5 Cara Mudah Untuk Kekal Muda

Aktiviti seharian yang padat dan waktu kerja yang tidak menentu sememangnya amat meletihkan. Lebih-lebih lagi bagi warga kota yang tinggal di bandar-bandar besar tentu menghadapi lebih tekanan terutamanya di waktu pagi dan petang disebabkan kesesakan jalan raya. Sudah pasti rutin seharian sebegini amat memenatkan hingga setiap dari kita mengabaikan kesihatan dan mengamalkan gaya hidup sihat.

Adakah anda tahu bahawa tekanan demi tekanan serta rutin harian yang terlalu sibuk boleh mengakibatkan anda kelihatan lebih tua daripada usia. Namun anda tidak perlu bimbang kerana ada cara yang mudah untuk anda semua pratikkan secara konsisten. Mari kita singkap bersama!

Tidur Yang Cukup

Aktiviti seharian yang sibuk kadang-kala mengakibatkan seseorang individu mengabaikan waktu tidur mereka. Mungkin ramai yang tidak tahu mempunyai waktu tidur yang konsisten setiap hari dapat menjana semula tenaga yang hilang akibat keletihan seharian bekerja. Maka penting untuk seseorang mendapatkan tidur yang cukup dan berkualiti sekurang-kurangnya 7-8 jam sehari. Ini kerana badan manusia akan berehat sepenuhnya ketika mereka tidur.

Minum Air Kosong

Air kosong adalah cara termudah dan termurah untuk kekal awet muda. Di mana anda perlu tahu sekitar 80% tubuh manusia terdiri daripada air. Apa guna menggunakan produk kecantikan yang mahal untuk penjagaan wajah namun kurang minum air yang anda sedia maklum mempunyai banyak kelebihan semulajadi. Minum sebanyak mana air putih yang anda mampu. Elakkan alasan malas nak buang air kecil banyak kali  dan sebagainya. Tiada alasan jika kita mampu mendisplinkan diri sendiri.

Hindari Tekanan

Hanya orang gila sahaja tidak tertekan! Itu ungkapan yang sering didengari namun anda silap kerana tekanan jugalah mampu mengakibatkan seseorang itu hilang kewarasan. Tahukan anda tekanan mampu menjadikan seseorang itu kelihatan lebih tua sebelum usia. Walaupun tekanan dan manusia  tidak dapat dipisahkan. Namun pokok pangkalnya, anda sendiri mampu mengawal setiap tekanan yang mendatang. Apa yang penting adalah anda tahu bagaimana untuk mencari jalan penyelesaian untuk menanganinya.

Senyum

Nampak mudah bukan? Hanya perlu senyum untuk kelihatan lebih muda. Semasa seseorang itu senyum, 16 otot muka digerakkan untuk senyuman berbanding 43 otot digunakan apabila seseorang itu tengah marah atau bermasam muka. Senyum itu bukan sahaja sedekah, mudah malah percuma. Sebuah senyuman juga dapat mengubah keadaan emosi anda menjadi lebih ceria dan positif. Jadi jangan lupa untuk lengkapkan hari anda dengan senyuman.

Bersenam

Senaman adalah aktiviti paling sukar dan paling malas untuk dilakukan secara konsisten oleh kebanyakan individu. Senaman juga bukan hanya tertumpu pada ‘jogging’ atau pergi ke gym semata. Namun sebagai permulaan anda hanya perlu melakukan aktiviti fizikal seperti berjalan, mengemas rumah, menaiki tangga dan sebagainya. Sudah memadai jika anda meluangkan masa 3 kali seminggu, tetapi bukan sekadar hangat-hangat tahi ayam sahaja.

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4 Best Home Remedies for Bladder Infections

A bladder infection, also known as a urinary tract infection (UTI), can occur when bacteria grow uncontrollably inside the bladder. This type of infection can affect anyone, but it most often occurs in women.

Drink More Water

This may not sound like the most extraordinary remedy, but it is one of the most important things you can do when you have a UTI. It can help flush out bacteria, and (almost) more importantly, it gives you something to actually push out when you pee! 

Cranberry Juice

Cranberry has been a natural treatment for bladder infections for generations. According to recent research, cranberry juice and cranberry tablets have shown some promise as a remedy for women who frequently experience bladder infections. However, it’s not entirely clear whether cranberry juice really works for treating bladder infections in the larger population.

Barley

Barley water is hence the best medicine when you have a Urinary Tract Infection. Boil a table spoon of barley seeds in a liter of water. Bring down the quantity to half and keep consuming barley water throughout the day.

Frequent urination

Frequent urination helps eliminate the infection by moving bacteria out of the bladder. “Holding it,” or not going to the bathroom when you need to, allows bacteria to continue multiplying inside in the bladder. It’s especially important to urinate after having sex.

