Healthy Life Journal

You’ll Have Bad Breath
Researchers at Tel Aviv University recently found a direct link between obesity and bad breath—the more overweight you are, the more likely your breath will smell rank to those around you. The experts reported that there’s no scientific evidence that would explain their results but suggested that obese people may have a diet that promotes dry mouth or that they’re less likely to have proper oral hygiene. Read the rest of this entry »

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NOT need a special diet to get a stomach boxes (sixpack). Origin know the trick, we can train your abdominal muscles without additional tools.

Everyone already has a sixpack stomach. However, because the fat accumulating in the abdomen, the sixpack is not visible. As a result, the more belly bulge and not the eye-catching.

Not just a supporting appearance, sixpack was very good to strengthen the abdominal muscles (either the top, side, or bottom). This is related to daily activities such as bending or supporting your upper body. Other benefits, to balance the body posture in order not to bend or kiposis. Similarly, the development of cervical muscles to the tail bone (elector spinae) that would make the body straight and look even more handsome.

Those who want to get sixpack stomach, but did not have time or reluctant to go to the gym and use heavy equipment, can be switched to manual way. Ie using our own bodies. In this way, training for a sixpack stomach can be done easily, wherever and whenever. If you want variety, can be done outdoors or with a particular media such as a wall or hanging from a tree branch.

Before this abdominal specific exercises, try to warm up (stretching) for five minutes. Then proceed with cardio exercises that include running around the housing, threadmill or exercise bike (spinning) for 10-15 minutes. While these core exercises can be done for 30 minutes. If you have spare time, exercise can be divided into two (morning or afternoon) because they do not have the effect of specific injuries, except for those with spinal disorders.

If the impact of the leading training led to bone pain neck, back, waist, abdomen and even, can be called normal. This is because the muscles are trained parts can not adapt. After some time practicing, the pain will disappear by itself.

We feel pain, should not be forced to bend the head or other body parts too deep. For beginners, it is advisable to bend her head slightly to the stomach muscles seemed to contract. Stop in a position to prevent injury to the next exercise.

“Noteworthy is the relaxed position, try not to touch the back of the floor or mat. Fixed positioning is always on top, so the abdominal muscles and hold concentrated trained (trained). Because the abdominal muscles is also a large muscle, practice starting from the abdominal muscles, middle, bottom and sideways. This will reduce the effect of injury to the stomach, “said Hendri Budiyanto, Club Manager of the Grand Odysseus Fitness & Spa Atrium Senen.

Special owner of body fat (overweight), reps and sets should be copied there. This is because they have to pass first stage of combustion. Better yet, if the exercise is also maximized kardionya. Abdominal exercises so this is just a formation. Tempo is required to get sixpack stomach became more minimal.

Conversely, for the owner of a thin body, abdominal exercises with the tempo tends to be short. Need to burn fat as much as people are not fat. Simply concentrate on the training set increase. Abdominal exercises done enough in 4-5 sets with 15-20 reps.

At the advanced level (advanced), the practice only adds to the portion while increasing fitness levels. For example when bending the neck has not felt, it can be combined with more bend. Other combinations can be done with one leg, two legs, or alternately as pedaling a bicycle.

Even for the variation, may add weight can be held in the hand while standing, while the body just tilted to the right and left. Is an effective way to train the muscles of the side.

To prevent cramps or bloating, try not to eat too much before and after exercise. When thirsty, drink sufficiently. For the high-carbohydrate foods, should eat at least one hour before exercise.

For those of you who have never done a fitness activities at all or a beginner, it’s good to follow the tips below first: Read the rest of this entry »

Can NOT be denied that the activities of Indonesian society that increasingly dense causing various health problems, including arthritis pain. But unfortunately in line with the increasing number of arthritis sufferers in Indonesia, precisely the awareness and misunderstanding about this disease remains high.

Reading these phenomena, PT Pfizer Indonesia, as a producer of quality medicine, calls on people of Indonesia to identify, prevent, and cope with pain from arthritis by conducting joint exercises as a method recommended by your doctor. Introduction gymnastics officially rheumatic conducted in Jakarta today as the celebration of eight years of the existence of celecoxib in Indonesia.

In general, the definition of arthritis is a disease that attacks the joints and supporting structures or tissue around the joints. Attacked body part is usually in the joints in the fingers, knees, hips, and spine.

These conditions, among other things due to excessive activity or repeated trauma experienced by the joints, causing cartilage wear on the joints (cartilage) which becomes a cushion for the bones and cause pain if the joint is moved. Arthritis can lead to disability (morbidity), disability (disability), decreased quality of life, and increase the economic burden the patient or his family.

Based on the latest research results from qy Zeng et al 2008, the prevalence of rheumatic pain in Indonesia reached 23.6 percent to 31.3 percent. This figure shows that the pain from arthritis is quite disturbing activities of the Indonesian people, especially those who have very dense activity in urban areas such as driving a vehicle in the middle of the flow of traffic, sitting for hours with no significant body movement, demand for interesting and vibrant , lack of exercise portion, and the age factor.

Plus still many people’s view that Indonesia underestimate this disease because it is as if the soul does not pose a threat, but the pain caused by this disease became a disturbing obstacle for urban communities to conduct their activities daily.

Dr. Irawan Rustandi, Medical Director of PT Pfizer Indonesia, explained, “We feel it’s time for the Indonesian people to know more deeply about rheumatic diseases, who can stricken with rheumatism and how to best handle. As such, they are more aware of the consequences of This disease that voluntarily join the socialized knowledge to their family members to avoid arthritis. ”

Departure from rheumatism and concern for the facts above, Pfizer worked with medical and rehabilitation specialists are supported by a professional instructor to create a method of exercise that can help reduce the risk of arthritis that also functions as an additional therapy for patients with rheumatism in the quiet phase.

“Gymnastics is an exercise rheumatic gesture or a gentle exercise program that consists of several stages such as heating, single core exercises (low impact to strengthen the work of the heart and lungs), two core training (basic training and the prevention of rheumatic therapy), and cooling , “he said.

By doing this exercise regularly and correctly, arthritis sufferers are expected to be free from the symptoms of rheumatic disease and painful joint stiffness. In addition, Pfizer also suggested that this exercise coupled with consultation with your doctor to get maximum results and avoid the things that are not desirable.

“In addition to methods of treatment through exercise, a pharmacological, pain due to arthritis can also be overcome with a group of anti-inflammatory drugs non-steroidal non-specific (non-specific non-steroidal anti-inflammatory or ns-NSAIDs). However, this drug class was can cause gastrointestinal complaints at the top that can disturb and harm the patient, “he explained.

Explained Dr. Rustandi Irawan, arthritis drug celecoxib is COX-COXIBX group 2 (specific inhibitors, or inhibitors of COX-2) production of PT Pfizer Indonesia capable of specifically inhibiting COX-2 enzyme associated with pain and inflammation, so much safer to the stomach compared with anti-rheumatic drugs pain ns-NSAIDs.

“Celecoxib has also been believed to eight years in Indonesia as a drug to overcome the problems with arthritis in terms of safety profile upper gastrointestinal (upper GI) is better than the drug class ns-NSAIDs, and cardiovascular safety in terms comparable to ns – NSAIDs because it was to overcome the pain due to arthritis holistic, people are advised to continue to consult with the doctor, “he said.