Thursday, October 29, 2009

7 foods to make young

In addition to improving lifestyle with daily exercise, there are some foods that can keep you young.
Here, as quoted by Media Indonesia Web MD site.
1. Olive oil: Olive oil can suppress not only heart disease and cancer, but the content is polyfenol antioxidants that can help prevent aging.
2. Yogurt: Yogurt is rich in calcium can prevent osteoporosis, and contains good bacteria that can maintain health and reduce the appearance of diseases associated with age.
3. Fish: Fish is a source of omega-3 fats are very large, which can prevent cholesterol buildup in arteries and protect against heart problems.
4. Chocolate: Cacao, the chocolate base material, contain flavanol that help maintain healthy blood vessel function. Keeping youth vessel lower the risk of high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, kidney pain, and madness.
5. Nuts: Nuts are rich in sources of unsaturated fats, which have the same benefits of olive oil. Nuts also contain many vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and so on.
6. Wine: Drinking alcohol, especially wine, at the present time it can protect yourself from heart disease, diabetes, and lost his memory due to age. Red wine (red wine) may activate genes that slow cellular aging.
7. Blueberry: A study of animals shows that blueberries may extend. The composition of the blueberries may reduce inflammation and oksidative danger, which related to the decline of memory and motor function associated with age.

AIDS epidemic in the World

AIDS epidemic in the World
WORLDWIDE

The late 1970s - are currently
More than 22,000,000 People Killed


Twenty years after the first clinical evidence of decreased immune
have been reported, AIDS is most devastating disease ever
reported. Since the epidemic began, more than 60 million people infected with the virus
This ... this disease is the fourth largest killer in the world
-UNAIDS Joint United Nations Program on HIV / AIDS

In 1991, the World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that by the end of this century, 40 million people worldwide could be infected by the HIV virus that causes AIDS.
In December 2001, UNAIDS and WHO Program reported that, worldwide, 40 million people have been infected by the HIV virus. We can ensure that the World Health Organization is not happy because this has proven true.
AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome - is a disease caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (Virus Human Immune decline - HIV). The virus is spread through infected blood and sexual contact with an infected person (whether homosexual or heterosexual), and from mother to fetus. The AIDS virus has been isolated in 1984 by Dr. Richard Gallo of the U.S. National Cancer Institude, and Dr. Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute of Paris.
Currently, there is no cure for AIDS, although care has increased to the point where many in the medical field now believe that this disease is more chronic (chronic) and not switched off immediately. Elements of this vulnerable control is not stopping the spread of this disease, and in any case, is now estimated that in 2004, the mortality rate refers to the AIDS death rate has exceeded the Black Death, and the Great Influenza Epidemic of 1918. Dr. Ward Cates, formerly with the Centers for Disease Control in the book by David Chilton, entitled Power in the blood, that "Every person who has the least ability to look at the future, be able to see that the potential of this disease is worse compared to anything I've ever seen people humans before. "(Emphasis added).
AIDS appeared in Africa in the 1950s, may have originated from green monkeys, and believed to have been transmitted to humans when an infected monkeys by the HIV virus has infected lab worker. A steward who is gay in ten cities through unsafe sex, and the disease then began to spread rapidly in the gay community. There is now widespread in women and children, just as occurred among homosexual.
AIDS attacks the human immune system through three disease processes: immunodeficiency, Autoimmunity, and nervous system dysfunction.
Immunodeficiency caused by AIDS causing infections and cancer drift attacking the body, and because the immune system becomes weak, damaged, or not working properly. Therefore, the body can not fight it.
Autoimmunity caused by AIDS is marked by a decrease in the number of pieces of blood, which in turn causes the organ does not function properly, as well as susceptibility to disease.
AIDS also attack the nervous system, although the perpetrators of the research has not found any specific dementia caused by AIDS, and believes that it is associated with nerve damage caused by the HIV virus.
Common disease in AIDS patients include pneumonia, Kaposi sarcoma (cancer of the blood vessels), lymphoma (cancer of the lymph nodes), as well as with various cancers and other infections. Treatment is now directed to slow the spread of the virus in the body and improve the quality of life of patients with infections and how to treat cancers caused by AIDS.
The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta have reported the alarming statistical data following the report in June 2001.

• At present, 40 million people are estimated to live with HIV / AIDS. Of this amount 37.2 million are adults, 17.6 million are women, and 2.7 million are children under the age of fifteen years
• During the year 2001, AIDS is estimated to have caused the death of 3 million people, including 1.1 million women and 580,000 children under the age of fifteen years
• Women become more vulnerable to HIV. An estimated 48 percent or 17.6 million of the 37.2 million adults living with HIV or AIDS worldwide are women
• Most people living with HIV - about 95 percent of the total - now live in developing countries

AIDS is a hot topic in industrial countries high income. Sexual nature of its spread, and the fact that the disease appeared for the first time in the case of homosexuals, has brought the anti-gay sentiment is strong ¬ from the conservatives, and those who believe that their religion says homosexuality is wrong. Many people believe that AIDS is a punishment from God, so that they are struggling to encourage use of condoms and safe sex education, and believes that only through the cessation of homosexual practice was going to eliminate this disease from the world. This view is somewhat narrow-minded, because many people are infected at this time are heterosexual women, children, people who received blood transfuse infected, and a user of prohibited drugs is too late a needle into the vein.
Whatever the means of spreading the HIV virus or the social group most affected, the reality is that AIDS is one of the worst pandemic mankind pernahy hit. If the virus mutates so that it can be transmitted through the air, then AIDS is very easy to destroy life on earth.
Need for a vaccine and a cure is very important, because we can not ensure that AIDS will destroy itself, as is the case with the Black Death and influenza.




1 AIDS began to surface in the late 1970s, although the United States principal research could trace it back to the blood sample in the 1950s
UNAIDS Program reported 2 deaths due to AIDS as much as 2.8 million people in 1999, and in its final report, 3 million deaths from AIDS have occurred worldwide in 2001. Allegedly, in the future increase in mortality rates and a pandemic is predicted to be fatal in higher numbers in the world.
3 Rebecca J. Frey, www.gale.com (Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine)
Observation Reports 4 HIV / AIDS, 2002

Small - Small But Dangerous Caution!

Usually animals enacting large we are afraid, but the list below shows only small animals may be dangerous reply or rather "painful". Although most of us rarely see the little creature is but a lot of cases declared the attack happened to a lot of people every year. This list does not include water animals.