Article Sources:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/food/drinks-corner/Barley-water-the-best-beverage/articleshow/9635941.cms

http://everydayroots.com/uti-remedies

http://www.healthline.com/health/bladder-infection-treatments#2

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4 Cara Alami Menurunkan Kolestrol

Sebenarnya, kolesterol sendiri diperlukan oleh tubuh untuk membangun dinding sel, dan juga berperan dalam pembuatan hormon. Akan tetapi, kalau kadar kolesterol yang melebihi batas normal dapat mengakibatkan berbagai macam penyakit kronis dan menyebabkan pembuluh darah tersumbat. Jadi untuk menjaga hidup yang lebih sihat, kolestrol bisa dikontrol dengan mengkonsumsi beberapa makanan yang mampu menurunkan kolestrol.

Alpukat

Mengonsumsi alpukat justru akan membantu menurunkan kolestrol jahat (LDL) yang sangat buruk bagi kesehatan. Kandungan dalam alpukat tersebut bisa menurunkan kolesterol jahat dalam tubuh. Alpukat juga merupakan sumber potasium yang baik, vitamin K, vitamin C, serat makanan, vitamin B6 dan folat. Penyajiannya bisa dengan cara membuat jus atau yang lain sesuai dengan selera Anda.

Delima

Hasil penelitian yang dilakukan oleh National Academy of Sciences (AS) membuktikan bahawa jus delima boleh meningkatkan produksi oksida nitrat dengan mengurangi timbunan plak pada arteri.

Tomat

Tomat yang sudah dimasak adalah sumber terbaik berbanding tomat yang masih mentah. Kualitas likopen pada tomat yang sudah dimasak mampu menurunkan penumpukan kolestrol jahat yang ada di dalam darah. Tubuh dapat menyerap lebih banyak likopen dari tomat masak daripada tomat yang belum di masak.

Minyak Zaitun

Minyak zaitun dapat membantu menurunkan kadar kolesterol karena nutrisi yang kaya lemak tak jenuh dan antioksidan yang dapat membantu menurunkan kolesterol jahat (LDL) dan meningkatkan kolesterol baik (HDL). Selain itu, kandungan lain seperti squalene yang sangat bermanfaat meningkatkan sistem kekebalan tubuh.

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Travel Smart...Include Travel Insurance

Nearly all of us travel on a regular basis. Be it for work or pleasure, Malaysians are a well-travelled lot. Compared to Americans for example, where only about 10 per cent of the population possess a passport, Malaysians generally travel far and wide.

But do we travel smart?

Of late, newspapers carried stories of Malaysians admitted to hospitals abroad. These were not people who lived or worked abroad, but regular tourists from Malaysia.

Take the story of the Mara employee who suffered a stroke upon landing at Heathrow. Or the Universiti Utara Malaysia student whose appendix ruptured while attending a forum in Seoul, South Koera. These are the more recent stories.

In the last four years alone, there have been countless others — the businessman who stepped off the plane and went into cardiac arrest, the student who had just arrived in the United Kingdom and had to be sent home for depression and anxiety and the tourist who had an aneurysm while vacationing in the Gold Coast.

As more and more Malaysians take to the skies, the statistics of Malaysians hospitalised abroad will increase. Sometimes, Malaysian travellers take things for granted.

Healthcare, which for a while was the battleground between United States Barack Obama’s White House and the Republican Congress, is one area where Malaysians rarely fret over.

In Malaysia, foreigners pay RM2 to get treated at government hospitals.

 In the US where healthcare is big business, I had had the dubious pleasure of forking out US$245 (RM983) for a container of medicine that was prescribed to me by my embassy doctor. I remember the pitying looks of the pharmacist as he tried to help me save my dollars. Did I have any kind of insurance, he asked. Did I enter into any co-pay arrangement with any of the health providers?

Then came the sympathy part. The pharmacist wanted to give me a generic medication so that I would not have to pay more. That would have been ideal, but there was no generic alternative for the medication that I needed.

So I can well empathise with Malaysian tourists who fall sick and then find out the cost of the treatment is higher than their airfare home.

There was that incident at Heathrow in 2014 when a Malaysian collapsed while in the immigration queue and she spent the next month in intensive care.

In addition to the hospital bill, her family had to pay for accommodation in London, an extra person to care for her in the hospital, and the cost of the accompanying medical personnel on board when she could finally return home. The bill? A whopping RM1.2 million.

However, we need not be gamblers in this game of risk. Every time we buy a flight ticket, there is an option to purchase insurance. Most of us ignore that part because let’s face it — what are the chances of getting sick while on holiday? Amazingly high, it seems.

