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Some people must have felt depressed. But if left unchecked, depression can cause a fatal thing, such as destroying self-esteem, mental health and mental damage, as well as disrupt the well-being.
Reporting from the depression-helper.com, Tuesday (20/07/2010), there are 5 tips that can effectively treat depression:
1. Let your body gets enough light and sunshineLack of exposure to sunlight will trigger more of the hormone melatonin. These hormones can trigger feelings of despair and depression.
The hormone melatonin out if someone is in a dark room. Most melatonin can lower body temperature and make people weak.
If people who are depressed are always cooped up in the room with the curtains closed, it will be difficult for him to overcome depression.
2. Busied themselvesWith busy, people will be inspired to do better. It would be more likely to cope with depression. Try to do activities that are preferred, such as walking leisurely in the park, exercising, reading books or engaging in any activity that can excite and make the heart glad.
Set meaningful goals in life. With this kind of positive attitude, you will reach a cheerful disposition to beat the feeling of despair and depression.
3. Get enough rest and relaxation timeListen to soothing music, soak in warm water or a massage to relax the muscles can reduce depression effectively.
4. Eat healthy and stay fitAvoid foods that contain lots of sugar, caffeine, or alcohol. Sugar and caffeine can give you instant energy, but will bring anxiety, tension and internal problems.
While alcohol is a depressant. Many people will drink alcohol to forget their problems.But it actually only aggravate the condition.
Exercising regularly is a destroyer of depression, because it allows the body to produce more endorphins than usual. Endorphins are sometimes called 'happy chemicals' because it can reduce stress and natural drivers of happiness.
5. Moral support and socialize with the people closest to the environmentFamily, friends, neighbors and even friends are the ones who can give moral support to you. Spending time and engaging in worthwhile activities with people nearby can provide a very satisfying feeling.
Never underestimate the power of touch. Embrace or a hug from the people closest can be a potent drug that can relieve stress and 'kill' depression.
Moreover, love and close relationships with family and friends, can boost the immune system and ward off all diseases. Also can make you feel more secure, comfortable and happy.
Depression as deadly as smoking. That is the conclusion derived from a unique studyconducted by scientists from Britain and Norway. The results of this study have beenpublished in the British Journal of Psychiatry.
Researchers from the University of Bergen in Norway and King's College Londoncompared the survey data of more than 60,000 people with an average mortality data.The result, during the four-year study found that the risk of dying from depression reallyworth the risk of death from smoking.
Depression and smoking, both known as risk factors for heart disease. In addition, people who are also smokers tend to be depressed and less physical activity, which isanother serious factor causing heart disease.
"Depression is a major risk factor for heart disease, like smoking," says psychologistJeffrey Rossman, Ph.D., Managing Director of Life at Canyon Ranch in Lenox, as reported from MSN, Tuesday (17/08/2010).
According to Rossman, most people with depression just save all the burden in his mind and considered that they experienced was not a medical condition.
"Should a depressed person looking for someone with whom to share the burden of thinking, such as family, friends, therapists or doctors. Regular aerobic exercise andpsychotherapy was as effective as antidepressants for treating clinical depression, withbetter long term results," said Rossman.
Rossman recommends three things most important to prevent depression, namely:
Stay active in the dormitory relationships, social, employment and other activities.
Doing physical exercise at least 30 minutes for 5 days a week
Eat healthy foods and fresh (not packaged foods) and avoid excessive alcoholconsumption
Smokers often complain how difficult it stops steaming. The greatest temptation is strong not resist the desire to smoke again. It's time to practice how to fight the addiction of cigarettes.
When the urge to smoke arises, someone will do everything possible not to return to smoking. Every time someone managed to resist the desire, then he is one step closer to quitting smoking.
Excerpted from the Mayo Clinic on Thursday (12/02/2010) there are 10 ways that can be practiced to fight the urge to smoke, namely:
1. Try to slow or delayIf the urge to smoke, try to tell myself to put it off 10 minutes longer. Then do something to distract. This simple trick powerful enough to refrain from smoking. Repeat as often as possible with the added time.
2. Do not allow yourself smoking one cigaretteOne might be tempted to smoke one cigarette to stop the desire arise. But do not fool yourself, because most people do not successfully quit at one cigarette so it failed to stop this habit.
3. Avoiding triggersKnow what kind of condition or situation which makes the urge to smoke arises, making it easier for him to avoid the condition. If smoking occurs when talking on the phone, then hold a pen and paper to scribble as a substitute for cigarettes.
4. Do some physical activityPhysical activity can help distract and reduce the intensity of the impulse that appears.By doing physical activity for 30 minutes can be very helpful. Cobalaqh out for a walk, jogging, cleaning the house or taking the stairs while in office.
5. Relaxation techniquesOvercoming the desire to quit smoking can make a person very stressful, because smoking is usually considered the drug of stress is good. Therefore, try relaxation techniques, such as breathing techniques, muscle relaxation, yoga, hypnosis or massage to cope with stress.
6. Ask the help of the people closestAsk for support from people around like family, friends or join a support group, for example by walking together, sharing a laugh or listen to the experiences of people who have successfully quit smoking.
