Tanda -Tanda Tulang Mulai Keropos

Berita Uptodate - Ingin mengetahui kesehatan tulang tanpa repot? Cek saja kerutan di wajah Anda. Makin banyak kerutannya, makin buruk kepadatan tulang Anda. Hal ini terutama berlaku untuk perempuan menopause.

Tulang dan kulit dibangun oleh kelompok protein yang disebut kolagen. Pertambahan usia akan mengurangi jumlah kolagen, sehingga kekenyalan kulit ikut berkurang dan kulit menjadi keriput. Penurunan jumlah kolagen ini juga akan berpengaruh pada tulang.

Dalam penelitiannya, Dr.Lubna Pal, ahli endokrin reproduktif dari Yale School of Medicine melakukan penelitian pada 114 wanita berusia akhir 40-an dan awal 50-an tahun. Para wanita tersebut diketahui mengalami menstruasi terakhirnya dalam 3 tahun terakhir dan tidak mengonsumsi obat hormon. Para wanita ini juga tidak melakukan prosedur kosmetik untuk pengencangan kulit.

Selain meminta para responden menilai sendiri kadar keriput di wajah mereka, terutama bagian wajah dan leher, para peneliti juga mengukur kekenyalan kulit dengan alat yang disebut durometer. Para peneliti juga mengukur kepadatan tulang dengan X-ray.

Hasilnya, wanita yang memiliki keriput paling banyak ternyata memiliki kepadatan tulang paling jelek dibanding dengan wanita yang kulitnya masih kenyal. Pal menyebutkan masih diperlukan studi lebih mendalam untuk memastikan apakah kelak penentuan risiko osteoporosis bisa dilakukan dengan melihat kondisi kulit.

70% Kualitas Air Kali Jakarta Tercemar Limbah Domestik

JAKARTA, Berita Uptodate — Sebesar 70 persen kualitas air kali di Jakarta tercemar limbah domestik dan limbah rumah tangga. Hal ini disampaikan Kepala Subbidang Pelestarian dan Pemulihan Badan Pengelolaan Lingkungan Hidup Daerah (BPLHD) Provinsi DKI Jakarta, Prihatma, di sela kegiatan penelitian air Kali Pesanggrahan, kawasan Konservasi Bang Idin Villa Delima Cinere, Jakarta Selatan, Sabtu (11/6/2011).

"Limbah sungai mayoritas limbah domestik rumah tangga sekitar 70 persen," ujarnya

Prihatma mengatakan, dari 13 kali yang ada di Jakarta, pada tahun 2009 ada 66 titik pantau. Sementara itu, di tahun 2010 berkurang menjadi 45 titik pantau. "Mengurangi titik pantau untuk meningkatkan frekuensi pemantauan, agar lebih fokus," lanjutnya.

Dikatakan Prihatma, pemantauan ini dilakukan oleh BPLHD secara rutin setiap tahun. Caranya adalah dengan mengambil sampel air sungai, dianalisa di laboratorium, dan hasilnya diolah untuk didapat data kualitas air sungai. "Hasilnya dapat dijadikan sebagai perbandingan. Apakah terjadi perubahan atau tidak?," kata Prihatma.

Ia menjelaskan, jika hasil penelitian menunjukkan penurunan kualitas, pengendalian kualitas air sungai akan lebih diperketat. Terutama dalam pengawasan industri dan program sanitasi.

Pada hari ini, BPLHD melakukan penelitian pengukuran kualitas air Kali Pesangrahan yang melintasi kawasan Cinere di Sanggar Buana, Villa Delima, Cinere, Jakarta Selatan. Hasil dari pengukuran kualitas air Kali Pesangrahan yang menggunakan bioindikator dan fisika kimia sederhana ini akan diserahkan kepada Gubernur DKI pada 25 Juni 2011.

The Man Who Proves Doctors Wrong

When doctors said there was nothing more they could do for Emilie Gossiaux, her boyfriend was determined to prove them wrong. A month before the 21-year-old art student had been hit by an 18-wheel semi-trailer while she was riding her bike in Brooklyn, New York.

She was rushed to Bellvue Hospital with multiple fractures to her head, pelvis and left leg. She had suffered a stroke and her heart had stopped for a minute on the operating table.

