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Jakarta – Heating is very important to the body before starting exercise. The aim is to avoid injury warming during exercise.

Heating is very important to the body before starting exercise. The aim is to avoid injury warming during exercise.

Heating also serves to maximize the workout. Therefore, do not forget to warm up for five minutes before starting exercise. Here, some tips warm up before exercising.

Perenggangan Joints
Stretch all the joints of the body, from fingers, elbows, knees, wrists and legs. Stiff joints like hinges less oil so the risk of injury. You can be stretched by performing a circular motion, movement up and down or to the sides depending on the type of your joints. Do the movement at least five to six times before exercising.

Increase Heartbeats
Before practice, you also need to increase heart rate during exercise regularly so that your muscles are not shocked. You can do this by berjogging, or skipping. Warming is good for maximizing your training later.

Muscle Perenggangan
When you’re not exercising, your muscles in a state of stiffness. Therefore, you need muscles stretched so that when the practice is not rigid. Destination stretching before exercise is also to avoid muscle injuries. SKJ gymnastic style is one of them. Do it for five minutes.

Jakarta, Dr William Bates was an ophthalmologist who had died long ago in 1931. The doctors believe many people who really do not need to use glasses with how to train his eye.

Although eliminating the minus eyes without surgery is still a controversy, but many followers of Dr. Bates proved that succeeded in reducing minusnya.

Minus lowered guidance as recorded in his book entitled ‘Better Eyesight Without Glasses’, of course contrary to current practice optometrist. Minus current eye can only go down, or disappear only with lasik eye surgery such.

Dr Bates discovered this technique after experimenting for years. Dr Bates to develop exercises to improve the ability to see the normal eye and eliminate the tensions that exist due to see the bad habits that cause vision problems.

His book was published in 1920, continues to be sold to this day. Bates method remains useful and followed by thousands of people around the world.

These exercises are based on the belief that the eye can naturally see clearly. Everyone either children or adults can learn to see better without using glasses.

This vision exercise aims to educate the eye so that it can regulate the focus to be more efficient or called ‘central fixation’. Eye muscles must be able to move freely and make small adjustments necessary to focus the object being viewed.

Eyes become tense because of the fixed-position ’staring’ object instead of doing the constant movement. This exercise teaches one to relax the eye muscles and optic nerve and use memory and imagination to improve the coordination between eye and brain.

This exercise also helps a person overcome the dependence on glasses. The basis of this therapy is the belief that the combination of body, mind and soul are used to look. Besides food, posture, stress and health of a person also affects vision.

As quoted from Eyehealthremedies, Friday (3/12/2010) there is some method of Bates, which can be done, namely:

1. Hide
This vision exercises to help the eyes to relax and unwind.
Try to sit comfortably at the table and then put some pillows to high sejejer eye. Place the elbow on the pillow is then closed his eyes with two hands until there are no incoming cahanya. Breathe slowly, relax and imagine in the dark. Start doing this for 10 minutes 2-3 times a day.

2. Wiggle eyes
Try to stand up and focus on a distant point, and then toss the ball from the left and right eye or vice versa as he blinked 100 times per day. Flashing useful to clean and lubricate the eye.

3. Selecting one color in one day
Choose a different color each day and looking out the objects of the selected color throughout the day. When to see someone will be more aware of color than its form.

4. Bask
Try doing this once a day. This activity requires a sunny day or a good light.

How close your eyes and look directly at the sun through closed eyes. As I see sun, slowly move your head to the left and right as far as you can until it almost touched his shoulder. This helps bring more circulation to the neck. Do this for 3-5 minutes.

5. Shifts vision
Many people who spend time staring at computer screens in front of his face. Try to shift your vision to the woven fabric in the sleeves, posters on the wall or a tree across the street. This can help improve your peripheral vision and can help nearsightedness, farsightedness and other vision problems. Even in some cases can remove the cataract.

Dr William Bates provides tips when doing eye exercises to remove glasses or contact lenses to feel more comfortable and relaxed. When doing this exercise try to be very concentrated on the eyes so the results could have.
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Kompas.com – The number of branching nerves (synapses) in the brains of babies will be increased or decreased depending on whether the brain stimulation was given or not. To stimulate the development of the child, parents may do so through a variety of fun activities, ranging from playing “Peek-ba”, to invite children to do activities outdoors.

According to dr. Koesnadi Rusmil, Sp.A (K) child development experts from Hasan Sadikin Hospital, aged 0-5 years is a golden period for child growth. “In this period the child can be stimulated to achieve higher intelligence,” he explained in educating the media event held by the Frisian Flag in Jakarta some time ago. Further, he outlines what activities parents can do to stimulate the brain development of children.

