Archive for May, 2008
While blood pressure is a very common problem for people as they age this is not to say that it is something that we should accept as normal.
Often referred to as the silent killer, hypertension (high blood pressure) is the reason why a good deal of the population don’t reach the age that they should expect.
High blood pressure is caused by constriction of the arteries which makes it harder for the heart to pump blood through the body.
When the blood isn’t flowing freely to all areas of the body the result of this lack of oxygen to the tissues is increased aging.
In addition to this accelerated aging there are the other factors of heart and kidney disease and strokes that can result in early death.
With high blood pressure, due to the fact that the heart has to work harder to pump the blood around the body, this increased pressure causes more hardening of the arteries which makes it all the harder on the heart to maintain the blood supply.
By avoiding the danger foods that can cause high blood pressure such as salt, caffeine, sugar and refined grains you will be helping to reduce the chance of getting high blood pressure and in doing so increase your chances of living longer.
Reducing the stress in your life will also help as will getting enough sleep regularly.
Essential fats will help you maintain better health and garlic has been shown to reduce blood pressure.
Exercise will help to lower blood pressure and you will also get all the other benefits that exercise brings with it such as improved muscle tone, lower body fat, and usually a more positive outlook on life that will also lower stress levels.
If your blood pressure is high then you will need medication to get it to more acceptable levels but you should still make the necessary lifestyle changes that can eventually help you to get off the medication and lead a healthy and long life.
Carson Danfield is an "Under the Radar" Internet Entrepreneur who's been quietly selling various products for the last 8 years. Although you've probably never heard of him there's a good chance you've visited his websites in the past and even purchased some of his products.
For lots more unique tips about High Blood Pressure, visit the website http://info5000.com/ANTI-AGING/
Sugar is one of the biggest causes of aging.
It is the problems that the consumption of sugar causes that are shortening the life expectancy of a vast number of people in the Western world.
Excessive sugar consumption causes insulin resistance which in turn causes diabetes.
Diabetes, apart from having a restricting affect on a person’s lifestyle can also reduce life expectancy and bring with it many other health problems such as loss of eyesight, heart disease and arterial problems amongst other things.
Obviously these problems are going to reduce life expectancy so the need to reduce the consumption of refined sugars that are found in low value foods such as breads, cakes, biscuits, sweets and other such products is necessary.
When you consume excessive amounts of sugar the body stores the extra as fat and the weight gain that this causes places more demands on the organs of the body.
Many products are labeled as sugar free but they contain sweeteners such as aspartame, saccharin and sucralose and these ingredients when included in any of the products you buy will still cause problems with the burden they will place on the liver thereby accelerating the aging process.
Another problem that sugar causes due to the process whereby the glucose binds to other proteins rendering them less flexible is with the wrinkling of the skin. Yes, most people don’t realize that sugar consumption will make their skin wrinkle faster as the process of glycosylation affects the collagen. Not only will it affect the collagen in the skin, it will also affect anywhere else in the body where there is collagen and that includes the arteries, lungs and tendons.
The affect that it has by making the arteries less flexible is increased hypertension and all of the problems that are associated with that health problem.
Carson Danfield is an "Under the Radar" Internet Entrepreneur who's been quietly selling various products for the last 8 years. Although you've probably never heard of him. there's a good chance you've visited his websites in the past and even purchased some of his products.
For lots more unique tips about anti-aging, visit http://info5000.com/ANTI-AGING/
Kakadu Juice – Worlds Most Powerful Antioxidants!
Kakadu International invites YOU to benefit from its unique profit sharing opportunity as it expands internationally.
Kakadu Juice is Australia’s best kept secret. It has the highest natural plant sources of Antioxidants, Vitamin C and Phytonutrients from Australian bush tucker. Some are pre-historic plants still growing abundantly in Australia’s wild outback.
From the world’s toughest landscape comes the worlds toughest plant foods. Introduced by Kakadu International
Kakadu Juice made from Australian Native Bush Food – the sensational health beverage everyone is talking about!
Kakadu Juice is the first 100% Australian-owned super-food beverage to feature native Australian bush foods, delivering 150 times more Vitamin C than goji berries & over 700 times more the quantity of antioxidants than blue berries.
It supplies a diverse spectrum of vitamins, minerals, protein and fibre, antioxidants, enzymes, Omega 3 EFA and numerous other phyto-nutrients that fortify the diet and contribute to better health through better nutrition.
Kakadu juice is Organic, no synthetics, safe for diabetics and low GI.
This natural cold-processed cocktail of essential nutrients supplies abundant slow-release energy, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, enzymes, bioflavonoids, chlorophyll, protein, EFAs (omega 3, 6 & 9), polysaccharides and fibre for fortifying the diet Natureâs way…from cold-processed whole bush food!
