PANIC ATTACK

If there’s no fear in your eyes, what are you? Even the bravest man on earth sometimes felt fear in his heart, the fear of dying. Many told us that they are not afraid of death but when the hour came, there is terror in their eyes.  Their heart beats fast and suffocated their breathing.

Panic attack is one of emotional disturbance a human felt that he can’t control. It was a reflex of fear to something he wanted to avoid but can’t escape. This was the most distressing moment in his life trying to run away from the threat that will surely come. He wanted to hide but from whom?

Panic disorder is chronic illness, recurrent and has debilitating effect to person’s health, his work, his dealing with his family and his social interaction with other people. It can be felt spontaneously without apparent triggers. It may only last few moments but the effect is damaging to his personality. It restricted his movements and his ability to carry-out his function and normal activities during the day.

Panic disorder has biological and psychological components. The body will immediately give alarm response to a situation with no provocation. It has low tolerance and its response to stress. The disturbance in the mind is the coping mechanism of repeated stresses in life.

 It is a natural feeling human has to handle once or twice. It is not easy to be free from certain circumstances. He may know beforehand or may be caught in surprise or unaware of his fate. Upon knowing, he may be in sudden shock in several minutes, helpless what to do. There is beads of sweat in his face and chilled him to the bones.

Panic attack is a disorder. It was repeated experiences that weakened his strength. It occurred to him several times. It was a sudden feeling of fear, disabling emotions unprovoked even as he tried to conceal. 

A man that was afraid felt pain in his chest. He was dizzy, lightheaded and has nausea. There was difficulty in his breathing. There was pounding in his heart that is going strong and so fast. He felt numbed in his hands and feet. There was tingling sensation in the back of his neck.

A near-death experienced he felt while driving give chill to his mind. It missed his life a few seconds. His experience decided him not to drive again. His fear will just appear if he is at the wheel. His better concentration failed. His emotion was so sudden as if it suffocated him. He developed pattern of avoidance wherever he goes. He just rode with other transportation vehicle instead of driving alone in his car. 

It stressed him by just remembering what happened. He can’t move normally. He can’t live in total control with ease and comfort because it is an unbearable feeling that makes a point in his life. He was a slave to it.

Panic disorder is disabling emotional trauma. It is an illness that needs medical attention. Living normal life is harder for him because fear always shadowed his mind and controlled his movement. He is not sure of himself. He has doubts that he can’t avoid the creeping feeling and surge of fear.

Panic attack can be treated. Modern medicine has the ability to lessen the impact of fear. Fear can’t be completely prevented but the promise of relief can be done under the supervision of medical specialist. It can reduce the severity and frequency of the attack.

The physician will conduct series of tests to determine the source of your fear and the condition of the brain. The emotional difficulty has something to do with the function of the mind, the degree of experience that causes him to be afraid.

Panic disorder can’t be treated overnight. It is a long process of treatment until the mind able to control its action by relaxing the senses. If not completely healed, it may continue months or years.

It is easy for a child to develop fear. In the early stage of his life, fear controlled him until he is old enough to understand the consequence and the effect of it to his health.

SMOKE IN YOUR LIFE

It was in research that the shorter the butt of the cigarette delivers tars and nicotine at higher levels. If the butt still longer the cigarette has filters to hold back the release of the harmful chemicals. Each puff of cigarette smoke gives one unit dose of nicotine. This nicotine in the puff passes through the lungs into the blood supply reaches the brain in seven seconds.

Why they smoke? They smoke in order to fulfill the need of the body a certain level of nicotine. Believing that by smoking it calm their nerves and able to think more clearly without realizing there is no real positive advantage of doing smoking.

An estimated 10 puffs a cigarette, 1 pack daily will contains 60,000 nicotine shots to the brain in one year. Further, it shows 4 times much nicotine is excreted when urine is acidic rather than alkaline.

When someone is in the stage of stress in any environment (social atmosphere, at work or at home) smoking occurred repeatedly. The call from peer and social pressures is the reason why smokers find it hard to stop smoking. The nicotine-withdrawal syndrome is the reason of intense craving, depression, difficulty in concentration, irritability, restlessness, tension. Physically, there will be up and down of pulse rate. It also has relation in the presence of sleep disturbance, reduced work performance, constipation and elevated blood pressure. 

A first-time smoker suffered uncomfortable reaction out from nausea and dizziness. Palpitation of the heart occurred, vomiting sometimes present. Repeated smoking from a longer period of time has tolerance from uncomfortable feeling and become more relax by absorbing high quantity of nicotine to the body. It becomes a problem for the users how to stop the urge of puffing a cigarette.

