In order for Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Autos

Most housewives make a stock of vegetables and fruit in the refrigerator for a few days needs. But unfortunately, sometimes the freshness to be reduced, even though new wilt be saved a day. What causes it?

This case could have occurred because of the way you store less precise. If so, how to keep fresh fruit and vegetables in a long time? Follow these guidelines, taken from the pages of the Times of India.

- Never store apples mixed with vegetables or other fruits

Apples release of certain gases that trigger fruit and vegetables in the surrounding areas easily decay. Similarly, tomato, and cucumber. Never store them in the same place. Tomatoes release gases that can make a rotten cucumber.

- Keep cheese in an airtight jar

Cheese store in an airtight container can help absorb moisture from the cheese. Moreover, it can keep him fresh for a longer period of time.

- Keep potatoes in the refrigerator

Potatoes absorb odors from food cooked or even vice versa. It also absorbs the gas in the fridge so it helps in the surrounding vegetable and fruit stay fresh. But you have to replace the potatoes every few days.

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Add Weight 127 Kg Cure For Diabetes

Chips, burgers, fatty foods, and high in calories are the enemy of people who want to reduce weight. However, Darin McCloud who suffer from obesity just gobble it all for the sake of adding weight to 127 pounds again. Why?

Darin who now weighs 117 kilograms and 173 centimeters had to fight increasing the weight of the body for sustained treatment of diabetes.

He needs 127 pounds of additional weight in order to be able to undergo gastric reduction surgery (gastric bypass). This is a surgery to reduce the size of the stomach and digestive tract in order to improve blood glucose control.

In order to surgery, Darin decides to change his diet. Former traffic controller is to eat bags of chips and bacon-fat bread every day. He also regularly eat fast food as a friend of high-calorie sweet drinks.

Portmouth 45-year-old man said, "I want surgery to alleviate diabetes. I want to stop using insulin, which also would reduce dependence on me," he wrote in The Sun.

Darin had diabetes for 15 years. His desire to alleviate the burden of family operations in the future.

Health institutions in the UK set out the rules for diabetics who can perform gastric bypass surgery must have a body mass index (BMI) of about 45. Darin operation request is rejected because BMI was only 40 when the examination in February 2009. Now, the weight Darin has added 10 pounds with a BMI reached 43.5.

Dr Lorraine Albon, diabetes consultant at the Queen Alexandra Hospital Darin backed plans to immediately perform gastric bypass surgery. "If he did not undergo surgery soon, there will be complications in diabetes," he said.

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G-string trigger Infections Organ Intim

G-string is a type of underwear that is normally chosen to create the impression section. G-string was a favorite when dressed in tight pants in order to form not printed on the gown.

However, the use of pants in this contentious. There are studies that mention sexiness g-string invited a number of female disease risk, such as urinary tract infection (UTI). However, other studies have denied this.

Doctor Liza Masterson, a gynecologist from Los Angeles, research results reveal that materials such as nylon g-string role often hold moisture so it supports the proliferation of bacteria in the intimate area.

Surface in narrow pants and conical like a rope made of bacteria move easily from the outside inward. Includes E-coli bacteria delivered to the area of ​​sex organs. Bacteria that reach the surface in will multiply and infect the area intimately.

Use g-string also say increases the risk of skin irritation. Conical surface rope-like pants that make it easy on the skin friction. The friction that occurs throughout the day this is what often causes irritation of the skin in intimate areas of very soft and sensitive.

While The American Journal of Epidemiology published a study in 1987 that as against the results of research Masterson. The study found no indication of the influence of the use of g-strings to the emergence of infection in female sex organs.

Reinforce that conclusion, the study of Nara Women's University Japan in 1994 stated that there was no difference between the use of underwear made from cotton and other synthetic materials. However, fixed cotton underwear is preferable because it makes the skin easier to breathe.

However, studies show that female respondents who wear underwear made from cotton or other synthetic materials having moisture levels and the same temperature. This contradicts the fact that wearing underwear made from synthetic sweat makes the skin more quickly and more humid.

Regardless of conflicting research results, some health experts warn the importance of maintaining cleanliness of sex organs. Stop using a certain type of underwear if irritated. Everyone has a different sensitivity to the underwear material.

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One Save Nuts may trigger cancer

Be careful if you have a habit of storing nuts, especially peanuts, in the kitchen. When you run or wrong way to keep it, could be contaminated with mold-(fungi) that produce toxins called alfatoksin.

Alfatoksin not cause acute poisoning, but will cause abnormalities in chronic liver disease and can lead to liver cancer.

This was stated by Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia (Faculty of medicine) and the Staff of the Division of Hepatology Department of Medicine Faculty of medicine, Prof. Dr. H. Ali Sulaiman Ph.D., SpPD, KGEH, FACG, in Jakarta.

Alfatoksin acronym derived from Aspergillus flavus toxin. The toxin was first known from the fungus Aspergillus flavus was isolated in 1960.

