<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183</id><updated>2012-02-16T11:06:17.292+02:00</updated><category term='Birth'/><category term='cancer'/><category term='lenf'/><category term='other'/><category term='nano'/><category term='hormonal'/><category term='sinir'/><category term='zayıflama'/><category term='melanoma'/><category term='cartoon'/><category term='eklem'/><category term='hikayemsi'/><category term='sevgi'/><category term='hair'/><category term='kanser'/><category term='psikolojik'/><category term='beslenme'/><category term='dna'/><category term='beyin'/><category term='diet'/><category term='mide'/><category term='başlangıç'/><category term='felsefi'/><category term='kanun'/><category term='akne'/><category term='internet'/><category term='new virus'/><category term='omega3'/><category term='şiir'/><category term='Tumor'/><category term='damar'/><category term='güzellik'/><category term='deri'/><category term='fıtık'/><title type='text'>Meryemce -Health &amp; Medical-</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>84</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-4868380914066288729</id><published>2007-11-24T02:47:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-11-24T02:47:47.515+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Hairstyle İdeas</title><content type='html'>&lt;table width="500" align="center" border="0"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td width="263"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Winter Medium Hairstyles for 2008" height="280" src="http://www.becomegorgeous.com/pictures/winter08hair_171.jpg" width="230" border="1" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;A new season, new trends and - of course - new hairstyles!&lt;br /&gt;Medium hairstyles offer comfortable hair length that is not too long and not too short.&lt;br /&gt;From letting it flow down, bunning it up, to curling up the ends, mid-length hairstyles offer a variety of beautiful hairdos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a class="more-link" href="http://www.fashionandwoman.com/2007/11/23/new-medium-long-hairstyle-ideas-for-winter-0708/#more-71" tip&gt;Read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td width="227"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a class="more-link" href="http://www.fashionandwoman.com/2007/11/23/new-medium-long-hairstyle-ideas-for-winter-0708/#more-71" tip&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-4868380914066288729?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/4868380914066288729/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=4868380914066288729&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/4868380914066288729'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/4868380914066288729'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/11/hairstyle-ideas.html' title='Hairstyle İdeas'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-7656537371278847977</id><published>2007-11-20T17:54:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-11-24T02:45:37.240+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Sådan får dit ansigt en lækker vinterglød</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Med denne guide undgår du ørkentør hud og sprukne læber&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Huden har det svært under enormt varme eller kolde forhold. &lt;strong&gt;Vinteren er derfor en rigtig mishandler af vores sunde æblekinder, og derfor bliver vi nødt til at gøre lidt ekstra i den kolde tid.&lt;/strong&gt; Tør hud ser ikke bare meget lidt køn ud, men kan også udvikle sig til slem kløe og eksem i værste tilfælde.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UNDGÅ SOL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;De vinterblege ben kan godt trænge til en tur under solen, men solarium dræner huden for fugt, og er derfor med til at udtørre endnu mere. Husk også, at selv om du ikke befinder dig på Bahamas, er det vigtigt at bruge solfaktor i ansigtet, når du bevæger dig ud i vintersolen. Så hjælper du huden med at bevare fugten, og vigtigst af alt, beskytter du den mod solskader. De skadelig stråler trænger også igennem overskyet vejr, så det er vigtigt at bruge solfaktor hver dag, året rundt.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VASK ANSIGTET&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Det er vigtigt at vaske ansigtet med tør hud grundigt. Men vær varsom: Brug ikke vaskeklud eller andet groft materiale og vask aldrig tør hud med sæbe og vand, da det vil udtørre huden endnu mere. Du skal i stedet finde en rensemælk eller lotion, der virker nærende samtidig med, at den renser. &lt;strong&gt;Sørg for at købe makeupfjerner og renselotion til tør hud. På den måde får din hud mest muligt fugt.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dup ansigtet forsigtigt og put en god fugtcreme på, mens huden stadig er en anelse fugtig. For eksempel Silk Comfort fra Nivea Visage til 100 kr. for 50 ml. Men spørg efter den creme, der passer til din hudtype. Ved øjnene skal du bruge en øjencreme, da huden i det område er alt for tynd og sart til almindelig ansigtscreme.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FUGT LÆBERNE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Læberne står oftest for skud, så brug en god læbepomade. Womans skønhedsredaktør anbefaler Cera Lip Repair Cream fra La Roche-Posay til 74 kroner for 15 ml, der er god til ekstra tørre vinterlæber. Selv om det virker nemt at fugte læberne med tungen, udtørrer spyttet læberne endnu mere, hvilket giver samme effekt som at tisse i bukserne. Prøv desuden at smøre honning på om natten. Det skulle gøre dem ekstra bløde og smidige.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BRUG OLIER OG URTER&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Prøv også at bruge naturligt rensende olier som oliven, avocado, kokos eller mandelolie, der kan købes i de fleste helsebutikker. Dup olien og vask den af med lunken vand og en blød klud.&lt;br /&gt;Efter bad kan du også smøre dig ind i Aloe Vera cremer eller lavendel olie. Urten virker beroligende og fugtgivende. En varm kop kamille eller pebermyntete kan også hjælpe til at holde på fugten.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SKRU NED FOR VARMEN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Aircondition er et sikkert hit til at få tør hud, det er selvfølgelig ikke så udbredt her i landet, men en radiator på fuld tryk kan også være med til at give problemer. Sørg for at få skruet ned for varmen og luftet ud engang i mellem. Tag eventuelt en ekstra sweater på, hvis det bliver for tænderklaprende.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-7656537371278847977?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/7656537371278847977/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=7656537371278847977&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/7656537371278847977'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/7656537371278847977'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/11/sdan-fr-dit-ansigt-en-lkker-vintergld.html' title='Sådan får dit ansigt en lækker vinterglød'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-4662309229755523553</id><published>2007-11-19T23:32:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-11-19T23:32:24.729+02:00</updated><title type='text'>ANSIGT</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#ff9900"&gt;SPECIELLE TIPS SPIDS HAGE&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;embed name="fm1" src="http://www.nivea.dk/img/uploads_flash/com/xxrp4SLSmakeupSLSmakeup_content_5_0_com_PointyChin.swf" width="175" height="205" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#ff6600"&gt;En spids hage kan optisk &amp;rdquo;gøres kortere&amp;rdquo; med en smule rouge.&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#339966"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KANTET ANSIGT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;embed name="fm1" src="http://www.nivea.dk/img/uploads_flash/com/xrp4SLSmakeupSLSmakeup_content_5_0_com_AngularFace.swf" width="175" height="205" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#339966"&gt;Et kantet ansigt ser blødere ud, hvis du lægger en lille smule rouge langs kæbebenet.&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#0000ff"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LANGT ANSIGT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;embed name="fm1" src="http://www.nivea.dk/img/uploads_flash/com/xxrp4SLSmakeupSLSmakeup_content_5_0_com_LongFace.swf" width="175" height="205" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#0000ff"&gt;Læg rouge på den runde del af dine kinder, hvis du ønsker, at dit ansigt skal se mere fyldigt ud.&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;RUNDE KINDER&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;embed name="fm1" src="http://www.nivea.dk/img/uploads_flash/com/xrp4SLSmakeupSLSmakeup_content_5_0_com_FullCheeks.swf" width="175" height="205" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;Runde kinder syner mindre runde, hvis du lægger en smule mørk rouge lige under kindbenet &amp;ndash; der, hvor der kommer et hul i kinderne, hvis du suger dem ind. En god tommelfingerregel er, at jo bredere dit ansigt er, jo mere skråt skal du lægge din rouge (vælg en mørk pudderrouge med en blålig undertone eller en rouge i en brun nuance), og jo længere dit ansigt er, jo mere vandret skal du lægge din rouge og jo lysere skal den være.&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-4662309229755523553?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/4662309229755523553/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=4662309229755523553&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/4662309229755523553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/4662309229755523553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/11/ansigt.html' title='ANSIGT'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-8578320767663018289</id><published>2007-11-06T22:19:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-11-06T22:19:24.486+02:00</updated><title type='text'>All My Life</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt - All My Life&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/v_bN-oKE2Jg&amp;amp;rel=1" width="425" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Bence yükleyin elinizin altında dursun ilerde bulması zor olur : )&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/12683585/Parlaiment_Cinema_Club_-_Linda_Ronstadt___Aaron_Neville_-_All_my_Life.mp3.html" target="_blank"&gt;Neville and Linda Ronstadt - All My Life MP3 YÜKLE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-8578320767663018289?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/8578320767663018289/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=8578320767663018289&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/8578320767663018289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/8578320767663018289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/11/all-my-life.html' title='All My Life'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-4117219786372439953</id><published>2007-11-02T19:28:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-11-02T19:28:51.975+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Fountain of youth for your heart?</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Fountain of youth for your heart?&lt;!-- Google TOP Adsense block --&gt;&lt;span id="top_ad_unit"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="Preview"&gt;An age-related decline in heart function is a risk factor for heart disease in the elderly. While many factors contribute to a progressive age-related decline in heart function, alterations in the types of fuels the heart uses to produce energy also play important roles. Jason Dyck and his research team at the University of Alberta have been studying the types of fuels used by the heart in young and aged mice. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span id="intelliTXT"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;The young healthy heart normally used a balance of fat and sugar to generate energy to allow the heart to beat and pump blood efficiently. However, as the heart ages the ability to use fat as an energy source deteriorates. This compromises heart function in the elderly. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interestingly, at a time when the heart is using less fat for energy, Dyck has shown that a protein that is responsible for transporting fat into the contractile cells of the heart actually increases. Based on this finding, Dyck proposed that the mismatch between fat uptake and fat use in the heart could lead to an accumulation of fat in the heart resulting in an age-related decrease in heart function. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img src="http://germes-online.com/direct/dbimage/50338960/Fountain.