Alcohol effects on our body

Most of us must have drunk alcohol before throughout their lifetime – well except for those Muslims friends. We might not drink it daily or regularly but the fact that we did drink it once in a while in some occasion like wedding dinner, friends or relative get together, New Year celebration and etc. I agreed that if you consume it once in a while are somehow good for health – or I can say at least won’t affects your health. What about those regular drinkers? Will their health deteriorate due to regular drinking? Well it obviously does affects our body if drank too much. Refer to America National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), here’s how alcohol can affects our body if consume too much in a long run.

Brain

The affects on brain will be in short term and long term. Difficulty walking, blurred vision, slurred speech, slowed reaction times, impaired memory – these impairments are detectable after only few drinks and quickly resolved after drinking stops. Exactly how alcohol affects the brain and the likelihood of reversing the impact of heavy drinking on the brain remain hot topics in alcohol research today. A number of factors influence how and to what extent alcohol affects the brain;

Sitting position and types of chair that cause back pain

Recently few of my colleagues complain about having back pain. They said that the office chair is the cause of the problem. Actually I felt it too when I sit too long and my lower back started to give out and send me the aching signal. This had leads us to spend a bit of personal money to buy the back support to support our lower back.

We sit in a long period of time due to work purpose, where we need to work 12 hours a day. Improper posture and bad chairs will cause back pain, hand pain, shoulder and neck pain and will tire you excessively.

Recommended Proper Sitting Position

• Hands, wrists, and forearms are straight, in-line and roughly parallel to the floor.
• Head is level or bent slightly forward, forward facing, and balanced. Generally it is in-line with the torso.
• Shoulders are relaxed and upper arms hang normally at the side of the body.
• Elbows stay in close to the body and are bent between 90 and 120 degrees.
• Feet are fully supported by the floor or a footrest may be used if the desk height is not adjustable.

Lung Recovery after Quit Smoking

The question of lung recovery always flashes my mind since before I quit smoking. It is always my doubt on whether my lung will recover to a normal healthy non-smoker’s state or not. This is my concern because if my lung will not recovers there is no purpose for me to quit smoking;/ As I google through, it shows that our lung density will recover to at least 80 percent of those non-smokers – it can’t be 100 percent because the damage already been made – better than nothing right?

When you quit smoking, the inflammation in the airways goes down. The little hair-like projections in the airways called cilia, which are paralyzed by smoke begin to work again. So the lungs will get better in weeks to months. Breathing will get better. Exercise capacity will get better. Paradoxically, people find that they cough a little more right after they stop smoking, but that's natural. That's the lungs cleaning themselves out.

Blood Ozone Therapy

Last article I write about my friend’s father admitted to hospital due to pulmonary edema (fluid filled lungs). A small fraction of the lung muscle being taken out by the doctor to perform biopsy and the result is quite upsetting. Result shows that there is a cancerous cell detected from the test. Refer to my friend, the doctor says that the biopsy test are quite accurate and convincing – can say the accuracy is 70-80 percent. However, further checkup would need to be conducted to know the stage of the cancer cell.

The news itself is enough to upset my friend and started to search about the possibilities and alternative to cure cancer. He knows that doing the modern way of chemotherapy and radiotherapy is very painful and he don’t wanted his father to suffer. He haven’t tell his father and mother yet about the results because both the parents did not understand English and doctors only explain the medical report to the siblings only. He really doesn’t know what to do but to find for possible cure as soon as possible.

Fluid Filled Lungs

I hope it’s not because of my bad karma that indirectly cause this to happen;( The reason being is because recently my friend’s father admitted to hospital because of pulmonary edema (fluid filled lungs). I’ll explain a bit about pulmonary edema.

Our lungs are one of the largest organs in the body, it is made up of air sacs known as alveoli which function is to taking in oxygen and giving out carbon dioxide. The oxygen inhaled is then pass down to the bloodstream. Proper breathing will continue as long as there is no interference in the normal functioning of the alveoli.

What disrupting the normal function of our lung and caused fluids to fill the lungs?

In general the cause of fluid filled lungs can be related to heart problems (cardiac), however we can’t denied the fact that it may be caused by some sort of lung infection and or other factor that not caused by heart problem or we call it noncardiac pulmonary edema. Below discuss on factors that may caused pulmonary edema.

Why We Have Static in Our Body?

This few months I always get static on whatever I touched. I just don’t know when and where I’ll get shocked. But I’ll get shocked mostly in the office where I touch metal, monitor, door, and the most annoying one was when I touch my colleague. This happen not just once, it happen mostly all the time I have contact with them – the contact I mean was when I tap their shoulder or arm and or sometimes we bumped with each other while walking. I always blame them for giving me the static, though I know that I am the one giving out the shock. This makes me to avoid any contact with them and when I really need to tap their shoulder I will make a touch & go first before really rest my hand on it (no negativity here, it is just the culture – I’m not gay or pervert).