Miss Gossiaux's chances of survival were 'grim'. Her mother Susan had been told by a nurse that her daughter was gone, and was asked about organ donations the second day after the accident.

Five weeks later and even when she became stable doctors said Miss Gossiaux was not cognitively ready for rehabilitative treatment, and should be transferred to a long-term nursing home in her native New Orleans instead.

Her boyfriend of a year, Alan Lundgard, 21, was not going to give her up without a fight however.

The pair had met in 2006 in Colorado at a summer camp for high school students. They met again a year later as freshman art students at Cooper Union School of Art and got together soon after.

After the accident Mr Lundgard sat at his girlfriend's bedside night after night trying desperately to make her respond.

She had been hearing impaired since she was a child and reliant upon hearing aids. Mrs Gossiaux and her husband Eric and Mr Lundgard also feared the accident had left her blind.

Aware of this Mr Lundgard had been researching the story of deaf and blind author Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan. To communicate, Ms Sullivan would use her finger to spell words on Ms Keller’s palm.

Mr Lundgard decided one night to give the technique a go. He spelled out 'I love you' letter by letter on Miss Gossiaux's palm. Remarkably It worked and she immediately responded with: 'Oh, you love me? That’s so sweet. Thank you.'

'It wasn’t even a conversation,' Mr. Lundgard told the New York Times. 'It was just that one exchange which alerted me to the fact that she was not damaged to such an extent that it was beyond her ability to recover.'

Thrilled he knew that he could now prove to doctors Miss Gossiaux was aware of the world around her. He continued to spell out words and then whole sentences on her palm.

Miss Gossiaux had not been able to wear her cochlear implant or the hearing aid she wore in her other ear due to her injuries since the accident. But when she finally allowed her hearing aid to be put back in it was like a light switch had been turned on. Miss Gossiaux was suddenly back but not without a loss.

Her memory and cognitive function were completely intact, but the trauma had left her blind.

'When she came to, it was like a party in the hospital,' said Mr Lundgard. 'All the nurses came in; they were, like, dancing and screaming.'

She was transferred to the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in New York where she is still undergoing therapy today.

And there is a small chance she will get her sight back.

'They told me that there was a very small chance, but if there’s a chance, then I’ll believe in it,' Miss Gossiaux told the Times before adding '...and I’ll have hope in it.'

Today her outlook on recovery is that she is simply happy to be living. Despite her loss of vision Miss Gossiaux is certain she will complete her final year at The Cooper Union School of Art.

Mr Lundgard meanwhile is busy raising money and asking people and companies for donations towards his girfriend's $200,000 medical fees. So far the Emilie Gossiaux fund has raised just over $42,000.

Second Hand Smoking Rub Out 600,000 Lives Every Year

By BOB Goswami

WORLD NEWS - Smoking kills, passive smoking as well. A recent study shows an alarming report that the passive smoking is killing, if not more than first hand smoke. The global study conducted by World Health Organization (WHO) says passive smoking kills about 600,000 deaths every year.

The most vulnerable section of passive smoking are children who are often exposed to smoke at home. The WHO report says one-third of children are poisoned by passive smoking every year.

The study is conducted in 192 countries and found that children are often victimized of passive smoking. They are often in a high risk zone of sudden infant death syndrome, pneumonia and asthma. For elders passive smoking causes heart disease, respiratory illness and lung cancer.

"This helps us understand the real toll of tobacco," said Armando Peruga, of the WHO's Tobacco-Free Initiative, who led the study.

Smoking related deaths are mainly occurred in South East Asia and Africa and about 165,000 children are died of smoking-related respiratory infections. It is reported that children are most exposed group, especially in their own houses.

The health risks of passive smoking are a matter of scientific consensus, and affects on the immune system of children. The combination of infectious disease and smoking can be lethal for children. Moreover, second smoke causes a small but measurable cancer risk to nonsmokers.

The passive smoking increases risk of respiratory conditions in children. The children who are exposed more to passive smoking are more vulnerable to different respiratory diseases than children who grow up in smoke-free homes.

The study found that in the world 40% of children, 33% of non-smoking men and 35% non-smoking women are sufferer to second hand smoke. It is estimated the passive smoking snatches lives of 379,000 from heart disease, 165,000 from lower respiratory infections, 36,900 from asthma and 21,400 from lung cancer.