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Using a genetically engineered mouse that is deficient in a protein that is responsible for transporting fat into the cells of the heart, Dyck studied these mice as they aged. These genetically altered mice have no choice but to mainly use sugar as a fuel source because they lack the protein that allows them to use fat as a primary fuel source. In an exciting new finding, Dyck showed that old genetically modified mice did not accumulate fat in their hearts, as did ordinary mice. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;In addition, Dyck and his team showed that these old genetically altered mice out-performed ordinary old mice on a treadmill test, were completely protected from age-related decline in heart function, and in many ways their hearts looked and performed like hearts from a young mouse. His findings suggest that the protein responsible for transporting fat into the contractile cells of the heart may be a candidate for drug inhibition and that this drug could protect the heart from aging. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This research holds great promise for human beings. Dyck hopes it will lead to the development of medications that inhibit the uptake of fatty acids into the heart and prevent and/or reverse the effects of aging on the heart muscle. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: University of Alberta &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-4117219786372439953?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/4117219786372439953/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=4117219786372439953&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/4117219786372439953'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/4117219786372439953'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/11/fountain-of-youth-for-your-heart.html' title='Fountain of youth for your heart?'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-2396817249210856179</id><published>2007-10-26T22:34:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-26T22:34:15.941+02:00</updated><title type='text'>schoolgirls to get cancer jab</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;font color="#ff00ff"&gt;British schoolgirls are to be offered vaccinations against cervical cancer from next year, in a scheme which could save hundreds of lives a year, officials said Friday. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;font color="#ff00ff"&gt;The introduction of the voluntary vaccinations for 12-13 year-olds from September 2008 is a recognition of the "need to do more to prevent disease and not just treat it," Health Secretary Alan Johnson said. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;font color="#ff00ff"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.scenta.co.uk/_db/_images/vaccine140.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;font color="#ff00ff"&gt;Girls will be vaccinated against the sexually-transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV). HPV causes around 70 percent of cases of cervical cancer which kills more than 1,000 women in Britain each year. The basic programme of vaccinations will cost the country around 100 million pounds, but experts hope this will be offset by the reductions in treatment costs later. Around 400 lives could potentially be saved each year, according to official estimates. &lt;strong&gt;A two-year "catch-up" campaign for girls aged 16 to 18 will begin in 2009 and girls aged 15-17 will be offered the jab in 2010. The move was welcomed by health professionals including the Royal College of GPs and Cancer Research UK. "The benefits of introducing this vaccine into the national immunisation programme will be felt by women and their families for generations to come, said Professor David Salisbury of the government's Department of Health. Each year, more than 2,700 British women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and around 200,000 women a year also have pre-cancerous changes to their cervix picked up through smear tests. Cervical cancer kills around 274,000 women worldwide every year.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;copy; 2007 AFP &lt;/P&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-2396817249210856179?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/2396817249210856179/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=2396817249210856179&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/2396817249210856179'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/2396817249210856179'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/10/schoolgirls-to-get-cancer-jab.html' title='schoolgirls to get cancer jab'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-7250935775444781661</id><published>2007-10-14T21:33:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-14T21:33:15.730+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Betty &amp; Jeff</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=470,height=468,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://modish.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/11/bandjjewelry.jpg"&gt;&lt;img title="Bandjjewelry" height="468" alt="Bandjjewelry" src="http://modish.typepad.com/modish/images/2007/10/11/bandjjewelry.jpg" width="470" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bags:&lt;a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=470,height=468,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://modish.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/11/bandjbags.jpg"&gt;&lt;img title="Bandjbags" height="468" alt="Bandjbags" src="http://modish.typepad.com/modish/images/2007/10/11/bandjbags.jpg" width="470" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Accessories:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=470,height=235,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); 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Jeff'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-3843002141406900493</id><published>2007-10-06T02:00:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-06T02:00:49.606+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Why Women Have More Migraines: The Role of Hormones</title><content type='html'>Your head is throbbing severely, probably only on one side. Any light or sound only makes it worse, and you may be feeling nauseated. The excruciating pain is almost unbearable. The slightest movement only intensifies the pain. Maybe you are having visual symptoms such as flashing lights or an aura, as well. You are having a migraine headache. Although you feel like it's the end of the world, and no one can understand what you are going through. You are not alone. Twenty-eight million Americans suffer from migraine headaches. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is no cure for migraines. However, there is hope for effective relief and a significant reduction in the severity and number of migraine headaches you suffer. The first step is getting an accurate diagnosis from your physician. Unfortunately, only about half of migraine sufferers are diagnosed, and even less receive proper treatment according to the American Migraine Study II. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Who gets migraines?&lt;/b&gt; Boys experience more migraines than girls prior to puberty, however, after age 11 girls begin to experience the majority of migraine headaches. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The increase in the incidence of migraine in girls over boys continues to rise until adulthood when women experience migraine headaches 3 to 1 over men. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Why do so many more women than men suffer from migraine headaches? &lt;/b&gt;While it is improbable that sex hormones can completely explain the difference, there is significant evidence that there may be a connection between migraines and fluctuations in estrogen levels in women. The problem appears to be the response of the central nervous system to normal hormonal fluctuations. Women who suffer from migraines should understand that hormonal fluctuations are normal. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Women often experience their first migraine headache during their teen years, most occurring with the onset of menstruation. The highest incidence of migraine occurs in women around the age of forty. Fortunately, for most women, aging and menopause often reduces the frequency of migraines. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although, headaches are common at the time of menstruation, not all of these headaches can be classified as migraine. Menstrual migraines occur, usually without aura, and are headaches that occur only during the period of 2 days before and 2 days after the onset of menstruation. They occur most frequently on the first day of your period, while premenstrual syndrome (PMS) related headaches usually end with the onset of menstruation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Will oral contraceptives (OCs) help women with migraines? Or will migraines become worse?&lt;/b&gt; Most women who have had previous migraines will not see a significant change in their headache pattern after beginning oral contraceptives; however, they may see an increase in the severity of migraines during the pill-free week. Women who use oral contraceptives may be surprised to learn that OCs may actually be a trigger for migraine. Some women may find their migraines are alleviated after starting oral contraceptives, while others find their migraine attacks are getting worse premenstrually. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, women who have migraines that are worsened by oral contraceptives should quit taking them? Unfortunately the answer is not that easy. While stopping OC use may provide relief eventually, it can sometimes take up to 12 months after discontinuing the pill before improvement is noted. On a personal note, the number of migraines I have experienced in the last 11 years since having my tubes tied and stopping OCs have dropped dramatically. I was a regular (severe, go to bed, turn off the lights, put a pillow over my head, and don't anyone make a sound) migraine sufferer from my teens until my early thirties. Although I still have occasional non-migraine headaches I can't remember the last time I had a severe migraine headache. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Are there any risks for women who use OCs and suffer from migraine headaches?&lt;/b&gt; This a subject of much discussion because of the increased risk of stroke in women who use oral contraceptives. The risk of stoke in migraine patients appears to be higher in women who use OCs, have high blood pressure, and/or smoke. This is particularly true with the older high-dose oral contraceptives. The best advice for women who have migraines and want to use oral contraceptives is to use the lowest effective dose of estrogen because the risk appears to be estrogen-related, rather than progestin-related.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;next: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/headaches/a/migranes1.htm"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/headaches/a/migranes1.htm&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-3843002141406900493?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/3843002141406900493/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=3843002141406900493&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/3843002141406900493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/3843002141406900493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/10/why-women-have-more-migraines-role-of.html' title='Why Women Have More Migraines: The Role of Hormones'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-8189372105298910204</id><published>2007-09-22T19:57:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-22T19:57:43.904+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Alternative Medicine</title><content type='html'>&lt;h2 class="intro_title"&gt;Alternative Medicine, Natural Holistic Medicine &amp;amp; Herbal Remedies&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="introLg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Natural alternatives to prescription medicines and their side effects. 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I know I don't eat right; but there's not enough time to make healthy food. I'm not even sure what is healthy; the "experts" seem to come up with new findings that counter previous ones at least once a week. I rely on my doctor to keep me abreast of any problems; and when one does come up, he has a quick fix for me: antibiotics, anti- depressants, tension relievers, and pills to counter the side effects (like stomach upset, restlessness) caused by the others. I've heard of other "holistic" health care methods, but I'm skeptical of everything, and some of those "alternative" methods sound like "quack" treatments. Besides, I don't have the time or money to go out and learn about or try every one to see if any work. 