1. Ticks (FLEAS).
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Lice occupy the second rank after the mosquito as the agent of disease spread throughout most of this earth. They are sucking the blood from the "victim" (animal or human) ditempelinya reply.
Eradicating these creatures proved difficult because they usually leave the posterior head causing serious infection on his victim. Human disease is attributable ticks: Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia, Equine Encephalitis, Colorado Tick Fever, African Tick Bite Fever, and Ehrlichiosis (gk know what Indonesian ni, maybe gatel-gatel ya ...)

2. Tarantula Hawk.
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Not a tarantula but the headliner was a sort of insect hunt tarantulas reply as its main prey. Dangerous than the sting of this insect, one of the researchers-been stung by a Tarantula Hawk describes it "... all parts of the body becomes paralyzed because of the pain rara avis, and the only reply you may still be able to do is ... Scream!"

3. Tsetse fly.
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It is a big fly from Africa wrote to suck blood from animals and humans. They are cause illness "Sleeping Sickness" in humans and "Nagana" in cattle. Sleeping sickness caused by the parasite called Trypanosoma reply reply is transmitted from these flies. The symptoms of this disease are fever and headache creeper up to the neck. In the advanced stage patients will experience sleep for days and insomnia can reply ended with death.

4. Africanized Bees (Killer Bees).
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This bee is produced from a cross between kimpoi Tanzanian queen bees with other species gk yg deliberately separated from the laboratory (rich in a monster film aja). What makes these bees is deadly instinct in defending the nest and the tendency for clustering.
They are also known to pursue its enemies, despite being far from the nest. I actually bee venom is the same as regular honey bees, but because they are very aggressive and adopt keroyokan system in attacking the victim could die because of this.

5. Deathstalker.
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His name is cool well. This is the type of scorpion venom is very dangerous reply. Usually consists of a mixture of substances neurotoxin, although the sting can gk yg kill a man healthy, but for small children or elderly injections this scorpion can be deadly. Ironically this kalajengkin jg can be used as drugs to brain tumors and diabetes.

6. Black Widow.
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These animals are known everywhere because usually more deadly cousin of the Rattlesnake bite. Fortunately for the small size of this spider can be produced jg yg gk too much, thereby reducing its effectiveness.

7. Army Ants (or Soldier Ant)
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When they were alone emang gk dangerous. But they are everywhere always clustered in the number of massive. And very dangerous reply ants around your house there is. Because when they are hungry your house can be invaded by these ants war with the army wrote the number could reach 50 million ants!
One of the victims (human) ant attack was reported to have died because of shortness of breath. Yes ants are attacking humans by entering the lung cavity so that the victim suffocated and then eat the organs of the body from the inside.

8. Bullet Ants (Ant bullet).
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This ant bites will not kill you. But you would not be able to forget it because these ants occupy one ranking as the animal with the most painful bite-been found in humans. Hence the name bite the bullet because it felt like a gun shot.
The bullet ant is ranked first in "Schmidt Sting Pain Index" and described its bite reply cause "heat wave irritation, pain and all the pain-been there - and wrote worse it lasts for 24 hours"

9. Anopheles Mosquito (Anopheles mosquitoes).
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Mosquitoes are regarded as the most deadly creatures in the world. For what? Every year they are the cause 300 million cases of malaria throughout the world where 1 to 3 million cases ended in death.
Anopheles mosquitoes also brought outbreaks of dengue fever, elephantiasis (elephantiasis) and yellow fever. They are active only at night.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Ecstasy

Ecstasy
(XTC, Inex, ADAM CLARITY, E, FANTASY PILLS, cece, CEIIN, BUTTONS, ROLLS, BEANS, Flipper, HAMMER)

What is it?

Ecstasy is a psychoactive substance that is stimulant (boost brain works). Usually made by a dark factory, so as ecstasy no longer refer to a particular material, but some materials that have the same effect on the wearer.
Usually in the form of tablets, with various shapes and sizes, there is also a form of powder or capsule.

How injecting wear?
Usually swallowed but can also be inhaled or injected.

His influence on how the user?
Ecstasy increased empathy and closeness toward others. Users feel more outgoing and enthusiastic.

Is Danger Ecstasy user?
Immediately after using ecstasy, emotional mental activity increases due to physiological changes the body and excessive feelings of joy (euphoria). Occurs dehydration and dehydration, dizziness and fatigue. The organic system can not control body temperature. Ecstasy also destroys the internal organs like the liver and kidneys. Seizures can occur and heart failure.
Large Doses ecstasy cause anxiety, can not be silent, anxiety and hallucinations. long-term ecstasy use can damage the brain, and even cause depression, memory disturbance and psychosis or mental disorder.

Other Hazards

Ecstasy tablets may contain other substances that are dangerous, the different influences and strength.

Monday, October 26, 2009

BLACK DEATH

BLACK DEATH
EUROPE

1347-1351
75,000,000 People Killed

How many valiant men, how many beautiful women have breakfast with the family, and on that night, dinner with their ancestors in the next world! When witnessed, the condition of these people to invite pity. They were sick with thousands of people every day, died without accompanied, and without help. Many of them were killed in the open street, others dying in their homes, which is known through the stench of rotting bodies. Page churches that have been purified enough to accommodate the graves of the dead corpse reams of them, the bodies piled up hundreds of them in a very wide moat, like food in a boat, and wrapped up by the earth.
- Giovanni Boccaccio --

