Ru! Ru! Ru! Ru! ..... alarmed by the noise? [ambient care]

Working in nursing home liaison I am a regular visitor to various homes in my patch.

As I respond to referrals inevitably I spend several minutes waiting to see residents, relatives and staff. At this point I can take in the ambience of the home and all too frequently what stands out is the home's call system.

Many are acutely effective.

Even though I am not there for long - 30-60 minutes, the volume, tone and the overall quality of some of these systems can be grossly irritating. Due to the care needs of the resident population the alarm calls are also a constant. This is not just my audiological experience, but one shared with students on placement with me.

Attracting the attention of staff is crucial. Caring staff do want to know who, where and when someone needs assistance. Ironically, sometimes that annoying, intrusive alarm call is supported with a plaintive shout for "someone!". As ever there are many ways to define person centred care. In response to the alarm's screech, scream and shrill the staff head to the panel and seek direction to Room 3 or 7.

If care is personalised then whatever happened to our signature tunes? Did this individual play a musical instrument? Gleaned from their life history record this might at least include Jo's musical favourites? It's true that existing alarms are anonymous, and so confidentiality is preserved. Meanwhile though peace, well-being and staff retention rates(?) are lined up against the walls and reverberated, rev erbe rat ed, re ve r be ra te d ... ...

Of course, at some remote future time I might embarrass myself as I press the red button and the Thunderbirds March rings out down the corridor, around a left, a right corner to light a panel.

Fellow residents and visitors might be given to say "Gee, there goes Alan Tracy needing help again!" Maybe by then the robots will have it sorted: the latest in-situ care units will save the day and people's ears.

Seriously though: designers, owners and managers of homes must consider the acoustic architecture of the care environment; or are they also anticipating a rise in the average age of employees with a consequent impact on the hearing acuity of employees? As to the quality of life of the residents go figure: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!

Drupal musings 12: Semantic Web, ICNP, Case studies and Care domains

Drupalcon 2010 Copenhagen is over for me. It's been a really useful week: awesome indeed. My head is dizzy with all the options, sources and resources to consider. I will contact the London Drupalcon group for 2011 with some suggestions regards beginners, networking and outreach.

Ever since setting off on the Drupal road, the semantic web has been a constant item of street furniture. In Szeged '08, Paris last year and this past week in Copenhagen the semantic web, RDF and terminologies have had a pivotal presence. I did not attend all the rdf / SW sessions but Wednesday's Semantic Terminologies was sit on the floor popular (even though at that point the program hit a bottleneck from 6 to 3 streams). Whatever the cause - I was there, late and my pivot ached (no padding!).

As a Drupal 7 prelude I'm creating a Drupal 6 site, a basic homepage for someone. The content for the latter is fixed - sorted. Apart from the pages for the archive, the new h2cm content involves me figuring out how to combine:

1. the health career model;
2. nursing - in theory and practice;
3. external sources and resources;
4. and Drupal.

Johannes Wehner's terminology session above did not emphasize RDF, but highlighted Open Linked Data by means of Open Calais as a tool to extend existing content. I've downloaded the Drupal OC module and obtained a key.

As for the list: #1 The health career model is straight forward really. Four care domains - get on with it! From there though it is quite a reach to encompass #2 & #3. My options appear to be:

• free tagging, auto tagging - let the users of the site decide;
• pre-define a data set, a terminology (classification) for the health career model;
• use an existing nursing classification / terminology scheme - perhaps a subset.
  

Before I decide I need to be aware of what is available. I e-mailed Derek Hoy in Scotland - contact for the International Classification for Nursing Practice® [ICNP]. This is another thing I pick up, put down. ... Now thanks to Derek I'm sorted now with ICNP downloaded (and I will need a module to import .csv files). There are videos on the ICNP website.

I have followed the development of nursing terminologies for quite some time. The most striking thing to me is how removed they are from the day-to-night life on wards and other care encounter situations. With mental health as a Cinderella in terms of the politics and recognition of nursing service provision I am in effect professionally twice removed. For the vast majority of nurses on the ground and from where I work in community mental health the ICNP, SNOMED CT, Omaha and other schemes are rather esoteric things. They are there in the background, part of management and reporting 'function'. This is not to say that the above initiatives have few followers, or lacks experts in this field. Make no mistake nursing has its own geeks, nursing classification its experts!

The scope of ICNP makes it a great candidate (from the website) -

Diagnosis/outcome

Interventions

Individual 7 axes

1. focus
2. action
3. client
4. judgement
5. location
6. means
7. time

Plus:

• it's International;
• it's by nurses, for nurses;
• it has momentum (political and financial support);
• So it is credible, and research based.

Despite this, I must take a critical look at what is available for my needs and time available. All the above provide way too much for a first bash - prototype, proof of concept. I have the luxury of not worrying about safety. My project does not constitute an electronic health record or other variant. Yes, I want to prove the health career model and to this end I must also find or create several nursing case studies to interrogate within Drupal and h2cm.

Perhaps as things improve economically, nursing classification will be revived and will allowed the time to fully mature? I recall in 2006 plans to explore mental health within SNOMED which unfortunately did not materialise. So, when I say mature, I mean like cheese in the holistic senses of the ingredients: nursing care concepts across contexts that also incorporate self-care, recovery, demographic trends ...; and the process across communities of practice (integrated care) through to academic and management applications - research / reporting.

In March 2010 plans were announced of plans to harmonize the efforts of the ICNP and SNOMED CT nursing:

http://www.ihtsdo.org/nc/about-ihtsdo/harmonization/icn/?sword_list[]=nursing

So, with a possible jumpstart - a sprint for my site this autumn in Manchester, UK and work afoot to make nursing classification matter on the 'ground' there is more to follow on several fronts. ... I remember a presentation Derek did in the 1990s about classification and making nursing visible - let's do it!

contact: h2cmng @ yahoo.co.uk

PC footprints 1981 - 2010

At the Eden Project there is a sculpture which depicts the e-hardware an average Jo will use and dispose of in a lifetime (those teeth are made up of computer mouse). Overall this amounts to 3.3 tonnes.

I've listed this before on W2tQ, but my micro - PC footprint runs as follows:

• Sinclair ZX81 - 1981
• BBC microcomputer model 'B'
• BBC Master 128 - 1986
• Elonex 286 PC
• Dell 486 PC
• MacBook Pro - October 2008
  
• Evesham Pentium 4 PC - November 2002

This w/e after Drupalcon I am adding to my pile. I've managed very well, but it is definitely time for a new PC.

Additional link:
http://weeeman.org/html/impact/about.html

Care design: c/o DDC Copenhagen

On Monday afternoon I explored the city of Copenhagen walking to several sites - the Tivoli Gardens, the Tycho Brahe Planetarium and other parts of this lovely city. I ended up spending a couple of hours at the Danish Design Center.