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-6384846117679319183</id><published>2007-09-14T23:29:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-14T23:29:04.773+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Health</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;In recent years the number of diet developers and holistic healers hawking products to purge your body of harmful chemicals and foreign substances has exploded. But do your liver and lymph nodes really need cleaning? Some detox regimen -- like herbal supplements, spa treatments, and special diets that are designed to mop up pollutants, dietary waste, and even unwanted pounds --can actually do you some good. But how to know whether you should be trying any of them?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;!--startclickprintexclude--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="cnnStoryPhotoBox"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="cnnImgChngr" id="cnnImgChngr"&gt;&lt;!----&gt;&lt;!--="==========IMAGE============--"&gt;&lt;img height="219" alt="art.detox.jpg" src="http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/09/14/healthmag.detox.diets/art.detox.jpg" width="292" border="0" /&gt;&lt;!--="==========/IMAGE===========--"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--endclickprintexclude--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Health checked with traditional and alternative medicine experts to find out which regimens might be worthwhile -- and which ones just aren't.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Detox? Maybe for a day&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pop music icon Beyoncé reportedly chugged a maple syrup mix to cleanse her famous curves and shed some weight for her role in "Dreamgirls." No doubt, she skipped the pancakes, and that's the point.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Detox diets -- whether syrup (which goes by the name Lemon Detox or Master Cleanse), juice (Martha's Vineyard Diet Detox), or protein shakes (Fruit Flush Three-Day Detox) -- often revolve around a fast that's heavy on liquids. Almost all pack a wallop of vitamins, antioxidants, and fiber that nutritionists agree delivers full-body benefits. But if you're tempted, think short-term. Victoria Maizes, M.D., executive director of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson, suggests a one-day fast of fresh-pressed juices. (Not juiced about DIY elixirs? Many health-food stores and juice bars press their own for $3 to $7.) &lt;a class="cnnInlineTopic" href="http://www.cnn.com/healthmag/health/article/0,23414,1600903,00.html?cnn=yes" target="new"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#004276"&gt;Health.com: "New" diet pills&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Definitely consult a nutritionist if you want to live la vida liquid for longer. Extended detoxing (more than three days) can actually rob your body of vitamins and nutrients. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another option: Skip liquid diets altogether, and try a gradual approach to detoxing. Cindy Moore, M.S., R.D., director of nutrition therapy at the Cleveland Clinic, recommends adding one fruit and one vegetable a day until you reach the recommended daily allowance. You'll reduce the gassiness and discomfort that can accompany a sudden rush of roughage from liquid diets. Plus, by avoiding a quick fix, you'll up your chances of sticking with a healthy diet over time. After all, it's common sense: If you put lots of good things into your body, you won't need to worry about clearing bad things out. &lt;a class="cnnInlineTopic" href="http://www.cnn.com/healthmag/health/web/DietGuide/index.html?cnn=yes" target="new"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#004276"&gt;Health.com:The lowdown on more than 40 hot diets&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Show your liver some love&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;It sounds gross, but every day your liver, with the help of your kidneys, filters toxins to be excreted through your urine and bowels. So it seems logical that detoxing this hard-working organ might keep it in tip-top shape. The herb milk thistle -- an ingredient common to detox teas and supplements -- is one popular option. But the liver doesn't need that kind of help, thank you very much. &lt;a class="cnnInlineTopic" href="http://www.cnn.com/healthmag/article/0,23414,1613686,00.html?cnn=yes" target="new"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#004276"&gt;Health.com: 7 fad diets to forget&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;"A normally-functioning liver does quite well on its own," says Michael Picco, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Jacksonville, Florida. The real way to detox the liver, experts say, is to limit your exposure to toxins or skip them altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gregory Gores, M.D., president-elect of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, says to avoid excessive alcohol (no more than a drink a day for women or two for men) and to watch how much acetaminophen you take (generally, no more than 2,000 mg per day -- that's four extra-strength Tylenol pills). Why? Alcohol and acetaminophen can cause liver damage. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Leave lymphs alone&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many spas offer massages designed to detox lymph nodes, glands under the arms and other places. The goal: to relieve blockages that supposedly weaken the immune system. But doctors say it's impossible to perform lymphatic drainage on a healthy person, because there's nothing to drain.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;"It's a medical massage for sick people that requires special training," says Ki Y. Shin, M.D., who uses the technique to relieve lymph-related swelling in patients at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Still, go ahead and book that 90-minute deep-tissue session if you need a relaxation Rx; you may not liberate your lymphs, but you'll decompress your stress -- which, if left unchecked, can definitely be toxic. &lt;a class="cnnInlineTopic" href="http://www.cnn.com/healthmag/health/package/0,23653,1611491,00.html?cnn=yes" target="new"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#004276"&gt;Health.com: Former "fat girls" share their secrets&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be careful with your colon&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's the mother of all detox regimens: A tube inserted into the rectum flushes out the contents of the colon with warm or cool water. The stories of what emerges during a colonic (10 pounds of poop! Black liquid! Years of constipation!) are always dramatic -- but not necessarily truthful. What we do know: Colonics can lead to infection if nonsterile equipment is used, your colon or anal area is injured, or the billions of "good" bacteria that keep your immune system strong are washed away. And at $100 a session, you may want to consider a $3.59 box of All-Bran first.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;A high-fiber diet (20 to 35 grams, according to the American Dietetic Association) will get you regular without resorting to anything radical.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/" target="_blank"&gt;CNN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;!--startclickprintexclude--&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-6384846117679319183?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/6384846117679319183/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=6384846117679319183&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/6384846117679319183'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/6384846117679319183'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/09/health.html' title='Health'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-4031446398839576998</id><published>2007-09-06T23:13:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2007-09-06T23:13:34.069+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Researchers develop mouse model of autism spectrum disorders</title><content type='html'>Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have genetically engineered mice that harbor the same genetic mutation found in some people with autism and Asperger syndrome. Mice with this mutation show a similar type of social impairment and cognitive enhancement as the type seen in some people with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). ASDs are enigmatic cognitive disorders that impair a patient's social interactions, but do not necessarily limit their intelligence. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The scientists said the mice they developed may represent an important advance in modeling autism spectrum disorders in mice and offer researchers a new tool for understanding how specific defects in neural development may lead to autism. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;The researchers engineered mice that have a single mutation in the gene for a protein called neuroligin-3. This protein functions as a cell adhesion molecule in synapses, the junctions that connect neurons in the brain and allow them to communicate with each other. Synapses are essential to all brain activities, such as perception, behavior, memory, and thinking. Südhof said that the neuroligin-3 mutation that his team recapitulated in the mice has been identified in some people with genetic conditions known as autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Mutations in proteins that interact with neuroligin-3 have also been detected in some people with ASDs. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Proper function of the brain&amp;rsquo;s neuronal networks depends on a delicate balance between excitatory and inhibitory electrophysiological signaling among neurons. Südhof and his colleagues found that this balance was disrupted in the mutant mice, which also showed an increase in the signaling of inhibitory neurotransmitters. In contrast, they found that knocking out the neurologin-3 gene entirely produced no such imbalance. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most striking behavioral abnormality they observed in the mutant mice was an impaired ability to interact socially with other mice. However, the animals showed enhanced spatial learning and memory&amp;mdash;and were more able than normal mice to learn and to remember the location of a platform submerged in murky water. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;This combination of electrophysiological and behavioral effects is quite remarkable,&amp;rdquo; said Südhof. &amp;ldquo;It was also significant that these mice did not exhibit any other impairment of nervous system function &amp;ndash; there was no abnormal locomotor activity or motor coordination, for example. This was a selective change, with social impairment on the one hand, yet cognitive enhancement on the other.&amp;rdquo; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Südhof said the mutant mice he and his colleagues developed potentially offer major advantages over other mouse models of ASDs. &amp;ldquo;In mouse models of autism that I am aware of, the autistic symptoms are only one minor part of the overall disease,&amp;rdquo; he said. &amp;ldquo;For example, autistic symptoms are only one component of mouse models of Fragile X syndrome. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;What sets this mouse model apart is that the mouse shows highly selective social deficits and memory enhancement, but as far as we can tell, no other pathologies. This makes it a potentially useful model for a subset of people with ASDs with just such characteristics,&amp;rdquo; he said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Südhof his colleagues will use the mouse model to ask additional questions about the role that neuroligin proteins play in neural function and in ASDs. &amp;ldquo;We can also use these mice to study how these autistic symptoms&amp;mdash;loss of social ability and enhanced memory&amp;mdash;arise from the increase in inhibitory neurotransmission,&amp;rdquo; he said. &amp;ldquo;The key to understanding this mechanism will be in finding out what parts of the brain are responsible for these characteristics. And with this mouse model, we can identify precisely where the mutation acts in the brain.&amp;rdquo; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: Howard Hughes Medical Institute &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-4031446398839576998?