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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Fourteen Things That It Took Me Over 50 Years To Learn !!!!

1.Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

2.If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."

3.You should not confuse your career with your life.

4.People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

5.Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

6.A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)

7.There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

8.The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.

9.You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

10.There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.

11.Never lick a steak knife.

12.Your friends love you anyway.

13.You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

14.The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above-average drivers.


Thought for the day: Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

BeLiEve iT or NoT

Believe It Or Not!

#A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
#A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
#A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
#A snail can sleep for three years.
#All Polar bears are left-handed.
#American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
#Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
#An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
#Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
#Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
#Butterflies taste with their feet.
#Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
#Cat's urine glows under a black light.
#China has more English speakers than the United States.
#Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
#Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
#Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
#Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
#February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
#Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
#I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
#If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
#If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
#If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
#If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
#If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
#In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
#In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
#It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
#Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
#Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
#Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
#More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
#No word in the English language rhymes with month.
#Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
#On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
#One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers, they saw it as competition.
#Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
#Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
#Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
#Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
#Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
#Starfish haven't got brains.
#Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
#The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
#The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.
#The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
#The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
#The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
#The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
#The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
#The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
#The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
#The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
#The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
#The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
#The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
#The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
#The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
#The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
#There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
#TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
#Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
#You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
#You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
#You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

The Dark Side of Sleeping Pills

Long-term studies on the effects of sleeping pills don’t show encouraging results. In fact the one major conclusion from all studies is that insomniacs are better off without sleeping pills than they are with them. One study alone that surveyed over 2,000,000 people, found that chronic use of sleeping pills are as deadly as cigarette smoking.


The case against sleeping pills is compelling. The following information points out some important reasons why sleeping pills should not be considered.
Those who use sleeping pills have significantly higher mortality rates than those who do not
Sleeping pills (& even the newer generations) do little or nothing to improve chronic insomnia and cause long-term chemical dependency


Sleeping pills reduce brain cell activity during the day, affecting short-term memory as well as causing a hangover effect
Sleeping pills accentuate the GABA neurotransmitter, which keeps the nerve cells in the lung tissue from firing. This is why an overdose of sleeping pills will cause asphyxiation and over 1000 overdose related deaths each year
GABA actuation is also responsible for impaired physical ability. Each year, thousands of traffic deaths, accidents and falls (especially in the elderly) are attributed to sleeping pills


Sleep Apnea Patients should never take sleeping pills. Sleeping pills increase the pauses and length of pause in breathing. Someone with sleep apnea could suffer brain or ocular damage from the lack of oxygen or even death
Anyone over the age of 40 should be cautioned against sleeping pills, and anyone over the age of 65 should never take sleeping pills. Studies show that almost all people over 40 have some symptoms of sleep apnea, and anyone over 65 would be clinically diagnosed with sleep apnea
Sleeping pills create a hypnotic dependency similar to alcohol and lower inhibitions and fear of pain or consequences. This is one reason why sleeping pills contribute to accidents and why chronic sleeping pill users are less likely to worry or take care of themselves


Sleeping pills are highly addictive. Sleeping pills are similar to barbiturates and are extremely difficult to stop using
Although sleeping pills do not improve daytime functioning, people still prefer taking them because of the barbiturate feel-good effect they produce. As with many addictive drugs, they may not be helpful, but we feel good when we take them
Side Effects of Sleeping Pills


Unfortunately sleeping pills do the same things to us during the day that we want them to at night. That is they impair our consciousness, judgment, memory and intelligence. Ironically, insomniacs think sleeping pills make them sleep better, when they actually make them feel worse. This is because of the misperception that sleeping pills are supposed to help us sleep better. In comparison studies against placebo, patients receiving placebo did better than those with sleeping pills, although those with the sleeping pills erroneously believed they were doing better.

Perhaps the most shocking condemnation of sleeping pills is that they do not improve daytime function or performance. Since the definition for ‘Quality of Sleep’ is that amount which allows us to operate at optimum levels of energy, sleeping pills are not the answer.

Pharmaceutical companies concentrate on reducing the side effects of sleeping pills, not on improving daytime performance. Those who take these pills however, are misguided into believing they will receive a daytime benefit. The chance is very high that they will end up becoming chronic sleeping pill users. New commercials for sleeping pills now caution that, “Almost everyone has some risk of becoming dependant on sleep medication.”

While defending the use of sleeping pills, pharmaceutical companies counter that most of the people who use sleeping pills take them for a few weeks or less. What they don’t say, however is that the vast majority of all prescriptions are repeat prescriptions to chronic insomniacs.

Tips to help you to control your high blood pressure

Make sure your blood pressure is under 140/90 mm Hg

If your systolic pressure is over 140, ask your doctor what you can do to lower it.
If you have diabetes it is even more important to maintain your blood pressure at an acceptable level, which reduces long-term complications associated with this disease process. You should be receiving regular monitoring and advice from you GP/diabetic practitioner.