Like my occasional visits to London's museums, the DDC although very small provided a couple of pearls. One display across a wall upstairs outlined the main forms of design theory and practice:

• The USER as designer
• TECHNOLOGY in the design process
• New MATERIALS and smart design
• NATURE
• SOCIAL design and CARE design
• GREEN design
• ART design
• EMOTIONAL design
• REPLACEMENT due to changing fashions (built in obsolescence!)
• SERVICE and CONCEPT design

The following text was displayed to describe SOCIAL design and CARE design:

The population pyramid has changed shape. The working-age group is shrinking compared to the group of people of retirement age. In addition, there is the large segment of the so-called weak - particularly in the 3rd world. Thus, social design and care design will be big and important design areas in the future, because the solutions will seek to strengthen the health care sector and improve conditions in the 3rd world and for underpriviledged people in general. Parameters such as increased dependency, quality of life and dignity are crucial elements in solutions relating to social design and care design. DDC display; August 23 2010.

Many themes come together here. Some are represented in the tags below. Care design is much more than what we might consider as 'standard design' aspects, such as; user interface [UI] and user experience [UX]. Care design is even more dependent upon user engagement.

There is another dependency that as yet has a '?' in the data entry box.

Care design needs coherent forms of personal, social and civic responsibility. These are yet to emerge as think tanks, governments and health experts seek (urgent) solutions.

In comparison to the above the 200 character limit on labels (tags) on Blogger presents a very small challenge. I can well imagine the outline of a book on 'care design': the result would be a big tome; but this would not just be (PJ inspired) hyperbole. Care design is not new, but the DDC text above must accentuate the individual, and not just care design at the public and private sector hospital level. Care design in an individual context is mission critical. Heady content - for books, websites and policies - as befits our times.

Thank you DDC, Copenhagen: wonderful indeed.

Concept albums and voice signatures

In .net magazine (Sept 2010, p.42) Jeffrey Zeldman makes reference to the web we grew up with being as obsolete as concept albums. It's true that music distribution has suffered a series of step-downs from the format that previously conveyed the concept album visually. Many LP covers are classics in themselves. The switch from LP record covers, to CD, and then to mp3 ... downloads means concept albums are indeed fewer; but maybe the reduced visual impact means that new concept albums are less noticed too?

Could the concept album experience a renaissance: online? Story telling has never been completely lost. The web and world's media depends on content: the appetite for stories and music is voracious - Hollywood is famished. Successful narratives prove their worth by doing surprising things with concepts that prompt re-telling down the ages. The concepts may change, but the structures and elements of the stories are timeless.

Concepts obviously remain central to making sense of everything: self, others, the world and the future that includes the new web. In the health career model we have a concept album. It is a care concept album comprising several snapshots or frames. It is also person-centred.

It has a voice that has its own musical signature, it is unique - that is if the album is truly person-centred and listened to.

.net September also includes a brief interview with the creators of The Specials website, which takes the form of a docu-soap about five friends with learning disabilities.

When we listen stories can be told:

great things can follow.

The benefits of morinda citrifolia for health

Who is not familiar with noni fruit often called morinda citrifolia? Fruit, ugly and smelled bad this turned out to have many benefits.

According kardiologis internists and specialists, for their golden age is suitable to consume noni. Many benefits in noni, eg source of antioxidants. These antioxidants can lock the free radicals that can lower the body resistance.

Fruits that have a latin name Morinda citrifolia is also able to enhance the function of the thyroid gland and thymus gland. Both of these glands have the function of fighting infection and maintaining immunity. The reduced function of these glands will make the body susceptible to disease.

Based on various studies, the fruit of bad smell it contains minerals which serves the channel widens narrowed blood vessels. That way, the heart does not have to work too hard to pump blood. As a result, can make normal blood pressure.

Noni fruit is also believed to control the cancer cells and tumors. Indeed, if cancer or a tumor has appeared, then treatment with surgery or chemotherapy should be done. However, regular consumption of noni may inhibit the growth of tumor cells or greater cancer cell.

Bee Products For Cancer Therapy

Consumption of honey, royal jelly, bee pollen and propolis regularly can prevent the risk of cancer up to 50%. Bee products, according to the herbalist can boost the immune system. Study results, the product of a bad reaction to bee able to unravel due to radiation.

The use of honey as a medicine starts since Greek and ancient Egyptian. At that time in Egypt, honey was one of 500 most popular drugs. Appears nickname "honey of the gods", until the king of Egypt who died were given a bottle of honey for life in the afterlife.

In Chinise Traditional Medicine (TCM), honey is used as neutralizing poisons, balancing heart function, pain, and as an antibiotic.

High glucose
Honey is a natural sweet substance produced by bees from flower nectar of raw materials. Substance contained in honey are glucose, fructose, maltose, sucrose, carbohydrates, enzymes diatase, the enzyme invertase, and dyes which vary, depending on nectar of flowers.

Glucose in honey nutritious quickly restore the body fluids. Fruktosa may reduce liver damage. Diatase enzymes and invertase reduce starch, protein, and glycosides are abundant in the body.
In the healing and prevention of cancer, honey enhance endurance and immune system. Honey also accelerate wound healing, wound either cancer or surgical removal of scar cancer.

According to Dr. F.G. Winarno of Food Technology Development Center Bogor Agricultural University, in his book Honey, Technology, Usefulness, and Analysis, sugar and minerals in honey serves as a tonic for the heart. Heart muscles to work without interruption, so that it always requires glucose as an energy source to replace lost energy.

Researchers from the United States declared, severe heart disease patients who consumed 70 percent of honey per day for 1-2 months, conditions are getting better, receiving more and more normal blood, heart and strength increases.

According Yellia, honey can be mixed with herbal medicine or other drinks instead of sugar, can also be drunk directly. In order to get its benefit, Yellia recommend drinking three tablespoons of honey per day.

Bee Pollen
Other bee products, bee pollen, flower pollen that is collected bees as a food reserve. Bee pollen contains lysine, leucine, arachidonic, linoleic, linolenic acid, thiamin, riboflavin, nicotine acid, pantothenic acid, potassium, phosphorus, sulfur, calcium, selenium, sodium, magnesium, iron, aluminum, copper, manganese, nickel, titanium, chlorine, silicon, boron, iodine, molybdenum, and vitamin B12.

Otherwise Yellia, beta-carotene contained in bee pollen is a "collector" free radicals caused by radiation. "The content of substances contained in bee pollen is very useful to prevent cancer cell growth and stabilize the process of cell regeneration and rehabilitation," he explained.

When you buy bee pollen in the form of pellets (small granules), he added, should be refined before consumption. To maintain stamina, bee pollen consumed 1 / 2 tablespoon per day. How to eat them, can be mixed with honey and drink when stomach is empty, for example 15 minutes before eating.

Bee products are difficult to take is propolis or bee digunakaan latex adhesive to attach the cells making bees nest eggs and sterilize before shed. Worker bees get propolis from plant sap.

According to Dr. Aji Suranto, Sp.A, apitherapy practitioners in the Indonesian Doctors Association of Traditional Eastern Health Development (PDPKT) DKI Jakarta, propolis is very useful as antibiotics, immune system stimulants, and increase employment pagosit in white blood cells.

For the prevention and cure of cancer, propolis function as antioxidants and provide protection to the cells. Existing substances in propolis resin, among others, bioflavonoids, vitamin B complex, vitamin A, and minerals.

In the market, propolis is available in pill form coarse, capsules, and liquid. Can also contained in various products, such as toothpaste, ointments, and medicines.

Royal Jelly
In the development of the health world, people find the greatest bee products, namely royal jelly. This product is a liquid thick and white. Often called Potency HI Lyophilized Royal Jelly, and was first discovered in Dezhou, China.

