Thursday, May 3, 2018

Warning !! This Food is Dangerous for your Health !!

I’m sure that you’ve already heard about obesity, stroke, heart disease, and diabetes. Do you know that lifestyle modification can prevent this disease?
Exercise is very important for preventing this disease, especially aerobic exercise (brisk walk, jogging, swimming, cycling for 30-60 minutes/day). However, FOOD is the main contributing agent in the development of this horrible disease. What kind food dangerous for your health?
1.       High saturated fat and cholesterol, for example red meat, egg, and butterfat.
2.       High simple carbohydrate, for example wheat flour, white rice, pastries, candy, bread, potatoes, sugary drinks and desserts
I strongly recommend for you to limit this kind of food for maintain your health. Otherwise, vegetarian has been shown to be quiet beneficial. However, vegetarian is different topic.

Referrence
Alpert, J. S. 2018,’Diet Redux: Which Food Type Leads to Heart Attacks?’, The American Journal of Medicine, Arizona, pp.1-3.

Saturday, April 28, 2018

If You Find Someone Loses Consciousness, Do Basic Life Support



Have you ever heard about BLS before? Maybe some of you are already familiar with this term or maybe not. So, BLS or Basic Life Support is basic course of action that a rescuer should perform for life support. Although it is one of medical procedure, not only professional to be the one who in charge of BLS. Every person, aspecially lifeguard, police officer, firefighters, social workers, and teachers are often required to do this. 

Why is it so important to know ? Maybe some of you have seen person that felt chest pain suddenly and  then unconscious? What did you do when that happen? Most of people will answer call medical care immediately to help him. Yes. That is right. But the next question is while you were waiting for them, what did you do then ? Exactly. This is the time to you to perform BLS. According to American Heart Association (AHA), performing BLS as soon as possible to the patient has better prognosis to save life. Beside that, when doing BLS, you will do the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). It means you will be his heart and give him breath so blood still maintain the delivery of oxygen to the cell.

How can I perform BLS? You should remember “DRSABCD”. Look at the picture below.


How do we do the compression ? Let’s check out this video BLS or BLS with Music