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First Aid Kit

agiyiga — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:15:19 +0000

In the event of an emergency, your first aid kit should include the following:

* Sterile Bandages /dressings and plasters
* Scissors, tweezers
* Safety pins
* Pain tablets such as Paracetamol
* Disinfectant such as Savlon or Dettol
* Burn gel
* Cotton wool
* cotton balls
* alcohol

Any other items our readers would like to suggest be included in a first aid kit?

WELL-KNOWN ENERGY SAPPERS

agiyiga — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:26:11 +0000

The more energy you have the happier you are. It always feels good when you have all the energy needed for the day. It is a good idea to know the well-known energy sappers so that we will be aware and avoid such. These are the sappers of energy.

SLEEP DEPRIVATION- most people need about 8 1/2 hours a night, say researchers. Getting two or more hours less several nights in a row tires you and impairs decision making and memory.

OVEREATING- a full stomach diverts blood from your muscles, fatiguing you. Eating small meals every day three to four hours helps steady your energy by stabilizing your blood sugar, and it curbs overeating.

CAFFEINE EXCESS – consuming more than 300 mg of caffeine daily (or about 15 ounces of coffee) can exhaust your adrenal glands, which will make you feel logy. Caffeine can also repress REM sleep (a deep, restorative stage of sleep), so avoid it four to six hours before bed.

YOU OVERDO ALCOHOL – metabolizing alcohol lowers your levels of energizing B vitamins. Alcohol also represses REM sleep. Experts recommend consuming no more than one drink daily for women and two drinks for men, and avoiding alcohol three to five hours before bed.

Alcohol and cancer

agiyiga — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:46:31 +0000

Each year there is an increase rates of women who suffered and die with breast cancers. This cancers can be prevented by having a healthy lifestyle, self awareness, doing self-breast examination and cancer screening. As I observe that many are not doing the preventive measures and not subjecting their selves for screening for early detection and management. Diet has a big impact to this debilitating disease. Alcohol is also one of the causes of any time of cancers.
A new study found just one small glass of wine a day was enough to significantly raise a woman’s risk of breast cancer.What it found was that even low consumption of alcohol increases your risk of getting breast cancer, liver cancer, and types of bowel, throat and mouth cancer. The study indicates that just seven units of alcohol a week have a damaging effect. Above two units of alcohol a week (the amount the study used as a baseline), every daily unit of alcohol you drink increases your risk of getting breast cancer by 1.1 per cent.