ALCOHOL INVITES TROUBLE

Can you afford living without taking alcoholic drinks? I don’t think so. It was a fact that alcohol is already part of our culture. History told us how liquor took part in their existence. So are we!

Now in the modern society, the same thing happened in our lives. If abused it control and slave us. This was the source of many conflicts in the family. An alcoholic ruined his future completely. By just thinking to stop gives him hell. It was the torture that if he can’t taste the liquid into his mouth, the thirst was too much to bear. Once it started drinking, stopping is the hardest.

Many drivers in the vehicles did not understand the phrase “Drinking liquor while driving is dangerous”. This was one of the problems we faced today, the ignorance of some people about safety precaution. If there is benefit in drinking a little - it outweigh the damaging effect to health.

The starting point of learning how to drink came from socializing with friends. As it goes on it becomes his obsession to drink. A group of drinkers will influence his sanity and destroy whatever left in his civility.

Some broken marriages started in few sip of drinks until the urge was established and hard to control. The security of the job was threatened. Better relationship with others was strained. A social drinker becomes an alcoholic, the life he started to destroy.

Here comes the damaging effect to one’s health:

If our cardiovascular system is healthy, the heart worked well. Any distortion will cause the heart to have a disease. Most often a diseased heart brought many complications, palpitation and even death. A small amount of alcohol taken even mildly will alter the normal heart function and affect other body organs.

 How much more if taken regularly or being abused? How many lives will be lost due to less concern to their health? How can they afford to trade it with their normal lives? Where their common sense go? 
 

The long term effect from alcoholism is frightening. Major terminal cancers (esophagus, larynx and throat) worsened when the body is in the influence of liquor.

Extreme alcoholic drinking was the cause of the cirrhosis of the liver. It damages the immune system responsible for the protection of many types of infection. It causes possible brain damage. It was the reason of many accidents in the streets, accident from the job and other situational accidents.

 There was carelessness in his movements, lacking mental alertness, unsteady posture because of grogginess and emotional explosion he can’t hold. It strained monetary capacity by spending his savings from his unproductive drinking habit. It causes trouble in the family, broken marriage and alienation of children’s feeling to their father and the reason of financial difficulties.

He neglected his function as breadwinner of the family. He doesn’t want to work and became lazy. His physical health is a mess. He can’t even do better physical hygiene to clean himself. The bad smell of liquor penetrated deep into his skin. His eyes were red and sleepy. He was the irresponsible man in the house neglecting himself and his family. He was a total wreck.

His emotional explosion causes him to harm anybody and got arrested due to inflicted physical injury he caused to a man.  It seemed he doesn’t care anymore about life and his responsibilities. The distortion of his thought process put him to be highly dangerous. His power of control he completely ignored.

If too drunk, it causes mental black-out, hang-over, vomiting, and memory lapses. If he can’t drink, he experienced nausea, bout of insomnia, heavy sweating, shakiness of his movement especially hands, tension muscles and waning strength to stop. 

His craving for satisfaction was so strong. Only by drinking he can possibly pacify his unquenchable thirst.

An alcoholic still has hope if he has strong will to make a change to be able to free himself from the claw of dependency. It was understandable that to completely stop is not an easy job to do unless the honesty in his heart and mind is pure to do the impossible.

The deterioration of the condition of his health is a proof how alcohol affected every fibers, organs and systems of the body that later on created an intentional health condition. There still hope for them. Total avoidance is difficult but responsible drinking can make a difference. Drinking is part of our culture. It can never be denied that we are a slave to it.

How about you?  If you really wanted to drink because of peer pressure, make it a point that it is not abused. If moderate drinking in allowed in our society then make it so. But remember, alcohol still a threat to health whether you take it little or more. If you insist then take it at your own risk.

KNOW YOUR SKIN AND ITS FUNCTION

Every parts and parcels of our body has useful intent. They have the responsibility they were borne to do. Any distortion of their function will bring ill-health we have to suffer. The skin has important role for the protection of tissues, blood, arteries, veins, ligaments, capillaries, bones and internal organs. It supports the structure of the bones and different parts of the body with exception. It protects all the connections that carry the blood to its destination. There were different activities of the body inside the skin necessary to put everything in order.

