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70% increase in the number of prescriptions over the last 10 years

dickstodghill team — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:35:34 +0000

The number of prescriptions filled out over the last ten years has increased by 70% according to recent statistics released by the NHS Information Centre. In the year 2000 there were 552 million prescriptions given out and in 2010 this figure rose to 927 million. Most of the prescriptions filled out today are for statins, taken to beat cholesterol, and blood pressure medication. This is costing the NHS quite a lot of money and this is due to a combination of increased numbers of people suffering from such conditions and expensive treatments that have recently come on the market.

The number of prescription drugs per person has also risen dramatically. This rise went from 11.2 percent in 2000 to 17.8 percent in 2010. Some say this is because we are living longer and so older people are sicker for longer or there are more old people with age related illnesses who need treatment.

Others suggest that doctors are prescribing too readily and furthermore, statistics reveal that up to half of all medicines for conditions that are considered more long term are actually not taken correctly as the doctor prescribed. It is believed that money going into this could be spent elsewhere and to greater effect.

The British Medical Association thinks that the increase is due to the increase in the number of medicines available today. Especially in the way of preventative treatments like for example statins that lower cholesterol. These are being handed out to those who are in full health but maybe over the age of 50.

Many doctors believe that starting stain therapy on healthy over 50s will prevent cholesterol problems and inevitably cardiovascular issues, stroke and diabetes. In reality, there has not been enough research carried out on long term statin use and this puts people at potential risk of future health problems.

We must take care to be vigilant about the amount of prescription treatments we take and most importantly that all prescription treatments are taken exactly as advised.

After a life of effort and work

dickstodghill team — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:11:33 +0000

After a life of effort and work, the withdrawal was looked forward. The reasons for this so bran, although however many people fear that the times of peace and tranquility come accompanied by a sense of inactivity leading to a depression difficult to crack.
But not worry, because a team of French investigators and Swedes have done a study in which shows that the withdrawal contributes significantly to the welfare of the person, and after taking the step away from work are recovered ten years of youth.
The researchers worked to monitor the physical and mental health of 14700 people of the electric company French EDF-GDF during the final seven years of their work activity, and then during another seven years in which noted their quality of life after the withdrawal.
The conclusions of the investigation pointed to the reality that after the withdrawal people experience a sense of revitalization total, both physical and mental level, which translates into a fading of the aches and pains of the age, in addition to some desire to live that become patents.
The good thing is that this serves both for the head of desktop as for the pawn factory. The vast majority of the workers proved a better quality of life after the withdrawal, and by probability surely both you and I are in the bag (although I lack enough to retire).

Vegetarianism in strict sense

dickstodghill team — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 23:56:43 +0000

Normally when a person says it is vegetarian we associate their eating habits to the absence of the power with animal flesh. However, as we all know, this perception is wrong because the majority of people that vegetarians are ovolactovegetarianas, and tolerate in your diet products of animal origin such as eggs and dairy products, such as said his name.
Specifically, if we talk about vegetarianism in strict sense must refer to the veganism, a practice that is an abstention total consumption of foods that have any type of animal origin.
The vegan has permeated all a philosophy of life that implies respect for nature and by the rights of the animals, in addition to the defense of human rights, and, although it sounds derogatory, in my opinion it ceases to be an unnecessary practice postmodern without any strength.
The typical vegan has a rejection extreme to zoos, the practice of experimentation with animals, circuses, bullfights and other places where carried out actions that undermine the animals. The respect toward animals translated in conceptions of this type I think of the most valuable and respectable.
But when it distorts and contamination of extremism, the veganism transforms into a practice as unhealthy as ridiculous since my opinion. I believe that make gala of veganism to nutritional level is completely absurd, because in addition to treat a fashion, I believe that breaks the laws of nature of survival of the fittest, a trend, which must not be forgotten, allowed the evolution of all species until today.
Even the veganism nutritional reeks of unhealthy, as the practitioners this philosophy has serious nutritional deficiencies, such as the absence of vitamin B12, D, calcium, zinc and iron.
Do not mix the ideology with fetishes and idealism unfounded. I really hard to believe how there are people willing to renounce its status to be alive in pursuit of a parameter as unfounded as the exploitation of animals, only that the first is structured so that reverse the second. Do you fund adolescents? Perhaps, although this is probably a little bit hard. They describe as a whim of bourgeois originating from any civilization.

