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Tuesday
Nov 6,2007

The olive oil is an antioxidant. it has a lot of advantages. I will tell you five of them.
1.) Oliveoil decreas the risk of cancer. Because it includes “poliphenols”. Poliphenols mean botanical antioxidant and save the cell from cancer.
2. ) Olive oil saves the heart. How? It increases the right cholestrol (HDL) and decreases the bad cholestrol (LDL) , it balance the rate of oil at our blood, it discourage inflammation also discourage the other illness of heart.
3.) Olive oil makes strong the artery with the antioxcidant which it includes. So it decreases the pressure of blood.
4.) Olive oil helps to lose weight.
5.) Olive oil cut down the headache. If we have an headache when we bend forward; we can cut it down by using olive oil to our salad or vegetables. At this time olive oil also cut downs the stomachache.

Tuesday
Nov 6,2007

According to doctors; the people who had use portable phone for ten years or over has risk of brain tumor more then the people who don’t use.
In our daily life we take some measures to decrease the radiation ray’s influence. For example: taking out the plug from electric socket which we don’t use at that time, using screen filter for our pc ….etc
All of us knew that; for the people in natural life takes radiation from the cozmic rays which come form sun, from the crust of the earth which does contain radioisitope also energy production, medical science, industry, agriculture and stock breeding. Like operations at this areas people take artificial dose of radiation. Also the other effect of radiation is the illness which are genetic.

Why do you need to know about aids?

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Tuesday
Nov 6,2007

At the moment it is estimated that 13 million people in the world may have HIV. Every day there are thousands of new cases of HIV infections in the world and these occur in every country. People who have HIV may have no symptoms for many years, and infected people may not even be aware that they have the virus. They look and feel well, but can infect other people during this time.

The most difficult aspect of HIV/AIDS is that though there are medicines, which can help them, cope with these illnesses, there is no vaccine, and no cure for the HIV, so almost all the infected people become more and more ill and eventually die. It is important that we all know and understand about this infection, so we can protect ourselves and our families.

We have responsibility not only towards ourselves but also towards our children who are growing up in a very different world from that of our childhood. They will have many new opportunities, but also may sometimes be faced with new relationships, standards of behavior and new risks. It is up to us to explain the truth of the situation to them in an honest and informed way, so they may have the knowledge to take the necessary steps to protect their health.

We have to understand that presently prevention is the only cure of HIV/AIDS and that can come about only if we are adequately informed about it. Following are some frequently asked questions about HIV/AIDS:

Tuesday
Nov 6,2007

When HIV gets into a persons blood it attaches itself to a special type of white blood cells called as helper T-Lymphocytes. These Helper T- cells are crucial in defending the body against many infections. during all this the persons have no symptoms at all. They look and feel well. They may not know they now have the virus, but could pass it on to someone else through having sex, or by sharing needles or syringes.
Being HIV Positive is not the same as having AIDS. The HIV actually goes inside the white blood cells and lies their quietly. After about 5 to 10 years the HIV virus tricks the cell to start making the viral proteins, this results in the formation of a huge number of viral particles inside the white cells and eventually the cells burst releasing thousands of new viruses in the blood. The released viruses infecting new white cells This cycle goes on and on, and eventually the immune system of the body is overwhelmed and is no longer capable of fighting the infections.

Tuesday
Nov 6,2007

When the kid starts moving around by way of crawling or walking, it brings much joy to the family, but at the same time the natural urge to explore everything in the suroundings sometimes becomes a major problem. By instinct the child puts everything into the mouth and this often results in a swallowed or inhaled foreign body. These instances often end up as emergencies.

All kinds of foreign bodies enter the ear, nose and throat. When the child starts walking and playing with his friends, he has the tendency to put things in his mouth or ear or accidentally inject something while playing with things.

An unbelievably large number of things can be encountered as foreign bodies. It leaves one wondering how it is even possible that such things enter the body

In the nose, metallic objects like screws, nuts, ball bearings, beads, thermocol pieces, pulses, seeds, buttons, bindis, small parts of toys, leaves etc.can enter. Similarly, beads, pulses, match sticks, cotton, polythene pieces to insects, accidentally enter the ear.

Vitamins

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Tuesday
Nov 6,2007

Vitamins are organic substances in food, which are required in small amounts but cannot be synthesized in adequate quantities by the body and therefore have to be provided from the environment.

Contrary to popular belief, deficiencies of vitamins still occur in affluent countries, for example deficiencies of folate, vitamin B and Vitamin D and C.

These are particularly common in people on fad diets, veganand alcoholics.

Other vitamins

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Tuesday
Nov 6,2007

Vitamin C: Ascorbic acid, important in the synthesis of collagen, the framework protein for tissues of the body, such as those that help to make up the skin. Deficiency leads to scurvy, characterized by fragile capillaries, poor wound healing, and bone deformity in children.
Dietary sources of Vitamin C
Black currents, guavas
Green peppers, broccoli, cauliflower (raw)
Oranges and other citrus fruits
Brussels, sprouts, cabbage
Potatoes
Liver is the only animal food that contains it.

Vitamin D: A steroid vitamin, which promotes absorption and metabolism of calcium and phosphorus. Under normal conditions of sunlight exposure, no dietary supplementation is necessary because sunlight promotes adequate vitamin D synthesis in the skin. Deficiency can lead to osteomalcia in adults and bone deformity (rickets) in children. Vitamin D is used along with calcium as a supplement in the treatment of the “bone thinning” disorders, osteoporosis.

CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY

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Tuesday
Nov 6,2007

The interaction between myosin and actin, coupled with ATP produced by oxidative phosphorylation, is thought to be the basis for the contraction of each myofibril and therefore the contraction of the whole muscle. Each myofibril exhibits a property called contractility (or inotropic state) that represents the ability of the fiber to develop contractile force. The force exhibited by the fiber is influenced not only by its contractile state but also by its initial length, or preload, according to the Starling curve (Fig. 1-7). This concept can be expanded from the single fiber to describe the function of the entire ventricle. Thus, the abscissa, formerly preload or fiber length, becomes left ventricular filling pressure or volume (i.e., the amount of stretch on the myocardial fibers in diastole); and the ordinate, formerly tension, becomes stroke volume or stroke work (i.e., the ability of the heart to generate tension). Note that as diastolic pressure increases, the normal heart is able to increase its stroke volume, up to a point. This relationship is referred to as a ventricular function curve and, given identical states of contractility and afterload (see below), defines the amount of work that a heart is able to perform. Several factors determine left ventricular filling The term afterload describes the “impedance” or resistance against which the heart must contract. Like preload, afterload also can refer either to a single myofibril or to the heart as a whole. The afterload is approximated by the arterial pressure, the major determinant of the impedance to left ventricular contraction. In the intact heart, the afterload determines the amount of blood the heart can pump given a fixed preload and fixed state of contractility; that is, the higher the workload against which the heart must function, the less blood it can eject, and vice versa. Therefore, the ventricular function curve will be shifted up and to the left with decreasing afterload and shifted down and to the right with increasing afterload. Shifts in ventricular function with changes in afterload are minimal in normal ventricles but prominent in failing ventricles.