It may be taken alone or mixed with meals and drinks to add a delicious bush-boost. It’s safe for children, elderly, expectant mothers and those suffering poor health including diabetics.
Kakadu Juice is Australia’s First Super Food. Rich in Phyto nutrients and the World’s most Powerful Antioxidants.
Experience True Well-being – Try Kakadu Juice Today.
Imagine your body as a bank account – What are you doing to save your health?
Start making health deposits today with Kakadu Juice!
Imagine having ALL of these healthy ingredients in YOUR diet!
Other sensational health products are also available at Kakadu International.
So get behind Australia’s Best Kept Secret and experience for yourself the difference that real nutrition can make to your health.
A small 30ml Shot Glass of Kakadu Juice contains as much reseveratrol as four litres of red wine!
Mounting Evidence Shows Red Wine Antioxidant Resveratrol Kills Cancer
Did you read todays headlines about the caner killing ability of resveratrol? Seems hardly a week goes by without hearing more news about the super antioxidant resveraltrol. But scientist do not recommend increasing alcohol consumption especially for women because of the increase or breast cancer recently linked to alcohol. You are far better off getting your reseveratrol from natural non toxic sources like grape juice. The problem with grape juice is it contains less reseveratrol than does red wine so one would have to drink large amounts and most fruit juices are high in calories and sugars which can pack extra weight on fast. A much better solution is “Kakadu Juice” because a 1oz or 30ml dosage contains as much resveratrol as 4 liters of red wine without high calories, sugar and the toxicity of alcohol.
If you didn’t see the news today or headlines in your local newspaper you can catch up on the latest findings at sciencedaily.com in the Related Resources
Rochester researchers showed for the first time that a natural antioxidant found in grape skins and red wine can help destroy pancreatic cancer cells by reaching to the cell’s core energy source, or mitochondria, and crippling its function.
Resveratrol appears to kill off cancer cells by depolarizing (demagnetizing) mitochondrial bodies within tumor cells. Resveratrol is 100 anti-cancer drugs in one. Resveratrol works in so many ways to block cancer, researchers canât find a cancer-promotion pathway it doesnât inhibit. It is virtually non-toxic since, after oral ingestion, it is quickly metabolized by the liver, attached to a detoxification molecule called glucuronate, which renders it harmless, though biologically inactive, at least for a time.
As a pioneer in this emerging sector of the Australian economy, Kakadu International, creators of Kakadu Juice, is proud of the knowledge that every bottle of Kakadu Juice is not only making people healthier but also providing employment for Aboriginal Australians.
Drink Kakadu Juice at Wholesale &/or Work with Us
For $27.50 – Sign up as a Distributor of Kakadu International,
Receive your own replicable website, back office & enjoy all the benefits as an Independent Business Owners,
Start building your team & enjoy Kakadu Juice and other nutritional powerful products, Kakadu International have to offer.
You are not oligated to sell product, simply use your Distributor Member Status to purchase at wholesale prices.
Currently this opportunity is available only in Australia and New Zealand although we are actively working to open others countries. If you would like to be among the first to be notified of when your country will be in Prelaunch just visit my website and fill out a form. As a thank you for doing so I’ll send you a Free Report that will show you exactly how to earn from $300 to $20,000 per month with Kakadu International. How would you liked to have been involved with Noni and Goji Juice before they became MultiBillion Dollar Indrustry’s? Kakadu Juice has even more potential for those who see the opportunity and take action now!
Being involved in a booming internet based business gives me the opportunity to work from any were on the planet assisting business builders and super fruit lovers alike.
P.S: The top Gogi guy who happens to live in Thailand earned 2 1/2 million last year. This year his earnings slipped because there is a better, more nutritionally diverse and concentrated product is now available.
All Inquiries Most Welcome
http://www.kakadujuice.com
http://www.sciencedaily.com
Being involved in a booming internet based business gives me the opportunity to work from any were on the planet assisting business builders and super fruit lovers alike.
Kakadu Juice – Worlds Most Powerful Antioxidants!
Kakadu International invites YOU to benefit from its unique profit sharing opportunity as it expands internationally.
Kakadu Juice is Australia’s best kept secret. It has the highest natural plant sources of Antioxidants, Vitamin C and Phytonutrients from Australian bush tucker. Some are pre-historic plants still growing abundantly in Australia’s wild outback.
From the world’s toughest landscape comes the worlds toughest plant foods. Introduced by Kakadu International
Kakadu Juice made from Australian Native Bush Food – the sensational health beverage everyone is talking about!
Kakadu Juice is the first 100% Australian-owned super-food beverage to feature native Australian bush foods, delivering 150 times more Vitamin C than goji berries & over 700 times more the quantity of antioxidants than blue berries.
It supplies a diverse spectrum of vitamins, minerals, protein and fibre, antioxidants, enzymes, Omega 3 EFA and numerous other phyto-nutrients that fortify the diet and contribute to better health through better nutrition.
