Parboiled rice has more fiber than regular white rice. Parboiled rice might sound like it's precooked, but it's not. Instead, it's processed quite differently from other types of rice. The resulting grain is cooked and served just as you would white or brown rice. However, because of the special processing, parboiled rice is a better source of fiber, calcium, potassium and vitamin B-6 than regular white rice. Sponsored Link ミャンマーのドメイン取得代行 ミャンマー進出時のお問合せ・WEB制作 現地サーバまで一貫してお任せ下さい。 mm-domain.com/ドメイン取得 BasicsAfter rice is harvested, its inedible hull is removed to produce brown rice. If rice is put through a second step of processing to remove the bran, it becomes white rice. Unlike brown and white rice, the process for parboiled rice begins before the hull is removed. The complete grain of rice is soaked, steamed and dried, then the hull is removed to make parboiled rice. The steaming enables the rice to absorb nutrients and changes the starch so that it cooks into a firmer, less sticky dish of rice than regular white rice. The steaming does not precook the rice, so it still takes about 20 minutes to prepare. CarbohydratesOne cup of cooked parboiled rice provides 41 grams of total carbohydrates, or about one-third of the recommended daily intake of 130 grams. The same portion has 1.4 grams of fiber, which supplies 4 percent of men’s and 6 percent of women’s daily fiber. Parboiled rice has double the fiber than you'd get from cooked white rice. It has a low glycemic score of 38, compared with a high 89 for white rice, notes Harvard Health Publications. A low glycemic score indicates that the carbohydrates in parboiled rice do not cause a large spike in blood sugar. B VitaminsParboiled rice is especially rich in niacin, providing 4 milligrams, or 23 percent of the recommended daily intake in 1 cup of cooked rice. You’ll also get 19 percent of the daily intake of vitamin B-6. These values are about double the amount you would get from non-enriched white rice. Your body needs B vitamins to metabolize food into energy, but they also fill other roles, such as helping make hormones and neurotransmitters. Vitamin B-6 removes the amino acid homocysteine from your bloodstream by turning it into other substances. This might help keep your heart healthy; high levels of homocysteine are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. MineralsOne cup of cooked parboiled rice supplies 2 to 3 percent of the recommended daily intake of calcium, iron, magnesium and potassium. You'll get a slightly bigger boost of zinc, with 1 cup containing 0.58 milligrams of zinc. That amount represents 5 percent of men’s and 7 percent of women’s daily needs. Zinc performs vital roles throughout your body, from forming the structure of proteins to regulating DNA. If you don’t get enough zinc, your immune system becomes impaired; it needs zinc to produce the cells that fight bacteria and infections.
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Early Signs of Alzheimer's Disease
(dailyrx Feature) Memory problems may be one of the first signs of Alzheimer's disease, but it's not the first sign for everyone. There are several other clues that Alzheimer's disease may be developing. Video Feature: Early Signs of Alzheimer's Disease Alzheimer's disease is one of the most common causes of dementia, which is a decline in thinking, remembering, reasoning and behavioral abilities to such a degree that it interferes with daily life and activities. Most people with Alzheimer's disease are 65 and older, but Alzheimer's is not a normal part of aging. The Basics of Alzheimer's Disease Alzheimer's disease is a brain disease that gets worse with time. The disease is characterized by plaques and tangles throughout the brain. Plaques are deposits of a protein called beta-amyloid, and tangles are twisted fibers of another protein called tau. As the number of plaques and tangles increase, more brain cells are damaged and the disease gets worse. Presently, there is no cure for Alzheimer's disease. People older than 80 with Alzheimer's disease may die within three or four years of diagnosis, but people diagnosed at a younger age may live 10 years or more after diagnosis. Take note and tell your doctor if you notice any of the following early signs of Alzheimer's disease. Memory Loss Forgetfulness and memory loss are common signs of Alzheimer's disease. These symptoms are more common in those with early stage Alzheimer's. People will Alzheimer's disease might forget names or dates or that certain conversations and events have occurred. Related: Not All Alzheimer's Patients Have Memory Loss Losing Things Consistently losing items may be another symptom of Alzheimer's. People with Alzheimer's disease may misplace items and become unable to retrace their steps to find those lost items. Difficulty with Familiar Tasks People with Alzheimer's disease may find it difficult to manage familiar tasks, such as handling money and their budget. At first, people might just take longer to complete these tasks. Eventually, they may find it hard to complete the task. Difficulty Making Decisions Changes in a person's judgment or decision-making abilities are other potential early signs of Alzheimer's disease. A person with Alzheimer's may make bad financial decisions or other unwise decisions. Alzheimer's patients may pay less attention to personal grooming and hygiene. Related: How Stress Saps Your Health Losing Track Trouble keeping track of times and dates is another early sign of Alzheimer's disease. Following familiar recipes and other familiar activities may also become more difficult for these patients. Planning and Problem-Solving Issues Some Alzheimer's disease patients become unable to develop a plan and follow it through. They may be unable to take a problem and formulate an approach to solve it. Related to the problem-solving difficulties, people with Alzheimer's also may have trouble working with numbers. Vision and Space Problems Alzheimer's patients can become confused when reading, determining distances or identifying a particular color. Problems judging distance and telling colors can lead to driving problems among Alzheimer's patients. Communication Troubles Alzheimer's disease may affect a person's ability to follow along in a conversation. People affected by this Alzheimer's symptom may stop in the middle of speaking or repeat themselves to remember what the conversation was about. Related: The Role of Gender in Mental Health Personality Changes Another possible sign of early Alzheimer's is a change in a person's personality or mood. People affected by early Alzheimer's may become confused, suspicious, depressed or fearful. They also may feel anxious or aggressive. Isolation Withdrawing from social interactions and situations may be another early sign of Alzheimer's disease. Some patients may stray from social activities like sports, hobbies, work projects, get-togethers or casual interactions with other people. What to Do if You Notice Alzheimer's Symptoms Speak with your doctor if you show any signs of early Alzheimer's disease. Your doctor will help distinguish issues related to aging from those that may be related to Alzheimer's. Jim McAleer, MPA, President and CEO of the Orange County Alzheimer's Association, told dailyRx News, "If you forgot your car keys every day at 20 and do so at 60, you're just forgetful. If you see a change in your memory or memory patterns, that's key and worth getting checked out." McAleer added, "It's vitally important to get good help if you experience memory issues. Would you go to your [general practitioner] for a heart issue? No! You'd find a cardiologist." He noted that it's important to get care from someone who specializes in Alzheimer's disease when you experience memory problems that need to be evaluated. While there is no cure for Alzheimer's, there are some treatments that may help maintain memory, thinking, speaking and some behavioral problems for a period of time. Donepezil (brand name Aricept), rivastigmine (brand name Exelon) and galantamine (brand name Razadyne) are used to treat mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease. Memantine (brand name Namenda) is used to treat moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease. Donepezil can be also be used for severe Alzheimer's. Related: Health Risks Seniors Should Be Aware Of
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Concern in Tokyo over radiation in tap water
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Slideshow:Japan hit by huge earthquake, tsunami Play Video Video:Japan Water Supply a Health Threat? ABC News Play Video Video:Hopes dim for tsunami victims' family AFP AP – Shelves selling bottled water are empty at a convenience store in Tokyo Wednesday, March 23, 2011. A … By ELAINE KURTENBACH and SHINO YUASA, Associated Press Elaine Kurtenbach And Shino Yuasa, Associated Press – 1 hr 2 mins ago
TOKYO – Radiation leaking from Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant has caused Tokyo's tap water to exceed safety standards for infants to drink, officials said Wednesday, sending anxiety levels soaring over the nation's food and water supply.
Residents cleared store shelves of bottled water after Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara said levels of radioactive iodine in tap water were more than twice what is considered safe for babies. Officials begged those in the city to buy only what they needed, saying hoarding could hurt the thousands of people without any water in areas devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
"I've never seen anything like this," clerk Toru Kikutaka said, surveying the downtown Tokyo supermarket where the entire stock of bottled water sold out almost immediately after the news broke, despite a limit of two, two-liter bottles per customer.
The unsettling new development affecting Japan's largest city, home to around 13 million people, added to growing fears over the nation's food supply.
Radiation from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant has seeped into raw milk, seawater and 11 kinds of vegetables, including broccoli, cauliflower and turnips, from areas around the plant. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it was halting imports of Japanese dairy and produce from the region near the facility. Hong Kong went further and required that Japan perform safety checks on meat, eggs and seafood before accepting those products.
Officials are still struggling to stabilize the nuclear plant, which on Wednesday belched black smoke from Unit 3 and forced the evacuation of workers, further delaying attempts to make needed repairs. The plant, 140 miles (220 kilometers) north of Tokyo, has been leaking radiation since the quake and tsunami knocked out its crucial cooling systems.
The crisis is emerging as the world's most expensive natural disaster on record, likely to cost up to $309 billion, according to a new government estimate. Police say an estimated 18,000 people were killed.
Concerns about food safety spread Wednesday to Tokyo after officials said tap water showed elevated radiation levels: 210 becquerels of iodine-131 per liter of water — more than twice the recommended limit of 100 becquerels per liter for infants. Another measurement taken later at a different site showed the level was 190 becquerels per liter. The recommended limit for adults is 300 becquerels.
"It is really scary. It is like a vicious negative spiral from the nuclear disaster," said Etsuko Nomura, a mother of two children ages 2 and 5. "We have contaminated milk and vegetables, and now tap water in Tokyo, and I'm wondering what's next."
Infants are particularly vulnerable to radioactive iodine, which can cause thyroid cancer, experts say. The limits refer to sustained consumption rates, and officials urged calm, saying parents should stop giving the tap water to babies, but that it was no problem if the infants already had consumed small amounts.
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They said the levels posed no immediate health risk for older children or adults.
"Even if you drink this water for one year, it will not affect people's health," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said.
Dr. Harold Swartz, a professor of radiology and medicine at Dartmouth Medical School in the U.S., said the radiation amounts being reported in the water are too low to pose any real risk, even to infants who are being fed water-based formula or to breast-fed infants whose mothers drink tap water.
Although the amounts are well above established limits, that doesn't automatically mean there's a health threat, he said.
"We live in a world that has natural background radiation that's many times greater than the amounts we're talking about here," Swartz said.
Still, because it's easy to avoid tap water, it makes sense for Japanese parents with infants to do so, he said.
Radioactive iodine is also short-lived, with a half-life of eight days — the length of time it takes for half of it to break down harmlessly.
Richard Wakeford, a public health radiologist at the University of Manchester in Britain, blamed the spike in radiation on a shift in winds from the nuclear plant toward Tokyo. He predicted lower levels in coming days once the wind shifts back to normal patterns. "I imagine that bottled water is now quite popular in Tokyo," he said.
Tokyo's municipal government said it would distribute 240,000 bottles of water to households with infants. They estimated that there are currently 80,000 babies in the affected area, with each infant getting three bottles of 550 milliliters.
Edano pleaded with shoppers to restrict purchases of bottled water to the bare necessity, urging them to think of tsunami victims in need.
"We have to consider Miyagi, where there is no drinking water at all," he said, referring to a stricken region. "Under these conditions, we would appreciate it if people would avoid buying more water than they need."
The latest data showed sharp increases in radioactivity levels in a range of vegetables. In an area about 25 miles (40 kilometers) northwest of the nuclear plant, levels for one locally grown leafy green called kukitachina measured 82 times the government limit for radioactive cesium and 11 times the limit for iodine.
The death toll from the disaster continued to rise, with more than 9,500 bodies counted and more than 16,000 people listed as missing.
With supplies of fuel and ice dwindling, officials have abandoned the traditional practice of cremation in favor of quick, simple burials. Some are interred in bare plywood caskets and others in blue plastic tarps, with no time to build proper coffins. The bodies will be dug up and cremated once crematoriums catch up with the glut, officials assured families.
In Higashimatsushima in Miyagi prefecture, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo, soldiers lowered plywood coffins into the ground, saluting each casket.
Some relatives placed flowers on the graves. Most remained stoic, folding hands in prayer. Two young girls wept inconsolably, hugged tightly by their father.
"I hope their spirits will rest in peace here at this temporary place," said mourner Katsuko Oguni, 42.
Masaru Yamagata, a Higashimatsushima official, said the crematorium cannot keep up with demand.
"Giving the grieving families coffins is the most we can do right now," Yamagata said. "Every day, more dead bodies are found, and we need more coffins quickly."
Hundreds of thousands remained homeless, squeezed into temporary shelters without heat, warm food or medicine and no idea what to call home after the colossal wave swallowed up communities along the coast.
The tsunami also heavily damaged the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear facility, with explosions and fires in four of the plant's six reactors sending radioactive steam into the air.
Progress in cooling down the troubled plant has been intermittent, disrupted by rises in radiation, elevated pressure in reactors and overheated storage pools.
The plant's operator had restored circuitry to bring power to all six units and turned on lights at Unit 3 late Tuesday for the first time since the disaster — a significant step toward restarting the cooling system.
It had hoped to restore power to cooling pumps at the unit within days, but experts warned the work included the risk of sparking fires as electricity is restored through equipment potentially damaged in the tsunami.
And then on Wednesday, black smoke suddenly billowed from Unit 3, prompting another evacuation of workers from the plant in the afternoon, Tokyo Electric Power Co. officials said. They said there had been no corresponding spike in radiation at the plant.
Hidehiko Nishiyama of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said officials did not know the reason for the smoke.
Tokyo Electric manager Teruaki Kobayashi said the pump for Unit 3 had been tested and was working Wednesday. But officials weren't sure when they would be able to turn the power on to the pump.
Nuclear agency official Kenji Kawasaki said workers would not be allowed to return to the plant until Thursday morning, since smoke was still rising as of late Wednesday night.
As a precaution, officials have evacuated residents within 12 miles (20 kilometers) of the plant and advised those up to 19 miles (30 kilometers) away to stay indoors to minimize exposure.
And for the first time, Edano, the chief Cabinet secretary, suggested that those downwind of the plant should stay indoors with the windows shut tight — even if just outside the zone.
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Associated Press writers Tomoko A. Hosaka, Yuri Kageyama and Jay Alabaster in Tokyo, Tim Sullivan in Higashimatsushima, Mary Clare Jalonick in Washington, Lindsey Tanner in Chicago and Foster Klug in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report.
