Daily Activities That Trigger A Heart Attack

Diepenbeek, Belgium, According to a recent study, almost all daily activities can trigger a heart attack for those who have a risk. Starting from drinking coffee, having sex or just feel sad. Which are the most trigger a heart attack?
 
Research experts from Hasselt University in Diepenbeek, Belgium reveals heart attack was triggered at most by air pollution, that is 7.4 percent. The level of air pollution in Europe is high, so the impact could be felt by all people including people with heart disease.

The surprise was, sex was also included in the triggers a heart attack list even though its contribution is very small with only 2.2 percent. Marijuana and cocaine are classified as drugs instead only 1 percent trigger heart attacks. 

Read more, here are the various triggers of a heart attack based on the research.

Trigger	Percentage (%)
Air Pollution	7,4
Excessive Physical Activity	6,2
Drinking Coffee	5
Drinking Alcoholic Beverages	5
Negative Emotions (sad, etc)	4
Angry	3
Overeating	2,7
Positive emotions (Joy, etc)	2,4
Having Sex	2,2
Consumption of cannabis/cocaine	1

According to Prof Tim S Nawrot, who led the study, the figures above do not indicate the amount of increase in actual risk. For example, increasing the risk of heart attack due to cocaine use is actually bigger than the air pollution, but because not too many cocaine users compared to people affected by pollution then the only bit that had a heart attack because of cocaine.

"Increasing the slightest risk, such as air pollution, can have a major impact if the impact is very widespread in a population," said Prof. Nawrot told HealthDay, Thursday (24/02/2011).

The high case of heart attack due to air pollution shows how very falt concerned about the current levels of pollution. One of the solution is to impose a ban on smoking in public places, which is claimed could reduce the number of cases of heart attack by 17 percent.

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Types of Industrial Waste That Can Pollute The Groundwater

The largest contribution of ground water pollution are industries, through the waste it generates. For humans, the types of pollutants contained in industrial waste even more dangerous than pollution by bacteria. What are the dangers?

The direct impact of water pollution is usually a digestive disorders such as diarrhea or dysentery. As for the long term, pollutants that contaminate the water can accumulate and lead to more serious effects include changes in chromosomes and intellegence disorders.

Compared with biological pollutants such as bacteria and fungi, the source of pollution from industrial waste is usually more dangerous because many can accumulate in the body. Long-term impact due to the accumulation of those toxines can also affect the next generation. 

 
If not treated properly, industrial wastes can pollute surrounding waters. Toxines can be absorbed into the soil and contaminate ground water, or if it flowed into the river it could pollute surface water such as lakes or the sea which is become the river estuary.

The types of toxins in the waste that often pollute the water industry are as follows, as quoted from the water-pollution.org, Thursday (02/24/2011).


Asbestos  


Asbestos fibers is one of the most dangerous pollutant because it is a carcinogen or trigger cancer. When inhaled or swallowed with ground water, these compounds can cause asbestosis or inflammation of the respiratory tract because of asbestos, lung cancer, colon cancer and liver cancer.
 
Lead and mercury  


Both include heavy metals that can not decompose naturally, making it difficult to clean if it is polluting the waters. For humans and animals, heavy metals can accumulate and disrupt the function of enzymes in the body. Impacts include disruption of physical growth and intelligence disorders.


Posphat and nitrate  


Excessive use of fertilizer in the agricultural industry could trigger posphat and nitrate pollution in the waters nearby. Impact is a boom in algae due to eutrophication or increase in nutrients that reduce water quality. 


Pesticide
 
Other waste produced by industrial agriculture are pesticides, such as DDT. In addition to accumulate in plant tissues are implanted, this waste also pollute the groundwater and can lead to chromosomal changes that impact on genetic mutations in the next generation.


Meanwhile, the chairman of the Department of Environmental Health School of Public Health University of Indonesia, Dr R Budi Haryanto, SKM, M. Kes, MSc like ever written detikHealth recommend so that the society testing the groundwater quality in order to avoid from unwanted risks. According to him, there are many competent institution of such testing as related to the health department or the university that has a chemical laboratory analysis.


