Oral health is one of the major topics in the study of human body. Oral health is related to the problems that concerns about mouth, facial pain, throat cancer, sores in the mouth or throat, cleft lip, diseases related to gum, tooth and any other disorders that are related to mouth and throat. The cleft in the lips is one of important problems that should be removed as this problem makes people mentally handicapped and several NGO’s are funding for the plastic surgery to make their smile beautiful. Raised tooth is one of the common problems that are faced by so many people and this can be easily solved.

The major causes for these oral problems are due to smoking, drinking and generally causes along with the other major health problems like heart diseases, cancer, respiratory problems, diabetes etc. We can reduce these oral problems by the following some preventive measures.

• Decreased intake of sugars or chocolates and good diet will prevent the tooth decay and reduces the toothache problems.
• Brush your teeth daily two times in the morning as well as before going to bed.
• Quit smoking as this is one of the biggest reason for all kinds of oral diseases.
• Stop drinking overly which affects not only the oral cavity but also other body parts like heart, liver, lungs etc.
• Eat fruits and vegetables as much as possible which will protect the oral cavity from all problems.
• Don’t allow any kind of dust to go into the mouth while travelling.
• Watch children eating whatever they hold which contains several poisonous substances and affects the child throat very easily.
• Try to drink only mineral water or water that was boiled to avoid the problems caused due to fluoride content in the drinking water.
• Use good tooth paste and clean the tooth well.
• Try to avoid having very cold or very hot substances which affect the oral parts.

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We all know the health benefits of Yogurt and the related products which are made from the fermented milk. The interest towards this Yogurt has been increasing very much as people are becoming more health conscious and caring so much about their health. The number of frozen yogurt franchise is increasing very much as this product became one of the varieties of diets and nutritional plans. The quality yogurt consists of seven types of live active cultures making this as a healthier health diet and this contains less fats and more healthier than ice cream so more people are preferring this product. The new flavors and widening of the varieties, increasing the customers to this product. As the awareness among the people is increasing and the more people want to have this product, franchises are also increasing very much rapidly.

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All over the world the hot topic that’s going now is about Swine Flu. Recently it hit the Asian countries including India after severely attacking the western countries. People are afraid of this disease as there is no permanent medicine that was discovered till now. Even the medicine that was discovered and thought to attack swine flu was useless. Actually the problem is that it acts very similar to cold and cough that we catch usually when the climate is cool but the only extra symptom with swine flu is that we get fever along with cold and cough. Even though very less people who attacked with swine flu died but we should consider it as a serious issue as it doesn’t has any medicine to cure. Actually this disease spreads very easily through the air when we cough or sniff so preventing this is somewhat difficult as we can’t stop people who cough or sniff.  “Prevention is better than cure” so we should follow some preventive measures to reduce the spreading of this disease and to prevent ourselves from getting this disease.  Here are some of the preventive measures that should be followed:

• Don’t involve in the mass meetings as if any one of them is affected, we can easily affected.
• Always use the mouth mask when you talk with others.
• Don’t shake hands or any other kind of body attachments with a person suffering from the flu. Even if you do, clean your hands cleanly with some anti-bacterial solution.
• Clean your hands before eating or after you complete your job.
• Take hot drinks like a hot coffee or black tea which can show good effect on cold.

Be careful with this virus

There are some scientifically proved prevention measures for swine flu using very simple household products. They are:

• Inhale clove oil or eucalyptus oil for some seconds.
• Chew 1 clove every day.
• Take as much garlic as possible along with the food as it contains so many useful antibacterial products.
• Drink hot milk with turmeric in it.
• Consume plenty of vitamin C fruits like lemon or oranges or Amla.

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Good nutrition is an important thing for everyone for our survival, growth, mental development, health etc. In the case of a small baby, milk from the mother is the only nutrition that they can take and live. As their digestion system and all other parts of the body are not completely developed when they come out of the mother’s womb they can only digest the milk from the mother but most of the modern mothers hesitate to breast feeding of their child. This situation is most prevalent in the western countries.  There are so many different reasons for this situation but this affects the child health very much. One of the major reasons is due to unawareness among the people and thinks their breasts may become distorted when they give the milk.

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There will be several bad affects that the child will be affected because of artificial feeding. Breastfeeding actually complements very much in developing the bonding with the mother after they come out of the womb and also helps for the anti-social development of the baby. Not only these but also breast feeding is the best and nutritious diet for the infants. The better the health in the childhood builds better future health resistance power and makes the child strong enough to resist for different health diseases like polio, whooping cough etc. Most of the child deaths occurring are due to the lack of proper breast feeding and these are the facts given by WHO.  So avoid artificial feeding and know the importance of breast feeding. Theres lot of advertisement going on in supporting the breast feeding. Even the acctresses like angelina jolie also participating in this support. See our list of Famous People Breastfeeding pictures.

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A simple way to know if the weight is within normal levels is to find the BMI for short or BMI. To find the VMI divide our body weight (in kilograms) by height us (in meters) squared. For example:

if the weight of an adult male is 75 kg and height 1.80 meters, the BMI is 75 / 1802 = 23.14.

The burden on our index BMI assessed as follows:

BMI Assessment

Weight less than 20 less than normal
20 to 25 Normal
25 to 30 overweight
30 to 40 obese
Over 40 Overly obese

To have meaningful indications of the scale should be weighed every five days and preferably at the same time of day. As mentioned above the daily weighing may lead to wrong conclusions.

How to stabilize our body weight ?

The best way to maintain stable body weight is to us a balance between action hiring with food and energy consumed by the various physical activities. When you spend periods of intense physical activity is logical that we need more calories, and when we follow a sedentary life should be reduced accordingly and the action taken by the food.

An important factor other than the correct calorie intake is to be a proper balance in nutrients. The foods we consume should contain all three types of nutrients ie carbohydrates, lipids and proteins, while it should be rich in vitamins, minerals and trace elements. We should mention here that the vitamins minerals and trace elements do not contain energy, but it is essential to the body, and without them can not be carried out many vital functions of the body.

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