Category: Health Thinking
Breast Implant
Posted by davidson on Nov.05, 2011, under Health Thinking No Comments
Many women who consider breast augmentation end up hesitating for a number of different reasons. Of course, some of these reasons revolve around the simple fact that augmenting your breasts through surgery is a rather drastic step, and involves a noticeable, permanent change to the body. This is something that should never be taken lightly. However, another concern that many women have with breast augmentation is that they worry about certain negative health effects that they are worried might come about as a result of the procedure. If you are one of these women, it may reassure you to learn that there are no common dangers or health defects that come about from, for example, going from a cup to c cup breasts, or even having a simple lift procedure.
To begin with, the actual surgery is one that has been practiced and perfected for quite some time now, meaning that your surgeon will be very able. There is very little danger for side effects resulting from the actual surgery. Additionally, the implants themselves do nothing to harm your body, and will allow you to go on living life in exactly the same way as before, only with larger breasts. If you pay attention to your doctor’s instructions for recovery, and properly go about the caring process in the weeks following your procedure, your newly affected breasts should be perfectly healthy, and should show off the change that you were going for.
Another concern that a number of women have with regard to breast augmentation and health risk is with regard to breastfeeding. Fortunately, a good bit of research has been performed on this topic, and doctors have found that there is virtually no risk of infecting or dirtying breast milk with implants. Aside from some potential added discomfort, there is no real health risk involved, for you or for your child, with breastfeeding after having breast implants put in. Think of it as if, biologically, your breasts have not changed at all.
Hopefully, if you are a woman considering these procedures, this information has helped to reassure you about the health aspect of breast augmentation. Of course, there are still other things to consider, and whether or not you undergo a procedure is entirely your decision; however, if you choose not to undergo breast augmentation, it shouldn’t be because you are worried about health risks. Breast augmentation surgeries are perfectly healthy ways for you to change your body in order to make it more suitable to your desires, or to preserve a youthful appearance.
Concept of health security for human society.
Posted by davidson on Oct.21, 2011, under Community Health, Health Thinking, Information on Health No Comments
Health securities mean good health for all the society people. Health security aims at health benefits for all citizens on all measures. It aims at tackling the spread of diseases due to environmental change, danger of bio-terrorism, natural disasters; radioactive accidents etc. health is a community-based primary health care. But it is major difference between understanding and use of concept of the health security. Policymakers of the world systems for health in industrialized for the countries emphasize protection of their populations especially against external threats, as few example terrorism and pandemics; while and when health workers and policymakers in developing countries and within the United Nations system understand the term in a broader public health context. Indeed, the concept is used inconsistently within the UN agencies themselves, for example the World Health Organization’s restrictive use of the term ‘global health security’ There has been a great emphasis by W.H.O to take up health security as a collective responsibility by all nations as diseases spread fast and recognize no boundaries. Health security aims at tackling these, emerging diseases that are new and highly contagious. Chemical and radioactive threats. Changes in environment. H.I.V/A.I.D.S. Strengthening health systems.
The global health securely initiative has been set up to provide informal international partnership to strengthen health facilities in different countries. This is due to emergence of different global threats that have emerged in the world. Today, lot of focus is being given to emerging threats to health security. The W.H.O keeps a track of evolving infectious diseases and health threats and promotes preventive measures to tackle these health problems. These threats can be tackled by cross border co-operation and effective collaboration. Health issues require stronger strategic focus and closer international co-operation. Concept of health security for public is to alert public or mass about the health systems of their own communities.
Danger of pollution and Need for plantation
Posted by davidson on Jun.17, 2011, under Community Health, Health Thinking No Comments
Dangers of pollution are many and various. Pollution means the process of making something dirty by adding harmful substances to it. The natural conditions in which human beings, others animals and plants live are polluted by the harmful substances. Chemical and smoke are such harmful substances. Dangers to living beings may assume different forms. Waste matters like chemical substances from factories pollute water. The air is also polluted. The carbon monoxide coming out of the exhaust pipes of motor vehicles pollutes the atmosphere. Accident like those of Bhopal gas leak in India and Chernobyl nuclear explosion caused the death of many people. Pollution of air is also responsible for long diseases like asthma. Soil is another victim of pollution. Human and animal are domestic waste pollute the soil. Then there is the pollution of the sound. The blaring of car horns and the harsh sound of the loudspeakers are nothing but a social menace. Dangers of pollution can be averted by shifting factories from the residential areas. Motor vehicles should use petrol and not diesel. If the government is alert and the public is conscious dangers of pollution will not be there.