Age 0-3 months
Stimulation is done by seeking safety, comfort, and fun. Among others, hugging, looking at the baby’s eyes, inviting smile, and speak. You also can stimulate the senses of sight and sound with the way sounds sound or brightly colored toys.

Age 3-6 months
At this age stimulation plus the play “-a-boo.” Infants are stimulated to stomach, stretched out, back and forth, and sat down.

Age 6-9 months
Encourage the child shaking hands, calling her name, read fairy tales, and stimulated to stand.

Age 9-12 months
Stimulate creativity in a way he’s playing blocks or take a toy to enter into the container. Teach children call mother-father, mother, father, or brother.

Age 12-18 months
Let your child practice doodling with colored pencils, playing dolls, learning to walk, kick a ball, and the use of kitchenware.

Age 18-24 months
Children are stimulated by asking, say, and show parts of the body, to recognize the name of animals and objects around the house. Stimulate the child to speak with intelligence to talk about daily activities or the activities of storytelling.

Age 2-3 years
Teach children the concept of small and large sizes, inside and outside, recognize colors, to name his friends. Child can also be taught to use toilets (toilet training).

3-4 years
After three years of age, stimulation activity is directed to prepare children entering school. For example teaching children hold a pencil or a colored image. Parents also can make eating together as a means of activities to introduce toddlers to the skills of a varied diet and good eating habit.

Jakarta, Being a parent is uncertain. But better if parents without becoming senile. Or senile dementia is the most feared man when he became older. Recognize the symptoms in order to get through the day without a senile old man.

Mr Clark (72 years) went into the doctor’s office with his son. Glance it looks normal, walk without assistance, and can be independent. The doctor asked, ‘what the father’s complaint?’. His son replied, ‘Now it’s easy to forget you’. The doctor doing the examination to Mr. Clark, and continued with a brief neuropsychological tests.

The doctor asked, ‘Father has son how? ” Mr. Clark quickly replied, ‘My son is five dock’. ‘Who is the father of a son who’s third?’, Asked the doctor. After thinking for a long time, with a smiling Mr. Clark replied, ‘His name is Henry, dock’. The doctor glanced at the men who accompanied Mr. Clark. His son replied with a shake of her head, and beckoned Mr. Clark if the answer is wrong. The doctor again said: ‘Sir, what is 100 minus 7? ” Mr. Clark thought for a moment and replied, ‘Yes 97 dock’.

The story above and further analysis results show that Mr Clark had dementia. Dementia is the medical term for senility. Dementia showed a progressive deterioration of memory and intellectual processes of the brain.

Various brain functions such as language, orientation, calculation or math, abstract thinking, and decision making can be disrupted. In more advanced stages, patients with dementia can not care for himself. Symptoms of senile dementia is not necessarily appear in most cases. In general, the symptoms had appeared several years earlier, and begins to easily forget.

Recognize Dementia

Dementia began to become widely known, while in 1995 former U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced publicly that he was hit by dementia of Alzheimer’s. Ronald Reagan described his condition as travel toward the twilight of life. On February 6, 2000 Reagents celebrates 89th birthday, and at that time Reagan was not familiar with anyone except his wife, Nancy Reagan.

Dementia is a deterioration of intellectual process that occurs gradually, so that disrupt daily activities disabling. Incidence of dementia will increase with age. Incidence of dementia was 1.4% at age 65-69 years, 2.8% at age 70-74 years, 5.6% at age 75-79 years, and 23.6% at the age of 85 years. Most cases of dementia is Alzheimer’s dementia. The older person will be exposed to them more vulnerable to dementia.

Most causes of dementia is Alzheimer’s dementia. Other causes of dementia are vascular dementia (caused by blood vessel disorders of the brain), dementia due to Parkinson’s disease, and dementia secondary to drugs or infectious diseases.

Alzheimer’s disease was first discovered in 1906 by physician Alois Alzheimer. Old age is a factor leading cause of dementia muncunya. Other risk factors are family history, which is indicated by the inheritance of ApoE gene. Other risk factors for dementia is the emergence of head trauma, stroke, diabetes, hypertension, and use of certain drugs.

Symptoms of Dementia

The early symptoms of dementia characterized by easily forgotten. Easy to forget this one is easy to forget beniga or fair, and are malignant or easy to forget that I disturbed their daily activities.

