Healthy Life Journal

According to the book The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Vitamins and Minerals, vitamin E deficiency in the long term can cause nerve damage, especially the nerves in the spine. Sometimes it also occurs in the retina of the eye damage.

Vitamin E deficiency should be rare. That’s because of the daily food intake of almost all people get 7-11 mg of vitamin E. Even so, it turns out in the U.S. who eat plenty of famous and wealthy, carrying a mild deficiency of vitamin E.

Apart from daily food intake, vitamin E deficiency can also be caused by medical conditions such as:
1.Menderita cystic fibrosis
Cause, people with this disease can not digest fat well, so it can not absorb enough vitamin E.

2. Suffer from Chron’s disease
Patients with this disease can not absorb enough vitamin E through the intestines.

3. Liver disease
Patients with liver disease can not use vitamin E with the right.

4. On a diet low in fat and low calorie
The lack of fat in the body can affect the supply of vitamin E. This is because vitamin E, including fat-soluble vitamins. We need a little fat to absorb vitamin E.

5. Drinking certain drugs
Drinking cholesterol-lowering drugs can reduce the absorption of vitamin E and fat-soluble vitamins other.

Vitamins and Minerals According to the book’s Handbook, there are signs of a person’s body needs extra vitamin E, which is easily bruised body, heal old wounds, varicose veins, lack of sex drive, infertility and loss of muscle strength.

Talking about bone health often discusses the fragility of bone in the elderly. Bone health in childhood and adolescence is sometimes forgotten. In fact, the future of our bones actually determined precisely at these times.

Eating one of the important bone-forming elements, namely calcium, like the opening of deposit. We kept since childhood and adolescence as security in old age. So, before sorry, tabunglah calcium from the outset.

Bone fragility and pain caused a big problem in this country. Ministry of Health noted, the prevalence of osteopenia (early osteoporosis) in Indonesia amounted to 41.7 percent. That means two out of five Indonesian population at risk of osteoporosis.

The figure is higher than the prevalence of the world, ie one in three people at risk of osteoporosis.

Osteoporosis is a systemic disease of low bone mass and deterioration of bone tissue micro-structure, characterized among others by the fragility, vulnerability to fractures.

Osteoporosis is a common disorder of bone metabolism in adults. Lately, there are many studies that have looked at the root of the problem of osteoporosis in childhood. Bones grow and peaked in adulthood.

Childhood is a critical period of bone development. Amounting to 45 percent growth in bone mass occurs at age 00-10 years. At that time, bone grows lengthwise. As a teenager, about 45 percent of adult bone mass is formed up before the age of 18 years.

“As adults, bone mass development continues until the age of 30 years,” said an orthopedic specialist and Traumatology of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Lukman Shebubakar, in the event a media workshop titled “Fulfill The Importance of Calcium Intake on to Optimize Growth of School Age Children” some time ago.

For men, the older bone development. While the time span of bone growth is faster in women.

Conversely, in old age the underlying bone that its velocity exceeds the speed of bone production. Rapid loss of bone is influenced gender, lifestyle, genetic and hormonal status.

In women who give birth and menopause, removal of bone occurs more frequently. Women begin to lose calcium from their bones begin around the age of 40 years and boys from age 60 years.

The main builder

Primary prevention of osteoporosis is to build maximum bone density during childhood and adolescence. Bone growth is influenced by the amount of calcium, phosphorus, and vitamins, especially vitamin D are involved in the absorption of calcium. Another factor is hormone balance.

Calcium is the major mineral-forming bone. Minerals also regulate contraction and relaxation of muscles, are involved in nerve transmission, helps blood clotting, and regulate the body’s hormones and growth factors. Total calcium of about 2 percent of body weight. Amounting to 99 percent is stored in bones and 1 percent in body fluids.

When there is a shortage of calcium, the body will take it from the bones. “Every day we’ve definitely lost as much as 170 mg of calcium lost in the process of secretion through the sweat and urine. Lack of calcium intake at the age of children, adolescents, and adults will be felt after entering old age, “said Lukman.

Standardization Development Section Head Food Consumption Community Nutrition Directorate of the Ministry of Health as well as nutrition experts, IIp Syaiful, said that the amount of nutrient adequacy established the Ministry of Health for children aged 7-9 years is 600 mg of calcium per day and for children aged 10-12 years increased to 1000 mg per day. It needs more than doubled compared with the age of 4-6 years, ie 500 mg of calcium per day.

The problem, he says, one nutritional problem in school-age children is a deficiency of certain substances, including calcium.

When entering the age of six, children begin to show its ability to determine the choice of food and seeing the many food choices outside the home. Children are not easy to start again arranged. Milk is rarely consumed also started.

Absorption of calcium is also a problem when there is deficiency of various other substances. He gave an example, deficiency of vitamin D in active form can affect the absorption of calcium. Oxalic acid and phytic acid can also inhibit calcium absorption.