This product is a special substance that is produced through a process of salivary glands of young bees or worker bees. Royal jelly is dedicated to the queen bees or larvae (potential queen bees).

With this food, the queen bee can lay 1000-1500 eggs each day throughout his life. Queen bees can live 6-7 years, while ordinary bees only live for three months.

This product is a supplement that is rich in natural hormones, nutrients, enzymes biokatalisator, and proteins with high nitrogen content. The content contained in royal jelly are fructose, glucose, sucrose, cysteine, lysine, arginine, 10-hydroxy-2-decanoic, vitamin C, and B vitamins, like thiamin (B1), riboflavin (B2), niacin (B3), biotin, inositol, and pantothenic acid (B5).

According to Dr. Aji Suranto, Sp.A, B vitamins contained in the royal jelly is much higher compared to other foods. Useful to normalize and regulate cell function. Pantotenat acid content nutritious strengthen organs, slowing aging, as well as antiviral and anticancer. For those suffering from cancer, this product is very useful as supplements to speed healing supporters. Royal jelly is also used to increase stamina and sexual function.

Chicken broth create a smart brain

Long been known as quintessence with chicken or chicken broth are known to have great benefit in maintaining stamina. No doubt, people of China are often made of chicken broth soup to treat patients with common colds. But it turned out, the properties of chicken broth is not limited to stamina but also improve a person's memory.

According to research done Hajime Nagai and Satya Wacana Christian University in Salatiga, published in 1996 in the Journal of Psychological Anthropology Human Sciences stated, chicken quintessence useful in recovery from fatigue caused by mental fatigue. Consuming chicken essence can increase the power thought to be more responsive (faster) and improve short-term memory

The study involved 20 students who were divided into two groups. The first group ate 70 grams of essence of chicken, while the rest were taking placebo (milk protein) twice daily. Research conducted during the week, and on day seven of the participants take a test of mind and mood of psychology.

The result, the group who consumed chicken extract has a lower error rate in tests of arithmetic and short-term memory tests, compared to the group who consumed a placebo.

"This could happen because (essence of chicken) contain amino acids. And best of amino acids located in chickens than from any other source," said dr. Philip Tsang, Thursday (22/07/10), at the Celebrate 175 Years'S Brand.

Natural amino acid or carnosine contained in the essence of chicken can be added carnosine in your body that decreases as the age. Carnosine itself has a nature boost immunity, reduce, and prevent cell damage caused by beta amyloid (the substance found in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease).

"Carnosine in chicken essence adding antioxidants in the body. Free radicals can be detained by antioxidants so as not to damage the body," said Dr. Tsang.

Consumption of chicken essence itself cater for all ages. Chicken extract was also no effect of dependence or side effects so that there is no limitation in consuming chicken essence. "Dependence effect usually occurs because the user becomes aware of his health was improving their health after consuming chicken essence," said Dr. Tsang.

Consumption of chicken is also highly recommended is reformulated in the morning. If consumed at night makes it difficult to sleep. "Not because it contains caffeine but because his mind to work so not sleepy," said Indra Laban, General Manager of Brand's.

The easiest way to get the essence of chicken is to make your own chicken broth or chicken sariparti buy supplements that are available on the market. That distinguishes between the two, only in the fat content that has been omitted on the product is reformulated chicken supplements.

Doctor Not Care in Herbal Medicine

Head of Research and Development at the Ministry of Health Agus Purwadianto argued that the development of herbal medicine in Indonesia is less developed because many doctors are less concerned.

"During this time the doctor is always 'win' of modern medicine. In fact, modern medicine does not always work well for curing a disease," he told reporters on the sidelines of a seminar on "Development and Utilization of Herbal Health" in Denpasar, on Saturday.

At a seminar held in conjunction with the Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI) of Bali Province, he pointed out that it is not easy to change the paradigms of the doctors who had been educated in Western medicine.

"Herbal far less rooted in the medical community, while at the other side of the community who wish to return to natural medicine, ie, with choices such as medicinal herbs," said the man who is also Chairman of the Honorary Board of Medical Ethics (MKEK) IDI center.

According to him, should herbs that have been inherited for generations in Indonesia society placed as the main component of health care in the medical community.

To further popularize the use of herbal medicine in the medical community, he said, the institute will provide training to the doctors about the herbal world.

"Building this system is not easy. Dream we are going to many schools of medicine which opens the program with a study of Eastern medicine. Herbal will have to be excellent in the treatment," he said.

About the efficacy of traditional nostrum, he said, are now widely performed by universities and research Kemenkes Office only develop or reworks these research results.

Meanwhile, hospitals in Indonesia which is currently open poly herbal already there are about 12 hospitals. He hoped that through the opening poly will be many experts and professors who studied the science of herbal medicine.

Rooms with a View (and without) ...

There are times ... when to understand body, mind - and the things that people do to themselves and others - we need to consider the four care domains.

Then we can appeal to the fifth. ...

Retirement, memories of work & Bacon numbers

In the UK in July 2010 the much anticipated news about the government's plan to scrap the default retirement age in the UK from October 2011 throws up a complex future work place and nursing care space.

At the moment if a member of the staff in the NHS needs a psychiatric assessment and admission, then there is often a protocol that determines how their care is managed. Various factors are taken into account. For example, the work history of the person and the distance of available beds. This may entail admission for them to another area. Such arrangements help protect the staff member, their families and the local staff for whom being both carers and colleagues could be quite difficult.

Over two decades I have encountered health professionals who are diagnosed with dementia maintained in the community - in their homes - and in residential care. So far I have not known these individuals in their work capacity and professional lives. This is due in part of course to the incidence of dementia increasing with age and my previous status as a spring chicken. Today of course things have changed:

• Early onset dementia is more common as the overall older adult population rises.
• Suddenly (well at least after October 2011) we may find - despite the physical and emotional demands of the job - that the staff in residential and nursing homes are also older - working through that previous work | retirement barrier.
• There's another change: now I am a mature chicken.
• I wonder what the churn rate is in our nursing homes?
• While we usually think of high turnover for staff and the associated poor quality of care. As care and nursing homes are also businesses there are two churn rates:
• - senior and junior staff leave the sector, or move to other homes;
• - residents are moved for reasons of re-location - increased care needs, and the choices of family.

So....? Amid all this I wonder how many workers in the care sector working their extended years may potentially come across former work colleagues? This could be a delicate and haphazard negotiation. ...

Additional link:
The Oracle of Bacon

Healthy diet tips for renal failure patients

Someone who has experienced kidney failure should take care of its diet because many foods that can actually aggravate the condition of illness. Patients with kidney disease can not eat fruit and vegetables at will, with the same number of healthy people.

It should be understood that there are vegetables and fruits that potentially exacerbate the patient health condition. Therefore, patients with kidney failure should really know the content of their fruit and vegetable consumption.

"Patients with kidney failure should reduce the consumption of fruits because some fruits grades Potassium high," the doctor said Dian Novita Chandra, M. Nutrition, Staff of the Department of Nutritional Sciences Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, the Warta Kota recently noodles.

