8 Tips Untuk Kesahatan Mata

Apakah mata Anda terasa lelah dan pedih setelah bekerja seharian? Gaya hidup modern menyebabkan stres pada tubuh dan mata kita di antara yang paling menderita.

Tapi tentu tak harus seperti ini. Pelajari cara-cara mudah yang bisa Anda lakukan untuk kesehatan mata dan mata Anda akan merasakan dan terlihat lebih baik hanya dalam beberapa hari.

1. Periksa mata setiap 12 bulan
Masalah penglihatan yang tidak ditangani akan berkembang semakin parah, dan memakai lensa kontak atau kacamata yang tidak lagi cocok untuk Anda dapat menyebabkan masalah penglihatan dan sakit kepala.

2. Di musim panas, pakailah kacamata
Sinar UV dapat membuat kerusakan serius pada mata. Kacamata yang baik dapat mencegah hal ini. Ketika membeli kacamata, pastikan yang dapat memantulkan paling tidak 98% radiasi UV.

3. Makanlah nutrisi yang baik untuk Anda dan mata Anda
Studi baru-baru ini menunjukkan bahwa vitamin dan kelompok antioksidan dapat mencegah, atau paling tidak memperlambat degenerasi makular dan pertumbuhan katarak. Nutrisi yang baik bagi tubuh juga baik untuk mata.

4. Jika Anda membaca atau bekerja menggunakan komputer, pastikan cahayanya tepat
Bekerja dengan cahaya minim dapat menyebabkan kelelahan mata, tapi cahaya yang terlalu terang juga tidak baik. Arah cahaya terbaik jika bekerja menggunakan komputer adalah dari lampu meja bercahaya lembut dari arah samping. Kurangi tingkat terang (brightness) monitor. Warnanya memang jadi tak terlalu tajam, tapi mata akan jadi lebih nyaman.

5. Istirahatkan mata Anda
Hampir semua orang merasakan mata mereka jadi tidak nyaman setelah duduk seharian di depan layar komputer. Hal ini disebabkan mata berkedip 25% lebih sedikit dari biasanya, yang menyebabkan mata jadi kering. Satu hal yang bisa dilakukan adalah menutup mata Anda dan menghitung sampai 5 sebelum membukanya kembali. Hal lainnya adalah berpaling dari layar monitor dan fokus pada sebuah objek yang jauh, sesering mungkin.

6. Cari lensa kontak dengan kualitas baik
Tidak semua lensa kontak sama. Ada yang aman untuk mata Anda, dan ada juga yang beresiko merusak mata. Untuk melihat referensi tentang lensa kontak di: (http://www.1-contact-lenses-consumer-guide.com). Tahu apa yang ditawarkan industri lensa kontak modern akan membantu untuk membuat pilihan yang bijak, tidak begitu saja mengikuti apa kata dokter.

7. Jika memakai lensa kontak, rawatlah dengan baik
Lensa kontak tidaklah begitu merepotkan, tapi Anda juga tak dapat mengabaikan kebersihannya. Setiap kali akan memakai atau melepaskan lensa kontak Anda, bilaslah. Anda juga harus mengganti cairannya, ketika Anda menaruh di tempatnya waktu Anda tidur di malam hari.

8. Pakailah lensa kontak sesuai jadwal yang disarankan
Ada orang yang berbiat menghemat dengan memakai lensa kontak lebih lama daripada yang dimaksudkan. Ini bukanlah hal yang baik. Meskipun kulitas lensanya tidak akan berkurang, tumpukan protein dapat mengaburkan penglihatan Anda. Hal lain yang harus dipertimbangkan adalah, semakin lama Anda memakai lensa kontak Anda, semakin tinggi resiko mata Anda terkena infeksi.

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Lack of Sleep Could Trigger Erectile Dysfunction

 

Sleep deprivation have adverse effects on health. Besides making the body weak and sleepy, recent research reveals that lack of sleep can also lead to erectile dysfunction and incontinence or difficulty in controlling bowel movements.There are two studies that reveal the link between sleep and erection as well as incontinence.

The first study investigated the relationship between sleep apnea and erectile dysfunction. Sleep apnea is a disorder that occurs during sleep when the upper airway collapse and cause a person to stop breathing about 10 minutes.

A total of 870 men became respondents in this study. Their average age is 47 years old and have body mass index of 30.2, which is considered obese. From the results of medical tests, researchers found 63 percent had sleep apnea, and 5.6 percent had a history of diabetes, and 29 percent had a history of smoking.

After adjusting with age and health conditions, researchers found those with erectile dysfunction have twice the potential to have sleep apnea than those who do not have a problem with erectile dysfunction. “The more severe erectile dysfunction, the greater the potential to have sleep apnea,” said researchers at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.

Meanwhile, a second study involved more than 1,600 men and 2,500 women. Research conducted the research over the past five years, observing the relationship of sleeping problems with urology problems. Like incontinence, lower urinary tract symptoms needing to wake up at night to urinate (nocturia).

