Drink Plenty of Water Can Cause Blindness??

A WOMAN LOSED HER SIGHT AFTER DRINKING TOO MUCH WATER 


SHE drank 7 liters of water every day with the intention to 'detoxify and reduce her blood pressure.
 
Thinking that the more water she drank, it will be better. She continued her habit and this continued for three months.

But last month, 26-year-old this Taiwanese woman was suddenly fainted. When she regained consciousness the next few days, she became blind, according to reports Apple Daily Taiwan.

Doctors said the condition of the woman known as 'chronic water intoxication.


The amount of water that she drank more than three times the daily water consumption which recommended for adults who did not move much.

Dr. Jiang Shou Shan, who take care of her, told Apple Daily Taiwan that her patient did not have a psychological illness or other health problems, except that her blood pressure alarming.
 
Her name is not mentioned in the report.

Dr. Jiang said, "She's got wrong believes that the more water she drank, the more she can lower the blood pressure. Since then, for three months, she drank 7 liters of water every day."

Dr. Jiang added that initially that women will frequent had an urination, but after some time, it turned into water poisoning.

Drinking too much water can cause hyponatremia, a condition in which sodium levels in the blood is not enough.


THE SWELLING IN BRAIN CELLS

As a result, water excess should be absorbed by her body cells.

Brain cells was getting swell after drinking water, which was resulted in the increasing pressure in her brain.

Dr. Jiang explained that the pressure resulted in bleeding in the occipital lobe (the brain of the front), which is the visual processing centers of the brain that contains most of the visual cortex

According to Drs. Jiang, "Sodium in our blood maintain our rate of cell metabolism.But once you drink too much water, sodium ions will decrease, causing the brain is getting swell. This resulted in pressure and continue to the bleeding. "

Shin Min Daily quoted a doctor's statement that drinking too much water can be fatal.

The doctor, from Raffles Hospital, says that our bodies are constantly losing water through sweat, urination and defecation or breath exhaling.

'Replacing the lost water' is essential, but the excessive rehydration can cause a fatal water overdose, said the doctor. According to the doctor, the symptoms of water intoxication include headache, fatigue, blocked nose, vomiting, frequent urination and mental disorientation.

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Lack of Sleep Can Cause Diabetes

THAT encourage the emergence of diabetes is the high content of sugar in the blood. The cause is not only the excessive of sugar consumption, but also high-calorie diet, excess weight, and a less active lifestyle.

As quoted by the Times of India, the study of Warwick Medical School and the State University of New York, Buffalo, revealed that sleep duration of less than six hours a night increases the risk three times sufered from diabetes and heart disease.

The study showed that short sleep duration is associated with the increasing risk of pre-diabetes, known as Incident-impaired Fasting Glycaemia (IFG).


IFG is a condition of the body which are no longer able to regulate glucose levels in the body properly. People with IFG had a greater risk of type 2 diabetes and increased risk of heart disease and stroke.


The study was conducted with analyze about 1455 participants medical data, which were recorded by Western New York Health Study for six years. The data show, all participants had an age range 35-79 years.

All participants have passed through clinical trials that include blood pressure checks, height, and weight. They also answered questionnaires about their health condition in general, and sleep patterns. The study is published in the journal Annals of Epidemiology.

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TEA, The Memory Keeper

NOT only pleasure in drinking in the morning and afternoon, tea also has a series of health benefits. 


Tea is also believed able to slow cell damage and keep our memory stay sharp in old age. 


The new invention from the benefits of tea recently expressed by scientists in Singapore and that means adding a long list of benefits of tea.


To The Sunday Times, Professor Ng Tze Pin from the Department of Medicine for Mental Health National University of Singapore said the research about the benefit tea for the brain was performed for four years. "Tea is cheap, non-toxic, and is always consumed by the public," said Ng.

Caffeine in tea, unlike that found in coffee, contains the natural protein theanine which is against side effects of caffeine such as the increasing of blood pressure, headache, and fatigue.


Brain cell damage caused by a combination of loss of nerve cells, the influence of genes, a mild stroke, and an increasing levels of destructive protein, sometimes leading to dementia patients (the disease of cognitive dysfunction in the brain from damage due to aging or other serious illness), according to the report.

The team of scientists is studying the tea drinking habits of 2501 Chinese people aged 55 and above from September 2003 to December 2005.