Very high potassium levels (hyperkalemia) can cause disturbed heart rhythm. Patients should be able to limit the amount of consumption of fruit each day. Eg apples, kidney patients can only eat half of it. Yet that also must be remembered, if the condition of kidney patients can no longer berkermh, then you should refrain from the consumption of fruits and vegetables until smooth urination.

Meanwhile, for people who have not undergone dialysis. encouraged to go on a diet low in protein 40-45 grams / day. This of course depends on renal function of patients can be detected by laboratory examination. If kidney function is less than 15 percent, then the engagement to do dialysis.

Another renal failure in patients who have chronic or chronic long alias. Patients with chronic kidney failure must undergo a strict diet with some purpose which is to regulate fluid and electrolyte balance in the body and to keep the patient can move like a normal person.

The principle of the diet patients with chronic renal failure

1. Diet or regular soft

2. As a source of carbohydrates: sugar, jam, syrup and candy.

3. Self-energy and low protein

4. As a source of protein, preferably protein, for example: milk, beef, meat, and fish. Number in accordance with renal function failure patients.

5. As a source of fat, preferably unsaturated fats, with the needs of approximately 25 percent of the total energy required.

6. For the needs of water, is recommended in accordance with the amount of urine 24 hours; approximately 500 milliliters of the beverage and food products.

7. For potassium and sodium requirements by a state patients.

8. For calorie needs, about 35 kcals / kg body weight / day.

9. Limiting salt intake if there is hypertension (high blood pressure) or edema (swelling).

10. It is also advisable to consume gelatin because in addition to containing energy sources also contain soluble fiber.

Foods that should be restricted

1. Carbohydrate sources such as: rice, corn, potatoes, macaroni, pasta, hevermout, sweet.

2. Animal proteins like meat goat, chicken, fish, liver, cheese, shrimp, eggs.

3. Vegetables and high-potassium fruits such as apples, avocados, oranges, bananas, papayas and papaya, celery, cauliflower, parsley, green beans.

Gains and losses on fatty dressing

As mentioned in previous articles, some dressings are high in fat and calories. However, removing the dressing because it is not healthy at all, it was not possible. All we can do is mengakalinya, so that the benefits of healthy vegetables does not decrease or even threatening weight and the work of the heart.

However, fatty dressings still have advantages over the reduced fat or fat-free. Vegetable fat helps carotenoid absorption. Antioxidants act as pro-vitamin A. Dressing containing olive oil, balsamic vinegar, or wine, is able to enhance the effects of antioxidants and vegetables.

Loss fat dressings are high calorie, so the potential to cause obesity. When the fat in the form of saturated fat, can increase cholesterol levels in our bodies.

Well, so much easier in choosing a healthier dressing, you should remember the following four things:

1. A healthier dressing is low fat, not too much salt, and minimal saturated fat.

2. Avoid overly salty dressing.

3. When you're dining outside the home, book a salad dressing or peanut ingredients in separate containers that can be blended themselves sparingly.

4. High-fat dressings containing its own advantages and disadvantages for users. Adjustment to the conditions and needs of the body.

Seasoning foods that contain high calorie

Salad dressing, in fact there are various kinds. However, if you're only familiar with Thousand Island or Blue Cheese, naturally. Type of dressing is always used as first choice in the menu of a salad seasoning restaurant. No wonder, Thousand Island, the most popular among the people of Indonesia.

If you have not much familiar with the types of salad dressings, try to identify some other options. Recognize also base ingredients, so the more you understand the content of nutrients. Moreover, one tablespoon of dressing it already contains quite a lot of calories.

Vinaigrette
Made from oil, vinegar, and other seasonings. The basic ingredients of vinegar vinaigrette mixed. There are made from red wine, spices, balsamic vinegar, or apple cider.

All types of fat-free vinegar. So, who determines the amount of fat in vinaigrette is a mixture of the oil. Because the oil content in different vinaigrette, calories contained in these products also varies. We can choose according to need.

Vinaigrette would make a great mix of lettuce, carrots, sprouts, cucumbers, peas chestnuts, pasta, and macaroni.

Thousand Island dressing
Thousand Island dressing is a favorite dressing of many, and reportedly came from the islands near New York. Available in a variety of types, ranging from regular to fat-free. Made from a mixture of eggs, sugar, vinegar, mayonnaise, sweet pickle cucumbers, black olives, and red peppers. Vegetable salad or fruit salad dressing is suitable to use. One tablespoon (20 grams) contains 80 calories.

Mayonnaise
Its main base ingredient is olive oil (or occasionally other types of oil) is mixed with egg, lemon juice, vinegar. Mayonnaise as cocolan (Dipping sauce) would make sense to be more crispy celery sticks. One tablespoon of mayonnaise contains 75 calories.

Blue Cheese
Its main base material is blue cheese, milk, mayonnaise, vinegar, sugar, and a few other seasonings. Dressing is a high calorie content, which is 94 calories for one drink a serving (2 tablespoons).

Bean seasoning
Bean seasoning made from the fried peanuts before pounded and mixed with salt and sugar. One tablespoon seasoning beans contains about 130 calories. This means, sauce is higher than the calorie Thousand Island dressing!

Sweet soy sauce
In some areas, sweet soy dressing is often used as a vegetable. Very little fat content, but contain sugar and salt are quite a lot. One tablespoon of soy sauce contains about 35 calories.

Successful Diet Tips on Weekends

Whatever your plans for the weekend, enjoy. However, lest you lose the joy of your body weight up after the weekend. Not easy to stay disciplined to keep your diet on Saturday and Sunday. That felt better because so many invitations to eat that presents menus that are not friendly with waist circumference.

Research conducted by a team of researchers from Quinnipiac University in the U.S. shows, the holidays can ruin a diet that has been done for weeks just because they are dieting tend not able to control the food. But still, there is a trick that you do not eat too far at the weekend.

* Home sweet home
Plan a weekend at home? Be careful because the temptation to enjoy a snack at home is quite high. When you idly while watching the new movie is purchased, you can spend a large pack of potato chips and roasted peanuts in an instant. Result, the calories in balance with no combustion. Your weight also increased steadily. Begin to change these habits and enjoy the results.

Do's: Eat at his watch. Eating regularly can make your stomach full, and reduce the desire to enjoy a snack. If you can not afford to not chew, a piece of apple or three handfuls of popcorn can be a substitute for potato chips. It would be better if half servings of rice at lunch and dinner menu is replaced with vegetables and fruit. Do activities such as playing games, chatting, or reading a book because it can divert your attention to food. More fun anymore if you decide to clean house and rooms. Besides the net, do not feel you have been successful exercise during the holidays.

* Coffee in cafe
Nice indeed if we could calm the mind on the weekend with a glass of your favorite coffee, reading, chatting, or browsing in the cafe customers. But be careful because small talk with a friend for a few hours was able to spend one frapuccino caramel glass, a piece of tiramisu, and one serving of a delicious chocolate cake.

Do's: If possible, ask the waiter to replace refined sugar with low calorie sugar to your drink. Select a beverage that contains no whipped cream. If no, then select a cake made from vegetables. Try not to choose foods that are sweet sweet if you drink. Lastly, do not forget the white water. A bottle of mineral water can reduce your desire to eat more cake.

* The roads in the mall
The mall has become a pilihat right to spend time with family or friends. In addition to much to see, it also provides plenty of places to eat and chat are great. Usually, fast food restaurants often be an option. You can also carried away to taste this and that. Oops!

