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You may have heard from your grandma that eating carrots can improve you vision. That may not be exactly true, but carrots do contain something called provitamin A carotenoids. These are pigments in some plants that can be converted by the body into vitamin A, and vitamin A is important to your vision. 

Vitamin A is also helpful to bone growth and your immune system. As with other vitamins, there are different forms of vitamin A. One of the forms that is most usable to the body is called retinol, and it can be found in liver, eggs, and milk. One of the most common provitamin A carotenoids that the body converts easily to retinol is beta carotene, and it is found in carrots, sweet potatoes, spinach, and cantaloupe. Vitamin A is also one of the vitamins often used to fortify breakfast cereals. 

Vitamin A is fat soluble, which means that the body stores it, mostly in the liver. That also means that it is possible to build up toxic levels of it in the body. This rarely happens from food sources because as the body builds up supplies of vitamin A, it will slow down the processing of beta carotene conversion to vitamin A. When people do get vitamin A toxicity, it is usually from taking too much in supplemental, or pill, form. Toxic levels of vitamin A can cause liver problems, central nervous system problems, deterioration of bone density, and birth defects.  (more…)

Human being is a creature that made by God with most perfect condition comparing with other creatures on earth. Human being is created with perfect condition of physical and mental. But for a certain condition human can face physical disorder and mental disorder. Both are problems that can disturb the effectiveness of human’s work. Therefore it must be healed and turn into pshysical and mental health.

This article is emphasizing about the mental health, which is regarding with the stage of well being emotionally, the cognitive part or the lack of a mental disorder. Due to many problems in daily life, sometimes human can not enjoy life and obtain a balance of life motion and power to get psychological resilience, this is described as mental unhealthy. In fact, a Mental Health Counseling Service is a service that gives counseling for mental health. This counseling consisted of dynamic, potencies based, and a discipline called psycho educational. This discipline was born on late 70’s.

This service is available in many places, such as school, campus or in clinic. They commonly give offering in counseling, consultation, psychiatric and any psychological services to make clients can clearly see and determine their goals of life and improve the personality development, happiness and health.

The toughest bit of the 1st trimester of pregnancy is morning sickness and any woman who has gone through or is going through it, knows the first signs usually develop during the month following the first missed menstrual period, when hormone levels increase. It may range from mild, occasional nausea to sever, continuous, debilitating nausea with bouts of vomiting. In most cases, symptoms may be worse in morning, albeit they can strike day or night. 

Despite all advances in medicine, there is no way of predicting how long your morning sickness will last even if you have suffered it before. Generally, nausea and vomiting last till about 12 – 13 weeks of pregnancy. However, some women continue to feel ill beyond their 22nd week as well. However, some studies show that mild to moderate sickness is a sign of a good pregnancy, and less risk of miscarriage. 

There is no simple treatment. The best course of action is home treatment. The following tips work wonders not only when you wake up feeling nauseous but also work when you get that queasy feeling during the day. 

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What Are Antioxidants?

Antioxidants are molecules which can safely interact with free radicals and terminate the chain reaction before vital molecules are damaged. Although there are several enzyme systems within the body that scavenge free radicals, the principle micronutrient antioxidants are vitamin E, beta-carotene, and vitamin C. 

Selenium, a trace metal that is required for proper function of one of the body’s antioxidant enzyme systems, is sometimes included in this category. The body cannot manufacture these micronutrients so they must be supplied in the diet. 

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Cancer is one of the deadly diseases in the world. it has not been found yet, what factor is the main reason that a person can get cancer disease. It might be because of smoking, heredity, asbestos exploitation or others. Scientists and doctors have not found the perfect cure for cancer. However there are still many efforts on doing the therapy for cancer patients.

This is called Chemotherapy Treatment. This treatment is using chemical (either one or more drugs) to kill micro organism or cells of cancer or colon cancer, which by the side of surgery and radiation. This drug will stop the growth of cancer. If it used numbers of drugs, it will be mixed together in one time. The stage of cancer and the health condition of patient will determine whether it urgently needed the therapy. Several functions of chemotherapy: to diminish any cancer residue post operation; hold the enlargement of tumors and alleviate the symptoms of cancer.

The process of chemotherapy or called systemic therapy is when drugs go into blood vessel and spread into the body. There are several form of drug in chemotherapy, which are pill form, catheter, injection enter to vein and pill form. Patient will get this therapy with cycles and there are intervals in between.