Chewing Gum and Headache

Treating some headaches in children may be a simple matter of getting them to quit chewing gum.
Excessive gum chewing may be an important but under-recognized trigger for headaches in older children.
Excessive gum chewing causes headache not through the ingestion of aspartame from the gum, as has been previously suggested, but by putting undue exertion on the temporomandibular joint (TMJ).

Doctors make a point of enquiring about the gum chewing habits of adolescents reporting daily or recurrent headaches. "If the neurological examination is normal and the habit is present, they should first of all discontinue it to see if headaches improve, before embarking on expensive diagnostic procedures, or prescribing medications for the headache in children .

Vegetarian Food

Lowered risk of cardiovascular disease and other medical problems

Vegetarian diet will include only vegetables, fruits, whole grains, nuts, other legumes and sometimes dairy products and eggs. It will not include meat items which will contain large amount of cholesterols and other fatty acids at an excess level. Therefore, vegetarians are less likely to develop high cholesterol levels in the blood and thus the deposition of the same in blood vessels. The benefit of this would be the lowered risk in cardiovascular diseases such as coronary artery disease, stroke, kidney diseases as well as conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure and osteoporosis. But, it should be remembered that, there are many other medical problems which will be aided to be healed or controlled by consuming only vegetarian products.

-Leaner body size

Low caloric diets which will often be the norm for vegetarians can make them lot thinner than their non-vegetarian counterparts. When considering the disease manifestations among obese individuals, it is rather advantageous to be leaner by being vegetarian.

-Psychological relief

For some, the feeling of protecting life and not harming other living beings would be far greater than any other benefit received through being vegetarian. Furthermore, they will be able to engage in far greater efforts to protect life than the ones who are non vegetarian without a guilt and with more dignity and venom.

-Economical gains

A vegetarian shopping list is will most likely to cost far less than a non-veg shopping list and this can be a huge benefit when considering its long term effects on health as well as on the pocket for such individuals.

Polio Free India

World health organization WHO on 13.01.2014
declared India a polio free country.

India has not reported a case of polio, after a two-year-old girl was paralyzed by polio in the Howrah district of West Bengal on 13 January 2011. The last reported case of Ruksha Shah, who just has a slight limp, is the only remnant of the polio infection that ravaged her in 2011. The disease left her right leg a little shorter and weaker. 
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According to WHO reports, India is one of the largest donors to polio eradication, and till 2013, India had contributed US$2 billion towards polio eradication programmes.
WHO officials today declared India polio-free on 13 January 2014, which means the virus has died in the environment. New cases, if any, would be caused by the infection coming in another country.
It is indeed seen has a victory for the fight against polio, as in 2009 India had 50 percent share in the world's polio cases. With India off the list, there are only three more countries in the world which are still polio-endemic - Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan.
A country that had 150,000 polio cases in 1985 completely ridding out the virus is indeed a milestone. However, the country's polio eradication programme will have to stay on track, as there are still places where immunization programmes are yet to be accepted by local communities.
Polio Fact-sheet India(As per WHO)
 Cases in 2011: 1 (last case 13 January 2011)
 Cases in 2009: 741
 Cases in 1991: 6,028
 Cases in 1985: 150,000
 Last wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case: 13 January 2011, Howrah, West Bengal
 Last wild poliovirus type 2 (WPV2) case: October 1999, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
 Last wild poliovirus type 3 (WPV3) case: 22 October 2010, Pakur, Jharkhand
 Last positive case from monthly environmental sewage sampling (conducted in Delhi, Mumbai and Patna): November 2010, Mumbai 

Rally highlights need to avoid junk food
 
Tiruchirapalli | Monday, Jan
6 2014 IST 
Student members of Leo Club of the well known Jamal Mohamed College here today took out a rally from Railway junction to their college as part of a programme to educate the ill-Effects of consuming Junk Foods.
Flagging off the rally, Dr M A Aleem Vice-Principal of the Government Medical College here underlined the need to avoid junk food as it is poses a danger to one's health.
The rally passed through important thorough fares in the city. Later, at a meeting, eminent doctors highlighted need to avoid junk foods. UNI RV VV AK2040

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Rally on ill effects of junk food - The Hindu

Rally on ill effects of junk food - The Hindu

Diet for Stroke Patients



Stroke is a condition in which a muscle or a group of muscles becomes weak or paralyzed following a vascular accident in the brain. These accidents will take the shape of bleeding or else an ischemia. Once a set of nerves or part of the brain becomes dysfunctional, these dead cells would not recover or else will take a long time for recovery which will involve many months of re-training.

Among all the stroke victims, large percentage will also suffer from weakness and paralysis of the muscles in the throat. In such instances, one of the main concerns would be the inability to receive a proper nutrition through the mouth. Apart from the nutritional restrictions, such patients are more vulnerable in aspirating ingested food particles or fluids, developing respiratory infections or else in producing effective voice. Thus, with the possibility of such debilitation, one needs to identify the best route of meeting the nutritional needs and how and when to do the necessary changes to prevent under-nutrition or else dehydration.

Before initiating nutritional interventions, the stroke victim should be evaluated for his or her ability to swallow. In this regard, the dysphagia trained nurse or a speech therapist should usually assess a stroke patient and under their recommendations a dietitian will prescribe an appropriate diet. As the patient improves his or her condition, the nutrition should also adopt itself accordingly and frequent review of the nutritional requirement would be the way forward in managing such a patient.

Following are some of the useful tips in managing the nutritional aspect of a stroke patient according to the previously discussed assessments.

-Provide the patient with a high protein – high energy diet.

This can be given either as an oral feed in case the swallowing mechanisms are intact or else as an intravenous or an NG feed as well.

-Give enough fruits and vegetables to make it a balanced diet.

Fruits and vegetables will not only provide good nutritional value, but, will also provide high fibers to maintain easy passage of stools.

-Maintain adequate hydration.

Drinking enough water or else giving adequate fluids through an intra-venous line has to be continued throughout the recovery phase. It will promote adequate metabolic functioning as well as have additional effects such as thinning of mucus secretions in the lungs where it can be coughed-up easily.

-Cater to the demand or get the victim involved in dietary decision making

When a person with a stroke request certain foods or fluids, if it is not harmful for the existing disease conditions, it should be provided at all possible times as compliance and mental soundness will play a major part in the recovery process.

-Change the menu

Changing the menu from time to time will increase the compliance and will avoid food refusals and developing of a dislike towards the foods.

-Avoid acidic and spicy foods as much as possible

Due to the possibility of developing gastric ulcers, such foods are better avoided.

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