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Atelectasis is defined as a diminished volume affecting all or part of a lung. Atelectasis is divided physiologically into obstructive and non-obstructive causes. Obstructive causes include foreign body, tumor and mucous plugging. Non-obstructive causes include pleural effusion, pneumothorax, surfactant deficiency, and inflammation leading to scarring. Atelectasis may occur post-operatively following thoracic or upper abdominal surgical procedures.

The Ayurvedic management of atelectasis depends upon the underlying cause of the condition. Medicines like Pippali (Piper longum), Yashtimadhuk (Glycerrhiza glabra), Behada (Terminalia bellerica), Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum), Pushkarmool (Inula racemosa), Kantakari (Solanum surattense), Som (Ephedra gerardiana) and Bharangi (Clerodendrum serratum) are used to remove obstruction caused by mucous plugs. Arogya-Vardhini, Kanchnaar-Guggulu, Triphala-Guggulu and Punarnavadi-Guggulu are used to treat tumors. Medicines like Abhrak-Bhasma, Ras-Sindur and Malla-Sindur are used along with other medicines to help remove small foreign bodies.

Pushkarmool, Ras-Sindur and Shrung-Bhasma are used in high doses along with other medicines to treat pleural effusion. These medicines can also be used to reduce inflammation and scarring resulting from chronic infections. Medicines like Gokshur (Tribulus terrestris), Amalaki (Emblica officinalis) and Guduchi (Tinospora cordifolia) also help to reduce scarring and inflammation in the lung tissue. Repeated courses of Yashtimadhuk and Pippali are given to treat surfactant deficiency.

As per the Ayurvedic texts, the lung tissue is predominantly made up of the ‘Rakta’ dhatu. Therefore, all medicines acting on the Rakta dhatu are also believed to be beneficial in treating lung disease. These include medicines like Kutaj (Holharrhina antidysentrica), Patol (Tricosanthe dioica), Kutki (Picrorrhiza kurroa), Saariva (Hemidesmus indicus), Patha ( Cissampelos pareira) and Musta (Cyperus rotundus).

It should be remembered that Ayurvedic treatment can be safely given in the chronic stage of atelectasis. Acute and post-operative atelectasis are best managed in a hospital.

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Many nutritional products advertise an ORAC score. What is an ORAC score? Is it of any importance to us? Is it better to have a high or a low ORAC score? What is a “good” ORAC score? These are the questions that will be addressed in this article.

ORAC is an acronym for Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity. An ORAC score is a test tube analysis that measures the antioxidant levels of food or other chemical substances. Mangosteen products (mangosteen juice, mangosteen tea, mangosteen extract) often advertise an ORAC value. If a food has a high ORAC score, this means that the food is high in antioxidants. The antioxidant’s power is it’s ability to eliminate oxygen free radicals. A higher ORAC score means that the ability to fight diseases is stronger.

Oxygen radicals are chemicals that form naturally inside the body through the process of oxidation. Activities we perform every day such as physical motion and digestion produce oxygen radicals. Exposure to rancid food, polluted air, the sun and electricity also contribute to oxygen radicals. Foods or supplements with a high ORAC score may be able to protect cells from oxidative damage.

Think of the wood used in an outdoor patio as an example of oxidation. When you first build and paint your nice and shiny deck and patio in your back yard it looks so nice. Ten, twenty, or thirty years later when your house is on the market and retirement is around the bend that deck, if it still exists, doesn’t look as nice any more. Rain, air and the outdoor elements have just taken their toll on the wood. In a similar manner, organs, cells and other parts of the body can be weakened by oxidation. This leads to problems such as cancer and heart diseases.

The ORAC score covers all the antioxidants in foods, which cannot be easily measured separately. The ORAC test can identify which nutrients are the important antioxidants. It’s a matter of symbiosis; combinations of nutrients found in food may have greater protective benefits than each nutrient on its own.

Different types of fruit and vegetables have different ORAC scores. It we eat the recommended 5 helpings of fruits and vegetables; we will have, on average, an ORAC score of 1,750 units. If we are careful and pick fruits with high ORAC scores we can do much better. And or course, we can also do worse. You may be surprised to know that an extremely high ORAC score comes from blueberries. A large handful would give an ORAC score of about 6,000. And they taste so good too!