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/4031446398839576998/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=4031446398839576998&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/4031446398839576998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/4031446398839576998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/09/researchers-develop-mouse-model-of.html' title='Researchers develop mouse model of autism spectrum disorders'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-3729473042863031185</id><published>2007-08-10T09:17:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2007-08-10T09:17:48.013+03:00</updated><title type='text'>San Francisco Hotels</title><content type='html'>&lt;div id="dtPhotos"&gt;&lt;img id="fullPic" alt="Photo by Lisa Marie Van Bockstaele" src="http://travelocity.lmdeals.com/global/images/45/package-5034745-98623.jpeg" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="clear"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="dtCopy"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;San Francisco, CA: Luxury Hotel Getaway&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;From the days of the gold rush to the advent of the Internet boom, San Francisco has earned its reputation as a stylish, high-livin' town.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="thumbOne" alt="Photo by Lisa Marie Van Bockstaele" src="http://travelocity.lmdeals.com/global/images/45/package-5034745-99033-thumb.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whether you prefer to hob-nob on Nob Hill or rub elbows with Internet gurus in the Mission, this posh peninsula offers infinite opportunities to spend a weekend in style. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="thumbTwo" alt="Photo by Lisa Marie VanBockstaele" src="http://travelocity.lmdeals.com/global/images/45/package-5034745-98629-thumb.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take a seat under the Golden Gate Bridge, gazing at the Marin headlands with a sourdough bread-bowl of &lt;i&gt;cioppino&lt;/i&gt; and a bottle of wine--and feel like you've just inherited the earth. Or, explore all of San Francisco's exciting spots, from the mansions of Pacific Heights to the taqueria-dotted flatlands of the Mission and experience what it is to be rich in options. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="thumbThree" alt="Photo by Lisa Marie VanBockstaele" src="http://travelocity.lmdeals.com/global/images/45/package-5034745-98625-thumb.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;California's famously chic cuisine was born in this foodie city. Try the Fifth Floor's "lobster cappuccino," and be sure to stop at Zuni Cafe for their trademark brick oven-roasted chicken and vast selection of local oysters. Sample the region's artisan breads, wines, and produce at the new Ferry Building Plaza, where the regional fave, Cowgirl Creamery sells its delectable cheeses, and an outstanding farmers' market sets up on Saturdays. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="thumbFour" alt="Photo by Lisa Marie VanBockstaele" src="http://travelocity.lmdeals.com/global/images/45/package-5034745-98627-thumb.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fillmore Street's tony boutiques offer plenty of ways to break in your credit card, or head to the more fiscally friendly Palace of the Legion of Honor--perched majestically above the ocean. As if the views aren't enough, this museum boasts the original cast of Rodin's The Thinker, and 20 galleries of ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and European art. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-3729473042863031185?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/3729473042863031185/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=3729473042863031185&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/3729473042863031185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/3729473042863031185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/08/san-francisco-hotels.html' title='San Francisco Hotels'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-883800048199427240</id><published>2007-08-08T21:17:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2007-08-08T21:17:32.662+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Disposable absorbent wound...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="disp_elm_value"&gt;&lt;font size="+1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Disposable absorbent wound dressings with skin health treatment additives&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="disp_elm_value"&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="disp_elm_value"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="disp_elm_value"&gt;The present invention relates to disposable absorbent wound dressings comprising skin health treatment additives for the treatment and prevention of Stage I-IV partial and full thickness pressure wounds. The disposable dressings conform to the anatomical shape of the body of a human and are capable of absorbing large quantities of wound drainage or exudates. Such disposable dressings are low-adherent and facilitate painless removal without disturbing a healing tissue bed. Such disposable wound dressings of the present invention are especially advantageous for the treatment of Stage I-IV pressure ulcers located in the sacral/coccyx area of the spine. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-883800048199427240?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/883800048199427240/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=883800048199427240&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/883800048199427240'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/883800048199427240'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/08/disposable-absorbent-wound.html' title='Disposable absorbent wound...'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-545368940664154902</id><published>2007-08-08T18:36:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2007-08-08T18:36:02.283+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Visit Carnival</title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Rio Carnival&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="blurb"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Carnival 2008 : 2 - 5 February&lt;br /&gt;Carnival 2009 : 21 - 24 February&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Carnival falls on the last 4 days (and nights!) prior to Ash Wednesday. In England, we celebrate it on Shrove Tuesday, quietly at home with pancakes. In Brazil they celebrate it with drums, dancing and singing in the streets in an explosion of colour and costumes. Schools and businesses close as the whole country shuts down for wild celebrations. There are carnival parades in almost every town and city but the biggest by far is in Rio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here Carnival has evolved into two distinct creatures:- the street carnival and the "Parade of Schools" in the Sambadrome. The latter is what has come to be known as one of the world&amp;rsquo;s biggest festivals. The best Samba Schools parade on the last Sunday and Monday of Lent in the Sambadrome &amp;ndash; a long, linear purpose-built stadium used but once a year. The parades start around 8.00pm and finish in the small hours; tickets are as hard to come by as Cup Final tickets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Running parallel to the main event are numerous parties and themed Balls, the best of which is held at the Copacabana Palace. This is the Ball of the season where Rio&amp;rsquo;s finest can be seen and, if you can afford the ticket - from &amp;pound;200 (entrance only) and from &amp;pound;600 for a place at a table &amp;ndash; this is an event to be at.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tickets to the various areas of the Sambadrome come on sale in November or December and are very hard to come by, however we usually have access to an allocation in at least one of the stands. Prices start from around &amp;pound;295 for a standard seat to about &amp;pound;500 for an area of special chairs which allows more movement and comfort and is level with the parades. Costs are slightly less for tickets to the Champions' Parade on the final Saturday, about &amp;pound;195 for standard and &amp;pound;295 for special chairs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Accommodation at Carnival is a predictable nightmare. Hotels charge upto 3 times the normal rate for a 4 or 5 night mandatory package. Payment is 50% on confirmation and 50% two months before the event. Hotels begin to publish their rates around August but if you are booking in advance please call us. We have around 30 hotels of varying categories on our lists as well as some Apartment-hotels. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please note that prices mentioned above are a guideline only as 2008 costs have yet to be confirmed. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;img height="258" src="http://www.rioturismoradical.com.br/img/carnival_rio.jpg" width="500" align="middle" /&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-545368940664154902?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/545368940664154902/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=545368940664154902&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/545368940664154902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/545368940664154902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/08/visit-carnival.html' title='Visit Carnival'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-5672925414480324181</id><published>2007-08-07T00:34:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2007-08-07T00:35:25.040+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Women And Cholesterol Controlled</title><content type='html'>&lt;h3 style="COLOR: #c00"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="myblogfloat" style="WIDTH: 180px"&gt;&lt;img alt="Women And Cholesterol Controlled" src="http://medicineworld.org/images/blogs/5-2007/cholesterol-23440.jpg" /&gt; &lt;!-- add image description --&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;Women And Cholesterol Controlled&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Women are significantly less likely than men to have their LDL cholesterol controlled to recommended levels, as per a new study by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). The study, would be reported in the May/June edition of Womens Health Issues, investigated gender differences in cardiovascular disease prevention, therapy and risk factors based on national health care quality data from commercial and Medicare managed care plans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Elevated LDL cholesterol is an important modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease, the leading single cause of death for both women and men.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The study, "Improving the Quality of Care for Cardiovascular Disease: Using National Managed Care Performance Data to Investigate Gender Differences in HEDIS Measures Correlation to Heart Disease," analyzed data from a national sample of 46 commercial managed care plans and 148 Medicare plans across 11 HEDIS measures of care for cardiovascular conditions and diabetes. The results, controlled for other factors such as age, income and ethnicity, showed equal or better outcomes for women on most dimensions of carewith the notable exception of cholesterol control, where significant disparities existed between men and women.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"This study highlights the importance of not just knowing your health, but also taking an active role in your care," said NCQA President Margaret E. OKane. "The data show that weve got our work cut out for us in terms of raising awareness among both physicians and patients"......... &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-5672925414480324181?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/5672925414480324181/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=5672925414480324181&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/5672925414480324181'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/5672925414480324181'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/08/women-and-cholesterol-controlled.html' title='Women And Cholesterol Controlled'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-1595689921939459666</id><published>2007-08-07T00:33:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2007-08-07T00:33:20.488+03:00</updated><title type='text'>In women, caffeine may protect memory</title><content type='html'>&lt;div id="Preview"&gt;Caffeine may help older women protect their thinking skills, according to a study published in the August 7, 2007, issue of &lt;i&gt;Neurology&lt;/i&gt;, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Caffeine may prevent heart disease death" src="http://medicineworld.org/images/blogs/2-2007/cup-of-coffee-3320.