New trial in Wales to decrease pregnant smokers

dickstodghill team — Tue, 24 May 2011 01:38:45 +0000

A new project has commenced in Wales in order to decrease the number of pregnant smokers in the country. We are informed by the team at Stop Smoking Wales that almost one quarter of pregnant women in the country are smoking throughout their pregnancy. This statistic is much higher than it is in other countries.

The Stop Smoking Wales campaign and the health board have got together to strengthen the chains of communication and rate of referrals between the doctors dealing with the pregnant women and stop smoking counselling services.

It is a recommendation of NICE (National Institute for health and Clinical Excellence) that all pregnant smokers are referred to stop smoking services in their area.

Smoking while pregnant poses a series risk to the unborn child. Each puff of smoke from a cigarette contains 4,000 chemicals. Women who smoke are much more likely to suffer a miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy.

Pregnant women will also be more inclined to suffer complications with the pregnancy such as bleeding, placenta birthing too soon, premature births, birth d effects, babies with low birth weight. Babies born to those who smoke throughout pregnancy are three times more likely to give birth to a stillborn baby or babies who die within their first week outside of the womb.

It has not been established as to whether one can take Champix while pregnant. It is best to remain on nicotine patches if a cessation device is required. Champix does have a 60% success rate and should be considered as an option for those who are trying to quit smoking and who are not contraindicated for it.

Surgery is not an only method of obesity treatment

dickstodghill team — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:08:34 +0000

220,000 people in the US had weight-loss surgery in 2009 in the U.S. This seems like a relatively small number when considering the size of the United States but the numbers are increasing both here and there rapidly.

This type of surgery is serious and should be the final option for someone plagued by their obesity that cannot control their appetite despite wanting to lose weight. When other weight loss methods such as lifestyle changes, weight loss pills and diet pills have been tried and exhausted, surgery is the only option.

We have heard stories about individuals who are at the end of their tether with obesity but who do not qualify as appropriate for treatment because they do not fulfil the strict requirements of NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence). Some of these already obese hopefuls are piling on the extra pounds in the hope that they will reach the required weight for surgery. This is a problem as sufferers are putting themselves and their bodies under terrible duress.

There are two types of surgery available for those who qualify and they include a restrictive procedure, where the operations result in what is described as a feeling of fullness after a low food intake and a malabsorptive procedure which inhibits calorie absorption from the intestine. Most surgeries are laparoscopic and therefore make the healing process a lot shorter meaning these patients may begin to lose weight faster by changing their diet and initiating exercise in their lives.

These are invasive surgeries and weight loss is not always a guarantee. The malabsorptive procedures seem to have the best results but they are also the most risky of procedures however bariatric surgery reduced mortality compared to established treatments such as diet pills. Rates of death resulting from obesity related illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer are said to have reduced since surgery became available on the NHS. It does however come with its own risks.

The predestined of your life.

dickstodghill team — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 08:28:23 +0000