Studies have shown that eating food with a high ORAC score will raise the antioxidant levels In the blood by about approximately 10% – 25%. Experts suggest that an ORAC score of around 5,000 units per day is necessary to have a significant effect on blood and tissue antioxidant levels. It would take about 8 to 10 brightly colored fruits and vegetables or dark greens to achieve this level. That is hard to do. As we begin to notice ORAC scores on some of the food and supplements we purchase it will not hurt to take notice. ORAC scores of 5,000 or higher are recognized as a significant level.

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Here you can find another article connected with cooking and eating. As you know I like writing about it. I’m also interested in information about topics and aspects connected with food and eating. I would like to write about nutrition process. Please read this article to the end, if you are interested in this topic. I hope that you will find some interesting information in it.

The nutrition is a process of giving food to every part (cellula) of our body. Food can help our body to be well built. Thank to food we have got a lot of energy. Food is also some kind of reserve for our organism. That means nutrition isn’t only giving food to our breadbasket. After obtaining food from breadbasket, the ingredients are distributed through organism thank to blood. Nutrition is a very important for each organism. It also helps people to be healthy. There are many illnesses connected with nutrition. If you are eating too less you can be undernutrited or have too low weight. If you are eating too much, you can become overweight or obesity.

Many organisms need food ingredients. People are eating food in form of meals. This part of the article will give you some information about culinary (not biological) aspect of nutrition. I would like to write about some advantages of eating healthy food and using healthy recipes. As I written in my previous articles, healthy food can help us to fight with obesity. We can keep fit and feel better thank to healthy recipes for food. They have got a lot of vitamins and other food nutritious ingredients that are important for us. They are also not fat, so we don’t have to worry about heart diseases.

As you can see the biggest advantage of healthy food is that healthy food is … healthy. There are many healthy recipes for this kind of food. For example salads and soups are very healthy, but we can also eat meat (especially boiled meat from chicken and other birds). In my opinion everybody should include healthy food in his/her everyday diet.

That’s all about nutrition process and its biological and culinary aspect. I hope that this article wasn’t boring and that you have enjoyed reading it. I tried to include the most important information in it that can be interesting and helpful for you. Thank you for your attention and for reading my articles (this one and previous). Please be patient and maybe I will write more culinary articles in the future. Now I’m going to look for some interesting culinary topics. Once again thank you for reading.

The people who suffer from Down syndrome have average to low cognitive abilities and the chances of Down syndrome are 1 to 1000 births. Also this ratio greatly depends upon the age of the mother and many other factors. many of the symptoms of down syndrome may also be found in normal people such as poor muscle growth, ear infections, obstructive sleep, thyroid dysfunctions etc. It is advised that as soon as this syndrome is detected in children they should be treated in a conducive family environment and vocational training should be provided to them for their development. All of the symptoms of Down syndrome can not be overcome but with proper care and education, the life of the people affected from syndrome can be greatly improved.

Characteristics of Down syndrome:

People suffering from Down syndrome may have some of the following physical characteristics:

o Oblique eye fissures

o Muscle hypotonia

o Flat nasal bridge

o Single plamar fold

o Short neck

o White spots on the iris

o Congenital heart defects

o Single Flexion furrow of the fifth finger

o Higher number of ilnar loop dermatoglyphs

Some mental characteristics include:

o Mental retardation

o Low IQ due to above factor

These are just some of symptoms of the Down syndrome. Their are many other symptoms of this dreadful disorder.

Health of people:

The people suffering from this syndrome can experience any organ or organ system failure at any time. This type of syndrome can result from many genetic disorders. This results in wide variety of symptoms and even wider variety of problems and complications in the individuals. Prior to birth it can be tested and found out that the individual which will develop will have Down syndrome while some symptoms are clearly visible after the birth like heart malfunctions others come to light in the later years.

A survey conducted in United States showed that the life acceptancy of such people is around 49 years up from 25 years in 1980.The life expectancy also depends on many factors like the social environment of the individual as well as the family environment. Fertility is drastically reduced with males suffering the worst. Only 3 instances of a male suffering from Down syndrome becoming a father have been recorded.