1. Aim for a healthy weight
Ideally try not to gain extra weight in the first place, if you have then try to lose the weight slowly, at about half to one pound a week until you reach a healthy target. This can be easier to achieve if you include exercise as well to burn off those unwanted calories and tone your body as you lose the weight.
If you are overweight or obese, carrying this extra weight increases your risk of high blood pressure because the heart has to work very hard to keep blood circulating efficiently.

2. Exercise - be active every day!
Even the simplest exercise will help; you can walk, dance, use the stairs, play sports, or do any activity you enjoy. For instance: get off the bus one or two stops early; park your car at the other end of the car park and walk; walk or cycle to the corner shop.
Being physically active is one of the most important steps you can take to prevent or control high blood pressure and will help you keep your weight down. It will also help to reduce your risk of heart disease and enhances overall wellbeing. All you need to do is 30 minutes of moderate level activity preferably every day of the week - you can even divide the 30 minutes into shorter 10 minute periods if you are not used to regular exercise.
Exercise does not have to be strenuous; you should start slowly and build up the amount of exercise that you do.
It is not advisable, however, to lift heavy weights or to take on certain strenuous activities if exercise has not been gradually and appropriately introduced. If you are worried that your health could be adversely affected by exercise, i.e. you have a heart complaint; make sure that you are reviewed by your GP.

3. Look at what you are eating. Does it contain a lot of sodium?
It is suggested that no more than 2.4 grams of sodium should be consumed per day. Read the labels and be aware of hidden sodium, which is known to increase blood pressure. Try not to add salt to your meals.

4. Eat more fruit and vegetables
Eating more fiber should help to stop you feeling hungry and less likely to pick at sweets, chocolate and crisps etc.

5. Stop/reduce smoking - smoking causes the blood to thicken
Not only does this make you more at risk of developing a dangerous blood clot but it makes the heart work harder in order to 'push' the blood around the system to provide oxygen and other important components.

6. Reduce your stress levels
Take time out for yourself each day to do something you like to do without feeling guilty. If there are any problems worrying you try talking them over with a friend, or someone you trust, this is often all that is needed to make you feel better. Also remember if you wear a smile, it will rub off on others. Try it and see!

7. Watch your alcohol intake
Keep the amount of units you consume to a minimum, as your body works hard to flush it out of your system and this will have an effect on your blood pressure (plus it will increase your weight).
It is recommended that men limit themselves to no more than one or two drinks per day and women should have no more than one drink per day.

8. Take medication correctly
If you have been prescribed medication to control your blood pressure, make sure that you take the medication correctly for your blood pressure to be monitored effectively.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Tips to help you to control your high blood pressure

Make sure your blood pressure is under 140/90 mm Hg

If your systolic pressure is over 140, ask your doctor what you can do to lower it.
If you have diabetes it is even more important to maintain your blood pressure at an acceptable level, which reduces long-term complications associated with this disease process. You should be receiving regular monitoring and advice from you GP/diabetic practitioner.


1. Aim for a healthy weight

Ideally try not to gain extra weight in the first place, if you have then try to lose the weight slowly, at about half to one pound a week until you reach a healthy target. This can be easier to achieve if you include exercise as well to burn off those unwanted calories and tone your body as you lose the weight.

If you are overweight or obese, carrying this extra weight increases your risk of high blood pressure because the heart has to work very hard to keep blood circulating efficiently.

2. Exercise - be active every day!

Even the simplest exercise will help; you can walk, dance, use the stairs, play sports, or do any activity you enjoy. For instance: get off the bus one or two stops early; park your car at the other end of the car park and walk; walk or cycle to the corner shop.

Being physically active is one of the most important steps you can take to prevent or control high blood pressure and will help you keep your weight down. It will also help to reduce your risk of heart disease and enhances overall wellbeing. All you need to do is 30 minutes of moderate level activity preferably every day of the week - you can even divide the 30 minutes into shorter 10 minute periods if you are not used to regular exercise.

Exercise does not have to be strenuous; you should start slowly and build up the amount of exercise that you do.

It is not advisable, however, to lift heavy weights or to take on certain strenuous activities if exercise has not been gradually and appropriately introduced. If you are worried that your health could be adversely affected by exercise, i.e. you have a heart complaint; make sure that you are reviewed by your GP.

3. Look at what you are eating. Does it contain a lot of sodium?

It is suggested that no more than 2.4 grams of sodium should be consumed per day. Read the labels and be aware of hidden sodium, which is known to increase blood pressure. Try not to add salt to your meals.

4. Eat more fruit and vegetables

Eating more fiber should help to stop you feeling hungry and less likely to pick at sweets, chocolate and crisps etc.

5. Stop/reduce smoking - smoking causes the blood to thicken

Not only does this make you more at risk of developing a dangerous blood clot but it makes the heart work harder in order to 'push' the blood around the system to provide oxygen and other important components.