Do's: When visiting a restaurant burger, pilihlan menu consisting of chicken and vegetables. Choose between mayonnaise or cheese as a complement, not both. For pizza, there's no harm in trying a menu that contains a lot of vegetables than meat. If you still want to taste the ice cream, then try frozen yogurt that is not less delicious but also healthy. After eating, Wander over 1 hour looking at your favorite stores. In addition to burning calories powerful, who knows you find cute bags that are discounted.

* Feast of relatives
The temptation to icip-icip party food that you rarely encounter the toughest challenge on the weekend. There is a great way to diet you do not corrupted, that is no exaggeration!

Do's: If you are interested in trying out every main meal, take as much as one tablespoon for each menu, along with the rice. If you want to enjoy a very tempting cake, invite friends to share. Replace sweet drinks or coke with water. Wear a dress that body size so you can feel your stomach expand when it's too much to eat. Guaranteed, you will stop.

* Out of town
Try out different cuisine is one of the most widely performed while visiting out of town. With appropriate measures, all foods can be tried without ruining your diet.

Do's: If you want a culinary trip, make sure you have a friend. Choose the menu you want, share with colleagues. In this way, although many of the foods you try, the portion is maintained. If you own, then ask for half portions than usual. Do not forget to compensate for culinary tour with leisurely walk while enjoying the new city. If there is a bike rental, there is nothing wrong with your bike tour.

Drupal musings 11: Git up and go ...

For more than I care to remember I've recognised that version control is an essential facet of software development. During this time though I've not had a need for version control. Renewed awareness of this tool was inevitable as I decided to identify a content management system [CMS], which brought me to Drupal and I simultaneously also discovered Ruby.

Now I'm pleased that over the past three years I did not commit to Concurrent Versions System [CVS] as used by the Drupal community. I listened to talks, downloaded, and tinkered, but now - the (old) news that Drupal 8 development will use GIT.

So, for me it is time to jump on-board with git for version control: a book and presentations next week:

http://cph2010.drupal.org/sessions/git-fundamentals

It's not that I'll be contributing to D8, it just makes sense to git up to speed on this (sorry!). I've been through the program and created my schedule for next week in Copenhagen. There is so much to look forward to!

Version control is one thing, having the need and discipline for testing is another ...

AgeWell: a one-day conference for older people

24/09/2010 | 10:00am - 3:00pm
The School of Sport & Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK

Are you 65 years or older? If so, you are invited to attend AgeWell - a free one-day event for older people.

You will learn about relevant research findings and, if you wish, comment on future studies. This will help improve ongoing and future research. No prior knowledge of research is needed. Just come and enjoy the day!

Registration is essential. More information can also be found here

My source:
http://www.newdynamics.group.shef.ac.uk/events/41

Paper: Patel et al. (2009) Clinical complexity and medical education

The following item about a paper from last year was posted by Rakesh Biswas on the COMPLEXITY-PRIMARY-CARE list. After Rakesh's comments I have included a quotation.

The paper in question by Patel, et al. will be an important reference for me, even though the definition of domain and discipline remains problematic. (A glossary for the health career model will follow on the new site.)

Suddenly, the passing of time is also clear given that:

Shortcliffe, E.H. (et al.) Ed. (1990) A History of Medical Informatics, Wokingham, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.

- appeared twenty years ago. Ten years ago I cited Shortcliffe et al..

Twenty years! How long is that in technology / internet terms?

The bold text below is my emphasis:

From: Rakesh Biswas
To: COMPLEXITY-PRIMARY-CARE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: Thu, 12 August, 2010 16:41:06
Subject: Clinical complexity and medical education

As our society progresses in the accumulation of knowledge and as the complexity of this knowledge increases, it becomes more important to determine how to structure education to provide individuals with the most comprehensive base of knowledge without sacrificing either depth and complexity or broadness of material.

Human beings have an extraordinary capacity for storing large volumes of organized information in memory. How does one apply such detailed knowledge to practical, real-world problems and situations?

What is the optimal mode of learning that will promote flexibility and transfer of general knowledge across domains during problem-solving?

For more, see the article by Dr Patel whose focus area is Medical Cognition (how doctors think and develop their so called expertise).

Regards,
Rakesh

Here is a quote from the paper:

Much of the early research in the study of reasoning in domains such as medicine was carried out in laboratory or experimental settings. There has been a shift in more recent years toward examining cognitive issues in naturalistic medical settings, such as medical teams in intensive care units [2], anesthesiologists working in surgery[89], nurses providing emergency telephone triage [90], and reasoning with technology by patients [91] in the health care system. This research was informed by work in the area of dynamic decision-making [92], complex problem-solving [93], human factors [94,95], and cognitive engineering [44]. Naturalistic studies reshaped researchers’ views of human thinking, as expressed in ‘‘situativity” theory’s terms (as described in Section 2.1.4) [23–26], by shifting the onus of cognition from being the unique province of the individual to being distributed across social and technological contexts. p.186.

Whilst as Rakesh points out Dr. Patel's focus is medical cognition, then through the health career model it would appear my interest is nursing cognition. As per the legacy of models of nursing - which did recognize the patient through the concept of patiency (Stevens, 1979) - we realise that now all disciplines must demand much more of their respective models in the 21st century.

Patel, V.L., et al. (2009) Cognitive and learning sciences in biomedical and health instructional design: A review with lessons for biomedical informatics education, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 42, 176–197.
doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2008.12.002

Stevens, B.J. (1979) Nursing Theory: Analysis, Application, Evaluation. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.

Electronic cigarettes and health effects

Electronic Cigarettes does not need to burn and can be used repeatedly. Electronic cigarette is called with the electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) has now entered the Asian market such as Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Japan and South Korea.

ENDS circulation issues in various countries including Indonesia are now whipping the public and medical circles. This product is designed like a traditional cigarette. The distinguishes electronic cigarette with usually traditional cigarette is high technology.

ENDS estimated first produced in China in 2003. ENDS presence is still banned in some countries because they are classified toxic cigarettes and very harmful with health effects. On ENDS consists of a lithium-ion batteries that can be electronically controlled, small heating element or atomizer, and the cartridge contains nicotine solution in propylene glycol / glycerin / diethylene glycol.

Works the ENDS same with smoking tobacco. At the time the user smokes a pipe smoking, a vaporizer or edges will light up and work to change the liquid inside to steam. Rechargeable battery that can provide energy to the vaporizer and has an indicator light to show when equipment is being used.

When inhaled, warming nicotine and then going into the lungs. Same way with smoking, because that tool is recommended to replace cigarettes. Printed on the packaging label "HEALTH", but this is considered to deceive the public because there are no data that clearly reveal the chemical combination that you entered during the setup process.

Electronic cigarettes or ENDS sold at $20 price range. Offered with a variety of different flavors, ranging from a sense of brand cigarette tobacco based products to various kinds of fruit flavor.

Super Bacteria Spread Through Medical Tourism

The spread of "super bacteria" in some countries, like UK, USA, Australia, Sweden, and Canada, one of which is triggered by the practice of plastic surgery or cosmetic surgery.

Research published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, researchers from Cardiff University, UK have found that bacteria that can make NDM-1 enzymes that are found in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan.