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;The study found that women age 65 and older who drank more than three cups of coffee (or the equivalent in tea) per day had less decline over time on tests of memory than women who drank one cup or less of coffee or tea per day. The results held up even after researchers adjusted for other factors that could affect memory abilities, such as age, education, disability, depression, high blood pressure, medications, cardiovascular disease, and other chronic illnesses. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;ldquo;Caffeine is a psychostimulant which appears to reduce cognitive decline in women,&amp;rdquo; said study author Karen Ritchie, PhD, of INSERM, the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research, in Montpellier, France. &amp;ldquo;While we have some ideas as to how this works biologically, we need to have a better understanding of how caffeine affects the brain before we can start promoting caffeine intake as a way to reduce cognitive decline. But the results are interesting &amp;ndash; caffeine use is already widespread and it has fewer side effects than other treatments for cognitive decline, and it requires a relatively small amount for a beneficial effect.&amp;rdquo; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The study involved 7,000 people whose cognitive abilities and caffeine consumption were evaluated over four years. Compared to women who drank one cup or less of coffee per day, those who drank over three cups were less likely to show as much decline in memory. Moreover, the benefits increased with age &amp;ndash; coffee drinkers being 30 percent less likely to have memory decline at age 65 and rising to 70 percent less likely over age 80. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Caffeine consumers did not seem to have lower rates of dementia. &amp;ldquo;We really need a longer study to look at whether caffeine prevents dementia; it might be that caffeine could slow the dementia process rather than preventing it,&amp;rdquo; said Ritchie. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ritchie said researchers aren&amp;rsquo;t sure why caffeine didn&amp;rsquo;t show the same result in men. &amp;ldquo;Women may be more sensitive to the effects of caffeine,&amp;rdquo; she said. &amp;ldquo;Their bodies may react differently to the stimulant, or they may metabolize caffeine differently.&amp;rdquo; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Source: American Academy of Neurology &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-1595689921939459666?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/1595689921939459666/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=1595689921939459666&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/1595689921939459666'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/1595689921939459666'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/08/in-women-caffeine-may-protect-memory.html' title='In women, caffeine may protect memory'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-5647111375530083536</id><published>2007-08-02T00:31:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2007-08-02T00:31:48.724+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Hello Kity</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: #3333ff"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pX8DdTfTmS0/RpB3BZ8nbXI/AAAAAAAABKk/F32sngLdEIU/s1600-h/kittypraia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084694845329993074" style="DISPLAY: block; 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Bu diyet programı sağlıklı bir yemek programını bol egzersizle birleştiriyor. Fakat diyetin etkili olabilmesi için düzgün bir uyku şart ! Programa uyarak 2 haftada 5-6 kilo kadar verebilmek mümkün.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt; 1. gün&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 7.30 Uykudan uyandıktan sonra ilk iş olarak bir bardak, içine limon ve bir parça zencefil karıştırılmış sıcak su. Bunun amacı metabolizmayı güçlü tutmak.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 8.00 Yürüyüşe çıkmak için iyi bir zaman ! Egzersiz yapmak için en ideal zaman kahvaltı öncesidir çünkü vücut zaten uykudan yeni kalktığı için yağları yakmak için müsait durumdadır.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 9.15 Bol bol su için. Vücuttaki kafeini suyla atarak vücudunuzu tazeleyebilirsiniz, bu da selülit oluşumunu engeller.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 9.30 Kahvaltı için aşağıdaki muz karışımını için:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 150ml az yağlı süt, 200 gram diet yoğurt ve bir orta boy muz.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Sütü, yoğurdu ve muzu blenderda karıştırarak uzun bir bardakta için. Muzun içindeki doğal şeker size yarım saat içersinde gün boyu yetecek bir enerji sağlayacaktır.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 11.00 Çıkın ve bir kez daha yürüyüşün tadını çıkarın ! Günde 10.000 adım yürümek size tam 500 kalori kaybettirebilir.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 13.00 Öğle yemeği için bir sandviç yeterli. Ama sadece sandviç deyip geçmeyin çünkü oldukça doyurucu!&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Ton balığı, domates, biraz soğan ve karabiber, büyük bir parça göbek salata ve salatalık.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 15.00 Yine egzersiz zamanı ! yarım saat ile 1 saat arası bisiklete binebilirsiniz ve ya kısa zamanlı bir koşu da işinizi görür. Bu sıcaklarda dışarı çıkmak istemiyorsanız 1-1.30 saatlik bir öğle uykusunun kimseye zararı olmaz.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 16.15 Eğer diyet programınıza uyduysanız bu saate kadar acıkmamış olmanız gerekir. Ama oldu da acıktınız.. O zaman bu saatte içilecek bir bardak limonata ya da yenecek bir elma sizi tok tutabilir. Portakal, limon, üzüm gibi meyveler kan kolestrolünü düşürdüğü için tercih sebebi olabilir.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 18.30 Akşam yemeği zamanı ! Hafif bir akşam yemeği sizi bekliyor ama yine oldukça doyurucu olacak.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt; Somon Salatası&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 2 parça kızarmış somon balığı, 1 orta boy rezene, ufak bir limon, bir miktar zeytinyağı, 1 baş sarımsak, 1 küçük yeşil biber, 300 gram taze patates, 3 dilim taze soğan ve karabiber&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 20.00 Dans edin. İster evde arkadaşlarınızla ister dışarıda bir diskoda 1 saat dans etmekle tam 200 kaloriye kadar yakabilirsiniz.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 22.30 Uyku vakti geldi. Araştırmalar gösteriyor kiher gece 6 saatten az uyuyan insanların iştahı %15 daha fazla oluyor !&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt; 2. gün&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 8.00 Kulaklıklarınızı takın ve sabah yürüyüşünüze başlayın. 1 saatlik yürüyüş size 400 kalori kaybettirir.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 9.00 Kahvaltı zamanı. Güne başlarken yenen güzel bir meyve salatası her zaman iyi bir seçimdir.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 10.15 Aerobic zamanı. Belki de liseden beri yapmadığınız esneme hareketlerini hatırlama zamanı !. Omuzlarınızı, bacaklarınızı ve göğsünüzü çalıştırın&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 11.00 Yine çabuk bir kalori yakma yöntemi ! Başınızın üzerinde sizi yukarı doğru çeken bir balon olduğunu farzedin. Kollarınızı kaldırabildiğiniz kadar kaldırın ve vücudunuzu gerin.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 12.30 Beyaz peynir ve siyah zeytinlerle donatılmış, yeşil biber, karabiber, bir miktar patates ve zeytinyağıyla süslenmiş lezzetli salatanızı yemenin zamanıdır.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 14.30 Küçük ev işleri yaparak zayıflayın ! Mesela yerleri paspaslayın, elektrikli süpürgeyle temizlik yapın ve kendinizi giysileri ütülemeye verin ! 50 dakikalık ütü yapmak size 100 kalori kaybettirebiliyor !&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 16.15 Bir bardak yeşil çay için.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 19.30 Programın son safhasına geldiniz ! Şimdi yapmanız gereken sadece kendinize güzel bir spagetti pişirmek. Fakat onun da bir açıklaması var tabi&amp;hellip; Acılı yemekler ağzınızdaki sinir uçlarını uyararak metabolizmanızı hızlandırıyor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-8053854236218565065?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/8053854236218565065/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=8053854236218565065&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/8053854236218565065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/8053854236218565065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/07/en-hzl-diyet.html' title='En HIZLI Diyet'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-2750782286520741422</id><published>2007-07-29T22:44:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2007-07-29T22:44:22.558+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Diabetes drugs double risk of heart failure</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.healthday.com/images/editorial/pharmacy_40231.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Millions of diabetics worldwide face an increased threat of cardiac problems after two drugs commonly prescribed to treat type 2 diabetes were found to double the risk of heart failure, according to researchers in the US and Britain. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;One in every 50 patients taking either Avandia or Actos over a 26-month period would suffer heart failure and need admission to hospital, says the research by experts at the University of East Anglia and in America. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The researchers said the drugs could be responsible for additional thousands of cases of heart failure each year, Reuters reported.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dr Yoon Loke, the author of the analysis, which looked at more than 200 cases of heart failure while on the drugs, said that diabetics are at a two per cent per year greater risk of heart failure and the drugs add another two per cent. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="hr_1" style="DISPLAY: none"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="hr_2" style="DISPLAY: none"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;According to GlaxoSmithKline, hundreds of thousands of people are on its drug Avandia (rosiglitazone). Actos (pioglitazone), which is made by Takeda, is also used by a similar number of diabetics. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alert issued&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rosiglitazone was linked to heart attacks by research published earlier this year and the UAE Ministry of Health issued a drug alert to all hospitals, clinics and pharmacies in the country conveying the warning.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;According to GlaxoSmithKline, the drug is among its best-sellers here. Humaid Al Shamsi, assistant under-secretary at the ministry, earlier told Gulf News that doctors had been advised to discuss Avandia's safety with patients prescribed the drug. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The UAE has an estimated 820,000 diabetics or 20 per cent of the population, which works out to be the second-highest number of diabetes worldwide. According to experts, 65 per cent of the population will be diabetic in three years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Daily Telegraph quoted Dr Yoon Loke, the author of the analysis which looked at more than 200 cases of heart failure while on the drugs, as saying that diabetics are at a two per cent per year greater risk of heart failure and the drugs add another two per cent.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The researchers suggested that fluid retention caused by the drugs may be to blame, BBC Online reported. Writing in Diabetes Care, they called for a rethink on the drugs by respective regulatory authorities. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The manufacturers' information leaflets, though, say the drugs should not be used in patients known to have heart failure.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-2750782286520741422?