Friday, January 28, 2011
မရိုးႏိုင္သည့္ အိမ္သံုးေဆးၿမီးတိုမ်ား-FROM UTW
အိမ္သံုးေဆးမ်ားသည္ မိရိုးဖလာ အစဥ္အလာအရ သားစဥ္ေျမးဆက္ လက္ကမ္းယူခဲ့ရသည္မွာ ယေန႔တိုင္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ကၽြန္မတို႔ အဘိုးအဘြားမ်ား၏ ၉၆-ပါး ေရာဂါေပ်ာက္ေသာ ေဆးမ်ားလည္း ထင္ရွား ေက်ာ္ၾကားကာ ယေန႔တိုင္ သံုးေနဆဲပင္။ သည့္ျပင္ ယင္းအိ္မ္သံုးေဆးမ်ားမွာ အကုန္အက် စရိတ္စကမရွိဘဲ တျခားလည္း သြားရွာစရာမလိုဘဲ အိမ္တြင္းမွာပင္ ရွိေနေသာ ေန႔စဥ္သံုးစြဲ ေတြ႔ထိလ်က္ရွိသည့္ အရာမ်ားသာ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ လက္ေတြ႔အားျဖင့္လည္း ယင္းအိမ္သံုးေဆးမ်ားသည္ အံ႔ၾသဖြယ္ေကာင္းေလာက္ေအာင္ အမွန္တကယ္ ထိေရာက္ေၾကာင္း ေတြ႔ရွိရပါသည္။ ေစ်းႏႈန္းလည္း သက္သာ၊ လြယ္လင့္တကူလည္းရျပီး အကုန္အက်မရွိသေလာက္ျဖစ္ေသာ ေဆးျမီးတိုမ်ားျဖစ္ပါသည္။ မိခင္သဘာ၀တရားက လူသားအားလံုးကို ေစာင့္ေရွာက္လ်က္ရွိပါသည္။
(သည္းေျခအိတ္ ေက်ာက္အတြက္ ကုသသည့္ ေဆးျမီးတို)
Dulwish Health Society မွ ျပ႒ာန္းထားသည့္ သည္းေျခအိတ္ ေက်ာက္တည္ေရာဂါအတြက္ ကုသနည္းမွာ ေအာက္ပါအတိုင္း ျဖစ္ပါသည္။
၁။ လတ္ဆတ္ေသာ ပန္းသီးေဖ်ာ္ရည္ ႏွစ္လီတာ (2 liters) ကို ငါးရက္တိတိ ဆက္၍ေသာက္သံုးပါ။ ဤသုိ႔ ေသာက္သံုးျခင္းျဖင့္ သည္းေျခအိတ္တြင္ရွိေသာ ေက်ာက္မ်ားကို ေပ်ာ့ေပ်ာင္းလာေစလိမ့္မည္ဟု ဆိုပါသည္။
၂။ ဆ႒မေျမာက္ေန႔တြင္ ညေနစာ မစားပါနဲ႔။
၃။ ယင္းေန႔ ည ၉း၀၀ နာရီတြင္ ဆားခါးကို စားပြဲဇြန္းႀကီး တဇြန္း၊ သို႔မဟုတ္- ႏွစ္ဇြန္း ေရေႏြးႏွင့္ ဆတူေရာျပီး ေသာက္ပါ။
၄။ အေအးခံထားေသာ သံလြင္ဆီစစ္စစ္ စားပြဲဇြန္းႀကီး ေလးဇြန္းႏွင့္ ထံုးရည္စစ္စစ္ စားပြဲဇြန္းႀကီး ႏွစ္ဇြန္းကို ေကာ္ဖီပန္းကန္ထဲတြင္ ထည့္၍ လႈပ္ျပီး ပန္းကန္တ၀က္ကုန္ေအာင္ ေသာက္ပါ။
၅။ အိပ္ရာခ်က္ခ်င္း၀င္ပါ။ ဒူးေခါင္းကို ေမးေစ့နားေရာက္သည္အထိ ေကြးႏိုင္သေလာက္ေကြးျပီး ညာဘက္သို႔ေစာင္းအိပ္ပါ။
၆။ ယင္းအေနအထားအတိုင္း မိနစ္ ၃၀-ခန္႔ စိတ္ရွည္စြာေနပါ။
၇။ ဆားခါးရည္ကို လိုအပ္လွ်င္ တခြက္ထပ္၍ ေသာက္ပါ။ အနားတြင္ အေဖာ္တေယာက္ ရွိပါေစ။ ေနာက္တေန႔တြင္ သည္းေျခအိတ္မွ ေက်ာက္တံုးေက်ာက္ခဲတို႔သည္ အစိမ္းေရာင္မ်ား အတံုးအခဲမ်ားအျဖစ္ ၀မ္းထဲ၌ ပါသြားေၾကာင္း ေတြ႔ရပါလိမ့္မည္။ လက္မအရြယ္ခန္႔ သည္းေျခေက်ာက္မ်ား ေၾကသြားသျဖင့္ ေ၀ဒနာေပ်ာက္ကင္းသြားေၾကာင္း ေတြ႔ရပါလိမ့္မည္။
(ေက်ာက္ကပ္ေက်ာက္ ေခ်ဖ်က္ေသာ ေဆးျမီးတို)
ေက်ာက္ကပ္ထဲတြင္ ေက်ာက္တည္ျပီဆိုလွ်င္ နာက်င္ေသာ ေ၀ဒနာအေတာ္ေလး ခံစားရပါသည္။ ယင္းေက်ာက္ရွိေနသျဖင့္ မၾကာခဏဖ်ားျခင္း၊ ဆီးထဲ ေသြးပါျခင္း စသည္မ်ားကိုလည္း တြဲဖက္ခံစားရပါသည္။ ေရမ်ားမ်ားမေသာက္၍ ေက်ာက္တည္ရျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ ထို႔ျပင္ ကယ္လ္စီယမ္ဓာတ္နည္း၍ ျဖစ္သည္ဟု ဆိုပါသည္။ ခႏၶာကိုယ္တြင္း၌ ကယ္လ္စီယမ္ဓာတ္ နည္းပါးလာျခင္းေၾကာင့္ ေက်ာက္ကပ္မွ ကယ္လ္စီယမ္ ဓာတ္မ်ားကို တတ္ႏိုင္သေလာက္ ျပန္၍စုပ္ယူထိန္းသိမ္းေပးရပါသည္။ ဤသို႔ ျပဳလုပ္ရသျဖင့္ ကယ္လ္စီယမ္မွာ ေက်ာက္ကပ္ႏွင့္ ဆီးအိမ္တြင္ အနည္ထိုင္ျပီး မာေက်ာေသာ ကယ္လ္စီယမ္ဆီးေက်ာက္မ်ား ျဖစ္ရသည္ဟု ဆိုပါသည္။ ယင္းေက်ာက္ကပ္ ေက်ာက္တည္ျခင္းးကို ေဆးသိပၸံနည္းအရ ခြဲစိတ္၍ေသာ္၄င္း၊ အသံလႈိင္းျဖင့္ ေခ်ဖ်က္ျခင္း (Lithoscopy) ျဖင့္ေသာ္၄င္း ကုသၾကရပါသည္။ ယင္းကုသနည္းမ်ားမွာ အႏၲရာယ္လည္းမ်ား၊ ကုန္က်စရိတ္လည္း အလြန္မ်ားျပားလွပါသည္။ ခြဲစိတ္ရသည့္ အႏၲရာယ္လည္း ရွိပါသည္။ အသံလႈ္ိင္းႏွင့္ ကုသရာမွာလည္း စရိတ္စက ႀကီးလွပါသည္။ သက္ေသာင့္သက္သာလည္း မရွိလွပါ။ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ အကုန္အက်သက္သာျပီး သက္ေသာင့္သက္သာ ရွိမည့္ ေဆးျမီးတိုေလးကို သံုးၾကည့္ၾကပါစို႔-
၁။ ဖရဲသီးေဖ်ာ္ရည္ မ်ားမ်ားေသာက္ေပးပါ။ တေန႔လွ်င္ ႏွစ္လီတာႏႈန္းျဖင့္ ေသာက္ပါ။ ဖရဲသီး အနီျဖစ္ေစ၊ အ၀ါျဖစ္ေစ၊ ေဆးဖက္၀င္ပါသည္။ ဖရဲသီးေဖ်ာ္ရည္သည္ ေက်ာက္ကပ္မွေက်ာက္မ်ားကို ေခ်ဖ်က္ႏိုင္ပါသည္။
၂။ ဆီးေက်ာက္ကပ္အတြင္း အတြင္းၾကြက္သားမ်ား ေပ်ာ့ေပ်ာင္းလာေစမည့္ ေဆးဖက္၀င္ ေဖာ္ျမဴလာ ရွိပါသည္။ ေဆးဖက္ဆိုင္ရာကၽြမ္းက်င္သူ (Pharmacist)မ်ားႏွင့္ တိုင္ပင္၍ ယင္းေဖာ္ျမဴလာအတိုင္းေသာက္ပါ။ ဆီးေက်ာက္တည္ျခင္းေၾကာင့္ နာက်င္ျခင္းမ်ား သက္သာလာပါလိမ့္မည္။
၃။ ဆီးမ်ားမ်ား သြားေစရန္ သံုးေသာ မေလးရွားႏိုင္ငံမွ ေဆးဖက္၀င္ရိုးရာ ေဆးတမ်ိဳးျဖစ္သည့္ မီဆိုင္ကူခ်င္ (Misai Kuching)ကိုေသာက္ပါ။ ေက်ာက္ကပ္ႏွင့္ ဆီးအိမ္တြင္းရွိ ေက်ာက္မ်ား ေၾကသြားပါလိမ့္မည္။ မီဆိုင္ကူခ်င္ အရြက္မ်ားႏွင့္ အပြင့္မ်ားကို ေရေႏြးတြင္ လက္ဖက္ေျခာက္သဖြယ္ ခတ္၍ေသာက္ပါ။ ယခုအခါမ်ားတြင္ မီဆိုင္ကူခ်င္ကို ေဆးအေတာင့္အေနႏွင့္လည္း ၀ယ္ယူရရွိႏိုင္ပါသည္။ ရက္သတၱႏွစ္ပတ္အတြင္း ဆီးအိပ္ႏွင့္ ေက်ာက္ကပ္ထဲမွ ေက်ာက္မ်ား ေၾက၍က်လာပါလိမ့္မည္။
(အစာအိမ္ ေရာင္ရမ္းျခင္း ကုသနည္း)
အစာအိမ္ ေရာင္ရမ္းျခင္းအတြက္ အာလူးအစိမ္းႏွင့္ ပ်ားရည္သံုးရပါမည္။ ေဆးေဖာ္စပ္ပံုမွာ ေအာက္ပါအတိုင္း ျဖစ္ပါသည္။
၁။ အာလူးအစိမ္းရည္ တဖန္ခြက္ျဖစ္ေအာင္္ ျပင္ဆင္ပါ။ မာေနေသာ အာလူးအဖတ္မ်ားကို အရည္ၾကည္သာက်န္သည္အထိ ထုတ္ပစ္ပါ။
၂။ ယင္းအာလူးအရည္ထဲသို႔ ပ်ားရည္စစ္စစ္ လက္ဖက္ရည္တဇြန္းခန္႔ ထည့္ပါ။ ပ်ားရည္သည္ အနာမ်ား က်က္ေစေသာ အစြမ္းသတၱိရွိပါသည္။ ပဋိဇီ၀ေဆးမ်ား (Antibiotics) မေပၚမီ ကာလအခ်ိန္မ်ား၌ ဥေရာပတခြင္တြင္ ေသနတ္ဒဏ္ရာရသူမ်ားကို ပ်ားရည္ျဖင့္ ကုသၾကသည္။
၃။ အထက္ပါအတိုင္း သမေအာင္ ေရာစပ္ထားေသာ အာလူးစိမ္းရည္ႏွင့္ ပ်ားရည္ကို အိပ္ရာမ၀င္မီ ေသာက္ပါ။
၄။ ဤသို႔ေသာက္ျခင္းအားျဖင့္ တညလံုး အက္စစ္မ်ားထြက္၍ အစာအိမ္ကို ဒုကၡပးျခင္းမွ ကာကြယ္ေပးပါလိမ့္မည္။
၅။ ညစဥ္အနည္းငယ္ခန္႔ ဆက္တိုက္ ေသာက္ပါ။
၆။ ဤနည္းျဖင့္ အစာအိမ္ေရာင္ျခင္း မသက္သာလွ်င္ အာလူးသီးအရည္အစား၊ ေဂၚဖီထုပ္အရည္ သံုးၾကည့္ပါ။ ယခုေဖာ္ျပထားသည့္နည္းသည္ သိပၸံနည္းက် အစာအိမ္ေရာဂါအတြက္ သံုးစြဲေနေသာ (cimetidine)ေဆးမ်ားကဲ့သို႔ ထိေရာက္ေၾကာင္း ေတြ႔ရပါသည္။ ယင္းေဆးျမီးတိုကို သံုးစြဲျခင္းျဖင့္ အစာအိမ္ေရာင္ေရာဂါေ၀ဒနာမ်ား တပတ္အတြင္း သက္သာလာသည္ကို ေတြ႔ရပါလိမ့္မည္။
(အစာမေၾကျခင္းအတြက္ ေဆးျမီးတို)
ခ်င္းျပဳတ္ရည္သည္ အစာမေၾကသူမ်ားအတြက္ သင့္ေတာ္ပါသည္။ ခ်င္းရည္ျပဳလုပ္နည္းမွာ-
၁။ လက္မခန္႔ရွိေသာ ခ်င္းကို ႀကိတ္ျပီးေခ်ပါ။
၂။ ေခ်ျပီးသား ခ်င္းကို ဖန္ခြက္တခုထဲထည့္၍ ပြက္ပြက္ဆူေသာ ေရေႏြးကို ဖန္ခြက္ျပည့္သည္အထိ ေလာင္းထည့္ပါ။
၃။ ေရပူႏွင့္ေတြ႔၍ ခ်င္းရည္မ်ား ပြက္ပြက္ဆူျပီး ပလံုထလာပါမည္။ ယင္းကို ၁၀-မိနစ္ ၁၅-မိနစ္ခန္႔ ထားပါ။
၄။ ၄င္းေနာက္ ခ်င္းဖတ္မ်ားကို ဆယ္၍ ယင္းအဖတ္မွ အရည္မ်ား ကုန္သည္အထိ ညႇစ္ေပးပါ။
၅။ ဖန္ခြက္ထဲရွိ အဖတ္မ်ားကို ဖယ္ထုတ္ပစ္ပါ။
၆။ ပ်ားရည္ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဇြန္း တဇြန္းထည့္၍ သမေအာင္ ေမႊပါ။
၇။ ၄င္းေနာက္ ပ်ားရည္ေရာျပီးသားကို ျဖည္းညင္းစြာ စုပ္၍ေသာက္ပါ။
မွတ္ခ်က္။ ။ ယင္းခ်င္းျပဳတ္ရည္ကို အစာမေၾကသည့္ေရာဂါ အတြက္သာမက ကိုယ္၀န္ေဆာင္၍ မူးေ၀ ပ်ိဳ႔အန္ျခင္း၊ ခရီးသြား၍ မူးေ၀ပ်ိဳ႔အန္ျခင္း (Motion Sickness) မ်ားမွာပါ အသံုးတည့္ပါသည္။
(ပါးေစာင္အနာမ်ားအတြက္ ေဆးျမီးတို)
ဗိုင္းရပ္စ္ပိုးမ်ားသည္ ပါးေစာင္္အနာမ်ားကို ျဖစ္ေစတတ္ပါသည္။ ခႏၶာကိ္ုယ္၏ ကိုယ္ခံစြမ္းအားကို ေပးစြမ္းသည့္ အရာမ်ား (Immune System) ပ်က္စီးျပီဆိုလွ်င္ ဗိုင္းရပ္စ္တို႔သည္ ၀မ္းသားအားရ ၀င္ေရာက္တိုက္ခိုက္လာပါ ေတာ့သည္။ စိ္တ္ဓာတ္က်ေနလွ်င္၄င္း၊ စိတ္ပ်က္ေနလွ်င္၄င္း၊ သို႔မဟုတ္-ခႏၶာကိုယ္အေနနဲ႔ ဖိအားေပးခံ ေနရသည့္ အခိုက္အတန္႔မ်ားတြင္၄င္း၊ ယင္းဗိုင္းရပ္စ္မ်ားက ခ်ဳံခိုတိုက္ခိုက္ၾက ပါေတာ့သည္။ ဤတြင္ ပါးေစာင္၌ အနာမ်ား ေပၚလာတတ္ပါသည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ ဘာမွမေၾကာက္ပါႏွင့္။ လြယ္ကူ၍ ေငြကုန္သက္သာမည့္ ေဆးျမီးတိုေလးကို စမ္းသပ္ၾကည့္ရေအာင္။
၁။ ေကာ္ဖီမႈန္႔ကိုယူ၍ ပါးေစာင္ရွိ္ အနာေပၚ၌ သိပ္ေပးပါ။
၂။ ၁၅-မိနစ္မွ မိနစ္၂၀-ခန္႔တြင္ စပ္၍ နာလာပါလိမ့္မည္။
၃။ ျပီးလွ်င္ ယင္းေနရာ၌ ထံုလာပါလိမ့္မည္။
၄။ ဤသို႔ တေန႔တြင္ သံုးခါထက္မနည္း ျပဳလုပ္ေပးပါက ရက္အနည္းငယ္တြင္ သက္သာလာပါလိမ့္မည္။ ေကာ္ဖီမႈန္႔တြင္ ဗိုင္းရပ္စ္ပိုး ေသေစႏိုင္ေသာအရာ သို႔မဟုတ္-ဗိုင္းရပ္စ္ပိုးပြားျခင္းကို ရပ္တန္႔ေစေသာအရာ ပါရွိသည္ဟု ယူဆရပါသည္။ တျခား ပါးေစာင္မ်ားတြင္လည္း အနာမ်ား ထပ္၍မျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေတာ့ပါ။ တျခားနည္း တနည္းမွာ-အုန္းေရျဖင့္ အာလုတ္က်င္းေပးျခင္းျဖင့္ ပါးေစာင္အနာမ်ား သက္သာေစပါသည္။
(အေရျပားအနာမ်ားအတြက္ ေဆးျမီးတို)
Alperr Y-leung ဆိုသူ ဇီ၀ဓာတုေဗဒပညာရွင္က တရုတ္ရိုးရာ ေဆးဖက္၀င္ ေဆးျမီးတို ကုထံုး-မ်ား စာအုပ္၌ အေရျပားအနာမ်ား၊ ေပြးမ်ားေၾကာင့္ ယားျခင္း၊ နာက်င္ျခင္းတို႔ ေပ်ာက္ကင္းေစမည့္ ေဆးေဖာ္စပ္နည္းမ်ားကို ေဖာ္ျပထားပါသည္။ ယင္းမွာ ဘာမွ်မထူးဆန္းပါ။ အိမ္ရွိ နႏြင္းကို ေရျဖင့္ေဖ်ာ္ျပီး အနာမ်ားေပၚသို႔ အံုေပးရန္သာ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။
(ေဗာက္ႏွင့္ ဦးေခါင္းအေရျပား ကူးစက္ေရာဂါ ကုထံုးမ်ား)
ဦးေခါင္းအေရျပားကို ဒိန္ခ်ဥ္ျဖင့္ဆြတ္ပါ။ ဒိန္ခ်ဥ္ ခ်ဥ္ေလ ေကာင္းေလပင္။ ဤနည္းျဖင့္ ဦးေခါင္းအေရျပား အက္စစ္ဓာတ္မ်ား မ်ားလာပါလိမ့္မည္။ သို႔မွသာ ဦးေခါင္းအေရျပားကို ဒုကၡေပသည့္မႈိ (Fungus) မ်ား အေ၀းသို႔ေျပးရပါေတာ့သည္။ တပတ္လွ်င္ ႏွစ္ႀကိမ္မွ သံုးႀကိမ္ထိ ျပဳလုပ္ေပးပါ။ ေဗာက္သည္ မေနႏိုင္၊ ဦးေခါင္း အေရျပားမွ တျခားကူးစက္ေရာဂါမ်ားလည္း ေပ်ာက္ကင္းေၾကာင္း ေတြ႔ရပါလိမ့္မည္။
(အဆစ္နာ ေ၀ဒနာအတြက္ ေဆးျမီးတို)
