- The Rainbow Before Evening : Is Brisk Walking better than Slow Walk? - Part 1 - Healthy Life 28
ScienceDaily (March 16, 2021) also reported surprising finding from UK scientists that:
Do you walk every day? How fast?
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ScienceDaily (March 16, 2021) also reported surprising finding from UK scientists that:
Do you walk every day? How fast?
We walk almost 3 times a week, except rain and other reasons such as too hot (above 30* C or 86* F) or too cold (below 10* C or 50* F).
Our walking is quite slow with about 35 minutes length of time in our city garden or neighborhood areas.
Just reading several papers or popular articles about brisk walking. Then, what is brisk walking by quantity measures?
Here some of information concerning brisk walking:
As reported by ScienceDaily (March 16, 2021) that brisk walking leads to have good: cardiovascular and heart health
Hence, fast walkers could be related to physical fitness. This measure, together with normal Body Mass Index (BMI) are more able to cope with external stressors, include infection diseases.
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- Leprosy is One of the Oldest Ancient Diseases - Part 1 - Healthy Life 27
A healthy person is also can be infected by leprosy if the person breaths in the air that contaminated with bacteria. The bacteria cause leprosy is called Mycobacterium leprae.
CDC mentioned that a person will not get infection through:
There are about 200.000 cases per year in the worldwide, sure, mostly in developing countries.
Leprosy is rare in the US, but it still exist, and there are about 200 new cases per year.
Finally, this disease is curable with multiple antibacterial drugs. The treatment is amazingly effective.
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Leprosy is one of ancient diseases that still exist in the some part of the world, even in this modern human lifestyle.
When I was kid, I saw several men and women who have Leprosy in the developing country about 1980’s.
This prehistory disease could be the oldest recorded ancient disease as reported by Hurst, YS (2019) in the book with title: No Matter Where the Journey Takes Me: One Man's Quest for a Leprosy- Free World).
Paleontologists conduct many studies about the disease that plagued humankind throughout the history.
They believe the root of this disease long long time ago, “likely stem back millions of years”.
Untreated disease of leprosy can cause deformities in the face and extremities that may lead to:
Like Covid-19, leprosy is transmitted by close contacted. They are a droplet precaution.
Coughing and sneezing of an infected person can spread the disease to the healthy persons, especially when they are in the small together.
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- A House for “Quarantined for Life” - Part 1 – Healthy Life 25
The Museum is located at 5445 Point Clair Rd. Carville. LA 70721. To reach this site from my city, Baton Rouge, there are some routes:
Interestingly, especially for me that there are verdant plantations, fields of sugar cane, and towering chemical plants along the way to the Point Clair.
This place is also called the Native (American) Indian Camp. In the past, Indian Houmas people used this area for hunting of wild animals and fishing.
Beside Indian Camp, this site has different names along its history. At least three different well-known names, they are:
- Louisiana Leper Home
The museum is opened in 1999, after closing of hospital in 1998. The main purposes of museum to display live of Hansen disease patients and staff members.
Recent days, the museum provides education to who interests on Hansen’s diseases, include its prevention and treatment knowledge.
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I thought Pomegranates grow in tropical countries only, and then exported to the USA markets.
In fact, this fruit grow well not only in dry states such as California and Arizona, but also in other certain states.
We may see Pomegranate as one of local fruit at local markets in several states include:
In our state, Louisiana, the fruit abundant during summer until early autumn seasons.
Almost all farmer markets sell Pomegranate with reasonable, and even lower prices on those times.
The special about the fruit that they contain a lot of (high in):
In case of antioxidant properties, as you might know, it is believed that Pomegranate may reduce bad (LDL) cholesterol, then to improve hearth, prostate, digestive and brain conditions.
However, Pomegranate is higher sugar content, 14 gram sugar of 100 gram fruit, hence, it is not recommended to consume more than 100 gram fruit for diabetes patients.
Have you eaten Pomegranate?
If yes, do you like it?
Since pandemic Covid-19, we are very familiar with the word of “quarantine”. You know what the meaning is.
I believe that some of you might be have experienced about this word, quarantine.
We also know or may suffer of its psychological effects, during and after quarantine period.
Carville is a very familiar place in our state, Louisiana, where over 5,000 people had been quarantined in the old days.
In Carville, there is a Plantation House that turned to be a Museum, This place used to be a house for, some people pronounced, “Quarantined for Life”.
It is about 40 minutes by car (30 miles/48 km) from here, Baton Rouge, to Carville in South direction . But, for now the Museum is closed due to Covid-19.
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- Why Should not We Take Aspirin Daily? - Part 1- Healthy Life 24
Based on age, number of people who consumes Aspirin daily is almost triple in 40s than 70s:
On opposite, the main reason for people who does not want to take Aspirin daily is that:
For people any ages, should not take Aspirin daily if they have certain diseases or disorders. Some of them:
Hence, it will be better to consult to physicians, even if we want to take very lower doses of Aspirin daily.
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As you know that there are a lot of non-prescription drugs sold through Over the Counter (OTC).
We might be familiar with OTC drug called as “aspirin,” since its commonly used for medication of:
Then, Aspirin may relieve from light to medium pains such as:
Another use of Aspirin is to prevent blood clot in the artery. The clot obstructs the flow of blood which may cause:
The facts, based on reported from Annals of Internal Medicine (2019) that millions of people in the USA take Aspirin daily, strangely even they don’t have heart diseases.
Then, why do they take Aspirin every day?
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I used to have muscle cramp, how about you? Have you had experiences muscle cramps in your leg?
Some sources (please search through internet) mentioned the causes of muscle cramps as the following:
Even muscle cramps are harmless or they might be a common problem that affect on anyone, the experience of cramps could lead to:
Depending of severity and frequency of the symptoms of muscle cramps, the treatments can be invasive and non invasive.
Some of us prefer to take medications to prevent-leg-cramps, or alternative medications, such as acupuncture or dry-needling.
Non-drugs treatments are also effective to prevent-leg-cramps, such as:
Stretching, many benefit of it. Stretching can ease pain and improve flexibility. Muscle stretching, 10 seconds calf muscle stretching three times a day for 2 months can treat and prevent musle cramps in the leg.
At last, beside stretching or any non-drugs treatments, staying hydrate is important to prevent the leg cramps.
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