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/2750782286520741422/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=2750782286520741422&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/2750782286520741422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/2750782286520741422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/07/diabetes-drugs-double-risk-of-heart.html' title='Diabetes drugs double risk of heart failure'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-3052675102185521304</id><published>2007-07-20T19:44:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2007-07-20T19:47:46.496+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Uzum cekirdegi</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Üzüm çekirdeğinin faydaları&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ziraat Mühendisi &lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;Kader Bayhan&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, üzüm &lt;img alt="" hspace="5" src="http://www.bugun.com.tr/staticfiles/images/newsimages/HaberResmi/7a009b9b-98c4-4ee5-b1d6-82b094bc6f88.jpg" align="right" vspace="5" border="1" 180 /&gt;çekirdeğinin Avrupa'da ilaç niyetine satıldığını belirterek, manav ve marketlerde alınırken en çok çekirdeksiz üzümün rağbet gördüğünü oysa &lt;font color="#339966"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;üzüm çekirdeğinin tek başına bir 'doktor' olduğunu&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt; söyledi. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Üzüm çekirdeğinin yaşlanmayı geciktirdiğini vurgulayan Bayhan &lt;strong&gt;&amp;ldquo;Cildindeki kırışıklıklar günden güne fazlalaşanlar, cildi cansız, solgun görünenler, üzüm çekirdeği tüketmeli"&lt;/STRONG&gt; dedi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;BİN DERDE DEVA&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;FONT color=#ff0000&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Bayhan, üzüm çekirdeğinin faydalarını da açıkladı:&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color=#3366ff&gt;Damar duvarlarını onarır. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color=#3366ff&gt;Kalp ritmini düzenler, kalp krizi riskini azaltır. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color=#3366ff&gt;Düzenli kullanımda varis oluşmuş damarların tedavisinde kullanılır. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color=#3366ff&gt;Beyin damarlarını güçlendirir, beyine giden oksijen miktarını artırır. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color=#3366ff&gt;Kanser, AIDS, Hepatit B ve Hepatit C gibi hastalıklara karşı korur. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color=#3366ff&gt;Kolesterolü düşürür, şeker hastalığına karşı vücudu korur. Deri kırışıklıklarını azaltır. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color=#3366ff&gt;Saçı güzelleştirir. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color=#3366ff&gt;Saman nezlesi ve astım gibi alerjileri önler. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color=#3366ff&gt;Selülitlerin tedavilerinde, göz kamaşması, gece körlüğü gibi sorunlarda etkilidir.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-3052675102185521304?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/3052675102185521304/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=3052675102185521304&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/3052675102185521304'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/3052675102185521304'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/07/zm-ekirdei.html' title='Uzum cekirdegi'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-3236087511230731567</id><published>2007-07-19T21:20:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2007-07-19T21:20:07.861+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Health Costs Loom</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;Retirees&amp;rsquo; Health Costs Loom Over U.A.W. Talks&lt;?xml:namespace prefix ="" o ns ="" "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;That shift has the greatest impact on medical costs. Detroit automakers cover the health care expenses of both current and former union members &amp;mdash; more than 1.1 million of them combined &amp;mdash; and their dependents. That adds up to an annual bill of about $12 billion.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;So even as the struggling car companies try to restructure, announcing plans in the last two years to shed more than 80,000 workers, their health care bill continues to rise as those people age. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;The car companies&amp;rsquo; ability, or willingness, to continue paying those generous benefits, including negligible co-payments for drugs and doctor visits, will be a crucial sticking point when pivotal negotiations begin Friday between the U.A.W. and the auto companies. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;It may also be a touchy issue for active U.A.W. members and retirees, who must grapple with whether one group should bear the brunt of any cuts more than the other.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;The stakes are enormous for both sides in talks that &lt;a title="More information about General Motors Corporation" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/general_motors_corporation/index.html?inline=nyt-org"&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: #004276"&gt;General Motors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; calls &amp;ldquo;the most important in a generation.&amp;rdquo; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;The union is trying to protect a signature feature of the middle-class lifestyle that its blue-collar members have enjoyed. The retirees, roughly 600,000 of them, risk seeing an erosion of benefits that they had assumed would be secure when their working days ended. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;&amp;ldquo;This is what we were promised,&amp;rdquo; said Jim Ziomek, who retired in 2002 from a &lt;a title="More information about Ford Motor Company" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/ford_motor_company/index.html?inline=nyt-org"&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: #004276"&gt;Ford Motor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; parts distribution center in Livonia, Mich., after working for the company for 34 years. &amp;ldquo;You&amp;rsquo;re going to have a pension, you&amp;rsquo;re going to have health care. Well, now all of a sudden things have changed and they want to take it away.&amp;rdquo; G.M., Ford Motor and the Chrysler Group say these so-called legacy costs have hampered their fight against surging foreign competitors. Health care and pension benefits cost them $1,000 for each vehicle they sell, they say, compared with a few hundred dollars for companies like &lt;a title="Toyota" href="http://www.nytimes.com/mem/MWredirect.html?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&amp;amp;symb=TM"&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: #004276"&gt;Toyota&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title="Honda" href="http://www.nytimes.com/mem/MWredirect.html?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&amp;amp;symb=HMC"&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: #004276"&gt;Honda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a title="Nissan" href="http://www.nytimes.com/mem/MWredirect.html?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&amp;amp;symb=NSANY"&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: #004276"&gt;Nissan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;The carmakers have long sought to lower these costs, but the status quo has remained largely in place after previous contracts, the most recent being signed in 2003. At that time, the companies were relatively healthy; they also feared a strike if they challenged the union. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;The U.A.W.&amp;rsquo;s president, Ron Gettelfinger, has insisted publicly that neither the change in demographics nor the auto companies&amp;rsquo; decline alters the union&amp;rsquo;s philosophy of fighting to keep previous contract gains. In fact, he recently said, workers have compromised enough on health care. The union has declined to say what will be discussed in negotiations.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;But the union&amp;rsquo;s stance has changed since the current labor agreement was signed.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;Mr. Gettelfinger, for example, put up little resistance to plant closings at G.M., Ford and Chrysler; he cut deals for lower wages with bankrupt parts suppliers like &lt;a title="Delphi" href="http://www.nytimes.com/mem/MWredirect.html?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&amp;amp;symb=DPHIQ"&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: #004276"&gt;Delphi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and Dana; and most important, he agreed to arrangements at G.M. and Ford that eroded the fully paid health care coverage that was one of the union&amp;rsquo;s most cherished achievements.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;David Cole, chairman of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich., said the two sides have no choice but to find a health care solution. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;&amp;ldquo;You probably have to do this now; there is no delaying,&amp;rdquo; Mr. Cole said. &amp;ldquo;If you put it off, the companies are going to be weaker, and the bargaining position may be less favorable&amp;rdquo; for the union.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;In the last two years, G.M., Ford and Chrysler have collectively lost more than $30 billion, prompting them to announce plans to shut more than two dozen plants, and put a variety of operations up for sale, including Chrysler itself, which has been bought from &lt;a title="More information about DaimlerChrysler A.G." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/daimlerchrysler_ag/index.html?inline=nyt-org"&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: #004276"&gt;DaimlerChrysler&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by a private equity group.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;Talks begin Friday at Chrysler, and move to Ford and G.M. on Monday. The current contract expires Sept. 14.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;In recent months, one unusual solution has come up in pre-negotiations between auto executives and the union, according to people with knowledge of the deliberations.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;The automakers and the U.A.W. could create a health care trust, called a Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association, that could take over the responsibility for worker and retiree benefits.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;That would allow the three companies to get their combined long-term health care liability, about $100 billion, off their books, and would give the U.A.W. a more direct say in the benefits that its workers would receive.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;But the solution carries an enormous price tag: the trust, known as a V.E.B.A., must be funded with cash upfront, with most of the liability accounted for.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;The U.A.W. recently agreed to such an arrangement at Dana. It called for the company to pay upfront about 71 cents on the dollar for workers&amp;rsquo; estimated health care expenses, or about $800 million.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;In the U.A.W.&amp;rsquo;s case, the car companies would need to come up with far more money, probably in the range of $60 billion to $65 billion, experts say. The more money that is put in the trust, the less risk exists for the union.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;But that presents a quandary for the automakers, who would have to fund it. The car companies have tens of billions of dollars in cash on hand, but need that money to run their operations, given that their debt ratings are in junk status, making it expensive for them to borrow money. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"&gt;And Ford&amp;rsquo;s assets are already mortgaged to fund its turnaround plan, although it could use whatever it gets from selling its European luxury brands for its part of a trust.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-3236087511230731567?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/3236087511230731567/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=3236087511230731567&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/3236087511230731567'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/3236087511230731567'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/07/health-costs-loom.html' title='Health Costs Loom'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-2893586000805529322</id><published>2007-07-19T19:49:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2007-07-19T19:49:08.496+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Study Shows High Fiber Diet Not More Helpful Fighting Breast Cancer</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="articleheadline" style="DIRECTION: ltr"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;Study Shows High Fiber Diet Not More Helpful Fighting Breast Cancer&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We are going to find out about two studies on breast cancer. One studied whether a diet very high in fiber and low in fat could reduce the risk of recurring breast cancer.