Natural materials in the house who could cite this as a cleanser

Just because the manufacturer put the label 'green' on cleaning products, it does not make it a product that is completely natural or environmentally friendly.

According to the study of the American Chemical Society, the truth behind the labels of cleaning products may vary because some products do contain harmful compositions such as oil or other chemicals.

Researchers have measured the composition of the material is more than a dozen detergent, hand soap and dish soap that is claimed to 'naturally / natural' and 'green / ecofriendly'.

The result, the composition is contained in plant based soap hand sanitizer around 28-97 percent, 28-94 percent range of detergent and dish soap from 43-95 percent.

So actually there are quite a lot of green-labeled products were actually made from plants, natural and environmentally friendly. However, the composition of the hazardous oil made ​​more numerous in the range of cleaning products that are circulating.

The problem is, these hazardous materials can cause respiratory irritation and interfere with hormones because it is made from renewable resources that are clearly not environmentally friendly.

"But if you make your own cleaning products, of course not doubt its contents," says Karyn Siegel-Maier, author of The Naturally Clean Home: 150 Super-Easy Herbal Formulas for Green Cleaning as reported from Rodale, Tuesday (8/5 / 2012).

In addition to potentially toxic, cleaning products used to spend more costs than the costs used to make your own cleaners. Do not be afraid even if you've never made ​​it myself for fear of the materials or how to make it, the important thing you want to try.

Want a Healthy Heart? Avoid fragrances room

Maybe you have applied a healthy lifestyle such as exercising regularly, not smoking and eating a healthy diet to maintain heart health. But there are little things around you that can cause heart damage, the air freshener.

According to a new study in Environmental Health Perspectives, spraying air freshener or spent several hours in a scented candle burning every day can cause damage to the heart.

The findings were based on studies conducted in Switzerland has long been associated with air pollution with lung and heart diseases that involve adults over the age of 50 years.

A total of 581 adults involved in the study were asked to complete a questionnaire based on the use of cleaning products, air fresheners, perfumes and other household products.

Then the study participants underwent an electrocardiograms for 24 hours so the researchers can monitor the heart rate as a marker of cardiovascular health.

"People who use spray air freshener in the long term is most likely to show reduced heart rate variability which is often a sign of heart problems and heart damage," said Amar J. Mehta, ScD, MPH, a researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health as reported from Rodale, Tuesday (05/08/2012).

Mehta was not sure what components are contained in air fresheners can cause changes in heart rate. Perhaps the reason is air freshener materials can react with ozone, common indoor air pollutants, and to form other compounds that can harm the heart.

For example, materials such as air fresheners that give the smell of pine terpenes or citrus have been found to react with aldehydes to form ozone and toxic pollutants linked to heart disease and diabetes.

To eliminate the bad odor in the room, you can perform a simple alternative but more healthy such as:

A. Boil the orange peel
Instead of lemon-scented spray synthetic fragrances, better boil lemon peel, orange peel, or skin of any other fruit you like for 30 minutes to freshen the room.

Add some spice if you like such as cloves, cinnamon, and cardamom.

2. Charcoal
Charcoal activated carbon is very nice nose piercing repel odors like the smell of garbage, litter boxes, and cigarette smoke.

You can use your small carbon filter designed to be placed in trash cans, refrigerators, or other smelly places.

3. Coffee grounds
Coffee grounds can magically absorb odors. Put the dry coffee grounds in a clean old sock and hang it in your closet to repel odors.

7 Destructive Habits that turns out your skin

Are you going to bed still wearing mascara? Or are you like trying new skin products? Common mistake is apparently not a big deal, but do you know if over time the habit will damage the skin and make you look older than your actual age?

But do not worry, these will be presented 7 bad habits are bad for your skin turns along the way that you can do to prevent skin damage, as quoted from CBSNews, Tuesday (08/05/2012).

A. Not Wearing Sunscreen
The worst way you do to make your skin menu is not using sunscreen every day.

"The sun is a major cause of skin aging," said Dr. Neil Sadick, a dermatologist who lives in New York City. Even the sun can reach your skin even though the weather was cloudy, rainy or snowy.

