Health Tips

The experience of actually having a limb, when none actually exists, is known as phantom limb. Phantom limbs can be experienced from birth or after some trauma or surgery in which a limb is removed. People with phantom limbs can describe vivid sensory qualities such as heat , pain, itchiness, etc. In fact such is the sensation that people have been known to try and walk on phantoms because they feel so real.

Strange Facts about Phantom Limbs
* Phantom arms feel as though they hang at rest but move when walking.
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Emphysema is one of a group of diseases called COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease that causes progressive damage to the lungs. Of 16 million Americans with COPD, (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), 2 million have emphysema.

Each year over 100,000 Americans die of emphysema. Emphysema is the fourth largest cause of mortality in the U.S. At the present time more men than women aged between 50 and 70 years have emphysema. This pattern is changing as more women take up smoking.

Symptoms of emphysema include shortness of breath (dyspnea), wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, fatigue, headaches and sputum when coughing.
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Physicians recommend that all men “at risk” of getting prostate cancer receive an annual screening test. This is excellent advice, but just who is “at risk”? A man’s chances of getting prostate cancer increase as he gets older.

A man who has no family history of prostate cancer enters the “at risk” group when he turns 50. If a man knows that his father, uncles or brothers have had prostate cancer, then he must consider himself “at risk” once he turns 40. Both a man’s environment and a man’s behavior can increase his risk of getting prostate cancer.

Exposure to the heavy metal cadmium and enjoyment of large amounts of saturated fats (a chemical found in butter and red meat) can increase chances that a man will test positive for prostate
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Not every prostate cancer harbors the same characteristics. Some grow rapidly and quickly form metastases. Others grow so slowly that they go unrecognized for many years. These differences have made it difficult for physicians to determine when and how prostate caner can be detected with the greatest efficiency.

Currently, the American Cancer Society recommends that all men over 50 get an annual screening test for prostate cancer. The oldest screening test available to the physician is the digital rectal examination (DRE). When a man gets a DRE he permits the physician to insert a gloved finger into his rectum. In this way the physician can feel the prostate and can discover whether or not the patient’s prostate holds any abnormal growths.
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Signs and Symptoms of Parkinson’s disease
* Tremor of the hands, arms, legs, jaw, and face

* Stooped posture

* postural instability

* Impaired balance and/or coordination

* Short shuffling steps

* Rigidity or stiffness of the limbs and trunk

* Bradykinesia-slowness of body movements

* Speaking softly and rapidly
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Parkinson’s disease is a chronic progressive disease that occurs when a group of cells in the substantia nigra of the brain malfunction and die. This results in a substantial loss of a neurotransmitter called Dopamine. Dopamine transports the signals to the part of the brain that controls movement, coordination and initiation of action.

Incidence of Parkinson’s Disease?
It is estimated 6.3 million people have the disease world-wide. Around one and a half million Americans have Parkinson’s. 1 in 10 people with Parkinson’s are diagnosed before the age of 50 years. 15% before the age of 40 years. Slightly more men than women have Parkinson’s disease.
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Breast Density May Determine Cancer Risk During October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an article in an online guide to women’s health released the some of the newest research findings. An issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute had contained a report information relating to the assessment of a woman’s risk for getting breast cancer.

That widely-read publication had published findings that pointed to breast density as a risk factor that should cancer play a part in the determination of a woman’s risk for breast cancer. By the same token, the techniques that could facilitate a determination of a woman’s risk for breast cancer remained an elusive ideal. The existing equipment used to examine women’s breasts was not designed to measure breast density.
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When we put seven popular exercises under the spotlight we found the following in terms of their ability to burn the calories in a thirty minute period of time:

Circuits
In case you didn’t know circuits are a mix of skipping, press-ups, ab crunches, etc taken one after another over a fixed time period. Usually takes place in a gym and popular with men and women alike.
Calorie Burn Potential: around 300+ calories depending on intensity

Swimming
Probably the most popular form of very low/no impact exercise. Great for all the family but actually a fairly modest calorie burner for most average swimmers. (more…)

These will give you a great base with the flexibility to modify the diet to your own needs.

The majority of people feel clueless when it comes to their daily diet plan. That is one of the main reasons fad diets do so well, people need to be told how to eat. Instead of a detailed meal-to-meal plan, here are five healthy diet guidelines.

1. Drink Enough Water – Most people do not drink enough water, instead they drink way to much coffee, soda, and fake fruit juice. Adequate water intake will help ensure a healthy fat metabolism and higher energy levels.
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Open and honest sex talk has always been obscure among men. With locker room braggarts it’s no wonder that men sometimes have performance anxiety. Sure, they’ll divulge how many partners they’ve had, and a myriad of other spectacular bedroom stunts they’ve pulled off, but there is no guarantee that they’re telling the truth. Many men believe that good lovers last 20-60 minutes.

The truth is that the average man lasts 3-4 minutes once inserted. According to Kinsey’s findings 17.6% of men last less than 2 minutes and 47.6% last between 2 and 5 minutes once inserted.
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