Excessive protein consumption also causes calcium easily excreted through urine. Once the physical and mental stress also reduces the absorption of minerals. “Basically, every type of food has a role

in balancing the input of nutrients daily. Consumption of food should be diverse, “said IIp.

In order to improve bone health, activities of the child’s body must also be considered. Unfortunately, children are also increasingly limited movement, especially in big cities. More child activities within the home and less active. In fact, exercise influence on bone development.

Lukman said, some exercises to strengthen the bones of the simplest is walking, jogging, climbing stairs, and jump rope. Sports games, like tennis, basketball, soccer, and volleyball, is also good for the bones. Exercises about 30 minutes long with a frequency of more than three times in one week. For children, exercise habits that can be customized with child’s play. Congratulations to play while saving calcium ….

Want strong bones and old? Try the recommended way of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, that is by consuming a variety of vegetables and fruits that are red and orange. Group of fruits and vegetables that contain bone protective pigment called carotenoids.

In carotenoids also contained lycopene, a potent prevent thinning by counteracting harmful substances that can damage bone.

Experts reveal this fact after doing research over four years to 900 older adults. Those who regularly eat solid food carotenoids have a lower risk of bone loss, especially at the waist and lower back vertebrae.

We can save this benefit from now, by adding tomatoes, watermelons, or grapes on the daily menu. They are a natural source of carotenoid substances.

Heart attack is a medical emergency. Do not delay seeking medical help because in this situation every time racing with damage to heart muscle and can cause complications or even death.

The main symptoms of heart attack is a strong feeling depressed or squeeze in the chest. This distress could spread to the neck and sometimes accompanied by cold sweat and feeling weak. “If these conditions a person must appear suspicious if he had a heart attack, especially if that person has risk factors, such as smoking or having diabetes,” said dr.Santoso Karo Karo, Sp.JP, from RS.Jantung Harapan Kita Jakarta.

Santoso explained, in the first five minutes, people who suffer a heart attack should immediately seek medical help. “Go to the hospital, not a place for practicing physicians in the hospital is available the support needed to limit damage to heart,” he said on the sidelines of a heart health event at the Heart Foundation of Indonesia, Wednesday (4/8/10).

When the distance between the hospital and the patient is too far away, heart attack patients can be helped by chewing emergency four tablets of aspirin. Anticoagulant drugs such as aspirin or heparin is no longer going to make blood clots forming.

“For people who have risk factors or a history of heart attack, aspirin should always carry anywhere. As soon as the attack came, directly chew-chew, not swallow them with water,” said Santoso.

In the book Mayo Clinic Family Health Book is mentioned, in the early minutes so the heart attack, ventricular fibrillation will occur. Unstable cardiac rhythm raises the heart rate and ineffective quivering of the heart muscle without benefits. Without immediate treatment, ventricular fibrillation will lead to sudden death.

Handling first heart attack is the use of AEDs (automatic external defribrillators). Penangangan will then be performed in hospitals, including the provision of drugs to restore blood flow to the heart, such as aspirin.

In the case of a heart attack, according to Santoso, there is the golden (golden period) to save lives. “Within 20 minutes after the heart attack patients should be helped. But the crucial first five minutes the patient should be suspicious so they can seek help,” he said.

Which must be recognized is a heart attack sometimes appear without the typical pattern. “It could also be a pain in the ribs or the stomach so it is often mistaken for heartburn. Feeling depressed also often mistaken for common colds so often brought late to hospital,” he explained.

In some people, the main symptoms of heart attack is a sudden onset of shortness of breath or can not follow the chest pains. There is also a heart attack with only faint symptoms of a sudden. Most importantly, be vigilant, especially when you have a family history of heart disease, smoking, having high cholesterol, or diabetes.

DIET more useful high carbohydrate increase exercise capacity in people with McArdle disease than high-protein diet. Reported a small-scale study published in the journal Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry.

McArdle is a metabolic disease of muscle. People who are born with this condition are not able to produce an enzyme called muscle phosphorylase. In fact, this enzyme plays an important role in producing the required energy source muscles during exercise (exercise) or exercise. McArdle patients usually experience pain in some locations and muscle fatigue (fatigue) at the beginning of their exercise. If continued, could arise stiff or muscle spasms. Well, two smaller-scale studies found a bright spot that high dietary carbohydrate and protein may be beneficial for patients with McArdle disease.

Participants consisted of seven patients who randomly McArdle asked to choose one of these diets (high-carbohydrate diets or high protein) and run it for three days. Undergo after each diet, participants then conduct training activities with the bike.

The result, researchers found that participants who do high-carbohydrate diet are able to do activities with better training than the participants that high-protein diet. One of the indicators can be seen from the heart rate lower (not gasping) and oxygen 25 per cent higher in participants who are high-carbohydrate diet than those who were high-protein diet.