Dr. Sadick also added, "The UV rays that damage skin can penetrate glass, so you need to wear sunscreen, even in the room though.

Sadick advise you to choose a sunscreen that can block both UVA and UVB rays with SPF of at least 30. Can also be enriched with sunscreens and antioxidants such as resveratrol-containing composition, vitamin C, Idebenone or coffee berry can give added protection.

2. Ignoring Skin Hand and Neck
Your face is not the only body part that requires a bit of protection. As with skin, excessive sun exposure can also damage the skin of your hands and neck. According to Dr. Sadick, if it happens, these two areas of the body will show signs of aging such as the emergence of a black stain, dry and lose firmness.

Treat neck and the back of your hand as you face with a lot to apply moisturizer and sunscreen. Although you can buy a specific product for the body, but you can simply use the same sunscreen for the face, he said. Sadick.

3. Treatment for Acne conduct
Thanks to hormone fluctuations, women over 40 years are routinely experiencing acne problems. However, using a special treatment to reduce the red spots will only dry out your skin and your skin is irritated.

According to Dr. Carolyn Jacob, director of Chicago Cosmetic Surgery and Dermatology, instead of doing it, wash your entire face with a cleanser to fight pimples or apply a moisturizer once a day to prevent acne came back.

4. Sleep Without Removing Makeup
You may be tempted to immediately go to sleep after a busy day at work without a clean face. But unfortunately spent the night cleaning it could lead to acne.

Throughout the day, the toxins around us (such as dirt and pollution) attached to the skin and invade the pores, causing skin problems, says Dr. Sadick. So do not sleep before you wash your face. Use a good cleanser and save your skin. You can also set up cleaning towel on the bed.

5. Changing Too Fast Skin Products
If you feel frustrated because you are a new anti-aging moisturizer is not working properly, it could still use it for some time before replacing it. Switching from one product to another may give the impression that there is no product that can work well for your skin.

Dr. Jacob also recommended to use the new products at least 6 weeks to produce changes in the skin. "One skin cycle takes 30 days (for new cells to reach the top skin layer) so as to see the difference that made the products of the texture, nature and brightness of your skin then you should use it more than a month," he explained.

If the product contains anti-aging composition, wait longer. Your skin takes about four months to regenerate collagen and elastin, he added.

6. At the same time put on Some Items
If you experience skin irritation after you use some new product, you will not know what is causing the problem and considers the entire product is irritating.

Better, "start by using one product first and combine it with another product every two weeks," said Dr. Jacob. That way, you will be better able to identify what that aggravate your skin problem or what combination of products that makes your skin is damaged.

Plus, you'll save money by only buying what you need.

7. Saves Hours Sleep
Not getting enough sleep can accelerate the aging of the skin and in the short term it can cause dark circles around the eyes and lackluster skin. During the day, the skin cells to fight against the onslaught of stress such as UV rays and pollution.

Sleep becomes very important because it decreases stress hormones to normal levels during the night, giving the cells time to repair and rejuvenate itself, he said. Jacob.

Stress can also increase the levels of the hormone cortisol, which can increase oil production and cause acne, he added. So make sure you do not reduce the hours of sleep you need.

If the detection of breast abnormalities difficult Very Solid

One way you can do to detect breast cancer early through mammography. But it turned out to women who have dense breasts (dense breast) are known to be difficult to detect with mammography.

"It is difficult if the detection of abnormalities of the breast is very dense because many mammary glands, so it looks white and the tumor is difficult to distinguish," said Dr. Adji Saptogino, SpRad, Head of Radiology Pondok Indah Hospital in the event of Eight Campaigns Increase Breast Cancer Awareness at Pondok Indah Hospital, Jakarta , Tuesday (08/05/2012).

If the use of mammography in breast cancer detection difficult dense, but this can be detected using ultrasound (ultrasonography). For the mammography examination is usually combined with ultrasound in order to complement each other.

The same was expressed by Dr. Rahmi Alfiah Nur Alam, SpRad who said about 10 percent of cancer cases with dense breast conditions can not be invisible or difficult to detect.