Health of patients, observation period, the language used and therespondents observed spatial ability. Their tea drinking habits are also monitored. Approximately 38 percent did not drink tea.


Twenty-nine percent drank only one type of tea and the rest drink of different types of tea. Two-thirds of the tea drinkers maintain its value in memory tests two years later. Among the non-tea drinkers, 35 percent have seen an experience of decline in two points that show of the data of cognitive decline.


Tea is a special factor that keeps brain cells healthy. However, it can not be created simply by drinking tea. "It still requires a habit, both for life and a balanced diet," said Ng.

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DEPRESSION, The Disease Men Don't Talk About (PART 2)

WHILE alcohol can cause obvious changes in mood and behaviour, the effect of nicotine and some other drugs may be less conspicious. Not long before the first game of the 1997 season, American baseball player Pete Harnisch quit chewing tobacco. In a few days he noticed that his energy and his sense of humour were vanishing. Over five or six nights, Harnisch quit chewing tobacco. In a few days he noticed that his energy and his sense of humour were vanishing. Over five or six nights, Harnisch got no more than 20 hours of sleep. Then he began to lose weight.


Finally, exhausted and worried, he went to a doctor. Tests showed no disease, but the doctor suspected that his problem was a chemical imbalance, perhaps related to nicotine withdrawal, and prescribed an antidepressant. Within a couple of months, Harnisch was his old self again.


The Dangers Accelerate

LEAVING DEPRESSION untreated can be fatal. "There is a 15-per-cent risk of suicide with untreated depression," says Dr.Merry Miller, associate professor of psychiatry at East Tennessee State University. "Men are more likely than women to choose a lethal method  -- like shooting themselves -- if they are thinking about suicide."


In the television film Dead Blue, American TV reporter Mike Wallace speaks eloquently of the suicidal he had during a bout of major depression. "This cloud descends upon you again," Wallace says in the documentary. "And you really do begin to think about how to get rid of this pain, this shame, this fraud, this endless darkness."


It was only after he returned ill from an assignment in famineravaged Ethiopia that he got help. Physically depleted, he checked into New York's Lenox Hill Hospital. There he was diagnosed with depression and put on antidepressants.


Depression can shorten men's lives in other ways as well. A 40-year American study found that men who have suffered from depression have more than double the risk of developing heart disease. A Swedish study showed that, even after excluding suicide, depressive disorders were associated with death rates on a par with those for cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Another long-term study, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, indicated that the bodies of depressed men seem to age at an accelerated rate.


How to Recognise the Symptoms


A TEMPORARY DOWNTURN in mood in response to unhappy events is common, even appropriate. That's not depression. In depression, the duration and intensity of the mood is much greater than a passing episode of feeling down.


Watch out for these symptoms in your mate: a bad or sad mood that continues for two weeks or more, or an inability to enjoy the things that usually give him pleasure (a condition known as anhedonia). Depression is especially likely if either of the above is accompanied by four or more of the following:


1. Excessive sleepiness or insomnia
2. Appetite changes
3. Fatigue, lethargy or apathy
4. Feelings of excessive or inappropriate guilt, of worthlessness and of hopelessness
5. Forgetfulness, indecisiveness or lack of concentration
6. Thoughts of, or attempts at, committing suicide.


Call your local hospital or mental-health professional. And if someone you care about starts talking about death or suicide, get him to an emergency room.


Treatments That Work


CERTAIN TYPES of psychotherapy often help. In major depression, doctors will usually prescribe anti-depressants as well, which work by keeping more of the mood-modulating neurotransmitters circulating within the brain. The antidepressant bupropion is also used for people who want to stop smoking. It seems to dampen nicotine cravings and moderate nicotine-withdrawal symptoms.


For men whose depression is traced to testosterone deficiency, doctors can prescribe testosterone-replacement therapy via injections or skin patches similar to the ones used to replace oestrogen in women.


If testosterone enhances mood, what about testosterone for men whose depression is due to other causes? Katznelson doesn't recommend it. Testosterone can stimulate the growth of a previously undetected prostate cancer, and therefore should be administered only when indicated for the treatment of an actual deficiency.


THE IMPORTANT THING to remember is that depression is not a sign of weakness, and it's not just a women's problem. It's an illness, just like heart disease, diabetes and flu. And, like other illnesses, it can be treated. No-one has to tough it out alone.