Symptoms are often complained of is forgetting names, forgetting appointments, forgetting to put it, forgot the name of the event, and so forth. In this condition, daily activities can still be done well, and typical symptoms most frequently reported from various studies is forgetting to put stuff, so there is a joke at this stage that a person will follow a new sport that is ‘looking glasses’.

Symptoms will continue to be easy to forget that malignant, a condition called Mild Cognitive impairment. In this condition becomes easy to forget the more-so. Complaints are not only submitted by the patient, but also by many people around him. Daily routine activities were normal, but there was little disruption in activities such as shopping complexes. This condition in many cultures are still often considered to be fair, ‘when you are old, yes the fair is easy to forget “‘. This assumption is not appropriate. If found at an early stage ang, dementia can be slowed.

If the disease continues, it will display symptoms of dementia. Common symptoms are memory impairment and an inability to retain new information. Disrupted memory in general is a short-term memory. At this stage, patients often demonstrate behavioral disorders, easily suspicious, angry, often lying and other behavior that is not fair. Daily activities begin disrupted. On a more advanced stage of disorders often found in bed at night, difficulty finding words, and lose control over urination and defecation. In the late stage of disease, more patients in bed and completely dependent on help from others.

Handling Dementia

The main principle of treatment is finding a case as early as possible. The earlier cases of dementia was found, the better sights. Cases found in stage Alzheimer’s disease have a poorer prognosis than if found in the stadium’s easy to forget.

Many simple neuropsychological tests that can be done in patients. This test will take some time varied, ranging from 5 minutes to 1 hour. The length of time will be very terganung on the complexity of the test. Some tests are widely known is MMSE (Mini Mental State Examination), Short Blessed Test, and Clock Drawing Test. Investigations should be done to see the possibility of secondary causes. Laboratory tests to track the infection is often done, as well as radiological examinations (CT or MRI scan of the head).

Therapies include pharmacological therapy (with drugs) and non pharmacological (without drugs). Pharmacological therapy is mainly intended to improve symptoms and inhibit progression of the disease. The therapy is often given to improve symptoms forgetful, hard language, depression, agitation, and sleep disorders. Non-drug therapy includes the patient and family education, make notes and catwalk memory, recreational therapy, and brain exercise.

Titian memory often helps patients to recall. Recreational therapy is most advisable is to gather together kelompokya. This can be achieved by keeping the social activities, meet old friends, attended the reunion. Sharing stories will help the process of memory.

While gymnastics brain (Brain Gym) is a method of body movements that activate the brain functions. Various studies have shown increased brain activity and function due to these gymnastic movements. Brian’s Gym has been much studied and has been widely adopted (even in the form of associations).

The main principle of treatment of dementia is the ‘Use it or lose it’, so that this brain asahlah continuously. May be old, but not senile.

Lowering cholesterol by 1 percent it might reduce the risk of coronary heart disease by 2 percent. Here are some tips to cut levels of bad cholesterol in the blood.

1. Create a target
If you fall into the high risk group of cardiovascular disease (family history, hypertension, obesity, and smoking), target doctors usually decrease bad cholesterol (LDL) less than 70.

For those who are in the moderate risk group, 130 had decreased levels of LDL are considered good. If you are lucky to be in low-risk groups, target LDL is less than 160.

2. Sport
Not only reduce levels of LDL cholesterol, physical activity done regularly can increase good cholesterol (HDL) to 10 percent. According to research by experts. The key is to exercise regularly.

3. Avoiding trans fats
Old theory says the way to reduce cholesterol is to stop eating eggs and other high cholesterol foods. However, now increasingly clear that the main culprit is saturated fat. That is why, restrict food

4. Eat more fiber
Serelia intact seeds, vegetables and fruit, is the best source of antioxidants that are good for the heart, but also lowering cholesterol. Water-soluble fiber is believed to be more effective in lowering cholesterol because it is so easy to absorb like a sponge and cholesterol in the digestive tract.

5. Expand Fish
There are plenty of scientific evidence showing the benefits of eating fish rich in omega-3. American Heart Association recommends fish and fish oil supplements as a source of omega-3 good for the heart.

6. Consumption of green tea
Research in animals and humans shows green tea contains a substance that can lower the bad cholesterol.

7th. Cholesterol-lowering drugs
In selecting a lipid-lowering drugs, consider the ability of these drugs in lowering bad cholesterol, triglycerides and increase good cholesterol. Consider also the side effects of drug and the price factor to remember this fat-lowering drugs usually need to be used in a long time.

8. Stop smoking
Smokers usually have a good cholesterol level is very small.
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