Obesity

Friday, May 8, 2009

Obesity or the ordinary as we know obesity is a problem that is quite amongst troubled adolescents. On young girls, obesity is becoming a serious problem, because the desire to appear perfect is often defined with the body has a slim / slender and proportionately, is the craving for them. This is worsened by the many ads on television, newspapers and other mass media that always stick-figure women the slim figure and the various ad herb medicines, food and beverages to streamline the body. As a result, millions dollars to spend strict diet, medication, and treatment-treatment in order to lose weight.

Not different from the young girls, adolescent men are afraid to be fat. For them, men who have excess weight will be considered the problems serious enough to attract the type of opponent. Many adolescent males who expect to create the ideal body (a little muscular / stocky) and their desire for it on the part of the activities are channeled through youth sports, but unfortunately for those overweight sporting activities akan feel as punishment. This is often used by the seller of the products, drugs or food penurun weight and lightweight sports equipment.

View the phenomenon with which this happens now, is not excessive if it is said that Obesity is a complex problem often faced by adolescents and adults is also included. This is reflected in a lot of money spent to do the diet, buy drugs weight loss, sports equipment that aims to reduce body weight. 

Obesity or overweight occurs when the body fat (obese) because of the cumulation adipose (adipocytes: a network of stored fat body-specific) excessive. Obesity is a condition so where someone has a weight heavier than the weight ideally occur because of the cumulation of fat in the body.

Obesity in the face, often a teenager react excessive. Not infrequently they were also frustrated because even if the strict diet is to consume and herb medicines or weight loss, the body weight does not decrease. What actually happened? To answer these questions we need to see the factors that caused Obesity. According to experts, is based on the results of research, Obesity can be affected by various factors. These factors are genetic factors, disfungsi a part of the brain, the pattern of excessive eating, lack of movement / sport, emotional, and environmental factors

Want to lose your Weight? do not Stress

Lose weight often becomes a major problem and create stress. Various kinds of diet from the most simple to the most expensive have been tried, but the body weight down briefly, not long then increased again. What's wrong? So what diet is best?

Lose weight in fact closely related to the level of stress someone. If we see more people over the age of 100 years, most of them have the ideal body weight does not alias excess body weight. World modern psychology does not call this a sign of neurosisme. They successfully handle stress well, so in general they are more healthy so that most people's measure kortisol they are also more balanced, the body's immune function better and the ratio of metabolism maintained properly.

Indeed, life in this modern era, we often have to deal with things that can cause stress, ranging from congestion on the road, office affairs, domestic affairs and so forth. This is part of the dynamics of modern life. In the United States alone during the last 10 years the number of visits to the spa to remove the stress increased 71%.

Decrease in stress levels can reduce body weight - this is the result of several research studies in the United States is from Yale University, University of California and several other. If the stress level down someone, kortisol degree (major stress hormone in the body associated with a number of health problems - including Obesity) return to normal level so that it can reduce body fat content, control blood pressure, balance blood sugar and control appetite.

In addition, yoga, massage, exercise and eating the right also to provide benefits to control stress and anti kortisol. Stress causes increased body weight, because kortisol circulating and provide high signal to the brain to increase appetite. Kortisol also provide signals to fat cells for as much as we may hold fat, even when we are trying to reduce calories Feed to lose weight.

If your stress, reduce body weight is also more difficult, because of excessive kortisol slow body metabolism. That is why if you really want the weight of the body and the ideal body shape, you should not in a state of stress. In addition to regular sport, healthy living and eating the right way, manage your stress level, so that the lower body weight becomes easier.

Stress signaling from Skin and Hair

Problems deadline work, couples who are cranky, the boss is always not satisfied until the child is sick. All these problems are common, but can result in stress if you can not mengkontrolnya. Stress can create emotional and physical changes, such as quickly tired, dizzy, or easy emotions. However, stress can also lead to changes in your condition dermatology. Dermatoligist Flor A. Mayoral, MD, FAAD, clinical consultant at the department of dermatology and skin surgery at the Medical Faculty of the University of Miami, Florida, due to the stress conditions that affect the skin, hair and nails, and to control the tip-gejela these symptoms.

Stress and Skin 

When a stress, production of hormones (cortisol) rises. This hormone to increase production of excessive oil in the body. As a result, the pimple appears. A research note that the Archives of Dermatology, Psychological Stress Perturbs Epidermal Permeability Barrier Homeostasis, revealed that stress has a negative effect so that the skin can not function normally. One consequence is the emergence of even pustule on the person who does not even have a pimple problem.

Stress and hair 

There are many reasons why hair may fall out. However, Dr. Flor more confident, stress is a major cause of Hair Loss suddenly. Explanation is when a stress, the hair entry in telogen phase (of hair fall out). Telogen effluvium is the phase normal hair fall that appears in the 3 months after an incident that makes someone stress. However, the hair will grow again within 6 - 9 months. Dr. Flor explained although this is normal, but should still be examined by dermatologist for more thorough examination. "I can not ask the patient to make a strict diet because of lack of nutrition and a decrease in body weight can make a drastic kerontokkan hair," said Dr. Flor.

Psychological Condition on Pregnancy

Monday, May 4, 2009

Burden of physical and mental usually experienced by pregnant women because of hormonal and physical changes to it, such as a broad form of the body and emotional condition of the up and down. This burden is often worsened with the emergence of trauma pregnancy, so that the problems faced by mothers is more complex. 

Trauma during pregnancy, can come from many factors. Trivial things such as watch horror movie can bring trauma when the previous problem if the mother does not witness any type of movie: Horror, fight, or thriller. However, when pregnant, the scene is horrific, chilling, or the imprint can be very distressing and culminate into trauma. Mother so afraid to go to the bathroom alone, afraid steer the car, worried that something will occur that threaten the life, the thrill alone in the night, and so forth. This fear became very abundant, so that it is the psychological condition.

Not all mothers to realize that physical and psychological aspects of the two things are related, the influence of mutual-influence, or almost inseparable. If less good physical condition, the process of thinking, mood, emotion and control the action in daily life will be affected by negative electrical current. Among other things, mood or emotions quickly changed circumstances, increased sensitivity, and changes in patterns or food choices that will also affect the self-concept of the mother. 

Psychological conditions experienced by the mother during pregnancy, and will again affect the physiological activity in itself. The dark mood and emotions that explode-tap ledak can affect the heart, blood pressure, production of adrenalin, sweat gland activity, sekresi sour stomach, and others. Trauma, stress, or psychological stress can also create physical symptoms such as tired, listless, easy to anger, anxiety, dizziness, nausea, or feeling lazy.

Because the changes affect the physical and psychological aspects of it, so easy for pregnant women to experience the trauma. According to Shinto, this trauma that can be perceived by the fetus. In fact, embryo already showed reaction to the stimulation comes from outside the body of his mother. Meanwhile, in the development of the fetus, there are times that are considered critical to the establishment of a body organ. Therefore, would not want pregnant women should maintain the physical and psychological conditions so that the baby can grow healthy.