Back Pain Relieve III

Chinese Traditional Herbs Patch

This would be the last article for back pain and I hope the next time if I did write about it, I would be writing about other people instead of myself;) (oh I’m so bad).  I still felt minor muscle pain around my right kidney area (I did do check-up and it is sure not my kidney problem) and minor pain on my spine around C4, C5 & also around T4 & T6. I told the therapist about it – he noted and started to diagnose it with both his hands. He presses my spine side muscle part by part from neck area till the lower back area. Along the way he will asked me whether is it hurt or fatigue when he press the area. I told him exactly where I felt it and after the full diagnosis he concentrates on the part where I said its pain. After around 20 minutes of muscle relieving, he performs the well known bone twisting again – what a great way to end it;). I’ve said it once previously and I don’t mind to repeat it again – the whole session really relaxes me to the max!!! The therapist then patched some Chinese medicine on my pain area and I can’t take my bath till the next day morning;( (this is the worst part though).

Back Pain Relieve II

I’m getting stressed up lately at my work. I don’t get to complete my compulsory errand, I don’t get to do what I plan to do, I don’t get enough exercise and rest to release my tension. All I get is work, work and more work without really having a proper rest physically and emotionally.

Recently I realize my attitude changed to become more fierce and bad tempered. I will have negative thoughts like he/she must be simply take leave and don’t want to work – it just get on my nerves and I don’t know why I acted like this. Because I always have the mindset of “if I help people, people will help me back”, I will try as much as I could to work for them. I think because of excessive work that stresses me out - tried to control myself but sometimes it just burst without control.

Back Pain Relieve

Back Pain

Get to read from an article online (Health.com) that there are 4 surprising cures for back pain. It really interests me when it comes to back pain as it was one of my articles too that I’ve posted last year April titled spinal cord injury. Though the recommendation in this article about back pain are not really for those hardcore back pain patients (must seek professional advice) – but it might provides a bit of relieves, which might help improves the conditions. Listed below are 4 types of recommendation to relieve back pain.

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever

Aedes Mosquito

Just when I wrote about the vector-borne diseases in the previous articles on climate change that I recalled on the tragedy happen to my colleague (close friend) few years ago. His name is Al (not his real name) and he joins the company 1 year earlier than me. Before me he is consider a junior there, but since after I join he is rated as a senior;). Despite the seniority, both me and Al get along together well because he is a friendly guy. We communicate in English – the language we both fluent with, because he only knows Mandarin and I only knows Cantonese(I’m a banana-yellow exterior with white interior, that’s what people called a Chinese that is non Chinese educated. All Chinese educated individuals would be able to speak mandarin, because schools teach in Mandarin). We working in the same shift, where we will regularly go out for break together, not always due to work constrain. One day, he suggested a joint venture to create a 3D game – I agreed and we’ve brought all the material needed to create 3D characters like tutorials and software.

Climate Change

We celebrate and welcome year 2012 like every other year before - gather together for countdown, fireworks, and partying all night long till the next morning, because the next day will be public holiday. Year 2012 also marks the year of what we are told to be the end of the world on 21/12/2012 – what a beautiful combination of numbers. Do you really believe it? The thing that we actually thought all this while that it won’t happen in our time is actually happening – to think about it really scared me out!!!

Those whom want to believe it, I leave it to you guys, but I personally do not believe that it happens so soon – we still can able to save our mother earth from dying. If I know I’m dying soon, I will do whatever I wanted to do - as long as I’m happy with it. This mindset will lead to more and more wrongdoing that threatens our planet. If we think the other way round, we will try our very best to safe it. The reason why our planet is dying so fast is because of us (human being) – our ever growing activities like burning of fossil fuel like coal, oil, and gas, deforestation, waste and etc. are altering the composition of atmosphere and contribute to climate changes.

Health Benefits of Drinking Tea

Tea drinking is a culture for people all over the world irrespective of ethnicity. Although with the western influence of alcohol and other carbonated beverages as alternative options, tea is still rated as first rank of preference beverage that is irreplaceable.

 The history of tea drinking can be dated back 2737BCE by the Chinese emperor Shennong. It is said that emperor Shennong preferred his drinking water to be boiled so it is clean to consume. One day while emperor Shennong was travelling, his servant begins boiling water for him to drink. A dead leaf from the wild tea bush suddenly fell into the boiling water unnoticed. Emperor Shennong drank it and finds it very refreshing, and so from there on he names it Cha (meaning ‘Tea’). Tea was only introduces to the West about 400 years ago.

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.