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DEPRESSION, The Disease Men Don't Talk About (PART 1)

Unexplained anger or apathy may signal something even deeper


Carrie McIntyre and Damon Thompson were eagerly planning their future together. The young couple had good jobs and were sports enthusiats. Damon was an avid basketball player and a competitive cyclist and golfer. But when his employer announced a downsizing, he started to worry that he might be fired. Gradually he began to withdraw, declining social invitations and refusing to play sports. Instead he watched TV for hours on end.


CARRIE CHALKED UP his moods to job concerns and thought they would pass. But months later when Damon hadn't been dismissed, he was still lethargic and cold. When Carrie tried to find out what was wrong, all he would say was, "Nothing."


Damon's career worries had triggered a bout of depression that he couldn't shake, even when its cause was gone. But instead of showing Carrie he needed her, he shunned her. To Carrie, his behaviour made no sense at all. Eventually she broke off their relationship.


"Women in our culture know they are distressed and they reach out for help," says Terrence Real, a family therapist and author of I don't Want to Talk About It. "men express depression differently," he adds.

Depression afflicts more than 33 million people in Asia and the Western Pacific, according to the World Health Organisation. The WHO's 1999 World Health Report says approximately 6 per cent of all women and about 3 per cent of men worldwide suffer from depression --- but some researchers question the low number for men. "Men are less likely than women to seek mental-health treatment in general," says Michael Addis, assistant professor of psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachussets. The tendency to though it out rather than ask for help is just one of several reasons why experts believe the statistics are artificially low. Men express emotional pain differently from women, so their symptoms are not always recognised and their depression goes undectected. Fortunately, however, when the condition is recognised, there are many ways it can be successfully treated.


Feeling Down? Why It's Different for Men


COMMUNICATIONS EXECUTIVE David Binder couldn't sleep and had no desire for sex. He vaguely worried about his loss of libido, but decided that source of his problem was chronic sleeplessness. His lack of emotion was such that even when his marriage ended, he barely seemed to care. His career also ceased to matter to him.


The problem was not a sleep disorder, however. While the outward signs - insomnia, apathy, lost libido --- didn't match the tearful, unhappy state often associated with the disorder, his problem was depression, and it lasted for about five years before a doctor diagnosed and then successfully treated it with antidepressants.


Most people assume sadness always accompanies depression. But that's not necessarily true for men. "With men, you may see more of the angry and irritable depression than the typical sad depression that we are used to seeing in women," notes Kenneth Carter, assistant professor of psychology at Emory University's Oxford College in Atlanta.


While depressed women tend to cling to sources of comfort and turn their angst against themselves, depressed men often do the opposite, says Real. They may isolate themselves from family and friends and act aggressively. "Men may strike out at their wives, children and coworkers," Real explains.


Societal norms can exacerbate these destructive behaviours, say Addis. "We do not encourage men to express their feelings or to seek help, but rather to deal with it independently, 'like a man.'"


What cause male depression in the first place? Neurotransmitters, including serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine, which relay signals from one brain cell to the next, play key roles. If, because of a genetic abnormality or other cause, neurotransmitter stores are affected, we may suffer depression or any of a number of other psychological problems.


In some cases of mild depression, says Harvard Medical School endocrinologist Laurence Katznelson, the cause may be testosterone deficiency, which can bring on classic symptoms such as fatigue, lack of initiative and sexual difficulties.


Hormones are only part of the story, of course. As with depressed women, a man's negative life experience  - job loss, rejection in love - can devastate the mood and affect neurotransmitter flow. "You take a perfectly normal person and put him under stress, you'll produce biological abnormalities that can be treated biologically," says Real.


Alcohol can boost moods temporarily, which may be why some people with depression drink. But heavy drinking itself may produce or worsen symptoms of depression. According to the US National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, men are two to three times more likely than women to become alcoholics.


to be continued - DEPRESSION, The Disease Men Don't Talk About (PART 2)

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Some Prohibitions After Having a Meal

Keeping the health is not just fixated on watching the type of food. More than that,  you have to watch what should be done and should be abandoned

after having meal. If we observe properly, things that should be abandoned,

you will feel more the benefit from the food that you eat.

SMOKING

Imagine! Smoking alone is harmful to the body especially if you do this after a meal. Based on research, smoking one cigarette after a meal equivalent to smoking ten sticks. Thus, the possibility of cancer is much greater.

EATING FRUIT

So far people having a wrong perception about this one. 