According to the study, the highest number of people exposed to passive smoking are in the continents of Asia and Europe and the lowest rates of exposure are in the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean and Africa.

Makanan Yang Membuat Perut Buncit

Makanan Yang Membuat Perut Buncit. Anda mungkin memiliki kerinduan bisa makan apapun makanan yang Anda inginkan tanpa harus takut menimbun lemak, terutamadi bagian perut. Tentu saja ada jalannya untuk mencapai keinginan itu, yakni mengonsumsi makanan yang sehat dan tentu saja bergizi.

Nah, sekarang yang perlu Anda ketahui ialah makanan yang dapat mengakibatkan timbunan lemak berlebihan di tubuh Anda yang sebetulnya dapat dihindari mulai sekarang. Dengan begitu Anda tetap bisa makan dengan nikmat tanpa takut kelebihan berat badan. Modernmom menyebut beberapa makanan itu.

Makanan cepat saji

Makanan yang kelebihan kalori dapat membuat Anda sulit melepaskan diri dari pakaian yang super besar. Laporan pada 2005 yang diterbitkan University of Minnesota School Of Public Health, menyebutkan konsumsi fast food dapat menyebabkan epidemi obesitas. Ini mungkin disebabkan oleh makanan dengan ukuran porsi besar, yang mengandung jumlah kalori yang berlebihan.

Beban glisemik dalam makanan berlemak, asin, dan manis juga dapat meningkatkan resiko terkena diabetes. Tapi, ini bukan berarti Anda tidak boleh sesekali mengonsumsi makanan cepat saji. Hanya saja yang perlu diingat, pastikan tetap memilih makanan yang sehat, rendah kalori, dan rendah lemak, seperti salad dan daging panggang.

Pemanis buatan

Jika Anda mencoba mengurangi lemak di badan, Anda sebaiknya mengurangi konsumsi minuman yang dibuat dengan pemanis buatan. Sebab, minuman jenis ini dapat merusak diet Anda. Sebuah studi 2004 Purdue University menunjukkan bahwa pemanis buatan dapat menyebabkan tubuh kehilangan kemampuannya untuk mengukur asupan kalori. Para peneliti menyatakan bahwa penggunaan pemanis buatan bisa merusak hubungan antara rasa manis dan konsumsi kalori.

Makanan berlemak

Meskipun tubuh Anda membutuhkan lemak untuk tetap sehat, terlalu banyak lemak tidak bagus buat berat badan Anda. The US Department of Health and Human Services menyarankan untuk membatasi asupan asam lemak jenuh hingga kurang dari 10 persen dari asupan kalori harian. Jumlah lemak sebaiknya di bawah 35 persen dari asupan kalori harian. Terlalu banyak lemak dalam diet Anda mungkin sama dengan terlalu banyak kalori.

Minuman bersoda

Menurut Ilmu Kesehatan Northwestern University, orang yang kelebihan berat badan biasanya yang mengonsumsi minumam soda yang berlebihan. Bahkan, penelitian menunjukkan bahwa peminum bersoda memiliki risiko 60 persen lebih besar untuk meningkatkan berat badan daripada mereka yang minum soda pop sangat sedikit.

Bangladesh On High Alert As Anthrax Cases Spread

By BOB Goswami

BANGLADESH NEWS - The anthrax cases in Bangladesh has been spreading at an alarming rate that put health officials on their toes. It is reported that north of country has worst affected by the disease where more than 300 people are already infected.

About the 150 cattle have already infected by the diseases and indirectly transferred to human by ingesting the diseased cattle.

According to an official, this is the worst-ever outbreak in the history of country. The government has already issued order to single out the diseased cows.

From last one month official report says about 327 people have been infected with anthrax. The northern five districts have been affected by the disease. In a worst scenario it would have been spread to other two district in a short period if proper measures are not taken.

"We have issued a red alert and asked livestock officials, civil surgeons and health workers to fan out to detect sick cows and cull them immediately," the Minister for Fisheries and Livestock, Abdul Latif Biswas, said.

Around 500,000 ampules of cattle vaccine were distributed to affected area.

Anthrax is a deadly disease that spread from livestock. The virus lives in the soil and spread especially during or after the monsoon.