Jonathan

Jonathan settlement is a major city of the houses the bodies. There are a dozen rows of small houses stretched down the street was not paved little, in a small English village, and the people who have died inhabiting the houses along this road. Outbreaks have destroyed his village so quickly, so that all family members left without burial, and no prayer offered for any bodies. Dead city stench was blowing through the township with a distance of a mile.
Jonathan ignores a warm wind that does not meet this season, and moved slowly along the small house, supporting herself slowly along her little house, supporting himself with his left hand as she staggered toward a hole in her yard. This is the fourth day of illness, and he only has less than an hour to live.
Jonathan suffered from headaches throb, which has obscured his view. This he had never experienced before, and he was so tired that almost no strength to drag himself into the yard to pee. Although a small house and one-room had been littered with feces, vomit, and blood wife and children who have died, but Jonathan did not want to dirty his own house intentionally. Scripture will talk about the cleanliness of piety, and Jonathan are those who fear and obey God. So he dragged his feet, step by step into the small hole used by the family as a toilet, as he walked unsteadily to pray that she does not fall down and die here, outside, away from his family.
Jonathan reached thats hole at the edge of standing for a moment, his body swaying as dizzy and sick. When he felt steady enough to continue, so he loosened his pants, reached inside and pulled out his penis. He took a deep breath, and urine began to flow, he suffered terrible pain, burning and stinging lower back, and the folding legs. Breathing heavily, Jonathan looked down, saw that her urine red thick blackish, boiling like a fire, get out of his dying and disappearing into the depths of the hole.
Jonathan spirit rose because the sight of the dirty, black liquid which was unusual. "Ah, the poison has left my body," muttered Jonathan. "Praise God in all his glory."
A few last drops dripped from the body of Jonathan, more hurt than full flow he had just made, and he carefully put his pants, and a weak his zipper closed.
He returned to the house, feeling a little bit better because relief discard urine.
Jonathan made it into the house and immediately sat on the wooden table where she and her family had eaten all their meals, almost twelve years.
He looked at the bed in the corner of the room, and tears filled his eyes as he looked at the body of his wife, Sarah, who had died, along with their two daughters, Mary and Anna. She lies on her back with the girls on each arm. Their skin black, almost purple, and tubers develop large, protruding from their necks. They lay in a dirty puddle, and the flies buzzing over their bodies decompose quickly.
Black Death had approached a small village five days before Jonathan. Sarah and the girls get sick and they all died horrible deaths within three days. Jonathan knew that the time has arrived, and he silently prayed for a quick death. He knows that this is better than praying for a peaceful death.
Jonathan closed his eyes and tried to slow her breathing. When he inhale and exhale violently, his eyes began to blur and his headache suddenly got worse. In an instant he lost his sight at all, began vomiting, and suffered violent attacks. He fell from his chair and lay on my back. He kept shaking and thrashing around, and despite the final moments, he kept thinking about his family. Jonathan wanted to die with his wife and daughters, and he tried hard to crawl into bed where they lay.
But it was too late. Jonathan's body begins to bleed, blood and fluids out of her body. The last time through the agony and empty mind, and at the heart beating for the last time, he died with his arms reaching toward right beside wife and daughters.
Jonathan villages had been destroyed.

A year after Jonathan's death, a group of monks who were wandering the village came and found the houses inhabited by the skeletons of silence. At the end of the city, the head monk say prayer for the souls of the dead, then nodded toward his monks. With flaming torches, these monks lit a fire in the town and waited until all the houses on fire, before continuing their journey. That night, miles away from the village of Jonathan, these monks can watch the village of black smoke rose into heaven.

Year of the Rat

What is the difference between an epidemic and pandemic, and what terms should be used to describe the Black Death? The answer lies in its geographical coverage.
An epidemic is a disease outbreak and the affected area or specific geographic areas. Examples of epidemic typhus in Houston, and in other cities in Texas, will be considered a half epidemic. In contrast, pandemic, is a widespread outbreak, which covers an area much larger. An enteric disease has been endemic in all the states southwest, means have become pandemic, although it certainly is a question of how much the level of severity. At this time, the AIDS epidemic has really become a pandemic because the disease appeared in every region in the world.
Black Death that plagued Europe in some countries is considered as an epidemic, until the container is widespread in most of continental Europe. So then it becomes a pandemic.

Black Death is only the worst disaster that ever struck mankind.
In a four-year period between the years 1347 to 1350, the Black Death had killed more than 75 million people in Europe, reaching one-third to one-half the population of Europe. (Some sources quote a more conservative amount of 25 million people died, but apparently the number 75 is closer to the truth, if all deaths - including the death of the secondary - which is mentioned by this epidemic attacks helped summed.)
In December 1347, the Black Death had begun his attack in Europe. Weapons used to attack the lice. Lice transfer mode from region to region, country to country, the mice are everywhere. Lice fur throw litter in mice, and jumped to humans whenever they get a chance. Fleas carry the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which causes three types of plague, which when all three will join to create a destruction known as the Black Death.
The third form of this outbreak, according to the order of distribution is bubonic, pnemonia, and septicemic. All three lymph system attacks the body, causing enlargement of glands, fever, headache, vomiting, and pain in the joints. Pneumonia plague also causes coughing bloody mucus; septisemik outbreak causes skin color changed to purple, while cells in the body to bleed. In all cases, death came quickly, and the death rate varies from 30 to 75 percent for bubonic; 90 to 95 percent for pneumonic; and 100 percent for septicemic.
Black Death has been and still is one of the most frightening cause of death.

The immigrants are Deadly


The years of the most deadly epidemic is due in 1347, until early 1351.
In December 1347, the Black Death had attacked Constantinople (Turkey), such as the Italian islands of Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica, as well as Marseille, France.
Six months later, in June 1348 the Black Death had been attacked throughout Greece and Italy, most of France, the third part of eastern Spain, and Part of the area is now Yugoslavia, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Croatia.
In December 1348, six months later and full a years after the first appearance in Europe, the Black Death has struck most of France and Austria, and has crossed the English Channel on a ship to attack the southern part of England.
Six months later, in June 1349, eighteen months after the attack, the Black Death had swept across Switzerland, southern Germany, the center of England, and throughout Austria.
In late 1349, two years after the initial outbreak, Black Death has permeated throughout Ireland, most of Scotland, the rest of England region, parts of central Germany, the Copenhagen, and had crossed the North Sea to attack the southern part of Norway.
In June 1350, thirty months after the pandemic, Black Death had swept most of the rest of Norway and Germany.
By the year 1351, three years after the appearance of the plague, the Black Death had been destroyed, after sweeping across Sweden, and the northern part of Poland.
Black Death a major impact on all aspects of European society, including the economy, crime, agriculture, education, and travel. People with skills such as carpenters, blacksmiths, and trading done by other hands who survived became very important for the rise of Europe again. However, it takes time from generation to generation in the evolution of populations to recover throughout the continent back to the level before the outbreak.
Destruction of the Black Death large part due to improvements in sanitation, which weakens the defense capabilities plague fleas. Some historians have argued that the Great Fire of London in 1966 (Chapter 93) is also member contributions for final disposal of the fleas are contaminated in Europe, although at this time, the spread of this epidemic has been scattered and infrequent.
In many respects, this epidemic is not completely eliminated. Outbreaks have occurred regularly throughout the world, including in the United States. Outbreaks have been rampant in 1924 in Los Angeles. This outbreak rapidly overcome soon, but still caused 33 people dead.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Marijuana

Marijuana
(Pot, KANABIS, marijuana, POT, THAI STICK, GRASS, GELEK, Rasta, Dope, WEED, Hash, MARY JANE, SINSEMILLA)

What is it?
Marijuana coming from the leaves and flower buds of the plant Cannabis sativa is green when fresh and become brown when dried.
Sap (resin) marijuana or hash is to sap the flower buds dried cannabis plant, which is used as a powder or compressed into plates like cake, or round like a ball. Hashish oil is a liquid derived from plant or dried cannabis resin.

