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Pregnant Women ~ need to know

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Advice to Pregnant Women

Pregnant women can drink a couple of cups of coffee per day
without raising the danger of a miscarriage, but six or more cups can
double the risk, a study found.
Women of childbearing age are advised
to take a vitamin,400 micrograms of folic acid each day in order to reduce the risk of a birth defect called spina bifida in their babies should they become pregnant.
Now, a new study provides another reason for women to take vitamins: US researchers report that women who took multivitamins before becoming pregnant or during the first month of pregnancy were less likely to have babies with heart defects.

Table of Height & Weight

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Table of Height & Weight

Height without shoes Weight (Kg)
Meter Feet,Inches Acceptable Obese Grossly Obese
1.45

4.9

 42-53 64 85
1.48 4.10 42-54 65 86
1.50 4.11 43-55 66 88
1.52 5.0 44-57 68 90
1.54 5.1 44-58 70 93
1.56 5.1 45-58 70 93
1.58 5.2 51-64 77 102
1.60 5.3 52-65 78 104
1.62 5.4 53-66 79 105
1.64 5.5 54-67 80 106
1.66 5.5 55-69 83 110
1.68 5.6 56-71 85 113
1.70 5.7 58-73 88 117
1.72 5.8 59-74 89 118
1.74 5.9 60-75 90 120
1.76 5.9 62-77 92 122
1.78 5.10 64-79 95 126
1.80 5.11 65-80 96 128
1.82 6.0 66-82 98 130
1.84 6.0 67-84 101 134
1.86 6.1 69-86 103 137
1.88 6.1 71-88 106 141
1.90 6.3 73-90 108 144
1.92 6.4 75-93 112 150

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Cola Drinks ~ Harmful Effects

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Cola Drinks – Harmful Effects
Look at the wrapper on a Coca-Cola 1.5 litre bottle and in the ingredients you will find phosporic acid in it. Minute quantities of ethylene glycol is also used (which is acknowledged in the soft drink world for making it “really chill”). This is popularly known as anti-freeze which prevents water from freezing at 0 degree C and instead drops it by 4-5 degrees with minute quantities. This chemical is a known slow poison in the caliber of arsenic (which is popularly used to kill RATS!!!). So, if you manage to drink about 4 litres of Coke within an hour or so, you can die.
A 12 oz can contain 45.6 mg of caffeine. That amounts to about 200 mg of caffeine in a 1.5 litre bottle.
Caffeine is deliberately added to all kinds of soft drinks to make it addictive. Read along and give up these dangerous things. Be natural; have flavoured milks, tender coconuts, butter milk, lassi, and plain water instead of these cold drinks.Guess what’s the pH of soft drinks like Coke is ? Its 3.4 ! This acidity is strong enough to Dissolve Teeth and Bones ! Our human body stops building bones at the age of about 30.
Soft drinks do not have any nutrition in terms of vitamins & minerals. They are high in sugar content, carbonic acid, & chemicals as colouring agents.
Some people like to take cold soft drinks after each meal. Guess what’s the impact of such a habit ! Our body needs an optimum temperature of 37 deg.Celsius for digestive-enzyme to function. The temperature of cold soft drinks is very much below 37 deg or even close to 0 deg Celsius. This will dilute the enzymes & is stressful for the digestive system. The food ingested would not be digested properly. In fact it may undergo fermentation. The fermented food produces gases and produces toxin which get absorbed in the intestine and circulate in the blood stream and is carried to the whole body. Hence toxic substances get accumulated in various parts of the body which may help in the development of various diseases.Think before you drink Coke/Pepsi (or any soft drinks) the next time. Have you ever thought of what exactly you are taking into your system when you drink an aerated drink? You are gulping down Carbon Dioxide. Nobody in the world would advise you to drink CO2.
Two months back, there was a competition at Delhi University among the students – “Who could drink the most Coke?” The winner drank 8 bottles and fainted on the spot — too much CO2 in the blood. Thereafter, the principal banned all soft drinks from the college canteen !
Did you know that soft drinks use chemicals in them that cause immense harm to you.
Someone put a broken tooth in a bottle of Pepsi, and in 10 days it DISSOLVED ! Can you believe it? Teeth and bones are the only human parts that stay intact for years after death. Imagine what the drink must be doing to your soft intestines and stomach lining!

