Laxative Dependency, Constipation Relieve Risk

Insight on How Laxative Works

Those who suffered from constipation usually rely on laxatives, but what we don’t realize is that laxative has dangerous potentials to our digestive systems. A friend of mine recently complains about how worse his colon condition was. It was continued even after he changed his diet to high fiber foods. His only resort is laxative and it was turned okay for a while. However, after a long exposure, his condition was getting worse. As gross as it might sounds, his feces was all liquids and extra painful after relying on laxative for three straight weeks. After asking from an ND (naturopathy doctor) friend of mine (he was too shy to ask himself), I finally get all the answer.
The liquids came from the foods and drinks plus digestive substances like bile and pancreatic enzymes. Normally, intestine will absorb 90% of those liquids so when feces enters the colon, it will become solid. The liquids are useful to provide easier nutrition absorbtion.

The laxatives however, reduce the original function directly. You see the laxative mechanism is usually to stimulate our intestine’s peristaltic pump, makes our stomach aches and force our colon to push our feces out, including all the ions and enzymes that happen to be unabsorbed by our intestines. That is why feces are mushy and watery.

Long term usages of laxative could interrupt electrolyte balance in our blood, causing dehydration, infections, indigestion, and continous cycle of diarrhea and constipation. In short, using laxative is not as useful as you may think.

Eating high fiber foods will not solve constipation problem overnight if your colon condition was already occurred for a long time. Chronic constipation could make your colon deformed, causing constriction and prolapses, disturbing the sewage flow in your large intestines. Stoppage could also be caused by tumor, infection, polip, or worms.Check your condition to your internist specialist before handling your constipation problems.

While undergoing treatment, healthy diets should be maintained. For a while avoid fatty foods like deep fried or red meats. Also avoid wheat and high fructose foods. Continue your high fiber diet up and try to consume your fruits and vegetables raw. Consume a lot of water and chew your food a little while. Those were what my ND friend recommended for those dependent to laxatives.

Prevent Flu

Ten Foods that Could Prevent Flu

There is a quote that says “prevention is better than cure” meaning that it is better to keep our body healthy than curing a disease. As for flu, it is the best maneuver. Flu is hard to keep track off because it has so many strain, from the dangerous swine flu to our everyday cold. Flu virus is notorious because they evolved easily, so inventing a vaccine is trivial. The only way to avoid flu is to keep our condition as healthy as possible and here are ten foods to keep yourself away from flu.

• Red bell peppers. Red bell pepper contains vitamin C as much as a glass of orange juice. Beside that, pepper also contains capcaisin, natural irritant to increase metabolism. Vitamin C and capcaisin could reduce flu symptoms and improve our immunity.

• Carrot. Yellow/Red vegetables like carrot contain beta-carotene (vitamin A), great nutrition for T-cell. T-cell is important for immunity, protect our body from virus and pathogen bacteria.

• Almond. Almonds are famous for its vitamin E contents, a good anti-oxidant that could repel infection.

• Sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes contains a lot of vitamin A and vitamin C, they also have a unique protein called glutathione, which might be a potent antioxidant. Though further research is needed for this area, its healing properties is good.

• Chicken Soup. Chicken soup is famous as anti inflammatory foods and reducing mucus production in our body especially in our throat and respiratory tract. Hot food helps our body balance its temperature and raise metabolism level. That is why mom always gives us a hot chicken soup when we catch cold.

• Garlic. Sulfur compound in garlic is scientifically approved as a virus killer and prevent diseases asides from its vampire repellent property.

• Ginger. Ginger have a unique compound called gingerol. Gingerol. Gingerol functioned as a natural antiseptic, helps repel unnecessary infections.

• Salmon. Salmon is a major source of Omega-3 fatty acid. Omega-3 have many benefits, including increase one’s immunity against infection.

• Mushrooms. Almost all kind of shroom contains selenium. Selenium helps white blood cells produce cytokines which cure infection. Shrooms also contains beta-glucan, anti-mycobacteria.

• Dark chocolates. Eating dark chocolates helps T-cells development. T-cells as we know is important for our natural immunity.
  