ေန႔စဥ္အိမ္တြင္း မီးဖိုေခ်ာင္တြင္ သံုးစြဲေသာ ငရုတ္သီးအနီေတာင့္၏ အဓိကပါ၀င္ေသာ Capsicum ဓာတ္အေၾကာင္းကို ေဆးပညာစာေစာင္ေပါင္း မ်ားစြာ၌ သိပၸံပညာ စူးစမ္းေလ့လာမႈ (၁၃၀၀)ထက္မနည္း ေဖာ္ျပပါရွိခဲ့ပါသည္။ သာမန္အရပ္သူမ်ားအေနျဖင့္ ငရုတ္သီးအနီေတာင့္သည္ အရိုးအဆစ္ေ၀ဒနာကို ေပ်ာက္ကင္းေစသည္ဟူေသာ အဆိုကို သိပၸံသုေတသီမ်ားက စာေစာင္မ်ားတြင္ ေဆြးေႏြးေထာက္ခံ ထားပါသည္။ ေဆးပညာအရ ၄င္း Capsicum မွာ Tran s-8-Methyl-N-Vanilyl-6-None-Namide ဟူေသာ ျဒပ္တခု ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ယင္းအရာျဖင့္ အေရျပားကို ပြတ္ေပးလွ်င္ အဆစ္ထဲထိ ၀င္ေရာက္သြားျပီး အရိုးထုမ်ားပ်က္စီးျခင္းကို ကာကြယ္ႏိုင္သည္ဟု ဆိုပါသည္။ ဤသို႔ျဖင့္ မခံမရပ္ႏိုင္ေအာင္ နာက်င္သည့္ ေ၀ဒနာမ်ား ေပ်ာက္ကင္းျပီး အဆစ္မ်ား အထို္က္အေလ်ာက္ လႈပ္ရွားလာႏိုင္သည္ဟု ဆိုပါသည္။ မီယာမီရွိ ေဆးေက်ာင္းဆိုင္ရာ တကၠသိုလ္မ်ားမွ ဆရာ၀န္တစု၏ ေလ့လာတင္ျပခ်က္မွာ ၄င္း Capsicum သံုးစြဲသူ အဆစ္ေ၀ဒနာရွင္မ်ားသည္ သံုးလအတြင္း အဆစ္ေ၀ဒနာမ်ား ၈၀-ရာခို္ငႏႈန္းခန္႔ သက္သာေပ်ာက္ကင္း သည္ဟု ဆိုသည္။ ၄င္းေဆး မသံုးသူမ်ားမွာ ၅၀-၅၅ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္းသာ သက္သာသည္ဟု ဆိုသည္။ သို႔ေသာ္လည္း ငရုတ္သီးအနီမွ ထုတ္ထားေသာ လိမ္းေဆးကို ဘယ္ေဆးဆိုင္တြင္မွ ရွာ၍ရႏို္င္မည္ မဟုတ္ပါ။ မိမိတို႔ဘာသာ ေအာက္ေဖာ္ျပပါအတိုင္း ေဆးျမီးတိုလုပ္၍ သံုးစြဲၾကည့္ပါ။
ပါ၀င္ရမည့္ ပစၥည္းမ်ားမွာ-
၁။ ငရုတ္သီး အနီေတာင့္ကို အေစ့မ်ား မဖယ္ဘဲ စားပြဲဇြန္း ၁၅-ဇြန္းခန္႔ လွီးထားပါ။
၂။ အုန္းဆီတကြာတ။
၃။ ပ်ားဖေယာင္းေဖ်ာ္ရည္ စားပြဲဇြန္း ၂-ဇြန္း။
၄။ ဆီေမႊး အစက္ ၄၀။
ျပဳလုပ္နည္းမွာ-
၁။ အုန္းဆီႏွင့္ ငရုတ္သီးအနီ လွီးျပီးသားကိုေရာ၍ ဒယ္အိုးတြင္ ထည့္ျပီး မီးျဖင့္ တျဖည္းျဖည္းဆူပြက္လာသည္အထိ အပူေပးပါ။
၂။ မီးအရွိန္ကိုေလွ်ာ့ျပီး သံုးနာရီခန္႔ ထားပါ။
၃။ သံုးနာရီခြဲခန္႔ အေအးခံပါ။
၄။ ယင္းသို႔ မီးအပူေပးလိုက္ အေအးခံလိုက္ ႏွွစ္ႀကိမ္၊ သံုးႀကိမ္ ျပဳလုပ္ပါ။
၅။ ဆီႏွင့္ငရုတ္သီး အေရာအေႏွာကို ေဖ်ာ္စက္တြင္ထည့္၍ ေပ်ာ့ေပ်ာင္းျပီး ေစးပ်စ္သည္အထိ ေဖ်ာ္ပါ။
၆။ ပိတ္ပါးစ ေရစစ္ပါရွိေသာ ဆန္ခါေပၚတင္၍ စစ္ပါ။
၇။ ျပီးလွ်င္ စတီးအိုးထဲသို႔ ထည့္ပါ။
၈။ အေရေပ်ာ္ေနေသာ ပ်ားဖေယာင္းကိုထည့္ပါ။ ျပီးလွ်င္ ဆီေမႊးထည့္ပါ။
၉။ Cream ျဖစ္လာသည့္အထိ ေမႊပါ။
၁၀။ ပုလင္းေသးေသးေလးထဲ ေလာင္းထည့္ပါ။
၁၁။ အဖံုးေသခ်ာစြာ ဖံုးပါ။
၁၂။ ျပီးလွ်င္ ေအးျပီးေျခာက္ေသြ႔ေသေနရာတြင္ သိမ္းထားပါ။
ေဆးညႊန္းမွာ-
နာက်င္ကိုက္ခဲသည့္ေနရာကို အထက္ပါ ေဆးျဖင့္ ပြတ္သပ္ျပီး ျဖည္းျဖည္းလိမ္းေပးပါက အဆစ္နာေ၀ဒနာမ်ား ေပ်ာက္ကင္းႏိုင္ပါသည္။
(အေရျပားႏွင့္ ရွားေစာင္းလက္ပပ္)
သင့္အိမ္မွာ ေျမအိုးႏွင့္ အပင္တပင္ စိုက္မည္ဆိုလွ်င္ ရွားေစာင္းလက္ပပ္ပင္ကို မေမ့ပါႏွင့္။ ရွားေစာင္းလက္ပပ္မွာ ျမန္မာမ်ား အသိမ်ား၍ ေဆးဖက္၀င္ တိုင္းရင္းေဆးတမ်ိဳး ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ရွားေစာင္းလက္ပပ္၏ ပံုသ႑ာန္မွာ ေခြးသြားစိပ္သဖြယ္ အထစ္အထစ္ပါေသာ လွံႏွင့္တူျပီး အေရခြံေအာက္၌ အေရရႊမ္းေသာ ဂ်ယ္လီလို ပစၥၫ္းတမ်ိဳးပါ ပါသည္။ ယင္းဂ်ယ္လီကဲ့သို႔ပစၥည္းမွာ အလြန္ေဆးဖက္၀င္ျပီး အေသးစား မီးေလာင္ဖုမ်ား၊ ခုတ္ရွဒဏ္ရာမ်ားႏွင့္ တျခားအနာမ်ား၊ ကုတ္ရာျခစ္ရာမ်ား၊ အေရၾကည္ဖုမ်ား၊ ေနေလာင္ေသာ အေရျပားမ်ားအတြက္ အစြမ္းထက္ေသာ ေဆးျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ရွားေစာင္းလက္ပပ္ပင္၏ အေပၚအေရခြံစုတ္ျပီး အထဲမွအရည္ပ်စ္ခၽြဲခၽြဲကို အနာႏွင့္မီးေလာင္ဖုမ်ားအေပၚသို႔ ညႇစ္ထုတ္ပါ။ အနာမ်ားေအး၍ အမွန္တကယ္ ေပ်ာက္သြားေၾကာင္း ေတြ႔ရပါလိမ့္မည္။ ေလသလပ္ခံပါက ရွားေစာင္းလက္ပပ္ပင္အရည္မွာ ေျခာက္သြားျပီး အျပင္မွ ေရာဂါပိုးမ်ား၀င္ေရာက္ျခင္းငွါ မစြမ္းႏိုင္ေတာ့ပါ။ ရွားေစာင္းလက္ပပ္ပင္၌ Salicylates ေျမာက္ျမားစြာ ပါ၀င္၍ အဆစ္ေ၀ဒနာႏွင့္ ႏွလံုးေရာဂါအတြက္ သံုးေသာ Aspirin ကဲ့သို႔ အကိုက္အခဲသက္သာေစျခင္း၊ အဆစ္ေရာင္ျခင္းမ်ား သက္သာေစသည့္အျပင္ Magnesium Lactate ပါ၀င္သျဖင့္ Anti-histamine သတၱိလည္း ရွိပါသည္။
(အသားမာ ကုသနည္းမ်ား)
အသားမာအတြက္ ေဆးျမီးတိုသည္ လြယ္လြယ္ကူကူႏွင့္ ထိေရာက္ပါသည္။
၁။ ၾကက္သြန္ျဖဴ အခြံႏြာျပီး ေဒါင္လိုက္ ႏွစ္ျခမ္းခြဲထားပါ။
၂။ ၾကက္သြန္ျဖဴ ႏွစ္ျခမ္းကို ႀကိဳးစည္းထားပါ။
၃။ ျပီးလွ်င္ အသားမာ ေပၚ ကပ္ထားပါ။
၄။ ၁၀-နာရီခန္႔ ထားပါ။
၅။ ထပ္ခါတလဲလဲ ျပဳလုပ္ေပးပါ။
၆။ အသားမာေပ်ာက္သြးသည္အထိ ဤနည္းအတိုင္း ျပဳလုပ္ပါက ရက္အနည္းငယ္အတြင္း အသားမာ ေပ်ာက္သြားပါလိမ့္မည္။
(၀မ္းတြင္းမီး သက္သာေစေသာ ေဆးျပီးတိုမ်ား)
အာယုေဗဒေဆးမ်ားတြင္ ေထာပတ္သည္ အလြန္အဖိုးတန္ပါသည္။ ေထာပတ္သည္ အဂၢနီ (Agni) ၀မ္းတြင္းမီးကို အားေပးေသာအစာျဖစ္သည္။ မိမိစားမည့္ အသားေပၚတြင္ ေထာပတ္ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဇြန္း တဇြန္း သုတ္စားပါ။
ေထာပတ္ျပဳလုပ္နည္းမွာ-
၁။ ဆားမပါေသာ ေထာပတ္တေပါင္ကို ဒယ္ျပားေပၚတြင္ မီးေအးေအးျဖင့္ အပူေပးပါ။
၂။ အရည္ေပ်ာ္သည့္အထိ အပူေပးပါ။
၃။ ၄င္းေနာက္ မီးအနည္းငယ္ျမႇင့္ေပးပါ။
၄။ အျမႇဳပ္မ်ားထြက္လာပါက အျမႇဳပ္မ်ားကို ခပ္ထုတ္ေပးပါ။
၅။ ေထာပတ္ဆူပြက္ျပီး အရည္ထြက္လာလွ်င္ မီးကို ျပန္ေလွ်ာ့ပါ။
၆။ ဆယ္မိနစ္ခန္႔ မီးဖိုေပၚ၌ ဆက္ထားပါ။
၇။ အစိုဓာတ္ႏွင့္ အေငြ႔ျပန္သြားလွ်င္ ဒယ္ျပားအလယ္၌ ေရႊအိုေရာင္ သန္းသည့္ အညိဳေရာင္ေထာပတ္ (Ghee) ကို ရပါသည္။
၈။ ဒယ္ျပားကို မီးဖိုမွခ်ျပီး အေအးခံပါ။ ၄င္းေနာက္ သန္႔ရွင္းေသာခြက္တြင္း ခပ္ထည့္၍ သံုးစြဲႏိုင္ပါသည္။ အခန္းအပူခ်ိန္၌ပင္ ယင္းေထာပတ္ကို ရက္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာထား၍ သံုးစြဲႏိုင္ပါသည္။ ေရခဲေသတၱာထဲတြင္ ထား၍သံုးပါက ထို႔ထက္ပို၍ သံုးႏိုင္ပါသည္။
(အစာေၾကခ်က္ ခ်င္းတက္)
ခ်င္းတက္သည္ အစာေၾကခ်က္ရာ၌ အေထာက္အကူ ျပဳပါသည္။ အစာအိမ္ႏွင့္ အူသိမ္အတြင္းရွိ အစာမ်ားကိုပင္ ေၾကညက္ေစပါသည္။
ခ်င္းရည္ျပဳလုပ္နည္းမွာ-
၁။ လတ္ဆတ္ေသာ ခ်င္းတက္ကို ပါးပါးလွီးပါ။
၂။ အစိတ္စိတ္ အျမႊာျမႊာျဖစ္ေအာင္ ဓားျဖင့္ေပါက္ပါ။ ယင္းေနာက္ ထံုးႏွင့္ ဆား အနည္းငယ္ ထည့္စိမ္ပါ။
၃။ နံနက္စာ သို႔မဟုတ္-ညစာမစားမီ နာရီ၀က္အလိုတြင္ ခ်င္းဆားထံုးအေရာကို လက္ဖက္ရည္ဇြန္း တ၀က္ခန္႔ ျဖည္းျဖည္း၀ါးစားပါ။ ဤနည္းျဖင့္ အစာေၾကခ်က္ႏိုင္ပါသည္။
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လိေမၼာ္ေရာင္ပါေအာင္ စားေပးပါ
လူအမ်ားစုက ဘီတာကယ္႐ိုတင္း (Beta-carotene)ကို မ်က္စိအားေကာင္းေစတယ္၊ ခႏၶာကိုယ္ခုခံစြမ္းအားကို ျမင့္မားေစတယ္၊ အင္တီ ေအာက္ဆီဒင့္ျဖစ္လို႔ အသက္ အရြယ္ေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္လာတဲ့ အိုမင္း ရင့္ေရာ္တာကို ကာကြယ္ေပးတယ္လို႔ သိရွိၿပီး ဂ႐ုျပဳစားသံုးေနၾကပါၿပီ။
ဘီတာကယ္႐ိုတင္းနဲ႔ အႏြယ္ဝင္ အယ္လ္ဖာ ကယ္႐ိုတင္း (Alpha-carotene) ကိုေတာ့ လူသိနည္းေနပါေသးတယ္။ လိေမၼာ္ေရာင္ သီးႏွံေတြ ထဲမွာပါတဲ့ အယ္လ္ဖာ ကယ္႐ိုတင္းက ႏွလံုးနဲ႔ ေသြးေၾကာေရာဂါေတြ၊ ကင္ဆာေရာဂါနဲ႔ တျခားေသာ အသက္ အႏၲရာယ္ေပးတဲ့ ေရာဂါေတြ ျဖစ္ပြားတာကို ေလွ်ာ့ခ်ေပးပါတယ္။
လိေမၼာ္ေရာင္သီးႏွံေတြကို စားသံုးေပးမယ္၊ သင့္ရဲ႕ ဘဝေနထိုင္မႈဟန္ပန္ကို က်န္းမာေရးနဲ႔ အညီ ေျပာင္းလဲေနထိုင္မယ္ဆိုရင္ သင့္ကို အသက္ေသေစႏိုင္တဲ့ ေရာဂါေတြ ျဖစ္ပြားတာကေန ၄၀ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္းထိ ေလွ်ာ့ခ်ေပးပါတယ္။ အယ္လ္ဖာ ကယ္႐ိုတင္း ဓါတ္ၾကြယ္ဝစြာပါဝင္တဲ့ ေရႊဖ႐ံုသီး၊ မုန္လာဥနီ၊ ေရႊကန္စြန္းဥေတြကို စားသံုးၿပီး သက္ရွည္ က်န္းမာေအာင္ သင့္ကိုယ္သင္ ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ႏိုင္ပါေစ။
Ref: Good Health
မွတ္ဉာဏ္ေကာင္းခ်င္ရင္ ေန႔လယ္တစ္ေရးအိပ္
သင့္အေနနဲ႔ သတင္း အခ်က္အလက္ အသစ္ေတြ မွတ္သားဖို႔ လိုလာၿပီ ဆိုရင္ ပထမ ဦးစြာ ေန႔လယ္ ေန႔ခင္းမွာ တစ္ေရး ေလာက္ ေမွးၿပီး အိပ္စက္ လိုက္ပါတဲ့။ အေမရိကန္ သိပၸံ ပညာရွင္ တစ္စု ေလ့လာ ေတြ႕ရွိခ်က္ အရ ဦးေႏွာက္ အတြင္းမွာ ရွိတဲ့ ဟစ္ပို ကမ္းပတ္စ္ (Hippo- campus) လို႔ ေခၚတဲ့ ေနရာသည္ သတင္း အခ်က္အလက္ အေတြ႕ အႀကံဳ အျမင္အၾကား အသစ္ ေတြကို လက္ခံ ေပးတဲ့ ေနရာ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ တစ္ေန႔တာ ကာလ အတြင္း သတင္း အခ်က္အလက္ အသစ္မ်ား ျပန္ျဖည့္ေပး ႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း၊ သို႔ေသာ္ ေခတၲ ခဏ အိပ္စက္ ေပးဖို႔ လိုေၾကာင္း၊ ယင္းသို႔ ေခတၲ အိပ္ေပ်ာ္ ေနစဥ္တြင္ ရွိၿပီးသား သတင္း အခ်က္ အလက္ မ်ားကို ဦးေႏွာက္ ေရွ႕ပိုင္းရွိ Prefrontal contex ဟု ေခၚေသာ ေနရာသို႔ ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕ေပး လိုက္ၿပီး ထိုေနရာ တြင္ တာရွည္ မွတ္သား သိမ္းဆည္း ထားေပး သြားတာ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရ ပါတယ္။ ဟစ္ပို ကမ္းပက္စ္ သည္အီးေမးလ္ စာတိုက္ပံုး (email inbox) ႏွင့္ အလား သဏၭာန္ တူေၾကာင္း၊ သို႔ေသာ္ အိပ္လိုက္ ၿပီးေနာက္ အီးေမးလ္ ကဲ့သို႔ သတင္း အခ်က္အလက္ မ်ားကို ရွင္းထုတ္ ၿပီးမွ သာလွ်င္ အသစ္ ဝင္လာေသာ သတင္း အခ်က္ အလက္ မ်ားကို လက္ခံ ႏိုင္မွာ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရ ပါတယ္။ ဒီျဖစ္စဥ္ဟာ အိပ္ေပ်ာ္ျခင္း အဆင့္ (၂) non- REM sleep တြင္ ျဖစ္ေပၚ ေၾကာင္းလည္း သိရ ပါတယ္။
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ကိုက္လန္၊ ငွက္ေပ်ာသီး၊ လိေမၼာ္သီး၊ အာလူး၊ စေတာ္ဘယ္ ရီသီး၊ ဗာဒံေစ့၊ အာလူး၊ လက္ဖက္ရည္၊ ဆီးသီးေျခာက္၊ အစိမ္းေရာင္ ဟင္းရြက္မ်ား၊ ႏြားႏို႔။
ေရွာင္ရန္