6. Reduce your stress levels

Take time out for yourself each day to do something you like to do without feeling guilty. If there are any problems worrying you try talking them over with a friend, or someone you trust, this is often all that is needed to make you feel better. Also remember if you wear a smile, it will rub off on others. Try it and see!

7. Watch your alcohol intake

Keep the amount of units you consume to a minimum, as your body works hard to flush it out of your system and this will have an effect on your blood pressure (plus it will increase your weight).

It is recommended that men limit themselves to no more than one or two drinks per day and women should have no more than one drink per day.

8. Take medication correctly

If you have been prescribed medication to control your blood pressure, make sure that you take the medication correctly for your blood pressure to be monitored effectively.

Top 10 Essential Health Informative Tips

1. Move More

Make it a daily challenge to find ways to move your body. Climb stairs if given a choice between that and escalators or elevators.Walk your dog; chase your kids; toss balls with friends, mow the lawn. Anything that moves your limbs is not only a fitness tool, it's a stress buster. Think 'move' in small increments of time. It doesn't have to be an hour in the gym or a 45-minute aerobic dance class or tai chi or kickboxing. But that's great when you're up to it. Meanwhile, move more.

2. Cut Fat

Avoid the obvious such as fried foods, burgers and other fatty meats (i.e. pork, bacon, ham, salami, ribs and sausage). Dairy products such as cheese, cottage cheese, milk and cream should be eaten in low fat versions. Nuts and sandwich meats, mayonnaise, margarine, butter and sauces should be eaten in limited amounts. Most are available in lower fat versions such as substitute butter, fat free cheeses and mayonnaise.

3. Quit Smoking

The jury is definitely in on this verdict. Ever since 1960 when the Surgeon General announced that smoking was harmful to your health, Americans have been reducing their use of tobacco products that kill. Just recently, we've seen a surge in smoking in adolescents and teens. Could it be the Hollywood influence? It seems the stars in every movie of late smoke cigarettes. Beware. Warn your children of the false romance or 'tough guy' stance of Hollywood smokers. Also, the trend to quit smoking has been slow to follow in France.

4. Drink Plenty of Water

Drinking water is still one of the healthiest things we can do. Water is essential for virtually every function of the body. The average person needs eight 8-ounce glasses a day. Drink with meals, as well as before, during and after exercise. During exercise, cold water is more readily absorbed.

5. Reduce Stress

Easier said than done, stress busters come in many forms. Some techniques recommended by experts are to think positive thoughts. Spend 30 minutes a day doing something you like. (i.e., Soak in a hot tub; walk on the beach or in a park; read a good book; visit a friend; play with your dog; listen to soothing music; watch a funny movie. Get a massage, a facial or a haircut. Meditate. Count to ten before losing your temper or getting aggravated. Avoid difficult people when possible.

6. Avoid Excessive Alcohol Consumption

While recent studies show a glass of wine or one drink a day can help protect against heart disease, drinking more than that can cause health problems such as liver and kidney disease as well as cancer.

7. Keep a Positive Mental Outlook

There's a definitive connection between living well and healthfully and having a cheerful outlook on life. Remember, you can't be unhappy when you're smiling!

8. Protect Yourself from Pollution

If you can't live in a smog-free environment, at least avoid smoke-filled rooms, high traffic areas, breathing in highway fumes and exercising near busy thoroughfares. Exercise outside when the smog rating is low. Exercise indoors in air conditioning when the air quality is good. Plant lots of shrubbery in your yard. It's a good pollution and dirt deterrent.

9. Floss Your Teeth

Recent studies make a direct connection between longevity and teeth flossing. Nobody knows exactly why. Perhaps it's because people who floss tend to be more health conscious than people who don't?

10. Choose Your Parents Well

The link between genetics and health is a powerful one. But just because one or both of your parents died young in ill health doesn't mean you cannot counteract the genetic pool handed you. Follow these ten basic tips for healthy living and you can better control your own destiny.

Dangers Of Energy Drinks

The long-term effects of energy drink ingredients are that you may be addicted of this drink & addiction of any thing is harmful.

In these types of drinks it has not been mention any where that whether any medical conditions or related prescription medication will react with them.

Energy drinks must be taken properly because the ingredients used in it are powerful enough to affect your system & body.

Ingredients used in these drinks can affect your heartbeat and blood pressure. This arouses awareness from medical specialists who have conducted studies about the effects of energy drinks.

However it doesn't means that harmful effects of these types of drinks can't be prevented. The problem is only how to drink & in what amount that can be easily digested.

Don't ever try to make energy drink an alternative for the lost water in the system while doing exercise because the caffeine in the energy drink can leave a dehydrating effect on your body. You should prefer to have something natural during exercises.

The most important point is that you should never combine energy drinks with alcohol because energy drink is a stimulant while alcohol is a depressant. You can imagine yourself the contrasting effect that this combination can bring in your system.