Connection behind mind and heart, Meditation to help your heart

As cliché as it sounds, I wasn’t gonna give you any lesson in poetry, or whining like an emo. I mean about heart, the important lump of independent muscle in your chest, and mind, fat and nerve cells in your head. Heart attack is actually blood failing to give nutrition to your heart, while some would say this is an acute disease, developing a heart condition is not as easy as flipping your middle finger providing you live the way a human should live.

What’s its connection with our mind then? You see stress, is considered the main cause of hypertension and heart attack. Thankfully, Herbert Benson, MD, and his colleagues from Harvard Medical School found positive connection between heart disease treatment and mind consoling after watching a group of people who practicing Trancendental Meditation.

Any kind of meditation, praying, or breathing exercises are important in healing process in those who have heart condition. It is considered an adverse effect from stress, instead giving more workload to brain, it help our mind relax. These relaxing effects reduce blood pressure, breath rate, heartbeat, and oxygen consumption, blood pressure to head muscles, sweat, and general muscle tension. Hypertension journal even said that relaxation effect is as good as effects from drugs.

How do we do this relaxation then?

First step to total relaxation is meditation. There are so many variants of meditation, but importantly, do it in secluded and quiet place where you can sit still without any interruption. Do it as comfortable as possible for 15-20 minutes.

While meditating, focus attention on one thing that makes you aware of the existence at that time. You can try focusing on wind noise, water, or your chanting, sentences, or constant praying, you could also focusing on how you do your breathing process, feel every elements in it. If you lose your focus, return it slowly until you re-focused.

Second step can only be done when you are in total focus state. Try to move your focus on part of your body, begin from your toes. Breath as you are breathing for your toes, do about ten second and proceed upwards to another part of your body. Do it until you reach your brain, breath, and keep focusing. Other alternatives are to imagine part of our body as something else, for example as ice, where each of our breath melts it. After you complete all the steps, open your eyes slowly and breathe normally. Consistency is the key to gain maximum healing from this relaxation method, try to do it regularly in constant interval.

Why Being an Active Citizen is Important

Politics, Was it Always About Choosing Between a Giant Douche and Turd Sandwich?


I was just watching my old South Park episodes (yeah, I am a big fan of South Park) when I came through an episode called 'Douche and Turd'. In that episode, South Park Elementary is dismayed after their long time mascot, a cow, is banned after a PETA protester protest (didn't see that coming, did ya?) the usage of cow as a mascot because it is unethical and cruel. Disappointed by bland choice the school provided, Kyle and Cartman decide to rally for a new joke candidate, a giant douche and a turd sandwich respectively. Long story short, the rallies get too far and the whole town exaggerating about the election while Stan ends up in banishment because he doesn't want to choose between a douche and a turd.

Anyway, have you ever heard that 'neither did I' jokes?

Neither did I. Oh sorry, back to topic then. This episode is hilarious, especially when the mascot have to debate in presidential debate style, but the point is, when it comes around politics, you will always have to choose between a douche and a turd. Okay maybe the turds is covered by a delicious sandwich (?) or the douche is in its wonderful wrapping, but in the end they just douche and turd. Don't believe me? Watch your parliament debating a useless trash on TV (Century Gate in Indonesia for example). It was like watching douche spraying over big fat turd and vice-versa.

So election is useless? I've never said that, think about it carefully. A load of turds could fertilize your arid land and douche may useful for mmm... well... women hygiene. They may be full of shit and have a load of craps, but without them, who want to think and act globally to "maintain" and "stabilize" your country? Anything of your choice will have a major effect in determining the future of your country, maybe the turds are better maybe the douches do, if you did not vote, you have no right to complain? Get it? Neither do I....

Remember the next time general election comes to your country, apathy won't do any good. These are turds and douches you are voting for, you have to be extra careful when considering which one you want to vote for, choose the lesser evil and your country will do just fine to become less miserable than past five years.

Happiness for Sale?

If you have the right to choose, what will you buy, expensive Armani's suit or vacation to Bali with your significant others?

Greek' Aristotle said that experiences is much more valuable than possessions. Is it true? to prove it, two psychological expert, Leav Van Boven from University of Colorado and Thomas Gilovich from Cornell University, had researched about connectivity between discretion of money usages for buying stuffs (clothes, jewelry) and for enhancing experiences such as vacation etc.

Thorough phone surveys toward 1279 adult respondents, it was known that buying experiences (57%) made them happier and content than buying vanity items and possessions even after the price have been calculated.