It was considered as the largest organs. I composed of integumentary systems of many layers of mesodermal tissues. It acted as shield against damaging pathogen. It was the defense initiated by the body from any damages caused by internal and external environmental sources.

It has many layers of nerve endings that can easily determine the presence of heat, cold, pressure, vibration and injuries to the tissues. It regulated heat and has high level of blood supply for purpose of controlling loss of energy due to radiation, convection and conduction activities. It dilated the blood vessels against perfusion and loss of heat. It also constricted the blood vessels to reduce the cutaneous blood flow and maintain heat conservation. It controls loss of fluid due to burns and other skin injuries. It prevents evaporation to avoid skin dryness.

The skin has the ability to determine mood swing, physical condition and feeling attractive. The skin becomes the depot for the storage of lipid and water. It synthesized vitamin D through the action of ultraviolet rays to the specific spot in the skin.

The epidermis was used as the inlet for the absorption of oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen in small quantity.

All nutrients that entered to the body is safeguarded by the skin that it is not wasted. The nutrients are to be fully utilized by the different organs for their regular and normal function. The body has colony of helpful micro-organism especially those that are found in the digestive system. The skin gives full support and protected the organisms to remain in the body and not wash out and wasted.

What is important is the epidermis to the general wellness of the body? Epidermis was found in the surface of the skin. It was the covering made up of cells served as the protecting body called keratinocytes, placed on top of each other to make different sub-layers for special purpose. Any dead cells were normally replaced regenerating itself into new cells. The cycle repeated many times when the live cells reached to the point of its normal death and then renew again.

The color of the skin was the result of the production of dark pigments called melanin. It was important for the protection of the skin against harmful ultraviolet rays. Melanin can be found at the bottom of the epidermis. It was the cells in the epidermis called melanocytes that was responsible for skin color.

The dermis were composed of thicker connective tissue that gives the skin more pliable and resistant. It regulates body temperature. It has vascular networks responsible to carry the nutrients to reach the epidermis. It has an organ that senses pain, temperature, blood vessels, nerve fibers, hair follicles and sweet glands.

Inside the skin, it contains many networks of tiny blood vessels. The blood was being circulated to supply the skin with nutrients and oxygen. The blood vessels were tasked to make passage of waste products away from the system.

 

The skin has hair follicles growing into the dermis of epidermal tissue responsible for the production of hairs. The visible and very tiny hairs covered the entire body. Only the hands, lips and sole of feet were free from set of hairs. It reacted to any changes in temperature during cold period. It stands upright in response to the changes. The arrectar pile muscles closes the skin pores to make it warm.

The sebaceous gland contains quantity of oil. The oil gland secretes sebum important in moisturizing the skin and hair. The oil was located all over the body concentrated heavily in scalp, nose, cheek, forehead and skin.

The sweat gland secreted sweats to cool the skin when it becomes hot. It thermo-regulate the temperature to normal level. The structure of the sweat glands composed of single tube, coiled body and superficial ducts, the important components in the sweat glands.

Langerhan cells removed and destroyed harmful materials (foreign) that are trying to control the epidermis. It ejected the threat out of the body. Other important parts are the meissner’s corpuscle which can detect touch and other movements.  The Pacinian corpuscles act as receptor for pressure and vibration. It has free nerve endings that senses pain, itchy and temperature changes.

It is important to protect your skin at all times because skin is the gateway to good and healthy body.

DEPRESSIVE DISORDER

Depression is a very serious illness. The disorder already affected portion of general population. It often interferes with the normal functioning of the body and cause emotional pain and suffering of the mind. A man with serious depressive disorder destroyed his will to live. It gives him an unsound relationship with the people he loved especially his family.