Contributed by Dr. S.S Sibia

Ludhiana

sibia@vsnl.com

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Role of Oestrogen in Osteoporosis

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Role of Oestrogen in Osteoporosis
The Role of Hormone Therapy in the Prevention and Treatment of OsteoporosisWhile one in four women over the age of 50 has osteoporosis, only one in eight men have the disease. This striking difference is largely due to the important role which the sex hormones (primarily estrogen) play in keeping women’s bones healthy.
Bone is a living tissue that is constantly renewed through a process in which old bone is removed and replaced by new bone. In Bone there are two important types of cells – Osteoblasts and Osteoclasts. Osteoclasts are bone eroding cells and Osteoblasts are bone forming cells. The bone eroding cells invade the bone and erode it creating cavities in the bone and the bone forming cells fill the cavities with new bone. This is a natural process — nature’s way of restoring bones and keeping them strong.
In younger persons with good bone health, both the cells that erode bone and those that build bone work together. But as we age the bone builders are unable to keep pace with the bone excavators, and this results in loss of bone.
Estrogen has been found to play a major role in maintaining the balance by slowing the pace of bone erosion. When a woman’s estrogen levels fall dramatically, bone loss is accelerated.
During Menopause, a woman’s estrogen significantly decreases as her ovaries  where nearly all estrogen is produced, cease to function. A woman can lose 2 to 5 % of her bone density each year during the first 5 to 10 years following menopause. However, not all women develop osteoporosis despite this accelerated bone loss. For example, a woman who enters menopause with a high bone density will be less likely to develop osteoporosis because she has more bone to start with. Other factors are also important including genetics, physical activity and nutrition.
Early Menopause
The relationship between bone health and estrogen raises great concern in women who experience premature menopause — menopause before the age of 45. Sometimes such a menopause occurs naturally, while other times it is medically induced through surgery or chemotherapy. Whatever the cause, early menopause can lead to significant bone loss.
Amenorrhea (Missed Periods)
Amenorrhea is a condition which can develop when a girl or young woman develops an eating disorder or when she is training in sports or other intensive physical activities where she over-exercises. In such cases her menstrual cycle may be disrupted and her estrogen production will decrease.
Periods of estrogen loss during this time of life — even if temporary — can have a profound effect on a woman’s bone health over her lifetime.
As a result, even if she does not develop osteoporosis early in life, she will reach menopause at a great disadvantage and be a likely candidate for postmenopausal osteoporosis.
Estrogen Halts Bone Loss
If used early enough this can prevent a woman’s bones from becoming osteoporotic. In cases where she has low bone density or has already fractured, estrogen can stabilize or even improve her bone density.
Research has provided enough evidence to make a strong case for the use of estrogen as both a preventive therapy and as a treatment for established osteoporosis.

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Ultrasonic liposuction

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Ultrasonic liposuction
Ultrasonic liposuction is a very new technique. There are now two main types of ultrasonic liposuction:INTERNAL (with the vibrating cannula) and

EXTERNAL (done by a vibrating machine just prior to the liposuction procedure).

It can be performed with either the traditional, wet or tumescent methods.
Ultrasonic means high-pitched sound. This property has many uses outside of the operating room in “shaking things loose” as in the new ultrasonic toothbrushes. The ultrasonic principle is to loosen the fat, so that fat or oil can be vacuumed out of the body faster than it might with other methods.

Unfortunately, the ultrasonic equipment used (referred to as cannulae, or tubes) may overheat and has caused burns to patients. At times, Ultrasonic cannulae have perforated patients kidneys and gallbladders. Additionally, Ultrasonic Liposuction may cause “end hits”, a burning through of the surface skin. “End hits” occur when the ultrasonic cannula pushes on the skin from the inside out, resulting in blister formation and sometimes scarring. Ultrasonic Liposuction results in more seroma formation than other methods. Seromas are collections of fluid. These fluid balls are made in the tissue as a response to injury. Seromas may be long-lasting and unsightly. Moreover, Ultrasonic instrumentation is very expensive.
  
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