The stress of organising a holiday, coupled with being in an enclosed plane for hours and the recycled germs of the people on that same plane put travellers at a higher risk of falling ill than people who do not travel.

A Tilburg University study in 2007 termed this as “leisure sickness” and found that even normally healthy people increase exponentially their risk of becoming ill during their leisure time.

 It makes sense, therefore, that for those who are about to travel, they need to protect themselves not only against the possibility of falling ill, but also to ensure financial recourse in the event that the unexpected happens.

First, identify what kind of risks you might face. Even a seemingly healthy person can fall ill during their travels, much less a person who already has a medical condition or will be travelling to somewhere “exotic”.

 The more exotic the place, the higher the risk because your body may not be able to adjust accordingly.

Our immune system may not be immune to certain bacteria in the drinking water of a foreign country, for example. Or the heat may be too much for us to take. Or our body may not be able to warm itself quickly enough in ice-cold temperatures.

Second, identify what coverage you need. There are those among us who happily take out a “travel insurance” when they get on a flight. Read the fine print. The coverage may only extend to lost luggage (not even delayed luggage), cancelled flights or lost credit cards. It may not cover illnesses during the journey.

Third, confirm what coverage you already have. Some life insurance plans include up to a month of travel, but most only provide coverage in Malaysia. There may then be a need to take additional protection.

Whatever a person’s lifestyle, there is always that added risk when travelling. Malaysia’s embassies can only do so much to assist the ailing traveller. In the end, it is the high cost of treatments and surgeries that will be the crippling factor.

It is good that many Malaysians travel to even the remotest of places. Now, that we have started exploring, it is time for us to also travel smart. Dr Shazelina Zainul Abidin is a foreign service officer and a research fellow of the University of Sheffield. She writes about diplomacy and world affairs.

Get your protection now! Golden Sunshine

Article Source:

http://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/08/166326/travel-smart-include-insurance-flight-ticket

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4 Bad Habits Before Going to Bed

Eating a Late Night Meal

Some peoples love to eat supper before sleep or having late dinner. Usually after have a big meal then go straight to bed. Eating too much food such as spicy or fatty foods and caffeine one or three hours before sleep can reduce the quality of sleep. Generally making you fatigued, inactive and not fun to be around the next day.

Don’t consume caffeine

Caffeine helps you stay awake, Even if you drink a latte six hours before you tuck in, caffeine can impact your slumber for up to 12 hours. To sleep more soundly, avoid caffeinated foods and beverages after the a.m. hours are over and try soothing chamomile or lemon balm tea in the afternoon or evening instead.

Working in bed

Using a computer before bed can disrupt sleep. The light given off by your laptop can also prevent your brain from releasing melatonin, and working in bed likely means you’re not giving yourself enough time to unwind before sleep.

Workout before sleep

Some people do have trouble falling asleep after exercise. That’s because the adrenaline is flowing and your heart rate is up. The brain is very active after a workout, and your body temperature is up, which can make it tough to fall asleep.

Article Source:

https://sleep.org/articles/donts-before-bed/

http://www.newhealthadvisor.com/working-out-before-bed.html

http://www.businessinsider.my/bad-habits-that-are-ruining-your-sleep-2016-5/6/#cqMfD4tqh5dOPiI2.97

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2 Soft Drinks a Day Pushes Your Cancer Risk to 79%

Here’s one more reason to consider cutting back soft drinks: drinking too many sugary drinks on a daily basis has been linked to gallbladder cancer.

Swedish researchers studied the eating and drinking habits of more than 70,000 adults, keeping an eye out for cancer diagnoses. They found that people who downed two or more soft drinks (including ones with artificial sweetener) or juice beverages a day doubled their risk of developing gallbladder tumours, compared with people who abstained from sweetened drinks.

What’s more, the heavy soft drink drinkers also had 79% higher risk of having biliary tract cancer, according to the study, which was published recently in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

And those who had two or more sugary drinks a day tended to be overweight and ate a less-healthy diet – one with more calories, sugar and carbohydrates, and less protein and fat, the researchers noted.

People with a history of diabetes or cancer were left out of the study. While the results do not prove that sugary drinks cause cancer, researchers stressed, there is evidence that the risk is higher for people who drink a lot of heavily sweetened beverages.

“These findings support the hypothesis that high consumption of sweetened beverages may increase the risk of biliary tract cancers, particularly gallbladder cancer,” the scientists from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden concluded. – Star Tribune (Minneapolis)/Tribune News Service

Source of article:

http://www.star2.com/health/wellness/2016/08/25/2-soft-drinks-a-day-pushes-your-cancer-risk-to-79/

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