Professor Ali added, people are most vulnerable are children alfatoksin. However, it also depends on the capabilities of individuals alfatoksin detoxify the body through biochemical processes. In addition it depends also on sex, relation to the concentration of testosterone and nutritional factors.

The symptoms that usually arises when a person has liver cancer is the presence of nausea, vomiting, weight loss drastically, the pain on the right just below the rib cavity as well as itching.

Professor Ali added easiest method to detect it is to perform ultrasound (USG) or had found a kind of bulge then can do the Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP).

In Indonesia, alfatoksin are mycotoxins (toxins produced by fungi in certain conditions of humidity and temperature) are often found on agricultural products and processed products. In addition, alfatoksin residues and their metabolites are also found in products such as dairy farmers, eggs, and chicken meat.

"But do not worry, the risk of liver cancer (only) if a person is constantly eating foods that contain alfatoksin. However, if only occasionally, toxins carried by the urine can be lost, "said Prof Ali.

Therefore, make it more secure, Prof. Ali suggested should be eating peanuts when conditions are still fresh, so a small possibility of mushrooms grown. "Avoid eating nuts with the conditions already rotten," he said.

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Men Vulnerable Taxable Liver Cancer

Liver cancer is the sixth most types of illnesses suffered by many societies throughout the world. And you know, this disease was more experienced men, with a ratio of three-fold compared with women.

This is expressed by Professor of Medicine, University of Indonesia Faculty and Staff of the Division of Hepatology Department of Medicine Faculty of medicine, Prof. Dr. H. Ali Sulaiman Ph.D., SpPD, KGEH, FACG, in Jakarta.

What indications men are more at risk of attack liver cancer than women? Prof. Ali explained, "The cause itself can be due to hormonal differences between men and women."

Other causes are exposure differences that allow men more outside the home than women, so the possibility of immune women against the virus better.

Not only that, men are also more likely to have hepatitis B and C be one risk factor for liver cancer in humans. In addition, cirrhosis (hardening of the liver), obesity, diabetes, long-term exposure to aflatoxins (toxins in peanuts), smoking, alcohol consumption, and consumption of arsenic contaminated water.

People affected by liver cancer, will usually show some signs of health. The most common sign, namely the feeling eneg, vomiting, loss of appetite, persistent, reduced body weight in a short time, full after eating small portions, a hard mass on the right just below the rib cavity, pain around the shoulder right, the skin and eyes become yellow, unusual fatigue, dizziness and sometimes itchy.

Prof. Ali acknowledges the early diagnosis of this disease is often difficult because symptoms are sometimes not specific. Even more than 40% of patients experience no symptoms when diagnosed. However, the journey of hepatitis B / C to be a liver cancer long enough, can reach 10-15 years, so that prevention can still be done.

Early detection is necessary to know whether there are signs of the onset of symptoms of liver cancer. Detection is usually done through blood tests (inspection using the tumor marker alpha-fetoprotein in the blood), imaging (ultrasound, CT scan, magnetic resonance imaging) or a biopsy.

"If the family history of any who died of liver cancer, the risk of hepatitis B to liver cancer will be faster. So, if it has been exposed to hepatitis B or C, the patient must diligently check-ups to prevent it. "

Prof. Ali also noted cases of liver cancer data. Of the 632,000 cases diagnosed each year, about 450,000 occur in the Asia Pacific region (more than 70%).

While in Indonesia, according to data from GLOBOCAN 2008, there were 13,238 cases with a mortality rate reaching 12,825 of the total number of events. Liver cancer is usually more common in patients age 40 -50 years.

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herbal alternative to modern medicine

Most Indonesian people still rely on traditional herbs or herbal medicine as an alternative to modern medicine. Because of the positive health effects, Health Minister Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih said it will continue to develop breakthrough for saintifikasi herbs.

"We want to be a host of herbal medicine in their own country. Do not get taken any other country," he said in the event Anniversary Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia to 61, the UI Campus Salemba, Jakarta, Wednesday, February 2, 2011.

Saintifikasi herbal medicine is the effort and the scientific process of evidence-based medicine through health services research. This is considered important that herbal products continues to grow and secure. Moreover, Indonesia has rich resources of medicinal plants. In fact, some of which have been used as raw materials for pharmaceutical industry.

Minister of Health revealed approximately 59.12 percent of Indonesian people ever consume herbal medicine and 95.6 percent of them feel the usefulness. "It should actually be using the herbal doctor, but there are some herbal treatments that are not provided by doctors," he said.

The minister also explained that in 2010, saintifikasi herbal medicine research has focused on preventive four herb formula for symptoms of hyperglycemia, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and hyperuricemia.

To support the laboratory of microbiology and virology in the framework of research and development in Indonesia, has also built two BSL-3 laboratories in the Research Agency and the University of Airlangga.

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