"2 of 5 had a type of dense breast breasts (breasts with dense tissue) so that the risk of breast cancer," said Dr. Rahmi Alfiah Nur Alam, SpRad of RS-Pondok Indah Puri Indah.

Currently there are several known methods of inspection to identify breast cancer or tumors, among others:

A. Breast self-examination (BSE)
Usually performed several days after menstruation, and when the breast feels tight, to detect changes in the breast. When the age of 20 years, women are advised to do BSE on a regular basis and consult with a physician if you find nothing has changed.

2. Mammography
This method uses a beam of low-scale X-ray to see inside the breast to produce images to be interpreted by the radiologist. Sensitivity of about 50-69 percent, but the detection of abnormalities difficult if the breasts are very dense.

3. Ultrasonography (USG)
Using sound waves to scan the breast. Before being scanned, the patient will be given a gel that is applied to the skin and the tool will rub into the breast area. Ultrasound is commonly used as a companion memografi, especially for dense breasts have a network.

4. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Using magnetic fields and radio waves to produce more second imaging. The time it takes roughly 30-40 minutes and needs an injection of contrast so that sometimes cause discomfort.

5. 3D Somomammogram
This imaging tool uses 3D ultrasound technology to the level of accuracy and sensitivity of the MRI approach, but it only takes 4-21 minutes (on average 11 minutes). Broader scope, including the large and dense breasts.

"The result includes all the coronal anatomy of the breast that were not obtained from conventional ultrasound, thus providing a more complete picture of the anatomy and architecture of breast tissue," said Dr. Rahmi.

Beware of New Infectious Diseases

Microbiology expert Faculty of Medicine (FK) University of Gadjah Mada (UGM), dr. Abu Tholib M.Sc, Ph.D, Sp.MK, said today that have to watch out for is the emergence of new infectious diseases in Indonesia.

Indonesia is one of the Southeast Asia region is considered to be the largest endemic places the emergence of new infectious diseases like bird flu, malaria, dengue, tuberculosis, rabies, and so forth.

"Such diseases can now growing rapidly and many of the changes caused by genetic mutations. If it is not anticipated, a new disease can spread from Indonesia to the world in one week," said Abu Tholib on the sidelines of the discussion at the Faculty of Medicine, Tuesday (8 / 5/2012).

He said every year is estimated at least appear a kind of new infectious diseases spread levels may extend to many countries. One example of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico.

According to him, in general, the disease is the result of interaction between humans and animals and humans and their environment. Therefore, treatment of this disease should be done through multi-sectoral collaboration among mutlidisiplin and health through the concept of one being rolled by the WHO.

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Faculty of UGM has recently formed a partnership with the University of Minnesota, and Tufsts University, United States, to develop one application of health through knowledge and experience exchange, research collaboration and exchange of faculty and students.

According to him the concept of one health is needed in Indonesia. Through the concept of one health, diseases of zoonotic infections can be treated early and intensively.

"It takes education and training involving researchers from various disciplines to share include physicians, veterinarians, nutritionists, nurses, ecologists and social scientists," he said.

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine zoonosis expert (FKH), Prof.. Dr. drh. Wayan Artama Tunas, adding the handling of zoonotic diseases can not be overcome by treatment of human doctors, but also need the involvement of a veterinarian.

"The spread of this disease should also be investigated, especially the move from animals to humans or vice versa. Thus need treatment more intensive animal diseases," said Wayan.

Recognized Wayan, diseases of animals are not separated from the effects of human habits and behavior that result from interaction with animals. Inevitably, such as a medium of transmission intrekasi.

The same thing also revealed by researchers from the University of Minnesota, Linda Olson Keller said the spread of disease surveillance and control must involve many researchers from various fields of science.

He gave an example in the United States found an average of one new type of disease that occur each year. Although it arguably does not really new, because diantaraya result of the change and the development of previously existing disease.

"At least we found a new disease every year," Linda.

He said the type of influenza illness is still in the spotlight and receive intensive supervision of the U.S. Department of Health. Swine flu in Mexico and the West Nile Virus (West Nile Virus) from the Middle East continue to be monitored so as not to endemic to the United States.