How injecting wear?
All forms of cannabis are usually smoked as a cigarette. Cannabis resin and oil can also be eaten or brewed in the drink.
How to influence the user?
Marijuana makes users feel relaxed, at times feel comfortable and happy (euphoria). Users can also experience a false sensation of sight, smell, tasting and hearing called hallucinations

Cannabis Abuse Is Danger?
At this stage the short term, marijuana use can increase appetite, pulse rate also increased, and vision disturbances. So if your driving a motorcycle or a car is very dangerous. Another disturbance is not able to think logically.
In large doses, the user feels a change in perception of sound and color, which is sharper. While he thought the power to slow down and avoid confusion. If the dose is very large, the same effect with other hallucinogens, and can cause anxiety, panic and mental disorders. hallucinogenic compounds that, when consumed in small amounts has led to the mind wander into dreamland.
The marijuana users they often lose interest in other activities, such as school, work and relationships between the members. In addition to learning to learn to be lazy, lazy to do physical activity and aloof. Research in the UK showed an association between marijuana use and increased mental disorder schizophrenia.

Other Hazards
Used for marijuana cigarettes contains 50% more tar than tobacco with high tar content. Use of marijuana increases the risk of lung cancer and lung disease other.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

WHAT IS DRUG??

Did drugs? Drugs - a kind of psychotropic and other addictive substances - is a drug, substance or substances which, if entered into the body, affect the function of the body, especially the brain.
Addictive drugs, including materials for causing dependence, and classified as psychoactive substances, which means that affect the brain works and change the behavior of the wearer.
Examples of narcotics: opium, morphine, heroin, marijuana and cocaine etc.
Example psychotropic: ecstasy, shabby, tranquilizers or sleeping pills
Some addictive substances are not regulated its use in the law, e.g. caffeine (in coffee drinks, and some refreshments), nicotine (in cigarette tobacco) and alcohol (at a liquor suspended its ethanol content, there is no counter also controlled by government regulation.
Drug that is currently much abused are cannabis, ecstasy, shabu and heroin (putaw).

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Do Drugs Control

YOUR LIFE.

Your life. Your community. No place for drugs

INTRODUCTION

Dark cycle of abuse and drugs has penetrated into all parts of the world, not least in the archipelago which we love. Drug abuse is extremely dangerous and cause negative impacts both physical, psychological or social. Someone had to realize that he had fallen, addiction, drug addiction and suffering both physically and psychologically.

They can not live a normal, drug injecting community feel "strange behavior" that often exclude them. Even the most direct criminal sentence that they did not have to compromise much less approachable invited.

Actually if the drug is that countries in the world should unite to eridecate? What are the negative impacts? It was a lot we need to know that we are not only aware, but also can invite other colleagues to take the right decisions, namely Say NO TO DRUGS! In fact we are fighting here with Drugs.

In response to this, there is no choice but to governments, together with all levels of society must be hand in hand to drug abuse prevention and eradication of drug-dark cycle. Of course, more to prevent than to cure.

BELIEVE OR NOT, 200 MILLION PEOPLE EXPECTED IN THE WORLD ARE THE VICTIMS. THERE OWN IN INDONESIA 4 MILLION DRUG USER IS MOST OF THE YOUNG GENERATION. EXCEPT THAT EACH YEAR NUMBER OF VICTIMS GROWING. TERRIBLE, RIGHTS?

NO MORE DRUGS

LOVE YOUR LIFE

LIVE YOUR LIFE

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Global Handwashing Day

At this time in the world , mortality and morbidity rates are still high due to diseases related to water, sanitation and hygienic behavior and healthy habits such as low washing hands with soap at critical moments. Therefore, the United Nations has set year 2008 as International Sanitation year.

Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap (PPP-HWWS) or KPS-CTPS consisting of Unilever (Lifebuoy), WSP, UNICEF, ESP, HSP, Aman Tirta, Reckitt Benckiser, and several other international bodies have set October 15 as Day Handwashing Worldwide (HCTPS) which will be celebrated together by the millions of children in 52 countries, on 5 continents, for supporting and ensuring the International Sanitation year 2008. This is also done to attract attention and raise public awareness about the importance of washing hands with soap.

Efforts to improve the behavior of acceleration washing hands with soap (CTPS) is necessary because the facts show that is still low at CTPS habits important in a society that is 14.3% before eating, after defecation 11.7%, after 8.9 babies menceboki %, prior 7.4% of feeding the child and before preparing food only 6% (Baseline survey data Environmental Services Program (ESP-USAID) in 2006. Hand is one of the transmission path of diseases such as diarrhea, respiratory infection, Kecacingan, Hepatitis A.

"We must admit that until now most of the health condition of Indonesian society is still very alarming. One indicator of low health status in Indonesia is the high number of infant & toddler death caused by diarrhea and respiratory infection. Based on data from Sub Diarrhea, Directorate of Direct Transmitted Disease Control, Ministry of Health of Indonesia (in 2003), diarrhea is still the number two cause of death in Toddlers, number three in infants, and number five in all age groups. "Said dr. Alkadri Wan, M. Sc, Director of Environmental Health, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia.

Nationally, rates increased morbidity due to diarrhea from year 2003 to year 2006, from 347 per 1000 population to 423 per 1000 population. Extraordinary incident in 2006 occurred in the province with 16 cases more than doubled compared to the year 2005, ie 10.980 patients, and 2:52% mortality rate. While kecacingan year prevalence in 2006 elementary school children, in 27 Provinces are 32.6% higher than in 2005, namely 28.4%.

From various research, the risk of disease transmission can be reduced by an increase in the behavior of clean and healthy living, hygiene behavior, such as washing hands with soap at critical times. According to research Fewtrell L, Kaufmann RB, et al, (2005) behavior of washing hands with soap is the best health intervention cheap and effective compared with the results of health interventions with other ways of reducing the risk of contracting various diseases including bird flu, and diarrhea kecacingan primarily on infants and toddlers.