အငန္ မ်ားေသာ အစား အစာမ်ား၊ အသားဓာတ္ ျမင့္မားေသာ အစား အစာမ်ား အေျမာက္အျမား စားျခင္း။ " အဘိုးႀကီးအို ခါးကုန္းကုန္း မေသ ပါႏွင့္ဦး၊ ေနာက္ႏွစ္ခါ တန္ေဆာင္မုန္း ပြဲၾကည့္ ပါဦး" ဆိုတဲ့ သီခ်င္း အရ အသက္ ႀကီးလာရင္ ခါးကုန္း လာျပီး အ႐ိုးပါး ေရာဂါ ခံစား ရတတ္တယ္ ဆိုတာ ငယ္စဥ္ ကပင္ ၾကားဖူး ခဲ့ၾကမွာ ျဖစ္တယ္။ သို႔ေသာ္ အဘြားႀကီး ေတြက အဘိုးႀကီး မ်ားထက္ အ႐ိုးပါး ေရာဂါ ပိုျဖစ္ လြယ္ပါတယ္။ ဘာေၾကာင့္လဲ ဆိုေတာ့ ခႏၶာကိုယ္ တည္ေဆာက္ပံု အရ အမ်ိဳးသား မ်ားေလာက္ ၾကြက္သား ေတာင့္တင္း သန္မာမႈ မရွိတာ က တစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ မီးယပ္ ေသြးဆံုးတာ ေစာျခင္း ဒါမွမဟုတ္ သားအိမ္ ေရာဂါေၾကာင့္ သားဥ အိမ္ပါ ဖယ္ထုတ္တဲ့ ခြဲစိတ္ မႈေၾကာင့္ တစ္ ေၾကာင္း ေဟာ္မုန္း အေျပာင္းအလဲ ျဖစ္ကာ အ႐ိုးပါး ေရာဂါ ခံစား ရလြယ္ၿပီး အ႐ိုးက်ိဳး လြယ္ပါတယ္။ သင္ဟာ အမ်ိဳးသမီး တစ္ဦး ျဖစ္ တယ္ ဆိုပါက အသက္ ၂၅ ႏွစ္ အရြယ္ထိ သင့္အ႐ိုး မ်ားက အသန္မာဆံုး အေျခအေနမွာ ရွိေန ပါလိမ့္မယ္။ သင့္ ခႏၶာကိုယ္က သင့္အ႐ိုး မ်ား သန္စြမ္းရန္ ကယ္လ္စီယမ္ႏွင့္ အျခား သတၲဳ ဓာတ္ဆား မ်ားကို သံုးရ ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ အသက္ ၃၀ ေက်ာ္ လာတာနဲ႔ တစ္ၿပိဳင္နက္ ႏွစ္စဥ္ သင့္ အ႐ိုးေတြဟာ အနည္းငယ္စီ ပ်က္စီး ဆံုး႐ံႈးလာ ပါတယ္။ မီးယပ္ ေသြးဆံုး ၿပီးေနာက္ ေဟာ္မုန္း အေျပာင္းအလဲက အ႐ိုး ပ်က္စီး ဆံုး႐ံႈးမႈကို ပိုမို ဆိုး႐ြား လာေစကာ အလြယ္ တကူ အ႐ိုး က်ိဳးသြား ႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ အ႐ိုးပါး ေရာဂါ ရွိေနၿပီ ဆိုရင္ ႏွာေခ် သို႔မဟုတ္ ေခ်ာင္းဆိုး ႐ံုျဖင့္ နံ႐ိုး တစ္ေခ်ာင္း အသာေလး က်ိဳးသြား ႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ ဒါမွ မဟုတ္ ေခ်ာ္လဲ ႐ံုျဖင့္ တင္ပါး ဆံု႐ိုး က်ိဳးသြား ႏိုင္တယ္။ အ႐ိုးပါး ေရာဂါေၾကာင့္ တင္ပါးဆံု႐ိုး က်ိဳးတဲ့ လူႀကီး ၄ ဦးမွာ ၁ ဦးဟာ အ႐ိုး က်ိဳးၿပီး ၆ လ အတြင္း ေနာက္ဆက္တြဲ ေရာဂါ မ်ားေၾကာင့္ ေသဆံုး ႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ သို႔ေသာ္ ကယ္လ္စီယမ္ႏွင့္ သတၲဳ ဓာတ္ဆား လံုေလာက္စြာ စားျခင္းႏွင့္ ေလ့က်င့္ခန္း မွန္မွန္ ျပဳလုပ္ ေပးျခင္းျဖင့္ အ႐ိုးပါး ေရာဂါ မျဖစ္ပြားေအာင္ ကာကြယ္ႏိုင္ ပါတယ္။ မီးယပ္ ေသြးဆံုး ၿပီ ဆိုတာႏွင့္ ကယ္လ္စီယမ္ဓာတ္၊ မဂၢနီစီယမ္ဓာတ္၊ ပိုတက္ စီယမ္ဓာတ္၊ ဗီတာမင္ C ၊ ဗီတာမင္ D တို႔ ပမာဏ မွ်တေအာင္ စားေပးပါ။ ဒါ့အျပင္ ေဟာ္မုန္း အစားထိုး ကုထံုးႏွင့္ ကုသမႈ ခံယူရန္ သင့္ဆရာဝန္ႏွင့္ တိုင္ပင္ပါ။
အရိုးပါး ေရာဂါကို တိုက္ဖ်က္ ေပးမယ့္ အာဟာရဓာတ္မ်ား
(၁) ကယ္လ္စီယမ္
အရြယ္ေရာက္ လူႀကီး တစ္ဦး အတြက္ တစ္ေန႔တာ လိုအပ္ခ်က္ ကေတာ ့၁၂၀ဝ မီလီဂရမ္ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အဆီ ထုတ္ထားတဲ့ ႏြားႏို႔ ၂ ခြက္ (တစ္ခြက္ လွ်င္ ၃၀ဝ မီလီဂရမ္ ပါဝင္) ႏွင့္ ကယ္လ္စီယမ္ ဓာတ္ ျဖည့္စြက္ ထားတဲ့ ေဖ်ာ္ရည္ ၃၀ဝ မီလီဂရမ္ တစ္ခြက္ သို႔မဟုတ္ အဆီနည္း ဒိန္ခ်ဥ္ ဖန္ခြက္ ၄ ပံု ၃ ပံု (၄၅၀ မီလီဂရမ္) ေသာက္ျခင္းျဖင့္ လိုအပ္တဲ့ ပမာဏ ရႏိုင္ပါ တယ္။ ဗာဒံေစ့ ႀကိဳက္ပါက ၂၄ ေစ့ စားလွ်င္ ကယ္လ္စီယမ္ ၇၀ မီလီဂရမ္ႏွင့္ ပိုတက္စီယမ္ ၂၀၆ မီလီဂရမ္ ရရွိႏိုင္ ပါတယ္။ ပိုတက္စီယမ္ႏွင့္ မဂၢနီစီယမ္ (K & Mg) အသီး အရြက္မ်ား စားျခင္းႏွင့္ အ႐ိုး သန္စြမ္း မႈၾကား ဆက္ႏႊယ္မႈ တစ္ခု ရွိတယ္လို႔ သိပၸံ ပညာရွင္မ်ား ေတြ႕ရွိခဲ့ ပါတယ္။ ႏြားႏို႔ ကဲ့သို႔ပင္ အသီးႏွင့္ အရြက္ မ်ားက ကေလး ေတြမွာ အ႐ိုးက်ိဳးတဲ့ အခါ အ႐ိုး ျပန္ဆက္ရန္ အကူအညီေပး ပါတယ္။ အသီး အရြက္ မ်ားတြင္ K ႏွင့္ Mg ျပည့္ဝစြာ ပါဝင္ ပါတယ္။ K ကို ငွက္ေပ်ာသီး၊ အာလူး၊ လိေမၼာ္သီးႏွင့္ ဆီးသီးေျခာက္မ်ားတြင္ ၾကြယ္ဝစြာ ပါဝင္တာ ေတြ႕ရတယ္။ ထို႔အတူ Mg ကိုလည္း တြဲလ်က္ ေတြ႕ရေလ့ ရွိတယ္။ အေစ့ အဆန္မ်ား၊ ပဲမ်ား တြင္လည္း ေတြ႕ရတယ္။
(၂) ဗီတာမင္ C
အ႐ိုးႏု၊ အ႐ိုးႏွင့္ သြားမ်ား ခိုင္မာ ေစေသာ ကိုေလဂ်င္ ေခၚ အမွ်င္ဓာတ္ တည္ေဆာက္ရန္ ဗီတာမင္ C ဓာတ္ လိုအပ္ ပါတယ္။ ဗီတာမင္ C ကို ခ်ဥ္တဲ့ အရသာ ရွိတဲ့ အသီး၊ အရြက္ မ်ားက ရရွိႏိုင္ ပါတယ္။
(၃) ဗီတာမင္ D
ေနေရာင္ထဲ ထြက္လိုက္တဲ့ အခါ အေရျပားႏွင့္ ေနေရာင္ျခည္ ထိေတြ႕ၿပီး ဗီတာမင္ D ဓာတ္ကို ရရွိေစ ပါတယ္။ ဗီတာမင္ D ကို အစားအစာ မွလည္း ရႏိုင္တယ္။ ႏြားႏို႔၊ ဆီရီရယ္ တို႔မွ ရႏိုင္တယ္။ သုေတသီ မ်ားက လက္ဖက္ရည္ ေသာက္တဲ့ အမ်ိဳးသမီး မ်ားတြင္ လက္ဖက္ရည္ မေသာက္တဲ့ အမ်ိဳးသမီး မ်ားထက္ ပို၍ အ႐ိုး သန္မာေၾကာင္း ေတြ႕ခဲ့ ရတယ္လို႔ ေဖာ္ျပ ၾကပါတယ္။ လက္ဖက္ အခ်ိဳေျခာက္ႏွင့္ လက္ဖက္ အၾကမ္းေျခာက္တို႔ ႏွစ္မ်ိဳး စလံုးတြင္ ပါဝင္ေသာ အင္တီ ေအာက္စီးဒင့္ မ်ားက အ႐ိုးကို ကာကြယ္ ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ ေပးႏိုင္ ပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ေကာ္ဖီႏွင့္ ကိုကာကိုလာ ကဲ့သို႔ေသာ အ႐ိုးကို အားနည္း ေစတဲ့ ေဖ်ာ္ရည္မ်ား ေသာက္မယ့္ အစား လက္ဖက္ရည္လို အ႐ိုးကို သန္မာ ေစတဲ့ ေဖ်ာ္ရည္ မ်ားကို ေသာက္သင့္ပါ သတဲ့။
သတိျပဳရန္
အသားဓာတ္ (ပ႐ိုတင္း) ႏွင့္ ဆား အငန္ဓာတ္တို႔ အလြန္ အက်ဴး စားသံုးပါက ကယ္လ္စီယမ္ဓာတ္ ရရန္ အေႏွာင့္အယွက္ ျဖစ္ေစ ပါတယ္။ ပ႐ိုတင္းဓာတ္ မ်ားတဲ့ အသား ေတြမွာ ေသြးကို အက္စစ္ဓာတ္ ပိုျဖစ္ ေစပါတယ္။ ထိုအက္စစ္ဓာတ္ကို ျပယ္ေစရန္ အ႐ိုး ေတြက သူတို႔ ထဲမွာ ေလွာင္ထားတဲ့ ကယ္လ္စီယမ္ဓာတ္ကို ပို႔ေပး ရပါတယ္။ ထို႔အတူ ဆားအငန္ အမ်ားႀကီး စား ပါက ေက်ာက္ကပ္ ထဲမွာ ကယ္လ္စီယမ္ႏွင့္ ႏွီးႏႊယ္ၿပီး ကယ္လ္စီယမ္ကို ဆီးထဲမွ စြန္႔ထုတ္ပစ္ ပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ သင့္တင့္ မွ်တ ေစရန္ စားသင့္ ပါတယ္။
တင္ပါးတစ္ဝိုက္ နာက်င္မႈမ်ား
တင္ပါးတစ္ဝိုက္ နာက်င္မႈဟာ တင္ပါးမွာပဲ အဓိက ခံစားရတာမဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ ေပါင္အတြင္းပိုင္း ေနရာေတြနဲ႔ ေပါင္ၿခံေတြမွာပါ နာက်င္မႈ ျဖစ္တတ္ပါတယ္။ တစ္ခါတစ္ရံမွာေတာ့ တင္ပါးနာက်င္မႈဟာ တင္ပါးေနရာထက္ ခါးေနရာေတြမွာပါ နာက်င္မႈ ခံစားရတတ္ပါတယ္။ အျဖစ္မ်ားေသာ အေၾကာင္းရင္းမ်ား တင္ပဆံု႐ိုးက်ိဳးျခင္းဟာ ႐ုတ္တရက္ တင္ပါးနာက်င္ေစတဲ့ သိသာထင္ရွားၿပီး ဆိုးရြားတဲ့ အေၾကာင္းရင္းတစ္ရပ္ပါ။
တင္ပဆံု႐ိုးက်ိဳးျခင္းဟာ အသက္ႀကီးတဲ့သူ အမ်ားစုမွာ ပိုအျဖစ္မ်ားပါတယ္။ အေၾကာင္းကေတာ့ အသက္ႀကီးခ်ိန္မွာ အ႐ိုးသိပ္သည္းမႈနည္းၿပီး လဲက်ႏိုင္ေျခ မ်ားတာေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အ႐ိုးပါးေရာဂါ ခံစားေနရသူေတြဟာ ႐ိုးစင္းတဲ့ ဘဝေနထိုင္မႈပံုစံနဲ႔တင္ တင္ပဆံု႐ိုးက်ိဳးႏိုင္ေျခ မ်ားပါတယ္။ တင္ပဆံု႐ိုးက်ိဳးတာဟာ ဘဝေနထိုင္မႈဆိုင္ရာ အရည္အေသြးကို သိသိသာသာ ေျပာင္းလဲ ထိခိုက္ေစႏိုင္ပါတယ္။
တင္ပဆံု႐ိုးက်ိဳးၿပီးသူ ၅၀ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္းေအာက္ကသာ နဂိုအလုပ္ေတြကို ျပန္လုပ္ႏိုင္ေလ့ ရွိပါတယ္။ တင္ပါးနာက်င္မႈကို ျဖစ္ေစႏိုင္တဲ့ တျခား အေၾကာင္းရင္းေတြကေတာ့ အဆစ္ေရာင္ျခင္း၊ ထိုင္ရာမွ ထတဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ နာက်င္ျခင္း၊ ထပ္ကာထပ္ကာ ျပဳလုပ္ရတဲ့ အျပဳအမူေတြေၾကာင့္ အရြတ္ေရာင္ျခင္း၊ ခါးနာျခင္း၊ ကူးစက္ပိုးဝင္ျခင္းနဲ႔ အဆစ္လြဲျခင္း စတာေတြပဲ ျဖစ္ၾကပါတယ္။
အိမ္တြင္း ေစာင့္ေရွာက္မႈ
- တင္ပါးနာက်င္မႈကို ပိုဆိုးသြားေစမယ့္ အျပဳအမူမ်ိဳးကို ေရွာင္ပါ။
- အိုင္ဗ်ဴပ႐ိုဖန္၊ ပါရာစီတေမာ စတဲ့ ကိုယ့္ဘာသာ ဝယ္ေသာက္ႏိုင္တဲ့ အကိုက္အခဲ ေပ်ာက္ေဆးေတြကို ေသာက္ပါ။
- မနာက်င္တဲ့ ခႏၶာကိုယ္အျခမ္းဘက္ကို ေစာင္းၿပီး ေျခေထာက္ေတြၾကား ေခါင္းအံုးထည့္ကာ အိပ္ပါ။
အေရးေပၚ ေဆးကုသသင့္ေသာ အေျခအေန
- တင္ပါးနာက်င္မႈဟာ လဲက်ျခင္း ဒါမွမဟုတ္ တျခား ထိခိုက္ဒဏ္ရာရျခင္းေတြေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္တာဆိုရင္၊
- တင္ပါးနာက်င္တဲ့ေနရာဟာ ေသြးထြက္ေနရင္၊ အညိဳအမည္းစြဲေနရင္၊ ပံုပန္းမက် ျဖစ္ေနရင္၊
- တင္ပါးကို မလႈပ္ရွားႏိုင္ေလာက္ေအာင္ ျဖစ္ေနရင္ အေရးေပၚ ေဆးကုသမႈ ခံယူသင့္တဲ့ အေျခအေန ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
- အိမ္မွာ ကုသတာ တစ္ပတ္ေက်ာ္တဲ့အထိ တင္ပါးနာက်င္မႈက မေပ်ာက္ရင္၊
- ဖ်ားလည္း ဖ်ားေနရင္၊
- ေသြးအားနည္းျခင္း ဒါမွမဟုတ္ တာရွည္ စတီး႐ြိဳက္ေဆး မွီဝဲျခင္းနဲ႔ တြဲၿပီး ႐ုတ္တရက္ တင္ပါးနာက်င္လာရင္၊
- တင္ပါးႏွစ္ဖက္စလံုး နာက်င္ေနရင္ ဆရာဝန္နဲ႔ ျပသဖုိ႔ လိုအပ္ပါတယ္။
ကာကြယ္မႈ
- မညီညာတဲ့ ေျမျပင္ေပၚမွာ ေျပးျခင္းလိုမ်ိဳး တင္ပါးတစ္ဖက္က တျခားတစ္ဖက္ထက္ ျမင့္ထားရတဲ့ အျပဳအမူမ်ိဳး၊ လႈပ္ရွားမႈမ်ိဳးကို ေရွာင္ရပါမယ္။ ေျပးစက္ေပၚမွာ ေျပးတာက တင္ပါးအေနအထားကို ညီမွ်ေစပါတယ္။
- ေလ့က်င့္ခန္းမလုပ္ခင္ ေသြးပူ ေလ့က်င့္ခန္းလုပ္ၿပီး ေလ့က်င့္ခန္းလုပ္ၿပီးခ်ိန္မွာ အေၾကာေလွ်ာ့ ေလ့က်င့္ခန္းလုပ္ပါ။ တင္ပါး၊ ခါးနဲ႔ ေပါင္ေတြကို အေၾကာေလွ်ာ့ေပးပါ။
- လဲမက်ေအာင္ ကာကြယ္ပါ။
- ေဘာလံုးကန္တာလို အားကစားလုပ္တဲ့အခါ တင္ပါးအကာ
- (Hip pad) ဝတ္ဆင္ပါ။
- အ႐ိုးပါးေရာဂါမရေအာင္ ကာကြယ္ၿပီး စားေသာက္ေနထိုင္ပါ။
Ref: Good Health
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
က်န္းမာေရးေဆာင္းပါး(ဦးသန္းဝင္းေပးပို ့သည္)
This is a very good article.
Not only about the warm water after your meal, but about Heart Attacks .
The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals,
not cold water, maybe it is time we adopt their drinking habit while eating.
(ဒီေဆာင္းပါးေလး ဟာ အလြန္ေကာင္းမြန္တဲ့ က်န္းမာေရး နဲ ့ပက္သက္တဲ ့ေဆာင္းပါးေလးပါ။)
ထမင္းစားျပီးတိုင္း ေရေႏြးေသာက္ဖို ့ သတိေပးတာ တခုတည္း မဟုတ္ပဲ နွလုံးခုန္ ရုတ္တရက္