Kakadu juice is Organic, no synthetics, safe for diabetics and low GI.
This natural cold-processed cocktail of essential nutrients supplies abundant slow-release energy, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, enzymes, bioflavonoids, chlorophyll, protein, EFAs (omega 3, 6 & 9), polysaccharides and fibre for fortifying the diet Natureâs way…from cold-processed whole bush food!
It may be taken alone or mixed with meals and drinks to add a delicious bush-boost. It’s safe for children, elderly, expectant mothers and those suffering poor health including diabetics.
Kakadu Juice is Australia’s First Super Food. Rich in Phyto nutrients and the World’s most Powerful Antioxidants.
Experience True Well-being – Try Kakadu Juice Today.
Imagine your body as a bank account – What are you doing to save your health?
Start making health deposits today with Kakadu Juice!
Imagine having ALL of these healthy ingredients in YOUR diet!
Other sensational health products are also available at Kakadu International.
So get behind Australia’s Best Kept Secret and experience for yourself the difference that real nutrition can make to your health.
A small 30ml Shot Glass of Kakadu Juice contains as much reseveratrol as four litres of red wine!
Mounting Evidence Shows Red Wine Antioxidant Resveratrol Kills Cancer
Did you read todays headlines about the caner killing ability of resveratrol? Seems hardly a week goes by without hearing more news about the super antioxidant resveraltrol. But scientist do not recommend increasing alcohol consumption especially for women because of the increase or breast cancer recently linked to alcohol. You are far better off getting your reseveratrol from natural non toxic sources like grape juice. The problem with grape juice is it contains less reseveratrol than does red wine so one would have to drink large amounts and most fruit juices are high in calories and sugars which can pack extra weight on fast. A much better solution is “Kakadu Juice” because a 1oz or 30ml dosage contains as much resveratrol as 4 liters of red wine without high calories, sugar and the toxicity of alcohol.
If you didn’t see the news today or headlines in your local newspaper you can catch up on the latest findings at sciencedaily.com in the Related Resources
Rochester researchers showed for the first time that a natural antioxidant found in grape skins and red wine can help destroy pancreatic cancer cells by reaching to the cell’s core energy source, or mitochondria, and crippling its function.
Resveratrol appears to kill off cancer cells by depolarizing (demagnetizing) mitochondrial bodies within tumor cells. Resveratrol is 100 anti-cancer drugs in one. Resveratrol works in so many ways to block cancer, researchers canât find a cancer-promotion pathway it doesnât inhibit. It is virtually non-toxic since, after oral ingestion, it is quickly metabolized by the liver, attached to a detoxification molecule called glucuronate, which renders it harmless, though biologically inactive, at least for a time.
As a pioneer in this emerging sector of the Australian economy, Kakadu International, creators of Kakadu Juice, is proud of the knowledge that every bottle of Kakadu Juice is not only making people healthier but also providing employment for Aboriginal Australians.
Drink Kakadu Juice at Wholesale &/or Work with Us
For $27.50 – Sign up as a Distributor of Kakadu International,
Receive your own replicable website, back office & enjoy all the benefits as an Independent Business Owners,
Start building your team & enjoy Kakadu Juice and other nutritional powerful products, Kakadu International have to offer.
You are not oligated to sell product, simply use your Distributor Member Status to purchase at wholesale prices.
Currently this opportunity is available only in Australia and New Zealand although we are actively working to open others countries. If you would like to be among the first to be notified of when your country will be in Prelaunch just visit my website and fill out a form. As a thank you for doing so I’ll send you a Free Report that will show you exactly how to earn from $300 to $20,000 per month with Kakadu International. How would you liked to have been involved with Noni and Goji Juice before they became MultiBillion Dollar Indrustry’s? Kakadu Juice has even more potential for those who see the opportunity and take action now!
Being involved in a booming internet based business gives me the opportunity to work from any were on the planet assisting business builders and super fruit lovers alike.
P.S: The top Gogi guy who happens to live in Thailand earned 2 1/2 million last year. This year his earnings slipped because there is a better, more nutritionally diverse and concentrated product is now available.
All Inquiries Most Welcome
http://www.kakadujuice.com
http://www.sciencedaily.com
Being involved in a booming internet based business gives me the opportunity to work from any were on the planet assisting business builders and super fruit lovers alike.
Kakadu Juice – Worlds Most Powerful Antioxidants!
Kakadu International invites YOU to benefit from its unique profit sharing opportunity as it expands internationally.
Kakadu Juice is Australia’s best kept secret. It has the highest natural plant sources of Antioxidants, Vitamin C and Phytonutrients from Australian bush tucker. Some are pre-historic plants still growing abundantly in Australia’s wild outback.
