October 6th, 2009 by Small State Health Team
We’re all familiar with the dangers of sun exposure, skin cancer, and harmful UV rays. We buy special sunglasses that block UV-A and UV-B rays. We buy high SPF sunscreen to help block that dangerous, damaging sunlight.
But now, vitamin D deficiency and the problems caused by the disease is on the rise. Sunlight is crucial because the UV rays are the only way to synthesize vitamin D in your body. You can drink vitamin D milk but if you don’t get out into the sun, it never becomes available in your body. Low vitamin D causes problems such as a poor immune system, bone deformities, and many other issues.
A study found that sunscreen with a sun protection factor (SPF) of 8 reduces the capacity of the skin to produce vitamin D3 by over 95%!
Are people stuck between a rock and a hard place? I think common sense prevails in such situations. If you plan on being out in the sun for an extended period of time (the kind of length where sun tanning can occur) it may be best to go ahead and apply sunscreen. It was found that most people don’t apply it completely and it’s recommended to apply every 20 minutes.
Perhaps vitamin D deficiency comes from the lack of sunlight for many office workers, who get up and go to the office before the sun comes up, and come home after the sun goes down. A little bit of sun during your office breaks would be a sensible idea.
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October 6th, 2009 by Small State Health Team
Smoking is a major public health problem, because about half of million deaths per year in the united states are due to smoking. These deaths happen is the result of cancers, breathing problems, strokes, and many other smoke related health problem.
Smoking cause an even higher number of disabilities, pain, and suffering from different diseases
There are thousands of chemicals found in cigarettes and when you drag on a cigarette you are taking them all into your body. Â The lungs function is to take in what you inhale and send it to your bloodstream which sends what you inhale to all of your organs. This is why smoking not only harms the lungs, it causes major malfunctions throughout the body.
The addictive ingrdient in cigarette smoke is nicotine. Nicotine is very addictive. The nicotine is quickly absorbed into the bloodstream;within 30 second of entering the body, it reaches the brain, it cause the brain release special chemicals that make feelings of pleasure and energy. One of these chemical are called epinephrine.
Beside nicotine smoke include carbon monoxide, exposure this carbon can increases the risk of developing heart diseases.
One of the most harmful things you are taking in is tar. Many people think that when you inhale and then blow the smoke out that most of the substance is exhaled, but actually only about 10% leaves the body. That means that 90% of what you inhale stays in there!
As if having all that stuff in there wasn’t bad enough… when the lungs are clogged with so much tar and other chemicals they are not able to function properly and this causes oxygen to become more difficult for the lungs to send to your body. When you smoke you are starving your body of oxygen and eventually you will see the health reciprocations.
When a person smoke, its not only affect the smoker but also the people who are exposed to the smoke, anyone nearby when a person is smoking breathes in the smoke that is exhaled from the smoker, as well as the some that come from cigarette, cigar or pipe. This is known as seconghand smoke.
There are so many problem can appear when you are smokin, not only for the smoker but also for the people who are exposed to the smoke
So stop to smoking, keep your lung still health and your life will be more qualified
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