Researchers at the New England Research Institute in Watertown found that short sleep duration is associated with symptoms of urinary tract disease. “Incontinence and nocturia are associated with restless sleep, this disease occurs more frequently in women than men,” says the researcher, according to Healthday.

A spokesman for the American Urological Association Experts, Kevin T McVary in Washington DC said the amount of sleep time and sleep quality can clearly have an impact on various health conditions. “Included on erectile function and symptoms of urinary tract diseases,” said Kevin T McVary.

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Children Apparently Can Remember Their Memories as a Baby

Children are able to recall memories from the age of 18 months, but forget it between the ages of four and seven years old. Previously it was considered that children under the age of four do not have the cognitive ability to recall those times. The assumption that many people believed is that many adults can not remember the experience of infancy.

But researchers at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada found that children as young as four can remember their baby memories. Carole Peterson, psychology professor who conducted the study, said that his team found that children who are very young have a lot of baby memories.

“So, it is clear that previous explanations were wrong, because children have the cognitive, linguistic and memory ability to talk about things that happened in their past,” She said, according to the DailyMail.

“The infantile amnesia phenomenon is clearly a moving target in children, because when children grows from 4 to 10 years, their memories retreat,” she added. “But at the age of 10, the memories seem to crystallize.”

Peterson’s team interviewed 140 children aged 4 to 13 years, by asking them to describe three of the earliest memories they can remember. Strangely most young children can recall their memories from 18 months.

All parents were presented to confirm whether their statements actually happened. The team then re-interviewed the children two years later, and asked them to recall all the same early memories.

The researchers found that those aged between four and seven when first interviewed could not recall their earliest memories – even when given specific instructions.

However, one third of children between the ages of 10 and 13 years at the start of the study recalled the same memory at both time points.

The results indicate that long and solid memories are formed at or after the age of 10 years old, before these memories become more fragile and fades.

The study, published in the ‘Child Development’ journal shows that our ‘childhood psychology’ started more slowly than previously thought.

Peterson added, “When we lose the memories in the early times, which we remembered earlier, then we lose part of our childhood – basically, we then lose all or nearly all of the events that happened to us.”

One other explanation may be that very young children encode their memory in a different way than older children, according to Patricia Bauer from Emory University.

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Avoid Supplement Overdose

In a poor lifestyle of modern communities, many tries to meet the needs of vitamins and minerals by taking supplements. But they often consume too much. They do not realize, supplement overdose can lead to death.

According to Shine, research done by some doctors in the United States revealed that consuming too much vitamin and mineral supplements raises risk of kidney stone and heart damage.

Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization which is considered as one of the largest authorities in the field of medicine, published two research reports related to it. They concluded that vitamin A, vitamin E and beta-carotene, which are consumed with an antioxidant supplement, can increase the risk of death significantly.

In fact, an overdose of supplements is an increasingly popular case in the United States. Approximately half of the country spend hundreds of dollars every month for supplement consumption. To avoid too much consumption of supplements, it is important to understand the basics of the benefits:

Choose a water-soluble supplement
Ways of vitamins solubility in the body are different. There are vitamins which perfectly soluble in water, such as vitamins B and C. There are some which perfectly soluble in fat such as vitamins, D, E and K. While all minerals are fat-soluble.

You need to know, an overdose of supplements will not occur if the vitamin consumed is a type of water-soluble vitamins. Because the mechanism is if you have excess of vitamins, the body will remove it automatically through urine.

Fat-soluble supplement that raises a potential problem. Excess vitamins and minerals are stored in fat cells or liver. The numbers will continue to increase and accumulate over time. This is a potential to cause disruption of the body.

Follow the consumption instructions
Always read the label carefully before taking supplements. The rule is to follow the daily recommended dose of the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA), particularly for fat-soluble vitamins.

Consume natural vitamins and minerals
Try to eat foods that give you enough vitamins and minerals. Many medical experts agree that if you regularly eat healthy foods, you may not need supplements unless your doctor recommend it.

Consult your doctor
Consult your doctor before taking supplements of vitamins and minerals. Ask also side effects that may occur if you also are taking other medications. Ask the right dose to be consumed. This is the only way to prevent dangerous drug interactions.

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Smoking Causes Kidney Cancer

Some recent scientific research has produced findings that smoking can cause the risk of advanced kidney cancer.

Researchers from Duke University Medical Center reviewed all the data from 845 patients with kidney cancer between 2000 and 2009.

The results showed that those who smoke or even those who previously smoked, is between 1.5 and 1.6 more likely to get fatal cancer.

The more frequent they smoke and the more the number of cigarettes smoked, the more chance of getting cancer. If smokers quit, it reduced chances of getting cancer by 9 percent for every 10 years they are smoke free.

The team will display their findings at a special press conference at the annual meeting of American Urological Association, in Washington, DC.

Another study that will be presented at the conference showed that bladder cancer rates does not decline with decreasing numbers of smokers in the U.S. lately.

The scientists, from the national database found that lung cancer rates declines, and smokers between 1973 and 2007, but the decline was not seen at the level of bladder cancer. The decrease was also seen in kidney cancer.

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