From the world’s toughest landscape comes the worlds toughest plant foods. Introduced by Kakadu International
Kakadu Juice made from Australian Native Bush Food – the sensational health beverage everyone is talking about!
Kakadu Juice is the first 100% Australian-owned super-food beverage to feature native Australian bush foods, delivering 150 times more Vitamin C than goji berries & over 700 times more the quantity of antioxidants than blue berries.
It supplies a diverse spectrum of vitamins, minerals, protein and fibre, antioxidants, enzymes, Omega 3 EFA and numerous other phyto-nutrients that fortify the diet and contribute to better health through better nutrition.
Kakadu juice is Organic, no synthetics, safe for diabetics and low GI.
This natural cold-processed cocktail of essential nutrients supplies abundant slow-release energy, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, enzymes, bioflavonoids, chlorophyll, protein, EFAs (omega 3, 6 & 9), polysaccharides and fibre for fortifying the diet Natureâs way…from cold-processed whole bush food!
It may be taken alone or mixed with meals and drinks to add a delicious bush-boost. It’s safe for children, elderly, expectant mothers and those suffering poor health including diabetics.
Kakadu Juice is Australia’s First Super Food. Rich in Phyto nutrients and the World’s most Powerful Antioxidants.
Experience True Well-being – Try Kakadu Juice Today.
Imagine your body as a bank account – What are you doing to save your health?
Start making health deposits today with Kakadu Juice!
Imagine having ALL of these healthy ingredients in YOUR diet!
Other sensational health products are also available at Kakadu International.
So get behind Australia’s Best Kept Secret and experience for yourself the difference that real nutrition can make to your health.
A small 30ml Shot Glass of Kakadu Juice contains as much reseveratrol as four litres of red wine!
Mounting Evidence Shows Red Wine Antioxidant Resveratrol Kills Cancer
Did you read todays headlines about the caner killing ability of resveratrol? Seems hardly a week goes by without hearing more news about the super antioxidant resveraltrol. But scientist do not recommend increasing alcohol consumption especially for women because of the increase or breast cancer recently linked to alcohol. You are far better off getting your reseveratrol from natural non toxic sources like grape juice. The problem with grape juice is it contains less reseveratrol than does red wine so one would have to drink large amounts and most fruit juices are high in calories and sugars which can pack extra weight on fast. A much better solution is “Kakadu Juice” because a 1oz or 30ml dosage contains as much resveratrol as 4 liters of red wine without high calories, sugar and the toxicity of alcohol.
If you didn’t see the news today or headlines in your local newspaper you can catch up on the latest findings at sciencedaily.com in the Related Resources
Rochester researchers showed for the first time that a natural antioxidant found in grape skins and red wine can help destroy pancreatic cancer cells by reaching to the cell’s core energy source, or mitochondria, and crippling its function.
Resveratrol appears to kill off cancer cells by depolarizing (demagnetizing) mitochondrial bodies within tumor cells. Resveratrol is 100 anti-cancer drugs in one. Resveratrol works in so many ways to block cancer, researchers canât find a cancer-promotion pathway it doesnât inhibit. It is virtually non-toxic since, after oral ingestion, it is quickly metabolized by the liver, attached to a detoxification molecule called glucuronate, which renders it harmless, though biologically inactive, at least for a time.
As a pioneer in this emerging sector of the Australian economy, Kakadu International, creators of Kakadu Juice, is proud of the knowledge that every bottle of Kakadu Juice is not only making people healthier but also providing employment for Aboriginal Australians.
Drink Kakadu Juice at Wholesale &/or Work with Us
For $27.50 – Sign up as a Distributor of Kakadu International,
Receive your own replicable website, back office & enjoy all the benefits as an Independent Business Owners,
Start building your team & enjoy Kakadu Juice and other nutritional powerful products, Kakadu International have to offer.
You are not oligated to sell product, simply use your Distributor Member Status to purchase at wholesale prices.
Currently this opportunity is available only in Australia and New Zealand although we are actively working to open others countries. If you would like to be among the first to be notified of when your country will be in Prelaunch just visit my website and fill out a form. As a thank you for doing so I’ll send you a Free Report that will show you exactly how to earn from $300 to $20,000 per month with Kakadu International. How would you liked to have been involved with Noni and Goji Juice before they became MultiBillion Dollar Indrustry’s? Kakadu Juice has even more potential for those who see the opportunity and take action now!
Being involved in a booming internet based business gives me the opportunity to work from any were on the planet assisting business builders and super fruit lovers alike.
P.S: The top Gogi guy who happens to live in Thailand earned 2 1/2 million last year. This year his earnings slipped because there is a better, more nutritionally diverse and concentrated product is now available.
All Inquiries Most Welcome
http://www.kakadujuice.com
http://www.sciencedaily.com
Being involved in a booming internet based business gives me the opportunity to work from any were on the planet assisting business builders and super fruit lovers alike.