As a child, my mother, as many good mothers always worried by the education of all their children, at the same time that was in the secondary my mom I enrolled in courses of electricity, computer science and English without swimming and martial arts.
Independently started to work part-time from the 14 years doing electrical work in a tallercito own, third world but at the end, after own. To my 20 – already in Guayaquil- got my first job dependent, was at the Hotel “Sol of East” recently opened, the destination was that the owners have had friendship with my parents maybe that was the largest reason that I had ease of entry. Then the hotel was the maximum, full luxury, give, many boys and girls died by work there, in that company worked less than one year thanks to my character and total immature did not get to met with a partner fatigues and wrested and irresponsible, resigned; without not if you want to use the reason and having achieved first another job.
Applied in 4 hotels, all I liked… minus one, and good the destination wanted me to just that one I chose and neither way… had to him just, the body endures all… least do not eat.
This hotel did not have the same category of the previous, reflected in the facade, the cafeteria, the rooms so, however, the great point to favor was that for some reason I fell in grace to the manager of the hotel and sweeps went climbing up to be one of the workers that more confidence obtained we go, either by me!!
A good day I was out by newspaper vacant posts of work and I saw one by other interesting, was one of the most prestigious hotels of the city, were requesting staff for reception and assistant branch manager nightlife, in reality that vacancy saw thorny, I believe that my limited notions exalt my insecurity, and is that you take land to the matter, by the side. But Oh, wonderful! It occurred to me a great idea for as I, takes advantage of this, and was telling my head that I had submitted to this work and that I had been given the post. This crazy idea was intended to despair to the head and that is felt grieved, worried and scared because one of its most faithful junior was went and that his post he never would, I thought I- insurance is going to improve my salary and who knows will give me the Division at least..…nothing more away from the truth…him on the contrary approached and with emotion, I extended the hand and gave me a great congratulations on your obtained the “office” in addition advised me to continue with the same tenacity, successes.
I was with a forced smile and petrified, could not believe that I solute has committed tremendous murky!! Since the dice were thrown out, there was no setback, thanked and I retired –crying inside-
Well, I do not stand another that really appears to apply for the vacant, What more could lose? In fact I had prepared for the always used phrase “We call” At the time that I had more than 20 applicants, the same manager I interviewed, was a “gentleman,” I must admit that Mr. Luzi is a professional talking about a revolution, there will be both been my desire to make the post that the energies that vibrating in sympathy in the atmosphere lined my benefit and gave me the employment!!!! In some way has been the “law of the attraction”
I spent two great years, I learned much in the Grand Hotel Guayaquil on taking the manager as a good example to follow, and there I met friends that I submitted to their friends,
These relations ended up in good business that would affect positively
To my future destination. The most sublime happened to me in the Grand hotel was having known to Rocio, my colleague of life, we have done this last July 1, 23 years together, and thanks to this relationship we have a magnificent son, Carlitos. (See picture)
Analyzing this anecdote notice that until the smallest decision that one has taken, including those “bad” that his post now not- anyway will have an effect on your destination.
Irrefutably I think that in the life everything happens for something and in that short interval with their awaited high and low, at the end of the tunnel there will always be a beautiful sheen. Sometimes I am to convince the destination actually already this writing, which already is predestined, but I also think that we collaborate with large percentage in such a destination, according as we have proceeded in our lives, for a healthy life

The nuts of Ginko

dickstodghill team — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 13:40:23 +0000

Once you remove the meat of the fruit which certainly has a foul-smelling, appears a shell lasts from brown that houses the fruits dry (Bai guo) of Ginkgo that is edible.
These dried fruit you can buy fresh in some markets of China, but are most commonly dried or canned in supermarkets Chinese.
If it decides buy fresh, ensure cooking or cook before eating, because they can be toxic uncooked and should be handled with gloves, in the kitchen china are toasted and serve as appetizers, as well as they are added to a variety of soups and stews.
The nuts of Ginkgo have a high starch content and are low in fat, with a portion of 30 g provides about 30 kcal, have a grainy content, such as the bean and a soft texture, with a taste slightly sweet.
It is believed has a circulatory effect because it increases the supply of blood throughout the body and reduces their viscosity.
It also can counteract the detrimental effect of the free radicals when they come in the body and chemicals that alter the control of the nerves.
Moreover, the extract of sheets of Ginkgo in recent years has become an alternative increasingly popular supplement of the medicine around the world.
Normally used to protect or treat dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease, but you can also be prescribed for depression, anxiety, concentration problems, headaches and tinnitus.
According to the traditional Chinese medicine, Ginkgo is considered an aphrodisiac.
In the light of a shortage of studies well-designed, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (dollars) is conducting large-scale a study of 8 years in which involved 3,000 subjects should end in July 2009.