Men are totally dependence on plants. We can say no. plant no man. The oxygen we breathe to keep alive is supplied by plants. For foods, clothes, shelter and various types of medicines, we depend on plants and trees. It is scientific fact that indiscriminate cutting down of trees in vast areas of tropical forest in Brazil, Indonesia and India has affected rainfall in these countries to some extent. Deforestation is causing dangerous erosion of the rich top-soil. It is an important cause of the silting up of the dams. It is also robbing the land of its natural fertility making agriculture totally dependent on artificial fertilizers. Since the area under forest cover is decreasing rapidly owing to the insatiable demands of man, the need for plantation is urgent. More and more trees must be planted in a systematic, planned manner by the government, non-government organizations like NGO’S and the local people. We must not forget the food chain. Its means that plants feed herb-eating animals which feed the flesh-eating animals and, in turn, they keep the forests healthy by keeping down the numbers of animals which would otherwise destroy the forests. More and more plantations are the need of the hour.
Human security for human society
Posted by davidson on Apr.07, 2011, under Health Thinking No Comments
Human society needs security for their livelihood. If there is no human security there cannot be a developed society. At the time of cold war ended, the world has seen rapid globalization of human and economic activities, along with the liberalization and the trade and investment and the marked progress of information-technology. Also at the time of globalization has provided substantial benefits including the growth of the world economy and improvements in the standard of leaving, these benefits have not necessarily gone equally to all the countries and people in the world, many problems like smuggling of arms, spread of infectious diseases, global warming, etc., have become trans-national because of globalization. After the end of cold war, we have witnessed at several places a changing in the nature of conflict with ethnic and religious conflicts increasing, with some instances of civil war. Because these changes, it is becoming necessary to come up with a new concept of security that addresses people’s vulnerability to these types of conflict, which treated their lives and livelihood, a concept that goes beyond national security are characterized as being both the cause and the result of processes of disintegration of society and the state institutions. The universal declaration of human right adopted by the UN in 1948 state that everyone has the right to life, liberty and the security of person. However, the concept of human security now encompasses economics, heath, and environmental concerns as well. The specific phrase human security was first put forward by the 1994 united National Development Programme, Annual Human Development Report. While the term human security is of recent origin, the ideas that underline the concept are now new. These ideas have been around ever since the international Red Cross was founded in the 1860s, it was there in the U N Charter and it was echoed in the universal Declaration of Human Rights.
According to the article 3 of the universal declaration of human rights, the right to security of persons is a fundamental human right, together with a right to life and liberty. Human security emphasizes the need to strengthen empowerment of the citizenships. Achievement of human security requires a global political culture that is founded on shared values of human dignity and human rights. Hence important issues in human security like children in war, landmine, and ethnic conflicts should be discussed from broad human rights prospective. In essence, human security means freedom from pervasive threats to people’s rights, their safety or even their lives. A human security perspective asserts that the security of the state is not an end in itself. Rather, it is a means of ensuring security for its people. In this context, state security and human security are mutually supportive. Building an effective, democratic state that values its own people and protects minorities is a central strategy for promoting human security. The term human security recognizes the linkages between environment and society. It also recognizes two other features of the link between environment and security, first, that feedback exists between environment and security, for example, environmental degradation may result in population movement, which in turn, poses a threat to the environment. The human development approach and the development of the human development index was a major step forward in reorienting development for improvements in the lives of people and not merely economic growth. Human development is expansionist in nature and deals with increasing social services along with economic development to increase opportunities. However, this concept does not offer solution to deal with the downside. It does not effective dealt with measurement and analyze of situations where freedom are curtailed and there is deterioration in the quality of lives of people. Human security provided an enabling environment for human development. Where violence or threat of violence makes meaningful progress on the development agenda impossible, enhancing safety for people is a prerequisite. Civil wars and riot depict such situations. Promoting human development can also be an important strategy for furthering human security. By addressing inequalities that are often the root causes of violent conflict, strengthening governance structure, complementing political, economic and legal initiatives, can enhance human security. Lastly we can say that human security is the most important factors for developing human society.