ရပ္တန့္ ေစတဲ ့ ေရာဂါကိုလဲ သတိေပးရာ ေရာက္ပါတယ္။
တရုတ္လူမ်ဳိး နဲ ့ ဂ်ပန္လူမ်ဳိး ေတြ ဟာ ထမင္းစားေနစဥ္ မွာ ေရေႏြး
ေသာက္သုံးတဲ ့ အေလ့ ရွိၾကပါတယ္။
ေရေအး ( ေရခဲ ေရ ေသာက္သုံးေလ့ ) မရွိၾကပါဘူး။
ခုခ်ိန္မွာ ေတာ့ သူတို ့ဆီကထမင္းစား စဥ္ ေရေႏြးေသာက္သုံး တဲ ့ အေလ့ အထ ကို
ကြ်န္ေတာ္တို႕ေတြေျပာင္းလဲ က်င့္သုံးသင့္ပါတယ္။
For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you.
It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal.
However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have
just consumed.
It will slow down the digestion. Once this 'sludge' reacts with the acid,
it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food.
It will line the intestine..
Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer.
It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.
ခုေဆာင္းပါးေလး က ေတာ့ ထမင္းစား ျပီး ေတာ့ ေရခဲေရ ေသာက္သုံးသူေတြ အတြက္
ေတာ့ သက္ေရာက္မွဳ ့ ရွိပါတယ္။
တကယ္ေတာ့ ထမင္းစားျပီးေတာ့ ေရခဲ ေရ ဒါမွမဟုတ္ အေအး တခုခု
ေသာက္သုံးလိုက္ျခင္း ဟာ အေတာ္ ေလး အရသာရွိပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္လည္း ေရခဲေရ က
ေနျပီးေတာ့ မၾကာခင္က မွ စားသုံးထားတဲ ့ အစာေတြ ကို ဆီခဲ ေတြ လို
အစိုင္အခဲ အျဖစ္ ကို ေရာက္ေစပါတယ္။ ျပီးေတာ့ အဖတ္ေတြကလဲ အက္စစ္ အျဖစ္
တုန့္ျပန္ျပီးေတာ့ အဲတာေတြ ကို ျဖိဳခြဲ ျပီးေတာ့ အူနံရံ ေတြ က ေနျပီး အခဲ
အစာေတြထက္ ပိုမို လွ်င္ျမန္စြာ စုပ္ယူပါလိမ့္မယ္။ အဲတာ ေတြ ဟာ အူထဲ မွာ
သြားျပီးေတာ့ စီတန္းေနပါျပီ။ မၾကာခင္ပဲ အဲတာ ေတြ ဟာ အဆီခဲ အျဖစ္
ေျပာင္းလဲ သြားျပီးေတာ့ ကင္ဆာ ေရာဂါ ကို ျဖစ္ေစ ဖို ့ ဦးတည္နိုင္ပါတယ္။
အေကာင္းဆုံး ကေတာ့ အစာ စားျပီးတိုင္းမွာ စြပ္ျပဳပ္ ပူပူေလး ျဖစ္ျဖစ္
ေရေႏြးၾကမ္းျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ေသာက္သုံးတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
Common Symptoms Of Heart Attack...
A serious note about heart attacks -
You should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the
left arm hurting .
Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line .
(အေရးၾကီးတဲ ့ နွလုံးခုန္ရုတ္တရက္ ရပ္တာမ်ဳိး- သင္သိသင့္တာ ကေတာ့
နွလုံးခုန္ရုတ္တရက္ ရပ္တန့္ တဲ ့ လကၡာေတြ အားလုံးမွာ
ဘယ္ဖက္လက္ေမာင္းကိုက္ျခင္းမ်ဳိး
မဟုတ္ပါ။ ေမးရုိးတေလွ်ာက္ နာက်င္လာျခင္းဟာ
လဲ သတိထားသင့္ပါတယ္။)
You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack
.Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms.
60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up.
Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep.
Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we
could survive.
(နွလုံးခုန္ရုတ္တရက္ ရပ္တန့္ စဥ္အတြင္းမွာ ေတာ့ သင္ဟာ ဘယ္ေတာ့မွ
ပထမရင္ဘတ္နာျခင္း ကိုခံစားရမယ္မဟုတ္ပါ။
ဖ်ားနာျခင္းနဲ႕ ေခြ်းထြက္လြန္ျခင္း ေတြဟာလည္း အမ်ားဆုံးလကၡဏာေတြ ပါပဲ။
၆၀ ရာနွဳန္းေသာ နွလုံးခုန္ရုတ္တရက္ ရပ္တန့္ ၾကတဲ ့ သူေတြ ဟာ
အိပ္ေပ်ာ္ေနယင္းကေန ျပီး ျပန္လည္ နိုးထလာျခင္း မရွိေတာ့ ပါဘူး။
ေမးရုိးနာက်င္မွဳ ့ က သင့္ ကို နိုးထေအာင္လုပ္နိုင္ပါတယ္။
ကြ်န္ေတာ္ တို ့တစ္ေတြ ဂရုျပဳျပီး ေတာ့ သတိထားရမွာပါ။ အဲတာ က ကြ်န္ေတာ္
တို ့ ဆက္လက္ အသက္ရွင္ရပ္တည္ဖို႕အခြင့္အေရးေကာင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
A cardiologist says if everyone who reads this message sends it to 10 people,
you can be sure that we'll save at least one life.
Read this & Send to a friend.
It could save a life. So, please be a true friend and send this article to
all your friends you care about.
(ႏွလုံးေရာဂါအထူးကု တစ္ေယာက္ က ေျပာတာ က ဒီစာ ကိုဖတ္မိသူတစ္ေယာက္
က ေန ျပီးေတာ့ ေနာက္ထပ္ ၁၀ ေယာက္ ကို ဆက္ေပးပို့မယ္ဆိုယင္ သင္ နဲ ့
ကြ်န္ဳပ္တို ့ ဟာ အနဲ ဆုံး အသက္တစ္ေခ်ာင္း ကို ကယ္ဆယ္နိုင္မယ္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ဒီေဆာင္းပါးေလး ကို ဖတ္ပါ။ျပီးေတာ့ မိတ္ေဆြတစ္ေယာက္ဆီ ကို ပို ့ေပးလိုက္ပါ။
ဒီလုပ္လုပ္ျခင္းဟာ အသက္တစ္ေခ်ာင္း ကို ကယ္ဆယ္ျခင္းမ်ဳိးျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ဒါေၾကာင့္ မိတ္ေဆြေကာင္း အျဖစ္ နဲ ့သင့္သူငယ္ခ်င္းမ်ား၊
မိတ္ေဆြမ်ားကို ဒီေဆာင္းပါးေလး နဲ ့အတူ ဂရုတစိုက္ရွိဖို ့ ေပးပို
့ျဖစ္ေအာင္ ပို့ေပးလိုက္ပါဗ်ာ။
(ဆီေလွ်ာ္ ဤေဆာင္းပါးကိုၾကိုက္နွေအာင္ ဘာသာျပန္ဆိုထားျခင္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။)
မူယင္း အဓိပၸါယ္ နဲ့ အနီးဆုံး ျဖစ္ေအာင္ပါ။
မူယင္း ကို ၾကိဳက္ယင္ လဲ ဘာသာျပန္ကို ျဖဳတ္ထားျပီး ဆက္လက္ ျဖန့္ေ၀သြားေစခ်င္ပါတယ္။
ခင္မင္ေလးစားေသာ
ေရႊအိမ္စည္
Sunday, November 28, 2010
ၾကက္သြန္နီက ႏွလံုးေရာဂါႏွင့္ အစာအိမ္ကင္ဆာကို ကာကြယ္တားဆီးႏိုင္
ၾကက္သြန္နီက ႏွလံုးေရာဂါႏွင့္ အစာအိမ္ကင္ဆာကို ကာကြယ္တားဆီးႏိုင္
ၾကက္သြန္နီက ႏွလံုးေရာဂါကို ကာကြယ္ႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း သုေတသီမ်ားက
ေၾကျငာေၾကြးေၾကာ္လိုက္ၾကသည္။ ၾကက္သြန္နီမွာ ခႏၵာကိုယ္ထဲမွ
ႏွလံုးေရာဂါႏွင့္ ေလျဖတ္ျခင္းမ်ား ျဖစ္ပြားေစသည့္ မေကာင္းေသာ
ကိုလက္စထေရာလ္မ်ားကို ကူညီစြန္႔ထုတ္ေပးၿပီး တစ္ခ်ိန္တည္းမွာ
ႏွလံုးေရာဂါကို တုိက္ဖ်က္ေပးသည့္ ေကာင္းေသာ ကိုလက္စထေရာလ္မ်ားကို
ထိန္းသိမ္းေပးေၾကာင္း တရုတ္သုေတသီမ်ားက ထုတ္ေဖာ္ေၾကျငာလိုက္ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။
ေဟာင္ေကာင္မွ သိပၸံပညာရွင္မ်ားက ကိုလက္စထေရာလ္မ်ားေသာ အစာမ်ားကို
တိုက္ေကြ်းထားေသာ ၾကြက္မ်ားကို ေျခမြထားေသာ ၾကက္သြန္နီမ်ား စားေစၿပီး
စမ္းသပ္ေလ့လာမႈ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ၾကသည္။ သီတင္း(၈)ပတ္မွ် ၾကာျမင့္ေသာအခါ
မေကာင္းေသာ ကိုလက္စထေရာလ္မ်ား ပါ၀င္ေနမႈအဆင့္ (သို႔မဟုတ္) လစ္ပိုပရိုတိန္း
ပါ၀င္သိပ္သည္းမႈ နိမ့္က်ေနမႈ (LDL)ကို ၂၀%ထိ ေလ်ာ့က်ေနေၾကာင္း
ပညာရွင္မ်ားက ေတြ႔ရွိခဲ့ၾကသည္။ တစ္ခ်ိန္တည္းမွာ ၾကြက္မ်ား၏
လစ္ပိုပရိုတိန္း သိပ္သည္းဆ ျမင့္မားမႈ (HDL)မွာမူ မေလ်ာ့ပါးဘဲ ေကာင္းေသာ
ကိုလက္စထေရာလ္မ်ား မနိမ့္က်သြားေၾကာင္း ေတြ႔ရွိခဲ့ၾကသည္။
Chinese University of Hong Kong မွ သုေတသနအဖြဲ႔ေခါင္းေဆာင္ Zhen Yu Chen
က "ၾကက္သြန္နီေတြကို သုေတသနေတြ အမ်ားႀကီးျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ရာမွာ
လူသားဂ်င္းစ္(genes)ေတြအေပၚ အက်ိဳးေက်းဇူးျပဳမႈ၊ ခႏၵာကိုယ္ရဲ့
ကိုလက္စထေရာလ္ ဇီ၀ကမၼျဖစ္စဥ္ထဲမွာ ပါ၀င္ေနတဲ့ ပရိုတိန္းေတြအေပၚ
အက်ိဳးသက္ေရာက္မႈေတြကို နည္းနည္းပါးပါးပဲ သိရပါေသးတယ္။
ဒါေၾကာင့္ ကြ်န္ေတာ္တို႔ရဲ့ ေလ့လာမႈကို ဆက္လက္ၿပီးေတာ့ က်ယ္က်ယ္ျပန္႔ျပန္႔
ျပဳလုပ္သြားၿပ့ီးေတာ့ ၾကက္သြန္နီေတြရဲ့ ကိုလက္စထေရာလ္ ေလွ်ာ့ခ်ေပးမယ့္
အင္ဇိုင္းမ္ေတြအေပၚမွာ အက်ိဳးထိေရာက္မႈေတြကို အေသးစိတ္သိရွိ
ေဖာ္ျပသြားႏုိင္ဖို႔ ႀကိဳးစားသြားမွာပါ။ ဇီ၀ကမၼ လုပ္ေဆာင္ခ်က္ေတြမွာ
ၾကက္သြန္နီရဲ့ အက်ိဳးေက်းဇူးရွိမႈကို ဆန္းစစ္ေလ့လာမႈဟာ ဒါပထမဆံုး အႀကိမ္ပဲ
ရွိပါေသးတယ္။
ေလ့လာမႈရဲ့ အေျဖေတြကေတာ့ ၾကက္သြန္နီ ပံုမွန္စားသံုးမႈဟာ
ႏွလံုးေရာဂါအမ်ားစု (ေသြးေၾကာက်ဥ္းမႈေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္ပြားတဲ့ ႏွလံုးေရာဂါ
(coronary heart disease) ကို ျဖစ္ေပၚမႈကို ေလ်ာ့နည္းေစတယ္လို႔
ေၾကြးေၾကာ္လို႔ ရပါတယ္"ဟု ေျပာၾကားသြားခဲ့သည္။
ၿဗိတိန္ကဲ့သို႔ ဥေရာပႏုိင္ငံမ်ားတြင္ ၾကက္သြန္ျဖဴ၏ ေကာင္းက်ိဳးမ်ားကို
ပိုမိုသိရွိၾကေသာ္လည္း ျမန္မာအပါအ၀င္ အိႏၵိယ၊ အေရွ႔အလယ္ပိုင္းႏွင့္
Mediterranean ေဒသမ်ားတြင္ အမ်ားဆံုး စားသံုးေနၾကေသာ ၾကက္သြန္နီ၏
ေကာင္းက်ိဳးမ်ားကိုမူ ဥေရာပတိုက္သားတို႔ အသိနည္းလွေပသည္။
သို႔ေသာ္ ယခုအခါ ၿဗိတိန္မွာ ၾကက္သြန္ျဖဴ အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးထက္ ပို၍ခ်ိဳေသာ
ၾကက္သြန္နီကို ဗင္နီဂါရည္၊ သၾကားတို႔ျဖင့္ ခ်က္ျပဳပ္ထားေသာ Red Onion
Marmalade မွာ နာမည္ႀကီးေနၿပီး ခ်ီးစ္ သို႔မဟုတ္ အေအးစာမ်ားႏွင့္
တြဲဖက္စားသံုးလာၾကေၾကာင္း သိရွိရသည္။
ၾကက္သြန္နီ အမ်ားအျပား စားသံုးေသာ ကမၻာ့ေဒသမ်ားမွာ ကင္ဆာျဖစ္ပြားမႈပင္
သိသာထင္ရွားစြာ ေလ်ာ့နည္းေၾကာင္း ေတြ႔ရွိရသည္ဟု ေလ့လာသူမ်ားက ဆိုသည္။
ေဂ်ာ္ဂ်ီယာႏွင့္ အေမရိကားတို႔တြင္ အစာအိမ္ကင္ဆာႏွင့္
အျခားကင္ဆာအမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳး ျဖစ္ပြားမႈႏႈန္းကို ပ်မ္းမွ်ရာႏႈန္း၀က္
ေလွ်ာ့ခ်ေစသည္ဟု ယံုၾကည္စြာျဖင့္ Videlia onion ဟုေခၚေသာ ၾကက္သြန္ဥငယ္မ်ား
စိုက္ပ်ိဳးစားသံုးလာၾကေၾကာင္း သိရွိရသည္။
ကမၻာ့ေဒသမ်ားအနက္ ၾကက္သြန္နီႏွင့္ ၾကက္သြန္ျဖဴမ်ားကို အမ်ားဆံုးစားသံုးေသာ
တရုတ္ႏုိင္ငံတြင္ အစာအိမ္ကင္ဆာ ျဖစ္ပြားမႈမွာ က်န္ေဒသမ်ားထက္ ၄၀%ထိ
ပ်မ္းမွ်အားျဖင့္ ေလ်ာ့နည္းေနေၾကာင္း သုေတသီမ်ားက ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ၾကသည္
Thursday, November 25, 2010
7 Things Your Teeth Say About Your Health
Some messages coming out of your mouth bypass the vocal chords. Turns out that your teeth, gums, and surrounding tissues also have plenty to say -- about your overall health.
