying levels of naturally occurring radioactive elements that decay into radon gas, which can seep into homes and become a health concern.

Stress

Stress is the word that comes out on my mind when I thought about the modern day laymen daily life. This is the word that follows us every day that no one can stay free from it. Why? Living in this urban life, we can’t say that we are stress free, because there must be something that disturbing us or temp to make us feel uncomfortable. Stress isn’t always bad. In small doses, it can help you perform under pressure and motivate you to do your best. But when you’re constantly running in emergency mode, your mind and body pay the price.

What actually make us stress?

There are actually a lot of things that make stress surface. Some of the common things that normally most of us would encountered daily are stuck in a jam, waking up early for work, loads of errand at work, meeting, personal matter, financial issue, child issue, family issue, and lots of other issue/matters that we can’t even think of. Stress is a physical and emotional response to events that make us feel pressured.

Bad Breath

It is sad to say that much of the think I write here are somehow related to myself;/ Talking about bad breath – I can say for me it is on and off because it comes once in a while, but due to not everyone will honestly told me that I have a bad breath, I’m not pretty sure whether am I on and off or all the while having it.

This means that drinking a lot of water, mouth spray, chewing gum, sweets and whatever thing that prevents my bad breath to surface, I will surely kept them with me without fail. Sometimes when I run out of stocks and forget to re-stock, I will felt uneasy because I have phobia on hearing people said that word (bad breath) to me.  – I still thought that my breath is always bad all the time.

Maintaining good health through healthy lifestyle

It is hard for us to resist the good food in front of us. The look of the delicacies nowadays really tempting and most of us will be more than willing to spend our hard end money on the things we eat. In addition to that, we can now have the option to even buy coupon online. Through these online coupon gateways we got to know a lot of new restaurants, café, and multiple of food choices that attracts us to buy the cheap coupon online just to get a taste of it. Well I can’t say all is good in terms of taste but what important is the marketing strategies that attracts consumers to buy it.

Though there are varieties of food choices to choose via these gateways, but there are also some other promotional coupons from other industries as well, like car wash, health & wellness, cosmetics and etc. It is advisable to not only narrow our state of mind to only having the habit of eating, but also think of having a balance and healthy lifestyle too.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Today is the last day of year 2011. When this day came every year, most of us will think back of what we have done throughout the year – what makes us happy and memorable and what makes us sad or regrettable. This day was just like the final 30 minutes in the exam hall, where we will review back all the questions and answers before pass it over.

In this year I did have some regrettable things that I’ve never been through all the while. I can say year 2011 is my unlucky year. Unwanted things kept coming without fail, but however lotus flower blooms on a mud – of all the unwanted things happen, there are some goals and mission planned that I have accomplished.

Since this is a health blogs – let’s say something about health. Well every year round I will plan for the things I’ve need to be done on my health list. Like this year my health list that have done and fulfilled was – to do yearly medical check-up, take my Hepatitis injections, blood donation twice a year, went for marathon and walkathon event, to exercise at least twice a week and some of the dietary regime that I have followed. It may seems to be an easy list, but to really accomplish it will be quite difficult for me because of my work time (I work on shift –so quite complicated to adjust the time). So what can I say:o) I find it quite an accomplishment.

Next year (which is starting tomorrow) will be a new year and I have to draft a new health list to be accomplished – basically I just use back the old list and add up whatever I think necessary like the influenza injection that the doctor asked me to take, I might take it at the end of January itself. Another big challenge that I decided is to quit smoking!!! – This is by far the biggest challenge that I have to face I think. Hopefully victory is on my side.

What is in your mind guys? Have you review the healthy things that you’ve done this year? Have you plan for things that need to be done next year? Just sit down and think about what you have done this year and what have you accomplished and what have not – put it in your New Year resolution and plan for your health. Remember that wealth is gained through proper health. With a healthy body, you will have the energy to attain wealth, but without health you can’t do anything even with the wealth you’ve gain.

Let us balance between these two element of life and lead a healthy and wealthy year 2012. Here I’m wishing all of you a HAPPY & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR. May all of you are blessed with abundance of health and wealth in this year of the dragon. HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!!!

Cough

Cough is a very tiring, annoying, mentally and physically stress thing to mention. Thanks to my never ending cough that I could not do my usual thing like exercise and even having a good night sleep. Indirectly makes me felt mentally tired due to stress and physically tired due to lack of rest. At times I really felt that I wanted to kill myself or cut the throat off to stop it from getting itchyL

I went to clinic to see doctor on the 2^nd day I catch the cough. As usual the doctor would ask whether it is a cough with phlegm or without phlegm and I answer with doubt because sometimes have and sometimes don’t have. He check whatever needed and provide me the prescribe medicine.

Blood Donation

I went for blood donation last Wednesday, which was on 21st September. I felt very embarrassing to say that this was my first time donating blood after 4 years since my last time donate was at year 2007;/ Can say that it was my first time too because the anxious feeling is the same as the first time I'm donating blood.

It was a mobile blood team that have their booth setup in my company. I did not voluntarily go to Pusat Darah Negara (PDN) to donate it --well because I'm the lazy kind of guy that expected things to come to me;) Since my target set to myself was to donate blood once a year, i did not go all the way to PDN to donate it, because my

Quit Smoking

Smoking is the common habit in the society nowadays. Well, too bad to say that I am smokers too. Well as every smokers says, I wanted to quit smoking but the sentence has been came out from my mouth for years and yet I’m still a smokers;o/. I did tried several ways of quitting smoking sources from the internet, like nicotine patches, nicotine gum, mental control and also to the extend of buying books that guide us to smoke free life. Does it works? Well all I can say is nicotine patch and gums are useless for me because I still seem to be in the habit although I use it for about 1 month. There is no smell on the patch or gums and they say that the nicotine content in it can prevent your lust for puff.

Well for me I think the culprit that causes me to find it hard to quit smoking is the habit. The habit to have a puff after every meal, the habit of having a puff when I drink with friends, the habit to get a puff before I enter the house or office, the habit of getting a puff when I’m in stress or relaxed. All these things if you think of it really good and healthy activities, but if you put cigarettes in the picture it seems to spoil the mood. But for smokers like me, it really brings up the mood. The feel to have a puff in a nice environment is really stress relief for smokers.