You are going through a transition phase if you are a teen or a parent of teenage son or daughter. We know that this is the period of great turmoil physiologically and psychologically for your grown up kid. The psychiatrists say that the parent should grow up with the kids to understand their needs and aversions. In most circumstances, the parents often blame their kids for irresponsible behavior forgetting their own pasts. Such and many other things results in a kind of rebel attitude among these teenage children. And when this attitude doesn’t get any vent, he or she succumbs to depression.
⢠Acute depression- In most of the cases, teenage depression is usually momentary or for a small period of time and does not herald any radical change in his or her lifestyle. It may be just in the form of anxiety over examinations, depression as a reaction to some event at school or college, failure in a certain ordeal, fight with a friend or break up with a girl friend. These are the most common causes of teenage depression and usually do not last for a prolonged period of time.
⢠Parental disharmony- Unfortunately this is a very common cause of teenage depression. Discord among both parents, sudden demise of one of the parent, physical abuse, or undue parental pressures can be the reason for a boy or girl going into anxiety problems or depression.
⢠Unawareness of self-change- this is the age when a girl or boy undergoes tremendous changes on both physical and mental levels. The physiological changes like getting attracted towards opposite sex, masturbation, etc may cause unnecessary tensions among youth, especially so if these subjects are taboo at home and school. Because of this, the grown up kids may fall prey to wrong information and start feeling guilty leading to depression.
⢠Family history of depression is also one of the causes of depression.
Because of one or more of these causes, your teenager fails to elicit good things in life and feels everything is too bad here. When he cannot share his thoughts to the near and dear ones at home, he feels further put off from the world. However, your teen needs a proper care and definitive treatment if he is suffering from persistent depression. One of the most important aspects of treatment is a family therapy centered at counseling and behavior therapy for teen and his or her parents. Along with this, drug treatment with anti-depressants may be decided with an expert opinion. Teenage is precious and will never return again. Let’s make the best use of it and enjoy life!
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In what seems to be a genuine concern of the effects of radon emissions in residential homes, a certain website from a non-profit organization out of Houston has made it a point to imply without scientific proof, that natural stone could be a major contributor of radon in a household.
The allusion that seems to be made, that natural stone installed in your home is dangerous to your health is raised repeatedly on the website and in a recent local Houston TV news program.
Itâs interesting to note that the two major contributors of this non-profit organization are manufacturers of engineered stone. One of those contributing manufacturers has a marketing executive on the board of directors of this particular organization.
From what may be perceived on the surface as perhaps another âgoing greenâ ad campaign, seems to be a different slant on the ongoing battle of the engineered stone manufacturers against natural stone.
Keep in mind that granite as does most natural components found in building material, allows vapors to pass through them that might contain trace amounts of radon. There are very small amounts of uranium found in trace minerals such as biotite in some natural stones. When quarried if a large cluster of biotite is exposed the result initially would be a radon reading. However, once a piece of granite or natural stone exposed to a large amount of uranium rich mineral in the ground is removed from the source and exposed to the air, the radon vapor transmission would weaken drastically and then dissipate. Simply put, think of natural stone as a very dense sponge that allows water, air and yes radon to pass through the stone. Once the stone is removed from the source of radon (the earth) the stone has no radon to filter through it.
We do endorse Radon testing but to allude that natural stone is a main contributor seems ludicrous.
Here are some facts about Radon:
WHERE DOES RADON COME FROM?
âRadon comes from the natural radioactive decay of radium and uranium found in the soil beneath the house. The amount of radon in the soil depends on complex soil chemistry, which varies from one house to the next. Radon levels in the soil range from a few hundred to several thousands of pCi/L. The amount of radon that escapes from the soil to enter the house depends on the weather, soil porosity, soil moisture, and the suction within the houseâ.
HOW DOES RADON GET INTO THE HOUSE?
âHouses act like large chimneys. As the air in the house warms, it rises to leak out the attic openings and around the upper floor windows. This creates a small suction at the lowest level of the house, pulling the radon out of the soil and into the house. (Just as natural stone filters radon emission as mentioned before.) You can test this on a cold day by opening a top floor window an inch. You will notice warm air from the house rushing out that opening; yet, if you open a basement window an inch, you will feel the cold outside air rushing in. This suction is what pulls the radon out of the soil and into the house. You might think caulking the cracks and the openings in the basement floor will stop the radon from entering the house. However, scientific studies show, it only takes enough unsealed cracks or pin holes in the caulking to equal a hole 1/2′ in diameter to let all the radon in. It is unlikely that caulking the accessible cracks and joints will permanently seal the openings radon needs to enter the house. The radon levels will still likely remain unchanged.