The end result of this habit may lead to many major diseases out from several years of smoking. By ruining the health, lung cancer, emphysema, bronchitis, cardiovascular disease can easy damage the good health condition into a more serious one.

We are very aware that nicotine is harmful substances. It is a poison that started conquering the inner portion of the body. Taking 60 milligrams of smoke is a lethal dose that many of us did not know. Stopping the habit of smoking is a long battle to take. Relaxing control proved futile. The urge to smoke may happen anytime of the day when the craving to puff persist. This enslaving habit may change the attitude, character and ability to reason, because by smoking means disregarding the proper way of maintaining a good mental and physical health in order to have a longer life. He blinded his mind about the dangers of smoking because he gives more importance to supply his body with poison that started controlling his total existence.

There are many ways in conquering smoking habit but doing it against his will is most difficult. Resisting temptation is to control the urge to puff. But control cannot be realized without determination of the users to change his own character and perspective about the importance of being alive.

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.

DOING AN EFFECTIVE EXERCISE

We were living in a different lifestyle. The lifestyle that was not healthful to us. We allow it because it is good. Eating harmful food can damage our life we once promise to care and protect.

The only solution for all of this inactivity is by doing an exercise we hate because of our lack of interest without knowing that it is a healthy living that we denied. There are many benefits we can get by doing an exercise.

It increases density and solidness of the bones. Our heart and lungs working capacity is strengthened. It improves the way we look at our lives. It can boost our power to do things. It enables us to have deep and sound sleep. It can lighten our mood. It controls any harmful health disease. It resolves the many stresses in life. It reduces weight above normal.

We can have all of these if we do a regular exercise. What we only need is motivation and willingness to perform this kind of activities.  How to have an effective exercise plan is the hardest. There are many kind of exercise you can choose. Select only those that give you interest to perform. Spend one hour or less everyday and you feel the difference inside you after doing exertion of efforts.

Brisk walking and moderate running strengthened the performance of our heart. It burns more calories in a single day. Training by use of dumbbell and other weightlifting objects make muscles and bones stronger including connective tissues of our body. Having an aerobic exercise can make effective pumping of the heart.

Do it 1 hour or less 3 to 4 times a week to give the body time to recover. When you do a heavy workout during the day, rest is required on the next day. Don't exercise over the capacity of the body to handle. Exercise in moderation. No need to see the result in short span of time. It will need time before you see the result. Just continue and make it a habit. You can increase the frequency of your exercise but don't overdo it.

Exercise can be interesting. You can do this anytime of the day. If you do this regularly, it will become a habit to you. Any tiredness will disappear. The stiff muscles can be stretch out making it more flexible and elastic. Constant physical activities make your feeling more relax. 

ALL ABOUT WEIGHT GAIN

Do you have a problem maintaining your ideal weight most of the time? Are there lapses in your eating habits that causes your weight gain?

Weight gain can be prevented if you have a healthy eating plan. What is needed only is dedication to reduce your weight. This is not an overnight program to reduce weight immediately. You have to allow more time to put the body in perfect condition.

Most women worried when their fat continued increasing. Although they made plans to reduce it by means of doing exercise. The problem was that they also eat a lot of foods while exerting efforts during the day. Exercise does not serve the purpose if we have no control in our food intake.

To have weight gain is really a barrier in maintaining a healthy body. Avoiding it is the only way most preferred by cutting calorie intake. Focus your efforts and find other option beneficial to your health. Craving for food is the real culprit that lead you to weight gain. Instead of putting out a few pounds down, you are eating more.

Some of us has no desire to reduce weight and easily give up looking for an alternative - the craving for food. They did not fixed their attention to find a better way of reducing their bulging stomach.

There are ways how to solve the problem of weight gain. By doing these, the body will be free from undesirable condition of too many fats in the system.

Set your goal. Keep alive your fear in gaining weight. Lengthen your initiative to reduce a few pounds. Do physical activity everyday less than an hour will do. Focus your attention to correct your dieting. Do only what is necessary to reduce your weight. Eat a healthy nutritious foods, a well-balance diet of fruits and vegetables. It can help trim your body weight.

Have an effective weight management initiative. Be watchful of the kind of food you eat. Control your taste buds of eating food detrimental to your initiated program. You can do water therapy instead. It helps to remove all those unwanted debris in the body. Water has a calming effect of your craving for food.

Take fruits juice everyday. Its full of vitamin-C that control the development of excess fat in the body. Ask your nutritionist about the proper way of handling an effective weight management program for your additional insight and useful information to have an effective result. Stay on the right track and focus ideas to other healthy option. Look for other alternative foods to substitute the foods that you eat. It is risky to your life.