"Your mouth is connected to the rest of your body," says Anthony Iacopino, dean of the University of Manitoba Faculty of Dentistry and a spokesperson for the American Dental Association. "What we see in the mouth can have a significant effect on other organ systems and processes in the body. And the reverse is also true: Things that are going on systemically in the body can manifest in the mouth."
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So stay attuned to the following warning messages, and have worrisome symptoms checked out by a dentist or doctor.
Dental warning #1: Flat, worn teeth plus headache
Sign of: Big-time stress
Many people are surprised to learn they're tooth-grinders. After all, they do this in their sleep, when they're not aware of it. And they underestimate the physical toll that stress can place on the body. "Crunching and grinding the teeth at night during sleep is a common sign of emotional or psychological stress," says Iacopino.
You can sometimes see the flatness on your own teeth, or feel it with the tongue. Or the jaw may ache from the clenching.
What else to look for: Headaches, which are caused by spasms in the muscles doing the grinding. Sometimes the pain can radiate from the mouth and head down to the neck and upper back, Iacopino says. Mouth guards used at night can relieve the symptoms and protect teeth.
Dental warning #2: Cracking, crumbling teeth
Sign of: Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
Older adults, especially, are vulnerable to teeth that appear to be cracking or crumbling away. The enamel becomes thin and almost translucent. But this erosion isn't a normal consequence of aging. In fact, it can happen at any age.
Disintegrating teeth are usually caused by acid that's coming up from the stomach and dissolving them, Iacopino says. The cause: Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD, also called acid reflux disease). GERD causes stomach acid to back up into the esophagus -- and from there, it's a short distance to the mouth for some of the damaging acid. GERD is a chronic disorder caused by damage or other changes to the natural barrier between the stomach and the esophagus.
What else to look for: Dry mouth and heartburn are related GERD symptoms. (But in an older adult in someone else's care -- in a nursing home, for example -- these complaints may go unreported.) Cracking or chipping teeth in a younger person is also a telltale sign of bulimia, the eating disorder in which the sufferer causes herself (or himself) to vomit before digesting. Same net result: Stomach acid washes up into the mouth, over time disintegrating the tooth enamel.
Dental warning #3: Sores that won't go away
Sign of: Oral cancer
Many people bite the insides of their mouth as a nervous habit. Others sometimes bite the gum accidentally, creating a sore. But when an open sore in the mouth doesn't go away within a week or two, it always warrants showing to a dentist or doctor. "We all injure our oral tissues, but if an area persists in being white or red rather than the normal healthy pink, this needs to be evaluated to rule out oral cancer," says Susan Hyde, an associate professor of clinical dentistry at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Dentistry.
More than 21,000 men and 9,000 women a year are diagnosed with oral cancer, according to the National Cancer Institute. Most are over age 60. Oral cancer has a survival rate of only 35 percent, Iacopino says, but this is mainly because cases are often detected too late. Smokers are six times more likely to develop oral cancer, but one in four oral cancers develop in non-smokers.
What else to look for: Suspicious oral ulcers tend to be raised sores and often have red or white (or red and white) borders. They may lurk underneath the tongue, where they're hard to see. Bleeding and numbness are other signs, but sometimes the only sign is a sore that doesn't seem to go away. A biopsy usually follows a visual check.
Dental warning #4: Gums growing over teeth
Sign of: Medication problems
If you notice your gum literally growing over your tooth, and you're taking a medication for heart disease or seizures or you take drugs to suppress your immune system (such as before a transplant), it's well worth mentioning this curious development to your prescribing doctor.
"A swelling of the gums to where it grows over the teeth is a sign the dosage or the medication need to be adjusted," the ADA's Anthony Iacopino says. Certain drugs can stimulate the growth of gum tissue. This can make it hard to brush and floss, inviting tooth decay and periodontal disease.
What else to look for: The overgrowth can cause an uncomfortable sensation. In extreme cases, the entire tooth can be covered.
Dental warning #5: Dry mouth
Sign of: Sjogren's syndrome, diabetes
Many things can cause dry mouth, from dehydration and allergies to smoking and new medications. (In fact, hundreds of drugs list dry mouth as a side effect, including those to treat depression and incontinence, muscle relaxants, antianxiety agents, and antihistamines.) But a lack of sufficient saliva is also an early warning of two autoimmune diseases unrelated to medicine use: Sjogren's syndrome and diabetes.
In Sjogren's, the white blood cells of the body attack their moisture-producing glands, for unknown reasons. Four million Americans have Sjogren's, 90 percent of them women. Twenty-four million people in the U.S. have type 1 or type 2 diabetes, a metabolic disease caused by high blood sugar.
What else to look for: Other signs of diabetes include excessive thirst, tingling in the hands and feet, frequent urination, blurred vision, and weight loss. In Sjogren's, the eyes are dry as well as the mouth, but the entire body is affected by the disorder. Because its symptoms mimic other diseases (such as diabetes), people are often misdiagnosed and go several years before being properly diagnosed.
Dental warning #6: White webbing inside cheeks
Sign of: Lichen planus
The last thing you might expect to discover while brushing your teeth is a skin disease. But it happens. Lichen planus, whose cause is unknown, is a mild disorder that tends to strike both men and women ages 30 to 70. The mucus membranes in the mouth are often a first target.
Oral lichen planus looks like a whitish, lacy pattern on the insides of the cheeks. (The name comes from the same roots as tree lichen, a lichen that has a similar webbed, bumpy appearance.) Seventy percent of lesions appear in the mouth before they strike other parts of the body, says professor Anthony Iacopino.
What else to look for: Another common area where a lichen planus rash may appear is the vagina. Lichen planus often goes away on its own, but sometimes treatment is necessary.
Dental warning #7: Crusting dentures
Sign of: Potential aspiration pneumonia
Most people don't connect dentures (false teeth) with pneumonia, other than to think they're both words that often refer to the world of the elderly. And yet the two have a potentially deadly connection. "A leading cause of death in older people is aspiration pneumonia, often from inhaling debris around the teeth and dentures," Iacopino says.
In aspiration pneumonia, foreign material is breathed into the lungs and airway, causing dangerous (even fatal) inflammation. Too often, the problem stems from people in the care of others -- those in nursing homes, for example -- who fail to clean dentures properly. Dentures need to be removed daily from the mouth, cleaned with a special brush, and stored in a cleansing solution.
What else to look for: A soft, crusty material developing around dentures. With proper cleaning, though, you don't have to worry about other red flags. "It's amazing. You can get a 100-percent reduction in what's otherwise a leading cause of death for denture wearers," Iacopino says.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Myanmar patients face eviction after Suu Kyi visit
Suu Kyi, released a week ago from seven years under house arrest, visited the shelter on the outskirts of Yangon on Wednesday, promising to provide it with badly needed medicines. She also addressed a crowd of more than 600 who came to see her.
A day after her visit, government officials told patients they would have to leave by next week or face legal action because the center's permit was not being renewed, said Phyu Phyu Thin, a pro-democracy activist who founded the operation. By law, home owners must seek government permission every two weeks to allow visitors to stay overnight.
"We have been allowed to renew our resident permits in the past. I think authorities want to pressure us because of aunty's (Suu Kyi's) visit to the shelter," said Zeyar, a member of Suu Kyi's officially disbanded political party and one of the organizers of the shelter. Zeyar uses only one name.
The military regime had kept Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, under detention for more than 15 of the last 21 years, and her release last weekend drew thousands of cheering supporters into Yangon's streets.
Suu Kyi has since called for a "peaceful revolution" to bring democracy to Myanmar but has made it clear she is seeking dialogue with the ruling generals.
The shelter, which includes a small wooden house and a two-story building of wood and thatch walls, currently accommodates 82 patients including young children, offering them housing, food, medicine and educational opportunities. Zeyar said health authorities offered Saturday to move the patients to their own HIV center.
"The patients have the right to make their own choice. The pressure by local authorities has made our patients very sad, which will adversely affect their health," he said.
Some patients were defiant.
"I will never move out of the shelter," said 45-year old Ma Yi Yi Nyunt, who arrived at the shelter in September.
Click image to see photos of Aung San Suu Kyi's release
REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
"I could have been dead by now had I not been taken to this place. This place is a haven for people like us," said a 45-year old Maung Ohn.
In a separate incident, the popular Myanmar-language sports publication First Eleven was ordered to close down for two weeks, an editor said, as punishment for a front page headline on a football story that read: "Sunderland Freeze Chelsea United Stunned By Villa & Arsenal Advance To Grab Their Hope."
Some letters in the headline were shaded a different color from the rest, meaning it could have been read as "Su Free, Unite & Advance To Grab The Hope."