It is called the whole-body illness affecting the body, mood and thoughts. There is problem in eating and sleeping. He treated his self differently. He has different perception about things he knew. The disorder is an indication of personal weakness and differences in his line of thought. He has no initiative to heal his body and mind. He is going down instead of going better. Keeping away from seeking medical treatment will put his symptoms to remain in weeks, months and in many years of inattention disregarding the opportunity for the healing, aside from interference in the ability to eat, sleep and enjoyment to his favorite sport.

Dysthymia is a long-term chronic symptoms not disabling but failed to function well in steaming fully. He has no desire in feeling good because he did not care.

Bipolar disorder has cycles of depression and elation mania. There was mood swing changing interest from time to time. It may be dramatic, rapid and gradual. It affected the way he think, his correct judgment and social interaction with other people that later on cause him serious embarrassment.

Depression has persistent anxiety, empty mood (silent, unfocused). He has sad face as if the burden is in his shoulder. He was very pessimistic in his belief. He treated a simple problem as hopeless case. He treated minor differences with guilt. He felt he was worthless and helpless.

He suddenly lost interest to the things he normally enjoyed. It doesn’t give him pleasure instead it bored him. His wakefulness affected his normal sleep pattern. His insomnia worsened. But if he is not awake, he oversleep.

There was problem in his appetite. He ate little or not at all. It cause him to lose weight. But if he likes to eat, he over-ate increasing his weight to pass the borderline level no longer in his normal weight anymore.

He easily got tired. He loses his energy that gives him fatigue and lost interest to work. He has suicidal tendencies thinking about death. He can’t stay long in one position. He was restless moving from position to another. He was irritable in minor differences. He easily explode his temper.

He was out-of-focus losing better concentration. He has memory loss unable to remember important events in his life. He has hard time making decision and rely on other people’s advice. He has chronic pain whatever the source. He often has headache and his digestive system is growling.

Most common cause of depressive episode are due to financial problem, difficult relationship, chronic illness that has no chance to recover, loss of someone he dearly love and changes in his life pattern he was not accustomed to do.

To determine the degree of depression, a thorough medical evaluation is needed including diagnostic tests.  It demands complete medical history, genetic history. The purpose is the degree of the illness when did it starts, how long it affected him, his treatment history and other questions to determine the deepness of the disorder and other factors that cause it.

To reduce the effect of depression, do the following:

-Don’t make difficult goal that you can’t handle.

-Don’t take bigger responsibility if you think you can’t carry the burden.

-Sept priorities to some of your function. Divide your task into smaller portion easy to manage.

-Don’t expect too much expectation of your ability for excellence. If you fail it hurts.

-Go with your friend, interact with them, to allocate time for socializing.

-If you are in the state of confusion, relax and join in physical action to be able to shift your mood to more useful one.

-Don’t easily get upset. Try to calm your nerve.

-Be positive in dealing with life.

Depression can be treated. Only complete medical examination is needed and better treatment is important by using effective drugs to be able to lessen or remove the impact of the effect of this kind of disorder.

THE ROLE OF GARLIC IN HEALTH

Garlic is an important spice in the kitchen. It serves as food appetizer. Without it, the prepared menu lacked its original taste. The history of garlic was used as food and as medicine.

Garlic was composed mostly of water. Each clove has 1 gram of carbohydrates in starchy form contains sinistrin, protein, fiber and fat. It has 17 amino acids, 19 minerals and 5 vitamins, 6 nucleosides or nucleic acid.

The minerals in garlic are germanium, calcium, magnesium, copper, iron, potassium, selenium and zinc. The vitamins are vitamin A, B1, B2, B3, C, choline. The nucleic acids are adenosine, guanosine, uridine, thymidine, cytidine and isosine. The nucleosides was the building block of DNA and RNA.

Generally, is not odorous. It only give pungent smell if it is being crushed or bruised.The sulfur-rich amino acids called Alliin and the enzyme or catalyst called allinase were responsible for the smell as it dissolved in the cells of the garlic.

