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Soy is nutritious and contains lots of good things. Unfortunately, when you eat or drink a lot of soy stuff, you’re also getting substantial quantities of estrogens.

Estrogens are female hormones. If you’re a woman, you’re flooding your system with a substance it can’t handle in surplus. If you’re a man, you’re suppressing your masculinity and stimulating your “female side,” physically and mentally.

In fetal development, the default is being female. All humans (even in old age) tend toward femininity. The main thing that keeps men from diverging into the female pattern is testosterone, and testosterone is suppressed by an excess of estrogen.

If you’re a grownup, you’re already developed, and you’re able to fight off some of the damaging effects of soy. Babies aren’t so fortunate. Research is now showing that when you feed your baby soy formula, you’re giving him or her the equivalent of five birth control pills a day. A baby’s endocrine system just can’t cope with that kind of massive assault, so some damage is inevitable. At the extreme, the damage can be fatal.

Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality. That’s why most of the medical (not socio-spiritual) blame for today’s rise in homosexuality must fall upon the rise in soy formula and other soy products. (Most babies are bottle-fed during some part of their infancy, and one-fourth of them are getting soy milk!) Homosexuals often argue that their homosexuality is inborn because “I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t homosexual.” No, homosexuality is always deviant. But now many of them can truthfully say that they can’t remember a time when excess estrogen wasn’t influencing them.

Doctors used to hope soy would reduce hot flashes, prevent cancer and heart disease, and save millions in the Third World from starvation. That was before they knew much about long-term soy use. Now we know it’s a classic example of a cure that’s worse than the disease. For example, if your baby gets colic from cow’s milk, do you switch him to soy milk? Don’t even think about it. His phytoestrogen level will jump to 20 times normal. If he is a she, brace yourself for watching her reach menarche as young as seven, robbing her of years of childhood. If he is a boy, it’s far worse: He may not reach puberty till much later than normal.

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Are you tired of not being able to reach things? Do you wish to become taller? If so, you’re not alone. Fortunately, there are several legitimate ways to grow taller.

One of the most important things you can do in how to become tall is to treat your body well when it is still growing.

It is crucial that you get lots of exercise and maintain a good diet during this time. As you know, it is very important to consume enough vitamins and minerals. These aids in the growth process, as well as being important for other kinds of health. Depriving yourself of calcium, protein, amino acids, calories, and other nutrients can actually stunt your growth and lead to other health problems.

Additionally, failing to exercise can lead to being out of shape and overweight, which puts additional strain on your bones.

Exercising also releases height growth hormones, which aid in lengthening the cartilage growth plates on the ends of your longer bones. Jogging, swimming, yoga are all considered to be effective grow taller excercises. These simple excercises will not only make you tall but also increase your strength.

It is also very important to have enough sleep because when you sleep HGH is release into your bloodstream. This vital hormone regulates your body’s growth, show it is important to get enough rest for it to do its job. It is enough to sleep about 8 hours per day.

Don’t be fooled by companies that boast about exercises that will stretch your bones after you’ve hit puberty, though. Once your bones stop growing, nothing will make them grow again.

Of coarse, bad habits can also prevent you to grow, such as smoking, drinking to much beer and soft drinks, drug addiction, etc.

If you’re an adult and wish to learn how to become tall, there are many methods for you as well. Exercising and keeping your bones as healthy as possible may not lengthen your bones, but it will stop them from weakening and shrinking as you reach old age. In the meantime, regular exercise also keeps you trim and fit. Being slender, combined with height flattering clothing, can result in a convincing illusion that you’re much taller than you really are.

How does this work? Wearing solid colors blurs your waistline. Additionally, pinstripes produce a slimming effect and make you look taller. In contrast, wearing dark or patterned pants with a white shirt draws attention to your middle and makes you look shorter. Wearing bigger shoes, such as boots or clogs, can also help in making you look taller, as they make your feet look bigger. Even your hair has an effect on how tall you look-short hair makes your neck look longer, while longer hair makes your neck look shorter.

Vomiting , known medically as emesis and informally as throwing up and a number of other terms, is the forceful expulsion of the contents of one’s stomach through the mouth and sometimes the nose. Vomiting may result from many causes, ranging from gastritis or poisoning to brain tumors, or elevated intracranial pressure. The feeling that one is about to vomit is called nausea, which usually precedes, but does not always lead to, vomiting. Antiemetics are sometimes necessary to suppress nausea and vomiting, and, in severe cases where dehydration develops, intravenous fluid may need to be administered to replace fluid volume.