Modern society and world society
Posted by davidson on Mar.17, 2011, under Health Thinking No Comments
What is modern society mean? Western industrialization rapidly became the model for the whole world, and western modernity an example to be followed by all nations. Colonies or clients of western powers were developed along these lines before they attained independence. Apparently the only viable polity in the modern world was industrial society, and only industrial societies could be active global agents. Thus japans humiliated by the west mid-19th century, industrialized and became one of the most powerful societies in the world. Japan’s experience confirmed that there were several routes to modernity. Britain, Western Europe and the USA had industrialized on the basis of individual entrepreneurship and the free market economy. In Germany and Japan, the state and political elites played a major role, in organizing and planning development, and restricting foreign access to home markets in the interests of native industry. Following the Russian revolution of 1917, there came the authoritarian model of modernization under the one party state. Many developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America industrialized according to economic plans drawn by the political elites and imposed upon their populations. Independent India, instituted formal liberal democracy, but its industrialization was guided by the Indian national congress, identified with the struggle for independence. There were also the African socialisms of Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana and Julius Nyerers Tanzania, the Chinese socialism of mao Zedong, the Cuban socialism of Fidel Castro, and the Yagoslave socialism of Josip Broz Tito. All these became models of development to certain third world societies. In japan, the Soviet Union and china the state supervised industrialization, made major decisions about investment, transport, communications, and education. Mass communications became agencies of mass socialization. Industrialization has taken place within a context of world industrialization, in a world system of states of unequal power. Towards the end of the 20th century the ideological divisions between west and east, became obsolete with the collapse of communist regimes in the USSR and Eastern Europe. There are core countries that include the united state and Japan; semi-peripheral counties include Brazil, eastern European states and china, Africa and Asia. Wallerstein’s model recognizes the internationalization of the industrial economy. Nation-states, whether capitalist or communist, are becoming increasingly subordinate to world economic developments. Thus the politics of energy procurement are global in nature just as much as military strategy. Capital investment and growth are global issues, and multinational corporations are significant actors on the world stage, busy establishing a new international division of labour. Manufacturing units are shifted from place to place depending on considerations such as the presence of cheap labour, compliant governments and tax-havens. In this sense multinational corporations embody the independence of core and periphery nations. However the modernization has certainly brought material abundance, but in a differentiated pattern that is reflected in the complex nature of social classes and identities. It has brought control of natural environment this too, at the cost of damaging it, some would say, irreparably.
Benefits of Laughters
Posted by davidson on Jul.06, 2010, under Health Thinking No Comments
We need to laugh to keep ourselves healthy and moody. Without a sense of humour life can be a colourless procession of tasks and duties. With it life takes a vigour and vitality. We enjoy it. We have more enthusiasm to share with others. We are more fun to be with.
Mainly the children who grew up without a sense of humour are frozen in a state of defensiveness and anxiety. Their self esteem collapses in their worry about being wrong. They are afraid to laugh, and especially at always wondering about what people thinks about me.
How can you benefited by laugh:
Lighten up yourself
You can say you are stuck in traffic, your frenemy whispers behind your back; you are hauled over the coals by your boss. What do you do? Shout abuses? Rail against fate? Let it ruin your day? Or just make it just funny when recounting it to somebody else?
When you are at home and your kids throw up on your bed, break your neighbor’s window, paint a mural on your front door, smear Vaseline on your prized leather sofa. Screaming, shrieking, smacking is counted-productive. After a suitable punishment, reminisce about own bad old day’s and chuckle about the present misdeeds. Write it up in a journal to be opened ten years hence.
Turn trouble into fun when your child does something strange or stupid, like clogging the toilet with play Doh, by cracking a silly bodily function joke. Try not to blow your top when your daughter is cheeky; a quip will breach her resolve to make you miserable.
Sharing children misdeeds, not in a complaining way but with humour at bedtime with yours spouse is a perfect ending to a day.
How to spark smiles
If you feel that your child is not laughing enough
Start a chuckle provoking collection of books which are suitable for them, mad magazine, comics, cartoons and DVDs. Dip into one of them together when you feel that your child is taking himself too seriously, or is feeling low.
