Healthy Life Journal

“I was a student 22 years old, wanted to ask you some questions about sexual activity is healthy. Friend of my dorm masturbate often, almost every day.

I really do not understand whether this action is healthy or not. According to him, instead add the spirit and relieve stress and have no side effects. Is this true?

Does masturbating every day can interfere with the genitals at a later date and cause premature ejaculation, as there are rumors in the community?

If at a later date to get married, does not affect sexual life? Whether there may be frequent in a day, for example, two times a day or once a week or once a month?

According to my other friend, masturbation can cause spinal pain, pain in the foot shell, and in the surrounding area looks like a dented shell foot shell or skin into the bone, like a malnourished, whereas a healthy situation. Really?

Is masturbation can reduce the brain’s ability in thinking and impress more slowly? ”

E, Jakarta

Fair Activities
Myths about masturbation is still a lot of wide circulation in the community, like other myths about sex. Some myths may cause a bad effect for some people because they influence behavior. Not a few victims who suffered serious consequences because of false information based on myths about sex.

Masturbation is a common sexual activity, even have done in childhood. In the psychosexual development of children, one of the genital phase is the phase.

In this phase, children begin to realize that sex is the fun part. Therefore, a child, whether male or female, happy to hold the genitals. In fact, some children can reach orgasm at the time.

Greater attention to gender when humans enter adolescence. Therefore, at this period is the masturbating then sexual activity are common.

Some people who have been married and still masturbate and reasons for a particular purpose. Furthermore, masturbation for some people is necessary as part of a way to overcome sexual dysfunction.

For example, women who experience orgasm by obstacles require the exercise of certain causes of masturbation as part of how to cope. However, for men, masturbation is done in a hurry in order to quickly achieve orgasm and ejaculation is feared could become a habit that resulted in premature ejaculation. This concern seems reasonable.

Information-18th century
There is no any bad effect due to masturbate, including information that you hear from that friend. In the 18th century had indeed been outstanding book which states that masturbation can cause a variety of adverse physical, but then proved that assumption is incorrect because only based on myth.

Unfortunately, until now there are still people who provide information based on the myth, as you hear it. In fact, not a few people thought to be understood, are often influenced by myths about sex.

Every person has his own way to get out from fatigue and feel relaxed. However, if you know a few things that we often make choices ‘way out’ to eliminate stress, anxiety, and burden us, can actually give a bad impact on our health.

Do not let it interfere with the means to live our cheerleaders and our health, here are four of them:

Watching TV
Every major studies always found a link between watching TV and obesity. One of them is in the research contained in the Journal of the American Medical Association, this study found each time we increase the duration of two hours we watch TV, then automatically we will increase by 23% obesity and risk of diabetes up to 14%.

The danger again, when we will be overwhelmed by watching hundreds of advertisements of junk food and eating other foods that might be we are eating when watching television. Better to select only some of our favorite programs. Then, spend the rest of us to stay away from the sofa and make us a healthy hobby.

Smoke
When the pressure of work or life to come, cigarettes often become our tool to be able to feel relaxed. Though we all would have been familiar or bored with the existing smoking hazard warnings. The smoker has a risk of a heart attack two times larger, and each bar rokoklah that causes 90% mortality caused by lung cancer. In addition to nicotine and tar, there are still hundreds of other chemicals in cigarette smoke can cause cancer. Plus, smoking can make our breath become unpleasant.

Eating too late
Including groups of people who often make dinner too late? Eating too much the night is synonymous with eating junk food in large quantities. At the moment we are under stress, fatigue or anxiety, usually hormone cortisol will automatically send signals to the brain to recharge the body of fuel in anticipation of emergency conditions. And usually we’re taking food containing fat or sugar.

Eating telampau late will increase insulin, fat storage hormone, and when sleep the body certainly will not do the burning again. And that’s the sign, the risk of obesity will increase as well. Therefore, make it a habit to lock our mouths setlah at 7 pm.

Excessive running
Sometimes sports are used by some people as a weapon repellent stress. But do not be excessive and forced. Excessive running or called exercise bulimia, which is a form of exercise which utamannya goal is to get rid of all calories are not needed by the body, rather than creating a health and fit body. Perform high intensity exercise, carried out repeatedly and over, will make us kehilangkan enjoyment in exercising.

Not only that, ‘coercion’ This will increase the hormone cortisol, which can eventually damage our appearance with our waistlines expand, and disrupt important parts of the brain associated with memory. Therefore, if you want to exercise and still feel relaxed, said the moderates is key. For example, by jogging in the morning relaxing while enjoying the scenery in the park nearby. Not only make your body into shape, this method will also provide peace of mind.

fried, or fatty menus are invited to taste. Especially for those who are still young and delight culinary, delicious menu is not taboo, but a challenge that brings pleasure.

However, young people also still need to be careful because, according to a recent study, high cholesterol and make young people susceptible to damage blood vessels.

According to a research scientist from the University of California, San Francisco, and published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, the young age of 20 need to watch my cholesterol. If levels are high, then cholesterol may damage arteries and trigger heart problems.

In his research, a team led by Dr Mark Pletcher monitor groups of respondents aged 18 to 30 years. Monitoring was conducted for 20 years. The result, researchers found that high cholesterol at a relatively early age increases the risk of heart disease and stroke when stepping on the elderly.

“We’re usually not too worried about the risk of heart disease that struck the youth because that condition usually only affects people who are already old. But young people are also important to keep his cholesterol because cholesterol affects your blood vessels would be,” said Pletcher.

Pletcher and his team examine the data more than 3200 respondents (consisting of women and black men and white). Those who had higher levels of bad cholesterol (LDL), high in the younger age greater risk of heart disease, irrespective of their cholesterol levels will decrease later.

Pletcher said that, based on research, it does not mean that young people need to take cholesterol-lowering drugs. However, they should keep what they eat.

“Diet and exercise is more beneficial for children younger than cholesterol-lowering drugs larena we do not have enough data to prove that the drug has a direct effect and is safe to recommend to the young man,” said Pletcher.

In previous research, Pletcher found that high blood pressure at a young age sparked a higher risk of coronary heart disease later in life.

On that basis, the American Heart Association recommends that every young child aged 20 years or more for a cholesterol test once every five years. Those who have cholesterol levels of 200 milligrams per deciliter of blood at risk for heart disease.

This study is important because, according to the American Heart Association, 17.6 million Americans estimated to suffer from coronary heart disease. As for heart disease is the leading cause of death in United States and other industrialized countries.