Batasi Es Teh, Hindari Batu Ginjal Minuman teh dicampur dengan es sebagai pelepas dahaga di siang hari yang terik tentunya sangat menyenangkan. Namun, bagi Anda yang cenderung mengalami pembentukan batu ginjal sebaiknya berhati-hati. Penelitian terbaru menyarankan, sebaiknya beralih dari es teh ke air putih campur lemon atau jus lemon.Menurut para ahli, batu yang terbentuk dari kristal di dalam ginjal...

The Inuit: Lessons from the Arctic

The Inuit (also called Eskimo) are a group of hunter-gatherer cultures who inhabit the arctic regions of Alaska, Canada and Greenland. They are a true testament to the toughness, adaptability and ingenuity of the human species. Their unique lifestyle has a lot of information to offer us about the boundaries of the human ecological niche. Weston Price was fascinated by their excellent teeth, good nature...

HERBAL UNTUK MENINGKATKAN IMUNITAS TUBUH Menurut Dr Suprapto Ma'at dari Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Airlangga fungsi sistem imun adalah pertahanan. Intinya menangkal bahan berbahaya agar tubuh tidak sakit. Jika sel-sel imun diganggu, orang rentan sakit. Ia sebagai penjaga keseimbangan komponen tubuh dengan membersihkan sel-sel yang mati. Fungsi lain, sistem imun meronda ke seluruh bagian tubuh....

Book Review: "The Human Diet: Its Origins and Evolution"

I recently read this book after discovering it on another health site. It's a compilation of chapters written by several researchers in the fields of comparative biology, paleontology, archaeology and zoology. It's sometimes used as a textbook. I've learned some interesting things, but overall it was pretty disappointing. The format is disjointed, with no logical flow between chapters. I also...

Sunscreen and Melanoma

Melanoma is the most deadly type of skin cancer, accounting for most skin cancer deaths in the US. As Ross pointed out in the comments section of the last post, there is an association between severe sunburn at a young age and later development of melanoma. Darker-skinned people are also more resistant to melanoma. The association isn't complete, however, since melanoma sometimes occurs on the soles of the feet and even in the intestine. This...

Keladi Tikus. Satu lagi alternatif pengobatan dari alam Selama ini kanker masih menjadi istilah medis yang menakutkan bagi sebagian orang, namun saat ini kanker bukanlah penyakit tanpa obat. Seperti halnya penyakit berat lainnya, bukan berarti ‘tidak ada obatnya’, tetapi ‘belum ditemukan’. Setiap penyakit (akan) ada obatnya, ini suatu keniscayaan yang harus kita yakini. Sementara perihal kesempatan mendapatkan obat ini, adalah bergantung kepada usaha...

Grains and Human Evolution

[Update 8/2011: as I've learned more about human genetics and evolution, I've come to appreciate that many Europeans actually descend from early adopters of agriculture more than they descend from the hunter-gatherers that previously occupied Europe.  Also, 10,000 years has been long enough for significant genetic adaptation.  Read The 10,000 Year Explosion for more information].You've heard me say that I believe grains aren't...

Another China Tidbit

A final note about the Chinese study in the previous post: the overweight vegetable-eaters (read: wheat eaters) exercised more than their non-vegetable-eating, thin neighbors. So although their average calorie intake was a bit higher, their expenditure was as well. Although I speculated in the last post that affluent people might be eating more wheat and fresh vegetables, the data don't support that. Participants with the highest income level...

PEGAGAN

Pegagan (Centella asiatica) merupakan tanaman liar yang banyak tumbuh di perkebunan, ladang, tepi jalan, pematang sawah ataupun diladang yang agak basah. Tanaman ini berasal dari daerah Asia tropik, terssebar di Asia tenggara, termasuk Indonesia, India, Tiongkok, Jepang dan Australia kemudian menyebar ke berbagai negara-negara lain. Nama yang biasa dikenal untuk tanaman ini selain pegagan adalah daun kaki kuda dan antanan. Sejak jaman dahulu, pegagan...

Wheat in China

Dr. Michael Eades linked to an interesting study yesterday on his Health and Nutrition blog. It's entitled "Vegetable-Rich Food Pattern is Related to Obesity in China." It's one of these epidemiological studies where they try to divide subjects into different categories of eating patterns and see how health problems associate with each one. They identified four patterns: the 'macho' diet high in meat and alcohol; the 'traditional' diet high in...

Cancer in Other Non-Industrialized Cultures

In Cancer, Disease of Civilization (1960), Wilhjalmur Stefansson mentions a few cultures besides the Inuit in which large-scale searches never turned up cancer. Dr. Albert Schweitzer examined over 10,000 traditionally-living natives in Gabon (West Africa) in 1913 and did not find cancer. Later, it became common in the same population as they began "living more and more after the manner of the whites." In Cancer, its Nature, Cause and Cure (1957),...

VCO, Penyembuh Flu dan Pengering serta penyembuh Luka

Penyembuh FluFlu adalah penyakit ringan, namun kadang menjengkelkan dan mangganggu aktivitas keseharian. Kini, dengan VCO, Anda bisa terbebas dari gangguan akibat flu. Simak pengalaman pemakaian minyak VCOsebagai obat flu ini.Berbagai merek obat anti influenza yang dijual bebas telah diminum oleh Budi Laksono. Namun, bersin-bersin, demam, hidung berair dan tersumbat belum juga hilang. Wirausahawan di Yogyakarta itu alergi debu sehingga influenza...

Mortality and Lifespan of the Inuit

One of the classic counter-arguments that's used to discredit accounts of healthy hunter-gatherers is the fallacy that they were short-lived, and thus did not have time to develop diseases of old age like cancer. While the life expectancy of hunter-gatherers was not as high as ours today, most groups had a significant number of elderly individuals, who sometimes lived to 80 years and beyond. Mortality...

Cancer Among the Inuit

I remember coming across a table in the book Eat, Drink and Be Healthy (by Dr. Walter Willett) a few years back. Included were data taken from Dr. Ancel Keys' "Seven Countries Study". It showed the cancer rates for three industrialized nations: the US, Greece and Japan. Although specific cancers differed, the overall rate was remarkably similar for all three: about 90 cancers per 100,000 people...

Cancer and the Immune System

My understanding of cancer has changed radically over the past few months. I used to think of it as an inevitable consequence of aging, a stochastic certainty. The human body is made of about 50 trillion cells, many of which replicate their DNA and divide regularly. It's only a matter of time until one of those cells randomly accumulates the wrong set of mutations, and loses the molecular brakes that restrict uncontrolled growth. Strictly speaking,...

Mendulang Recehan Dengan PPC Indo

Belakangan ini Program PPC alias Pay Per Clik buatan tanah air banyak bermunculan. Beberapa yang saya ikuti antara lain KlikSaya.com ama PPCIndo.com. Ga seperti Google Adsense yang lebih dominan untuk situs berbahasa Inggris. Situs PPC asal Indo ini memang dibuat untuk para pemilik blog atau situs berbahasa Indonesia.Bagi kamu yang ingin mendulang recehan gampang kok mengikuti program ini. Recehan...? ih kesannya dikit amat....Ha.. ha... bukannya...