Though the surveys does not include books, cds, and fitness utensils because both items, while technically a vanity things, also offer personal experiences. Both researchers also found that women (surprisingly, come on...) gain more pleasures from experiences than men, while men fully enjoy they travels and experiences only when they do it with family or close friends. They've also concluded that people who have high revenues and highly educated choose experiences than possessions because limited allowance give the tendency to buy possessions based on the mindsets that new stuff will probably increase their quality of life. Highly educated people also known to immune from vanity trends.

However, people still need to know that unlike possessions, experiences becomes more and more valuable overtime. If possessions will become obsolete and could be thrown out anytime, experiences will not. We reinterpreted it and give it new values as we remember or retelling the experiences. No matter how many times you retells it or write it on a book then sells it, it will still be the part of your life. Unlike possessions, which will be another person's property once you sell it to them:). Telling people it was yours won't make you happier, unless Barrack Obama bought it from you.

Relativity, an Insight from a Commoner

I am sure that we all know that relativity theory is the greatest things found in physics by the genius Albert Einstein. To be frank I myself has studied it thoroughly through my highschool-college period but never realized the true meaning of quantum physics in our everyday life. I will not waste your time with scientific gibberish but I will try to view it as a normal person whom struggling to gain eternal happiness.

The term relativity itself means the quality of being relative and having significance only in relation to something else. It means that co-existence is absolute in relativity to measure the approximation of quality in every object. Within Einstein theory, an object's velocity is relative to the speed of light depending on which other objects view it.

The theory does not exclusive in determining velocity or looking for other scientific facts but it is also the right way to measure the most classic problem, good or evil. For example, I say loudly that I am a good person, this statement is completely true if and only if all things in the universe said so. So we could say that people have no right to judge because there is no absolute truth except the truth is accepted by every people in the universe. That is why we called past event as history. World is about perception, a point of view, depends on how you percepts certain situation. What is his story? what is her story? what is your story?

So if the truth and lies are just a collection of perception, is that mean that there is no such thing as both before universe were created? I don't know about you but for me, i think there is always a great entity that could overwrites all of the perception and relativity around us, because He created it long before Einstein could understand the idea behind it. Just like ordinary math, real number, integer number comes from infinity to infinity and inside there is always a subset or lattice that could precedence our existence in the universe.

Existence and nonexistence of humanity marks earth history and it was written all along before it could happen, the only things that differs is every actors inside history has freewill, the greatest gift of being human.

5 Tips to Recognize Scam Emails

Internet is relatively dangerous. Like in real life, there are plenty of low life trying to screw you up. Scam emails are one of the methods these scumbags do to rip you off. Scam emails is the type of email used to gain people personal information like password, social security number, creditcards, and bank accounts. These scammers are so confident with their emails they forget that people would know and could spot right away if it is a scam alright. Here is the five things to recognize if emails in your inbox are scam or not.

1. The spelling. Check out the spelling in the emails, usually scam emails are written by 15 year old boy from chinese or other third world country, like Indonesia. They often use google translate and we know that the service is unreliable to write official emails.
2. The urgency and threat. Scam emails usually warned us about the urgency of matters which actually are not. Sentences like, "hurry up or your account will closed down!!!" or anything like that is definitely scams. You see that scammers are idiots that they don't know capslock and exclamation marks are annoying. Real company' emails will never rush you to do anything because they offer convenient services. Competition is hard today, rushing people will not get you anywhere. Even if you've received urgent emails from your trusted friends, call them first, check if the information is right.
3. Signatures and Names. Service emails are professionally written and have clear explanation about the identity of the sender. So next time you see vague description like "Customer Service" or something like that, it is definitely scam.
4. Link. Scam emails often try to lead you to phishing websites (don't know what phishing is? type "define: phishing" on google). Check the link carefully, if it is directing you to an unknown vague and look alike sites, for example "www.f***boo*s.com/login", it is definitely scam.
5. Check the Attachment. Scams emails usually contains executable attachment, don't ever bother downloading those.

Smart people only get scammed when they let themselves to be scammed, always skeptical and question every single thing in your life. One last piece of advice, don't ever answer to scam emails, while that is fun for a while, your email address will receive load of spam in the next months. I hope this article helps you in your healthy surf on the internet. Good Day!

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