A New Way of Determining the Life of Yeast Cell

dickstodghill team — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:30:16 +0000

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have discovered a new way in which the energy biochemistry determines the life of yeast cell, is a discovery very valuable to longevity, as it is likely that also works in humans.
Their findings, published in Cell, show that the glucose is strongly influenced by a large complex of enzymes already known to fix the DNA damaged, and that apparently affects the yeast through a chemical process-acetylation.
In a series of experiments, the team of Hopkins showed that when acetylated continuously, the so-called complex enzyme NuA4 causes the yeast cell live longer than it would under normal conditions.
The team modified genetically yeast cell, to imitate the design of a constant in acetylated in the form of the enzyme and another to imitate continuously how acetylated.
Then compared these two samples mutated to a cell in that nothing was genetically altered and found that the constant acetylated that form the cell of yeast can survive without transforming the cells in a 20 percent and that the constant so acetylated had an 80 percent reduction in its useful life in comparison with the cells without altering.
“Due to the complex is NuA4 is highly conserved between species, what we’ve found in the yeast translates to humans”, explains Heng Zhu, assistant professor of pharmacology and the molecular sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
“What we have revealed about the longevity in the yeast may someday be may translate to human health,” he added. Continue.

Homeopathic Remedies as an Alternative Medicine.

dickstodghill team — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 08:16:18 +0000

Homeopathy is considered a form of alternative medicine, created by the German doctor Samuel Hahnemann in 1796, whose treatment is based on preparations for natural substances very diluted, whose role in the agency is the cause health effects similar to the symptoms that the disease.
Such preparations received the name of homeopathic remedies which is based on a dilution of series, where involved as processes the agitation vigorous or “succussing”, after each dilution which would increase the treatment effect, this process is known as “dynamism”.
What are the homeopathic products?
Homeopathic Remedies are a system of medicine based on three principles:
• The same cure what equal
For example, if symptoms are similar to the mercury poisoning, the mercury would then be its homeopathic remedy.
• Minimum Dose
The appeal is taken in a very diluted, normally a part of the solution to around 1,000,000,000,000 parts water.
• Single remedy (concept unicist)
No matter how many symptoms are experienced, only takes a remedy, and this remedy will address all the symptoms.
Similar principles form the basis of conventional treatment of the allergy, where the substance allergic occurs in a small dose, vaccines, where a watered down form of the virus is given to boost the immune system against the virus.
At present the homeopathy is the second system of medicine more used in the world and its growth has increased in the United States around 25 to 50 percent each year over the last decade

The Menopause

dickstodghill team — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:51:09 +0000

The menopause is a stage in life fertile women which neither can escape. It is a term that gives to the conclusion of menstrual cycles and that is why the reproductive cycle and that is usually occurs in women over 45 years.
During this period, in addition to the amenorrhea (cessation of menstruation) occur infinity of physical changes internal and external as well as emotional that many times is misunderstood by the people around them.

Characteristics of the menopause
Those who are going through this period suffer myriad changes mood, among which is the bad humor and the crying but in addition is accompanied by:
-Hot flashes.
-Sweating.
-Vertigo.
-Dizziness.
-Incontinence.
-Vaginal dryness.
-Problems sleeping.
-Tendency to gain weight.
-Can occur osteoporosis and heart problems.
The menopause is a stage that is sometimes difficult to recognize for the women, since even if it is not a disease, with the disappearance menstruation some get depressed because they feel elderly or unserviceable but all this is mainly due to the disorder hormone that is reflected in lawsuits family
During this stage is recommended moderate exercise daily does Walk 20 to 30 minutes? avoid smoking and strive to maintain a food rich in calcium but more important is to consult a doctor to evaluate each case and improvement of the best way.