Fortunately, there are other extremely effective means of keeping radon out of your home. Throughout the country, several million people have already tested for radon. Some houses tested as high as 2,000-3,000 pCi/L; yet, there hasn’t been one house that could not mitigate to an acceptable level. The difference in reference to natural stone is that one the stone slab is removed from the source and exposed to the atmosphere the radon is vented in the same way ventilation of a house mitigates the radon emissions in the soil.
Levels of radiation from granite products, which technically are measurable, are in fact, small fractional values of established thresholds for environmental safety. The truth of the matter is that granite is a safe product. Itâs been used for thousands of years and the relationship between granite and radon has been studied for years and years. How safe is granite? There have been mathematical models developed that show that one could live in an all-granite home or building, including sleeping on granite, for an entire year and still be within very safe levels of exposure.
Calculations show that, if an average countertop, traps an average uranium concentration of four ppm (parts per million), the concentration of radon that is given off by the countertop into the household air would be 270,000 times less than the level of radon in the outside air. The maximum contact level that you would receive over one year if you were to sit on a countertop all of the time would be about one quarter of the annual radiation from all sources. If you were just a few inches away from the granite (such as when doing the dishes), the dose would be too low to measure.
To Quote Donald Langmuir, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Geochemistry, Colorado School of Mines, & President, Hydrochem Systems Corp.
âTo show how laughable are the concerns of radon emitted from natural stone, the typical granite countertop in our example will release 7.4 x 10 -7 pCi/L of air. This corresponds to 2.7 x 10 -8 atom decays per second (dps). This represents 0.85 decays per year. In other words, less than one atom of radon is produced by the countertop in one year. This is hardly worth getting excited about. I would suggest that a good way to reduce our exposure to the radon present in outdoor air would be to build an air-tight house out of granite countertops! There are certain properties of rocks that can increase their radon emanation efficiency, or in other words increase the release of radon from a given weight of rock. These are rock properties that maximize the exposure of internal or external rock surfaces to water or air, allowing any radon gas to escape. The author of ‘Granite and Radon’ argues that such properties, which include rock porosity, fissuring and mylonitization, will increase radon releases. This is probably true, however, a granite with such properties would be too brittle to make into a countertop, and too open to take a polish, and so would not be marketable as a countertop – unless the rock pores were first filled with a chemical sealant. Such sealing would also eliminate any possible radon release problems.â
In a more recent study that was conducted by L. L. Chyi, a Ph.D. and professor of Geochemistry and Environmental Geology at The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio. Dr. Chyi studied 13 of the most popular granites used throughout the United States as determined by an industry-wide survey. Due to their popularity these 13 granites, are believed to represent up to 85% of the granite countertop market in recent years. The granite types are as follows:
1. New Venetian Gold, Brazil; medium grained, yellow-beige gneiss with many dark red garnets
2. Uba Tuba, Brazil; A medium- to coarse grained, olive-green granite
3. Santa Cecilia, Brazil; A coarse-grained, yellow-grey gneiss with up to pie-sized, red garnets
4. Tropic Brown, Saudi Arabia; medium-grained, brown granite
5. Absolute Black, India; black basalt
6. Tan Brown, India; A black-brown igneous rock with big, shapeless, brown-red feldspar crystals
7. Giallo Ornamental, Brazil; coarse-grained, brown-yellow granulite with some brown-red garnets
8. Crema Bordeaux, Brazil; Juparana Crema Bordeaux (Brunello). A coarse- to very coarse-grained, pink to red granite with areas of quartz, alkali feldspar and quite a lot of ore
9. Baltic Brown, Finland; brown-black granite
10. Giallo Veneziano, Brazil; medium- to coarse-grained, ochre-yellow to golden-brown, also light pink, gneiss
11. Dakota Mahogany, USA; medium- to coarse-grained, brown-red granite
12. China Black, China, a fine-grained plutonic rock
13. Yellow Star, China, a medium-grained yellow to pink granite
The testing methodology was designed to measure the amount of radon which each granite type would add to the interior of a 2,000 square foot, normally ventilated home with 8 ft ceilings. The results show that Crema Bordeaux (the most active in terms of radon emissions) would contribute a concentration component of less than 0.28 pCi/L, or less than 7% of the EPA’s recommended actionable level of 4.0 pCi/L. This radon amount is well below a level which might cause health concerns. Tropic Brown and Baltic Brown, second and third in radon emanation based upon Dr. Chyiâs testing, amounted to only 1% of this action level. The other granites tested added almost immeasurable amounts of radon to the house. Radon atoms in pore spaces and fractures are of minimal concern in the case of granite countertops
Dr. Chyiâs test results show that the granites that are currently found in the United Statesâ market place are insignificant contributors to radon levels in the home. âBased on the testing results and EPA standards, we can conclude that the most popular granites used as countertop surfaces pose no health threat to homeowners. If proper resealing is applied once a year or at other frequencies determined by the industry, the radon emanation can be further reducedâ.