Department of Health through the KPS-CTPS that one partner is Unilever, the Lifebuoy brand, will celebrate the Day Handwashing World First (HCTPS) on October 15, 2008 in four cities, Jakarta (Wisma Aldiron, Jewel), Bandung (Field Gasibu ), Yogyakarta (Town Square), and Malang (Kanjuruan Stadium). This activity will be followed by more than 40.000 primary school students and parents. UNICEF, also a partner in one of the KPS-CTPS, which will organize similar activities in 22 districts, in six provinces.

Friday, October 9, 2009

Physiotherapy for All

If we feel tired, then the option is to wait for that aching sense of missing or do something to eliminate it. It's like when we are sick, could secretly be or try to cure him. We'll talk about things like that with Purnamadyawati. New Perspectives Manager displays Purnamadyawati excited because I wanted people to know more about what you do Purnamadyawati. He is a physical therapist, trained, professional schools, and worked in a physiotherapy center hospital where I happened to be treated. If I do not care probably can not walk now.

According Purnamadyawati, physiotherapy is basically to develop, maintain and restore the body's movements and functions throughout the life cycle by using manual handling, increased motion, or with equipment such as electrotherapy, and mechanical. In Indonesia, physiotherapy not popular in the community. Society assumes that if the physiotherapist must relate to a medical. It must work in a hospital. Though not necessarily. Physiotherapy could have been there at the gym and now it already exists. Yet to be a physical therapist must pass a physical therapy education, has the authority, and the legalization or have a license to practice.

The following interview with Purnamadyawati Wimar Witoelar who became general secretary of the Indonesian Physiotherapy Association board 2002-2004 period and to this day still serves as chairman of Physiotherapy magazine editor.

In ordinary language, whether functional training in physiotherapy is like exercise?

No. Functional training is the goal, as now, such as Mr. Wimar can hold a microphone, or when someone can hold the cup for a drink. If it was not good functional means have limitations, such as could not grasp. People like this impaired function.

Is it indeed overcome the interference field of physiotherapy or cooperation with other medical fields?

Depends. When it comes to the integrity of the system relationships are associated with body function limitations, we can interact with other health professionals are specialists, such as a surgeon or neurologist doctor. That is about the function and movement. Function and the motion must be related to physiotherapy because humans are basically requires actual motion, movement potential, and functional movement.

What is the actual motion, movement potential, and functional movement?

If there are people who are experiencing problems, he could not actually raised in a normal, when it should be. This means he has problems and limitations (limitations), when he should have the potential of normal motion. We must mempotensialkannya from the original limited. Through investigation, we are restored back to its maximum potential motion.

This health problem is a lot of funny because I watched and experienced. There are people who feel no need to be improved but there are people who probably do not even know to where. We're hard to find treatment or an appropriate solution of a problem. So I want to ask the mother in case Purnamadyawati. For example, there are people, no matter regardless of age, suddenly feeling more and more sore hips. He's hard to stand, when to sleep sometimes so ill that way affected. People who have had some rest, go to the shaman, or to a masseuse. According to you, where that person should consult?

Indonesian people see the concept of healthy and sick because the paradigm is different in healthy and sick to see it differently. Our public education may not uniform in look healthy and sick. They sometimes assume things. For example, back pain can be to the kidney assumption, can the alternative medicine and healing, or perhaps "dikerjain" people. There are three things that might be seen by the public in the treatment system, ie traditional medicine, medical medicine, and religious medicine. Medical Sometimes medicine is a last alternative for our society. Usually used to run mereke traditional medicine.

If people are a little high sometimes have different levels of ability in seeing healthy-sick. They will be able to analyze. For example, Mr. Wimar people who like to use the Internet, it could know the pain by looking at the existing complaints and look at the website. But if the people below, they do not know. Sometimes they assume, "Oh it's just a normal sprain." Eventually they sorted, even cause more severe illness. It is very common.

If people affected by arthritis, sore, continued sorted, whether it is the right thing?

Depends. If my opinion, it should not be sorted. He should have bed rest ¸ if you have the first injury.

So the order was not the only solution or not the first solution?

Actually not the first solution. Depending on how far actuality pain. If its just sore, just rest. Aches can occur because muscles are too tired, too static muscle work, or lack of mobility.

Is physiotherapy is a health field such as medicine, where people can come directly, or it is a discipline referral from another health care?

In physical therapy there are two assumptions that can be given by reference and can not. If direct promotive and preventive nature. But if the reference curative and rehabilitative in nature. If promotion is clear that the purpose of promoting and preventive measures that aim to prevent that pain is not growing. In the therapeutic nature of this preventive treatment we give to someone who has the potential of motion and impaired function due to a wrong movement patterns, due to certain health factors, or lifestyle. This type of physiotherapy could have done without the need for referral. Therefore, physiotherapy is not only oriented to the hospital. Physiotherapy service coverage of preventive and promotive in nature could be obtained at the gym or spa.

If people come straight to the gym or spa, whether it is useful or just a waste of time? This is not intended to besmirch function Recreational spa because clearly there if we go there, but whether the therapy is useful?

There. If at the spa there Physiotherapy services. In Indonesia, physiotherapy not too popular in the community. Society assumes that if the physiotherapist must relate to a medical. It must work in a hospital. Though not necessarily. Physiotherapy could have been there at the gym and now it is.

Is it supervised physiotherapy, or not?

Clear. Because after all is a physical therapist who graduated physiotherapy education, has the authority, and legalization. He must have a license to practice or license.

So you have a license?

Oh no. We have a moral responsibility and ethics based on our science as a physiotherapist. There are some cases that makes confusion to the public. Some TV never expose that "X" had physiotherapy but it was not. Until we also clarified that he must have a permit.

So it was fake?

Yes, confessed physiotherapy. So wrote the massage can claim to do physiotherapy but not necessarily. Sometimes it was a physical therapist must have a license to practice as a doctor.

The question of lay people like me and is based on his own experience. I several times physiotherapy so that she knows Purnamadyawati. First, if you recall, my neck pain can not move. They say that one to bed, was told to massage, but not lingering. Finally I went to your place and in a few weeks until it healed. I thank you all. I am surprised that people say, "Fine old age, thanks". Sorry. Second, my back pain until the hard-up. Even after being treated, not lost, but controlled and not be a major problem. Now I'm being treated for my path became a little funny because his legs weak. Three case, whether it is a typical case? How are these cases physiotherapy patients you, if like me or the case is very different there?

