Men are from Mars

Men are from Mars

When fat goes skin deep All fats are not created equal. Researches say that fat under the skin—subcutaneous fat is better off than skin deep fat—visceral fat. Visceral fat surrounds around the abdomen, resulting in apple shape. Subcutaneous fat mostly lands up on rear and thighs lending the characteristic pear shape to ladies. Fat is under scrutiny. The earlier view on fats—as storage unit containing fat that expands with weight gain and diminishes with weight loss, does not hold true. Fat cells are mini endocrine factories that produce a range of good and bad substances.

Belly fat facts

Both pear and apple shaped people have health risks. However, health risks weigh higher on apple shaped people. Belly fat is linked to high cholesterol, high insulin, high triglycerides, high blood pressure and other problems.

In 1994, researchers identified a hormone, leptin, which is made by fat cells to signal a feeling of fullness.

Researchers now think that leptin, which plays a helpful role in regulating weight, goes down in people with excessive abdominal fat -- leading people to eat more and pack on the pounds.

As levels of visceral fat cells go up, the levels of adinopectin, a hormone that helps body unlock insulin and pull sugar from the bloodstream into cells to be used for energy or stored. That can lead to insulin resistance, a condition in which cells no longer respond properly to insulin and which can lead to diabetes.

Research has also linked deep abdominal fat to the development of gallstones and breast cancer in women and overall risk of premature death in men.

Good News

Losing visceral fat is easier than subcutaneous fat. When you start to lose weight, you lose visceral fat quickly.
Exercising daily helps prevent the accumulation of visceral fat.

When visceral fat goes down it significantly reduces disease risk of cholesterol and blood pressure.

Researchers concluded in the Lancet that a person's waist measurement is a more accurate predictor of heart attack than the body mass index, or BMI, which is a weight-to-height ratio.
The moral of the story is that your waist circumference tells a lot about your health

Men Hight and Weight Chart

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Bedwetting

Almost all mothers encounter bedwetting—nocturnal enuresis. Most kids become fully toilet trained between ages 2 and 4 — but there's no target date for developing complete bladder control. Girls learn faster than boys.

Causes

Kids, who wet the bed are not able to feel that their bladders are full and don't wake up to use the toilet.

During childhood, some kids don't produce enough anti-diuretic hormone, or ADH, to slow nighttime urine production.

A urinary tract infection can make it difficult for child to control urination.
Sometimes bed-wetting is a sign of obstructive sleep apnea, a condition in which the child's breathing is interrupted during sleep — often because of inflamed or enlarged tonsils or adenoids.

For a child who's usually dry at night, bed-wetting may be the first sign of type 1 diabetes, if it is accompanied with passing large amounts of urine at once, unusual thirst, fatigue and weight loss in spite of a good appetite.

Sometimes children who don't have regular bowel movements retain urine as well. This can lead to bed-wetting at night.

Sometimes a kid who wets the bed will have a realistic dream that he or she is using the bathroom.

Many kids who wet the bed are very deep sleepers.
Bedwetting may also be the result of the child's tensions and emotions that require attention.

Enuresis runs in families.

Bedwetting revisits

When a young child begins bedwetting after several months or years of dryness during the night, this may reflect new fears of insecurities. These include losing a family member or a loved one, arrival of a new baby, change of home.

Prevention

Limiting liquids before bedtime
Encouraging the child to go to the bathroom before bedtime
Praising the child on dry mornings
Avoiding punishments
Waking the child during the night to empty their bladder

Bedwetting goes away on own. Children rarely wet on purpose, and usually feel ashamed about the incident. A pediatrician's advice is often very helpful.

Highheelsad

Spare the high heels and save the feetSocrates once said, “When your feet hurt you hurt all over.” Women have a higher pain threshold than men. Nothing elucidates this better, than our fancy for uncomfortable high heels, for those extra inches they bestow on our frame. While slipping in your stilettos, have you spared a thought for your feet and the damage these heels are wrecking on them.

