Arsip: Illness
Be Careful With Our Household Garbage!
The garbage situation has become a big concern in cities all around the country and not only is this a political issue, but it is also a problem that has caught the attention of the general population. In Indonesia, millions of households are producing billions of pounds of solid waste. Products used every day in [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • August 1st, 2008
Radon Problems and Its Effects To Our Health
Radon is a cancer-causing, radioactive gas. When we breathe air containing the gas, we can get lung cancer. In fact, we can’t see radon. We can’t smell or taste it, but it may very well be a problem in our home. It is estimated to cause many thousands of deaths each year. In the United States [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • August 1st, 2008
AIDS and Drugs Abuse
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a serious condition that affects the body’s ability to fight off infection. A diagnosis of AIDS is made when a person develops some form of life-threatening illness not usually found in a person with a normal ability to fight infection. To date,more that fifty percent of all the persons [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • July 29th, 2008
Things We Need To Know About Antibiotics
What do you know about antibiotics? Do you often use it? If used properly, antibiotics can save lives.In other hand, they do not work against all infections, there are some condition where antibiotic cannot help us. Even, it has side effects that we need to know. For instance :soft stools or diarrhea and mild stomach upset. [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • July 7th, 2008
Exercise Melts Body Fat
If you want to reduce your body fat, focus on increasing the amount of exercise you get rather than decreasing your food intake. A recent national study was done using two groups of sedentary men, one group in their 20’s and the other over age 65. A lot was learned from this accumulated data and [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • June 29th, 2008
Facts About Alzheimer Disease
“Alzheimer’s Disease” is the term used to describe a dementing disorder marked by certain brain changes, regardless of the age of onset. Alzheimer’s disease is the exception, rather than the rule, in old age. Only 5 to 6 percent of older people are afflicted by alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia–but this means approximately 3 [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • June 12th, 2008
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