Daniel J. Steck, Ph.D. also ran a test on interior radon and granite, and this is what he had to say.
âThe average radionuclide contents of your building material samples are similar to other average granite samples and other common earth-derived building materials such as brick and soil. Thus, the amount of gamma radiation emitted from similar masses of these building materials will be approximately the same;
There is little sample-to-sample variation in the radon family radionuclide concentrations; the radon flux is somewhat larger for the counter-top squares than for the smaller samples. This indicates that the effective diffusion length is only on the order of the thickness of the counter-top samples, i.e. several centimeters. Thus, material thicker than 5 cm (2′) most likely will not emit more than the counter-top samples.
While we feel that health safety is a great concern especially in our homes, for an industry to attempt to gain financially by âscare tacticsâ or under the auspices of âEco friendlyâ is reprehensible. We urge the consumer to not be taken in by these alarmist tactics.
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Depression is a serious disorder that can lead to changes in mood, thinking, and behavior at home, in school and with peers. If left untreated, it can progress to actions with severe consequences including death. While many will recognize depression in their teenagers when they seem sad or blue, some parents may not be aware of other signs of depression in their teens such as them being bothered by things that previously were not bothersome, loosing interest in things that used to be of interest, having decreased ability to concentrate or finish a task, experience a lack of energy, loss of appetite or marked increased in appetite, and or feeling hopeless of the future. Another symptom that should raise a red flag for a parent that their child may be depressed is when s/he begins to participate in risky behaviors.
A teen interview study was done at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation which compared teens who refrained( abstainers) from engaging in sexual activity , alcohol intake, tobacco or other drug use with other teens who engaged in low and moderate risk behaviors such as experimenting with substance abuse or sex, and those teens who engaged in high risk behaviors such as exchanging sex for drugs or money or abuse of intravenous drugs. What was found was that those teens in the abstaining group showed no differences between boys and girls in their likelihood of having symptoms of depression. Among girls, however, risk taking girls, no matter how modest the degree, showed increased risk of symptoms of depression when compared to girls who abstained from risk activity. For instance, girls who experimented with tobacco and alcohol were 2 xs more likely to have symptoms of depression than girls who abstained completely. Furthermore, girls who experimented with sex were almost 4 xs more likely to have depression, while girls who used intravenous drugs were almost 18 xs more likely to experience depression than those girls who refrained completely of these risk behaviors. With boys, those who drank alcohol or who were binge drinkers were two and one half times more likely to experience depression while those who used intravenous drugs were 6x more likely to have symptoms of depression when compared to boys who abstained completely. Among teen who engaged in low and moderate risk behaviors, girls were significantly more likely than boys to report symptoms depression.
For those who participated in high risk activity, there was no significant gender difference in the symptoms of depression except for exchanging sex for money or drugs. In this category, girls were 7 xs more likely than boys to report depression.
Thus, as a parent, if you become aware that your child is experience symptoms of depression or engaging in risky behavior, you may want to have him/her evaluated by a health provider. Not only can you have your child evaluate to any medical concerns, but also a mental health examination can be performed and appropriate recommendations can be made to improve the state of being of your child. Not every child will be prescribed medication or warrants medication for depression. Depending on the child severity of symptoms, counseling of various kinds can be initiated. Remember, it is far better to recognize that your teenager may need some extra mental support and get him to a health provider who can assist him, then to ignore the signs and symptoms of depression and face a terrible tragedy.
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Depression is a malevolent disease that affects around 10% of women and 3 to 5% of men worldwide. While there is no clinical classification that separates male depression from female depression, clinicians have reason to believe that depression in men may take a different curve from the way women face depression.
Clinicians have discovered that males react to depression in a different way from females. Depression in men is manifested with more dominance in certain symptoms, as opposed to the symptoms that women experience.
Men experience depression with more aggression than women. Men are more prone to irritability and sudden anger. Women, on the other hand, are more prone to show depression by lethargy and a feeling of low self-worth.
Males are also more prone to showing greater risk-taking behavior, more aggression, and are more likely to manifest a loss of self-control.
Male depression is far more dangerous in that they tend to attempt suicide with methods that are more likely to result in death.
Depression in men is rather alarming because males tend to clam up instead of talk about their feelings. Men would rather bottle up emotions as opposed to talking to others about these. This would result in the manâs family and friends not being aware of the internal goings-on in their depressed loved one.
This disconnect from social and psychological support only exacerbates the condition, and would intensify the motivation for suicide.
What is more dangerous is that men are more likely to use âfool-proofâ suicidal methods that increase the chances of death truly occurring. Because of this, depression in men should be watched more closely and not taken for granted.