The Lancet study says, “Walking on high heels puts abnormal stress on both the front and back of the knee. --”Dr. Sunil Marwah, Senior Orthopaedic Surgeon and Traumatologist says,

“Wearing high heels makes our foot slide forward in the shoe that throws body's natural alignment out of whack. When our foot joints bear abnormal weight bearing stresses—knees suffer from more wear and tear and it stresses lower disc of the spine.”

Wearing high heels all the time shortens your Achilles' tendon—the strong fibrous cord that connects your calf muscle to your heel bone. Achilles' tendon helps you point your foot downward, rise on your toes and push off as you walk. A long affair with high heels contracts Achilles' tendon. When this happens, you are stuck in your heels for the rest of your life.

Regular tight shoes put pressure on nerves and even damage them, and also contribute in the long run to arthritis.

Wearing high heels can sprain your ankle, and you may suffer from breaks while rolling over on heels. Your high heels can give corn, calluses and ingrown toenails too.

Shopping shoes

Always do that in the evening when your feet are the biggest.
Try on both the shoes before buying.
Measure your feet while standing.
Go for shoes with roomier toe box.
Preferable heel size—one half to three quarters of an inch You can wear your heels.

Treat yourself with heels on special occasions.

Male Baldness

When it comes to hair the adage less is more, does not hold true. Men and women both lose hair, but baldness is rare in women. Male pattern baldness is the most common type of hair loss in men. It usually follows a typical pattern of receding hairline and hair thinning on the crown.For centuries, men have been groping to find answers to the hairloss. Gersh Kuntzman in his book Hair: Mankind's Historic Quest to End Baldness states some—unclean living, visiting prostitues, masturbation in exess and stress.

Hair Raising Facts

We have about 100, 000 hairs on the scalp.
It is normal to lose 50 –100 hairs a day.
On the loss of 50% of hair hairloss becomes noticeable.
Scalp hair grows a centimeter every month.
Hair grows for 4-7 years, before being shed.

Balding men

Studies say by age 35 one third of all men experience some degree of baldness.
Besides genes, researchers have found that male hormones, which are produced during puberty, play a role in triggering baldness.

Men with high levels of the hormone dihydrotestosterone tend to lose their hair at higher rates than those with lower levels. Paradoxically, DHT also causes a man's beard to grow.

Handle with care

Use natural hair care products.
Do not comb hair when it is wet.
Avoid crash diets and diets that neglect food groups.
Eat a diet high in biotin or take a supplement. Good food sources include green peas, lentils, walnuts, suflower seeds.
Increase intake of soy. Soy foods appear to inhibit the formation of idhydrotestosterone,, a hormone implicated in the process of hair loss.

Treatment Options

US Food and Drug Administration has approved the sale of Minoxidil solution, which is applied topically. The results may come with 4 months of use and hair stops growing in, once the medicine is stopped.

When hair refuses to grow from roots, borrow some in the form of hair transplant.

Brew coffee for an agile mind

The world's beloved brew may help elderly women, more than 65 save their gray cells. The finding is based on a study conducted by researchers at the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research, in Montpellier , France , who were led by Karen Ritchie, PhD. The study involved 7,000 people whose cognitive abilities and caffeine consumption were evaluated over four years.

The researchers found that women age 65 and older who drank more than three cups of coffee (or the equivalent in tea) per day had less decline over time on tests of memory than women who drank one cup or less of coffee or tea per day.These results remained the same even after the researchers adjusted for other factors that could affect memory abilities, such as age, education, disability, depression, high blood pressure, medications, cardiovascular disease, and other chronic illnesses.

The benefits increased with age - coffee drinkers being 30 percent less likely to have memory decline at age 65 and rising to 70 percent less likely over age 80.Though researchers aren't sure why caffeine didn't show the same result in men. The study and its findings are published in the August 7, 2007 , issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.