Be spontaneous. Bundle up the kids for a trip to the zoo, and watch the antics of the monkeys.
Teach her/his to look at the lighthearted side of the situation. So she has broken her/his leg and cannot take part in the school play, but ask her friends to come over to decorate the cast.
Stick cartoons on the fridge and on the study table.
Sing funny rhymes which require touch and tickling such as this little piggy goes to the market.
Gives everybody pet names, the sillier the merrier. As they like.
Learn to see the humour in everyday situation.
Have each one tell a joke or a riddle at dinner time.
When waiting for your doctor, plane, train, choose a stranger and weave a comical story around him.
Laugh out loud even when life sucks. Your boss lamed you for messing a deal. Create silly scenario around him.
When an argument gets too serious, have a make-up puppet perform a dance.
Jokes Aside
Tell your children what kind of jokes and words you do not want used in yours presence and preferably not in your absence.
Communal jokes are very popular in school and people even children. Pass them around without blinking an eyelid.
For starters you have to believe that group and community jokes can be demeaning to the target, which are seen as objects of derision. Only then can you rein in your kids.
The first thing that you need to do is avoid telling touchy incentive jokes yourself. Let other people know that you are uncomfortable when they use words and spout jokes that can offend others, even at the risk you being called a goody-goody killjoy.
Ask your child how you would feel if you are at the receiving end of a put down joke.
Tell your child that it is unkind to make jokes and pass remarks that poke fun at people about something that they can do nothing about community, colour, culture, that you need to laugh with and not at people that belittling somebody wrong.
Response to and talk about incidents of insensitivity.
Tick your child off if she makes fun of somebody who walks with a limp or talks with a lisp.
Health and Sex
Posted by davidson on Jun.26, 2010, under Health Thinking No Comments
Health and Sex
It does not take a degree in medicine to work out that sex is good for you. Anything that is free, feels fabulous and leaves you glowing is plainly a good idea.
But scientists are now beginning to understand that the perceived feel-good effects of sexual intercourse are merely the tip of the iceberg. Sex, they are discovering, can help protect you from depression, colds, heart disease and even cancer.
Professor Stuart Brody of the University of Paisley published a study showing that sex can lower blood pressure. According to Professor Brody, “we’re not just talking about the immediate effects of having had nice sex, the beneficial effects could last at least a week”.
One theory is that intercourse stimulates a variety of nerves, most notably the “vagas”nerve, which is directly involved in shooting and calming.
To see this benefit, you have to go the whole heterosexual hog. According to professor Brody, studies show that “penile-vaginal intercourse is the only sexual behaviors consistently associated with better psychological and physiological health”.
Such sex has been linked, in women, to a heightened emotional awareness, possibly because of the “love-hormone” oxytocin that is released.
One study even found that semen is a mood- enhancing ingredient.
Doctors speculate that this is because semen contains several other mood-altering hormones—including testosterone, estrogen, prolactin and several different prostaglandins—which can pass into the woman’s blood stream.
This explanation, says Dr David’s Hicks, sexology specialist and consultant in GU medicine at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield, “is certainly feasible”. Condom-free sex has its drawbacks, of course: contracting HIV or any other sexually transmitted disease, or becoming pregnant unintentionally.
If you are dogged by the sniffles at this time of year, regular love-ins could work wonders for your immunity-condoms and all. Psychologists have found that people who have sex once or twice a week have levels of immunoglobulin A(IgA) that are up to one third higher than their more restrained peers. IgA is an antibody that boosts the immune system and is the first line of defense against colds and flu. The health benefits for middle-aged men are also particularly persuasive. Recent studies suggest that men who have orgasms twice a week are half as likely to die early as men who orgasm less than once a month. The more frequently men ejaculate, the less likely they are to develop prostate cancer, and if middle-aged men have sex twice a week or more they also have a lower risk of heart attack. Much has been made of the slimming and toning effects of a sexual work-out. In fact, sex probably burns off about the same number of calories per minute as a brisk walk. “You get all the benefits of exercise”, confirms Dr Hicks. “This includes the release of endorphins, raised heart rate, moving the muscles and joints. One study even showed that arthritis can be delayed by regular sex”. You might also look younger. “Regular sex makes you feel younger as you are more relaxed, satisfied and less stressed”. “Sex has huge mental benefits,”
So sex could make you …
• Calm: up to a week after intercourse your blood pressure remains lower
• Happy: semen could have antidepressant qualities and hormones released during sex include oxytocin, which promotes loving feelings, as well as endorphins, the “feel-good” hormones
• Healthy: regular sex raises your levels of a cold-fighting antibody. It might protect men against prostate cancer and heart disease
• Youthful: sex increases longevity, might improve skin tone, and gives you a glow.