Many of the case. Not just like that felt by Mr. Wimar. We have patients from toddler and children. Actually the function and movement disorders were not always related to muscle joints, but also can be associated with respiratory problems. Eg asthma, are overcrowded, many Slime accumulation, disruption of nature's paralyzing, which was not anything, we hope to return normal. Then cases associated with infertility (infertility), gynecologic.

What is the relationship with physiotherapy infertility?

Because the human life cycle. Physiotherapy understanding that not only deals with the function and movement but also the life cycle. Physiotherapy services in terms of life cycle to help people who experience barriers because of not having children. Physiotherapy is not just confine themselves to restore movement, body functions, but in our lives from fetal life until his death through a system of life. In bernafaspun we need a system. If the system is disturbed then our bodies will also be affected. Therefore, if the new-born babies being patted to cry so that the response of oxygen and the lungs expand properly. If he's in trouble like many Slime, then he needs to aspirated or reheated. If associated with female infertility or cases that do not have children because of blockage is usually referred by obstetrician.

More broadly, if not teach people anything, was told to live a normal, if he would get sick or healthy?

Depending on the pattern and style of life because of pain arising from the pattern and style of everyday life.

Can be more specific, What is your lifestyle?

For example, he used to exercise or not. Sport but it should not exercise. Sport is important to me. Then the pattern of eating and working habits.

What about sleep?

Enough sleep.

Would be at a certain hour? You see, I like to sleep at night but sleep during the day. Is that okay?

Nothing. That habit. To note also is the habit of lingering in front of the computer, whereas the activity should be done after a long stretch (stretching).

Are habits linger in front of the computer's bad habits?

Not bad but if the conditions continue, the body will experience fatigue.

So occasionally need stretching. What if stretching it with grumbling?

Pak may also grumble occasionally to reduce stress. It needs rather than restraint.

In the Hospital, Are you often deal with people who have very severe disease such as after an operation that brought in wearing stretcher or wheelchair? People who have been sick so kok still pulled, how?

In this case should also consider in implementing physical therapy services. Not just a tool, to weight it, or functional or manual training, but should also communication, approaches and personal approach. Maybe we find someone who somewhat psychosomatic illness due to pain he is past experience. Sometimes we need to frequently communicate with them. Therefore we need to know the character of each patient.

When education means that you also learn about the psychology of people?

Clear. So sometimes we learn to turn positive for the pain the mind so that he dared again.

I mean like diverted?

Ha .. ha .. ha .. which we switch is initially timid. Physiotherapy was somewhat complex because the characters and face many different individuals.

Is it any harm physiotherapy because I saw a scary tools. There are iron, some hang suspended, no electricity, there are people pulling at our bones. Has there ever been an accident in a physiotherapy clinic?

Maybe there are some. But Alhamdulillah where I did not. The process consisted of physiotherapy assessment or inspection followed by physiotherapy diagnosis. However we still have to conduct examination of the patient. If we find indications of physiotherapy should not be made against a candidate patient, we are entitled to refuse because it could endanger patients. Sometimes this is a problem also among clinical. Sometimes we continue to refuse if it was dangerous to the patient because the therapist has a characteristic such as drugs, there are no contra indications. Similarly physiotherapy equipment. But the orientation of many models that physiotherapy is not only a tool, but can with practice or with the manual. It depends from which we find problematic.

Are there physical therapy that can be done alone or that can be done at home?

Yes, especially for its preventive physiotherapy. So to minimize the limitations of nature and motion functions. We expect cooperation from the patient. After all that important. For example, Mr. Wimar never again to exercise his waist, we can be controlling it. From what? We can see from the existing complaint or muscle strength.

I was probably a bad example because new to the physiotherapist at the time already had the disease. Maybe everyone just do not want the disease infestation. Well, Mother Purnama physiotherapy besides experts and social activists are also active in Red Cross Youth, the student representative institutions, and others. You must have a concern for students, such as socialization. If you have five minutes in front of my friends work together, what do you advise?

Stretching, because I see the pattern of his life AC. Sports. Fixed controls.

What practical sports?

In this room could also be a nature stretching exercise, stretching. They have a lot to do that because I see a lot of younger people and most of the work-static works I have seen. So have a little bit dynamic.

Friday, October 2, 2009

Tips/Cara Menjaga Tubuh Tetap Sehat Dengan Pola Hidup Sehat

Dalam menjalani hidup sehari-hari kita sebaiknya selalu mengedepankan kesehatan tubuh dan jiwa kita karena sehat itu nikmat dan juga ada pepatah yang mengatakan bahwa seseorang tidak akan menghargai kesehatannya sendiri di saat ia masih sehat. Begitu pentingnya kesehatan sehingga ada orang yang rela membayar milyaran rupiah untuk kesehatan dirinya di saat dia sakit.


Tip berikut ini adalah contoh kegiatan yang dapat kita jalani dalam keseharian kita di dunia. Kegiatan atau aktivitas tersebut masuk ke dalam penerapan pola hidup sehat, yaitu :


1. Menghindar / Berhenti Dari Kebiasaan Bodoh Yang Menjijikkan


Kegiatan bodoh yang bagi sebagian orang disangka / dianggap sebagai kegiatan yang keren, macho dan gaul adalah seperti merokok, minum minuman keras, menggunakan obat-obatan terlarang / narkotika / zat additif lainnya yang menyebabkan kecanduan.


Bayangkan saja jika sudah terkena salah satu aktifitas bodoh di atas maka seseorang bisa mengeluarkan banyak uang untuk membeli barang candu tersebut, untuk biaya berobat di masa depan, membuang banyak waktu untuk membeli dan mengkonsumsi barang-barang haram tersebut.


Menggunakan barang menjijikkan tersebut tentu saja menambah dosa kita berlipat ganda karena dampak / efeknya tidak hanya kita saja yang merasakan, namun juga orang lain seperti orang tua, teman, keluarga, pacar, dan lain sebagainya.

]2. Jangan Melakukan Hubungan Seks Bebas Di Luar Nikah


Seks memang enak bagi sebagaian orang. Namun alangkah terhormat dan terpujinya apabila hubungan sex tersebut dilakukan dengan penuh tanggung jawab dan dengan doa restu dari banyak orang. Kebanyakan ngeseks memang disepelekan bagi pasangan yang sudah terbiasa melakukannya ataupun bagi orang yang mudah terangsang tanpa iman yang kuat.


