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The U.S. government has declared this swine flu is a serious epidemic. This swine flu outbreak is also believed will continue to spread. Even the World Health Organization agency (WHO) emphasized that the swine flu is a public health emergency of international concern.

Swine flu is to bring the greatest risk of large-scale pandemic since the outbreak of avian flu thet re-emerged in late 2003 and killed 257 people from 421 patients in 15 countries. Hence we need to know the swine flu symptoms and how to prevent against this swine flu virus. We should be aware of swine flu virus that has claimed hundreds of lives in Mexico.

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To prevent high blood pressure for you who still have normal blood pressure or to overcome high blood pressure for those who already have high blood pressure, then these are simple practical suggestions you can do easily:

1. Reduce salt in your diet. If you already suffer from high blood pressure you should avoid foods that contain salt.
2. Consume foods containing potassium, magnesium and calcium. Potassium, magnesium and calcium can reduce high blood pressure.
3. Reduce or avoid alcohol. If you suffer from high blood pressure, you should avoid excessive alcohol consumption.
4. Regular exercise can lower high blood pressure. If you suffer from high blood pressure, choose light exercise such as walking, cycling, relaxing, and swimming. Try for 30 to 45 minutes a day 3 times a week.
5. Eat vegetables and fruits with high fiber such as bananas, tomatoes, carrots, melons, and oranges.
6. You should control your emotions.
7. Quitting smoking also plays a major role to reduce high blood pressure or hypertension.
8. Control your cholesterol level.
9. Take control of your diabetes.
10. Avoid drugs that can increase blood pressure. Consult your doctor if you are receiving treatment for certain diseases, to ask for drugs that do not increase blood pressure.

Stroke cases increased in developed countries like America, where obesity and junk food has become an epidemic. Based on U.S. statistics, every year there are 750,000 new stroke cases in the United States. It  means that every 45 minutes, there was one person in America who suffered a stroke.

Stroke is the rapidly loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. Stroke can be caused by ischemia i.e  the lack of oxygen and glucer supply caused or thrombosis or embolism or due to bleeding (hemorrhagic). As a result, the affected area of the brain can not function, causing an inability to move one or more limbs on one side of the body, inability to understand or formulate speech or inability to see one side of the visual field

Stroke divided into two types: ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke. In ischemic stroke,  the blood flow to the brain stopped because atherosclerosis (cholesterol buildup in blood vessel walls) or a blood clot that has clogged the blood vessels to the brain. This is the most type of stroke or 83% type of stroke.
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Many people usually  think  that diabetes only attact adult or mature one  or simply resulted from hereditary factors. Yet, everyone can suffer from diabetes,  young or  old, and that is including YOU. However, you need to understand that  “you are not alone”.

It is unfortunately that many people with diabetes did not realize that he was suffering from this disease. This may be due to lack of information about diabetes in the community, especially the diabetes symptoms.

The majority of diabetes cases are type 2 diabetes which is caused by hereditary factors. But heredity factor it self  is not always cause diabetes because the risk is only 5%. It turned out that type 2 diabetes is more common in people who are obese and over weighted due to wrong lifestyle

Hypertension is a condition where blood pressure rises above normal in a long run. Hypertension is a disorder that difficult to know by our self. The only way to know hypertension is to measure our bloodpressure regularly.

Given 9 of 10 people who suffer from hypertension could not identify the cause of the disease. That is why hypertension is called silent killer. Someone realized that he or she suffers from hypertension as complications had occurred. So hypertension would be just realized when there were  malfunctioning organs such as coronary heart disease, kidney function disorder, cognitive dysfunction or stroke. Hypertension will reduce the life expectancy of sufferers.

Hypertension, in addition to resulting high case fatality rate also resulting  in expensive treatments for patients. Hypertension also furthemore affects the quality of life decline.

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Laugh and giggle can help people with diabetes improve cholesterol level and reduce the risk of vascular disease and heart disease, according to a new study.

According to Lee Berk of Loma Linda University, who lead the study, lifestyle choices striking impact on the health and disease as well as this is a matter of choice between prevention and treatment.

The researchers divided 20 high-risk diabetic patients who all suffered from high blood pressure and hyperlipidemia (blood vessel disease and heart) into two groups that both were given the standard diabetes drug.

L group were given 30 minutes to enjoy the humor of their choice, while Group C weren’t. The process lasted for one year of treatment. Read the rest of this entry »