Most people eat fruit once regarded as a tradition and 

they believe the fruit as a dessert. In fact, eating fruit after having a meal will make the stomach full of air or bloating.


But that does not mean you should not seek a way. 

Well, you could try to eat fruit with a lag time of 1-2 hours 

after eating. And don't you eat fruit one hour before meals, this will make your stomach full and can not eating a bit much.

DRINKING TEA

Based on research, tea leaves have a high acid content. This causes the protein content in foods difficult to digest. Apart from that, drinking tea after eating can cause a barrier to the absorption of substances in the body up to 80 percent. In fact, as we know, iron is needed for the growth of the quality of the human body.

LOOSEN BELT

This is a trivial but often done by most people. Perhaps you mean that the food intake can be much more and you do not feel stiff. Therefore, you loosen the belt. Did You Know? Loosen the belt can cause the bowel twisted and blocked.

SHOWER

Although not many people do this, sometimes there are some people are thinking about doing a shower after eating. In the morning most people prefer to eat first instead of a bath for the reason after eating the stomach is certainly getting full and desire to defecate greater. So you think to take a bath and at once defecate.

In fact, bathing is done after a meal will increase blood flow to the hands, feet and body that cause the amount of blood around the stomach will continue to decrease. This will weaken the digestive system in the stomach.

WALK

One more thing you should really avoid. Have you heard the story about people who are following the road race and marathon running motion suddenly vomited middle of the road? Yes, that is one reason why you can not walk or moreover 

run immediately after having a meal. Walking will cause the digestive system is unable to absorb nutrients from food that you eat.


DIRECT SLEEP
One of the most difficult thing to avoid is the feeling of drowsiness after meals. Moreover, if the food you just consumed is very satisfactory of the abdomen in terms of is very filling. However, try not to follow your drowsiness. Sleeping after eating made a food can not be digested properly. As a result, the intestinal getting bloating and the inflammation happens.


DRINKING COLD WATER
Last thing is that many people do not realize is the drink of cold water. Cold temperatures caused ice which is condense with the water able to freeze foods, especially those containing oils (fat will be frozen). Until finally it can build up in the intestines and cause the narrowing of the digestive ducts and lead to the obesity. Well, for that from now on try changing the ice water that you normally drink with drinking warm water.

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The Truth About Vitamins

Which Vitamins Do You Really Need?
And how much is too much?


HAVE YOU SHOPPED for vitamins lately? It wasn't long ago that only a few brands of multivitamins were available. Today, thousands of different vitamin and mineral supplement products are on the market, and the number is rising steadily each year. Most of us end up staring helplessly at pharmacy shelves, wondering which supplements we should be taking.

Health officials set recommended dietary intakes (RDIs) for vitamins and minerals that men and women of various ages require to maintain good health. If you're eating the recommended number from each of the five food groups, you should be getting all the vitamins and minerals you need. But surveys show that only one person in ten regularly consumes enough fruit and vegetables, and that most adults fail to meet the RDIs for several important nutrients. That's why many doctors recommend a daily multivitamin/mineral supplement to help make up for nutrients you may be missing.


Here's a look at some of the most important vitamins and minerals --- and how to use them effectively. (If you take medications, talk to your doctor before using supplements.).


Vitamin E


Studies have suggested that vitamin E may boost the immune system, ward off cataracts and slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease. There's also some evidence that vitamin E may promote heart health by reducing the oxidation of LDL ("bad") cholesterol that can cause atherosclerosis, and also by acting as an anticoagulant. Several observational studies from Harvard University have found a roughly 40-per-cent reduction in heart-disease risk in those who took vitamin E Supplements of at least 100 international units (IU) a day for two years or more. However, based on an extensive review of current data, the US National Academy of Sciences, Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) recently concluded there isn't enough evidence to prove that taking large closes of antioxidans, such as vitamin E or C, will prevent or reduce the risk of chronic diseases.


Most people get an adequate 15 miligrams (equalling 33 IU of synthetic vitamin E) a day through diet alone, because E is found in fatty foods like vegetable oils, wheat germ, nuts and seeds. Vitamin E researcher Jeffrey Blumberg, a professor of nutrition at Tufts University in Boston, says studies, including his own, have shown that 100 to 400 IU of vitamin E a day is beneficial for optimal health.


How much is too much? At supplement doses above 1000 IU per day, vitamin E may cause an increased tendency to haemorrhage. Because it acts as an antocoagulant, those who have bleeding or clotting disorders should talk to their doctors before taking vitamin E supplements.