Friday, October 8, 2010
က်န္းမာေရး ေသာ့ခ်က္မ်ား (အ၇မ္းေကာင္းပါသည္)
က်န္းမာေရး ေသာ့ခ်က္မ်ား (အ၇မ္းေကာင္းပါသည္)
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ေသာ့(၁) WATER
မနက္ေရတစ္ခြက္ေသာက္ျခင္းသည္ ခႏၶာကိုယ္ႏွင့္ေရ ညီမွ်ေစ၏။
ေသာ့(၂) SLEEP
အိပ္ခ်ိန္ ညာေစာင္း၍ ေလးကိုင္းသ႑ာန္အိပ္ျခင္းသည္ အိပ္ေရးဝေစ၏။
ေသာ့(၃) APPETITE
အစာကို ၇ပံုမွ်သာအဝစားျခင္းသည္ ခႏၶာကိုယ္အား က်န္းမာေစ၏။
ေသာ့(၄) EXERCISE
အားကစားလုပ္ျခင္းသည္ စိတ္ခႏၶာအား တက္ၾကြေစ၏။
ေသာ့(၅) MUSIC/LITERATURE
ဂီတသည္ ႏွလံုးကို႐ႊင္ေစ၏။ စာဖတ္ျခင္းသည္ အသိဥာဏ္ကို တိုးေစ၏။
ေသာ့(၆) BEANS
ပဲအၿမဲစားျခင္းျဖင့္ အသက္ကိုေစရွည္သည္။
ေသာ့(၇) VICES
ေဆးလိပ္၊ အရက္ကို လက္ျပႏႈတ္ဆက္ပါ။
ေသာ့(၈) LOVE/SEX
လိင္ႏွင့္အခ်စ္ကို ညီမွ်ပါေစ။
ေသာ့(၉) LONELINESS
အထီးက်န္ျခင္းက ရုန္းထြက္ႏိုင္လွ်င္ သင္က်န္းမာၿပီ။
ေသာ့(၁ဝ) MIND
ဦးေႏွာက္ကို မျပတ္သံုးေပးျခင္းျဖင့္ အိုမင္းျခင္းကို ကာကြယ္ႏိုင္သည္။
ေသာ့(၁၁) TEA
ေရေႏြးၾကမ္း အၿမဲေသာက္သံုးျခင္းသည္ ဝိတ္က်ေစ၏၊ ကင္ဆာကို ကာကြယ္ေပး၏၊ အရြယ္တင္ ႏုပ်ဳိေစ၏။
ေသာ့(၁၂) SMILE
ဘဝကို အၿပံဳးနဲ႔ရင္ဆိုင္ပါ။
ပ်င္းေၾကာဆန္႔ျခင္း
ပင္ပန္းႏြမ္းလ်ခ်ိန္ ပ်င္းေၾကာဆန္႔ျခင္းျဖင့္ ေနသာထိုင္သာရွိေစသည္။ အလုပ္ႏွင့္လက္
မျပတ္သူမ်ားအတြက္ ပ်င္းေၾကာဆန္႔ျခင္းသည္ ခႏၶာကိုယ္အတြက္ အေကာင္းဆံုး
လႈပ္ရွားနည္းတစ္မ်ဳိးျဖစ္သည္။ လူခႏၶာက်န္းမာဖို႔အတြက္
အဓိကအေရးပါေသာအခ်က္မွာ ပံုမွန္ေသြးလည္ပတ္မႈျဖစ္သည္။ အေၾကာင္းမွာ
ခႏၶာကိုယ္အစိတ္အပုိင္းမ်ားသို႔ အာဟာရေပးေဝျခင္း၊ မလိုအပ္သည့္အရာမ်ားကို
ဖယ္ရွားေပးျခင္း စသည့္အလုပ္ကို လည္ပတ္ေနသည့္ေသြးက
လုပ္ေဆာင္ေပးေနေသာေၾကာင့္ျဖစ္သည္။ ပ်င္းေၾကာဆန္႔ျခင္းသည္ ခႏၶာကိုယ္ရွိၾကြက္သားမ်ားကို က်ံဳ႕ဆန္႔ေပးသည္။
စကၠန္႔ပိုင္းမွ် ပ်င္းေၾကာအခါခါဆန္႔ေပးျခင္းျဖင့္ အနယ္ထိုင္ေနေသာေသြးမ်ားက ႏွလံုးဆီသို႔ျပန္စီးၿပီး ေသြးလည္ပတ္မႈကို
ပိုမိုေကာင္းမြန္ေစသည္။ တစ္ခ်ိန္တည္းမွာပင္ ၾကြက္သားမ်ားက်ံဳ႕ဆန္႔ျခင္းျဖင့္
ၾကြက္သားအတြင္းရွိ ေသြးမ်ားကိုလည္း လည္ပတ္အားေကာင္းေစသည္။
ၾကြက္သားအတြင္းရွိ မလိုအပ္သည့္အရာမ်ားကို သယ္ေဆာင္ဖယ္ရွားေပးသျဖင့္
ပင္ပန္းေညာင္းညာမႈကို ေပ်ာက္ေစၿပီး ခႏၶာကိုယ္ကို လန္းဆန္းတက္ၾကြေစသည္။
ထို႔အျပင္ ပ်င္းေၾကာဆန္႔ခ်ိန္ လူအမ်ားက လက္ႏွစ္ဖက္ကို ေနာက္သို႔
ဆန္႔တန္းတတ္သည့္အတြက္ ရင္ဘတ္လႈပ္ရွားမႈကိုလည္းျဖစ္ေစပါသည္။
ေသာက္သံုးရန္မသင့္ေသာ ေရ(၅)မ်ဳိး
(၁) မီးဖိုေပၚတြင္ အခ်ိန္ၾကာျမင့္စြာ ဆူပြက္ေအာင္ထားသည့္ ေရေႏြး
(၂) ဓာတ္ဗူးထဲတြင္ ရက္ၾကာျမင့္စြာထားသည့္ မလတ္ဆတ္ေသာေရေႏြး
(၃) အႀကိမ္ႀကိမ္ဆူဗြက္ေအာင္ ႀကိဳခဲ့ေသာေရေႏြး
(၄) တစ္ညလြန္ေသာေရေႏြးကို ထပ္ႀကိဳထားေသာေရေႏြး (သို႔) ထပ္မႀကိဳထားေသာေရေႏြး
(၅) ထမင္း၊ ဟင္းေပါင္းခံရည္
၎ေရမ်ား ေသာက္သံုးရန္မသင့္ျခင္းမွာ အႀကိမ္ႀကိမ္ ဆူဗြက္ၿပီးေသာေရတြင္ ကယ္လစီယံ၊
မက္ဂနီစီယံ၊ ဂရိုရင္းႏွင့္ အျခားသတၱဳမ်ား ပိုမိုတိုးလာၿပီး ေက်ာက္ကပ္ကို
ထိခိုက္ေစႏိုင္ေသာေၾကာင့္ျဖစ္သည္။
သစ္သီးမ်ား အလြန္အကြၽံမစားသင့္ေပ
ဂ်ပန္ႏိုင္ငံ Kyoto University ေဆးပညာဘာသာရပ္ ပေရာ္ဖက္ဆာ Teng Tian Ichiro၏ ေျပာၾကားခ်က္အရ သစ္သီးအလြန္ကြၽံစားသံုးပါက ခႏၶာကိုယ္တြင္း ဗီတာမင္C
မ်ားျပားေစၿပီး oxalic acidကို အလြယ္တကူျဖစ္ေပၚေစသည္။ oxalic acid ႏွင့္
လူခႏၶာကိုယ္ရွိေခြၽးမ်ား ေပါင္းစပ္ၿပီး အေရျပားၾကမ္းျခင္း၊
ထိခိုက္ျခင္းမ်ား ျဖစ္ေစတတ္သည္။ ျပင္းထန္ပါက ေဆးႏွင့္မတည့္ေသာ
အေရျပားေရာဂါမ်ား ျဖစ္ေစတတ္သည္။
အေမရိကန္ပညာရွင္မ်ား၏ ဆန္းစစ္ခ်က္မွာလည္း ထိုနည္းအတူျဖစ္သည္။ မတူေသာရာသီ၊ မတူေသာေရာဂါမ်ားတြင္ သစ္သီးမ်ားကိုေရြးခ်ယ္ စားသံုးသင့္သည္ဟု
ပညာရွင္မ်ားက ခန္႔မွန္းၾကသည္။
ဥပမာ- ေဆာင္းဦးႏွင့္ေဆာင္းရာသီမ်ားတြင္ စိုထိုင္းမႈနည္းေသာေၾကာင္း သစ္ေတာ္သီးႏွင့္ အစာေၾကလြယ္ေသာ ငွက္ေပ်ာသီး၊
ပန္းသီးမ်ားကို စားသံုးသင့္သည္။ ႏွစ္ရွည္ေခ်ာင္းဆိုးသူမ်ား သစ္ေတာ္သီးကို
စားေပးႏိုင္သလို ႏွလံုးအားနည္းသူ၊ ေသြးတိုးရွိသူ၊ အစာမေၾကလြယ္သူမ်ား
Crataegusကို အၿမဲစားသင့္သည္။
ၾကက္ဥမ်ား အလြန္အကြၽံ မစားသင့္ေပ
အာဟာရဓာတ္မ်ား အမ်ားအျပားပါဝင္ေသာ ၾကက္ဥသည္ လူတိုင္းအတြက္ အားတိုးေဆးျဖစ္သည္။
ၾကက္ဥစားနည္း မ်ားစြာရွိေသာ္လည္း ေအာက္ပါစားနည္းႏွစ္မ်ဳိးမွာ
အေကာင္းဆံုးစားနည္းျဖစ္သည္။
(၁) ၾကက္ဥအႏွစ္ကို ဟင္းရည္ခ်က္ျခင္း (သို႔) ေရေႏြးဆူထဲ ေဖာက္ထည့္ၿပီး စားသံုးျခင္း
(၂) ၾကက္ဥဟတ္ဘိြဳင္ေၾကာ္ရာတြင္ သၾကားအနည္းငယ္ထည့္ျခင္းျဖင့္ ပိုအက်ဳိးရွိေသာ အာဟာရကိုရေစသည္။
လူတခ်ဳိ႕က အာဟာရဓာတ္မ်ားေသာ ၾကက္ဥကို မ်ားမ်ားစားသံုးေပးျခင္းျဖင့္
အာဟာရမ်ားစြာရႏိုင္သည္ဟု ထင္မွတ္မွားတတ္ၾကသည္။ လူတစ္ဦးမွာ
ေန႔စဥ္ၾကက္ဥတစ္လံုးမွႏွစ္လံုးထိ စားသံုးျခင္းျဖင့္ ခႏၶာကိုယ္အတြက္လိုအပ္ေသာ
ပရိုတင္းဓာတ္ကို အလံုအေလာက္ရႏိုင္သည္။
ထမင္းမစားမီ ဟင္းရည္တစ္ခြက္ေသာက္ဖို႔ မေမ့ပါႏွင့္
ထမင္းမစားမီ ဟင္းရည္ပူပူ အရင္ေသာက္ျခင္းျဖင့္ ခႏၶာကိုယ္ဝိတ္အား ထိန္းသိမ္းေပးသည္။ အေမရိကန္ပညာရွင္မ်ားက ခႏၶာကိုယ္ ဝၿဖိဳးသူအေယာက္(၁ဝဝဝ)ျဖင့္
ေလ့လာဆန္းစစ္ရာတြင္ ထမင္းမစားမီ ဟင္းရည္ပူေသာက္သူသည္
စားေသာထမင္းနပ္တိုင္းတြင္ ကယ္လိုရီ ၅၅ကတ္ ေလွ်ာ့နည္းရရွိေစသည္။
သာမန္အားျဖင့္ ထမင္းစားျမန္သူသည္ အဝလြယ္သည္။ အေၾကာင္းမွာ
ဦးေႏွာက္အတြင္းရွိ (အာသာ) ခ်င္ျခင္းအကန္႔မွ "စားဝၿပီ" ဆိုသည့္သတင္းရဖို႔
အခ်ိန္အနည္းငယ္ယူရသည္။ ထိုအခ်ိန္ယူေနစဥ္အတြင္းတြင္ အစားျမန္ေသာသူက
ပိုလြန္ေသာအစားမ်ား စားသံုးၿပီးျဖစ္သည္။ အကယ္၍ ထမင္းမစားမီ
ဟင္းရည္တစ္ခြက္ေသာက္ျခင္းျဖင့္ ထမင္းအစားနည္းေစၿပီး
ဝျခင္းမွကာကြယ္ေပးႏိုင္သည္။
အေကာင္းဆံုး ေရေသာက္ခ်ိန္
ေယဘုယ်အားျဖင့္ လူတစ္ဦးသည္ တစ္ေန႔လွ်င္ အနည္းဆံုး ေရ(၁၅ဝဝcc) ေသာက္သင့္သည္။ ႏွလံုးႏွင့္ ေက်ာက္ကပ္ေဆာင္ရြက္အားနည္းသူမွ်လဲြ၍ ေရကိုလံုေလာက္စြာ ေသာက္သင့္သည္။ အထူးသျဖင့္ ပူေသာ(သို႔)
ေလေအးစက္ဖြင့္ထားေသာ ေနအိမ္ႏွင့္ရံုးခန္းတြင္ ေလထုေျခာက္ကပ္ေသာေနရာတြင္
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
China's Billion-Dollar Aid Appetite
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/07/19/chinas_billion_dollar_aid_appetite?print=yes&hidecomments=yes&page=full
JULY 28, 2010
China's Billion-Dollar Aid Appetite
Why is Beijing winning health grants at the expense of African countries?
BY JACK C. CHOW | JULY 19, 2010
Back in 2001, I was the lead U.S. negotiator in international talks meant to transform the way that poor countries fight some of the world's most pernicious diseases -- HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Our vision looked like this: Instead of each country spending on its own, rich countries would pool donations into one coordinated fund that would give grants to help resource-strapped countries purchase medicines, build health programs, and prevent the diseases from spreading. We imagined the bulk of the money ending up in places like Lesotho, Haiti, and Uganda, where these three diseases have reached crisis levels. So it might surprise and concern you -- as much as it still does me -- to learn that one of the top grant recipients isn't in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, or impoverished Central Asia. It's a country with $2.5 trillion in foreign currency reserves: China.
More... Over the eight years since the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria first launched, China has applied for and been awarded nearly $1 billion in grants, becoming the fourth-largest recipient of funds behind Ethiopia, India, and Tanzania. Already, the country has drawn nearly $500 million from this credit line and soon expects to receive $165 million in new grants. China's aggregate award from the fund is nearly three times larger than that of South Africa, one of the most affected countries from these three diseases. Moreover, China has won malaria grant money totaling $149 million (and $89 million more might be on the way) -- in a country where only 38 deaths from the mosquito-borne illness were reported last year. That is more than the $122 million awarded to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which reported nearly 25,000 malaria deaths during the same period. In fact, only seven sub-Saharan African countries receive more malaria aid than China -- and 29 countries in Africa get less. Combined, those 29 countries report 64,000 deaths from the disease each year.
China has aggressively pursued Global Fund grants and has continued to win significant amounts with every passing year. Beijing does make a nominal contribution to the fund of $2 million annually, meaning that it has donated $16 million over the last eight years. By comparison, the United States, the leading donor, has committed $5.5 billion, and France has offered $2.5 billion over the same period. These contributing countries expect no financial return for their gift, but China has recouped its spending by 60 times.
Even more alarming, China's persistent appetite threatens to undermine the entire premise behind the Global Fund. The organization's leadership is trying to solicit between $13 billion and $20 billion to cover its next three years of operations -- a tall order at a time of global recession. Donors will grow even more reluctant if they realize that substantial funds are being awarded to a country that can more than pay for its own health programs.
How did China ever become eligible for grants in the first place? In short, because of a loophole. The Global Fund decides eligibility for grants based on the World Bank's classification system, which divides countries by income. High-income countries such as the United States, the European industrial countries, and Japan are ineligible. Low-income countries, including many in sub-Saharan Africa, are grant-eligible. In between, so-called lower-middle-income countries like China are eligible if the grants are part of a cost-sharing program through which the fund pays up to 65 percent and the country pays the rest. (China stays in this lower-middle-income category because its huge population keeps per capita figures down.) The country competes with the likes of Bolivia, Cameroon, and India in this category. But because the fund's pot of money isn't allocated by income group, any grants that China wins reduce the remaining money available for all eligible countries.
For a country like Cameroon, cost-sharing grants make a lot of sense. By giving part of the full amount, the fund can spur the host government into investing more of its discretionary budget in health. The extra cash can build health infrastructure and capacity, preparing the country to wean itself from foreign funds. But in China's case, the argument for a Global Fund grant is tenuous at best. During the depths of the world economic crisis in 2008, China put forth a massive economic stimulus package of $586 billion that included new health and education spending of $27 billion. The government announced its intention to boost rural health coverage with $125 billion in spending over the next several years. Even a fraction of that promised amount would negate any need by China to draw upon the Global Fund.
This is not to say, of course, that China's health system does not face formidable challenges. Indeed, global health policymakers worry that HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in particular could rise dramatically as the country urbanizes and industrializes and a new middle class veers away from traditional social mores. Everyone remembers the SARS outbreak in 2002 and 2003 that practically shut down major cities in China. And beyond specific threats, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the chief implementer of the Global Fund portfolio and officiator of the government's public health strategy, has hard work ahead to build up China's health workforce and medical infrastructure.
But China might want these grants for reasons having more to do with politics than public health. The Health Ministry is the only member of China's policymaking State Council not led by a political party member. As such, its ability to compete for domestic funds pales in comparison with other assertive, powerful ministries led by longstanding party leaders. So the Health Ministry might be driven to external funding by political necessity. Or, China might value obtaining the technical assistance of international health agencies such as the World Health Organization, UNAIDS, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Global Fund grants provide a means of securing their advice and services. China's participation on the fund's board might also be useful to Beijing's global politics, confirming its importance on the world stage.
Whatever benefits China gains from seeking grants, however, stack up poorly against expensive opportunity costs exacted upon needier countries. The $1 billion awarded to China could have been used by the poorest countries to distribute 67 million anti-malarial bed nets, 4.5 million curative tuberculosis treatments, or nearly 2 million courses of anti-retroviral therapy for AIDS patients (a number equivalent to all those living with the disease in Kenya).
It is intriguing that health ministers from the poorest countries have expressed neither concern nor opposition to China winning grants. Nor has there been any substantial public challenge to or debate about the money China has received from the Global Fund. Part of the reason might be structural; the fund's large 26-member board (which includes representatives of countries, regions, organizations, and the Global Fund itself) operates based on consensus, and its meetings are time-constrained forums that pressure members to make rapid decisions. Changing eligibility policy, for example to exclude China, would entail time-intensive negotiations that may well pit groups of grantees against one another. The board also approves grants en bloc, relying upon the advice of technical experts who review them for feasibility and public health impact, not fairness, balance, or a country's ability to pay.
Even so, there is likely more behind the silence than just procedure. For many of the poorer countries that lose out, opposing China in international forums would risk incurring Beijing's diplomatic wrath. Health ministers are skittish to imperil their country's broader interactions with China, which in the case of African countries, often entails Chinese loans, grants, infrastructure projects, and investment -- and indeed, even further, health aid. In turn, African countries seeking access to the burgeoning Chinese market must curry Beijing's favor. Any country that openly opposes China at the Global Fund might see these economic links broken or be put at a disadvantage to competitors. And so the neediest countries endure a loss of grant money to China through their collective silence.
Donor governments have also been mute or reluctant to oppose China at the Global Fund, perhaps for similar reasons of not wishing to provoke a reaction that impacts other diplomatic or political equities elsewhere. In the United States, neither Congress nor the White House has voiced open concern that an amount equivalent to President Barack Obama's entire fiscal 2011 Global Fund budget request of $1 billion has gone to a country that can afford to pay its own way.
This has left the fund's leadership as the only front left for trying to change China's stance. Based on China's national income and the rate of other donor contributions, the Global Fund recommends that China should give $96 million over the next three years, amounting to 16 times its current annual donation. In 2007, prior to China's hosting of a board meeting in Kunming, the fund asked China's government to up its donor commitment, but the appeal went nowhere. In June, with fundraising pressures escalating, the fund's executive director, Michel Kazatchkine, met in Beijing with Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang, who issued a vague promise to cooperate with international organizations to expand disease prevention and treatment, but made no announcement to refrain from taking new grants or signaled any intent to become a major donor.