Dampak akibat dari pergaulan bebas melakukan seks pranikah yaitu misalnya seperti :
a. hamil di luar nikah dan si laki-laki lari dari tanggungjawab.
b. terkena penyakit menular seperti AIDS yang tak ada obatnya.
c. dosa besar kepada Tuhan
d. dikucilkan dari pergaulan dan masyarakat
e. digrebek polisi / satpol pp / hansip
f. dibunuh pacar sendiri, diperkosa, dsb.
g. ketagihan akan orgasme dan berkembang ke tahap yang membahayakan.
h. awal dari kegiatan bodoh nomor 1 di atas.
i. susah mendapat jodoh ketika mau serius nikah.
j. berbohong pada orang tua, keluarga, kerabat, teman, dsb.
k. dan masih banyak lagi akibat buruknya.


Tujuan dari seks untuk mendapatkan klimaks / orgasme banyak didewakan oleh banyak orang yang tersesat dan mereka akan mencari korban lain untuk diajak dan diseret ke dalam lembah hitam tersebut. Jika berhbungan dengan lawan jenis maupun sesama jenis tanpa ikatan pernikahan sebaiknya jangan melihat sisi enaknya saja kalau ngesex, tapi lihat sisi negatifnya yang sangat banyak. Anda akan jijik melakukannya.




3. Makan Makanan Yang Sehat Dan Sesuai Aturan


Makanan enak belum tentu sehat. Banyak makanan serta minuman yang berbahaya dan tidak sehat apabila dikonsumsi. Contohnya seperti penggunaan boraks dan formalin sebagai pengawet makanan dan minuman yang seharusnya digonakan untuk mengawetkan mayat / jenazah / bangkai.


Kalau jajan jangan sembarangan. Belilah makanan dan minuman di tempat yang dapat terjamin kebersihan / higienitas makanan minuman tersebut. Hati-hati dan selalu waspada terhada apa pun yang akan kita masukkan ke dalam mulut kita karena bisa saja minuman atau makanan yang kita beli dan siap disantap tersebut telah dicampur dengan zat beracun yang berbahaya seperti arsenik, obat tidur, racun seangga, racun tikus, pengewet bukan untuk makanan dan minuman, dan lain sebagainya. Lihat pula kebersihan tempat serta pengolahan dan pemilihan bahan baku makanan / minuman.


Jangan mudah tergoda dengan iklan di tv, radio, surat kabar, majalah, sales, dan lain sebagainya. Terkadang produsen pun berbohong demi mendapatkan keuntungan yang besar dan bekerjasama dengan oknum pemerintah agar tutup mulut.


Makan makanan dan minuman yang bergizi yang disesuaikan dengan kondisi tubuh, aktivitas serta usia kita. Makan sebelum lapar dan berhenti makan sebelum kenyang adalah kebiasaan yang baik. Jangan pernah lupa dengan empat sehat lima sempurna yang sering kita dengar dari dulu kala. Makan dengan asupan gizi seimbang karena apa yang kita makan akan merepresentasikan diri kita di masa yang akan datang.



4. Menjaga Kebersihan Diri Sendiri Dan Lingkungan Sekitar Kita


Kebersihan diri sendiri perlu diperhatikan dan dijaga dengan baik karena terkait / berkaitan erat dengan penampilan kita di masyarakat umum. kerapihan dan kebersihan badan seperti rambut, kuku, wajah, mata, telinga, kulit, mulut, gigi, tangan, kaki, dll dapat memberi efek pada kesehatan tubuh secara keseluruhan. Hindari bertukar peralatan mandi, bersolek, kesehatan, pakaian pribadi dengan orang lain karena mungkin dapat menularkan penyakit yang berbahaya.


Bayangkan saja kalau ada orang sakit gigi akut bisa menyebabkan dia tidak masuk kantor berhari-hari karena rasa sakitnya yang tidak tertahankan. Orang yang memiliki penampilan serta gaya yang jorok akan dijauhi dari pergaulan sehari-hari dan akan sulit mendapat teman, pacar, jodoh, pekerjaan, kepercayaan dan lain-lain.


Jaga kebersihan lingkungan dari sampah dan gangguan penyakit lingkungan karena lingkungan dapat mempengaruhi kesehatan tubuh kita. Sampah yang menimbun dan membusuk mampu mengeluarkan bau yang tidak sedap / enak, pemandangan yang kumuh / kotor, bunyi lalat yang beterbangan, suara sumpah-serapah orang yang berada disekitarnya, dan lain sebagainya.


Sampah juga bisa menjadi sarang penyebar penyakit seperti tikus yang menyebarkan penyekit leptospirosis melalui kencing tikus serta tipes / tipus. Nyamuk juga bisa menyebarkan bibit plasmodium yang dapat berkibat melaria dan demam berdarah pada seseorang. lalat yang menebar bakteri dan virus yang menyebabkan penyakit pencernaan seperti beri-beri, mencret, diare, dan sebagainya.


Polusi seperti limbah sampah dan wc rumah tangga, limbah pabrik, polusi suara, dan polusi lainnya perlu diselesaikan dengan sigap dan terkoordinir dengan baik antar anggota masyarakat di suatu lingkungan agar menghasilkan hasil lingungan bersih dan nyaman yang baik



5. Berolahraga Dan memeriksakan Kesehatan Ke Dokter Secara Berkala


Berolah raga secara teratur dapat memacu jantung, pernafasan dan peredaran darah menjadi lebih baik. Biasakan berolah raga setiap hari dengan kegiatan yang ringan seperti berjalan kaki, senam, fitnes, joging, bersepeda, atau melakukan olah raga penuh seperti main badminton, sepak bola, lari maraton, tenis, bola basket, dan lain sebagainya.


Selain olah raga ada lagi yang tidak kalah pentingnya dengan olahraga yaitu periksa kesehatan berkala secara teratur ke dokter. Guna pemeriksaan kesehatan terprogram adalah agar penyakit atau kelainan yang timbul dapat terdeteksi dengan lebih cepat sehingga pengobatan pun tidak akan memakan banyak biaya, waktu dan tenaga.