&amp;nbsp; Another study focused on women with a high risk of developing breast cancer to see if their chances of dying from the disease were greater than those with a lower risk of developing breast cancer.&amp;nbsp; VOA's Carol Pearson has more on the results of both studies.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img id="||CPIMAGE:368935|" height="210" alt="Examining mammograms" hspace="2" src="http://www.voanews.com/english/images/compare_tv_18jun07_210.jpg" width="210" align="right" vspace="2" border="0" /&gt;Eating five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, and getting no more than 30 percent of total calories from fat may help breast cancer survivors avoid getting this cancer again.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;"What we've got here is a good example of the bold colors and the strong flavors that we've emphasized in the study," explains John Pierce with the University of California Cancer Center in San Diego. He led an international study involving more than 3,000 breast cancer survivors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;"The study dramatically increased vegetables up to about eight vegetable servings.&amp;nbsp; Part of that was done with vegetable juice.&amp;nbsp; We got three fruit servings and we took energy from fat down to about 24 percent," says Pierce, with the &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://health.ucsd.edu/cancer/"&gt;Moores Cancer Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Over a period of six years, half the women in the study ate five servings of fruits and vegetables a day and limited their fat intake to 30 percent of total calories.&amp;nbsp; The other half ate a diet higher in fiber and lower in fat.&amp;nbsp; The findings?&amp;nbsp; There was no difference between the two groups in recurring breast cancer or living longer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;"You don't need to go ten a day in vegetables and fruits.&amp;nbsp; Five a day is enough," Pierce says. The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/357/2/154"&gt;Another study&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, this one published in the New England Journal of Medicine looked at women who have a high risk for inherited breast cancer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;All of us have genes known as BRCA, but women with a genetic mutation of this gene have a 70 to 90 percent chance of developing breast cancer.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Researchers studied nearly 1800 women with breast cancer.&amp;nbsp; About 10 percent had the high-risk genetic mutations.&amp;nbsp; In both groups more than half the women were still alive 10 years after being diagnosed.&amp;nbsp; What is more, the women with the BRCA mutation responded equally as well to chemotherapy as the women without this genetic risk.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The only thing that can prolong the lives of women with this genetic mutation is to be monitored closely to catch the early signs of cancer and then to be treated appropriately. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-2893586000805529322?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/2893586000805529322/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=2893586000805529322&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/2893586000805529322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/2893586000805529322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/07/study-shows-high-fiber-diet-not-more.html' title='Study Shows High Fiber Diet Not More Helpful Fighting Breast Cancer'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-7013348837779671399</id><published>2007-07-10T18:13:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-07-10T18:18:48.992+03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='other'/><title type='text'>Could nerve-snip spur weight loss</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;WASHINGTON (AP) -- An old ulcer operation is getting new attention as a possible alternative obesity surgery: a quick snip of a nerve that helps control hunger.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;It's far from clear whether cutting the vagus nerve really &lt;a href="http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2007/HEALTH/conditions/07/09/obesity.nerve.ap/art.obesity.nerve.ap.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 250px; CURSOR: hand" height="177" alt="" src="http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2007/HEALTH/conditions/07/09/obesity.nerve.ap/art.obesity.nerve.ap.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;helps -- initial pilot studies in a few dozen patients have just begun. Skeptics abound, and even proponents say it wouldn't lead to nearly as much weight loss as more traumatic operations that shrink the stomach and reroute intestines.&lt;br /&gt;It's part of a hunt for middle-ground options for people scared of today's surgery, or those not quite fat enough to qualify for it.&lt;br /&gt;"By no means do I think this is a panacea," cautions Dr. Robert Lustig of the University of California, San Francisco, who, along with University of Rochester surgeons, is studying the method.&lt;br /&gt;"But I think this will be a rational alternative for a cadre of patients that are sort of in the middle there. With as much obesity as we have in this country, that's a big middle."&lt;br /&gt;More than 177,000 people underwent obesity surgery last year, according to the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. The most popular method is gastric bypass, stapling the stomach to create a tiny pouch. Options include placing an adjustable band around the stomach, or cutting off the stomach's side and rerouting the intestines.&lt;br /&gt;Surgery can produce life-altering weight loss, if recipients adhere to diet and exercise advice, but each method comes with varying degrees of pain and risk, including a rare chance of death. So doctors are searching for alternatives.&lt;br /&gt;Enter the vagus nerve, which snakes from the brain to the abdomen, with fibers reaching into multiple organs with different effects. Among them: The nerve spurs gastric acid production, and in the 1970s, surgery to cut where it attaches to the front and back of the stomach brought ulcer sufferers great relief -- after they recovered from open-abdominal surgery. Once better acid-reducing medications came along, this arduous operation was abandoned.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yet surgeons at the time noticed, and subsequent animal studies confirmed, that these vagotomies could trigger weight loss. In addition to a less acidic stomach's slower digestion, the vagus helps control appetite-stimulating brain hormones and signals our bodies to store more fat, Lustig explains.&lt;br /&gt;Since doctors today can snip the nerve far less invasively, through just five pencil-sized cuts in the abdomen, it was time to test in the obese.&lt;br /&gt;Thirty patients had a vagus snip at UCSF or the University of Rochester. The study isn't complete. But of the 11 who are a year past surgery, all but one are shedding pounds, losing an average of 18 percent of excess weight so far, Lustig and Rochester's Dr. Thad Boss reported at last month's bariatric society meeting.&lt;br /&gt;They suffered no serious side effects, and went home hours later with little pain.&lt;br /&gt;"Every patient who had the vagus nerve cut says they're not hungry," adds Lustig -- although the one who didn't respond got hungry again six weeks after surgery, perhaps because the nerve healed.&lt;br /&gt;That's less than half the weight loss of standard surgeries, warns Dr. Neil Hutcher of Bon Secour St. Mary's Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, and a past president of the bariatric society.&lt;br /&gt;"I have my doubts that vagotomy alone is going to be a significant weapon," says Hutcher, who often cuts the nerve during standard gastric bypasses for a different reason -- to help those patients avoid the side effect of heartburn-causing acid buildup.&lt;br /&gt;But, when Greensboro, North Carolina, surgeons added a vagotomy to 25 patients getting bands on their stomachs, the nerve-snip seemed to make that usually more modest operation about as effective as a gastric bypass -- with 43 percent loss of excess weight at six months, and counting.&lt;br /&gt;Other doctors are testing whether implants that treat epilepsy by stimulating the vagus nerve also might trigger weight loss, with mixed results so far.&lt;br /&gt;For now, Boss stresses that vagus nerve-snipping remains highly experimental. He and Lustig will track their 30 patients for 18 months to check if ultimate weight loss is enough to warrant further study, and who responds best.&lt;br /&gt;The goal is to help people like Garth Michaels of Walnut Creek, California, who twice backed out of standard obesity surgery, fearful of side effects and a long recovery. Thirteen months after he volunteered for the vagotomy experiment, he has dropped 66 pounds, to 246.&lt;br /&gt;That's a much more gradual loss than with regular surgery, but Michaels says having his hunger curbed help him finally learn to exercise. He spends a half-hour on an exercise bike most days. And he learned to avoid former diet saboteurs -- french fries, sweets -- that caused foul burping after his vagotomy, in favor of fruits and vegetables.&lt;br /&gt;"I will lose more, there's no doubt about it," says Michaels, 56, whose goal is 175 pounds. "It has given me such hope. &gt;&gt;&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/conditions/07/09/obesity.nerve.ap/index.html"&gt;Cnn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-7013348837779671399?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/7013348837779671399/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=7013348837779671399&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/7013348837779671399'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/7013348837779671399'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/07/could-nerve-snip-spur-weight-loss.html' title='Could nerve-snip spur weight loss'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-7219661380985587956</id><published>2007-07-03T19:30:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2007-07-03T19:33:37.860+03:00</updated><title type='text'>SUSAM TOHUMU VE FAYDALARI</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SUSAM TOHUMU VE FAYDALARI&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a name="2"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a . Susam Ekini&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bir metre boyunda, yağ veren bir yıllık otsu bir bitkidir. HİNDİSTAN, SUDAN, ÇİN ve NİJERYA dünya rekoltesinde ilk sıraları almaktadır. Lezzet ve yağ oranı açısından Türkiye'de yetişen susam daha üstündür. Bitkilerin alt yaprakları karşılıklı ve loblu üst yaprakları tam ve mızrak şeklindedir. Çiçekleri beyaz veya pembe olup yaprakların koltugunda salkım durumunda toplanmışlardır &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Meyve başakları 2-3 cm. boyunda, uzun, prizmatik ve çok tohumlu bir kapsüldür. Susam , sıcağı çok sever. Isı miktarı fazla olan yerlerde tohum verimi ve yağ oranı artar. Orta derecede ağır ve humuslu topraklarda iyi yetişir. Hasat zamanı EKİM ayında ekimi ise NİSAN-MAYIS aylarındadır. Dekar başına 1-1,5 Kg. Tohum atılır.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;b. Susamın Tarihçesi kullanımı ve Temel Özellikleri&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Susam küspesinin de insan gıdası ve hayvan yemi olarak değeri büyüktür. Susam ilk defa kültüre alınan yağ bitkilerinden birisidir. Langham and Rodri (1947) , susamın İsa'dan 450 sene evvel Hindistan'da ve Çin' de besin maddesi olarak kullanıldığını bildirmişlerdir. (Elçi et al.,1994).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Susam tohumu insanoğlunun bildiği en eski tohumlardan biridir. Susam tohumlarının kökeni tam olarak bilinmesede, Eski Mısırlıların bu tohumdan un elde ettikleri ve bu undan ekmek yaptıkları gerçeğini kabul etmektedirler.Ayrıca susam tohumlarının Güney Hindistan'da M.Ö.3.000 yıllarında kullanılmaya başlandıgı yani 5.000 yıllık bir bitki oldugu'da kabul edilir.Susam tohumlarının, ilk defa yemeklere bir çeşni, tat vermek için katıldığına ve yağı çıkarılabilen ilk bitki olduğuna inanılır&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tropik ve subtropik iklim kuşağı susamın en iyi yetişme koşullarıdır. Vegetasyon devresinde aylık sıcaklık ortalaması 20 C 'den aşağı olmamalıdır. Gece ile gündüz arasındaki sıcaklık farkı az olursa susamın verimi artar. Orta derecede ağır, humuslu topraklarda iyi yetişir. pH nötr olmalıdır. Her kültür bitkisi ile ekim nöbetine girebilir. Pamuk, ayçiçeği, mısır, darı ile karışık tarım yapıldığı gibi yurdumuzda Güney Anadolu ve Ege bölgesin de ikinci ürün olarak ekilir (Elçi et al. 1994)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dünyada susam daha çok Afrika, Orta ve Güney Amerika ile Arap ve Asya ülkelerinde yetiştirilmektedir. En fazla ekimi Sudan, Venezuella, Hindistan, Nijerya, Çin, Meksika ve Burma'da yapılmaktadır. Bu ülkelerin birçoğu aynı zamanda ihracatçı durumundadır. FAO kaynaklarına göre 1982 yılı için Hindistan, Çin ve Sudan ağırlıklı olmak üzere yıllık üretimin 1,870,000 ton olduğu tahmin edilmektedir. (Anonymous, 1982).