People who support such people advise that such people should be given special guidance as well as education as well as a home environment which is suitable and caring for them and then only thy develop their minds to live like a normal person. With special care and understanding the world can be made a better place to live in for individuals suffering from Down syndrome.

If you are looking to lose weight and keep it off you must learn to simply adjust the portion size you eat.
If you consume more calories than you burn you won’t lose weight – Period.

Portion control is the key to long term weight loss and keeping it off. How do you achieve this it’s simple, use a natural appetite suppressant to help you.

If you can learn portion control then you can eat a bit of everything, enjoy your food and eat 5 times a day and never be hungry.

To learn portion control if you are used to eating more than you should (be honest with yourself here) you can use an appetite suppressant.

Here we are going to look at one of the best, if not the best one to use.

A natural appetite suppressant that’s good for you

To learn portion control you can use an appetite suppressant that’s natural organic and good for you – You may be surprised at what it is, but its being hailed as the key to fighting obesity and its:

Nicotine, which is consumed by us everyday in foods such as tomatoes, potatoes, tea and chili’s.

Were not talking about smoking it!

Fact is nicotine is a naturally occurring compound that is safe and non toxic and is not a killer or cause of disease (that is some of the other 4,000 odd chemicals consumed in cigarette smoking)

In fact, nicotine is good for you in it also lifts mood, improves concentration and sharpens your attention
Getting it in organic form in sufficient quantity will also suppress hunger pangs.

So how do we get it in organic form?

Various supplements are under development to combat a number of conditions including, obesity and the first one is already on the market.

Nicotine water and it’s the ideal combination for people wanting to lose weight fast as water as we have seen, is a natural appetite suppressant.

Nicotine has for a long time only been associated with smoking, but fact is in organic form it’s safe, non toxic and does you good, as well as suppressing appetite.

You may never have thought of nicotine as a diet aid to help you achieve portion control, but it is proven to work.

Keep in mind when taking it, not only will you suppress your appetite it will also help your brain function better.

Once liver cancer has been found and correctly staged to determine the spread and extent of cancer it is very important to choose the right type of liver treatment plan. This is obviously a major decision that involves a lot of time and thought. It would be prudent to avail of a second opinion from an experienced doctor who is experienced with this particular type of cancer. This will give you all the information you need to have and make you confident about the plan you pick. Besides, almost all insurance companies pay for a second opinion.

Some of the treatment plans for Liver Caner Include the Following:

o Surgery

This offers a chance for a cure. It is performed either to transplant the liver or remove a tumor. Obviously complete removal of the liver is not really possible and if the cancer is huge it is usually found in various parts or even beyond the liver. Surgeons need to try and get almost all the cancer out and yet leave some behind so that the liver functions in the way it has to. Just a small occurrence of this type of cancer allow for a liver transplant because these cannot be removed due to their location or due to the fact that there would not be enough of the liver left behind.

o Ablation of tumors

Ablation refers to the treatment that is local and which destroys the tumor without actually removing it. This type of treatment can be done in different ways and is done for those that have small tumors that cannot be surgically removed.

There is also a treatment for liver tumors that cannot be surgically removed. This type of treatment involves inserting a particular material in an artery carrying blood to the cancerous tumor. The blood flow then proceeds gets blocked and inhibits the growth of the tumor.

Chemo is another option for treatment. Radiation is a fairly new treatment and combines radiation with another type of treatment and it is carried out by injecting tiny radioactive beads/oils into the blood-feeding artery of the liver. Using this treatment, the infected tumors get tiny doses of radiation.

o Radiation

High energy rays (X-rays) are used to kill the cancer cells and even shrink tumors. In this way cancer cells can be destroyed. Because liver tissue can also be killed using this process, the doses cannot be very high. This treatment cannot cure the cancer but can be used to shrink a liver tumor and give the patient relief from acute pain.

o Targeted therapy

New drugs today aim for changes in the cancer causing cells. These drugs do not function like the chemo drugs and have side effects that are less severe. They enter the blood and pass through the whole body making them useful in treating cancer liver and other cancers that are located in distant organs.