The super bacteria are transmitted to some of countries through which new patients again underwent plastic surgery in India or Pakistan. In the U.S., for instance, recorded three cases of this bacteria was found in patients who underwent the new treatment in India, a country where people often come to seek cheaper treatment or alternative treatment.

"India is also providing plastic surgical services for patients from Europe and America, and mayber NDM-1 will be spread throughout the world," Timothy Walsh said, who do research and collect samples of "super bacteria".

With teams from various countries, Walsh managed to collect bacteria samples from many patients in two hospitals in India, namely Chennai hospital and Haryana hospital. In addition, some patients referred from the English national laboratories since 2007 until 2009.

Walsh and his team found 44 patients positive with NDM-1 bacteria in Chennai hospital, 26 patients in the hospital Haryana, 37 in England, and another 73 in the territory of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Some British people are positively affected by NDM-1 had ever visited India or Pakistan for medical treatment, including plastic surgery.

NDM-1 bacteria was reported resistant to various types of antibiotics including the carbapenems, a drug that is used for emergency purposes and overcome a variety of infections due to resistant germs, such as methicillin-resistant Staphyloccus aureus (MRSA) and C-difficile.

Careful, Super Bacteria Threaten World Health

British medical experts warn, there is a new bacteria that threaten human life. It belongs to the super bacteria resistant to antibiotics because even the most powerful. Later, these bacteria have been found in a some of hospitals in England.

As quoted from the BBC, medical experts also explained, the bacteria that can make an enzyme called NDM-1 was taken by NHS patients who previously flew overseas to India and Pakistan to conduct cosmetic surgical procedures.

Although it was only discovered about 50 cases in the UK, experts fear these bacteria will spread globally. For handling, it takes a more control as well and new drugs.

Similar infections have been found in the U.S., Canada, Australia and the Netherlands. No wonder then that international investigators say that the NDM-1 could be a major threat to global health. Currently, the bacterial infection had spread from one patient to another hospital in the UK.

Frontline or tightrope?

As the various media outlets and commentators discuss health care, nursing, medicine and social care they often refer to the frontline -

Where exactly is the frontline these days (and nights)?

Who is on the frontline?

Is the frontline always visible?

Is there a 2nd, 3rd or 4th line?

Are there any gaps in the frontline?

Is it twisted at any point?

When health care economics is squeezed
how does this affect the frontline?

Does the frontline have an optimal tension?

If the frontline is Lean, in lean times
does it have a harmonic?

How has the frontline changed over
the past 20 years?

How is our frontline forecasting?

Is there space on that (front-) line for
partners, information technology,holistic
bandwidth, values, policy, safety ..., ....?

All doodles welcome.

History, pocket facts and diffusion

I can't remember exactly which shop it was - Blackwell's at Liverpool University I think - but quite a while ago I picked up a secondhand copy of Roger's Diffusion of Innovations.

I've maintained a link^* to The Diffusion of Innovations Model and Outreach from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine to Native American Communities for many years. So I instantly recognised Roger's book as an important text. I've been reminded to pick this book up soon by a rather musty 'message' postmarked 1828.

In June I was invited to a workshop - 'Funding learning for better health and social care information' which was held at UCLAN (University of Central Lancashire). On a table with various informatics brochures, newsletters and DVDs was one of those small 'pocket facts'; a little multi-folded mini-epic. Of the 22 sides compressed into 6 x 5 cm was one devoted to the history of the university.

There at the top: the start. UCLAN began its life as the:

Institution for the Diffusion of Knowledge
in 1828.

Knowledge, Innovations, Ideas, Concepts
diffusion
- nothing new under the sun.

^* Listed under 'Health & Social Care, Nursing & Related Theory & Practice'.

Music Gym - flexes its muscles

Hi,

My name's Matt, and I'm the Roadshow Coordinator for Decoda with some information which I hope will be of interest to those of you in or around the area of Lancaster and Preston.

Decoda have been successfully running a Music Gym down in Hastings for the past five years, continually developing and refining their techniques and technologies, whilst building a rapport with those who attend week after week. Using an innovative combination of music, images, space and fun the Music Gym provides an effective, flexible platform to engage and entertain people with a variety of complex needs. It’s also a great opportunity for parents, carers and those they care for to meet others from the local area and socialise. Others have described us as:

'fantastic use of colour and music, very interactive and inviting.'

'A really intriguing and dynamic approach'

'An excellent resource – we need more like this.'

'A great range of innovative, creative equipment... lots and lots of fun.'

'... a wonderful innovative idea.'

We have been invited to bring the Music Gym to Lancashire this month, and so we’ll be at the Salt Ayre Sports Center in Lancaster on the 16th and 17th of August, and at the Caritas Deafway home in Preston on the 18th [Deafway, Brockholes Brow, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 5AL].

If you would like to see the gym in action prior to making a decision (Or just see it in action without attending), I see no reason why you would not be allowed to observe any of the sessions we’re holding at the Salt Ayre. I appreciate that it is very difficult to form an opinion of what we do without seeing it in action, and this is a really good chance to do so. The 16th has been set aside for children under 16 years of age, whilst the 17th is for adults. Preston is undecided to be totally honest, we were contacted towards the end of last month, and are in the process of ironing out the final details. One benefit of this is that it’s an ideal date for those individuals who require a less busy venue, as we have not that long to publicise it. It is however a smaller venue than the Salt Ayre, so we may not be able to have our full facilities on offer on that date.

The days have been divided into 5 slots each as follows: 10.00-10.45 11.00-11.45 12.00-12.45 13.00-13.45 14.00-14.45

From our experience in Hastings, I would predict that the 11.00 slot will be the quietest, whilst the 14.00 slot will be the busiest, should that have any bearing in your decision.

In our continuing efforts to bring this to as many people as possible we are offering these places at £7.50 each if booked in advance £10 at the door (carers come free), additionally where this may be helpful, siblings can attend the session for £2.50. This is a great opportunity for people in the local area to get together, try out the facilities and enjoy the real benefits of the Music Gym.

Places can be booked online http://www.decoda.org/node/50 by phone or by post (contact details below).

If you require any more details, or have any questions at all please do not hesitate to contact me roadshow@decoda.org

Many thanks, Matthew Saunders, Roadshow Coordinator

Decoda - a social enterprise benefiting the local community South East Coast Regional winners of the Innovative Health and Social Care Technology Award at the NHS Health & Social Care Awards June 2009

Theaklen House Theaklen Drive St. Leonards on Sea TN38 9AZ Tel: 0845 2938354 websites: www.decoda.org www.musicgym.org www.myspace.com/decodamusicgym www.soundtherapy.org.uk BBC's South East Today film about the Music Gym is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j7v7pQ9kYQ

My source:
Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities

Healthy tips maximizing the usefulness of tea

I sure no one denies the efficacy of tea for health. However, do you know an easy way to increase the efficacy of tea? Simply add the lemon juice into the tea will contain disease-fighting antioxidants in tea will be doubled.

In a study published in the journal Molecular Nutrition and Food, scientists found that by adding 2-3 teaspoons of citrus fruits (lemon, lime, or grapefruit) into a cup of green tea can increase the stability of catechins (antioxidant prevention of cancer, stroke , and heart disease) in an amount sufficient to digest up to five times.