Vomiting is different from regurgitation, although the two terms are often used interchangeably. Regurgitation is the return of undigested food back up the esophagus to the mouth, without the force and displeasure associated with vomiting. The causes of vomiting and regurgitation are generally different.

Vomiting and nausea are not illnesses but common complaints that go along with many diseases and conditions. The problems with nausea and vomiting are related to the cause.

Nausea and vomiting from motion sickness or seasickness or cancer therapy can result in loss of water and electrolytes, which can lead to dehydration. Vomiting and nausea known as morning sickness may occur during pregnancy. Nausea, the unmistakable, unpleasant, queasy feeling in your throat or stomach that may result in vomiting, is a message sent by your brain. It tells you that something isn’t right.

Vomiting is emptying your stomach by a strong gag and retch that leads to throwing up. The stomach’s contents are forcefully expelled through the mouth. Vomiting can come in waves as the natural movement (known as peristalses) is reversed, and involuntary contractions in the walls of your stomach and esophagus force the stomach contents out. Sometimes coughing or spitting up mucus from the lungs is confused with vomiting. You can only vomit from the stomach.

Retching is the movement of the stomach and esophagus without vomiting. Sometimes this is called the dry heaves. Most people experiencing the dry heaves would rather just throw up and “get it over with.”.

Bright red in the vomit suggests bleeding from the esophagus. Dark red vomit with liver-like clots suggests profuse bleeding in the stomach, such as from a perforated ulcer. Coffee ground-like vomit suggests less severe bleeding in the stomach, because the gastric acid has had time to change the composition of the blood. Yellow vomit suggests bile. This indicates that the pyloric valve is open and bile is flowing into the stomach from the duodenum. (This is more common in older people.)

Most of the time, nausea and vomiting go away on their own as quickly as they started and can be managed at home. Treatment for nausea and vomiting usually involves medicine to decrease the nausea and fluid replacement for dehydration.

Everyone of us experiences stress because it is a part of life. Some stress is necessary for an individual to function as normal being. Stress maybe pleasant or unpleasant. The term is commonly used to describe a feeling or emotion although actually it is not an emotion. It is defined as the process by which the individual responds to environmental and psychological events that are perceived as threatening or challenging. Some cause of stress such as physical exercise, various emotion states, and creative activity are usually considered healthy. If the situation or experience is a positive one for you, you do not really consider it as stress. It is the prolonged and unwanted stress that can have undesirable effects on the individual’s mental and physical health and therefore are considered unhealthy.

In human body, when danger is perceived, the pituitary gland releases a hormone called adrenocorticotropic hormone. This in turn triggers the adrenal glands to release epinephrine or adrenaline and various hormones that speed up the heart rate, raise blood pressure, and increase muscle tension. The same effects are observed in occupational or emotional stress.

Under certain circumstances, stress is valuable, as for instance, in sports and making speeches. The stress response develops one’s courage, increase alertness, improves sight, strengthens muscles, and reduces reaction time.

On the other hand, once pressure becomes unbearable, several negative reactions may result such as decline in work performance like inability to meet deadlines or submitting poor quality work, and work performance gaps. Once a person under stress, he gets highly emotional and easily irritated and anxious over things no matter how trifling they may be.

How can you cope with stress? Try to involve reappraisal which is looking in both good and bad. Maintain a sense of humor and perceive the lighter part of stressful situations. Seek information and get better understanding of the stressful conditions. Make it a habit to sleep well, do things you enjoy, develop hobbies and take a break in able for you to cope with stress.

Mobile phones are once considered a threat to health but a study showed a potential benefit from radiation.

Florida scientists discovered that phone radiation actually protected the memories of mice programmed to get Alzheimer’s disease.

They used 96 mice in the experiment, most of which had been genetically altered to build up beta-amyloid plates in their brains, which are a sign of Alzheimer’s disease, as they aged while others were untouched.

All the mice were subjected to an electro-magnetic field generated by a standard phone for two one-hour intervals per day for seven to nine months.

The researchers, led by Professor Gary Arendash, said that if the phone exposure was started when the Alzheimer’s mice were young adults, before signs of memory impairment were apparent, their cognitive ability was protected.

Wherein, they found out that the Alzheimer’s mice performed as well on tests gauging memory and thinking skills as aged mice without dementia.

The memory benefits of phone exposure took months to show up, suggesting that a similar effect in humans would take years.

They say mobile phones emit “high frequency” electro-magnetic waves that are very different because they can have beneficial effects on brain function, such as increasing brain cell activity.