Limit your intake of sugary foods or sugar itself. It can add up an additional pounds to your muscles and stomach. Maintain your desire to have a lean muscle. Increase your activity and keeps out all those unwanted pounds in the body. It replaces and controls the metabolism of fat.

Take food rich in fiber. Fibers can let you have a feeling of fullness controlling your desire to eat more. You have to be strict monitoring your calorie intake. Check it by using a weighing scale to keep track in case of any abnormal increase of your weight. Devise a system to have a meal that is not contrary to your weight loss program. The kind of food you placed on the table is the assurance of the effectiveness of your desire to loss weight. There are many kinds of menus you can select. They are also very nutritious and healthful. Keep in mind to measure portion of your meal everyday.

If you can maintain your weight and have a healthy eating habits then you can hit your goal. If there are some lapses that will occur along the way, do the necessary adjustment and always aim for the best. Protect your life by reducing your weight.

THE LIFE OF BEING BALD

It is not good being bald. Your better personality will be affected. There are people who will taunt you of your baldness. Why some individual continue losing hair even if he has no history in his family of this kind of problem? The most affected portion is the front of the head. Although lost hair can be replaced by new hair but the problem is that losing hair is higher compared to new hair that will grow in the follicles.

Your stress in the office or at home contributes your losing of hair. Our body mechanism cannot control stress. It impairs portion of the body and it causes disease. That's how potent stress damages our health.

Growing new hair has no chance if is hereditary. If your forefathers have history of many bald relatives in your family, then you have it even how much you will avoid. Any control measures has no effect no matter what you will do.

Any disorder in the body like having thyroid, controls the new growth of hair. It slows down the growth of hair. Taking strong medication causes hair loss temporarily especially if the medicine has side effect. It is common to a person with terminal disease undergoing chemotherapy procedure.

Some little ways we can do to slow down baldness:

-Eliminate the stress. Find time to prevent your uneasy feeling. It is controllable if you will.

-Use medications helpful to grow hair. It maybe in the form of cream or lotion. You can buy it in the drugstores. If you use this cream or lotion often there is a chance to re-grow your hair fast. Try it but don't expect too much. Some people were resistant to treatment and their baldness continues.

How can you cope to this embarrassing condition of losing hair when the treatment most likely in total failure?

-Acceptance. There's nothing you can do. You can use wigs if you want to cover your baldness. Besides, you are not alone. There are so many of them having the same problem.

-One technique used by some teenagers or adults is by shaving completely the head to look stylish. The trend that click. No need to use styling gel or shampoo, anyway you don't have hair anymore. Follow the trend, don't be ashamed. If someone ask you about your head, just tell them it is the style of today.

-Don't worry too much in losing hair. Remember as we age, at the time we reach our prime, for sure we only have little hair left or no hair at all. No use expecting too much when the inevitable will happen when we grow older.

WHAT HAPPENED TO MY BACK?

What is the reason why we feel the never ending pain in our back, an excruciating pain in whatever we do. We can feel it by bending, standing and lying. Can this be controlled? Probably yes. If in short duration, medicine for pain will do.

Many people believed that it was due to sprain. Any faulty movement you do triggers the already strained ligament. When it cramps, severe pain occurred at the back.

We are all affected by this painful back. Most commonly targeted by this inconvenience were older adults especially those in their prime of life.

There are other causes such as fractures, infections to the ligament and inflammation in the spinal cord. Due to this pain, it controls us in doing our normal activities. Sitting too long without stretching may cause the back muscles to have spasm because of bad posture.

I experienced this pain after my office work. I was writing and doing my daily tasks of recording transaction during the day from morning until afternoon. As I stretched my muscles while bending a little my back ache. When I stand up the more severe pain I felt. I wondered how I have this pain when I was only writing.

Looking for the reason, I asked my friend, an intern in the hospital and told me that any awkward movement from the normal position affect the ligaments in the back by pulling a muscles and strain the ligaments. Muscle spasm maybe felt and may last for several days. The muscles became weak and they no longer hold the muscles effectively. He told me further that one way to stretch out the spasm is to do an exercise everyday so that any muscles that were affected can be corrected, but only those that are temporary excluding those cases related to severe health condition.

My friend was right. Exercise helps a lot to ease the pain. I have tried it several days and it seemed there was improvement. Although there is still a mild pain but those excruciating pain was gone. So I concluded that exercise has a major role to correct those cramp muscles by means of stretching and bending keeping the back more flexible and improving the general condition of the body.