7. Remember the benefits gained if quit smokingWrite down or say out loud the reasons and benefits gained if quit smoking. This would make a person feel better, more healthy, love yourself and also increase savings.
8. Join a smoking cessation group onlineJoin a smoking cessation program or group online, or read a blog post the way to fight the urge to smoke again. Learn from others who have the same problems will rely more easily understood.
9. Try cigarette replacement therapy
Try to find and use the cigarette replacement therapies such as plaster or other tool to overcome the urge to quit smoking. If you have higher levels of addiction, then it sometimes needed the help of medication.
10. Chewing somethingGive something that can be chewed by mouth, such as chewing gum, mints or find other healthy snacks that can satisfy my mouth to chew or suck.
People who just smoke smell could get caught. Not only the smoker, standing or being around people who smoke can make the body smell of smoke. Why the smell of cigarette smoke was so sticky and stubborn?
The smell of cigarette smoke ta just sticking out of the body such as clothing, but can also penetrate the skin, hair and can irritate the nose and respiratory tract.
For people who have asthma, sinusitis and rhinitis smell of cigarette smoke can interfere with sensitive membrane in the respiratory system.
Quoted from Howtogetridofstuff.com, Monday (13/12/2010) unlike any other smell, the smell of cigarette smoke tends to be difficult to remove.
The smell is hard to lose this because cigarette smoke is made of long chains of molecules, so it took a long or difficult to remove, especially on the cloth. Besides cigarette smoke produced generally contain many substances or residues.
Cigarette smoke does not just stick in people who smoke, but also people who become passive smokers. So smoke that stick is called "third-hand smoke '.
'Third-hand smoke' is a term used to describe the amount of toxic residue from cigarette smoke that stick in clothing, body parts like hands and hair and other objects when exposed to smoke. These toxic residues can generally last a long time.
Also usually a smoker will still blow poison of his breath for several minutes after the lethal cigarette smoke maupaun when it is gone.
"The danger of third-hand smoke is very real. Because when a person smokes in any place, toxic particulates from cigarette smoke is going into the hair and clothes," said Professor Jonathan Winickoff of Massachusetts General Hospital, as reported by BBC News.
The effects of 'third-hand smoke' will have a significant risk for pregnant women and infants. This is because potentially damaging to health as well dna toddler baby.
To Eliminate odors from cigarette smoke Should wash clothes using a strong detergent,and try to wash hands with soap after the first exposure to secondhand smoke toReduced-smoke odor and residue attached.
Air pollution as a result of the growing number of motor vehicles is expected to be a health threat in 2011. In addition, unhealthy eating patterns, including excessive sugar kosumsi also still need to watch out.
Immediate and longer-term impact of air pollution will be a lot happening in the respiratory tract. Meanwhile, an unhealthy diet is a risk factor for various metabolic disturbances including fatty liver.
More, Dr. L Toruan Phaidon, MM, healthy living expert detikHealth when contacted on Friday (30/12/2010), describes several factors that may potentially lead to health problems in 2011:
1. Polluting vehiclesThe absence of efforts to limit the number of motor vehicles will have an impact on increasing emissions of carbon monoxide (CO) and other pollutants that would contaminate the air. The immediate impact could be felt among other acute respiratory infections (ARI), shortness of breath and allergies.
While the indirect impact is the threat of free radicals caused by pollutants such. When entering the blood and binds with cholesterol, free radicals will form plaques on the walls of blood vessels that can lead to blockage. The risk is very diverse, ranging from heart attack, stroke until the most feared men that erectile dysfunction.
2. Unhealthy dietUnhealthy eating patterns lately shown among others by the national sugar consumption reached 17 kg / capita / year, 9 kg of them for their household needs. Whereas consumption of sugar in large quantities is not recommended, because the sharp particles can injure blood vessels.
Another effect is the increase in blood sugar levels, which if the results are not accommodated metaboliemenya in muscle tissue it will be stacked on another network termauk liver. The result is a fatty liver (fatty liver) and the effects are in general metabolic disorders, including elevated levels of cholesterol and uric acid.
3. CigaretteAir pollution comes not only caused by motor vehicles, but also tobacco smoke from smokers in 2003 the number reached 57 percent of the population of Indonesia. Next year the estimated numbers are increasing because the tobacco industry to market their products more and more creative.
Incessant cigarette was considered successful product innovation to create a product that seemed healthy, such as low tar and nicotine cigarettes. And as is known, other than tar and nicotine there are still hundreds of harmful toxins contained in cigarette smoke.
4. CarcinogensBoth air pollution and unhealthy eating patterns are equally able to increase the risk of cancer. Air pollution contains a variety of free radicals, while the consumption of sugar and bad cholesterol can affect the hormonal conditions that are equally able to trigger cancer.
Vegetable oil even if heated at high temperatures will change into a form that is evil trans fats, which in women can increase production of estrogen hormones. This hormone functions to stimulate tissue growth in the female organs, if the excess beWill Become Uncontrolled growth and cancerous.This hormone functions to stimulate tissue growth in the female organs, if the excess beWill Become Uncontrolled growth and cancerous.