Cathecins contained in almost all types of tea, but because this component is not stable in non-acidic environments, such as in digestion, which can be absorbed by the body is usually less than 20 percent.

Interested to try? Enter one bag teabag into a cup of boiling water for 3-5 minutes before adding lemon juice to ensure higher levels of antioxidants.

Healthy living tips: if you want to slim, eat less meat

They are intended to reduce excess body weight are advised to reduce his daily intake of meat from the menu. Of course still needs to be balanced with physical activity.

In studies conducted in Europe on more than 400,000 adults found a strong correlation between weight gain with the consumption of meat, especially processed meats such as ham or sausage.

In general, the effect of increased weight loss due to meat consumption was seen in men and women. The participants in this study came from 10 countries involved in long-term studies on diet and cancer. Their weight recorded before and after the end of the study. They were also asked to fill out a list of daily meal intake.

Once counted, the people who consume excess calories up to 250 grams of meat per day, equivalent to the small size of the steak, will experience a weight gain of about 2 kg within a period of five years. Although consumption same amount of calories, if the consumption of meat is excessive weight gain will still be higher.

The results of this study also refute dit opinions about high protein and low in carbohydrates can reduce weight. Nevertheless, experts warn that cutting meat alone is not enough to lose weight. Weight loss must be balanced with exercise and lifestyle changes. To maintain health, are encouraged to eat a varied diet and nutrient sources, including meat.

Achieving the health-related MDGs. It takes a workforce!

Dear colleagues,

With reference to the upcoming MDG Summit and the UN Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health, Dr Manuel Dayrit would like to share with you the above-mentioned page that was published today on the HRH website, which highlights the human resources for health situation in the 49 focus countries.

Achieving the health-related MDGs. It takes a workforce!
Link: http://www.who.int/hrh/workforce_mdgs/en/index.html

Density of doctors, nurses and midwives in the 49 priority countries
Link: http://www.who.int/hrh/density_chart.pdf

Please note that the link to the chart is:
http://www.who.int/hrh/fig_density.pdf

Kind regards,

Rebecca Bailey on behalf of Dr Manuel Dayrit
Rebecca J. Bailey, MSPH, CEd
Technical Officer
Health Workforce Education and Production
WHO/HSS/HRH

My source:
Ellen BONITO: bonitoe at wpro.who.int
GANM (Global Alliance for Nursing and Midwifery): GANM at ibp.wa-research.ch

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In Mevagissey, Cornwall last month browsing in Hurley Books, I came across a copy of Maps and Diagrams: Their Compilation and Construction by F.J. Monkhouse, et al. (1967). At three pounds - a historical bargain. Prompted by the charts above I will scan the cover and share some of the text/ideas here in the near future.

I was saddened to see that in Padstow The Strand Bookshop has closed - apparently in January 2009. As a listed building who knows perhaps it might smell of books once again!

Benefit of Melinjo Seed Increase Body Endurance

As mentioned melinjo, most people probably know him as a raw material chips with his trademark sense of bitterness. There are people who abstain because of fear of melinjo uric acid. But, you know, beans rich in antioxidants and can melinjo increase endurance?

Researchers from the University of Jember, Tri Agus Siswoyo, considered that the antioxidant activity of seeds is equivalent to vitamin C. melinjo This antioxidant activity obtained from the high protein concentrations, 90-10 percent, within each seed melinjo.

The main protein is very effective in eliminating free radicals causes various diseases such as hypertension, high cholesterol, a narrowing of blood vessels, and premature aging.

Great potential that is contained in a seed or Gnetum gnemon melinjo made sure melinjo Tri is a suitable source of functional protein used as a food supplement nutrasetikal (nutritious food for health), including to prevent and treat disease. Moreover melinjo seeds are easy to obtain.

Cheap Supplements
Recognized until recently had no formal studies on the use of seed proteins as sources of antioxidants melinjo. In fact, if the use of antioxidant peptides from hydrolysis gnemon Gnetum seed was successful, will be available nutrasetikal supplements can be cheap and safe alternative.

Unlike in the country, Japan has already looked at the potential of antioxidant from the seeds of this Gnetaceae family. Tri research results on isolation and characterization of antioxidant peptide from the seeds of this melinjo making it one recipient of research funds from the Indonesia Toray Science Foundation, a foundation established textile company and Japan's largest synthetic fiber.

Similar ginkgo
Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) revealed, melinjo including the evolution of an ancient plant near the existing plant ginkgo biloba in Japan. These same reasons make the Japanese people are interested to develop it.

Ginkgo is the oldest tree species that has grown over 150-200 million years and is trusted as a brain tonic for strengthening the memory. Ginkgo leaves also have strong antioxidant properties and plays an important role in the oxidation of free radicals cause premature aging and senile dementia.

However, not merely an ancient plant that makes the Tri interested in researching the plant that grows in Southeast Asia, but melinjo resistance to disease, good bacteria, fungi, and pests. For two years studying melinjo, Tri has examines the interaction between starch and lipids in seeds melinjo, protein stability to heat and melinjo phenolic content, as well as the source of flavonoid antioxidants.

Natural antimicrobials
Until now, biochemistry doctorate from Osaka Prefecture University, Japan, that have isolated two types of proteins that show high antioxidant activity. From all parts of the plant melinjo diekstraknya ever, ranging from leaves, bark, roots, until the beans, Tri find the most potential of seed proteins. Research shows this is equivalent to the antioxidant activity of synthetic antioxidant BHT (Butylated Hydroxytolune).

Of the two protein fractions that, found another function melinjo as a natural antimicrobial. That means melinjo protein can also be used as a natural food preservative as well as new drugs for diseases caused by bacteria. Gg-AMP peptides isolated from the seeds of a potential active melinjo indicated inhibit some types of positive and gram negative bacteria.

Healthy snacks
To obtain its benefits, can be eaten directly melinjo by boiling and used as a snack, or as a mixture of vegetables. It was also recognized activist medicinal plants, Pudji Rahayu, from Bekasi. He often utilizes melinjo seeds as ingredients to add endurance.

"The trick is to boil it, like a boiled peanut or vegetable mixture made with tamarind leaves. People are not many people know that if melinjo have antioxidant functions, which are generally known to a new high purinnya content and can cause uric acid," he explained.

Simply boiled or disayur
No complicated actually utilize melinjo seeds. Simply boil it, such as boiling beans, or make mixed vegetable or vegetable acids ve. Because that is used is the seeds, how to eat them is also quite easy. Can be eaten immediately (used as snack or dessert) after the skin peeled.

Choosing melinjo actually no specific benchmarks. All types can basically be used. If you do not want to get seeds that are still very soft, with young melinjo can choose a green skin. Conversely, old melinjo aeneous, seeded a little strong.

If you have a high purine content or at risk of uric acid (gout), should not consume too much melinjo. The recommended dose of normal consumption quite a handful of beans boiled in a day melinjo. Remember, before boiling, melinjo seeds should be washed until completely clean.

Imitate of the Japanese eating habits

Soyjoy Healthylicious Winners, Yuliana Tan and Sri Primadika Agustina, recently on vacation to Japan as the main prize of the competition healthy lifestyle products. What message he brought from State Sakura implement discipline known that a healthy lifestyle? Yuliana Tan (31) shared his experience to the Compass Female when meeting in Jakarta on Monday (7/26/2010).