6. Hindari Stress Yang Menyebalkan Dengan Cara Yang Sehat Dan Halal


Untuk menghindari stress diperlukan strategi untuk masing-masing individu. Carilah cara yang terbaik untuk menghilangkan stress dengan cara anda sendiri yang mudah, dapat dilakukan di mana-mana, murah meriah, sehat, halal, dan enak dilakukan. Contoh aktivitas penghilangan stres adalah seperti mendengarkan musik yang menurut pribadi enak didengar dan ngilangin beban pikiran yang ada, main video game, main musik musik, olah raga, ngobrol ama temen sobat karib, curhat, maen kartu non judi, pacaran sehat, makan, melakukan hubungan suami isteri / intim dengan pasangan yang sah, nongkrong di wc, jalan-jalan ke mall, nyanyi, main mainan anak kecil, berkebun, mancing, teriak di tempat sepi, tidur / bobo, dan lain sebagainya.


Intinya dalam hidup anda adalah nyantai aja dengan semua problema yang ada. Buat apa susah (stres), susah itu tak ada gunanya. Emosi anda jangan sampai menjadi jahat dan menguasai diri anda, karna emosi yang tidak terkendali dan terkadang menjadi dendam, sakit hati, dan lain sebagainya yang terlihat bodoh bagi orang lain. Ada masalah / problem yang bisa bikin anda depresi cuek aja lah, kayak nggak ada kerjaan laen saja.


Tidur yang cukup, dekatkan diri dengan Tuhan Yang Maha Esa sesuai agama dan kepercayaan masing-masing asal tidak jahat, serta melaksanakan program pola hidup sehat dapat mencegah stres maupun depresi yang apabila sudah parah dan kronis bisa menjadi gangguan jiwa dan penyakit jiwa yang membuat anda perasa tertekan dan malu pada orang banyak. Konsultasikan dengan psikolog jika anda memiliki masalah kejiwaan atau orang lain yang anda percaya jika anda malu. Buka hati anda untuk menerima kritik, masukan dan saran dari orang lain dan rubah gaya hidup anda jika diperlukan demi kesehatan jiwa / batin anda.

Hipertensi, Cegah Hipertensi, Cegah dengan Gaya Hidup Sehatdengan Gaya Hidup Sehat

TEKANAN darah tinggi atau hipertensi merupakan salah satu faktor risiko paling berpengaruh penyakit kardiovaskular. Pola hidup tidak sehat merupakan faktor pemicu utama dari gangguan kesehatan ini.

Sebagian besar penderita hipertensi tidak mengetahui dirinya mengidap masalah itu sebelum memeriksa tekanan darah. Gangguan ini dikenal juga sebagai heterogeneous group of disease karena dapat menyerang siapa saja dari berbagai kelompok umur dan kelompok sosial-ekonomi.

Hipertensi merupakan keadaan saat tubuh kehilangan atau tidak mampu mengendalikan tekanan darah sehingga mengalami tekanan berlebihan. Akibatnya, volume darah meningkat dan saluran darah menyempit sehingga jantung memompa lebih keras untuk menyuplai oksigen dan nutrisi kepada setiap sel di dalam tubuh.

Sedangkan tekanan darah diukur berdasarkan tekanan terhadap dinding pembuluh darah (dalam mmHg). Angka 120/ 80 mmHg adalah tekanan darah yang normal yang terjadi pada waktu jantung memompa (sistole) dan istirahat (diastole).

"Jika tekanan darah melebihi tingkat normal, maka risiko kerusakan bisa terjadi pada organ vital di dalam tubuh seperti jantung, ginjal, dan otak," tutur ahli jantung dan hipertensi dari RS Pusat Jantung Nasional-Harapan Kita Prof Dr dr Budhi Setianto SpJP.

Tekanan darah yang tinggi akan menyebabkan pembengkakan jantung, penyempitan pembuluh darah, dan koroner. Kombinasi komplikasi tersebut mampu meningkatkan angka kematian akibat penyakit kardiovaskular dan gagal jantung. Oleh karena itu, pengenalan dini terhadap hipertensi serta penanggulangannya dapat menurunkan angka kematian.

Sangat disayangkan, minimnya pengetahuan sering kali membuat masyarakat mengabaikan hipertensi dan komplikasi yang ditimbulkan. Sebenarnya bukan perkara sulit untuk mengontrol tekanan darah normal.

Mengubah gaya hidup tidak sehat dan kembali pada pola hidup sehat merupakan langkah utama yang bisa dilakukan untuk mengurangi risiko kardiovaskular, morbiditas (kesakitan), dan mortalitas (kematian).

"Lifestyle modification yang terdiri dari mengatur pola makan mengontrol berat badan, mengurangi alkohol, dan berolahraga," ungkap Budhi ketika disinggung mengenai upaya pencegahan hipertensi.

Globalisasi memang telah menyebabkan perubahan gaya hidup dan pola makan. Asupan makanan sering kali dikaitkan dengan penyakit, termasuk hipertensi.

Hipertensi erat kaitannya dengan asupan mineral ion-ion di dalam tubuh seperti sodium, natrium, chlor, fosfor, dan kalium. Oleh sebab itu, hipertensi terkait dengan asupan garam terutama garam dapur. Dalam keadaan orang dewasa normal dibutuhkan asupan garam 2 gram/ hari, tetapi tetap disesuaikan dengan aktivitas yang dijalani.

Sebagai contoh, olahragawan yang mengeluarkan banyak keringat tentu akan membutuhkan asupan garam sekitar 6-8 gram/ hari. Asupan garam ini diperlukan untuk kebutuhan beraktivitas sehari-hari sebagai penyeimbang sodium yang keluar dalam bentuk urine, keringat, dan feses.

Garam yang masuk harus seimbang dengan garam yang keluar. Sebenarnya kebutuhan garam di dalam tubuh sudah terpenuhi dalam menu makanan sehari-hari. Sayuran, nasi, gandum, kacang, roti atau jenis makanan yang lain sudah cukup menyuplai kebutuhan garam di dalam tubuh. Akan tetapi, sering kali orang menambahkan garam di meja agar makanan semakin gurih dan lezat. Penambahan kecap pun bisa menambah asupan sodium dan chlorida.

Kondisi inilah yang menyebabkan asupan garam berlebihan di dalam tubuh. Apabila kondisi berlanjut, artinya asupan garam lebih dari yang dibutuhkan akan menyebabkan gangguan metabolisme. Salah satu dampaknya adalah tekanan darah tinggi. Sebab itu, Fransisca menyarankan penderita hipertensi tidak menambahkan garam lagi ke dalam makanan.(Koran SI/Koran SI/nsa)