Vitamin C


While there's little evidence that vitamin C can prevent colds, several studies indicate that taking large doses each day at the onset of a cold probably lessens the symptoms and shortens its duration. You can get your recommended daily intake in one 250 mililitre glass of orange juice. Doses over  200 miligrams a daya result in limited intenstinal absorption.



How much is too much? Regularly taking more than 2000 miligrams of vitamin C daily can cause abdominal cramps, nause, and diarrhoea.


B Vitamins. Folic acid (the synthetic form of the B vitamin folate), B12 and B6 can protect our hearts, prevent birth defects and keep us mentally sharp as we age. All three have been linked to a possible lower incidence of heart disease, possibly because they help return to normal the blood levels of a substance called homocysteine. Elevated homocysteine levels are linked to an increased risk of heart disease and other vascular disorders.


Folic acid can also make the difference between delivering a healthy baby or one born with a birth defect such a spina bifida. Extra folic acid can now be found in enriched bread, flour, rice, pasta and breakfast cereal.

People who aren't as mentally sharp as they once were may have a vitamin B12 deficiency. Severe deficiencies cause fatigue, nerve damage and dementia, but depression and confusion can appear with milder deficiencies. Older people are particularly at risk because many are unable to absorb B12 from food (meat, fish, and chicken are the main sources). So health officials advise those over 50 who can't absorb B12 from food to get the vitamin either with a supplement or through foods fortified with it.


How much is too much? Doses over 1000 micrograms of folic acid might mask a B12 deficiency, which could cause nerve damage. As for B6, don't exceed 100 miligrams (the RDI for adults is 1.6 miligrams). Higher doses over time pose a risk of difficulties with balance, numbness, muscle weakness and nerve damage. As for B6, don't exceed 100 miligrams (the RDI for adults is 1.6 miligrams. Higher doses over time pose a risk of difficulties with balance, numbness, muscle weakness and nerve damage. Those over 50 who take folic acid should also take at least 100 micrograms of B12 a day.


Calcium


We need plenty of this mineral to maintain strong teeth and bones and reduce our risk of osteoporosis. To that end, the US FNB recently raised the RDI for calcium to 1000 miligrams for adults up to the age of 50, and 1200 miligrams for age 51 and older -- equivalent to three or four glasses of skim milk a day. Yet surveys show that the average woman gets only 600 miligrams of calcium per day.


How much is too much? More than 2500 miligrams of supplemental calcium per day may cause constipation and lead to kidney problems.


Vitamin D


Calcium won't do you much good unless you also get enough of this "sunshine vitamin," which enables the body to absorb calcium and phosphorus. Vitamin D is available in only a few foods (mainly milk, butter, egg yolks, and fortified breakfast cereal) and is otherwise produced under the skin upon exposure to the sun. How much is too much? Daily doses of 1000 to 2000 IU over time may cause nausea, headache, fatigue, heart, irregularities and elevated blood levels of calcium that can lead to severe kidney damage and other disorders.


Magnesium


This is another mineral vital for bone and dental health. The average multivitamin supplies 25 per cent of what you need, but it is also found the whole grain, nuts, legumes and dark leafy greens.


How much is too much? In supplemental doses over 350 miligrams, it cause diarrhoea and abdominal pain. They may also prevent the absorption of others minerals.

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Cat Turn Into The Human After Being Hit By Vehicle

WHAT we watched in the movies is now become a reality on May 22, 2008 in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, Nigeria. A cat suddenly turned into a middle-aged woman after being hit by a motorcycle taxi (also called Okada in Nigeria) in the crowded streets in Port Harcourt.
 

Nigerian Tribune newspaper reported that there were three cats were crossing the road when they hit by an Okada. The first cat managed to escape and flee, while the second cat was hit and immediately turned into a woman. This strange occurrence quickly attracted the attention of the people in that place. When they realize this strange incident, they immediately beat the third cat (still in a cat visual) to death. Then they beat the woman up to severely injured.

According to witnesses who witnessed the incident, The catwoman who confessed her named was Aisha Abdukareem Ibrahim said that she and her two friends taking the form of a cat and was traveling from Abuja to Port Harcourt to kill three people. She said that they had succeeded in killing two people, but they have difficulties when they wanted to kill a third person. Therefore they decided to return to Abuja.