If you note that your father, brother, husband or any other close male friend or relative has changes in behavior: i.e., anger/aggression and irritability are more frequent and intense, try to take note of his behavior, observe, and try to reach out to him. It would help your loved one if you would take an understanding stance towards his illness and be supportive all throughout.
Depression in men may be more alarming, but still has remedies. Just be observant, aware, and remember to care enough to be involved in what he is going through.
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Various recently published studies about the relationship between low dose radiation and cancer fanned again the discussion about risk and benefits of modern diagnostic techniques and in particular Computer Tomography (CT). According to an article recently published in IMAGE (Marie H. Meynadier, Vol. 21, no. 10 – March 10, 2008), it is predictable that in a few decades up to 2 percent of cancers in the United States could be linked to the administration of diagnostic x-rays, even if the ability to monitor the increase in cancer related to radiation exposure will be very difficult as radiation-induced cancer can take up to 20 years to develop.
Since many years the relationship between cancer development and radiation exposure has been studied and there are hundreds if not thousands of publications related to this topic. The problem is that a third of all people get cancer anyway, at some time in their lives, and hence it is quite difficult to find evidence that low doses of radiation cause cancers that would not have otherwise occurred. Even for the 80,000 to 90,000 survivors of the atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, exposed to very large radiation doses, it has been hard to find a direct relationship between excess cancer development and radiation exposure. According to Japanese statistics, from the people who were exposed in 1945 (and did not die immediately) nearly half are still alive. A statistically significant increase in cancer was found at relatively high exposure level of 50 millisieverts (mSv is the unit commonly used to measure the effective dose in diagnostic medical procedures), which is about 16 times the current annual average for Americans from medical exams and about 21 times above the average natural background effective dose in the USA. But these numbers need to be analyzed with care. There is a controversy between scientists if levels below 50 mSv can be considered as safe and about the real (and statistically proven) rest-risk of low radiation exposure.
The most widely used mathematical model in estimating radiation risk is known as the linear-nonthreshold dose-respond model. This model assumes that there is no safe dose of radiation and that there is a linear and direct relation between cancer risk and genetic damage with radiation exposure. But this model is in discussion since a long time. For some scientists the linear model is the best way to estimate radiation risk, but for others there exist a threshold below which radiation poses no hazard to health.
It is not difficult to identify the most important sources of man-made or anthropogenic radiation. Most of the collective dose from diagnostic radiology comes from procedures such as CT, interventional radiology and barium enemas. Advances in radiological diagnostic technology have radically transformed medical practice in recent years and there has been a rapid increase particularly in the application of CT. Effective dose estimates of CT scans and nuclear medicine studies are in the range of 10 to 25 mSv for a single study, which is about 100 times larger than those from conventional radiological procedures such as chest x-rays. Although CT scanners contribute to only 12 percent of all medical radiation procedures, the number of CT scans is on the rise. In the United States for instance, no more than 3 million studies using CT were performed in 1980 and in 2006 this number was already above 60 million. Overall, the mean effective dose in the US from all medical x-rays has increased about seven-fold over this period and the situation in Europe is not very different. There are several scientific studies proving a relationship between small radiation doses and cancer formation.
One of these studies, already published in the year 2000 (Spine, Morin Doody et al, Volume 25(16) August 15, 2000), was conducted with 5,573 females aged 20 and younger from 14 orthopedic medical centers in the United States who had been diagnosed with scoliosis between 1912 and 1965. Scoliosis is a medical condition in which a person’s spine is curved from side to side, and may also be rotated. The goal of the study was to evaluate breast cancer mortality patterns among women with scoliosis and the risks associated with diagnostic radiographic exposure. Doody and coworkers showed that exposure to multiple diagnostic radiographic examinations during childhood and adolescence may increase the risk of breast cancer among women with scoliosis. Even if this study addresses radiology exams taken on older technology, the issue is still relevant, as scoliosis patients usually receive repeated radiographic exams and CT scans for therapy and treatment. As scoliosis generally is diagnosed even before adolescence, these susceptible young patients are already exposed to relatively high radiation doses during their growth period.
As discussed in an other recently published study (Hall et al., British Journal of Radiology 81, 362-378, 2008), the relevant organ doses during CT scans are in the range for which there is now direct credible epidemiological evidence of an excess risk of cancer, without the need to extrapolate risks from higher doses. However, even for high-dose radiological procedures, the risk to the individual patient is small, so that the benefit/risk balance is generally in the patients’ favour. Concerns arise when CT examinations are used without a proven clinical rationale, when alternative modalities could be used with equal efficacy, or when CT scans are repeated unnecessarily. According to this study, it is assumed that about one-third of all CT performed in the US could be avoided using alternative diagnostic tools. According to Hall, âat this time, the benefit/risk balance for any of the commonly suggested CT screening techniques has yet to be established.â
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