Wednesday, August 30, 2017

7 Physical Signs We Have Bad Diets

There are many of our habits that are bad for the body, such as eating foods high in fat and calories, fast food, smoking, or drinking excessive alcohol.

Actually our body has a way to tell if our diet is unhealthy and there are dangers awaiting. If you experience any of the following symptoms, it may be time to change your diet, consult your doctor, or both.

1. Damaged hair
Some people are blessed with thick, healthy hair, others are not as fortunate. However, having beautiful hair is not only due to genes but also many other things in the body.

In fact, hair follicles are the first part of the body that will suffer from an unhealthy diet. Diet is too tight until hunger will cause a lack of protein so the hair will be stiff or fall off. The condition can also be caused because the body lacks fatty acids, vitamin C, zinc, and iron.

2. Wrinkles
All of us will eventually get wrinkled. However, we can control how quickly the signs of aging will arise by avoiding unhealthy habits, such as smoking.

Monday, August 28, 2017

Foods Burned Cause Cancer, Myth or Fact

Another myth about cancer circulating in the community is that food that is burned can trigger cancer. Is this myth true or not?

Chairman of the Indonesian Cancer Foundation (YKI), Prof. Dr. dr Aru Wicaksono Sudoyo, SpPD-KHOM, said the food that was burned did not trigger cancer. Because it is not the charcoal that causes cancer cells. But what materials are burned. If chicken or fish is burned even burnt though, it does not trigger cancer.

Then what food can be burned cause cancer? According to the man who also served as Chairman of the Association of Oncology Indonesia (POI) foodstuffs such as red meat that can cause cancer if burned to long. Red meat when heated will issue heterocyclic amunes. This is the substance that makes cancer.

"It's not charcoal that makes cancer, but red meat that is heated to black is what makes cancer.If chicken or grilled fish does not matter," he said in a press conference Betadine Retro Run in Jakarta, some time ago.

Sunday, August 27, 2017

Which is Better, Routine Sports or Sleep Enough

Regular exercise and adequate sleep are two things that are just as important for maintaining a healthy body. But, when you feel tired and sleep deprived, does it still need to get up earlier to do the sport?

Maybe you hope the answer is "no". Besides, the mattress and the warm blanket are more tempting than having to bother to spend energy on the sport. Especially if the outside is raining.

That is why, choosing between going to sleep to get a healthy sleep is fulfilled, or forcing to get up to exercise, are two difficult choices. Well, between the two options, which should take precedence: exercise or sleep?

If asked to vote, according to Edward Laskowski, MD, a professor of physical medicine at the Mayo Clinic, sleep and sports are likened to food and water. Not only necessary for the body, but both are very difficult to separate from each other. That's why these two things are a difficult choice.

Cheri Mah, a sleep medicine researcher at Stanford University and University of California, San Francisco added, if based on many research results, it is known exercise routine is very important to get quality sleep, and quality sleep is important for physical performance.