They did carry out autopsies on the mice and found no evidence of abnormal growth in the brains of the Alzheimer’s and also other major organs were seen to be normal.

Rebecca Wood, chief executive of the Alzheimer’s Research Trust, said: “This research has been carried out in mice that mimic some of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s in people, so we don’t know if any similar effects will be seen in humans.

But, the researchers conclude that electro-magnetic field exposure could be an effective, non-invasive and drug-free way to prevent and treat Alzheimer’s disease in humans.

They are currently testing whether different sets of frequencies and strengths might produce a more rapid and greater cognitive benefit.

The study by the Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centre is published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.

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Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline PLC advised Canadian doctors not to use a small batch of swine flu vaccines after reports of allergic reactions and severe-side effects among recipients.

Company spokeswoman Gwenan White advised the medical staff in Canada last week not to use a small batch of vaccine about 170,000 doses while they are investigating the reports of allergic reactions using the vaccines.

GlaxoSmithKline is one of the world’s largest drug makers by revenue.

I am always angry with my friends Rovie, Lyndon and Roxie because they are always late on our scheduled meeting time. They always tell us that they overslept. So I decided to make a research and write an article about oversleeping.

First, how do we define oversleeping? How can we say that we sleep enough or we oversleep? What are the factors of oversleeping? Is oversleeping has an effect on our health condition? And lastly, how can we stop oversleeping?

Oversleeping or Hypersomia as defined in medical dictionary as a sleep disorders, excessive or prolonged sleep which may be associated with difficulty in awakening, staying awake or sleep drunkenness. It is also describe as sleep of excessive depth or abnormal duration usually cause by psychological factors rather that physical factors.

According to some researches, hypersomia or oversleeping is caused by so many factors. They say lack of motivation; depression and failure of the body’s wake-up mechanism are factors why we oversleep.

Oversleeping may lead to medical problems such as:
1. Diabetes. Like people who slept less than five hours per night, people who slept more that nine hours each night had a greater risk of having diabetes than people who slept seven hours per night.
2. Headache. Sleeping too much can also cause headache. People who are disturbed in their sleep during night time and oversleep during daytime may lead to headache.
3. Back pain. Before, doctors will advice you to take a rest when you are experiencing back pain. But today, they recommend that activity should be done when you are experiencing back pain and not sleeping longer.
4. Obesity. A recent study showed that people who slept for more than 8 hours every night were 21% more likely to become obese over a six-year period.
5. Heart Disease. According to the Nurses’ Health Study, women who slept 9 to 11 hours per night were 38% more likely to have coronary heart disease than those women who slept eight hours.
6. Death. A lot of study showed that people who sleep more 9 hours a night have significantly higher death rates that people sleeping seven to eight hours a night.

Now that we know what are the risks that oversleeping can bring to us. How can we prevent this oversleeping?

1. Set a scheduled time of your sleep
2. Motivate yourself
3. Maintain a positive energy
4. Always put in your mind that if you oversleep you are missing out on life.

Remember that sleeping is important to us. But if you over sleep it may cause you trouble in the future.

The United States of America has raised a national emergency because of the unbelievable increase of cases. The Philippines made sure and kept eyes against a second wave of the virus spread. The whole world trembled for the pandemic and vaccines are scattered around the Globe. It’s been months the virus been quiet in the news, now it strikes back!

Here’s a swine flu broadsheet advocacy by the Department of Health

Influenza A (H1N1)
Influenza A (H1N1) is a new virus causing illness in people. This new virus was first detected in people in April 2009 in the United States. This virus is spreading from person-to–person, probably in much the same way that the regular seasonal influenza viruses spread.
Influenza A (H1N1) is fatal to humans
Signs and symptoms in humans
- Similar to the symptoms of regular flu such as
• Fever
• Headache
• Fatigue
• Lack of appetite
• Runny nose
• Sore throat
• Cough

- Vomiting or nausea
- Diarrhea
Mode of Transmission
- Exposure to droplets from the cough and sneeze of the infected person
Influenza A (H1N1) is not transmitted by eating thoroughly cooked pork.
Prevention

- Cover your nose and mouth when coughing and sneezing
- Always wash hands with soap and water
- Use alcohol- based hand sanitizers
- Avoid close contact with sick people
- Increase your body’s resistance
- Have at least 8 hours of sleep
- Be physically active
- Manage your stress
- Drink plenty of fluids
- Eat nutritious food

Are we gonna buy flu masks in our favorite drugstores?
Hold your horses, guys but be sentry-eyed.

(Photo taken from Yahoo! News)