Another witness named James said that she then pretended to forget when she saw people crowding around her. She pretended to ask what had happened. "I've never seen this event in my life. I saw a woman who was injured and lying in the street, not a cat." Said James.


When the Nigerian Tribune arrived at the scene near Garrison Junction, The Catwoman was sitting on the ground with blood all over her body. The right side of her face had a torn injured quite deep. The people beat her due to their anger because they saw that the woman was a witch.


Then the woman was taken to the hospital to get treatment. It took custody of police officers to prevent an angry mass and wanted killed her. Part of local police spokesman said that the woman was taken to hospital and monitored for 24 hours to prevent if she was suddenly disappeared.


In Africa it was reported that witches on that continent has the ability to change shape into animals such as insects and fish. And of course the cat.

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South Polar Melting, A Giant Icebergs Stranded in the Australia's Continent

It was about a year ago Australia was shocked by the stranded of a diameter giant iceberg in the waters of Australia.


We know the "Global Warming" does have a major influence in life and our earth especially in the last 10 years. But anyone who thinks that the impact can already be seen very clearly now. Indeed in recent years so many incredible effects of Global Warming, such as rising global temperatures dramatically, weather and climate that increasingly chaotic and unpredictable, El-Nino is increasingly difficult to overcome, rising sea levels, etc..

But the biggest impact has just happened lately is the stranded of the iceberg in Australian waters. Here's a description that I quoted from http://www.kompas.com  :

23 November 2009

Hundreds of Gigantic icebergs from the Antarctic moving toward to the islands in New Zealand. Chunks of ice like a great stadium that the New Zealand Government feared to threaten shipping. Results of satellite photographs showed, large chunks of ice had just passed the area of the Auckland's island toward the main island of South Island, about 450 kilometers northeast. 

"The warning applies to all ships in the region to be aware of the existence of the iceberg," said New Zealand's marine spokesman, Ross Henderson, as AFP reported. The presence of ice blocks in large group that submitted by the glacier expert from the Australian Antarctic Division.

They continue to monitor the movement of the ice chunks. According to them, those ice blocks are part of a giant blocks seen in last October around Macquarie Island, Australia.

At that time, two large blocks - the first, around two kilometers wide and the second as big as the Beijing Olympic stadium tracked from there. Meanwhile, observed heading to New Zealand last Monday was fragmented in various sizes.


Some of them have a width of 200 meters. "All come from one big chunk, which may be the extent of 30 square kilometers in the Antarctic," said one expert glaciers, Neal Young.Increasing global temperatures and sea level due to global warming has been blamed as the cause.

After three years, according to Neal Young, chunks of ice in large numbers last seen floatingnear New Zealand in last 2006. At that time, only 25 kilometers away from the coastline-the first event after 1931. He believes will more often see the same thing if global temperaturescontinue to rise.
 
Some experts are not sure of this. The reduced extent of Antarctic ice in Antarctica has been identified in recent years. However, the reduced of ice cover in the east Antarctic region in large numbers, during the last three years, considered the experts as a "surprise". Unlike ice sheet in western Antarctica, which is known vulnerable and unstable, a layer of ice in eastern Antarctica was known to be stable.

According to the excerpt above the south pole is melting and the ice chunks entering into the Australian region. What made me surprised was recently a satellite photograph captures a chunk of floating icebergs in the Antarctic (South Pole) has drifted up toward the waters around Macquarie Island in Australia follow the 100 small pieces of ice toward the direction of New Zealand. 

It is estimated that the ice blocks that are marked red circle in the image above is a chunk of ice that is stranded in Australian waters recently. The amount of soluble chunks of icebergs that drift is equivalent to 2 times the size of Hong Kong. Its size is what makes me surprised, imagine 2x the size of hongkong?!.

An Expert Iceberg Glaciologist, Neal Young was quoted by AFP said this ever happened a long ago, but now this cycle happens again. Hong Kong has a 49 km square area, while chunks of iceberg that has a length of up to 19, 2 (almost 20 km) with a width of 5 km.

For more details, following I provide some images that I had : 

Pictured above is a picture of a giant iceberg that recently 
stranded in Australian waters

Pictured above is a chunk of ice which was taken from satellite

The world is getting older increasingly unfriendly to humans. It is appropriate that we look in the mirror ourself and start a new lifestyle, who care about the environment around us. Perhaps it is difficult if we change the pattern of life suddenly, but at least start from small things around us. Is it not that a big changes comes from small changes??

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