Not even a rival country's actions seem to have convinced Beijing. In recent years, nearby Russia has transformed itself from recipient to donor, and it has done so under arguably less favorable economic conditions than those in China today. In 2006, then President Vladimir Putin pledged to repay the Global Fund $270 million over four years, covering the past assistance it received, and announced $156 million in new domestic spending for HIV treatment. Now four years out, Russia has paid in $250 million to the Global Fund, essentially fulfilling Putin's pledge.
It is audacious for China to assert that it needs international health assistance on par with the world's poorest countries. In fact, at the same time it is drawing from the Global Fund, China is building its entire global image as one of economic growth, accumulating wealth and international stature. To boost its public profile and prestige, China spent billions to host the Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo. Surely it could spend another $1 billion of its cash on health as well. And why not take it one step further? By becoming a Global Fund donor, China could win acclaim with the West and the world's poorest -- earning exactly the kind of respect that a rising power deserves.
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Jack C. Chow served as U.S. ambassador on global HIV/AIDS from 2001 to 2003 and was the lead U.S. negotiator at talks that established the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He is currently distinguished service professor of global health at Carnegie Mellon University in Heinz College's School of Public Policy and Management.
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PUBLICUS
1:26 AM ET
July 20, 2010
Absurd
We know that the PRC is not a responsible member of the international system, as this piece mightily documents in yet another way.
Beijing has little give and a lot of take.
The CPC leadership in Beijing continues to hold and practice a world view that is selfish and too self-centered to expect any changes to China's low international standing any time soon. There's the bully pulpit and then there's simply the bully.
REPLY KASEMAN
9:54 AM ET
July 20, 2010
damn clever these Chinese, eh?
And the place is run by engineers not lawyers! When was the last time we heard of our engineers outsmarting our tribes of perfidious Lawyers?
Engineers construct, lawyers destruct.
REPLY VILKSSWEDEN
11:55 AM ET
July 20, 2010
and assholes make irrelevant comments about
lawyers and engineers. Point is, China is taking the money from more needy countries, when it can more than easily foot the bill itself, at no harm to its economy or policy.
REPLY COOL_HEAD
5:40 AM ET
July 20, 2010
What about India
China has applied for and been awarded nearly $1 billion in grants, becoming the fourth-largest recipient of funds behind Ethiopia, India, and Tanzania.
What about India -- the 2nd-largest recipient?
REPLY NORBOOSE
10:15 AM ET
July 20, 2010
India isnt oppressive
First of all, I am writing from an American perspective, about why I think America should give lots of aid to India. If youre from some other country, then this is irrelevant.
India has problems, like any country (Kashmir, overeaction to the Naxalites), but all in all, its a pretty free country. China is ruled by a clockwork system of oppression. India will probably be a close US ally untill hell freezes over, as almost all of our long-term interests align perfectly. It is in our own interest to help India modernize as rapidly as possible.
REPLY SAM FROM CALIFORNIA
4:52 PM ET
July 20, 2010
Uhhhh
India is a lot poorer than China, and it may have a worse AIDS problem (both countries do have an AIDS problem, i'm too lazy to check which is worse.) China is now wealthy enough to provide the universal, national health care its socialist system promises, without taking aid money. Or at least it should take less.
But perhaps there is a problem with a time lag; ie, China is traditionally a poor country, and has yet to really reorient its foreign policy in line with its newfound wealth. I think the Chinese still think they are a third world country like any other; they are, but they are also the country with the world's largest and most profitable businesses and many broken or unfulfilled social promises.
REPLY MINDALAY
12:05 PM ET
July 23, 2010
If the very wealthy Chinese
If the very wealthy Chinese state doesn't care about its citizens, why should anyone else? You are right: nation-state power is not the the same as the wealth of individual citizens. So where are the Chinese donations to American citizens in Appalachia and the South Bronx? The moment China started a space program is the moment they no longer deserved any foreign aid.
REPLY BOBCHEN
8:34 AM ET
July 20, 2010
I don't understand.
Why couldn't the Global Fund make the requirement for nations with low-to-middle income AND the largest population with AIDS/tuberculosis/malaria.
This loophole has been around for 8 years, and nobody at Global Fund thought to close it?
REPLY KASEMAN
9:51 AM ET
July 20, 2010
HIV is racially blind
All humans are the same altho some more so than others
REPLY FIRST ADVISOR
6:13 PM ET
July 20, 2010
American Jingoism and China-Bashing
As the brainless bigotry of many comments demonstrate, this essay is merely more US China-bashing, with no purpose or conclusion at all. Some posters proudly display their utter innumerancy by arguing that China is wealthy, apparently incapable of performing the Grade 4 artihmetic of dividing GDP by population. Monkeys in a cage in a zoo have more common sense.
What is immediately obvious, and most important to an intelligent, educated reader, is the astonishing rudeness and inexcusable offensiveness of a supposed professional diplomat publicly criticizing and complaining about the national government of any country. Dr. Chow confesses that as far as he can tell, no one in the entire world cares about China's so-called 'scam', not even his own government.
He makes up, out of his own head, highly questionable speculation and extremely dubious conclusions, trying to explain to himself and the reader WHY no one else in the world seems to care but him. This is elementary school fights nonsense. It is shocking, and deeply embarrassing, to see a supposed diplomat make a public fool of himself, ranting and raving and foaming at the mouth over an imaginary bugaboo that only he can see.
It would be folly for any nation not to take advantage of any cost-savings they could find in healthcare, particularly in the realm of prevention. The claim that China can afford healthcare for 1.3 billion people isn't just shocking and ludicrous, it is flatly, factually false and untrue. As amateur propaganda, the allegation is outrageous -- defamatory, slanderous, and libelous, against every member of the State Council.
Dr. Chow appears to have a mean, petty, spiteful, and vindicative pet peeve against one specific country, for doing exactly what any and every country in the world would do in similar circumstances. We can only speculate over the reasons for his prejudices and bigotry. But try as we might, nothing can justify his exposure and deliberate exhibition of his obnoxious envy and resentment in front of the whole planet. This is unforgivable, intolerable, unacceptable behavior in any would-be diplomat.
REPLY AMOSYARKONI
7:53 PM ET
July 20, 2010
Yeah First Advisor -
"The claim that China can afford healthcare for 1.3 billion people isn't just shocking and ludicrous, it is flatly, factually false and untrue."
Yeah, instead China has to make room in its budget to spend billions on the Olympics and the shanghai expo. I mean it's "ludicrous" that we expect them to use that money on their own health care! Or that they use money from their huge budgetary surplus! Instead, let them take it from poor Africans. I mean those African countries must be having surpluses from their booming economies, right?.....right?......crickets......
REPLY FIRST ADVISOR
10:41 PM ET
July 20, 2010
Zany and Incoherent Reply
Do you know what a return on investment is? The ROI on a nation's first ever Olympics, and a nation's first ever World Expo, is incalculable in both income plus the abstracts of prestige, status, goodwill, future contracts, and so on. Try and figure out the return on investment, with a calculator, pen and paper, of healthcare for HIV/AIDS patients, who in China are virtually all hard drug addicts, with a sprinkling of homosexuals and prostitutes. What is the benefit to China in providing treatments to those people, exactly? Show me the money, in dollars and cents. Condoms don't do much good for people shooting up heroin with a dirty needle. The same is true of the majority of the incidence of TB in China; nearly all the sick people are hard drug addicts.
Now read very carefully, because this involves arithmetic, which is clearly not your strength. If China tries to sell any -- ANY -- of its holdings in the bonds currency of other nations, such as USA six-month Treasury bills, the value of the treasury bills and the US dollar will plummet, the value of China's holdings would collapse, the global market would be flung into turmoil, America would certainly be plunged into a second recession, and quite possibly a second Great Depression would begin. Selling those T-bills is the very last thing China can do. Their holdings in US debentures are worthless to them. They simply have no other choice over buying them, because there is nowhere else to put their money. If you think the Chinese don't resent this dilemma, you are incorrect.
No one is taking anything from African nations. Don't you grasp the simple fact that Dr. Chow is not a reliable source of information? Look at the dishonesty and deceit of his essay. Are you telling the world you actually believe the silly fairytales he writes? Even Mr. Chow's own US government doesn't agree with his hysterical obsessions; don't you get it? In fact, HIV/AIDS is a trivial disease, of no concern to any national government. Heart and stroke harm is 10 times worse, at least, and smoking, obesity, diabetes, mental illness, autism, and dozens of other medical conditions are all hugely more important and serious. You really should stop letting newspaper reporters tell you what to think, and what not to think about.
REPLY MERVYN
8:59 PM ET
July 20, 2010
juxtaposition of the world we live in
There is no white man's burden with the Chinese.
Why sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, or impoverished Central Asia are on the first list when HIV/AID spread is concerned? I might add Indochina to that list. China and few others are now getting out of name and shame list. The vaccine used are exclusively made from Western Phama companies, thus the high cost.
I don't disagree that China should get less of the fund allocation, but only few countries can afford the vaccination without subsidies. I'd suggest let the big phama to phase out rights on most demanded drugs and make licensing available of generic version to India or China phama. Then push the Chinese and Indian to donate these generic drugs to where it is required, domestic and overseas.
REPLY HERA
4:47 AM ET
July 21, 2010
who get the money at last?
What we should be concerned with shouldn't be whether the Global Fund should provide China great amount of aids, but how can they ensure that the money really arrives at people who are in need. It is undeniable that among 1.3 billion Chinese people there must be some one suffering from various diseases, especially in undevelopement area such as the Mid-Western countryside. The real tragedy is that bureaucrats safisfy themselves from corruption instead of giving this money to those who need it.
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REPLY XTIANGODLOKI
3:02 PM ET
July 21, 2010
It's all funny money anyway
When America gives $1 Billion to Africa for AIDS most of the money is going to fat consultants who sit around and do nothing anyway. Dr.Chow who came from the upper echelons of McKinsey probably knows this well; getting paid hundreds to thousands of dollars per hour to BS about the non-existent magical bullet which would solve the hardest problems in an instant. Whatever.
The reality is that money going to 3rd world nations do not generally help because that money never gets to the right hands anyway. This is why after spending billions after billions places like haiti still stand on their own.
REPLY CANADALEX
4:48 AM ET
July 22, 2010
flawed reasoning
The article correctly presents the issue, but uses specious reasoning and arguments to make a china=bad guy case.
"(China stays in this lower-middle-income category because its huge population keeps per capita figures down.)"
It presents this fact as if China were gaming the system by having a huge population. No, in fact there is a reason we use per-capita figures to judge income. Otherwise we can make claims like India is over 2x as rich as Switzerland (GDP). This issue seems very simple. Chinese gov't realizes they can get grant money through Global Fund, so obviously they're going to take it. I highly doubt many countries would pass up an opportunity for free money. Yes we can blame China for using a loophole, but we should also blame the fund for being unable to properly disburse its funds, and allowing China to do this. The fund is clearly aware this is happening and could easily put an end to this. But it hasn't, (and as the article touched on) the reasons (as they most often are) are likely political. This isn't a transfer to help China with Malaria its another political tool to transfer funds to China.
We can get mad at China for taking free money, but we should be at least as critical of an aid system which is funneling money inefficiently to countries which don't stand the most to gain.
REPLY LIONEL
5:02 AM ET
July 22, 2010
China remains poor!
In the article, Jack Chow notes, parenthetically, that "(China stays in this lower-middle-income category because its huge population keeps per capita figures down.)" This is true. China remains a low-middle income country for a simple reason -- because most people in China remain poor.
As of 2009, PPP-adjusted GDP in China puts the country on par with Namibia and Algeria. China's economic power is mostly a function of its population size. China is still not rich.
In 2007, the World Bank reported there were over 300 million Chinese living on less than $1.25 a day. Despite China's rapid progress, it's hard to imagine that number is much less than 100 million in 2010. In any event, by the more stringent measure of $1.08 a day, China currently has about 50 million poor. China is still not rich.
China's county governments, which are responsible for most health spending and collect most taxes, are so cash strapped that they sell land to meet about 50 percent of their revenue needs. Selling off the currency reserves is not an option -- it could lead to economic implosion and misery. China is still not rich.
China has made remarkable progress but remains a country with a serious poverty problem, and needs serious assistance.
REPLY FASHIONLOVE
3:06 AM ET
July 23, 2010
China is still a poor country
All information as mentioned is very useful for us to catch up the updated news and knowing many facts around the world. China even though a big country, many parts of it remain poor and life is still hard for many people. Still, this is somewhat unreasonable when China received so many aids every year more than countries who need it.
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July 25, 2010
First Advisor-huh????
First Advisor, if China is a world player, then like the US and other world players, its actions are subject to scrutiny and praise or criticism as the case may be. Observers are free to agree or disagree to criticisms they wish. However, what is the point in slamming a piece that you don't like by throwing around words like "brainless China bashing," "bigotry," "mean," "petty," spiteful, and "vindictive," "amateur propaganda," and nasty personal attacks, etc.? "American jingoism" in an article that hold Russia up as a model of behavior? Your posts may make you feel better, but it reads like a hysterical, hypersensitive, nationalist rant as do your rude comment to another poster. Rather, it would have advanced the discussion if you actually countered with a fact-based reply. Show me the bigotry and vindictiveness, etc. Instead, you bash and distort the article to such a degree that one has to wonder if your real intention is simply to stifle any examination of Chinese behavior.
You say in your second post that China can't possibly afford providing health care to all its citizens. Well, yes, that is an enormous undertaking, and you could have mentioned that China gets aid from countries like Japan to provide aid in the health sector. Even so, one has to wonder about China's acceptance of finds from the Global Fund or from Japan when it is sitting on enormous currency reserves and spending ever-increasing billions of dollars in aid overseas, with a new pledge of $10B in loans and $1B fund for business development to Africa made in November 2009. Given China's foreign aid program of several billion dollars a year and its spending on assets around the world, surely it could rustle up a $1 billion somewhere for more funds for health care in China, couldn't it? Using $1 billion of foreign currency for spending of home is not going to cause worldwide financial turmoil.
(BTW,why aren't you chiding China for taking money from the Global Fund if it is such a wasted effort to you? it's interesting that you see no need treating people with HIV/AIDS in people you consider worthless, even though TB is spread through proximity, and HIV+ prostitutes could spread the disease to their customers who refuse, or don't have access to condoms?)
Instead, it sure does seem like that on one hand, China is extending a hand to other developing countries while on the other, through its actions vis-a-vis the Global Fund, harming the poorest countries by taking aid resources that could have gone to them. Is this part of China's effort to keep its aid and investment front and center in the minds of people in the recipient countries while diminishing the Global Fund's presence? That may not be China's intention at all, and the author notes that China's Health Ministry may have various reasonable reasons for taking money from the Global Fund, whether it might be domestic budget considerations or the desire for technical assistance. (Even the author, whom you attack so viciously, notes that Beijing faces funding issues in health and that the Chinese health system faces "formidable challenges.") Whatever the reason, China's behavior vis-a-vis the Global Fund creates a perception problem. Such a problem could have been avoided if, for example, China donated the equivalent of the grants that it received, thereby getting the technical assistance without depriving other nations of grants from the Global Fund.
You criticize the article for singling China out. Well, are there other donors to the Global Fund who are also taking more out the fund than they put in? In fact, are they are any other donors who are currently receiving funds? (I don't know; I really am asking.) If not, then China's behavior is worthy of notice.
You also didn't seem to understand Mr. Chow's position or that of the US Government. "Supposed professional diplomat" and "would-be diplomat"? He worked --past tense--in the US Government, He is not part of the USG now. He is a private citizen, and in the United States, private citizens are free to voice their opinions, according to the First Amendment of the US Constitution. As for the US Government's official position on the subject of this article, the only mention is that there has been no "open," that is, publicly mentioned, official concern about this development. Why is that? Maybe it is because there is no official concern, and you're correct on that point, though you don't provide any evidence supporting your claim. Maybe because until this article, no one has drawn people's attention to this situation. Maybe it is because it is a concern that the US doesn't want to air publicly because as the author notes, donors don't want "to provoke a reaction that impacts other diplomatic or political equities elsewhere." Similarly, it is not at all clear, as you claim, "no one else in the world cares." The billions that China is spending in poorer countries, and those countries' need for markets may be the causes of the silence. Moreover, Mr. Chow does offer ideas why there has not been much public discussion. Unless they work directly on this issue and are somehow involved in the Global Fund as a recipient or a donor, people would not learn about this issue if not for an article like this.
If anyone owes anyone an apology for being offensive, it is you, First Advisor, with your attempts to intimidate anyone who might not look at everything China does through rose-colored glasses. No country is perfect, and in the United States, individuals are free to express their opinions. (I would not be surprised if you now attack me with another venomous tirade on this board, which will only prove my point that you are a bully attempting to stifle discussion. How about proving me wrong and providing an evidence-based reply to Mr. Chow's article?)
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