Slender body of a woman or a man possessed of Japan, according to observations Yuliana, was not only obtained from the habit of running feet. Their diet each day plus a character known Japanese food freshness and tend to be laden raw, like sushi, is also very crucial. Of course, healthy lifestyles is still balanced with exercise.

"For five days in Japan, we rarely eat fast food. Every hour meal came, portions and menus are complete, from appetizers, main meals, until the closing. Carbohydrates are presented even before dessert, when the stomach had begun to fill. Not like a habit meal in Indonesia, where rice is presented since the beginning of eating, "said Juliana, his experiences during a visit to Japan on June 29 to July 4, 2010.

Yuli said, every meal, portions are small and run out in just a one-time gusto. For example, foods such as opening a few pieces of fish cooked with vegetables. Then the main meals such as steak or choice of rice and noodles, and cover in the form of fruit or ice cream. Patterns and good portion of this menu for the body because, when hungry, the stomach was not immediately filled with heavy food. Intestine is left to digest the food slowly in small portions, gradually until a little heavy.

"From this way, we learn to eat slowly, and blood sugar went up slowly does not directly change drastically. Carbohydrate was presented when the stomach already full, so that consumption is not too much," said the woman who claimed to have problems with this weight.

Before the competition who wants to inspire healthy living, Yuli had set eating patterns in order to reduce weight. Understandably, then, the sales manager for one of these private television station was preparing a wedding. However, he sought his own way was not able to provide solutions. Until finally Yuli get enlightenment from a series of activities Soyjoy competition for three months.

From his experiences while in Japan, Yuli admitted, fresh food to other factors that influence the change in him. Fish is fresh and cooked just as would be eaten, or raw foods that turned out not as imagined before, making Yuli appetite changed.

"At first I did not like raw food because they think it smells fishy. However, the Japanese way of cooking in a fresh raw food but still good to eat. Of the 10 fresh food (raw), only three that I can not eat," said Yuli.

Despite getting different experiences and lifestyles in Japan (especially about diet), Yuli admitted difficult to implement it in Jakarta. How to cook and access to fresh food in Jakarta is rather difficult. In Japan, Yuli said, the snacks are cheaper, the same diet. Food always begins with small portions and gradually so safe for blood sugar and digestion.

Japanese-style way of eating healthy is deemed appropriate Yuli nutrition classes Soyjoy obtained in the competition. For two hours, while still running the competition, the finalists get knowledge about nutrition that is usually given in one semester. Yuli recorded important message is to select and sort out the types of foods contain lots of fiber with the priorities, manage a varied diet and eating patterns and eating only fresh foods that are not processed in time.

"Food is undergoing a long process reduces the nutritional content and will only accumulate fat when fried in a long time," said Yuli, who claims his weight began to fall from 68 pounds (before the competition) to 63 kilograms today. Target market, want to lose another five pounds. It was here, it may be achieved by Yuli habit that began to change plus the awareness to better maintain their habits.

Interested in applying Yuli experience for yourself?

Disciplined Healthy Diet Tricks

Information about healthy diet certainly is easily accessible from various media, but do you often find it difficult to run consistently? Healthy lifestyles needs to be, one of them by finding the right mentor.

Winners Soyjoy Healthylicious, Yuliana Tan, reveals that a proper understanding of the experts and health record medical check-up results so motivated him. That is, show a greater awareness to change unhealthy eating habits.

"Maintaining a healthy diet needs to be, especially after getting an understanding from the experts. That way we can know the condition of the body and how to change the habits with the right technique," said Yuli told Compass Female in Jakarta, Monday (26/07/2010) then .

However, each person must be motivated from a variety of information that he gets. Most people also realize the importance of living a healthy lifestyle. However, how many are failing because they do not have proper guidance and technique?

Consultation with experts and do the "medical check up". Consultation with nutritional experts can become familiar with the early solution of healthy eating. Next, conduct a comprehensive medical examination is also very important. You can recognize the condition of the body and find a solution to the problem differently in each person, departing from the medical records.

"From the experience of the competition, I recommend a medical check-up to the parents. Because in this way, we can know the proper way to prevent disease, although the condition of every person is different and the handling is also not the same," said Yuli, who admitted to more understanding of his body after the medical check-up.

Results of medical examinations showed blood erythrocyte sedimentation rate in the high body fat so that potential. With this guide, Yuli more disciplined regulate his diet. Meanwhile, another understanding of what he got from the competition is a healthy lifestyle nutrition classes delivered nutrition expert. Yuli information obtained fairly complete, ranging knowledge about the types of food, select and sort the food, to the anatomy of organs.

Should keep and continually learn the material you get about nutrition, as did Yuli. Getting about understanding proper diet of experts will provide different experiences that make you more motivated.

"Explanation of the experts are better able to provide more awareness and motivate yourself," Yuli said.

Gratuitous Diets Make Bones Fragile

Has a slender body and pleasing to the eye is the dream of every woman. To make it happen, they often have no doubt undergo a series of diets to achieve an ideal body shape.

One way is to stop consuming dairy products and fad diets do, a type popular in the Western diet that promises quick weight loss. In fact, diet carelessly it can cause women at risk of osteoporosis or bone loss.

The experts had recently delivered a warning dangers of inappropriate diet. Research shows that nearly a third of British women in their ambition to streamline the body to stop eating some foods that contain calcium.

The warning was issued after a week after actress Gwyneth Paltrow revealed that she was suffering from osteopenia, or thinning of the bones that could be the forerunner of osteoporosis. 37 years old actress underwent a strict diet low that cheese, butter, milk and other foods rich in calcium which is useful for strengthening bones.

A poll in the UK on the eating habits of 4500 women found that 30 percent claimed to avoid all these health foods for lean body dreams.

As many as 28 percent of dieters said they stopped eating cheese. While 11 percent said cross out all dairy products from the menu. More than 41 percent no longer eat bread, but this has been fortified bread is good for bone calcium.

Approximately 26 percent of respondents said they saw only the fat and calorie content on food labels as well as ignoring other information about the nutritional value. In fact, this mistake could have an impact on the failure to build strong bone structure at the age of 35, which leads to an increased risk of osteoporosis later in life.

Faktaannya, this diet was poorly followed by three million people in the UK. Where found more than 230 000 cases of bone fractures each year with the most fragile bone condition found on the wrist, back and hips.

The Food Standards Agency has recommended requirement of calcium per day for adults to reach 700 mg, which can be obtained from various types of foods or diets through erimbang.

Calcium than there is in bread and dairy products can also be found in broccoli, cabbage, tofu, and nuts. Meanwhile, to increase mineral intake, you can eat sardines or fish eaten with bones.

"Recent research highlights that the ideal body appearance should be accompanied by a healthy bone. Where calcium and fats vital role in building strong bone structure. While diet performed poorly can damage your bones," said a spokesman from the National Osteoporosis Society.

"There are a lot of pressure to be slim, but it could be compromised if you stay lean, but your bones healthy. If you want to stay slim, but your bones stay strong try a low-fat dairy products rich in calcium. For example, skim milk has calcium higher than full cream milk, "he said.