"The requirements of the Ministry of Health is the water consumed should be free from biological contaminants, chemical and physical. People can test all three laboratory and one package is probably costing around 100 thousand rupiah (about US$11)," he told.

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Obesity : Causes and Treatment Solutions

OBESITY or over weighted is a phenomenon that we encounter in many big cities. Not only women men also suffer the same fate. This happens because the pattern of life that is not true and many foods that contain bad fats.

Urban, the tendency of people to obesity is very high. This condition is influenced by the lifestyle that is not good, high job demands, lack of physical activity, and undergo an unbalanced diet. Many of us have encountered people who kelihtannya skinny but it was fat because fat levels in your body that exceeds the normal number.

Excessive accumulation of fat below the diaphragm and inside the chest wall can suppress the lungs, causing breathing problems and shortness of breath, even if the patient is only a mild activity. Breathing difficulties may occur during sleep and causes cessation of breathing for a while (sleep apneu), so that by day people often feel sleepy.

Obesity can cause various orthopedic problems, including lower back pain and aggravate osteoarthritis (especially in the hip, knee and ankle). Also sometimes commonly found in skin disorders. A person suffering from obesity have a body surface that is relatively more narrow than the weight, so body heat can not be disposed of in an efficient and more sweat. Often found in edema (swelling due to accumulation of fluid) in the leg and ankle.

Scientifically, obesity occurs from consuming more calories than needed by the body. Cause of the imbalance between calorie intake and burning is still unclear.

The occurrence of obesity involves several factors:

• Genetic factors. Obesity tends lowered, so suspected to have genetic causes. But family members not only share genes but also diet and lifestyle habits, which can promote obesity. Often difficult to separate the lifestyle factors with genetic factors. Recent research shows that the average genetic factors influence 33% of the weight.

• Environmental factors. Gene is an important factor in many cases of obesity, but one's environment also plays a significant role. This environment includes behavioral / lifestyle patterns (eg what to eat and how many times someone eat and how their activities). A person certainly can not change their genetic pattern, but he can change the diet and activity.

• Psychological factors. What's in a person's mind can affect her eating habits. Many people reacted to his emotions by eating.
Obesity is a disease not just a mere aesthetic issue.

Course of treatment can be performed in patients with obesity that is by doing obesity treatment pyramid. From below begins with lifestyle modifications, namely diet and physical activity, to the top with farmokoterapi, and the last at the highest location of the pyramid structure is the was operating.

The recommended diet is to reduce fat intake. In general diet, the recommended fat intake is less than 30 percent. The composition of a good diet is half the size of the meal of carbohydrates, fats and the remaining third of portein. Safe weight loss is 2-5 pounds per month.

Pharmacotherapy with drugs may increase transactions are carried out if the waist circumference and various diseases arise. The use of pharmacotherapy should not be done if the weight is still ideal. Meanwhile, the surgery is performed by shrinking the stomach which is usually the last alternative if there is no way out anymore.

Choosing a weight-loss program that is safe and successful. 


The elements that should be considered in choosing a weight loss program:

• Diet should be safe and meet all the recommended daily requirements (vitamins, minerals and protein). Diet to lose weight should be low in calories.

• weight loss program should be directed to weight loss is gradual and stable.

• Before a weight-loss program started, the overall health examination.

• Programs that follow should include weight maintenance after weight loss achieved. Maintenance of body weight is the hardest part of weight control. Selected programs must include changes in eating habits and physical activity are permanent, to change lifestyles in the past contribute to the occurrence of weight gain. This program should establish behavioral changes, including education in healthy eating habits and long-term plans to overcome a weight problem.

Obesity is a chronic condition (chronic). Obesity is often considered a temporary situation that can be resolved for several months with a strict diet. Weight control is a long term business. To be safe and effective, any weight loss program should be aimed at long-term approach.

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