The two compounds alinase and alliin mixes together once the garlic is being crushed. They released a highly reactive pungent compound called diallyl thiosulfinate or allicin that gives protection to the body against harmful bacteria. As the allicin is being manufactured, it started to decay. This is the time that it unleash a barrage of many other compounds formed and participated in the complex sequence of chemical interaction and reaction.

Garlic aided and induced the capacity of the killer cells in the body to destroy tumor cells, virus-infected cells and other foreign invaders to protect them to establish colony to damage healthy cells.

It stimulates the activity of the macrophage, a phagocytes that has the ability to engulped foreign substances. It stimulates the function of the immune system influencing the T-lymphocytes to respond to lymphokines and mitogen.

It was found to lowers blood pressure by inhibiting the enzymes. The enzyme catalyzes the conversion of hormones for the purpose of regulating the blood pressure to normal level. A sulfur compound in garlic called ajoene is responsible to dissolve blood clots in the blood vessels by making interruption to the process where the platelets and fibrin are working together to form a clots to the circulatory system.

It has progressive nature to reverse and control atherosclerosis. It inhibits the enzymes to initiate cholesterol synthesis that will result to the reduction of the level of low-density lipoprotein and increase in high-density lipoprotein levels.

Garlic found to have anti-tumor property that inhibits the enzyme activity of the cancer cells putting them non-viable. It blocks carcinogens to damage and destroy tissues that may result to the formation of cancer. It then blocks a secondary carcinogen that will promotes the activity of primary carcinogen. The stimulation of the immune system was the reasons it can defend against tumor.

Garlic is very effective in the control of the disease-causing germs. Because of its anti-bacterial property it controls against gram-positive, gram-negative and acid-fast bacterial organisms. It becomes a germ fighter against viruses, protozoa and fungal infection and parasites.

If the immune system ability to defend is enhance, it work properly to its highest peak of shielding damaging micro-organisms and free radicals.

Liver is very sensitive and can easily reactive of any chemical substances and contaminants it can get in the environment. With garlic it can protect the liver from the damage due to hazards taken from outside sources. Ionizing radiation is very damaging to the cells but garlic has the ability to give full protection and preserve the healthy cells from being destroyed.

The pungency of garlic doesn't matter. The most important things is that it has many benefits we can use to solve, help and treat the disease that keep on bothering us.

Garlic is available anytime, anywhere even in our own kitchen. Using it in our food preparations as spices in one good points that our body is protected from the threats to maintain healthy life.

WHY DRUGS IS NOT GOOD FOR US

Witnessing the situation of our society today, we can conclude that harmful drugs became the headline news. In every corners of the globe, this drugs is impossible to control. Most of the users were delinquent teenagers hooked to the use of this prohibited drugs. In continuing this habit may cause dangers to mind and body.

Drugs injured the mind by paralyzing the brain cells where the power of reasoning was located. The degree of the damage was heavy curtailing the ability of the mind to think straight losing its proper coordination. It is fatal to those with heart disease. It increases the pulse rate demoralizing the regular heart beat pattern by altering its good performance.

There are uncontrollable behavior of laughter and threat. This behavior is very dangerous when the mind was disconnected and disrupted. He was in a period of dreamy state with eyes opened, looking somewhere without direction and completely lost in the world of the living. There were tremors in his hand and the body failed to hold anything and losing his strength. His focus was limited with sensitiveness to light.

He cannot walk straight. His body coordination was affected as if he was in a hang-over episode. His eyes became red and sleepy. He talked without direction losing the grip to reality. Dryness to the mouth was visible, nausea and vomiting were common.

No more care was given to his body. Long hair with dirty clothes. He did not mind at all. It was his world, the world of the living dead.

The reason of taking drugs was already deeply rooted in his heart and mind, as if he no longer exist. But it is not the way to justify his action. If this is a sign of protest, this is not the way the human mind work reasonably. He cannot change the world, but he can change his own life if he is willing to lead to the right direction.

We just hope that those delinquent persons may realize that what they did is not a healthful way of living instead a destruction to the inner fabric of their personality.