• Serene: Touch, which one specialist calls “vitamin T”, has Deep breathing also reduces stress
• Pain free: sex has been shown to relieve some of the symptoms of PMT, arthritis and, yes, headaches because of the release of endorphins-nature’s opiates
• Grounded: Intercourse, ideally with the same partner, creates an emotional and physical bond.
Caring and Peaceful touch how to help human Progress and Development
Posted by davidson on Jun.25, 2010, under Health Thinking No Comments
Caring and Peaceful touch how to help human Progress and Development
Babies need to touch by others that are like grandparents, parents, human touch is the first language we learn. And our richest means of emotional expression throughout life. New born babies process most information through their skin. Even a 90 year-old frail eyesight person clearly understands the grasp of caring hand. Touch is our most essential source of sensory stimulation. Human can live without seeing and hearing but they can not live without feeling sense.
Laboratory experiments considered that unethical and inhuman, kept baby monkeys from being touched by their mothers. The baby monkeys could see, hear and smell their mothers, but they could not touch them. The babies became apothecial and failed to progress normally. Babies need to be touched to develop not only physically, but also emotionally and socially as well.
The peaceful touch was started at the Axelson institute in Stockholm in early 1990s. Some trained teachers used massage and other touch techniques with children quickly assimilated the basic strokes and could use them on other children. Teachers can guide children with or without touching them, say, by demonstrating Peaceful Touch strokes in the air or on a stuffed toy. Adult touch is not required for the programme to produce full benefits. An experiment was held at Sweden on over 0.3 million children practice peaceful touch for 5 to 10 minutes daily, both teachers and parents, have reported that, after only 3 month, the children are less aggressive, show improved concentration, lower levels of anxiety and stress greater empathy for peers and improved group interactions. It was followed-up for 9 month and shown that these effect are not only still became more pronounced.
Babies need to be touched to develop not only physically, but also emotionally and socially as well. John B Watson, the legendary father of behavioral psychology believes that parents should refrain from deep emotional involvement with their children, , and that physical demonstrations of affection should be avoided.
The need for touching doesn’t end in childhood. As children move into the often challenging adolescent years, the natural tendency among most parents is to touch them less. Especially father start to feel awkward about demonstrating affection when their little girls are being turning into young women. It is not necessary to stop giving those hugs and kisses and arm squeezes. If they don’t get physical affection they need of acceptance and self-worth is so powerfully conveys, they may begin looking for their daily dose of loving touch elsewhere and without must discrimination they will become more vulnerable to predators that will ultimately harm them.
The recent studies found that caring and peaceful touch control the blood pressure, enhance oxytocin, relieves depression, eases muscle tension and body aches, subdues heart irregularities, enhance immune function.
But touch should be some problems; it may be a sexual harassment and child abuses have made the touching. But there are countless others peoples that they do not like to touch; they feel uncomfortable with touch so we need to follow a few guidelines when touching others. Be extremely careful about at work because work places are hypersensitive about touching, even if your touch is meant to be friendly, stay away from body parts like buttocks, stomach, chest and area below the belt. Teach your children difference between “good touching, and “bad touching’’, no children should be forced to submit to unwant kisses and hugs even from close relatives. If you are at the receiving end of unwanted touching, express your feelings, not with aggressiveness.
However meanwhile, from a mound of anthropological evidence, comes the confirmation that, in cultures where touching is an encouraged from of expression, adult aggression is low, where as in cultures where touch is limited, adult aggression is high. There’s some paradoxical taking place in the area of human touching today. On the one hand, boundaries of touch have changed across all cultures. It is true that affectionate touching can help a child develop into a loving, caring adult, so spend more touching time with your children.