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Türkiye'de üretilen susam genellikle iç pazarda tüketilir. Üretimin ancak % 2 - 3 'ü ihraç edilmektedir. 1950 yılından bu tarafa memleketimizde susamdan yağ çıkarılmamaktadır. Yurdumuzda Güney, Güneybatı, Batı ve Marmara ile trakya bölgesinde birinci ve ikinci ürün olarak tek bitki, ara tarımı veya bazı bitkilerle karışık olarak ekilmektedir. İllere göre en fazla ekiliş Adana, Antalya, Çanakkale, Muğla, Edirne, İçel, Balıkesir, Manisa, İzmir ve Aydın'da yapılmaktadır. Türkiye susamlarının başlıca özellikleri yağ oranları oldukça yüksek fusarium hastalığına karşı mukavim dallanmaları kaba genellikle koyu renkli susamlardır. (Elçi et al. 1994)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Susamın Sistematikteki Yeri:&lt;br /&gt;Takım: Tubifloralcs&lt;br /&gt;Familya: Pedaliaccac&lt;br /&gt;Cins: Sesamun &lt;br /&gt;Tür: Sesamun indicum L.(n=13)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dış görünüşü daha doğrusu kabuk rengi bakımından beyaz ve kahverengi olmak üzere iki çeşit susam vardır. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-7219661380985587956?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/7219661380985587956/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=7219661380985587956&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/7219661380985587956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/7219661380985587956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/07/susam-tohumu-ve-faydalari.html' title='SUSAM TOHUMU VE FAYDALARI'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-7042999193430797838</id><published>2007-07-02T01:17:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-07-02T01:19:07.123+03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cartoon'/><title type='text'>Opps</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RogoQYgOQ8I/AAAAAAAAAF0/CtMwITk6OpI/s1600-h/%C3%A7%C4%B1ban.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082356441408226242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RogoQYgOQ8I/AAAAAAAAAF0/CtMwITk6OpI/s400/%C3%A7%C4%B1ban.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-7042999193430797838?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/7042999193430797838/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=7042999193430797838&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/7042999193430797838'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/7042999193430797838'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/07/opps.html' title='Opps'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RogoQYgOQ8I/AAAAAAAAAF0/CtMwITk6OpI/s72-c/%C3%A7%C4%B1ban.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-5820358802742642465</id><published>2007-06-26T12:20:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-06-26T12:24:17.084+03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dna'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cancer'/><title type='text'>DNA molecules</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Scientists track the influence of a cancer inhibitor on a single DNA molecule &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RoDbGzye09I/AAAAAAAAAFs/ULXwFyO9okk/s1600-h/b-dna.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5080301289701561298" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="257" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RoDbGzye09I/AAAAAAAAAFs/ULXwFyO9okk/s400/b-dna.jpg" width="338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Researchers in Delft University of Technology’s Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in The Netherlands have cast new light on the workings of the important cancer inhibitor topotecan. Little had been known about the underlying molecular mechanism, but the Delft scientists can now view the effects of the medicine live at the levelin of a single DNA molecule.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The research is being published this week in the journal Nature. The lead author of the article, Daniel Koster, will receive his PhD at TU Delft on Monday June 25, partly on the results described in the article. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The medicine investigated, topotecan, interacts with an important protein (TopoIB), causing a (cancer) cell to malfunction. The TopoIB protein is responsible for the removal of loops from DNA, which arise amongst other things during cell division. The TopoIB protein binds to the DNA molecule, clamps around it and cuts one of the two DNA strands, after which it allows it to unwind and finally joins the broken ends together. PhD candidate Daniel Koster, Master’s student Elisa Bot and researcher Nynke Dekker of the Molecular Biophysics group of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft have managed to unravel this mechanism in an extremely direct manner. In the laboratory they fixed a single DNA molecule between a glass plate and a magnetic sphere. With the help of two magnets they could both pull and twist the DNA molecule. When they added TopoIB to a twisted piece of DNA, they saw that the loops were slowly removed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;What is exceptional is that the action of one TopoIB enzyme on one DNA molecule could be observed live. In collaboration with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Memphis (USA) the mechanism could also be observed in living yeast cells. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-5820358802742642465?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/5820358802742642465/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=5820358802742642465&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/5820358802742642465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/5820358802742642465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/06/dna-molecules.html' title='DNA molecules'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RoDbGzye09I/AAAAAAAAAFs/ULXwFyO9okk/s72-c/b-dna.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-4659980408430612054</id><published>2007-06-24T01:01:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-06-24T01:05:33.249+03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nano'/><title type='text'>New nano-method</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;A team of chemists at Brown University have &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/Rn2Y3Dye08I/AAAAAAAAAFk/Z5U68cutVWI/s1600-h/newnanometho.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5079384026421056450" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/Rn2Y3Dye08I/AAAAAAAAAFk/Z5U68cutVWI/s400/newnanometho.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;devised a simple way to synthesize iron-platinum nanorods and nanowires while controlling both size and composition. Nanorods with uniform shape and magnetic alignment are one key to the next generation of high-density information storage, but have been difficult to make in bulk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;[&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Simply changing the ratio of two chemicals in solution changes the length of iron-platinum nanowires and nanorods: transmission electron microscope images of a) 200 nm wires; b) 50 nm wires; c) 20 nm rods; d) two individual 50 nm wires. Credit: Chao Wang &amp; Jaemin Kim/Brown University&lt;/span&gt;]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The technique, published online June 22 in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition, pro-duces nanorods and nanowires from 20 nm to 200 nm long, simply by varying the ratio of sol-vent and surfactant used in synthesis. Shouheng Sun, a professor of chemistry at Brown Univer-sity, postdoctoral researcher Yanglong Hou, and colleagues have also demonstrated that the same technique works to control the shape of cobalt-platinum nanorods, suggesting that it may work for many other combinations as well. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Just a few years ago, the average computer user’s documents, applications and even photos seemed to rattle around a 120 GB disk drive. Today’s multimedia-intensive user can exhaust that capacity in no time and the need continues to grow, but engineers expect to max out conven-tional magnetic storage techniques by about 2010. At that point, they’ll be looking for nanotech-nology to step up. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Whether it will be ready, remains to be seen. Getting tiny magnetic particles to align with each other has been one of the major obstacles to squeezing more information density out of the technology. Sun and Hou think they can harness particle shape to accomplish that critical task. “Many people think that shape can control alignment,” said Sun, “but controlling shape has not been so easy. This method gives us a really simple way to tune length, diameter and composition all at the same time.” A magnetic storage surface – the disk of a hard-disk drive -- consists of tiny sectors of magneti-cally-aligned particles. When the read-write head of a disk drive passes over a sector, it flips the magnetic field to the opposite direction – encoding a zero or a one. When it reads, it senses the magnetic field for the whole sector. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;To pack more information into a smaller area, engineers can make the particles smaller or the sectors smaller, but they need enough particles so that the occa-sional random flip doesn’t corrupt the whole sector. It is now possible to apply magnetic nanoparticles in a thin, dense layer, but the magnetic fields of randomly-oriented spherical particles tend to cancel each other out. Instead of lining up at six o’clock or twelve o’clock, many particles align at two, three, four or five o’clock, diluting the overall strength of the magnetic signal. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.physorg.com/news101737582.html"&gt;full story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-4659980408430612054?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/4659980408430612054/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=4659980408430612054&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/4659980408430612054'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/4659980408430612054'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/06/new-nano-method.html' title='New nano-method'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/Rn2Y3Dye08I/AAAAAAAAAFk/Z5U68cutVWI/s72-c/newnanometho.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-7215509579529812364</id><published>2007-06-18T20:32:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2007-06-18T20:34:28.228+03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cartoon'/><title type='text'>think</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RnbB7Tye07I/AAAAAAAAAFc/qybbA-JgA5Q/s1600-h/adem.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077458854575264690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="268" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RnbB7Tye07I/AAAAAAAAAFc/qybbA-JgA5Q/s400/adem.gif" width="441" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-7215509579529812364?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/7215509579529812364/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=7215509579529812364&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/7215509579529812364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/7215509579529812364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/06/think.html' title='think'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RnbB7Tye07I/AAAAAAAAAFc/qybbA-JgA5Q/s72-c/adem.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-7054736653319176847</id><published>2007-06-18T20:26:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-06-18T20:29:55.751+03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='omega3'/><title type='text'>Fish Oil</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;The Ultimate Battle: Flax Seed Oil vs Fish Oil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Understanding the differences – flax seed oil vs fish oil&lt;br /&gt;It’s the ages-old debate of flax seed oil vs fish oil. Which one is better, which one should you take? The questions abound.&lt;br /&gt;I’m going to breakdown the differences between flax seed oil vs fish oil so you know which does exactly what and which one is best for you. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flax Seed Oil vs Fish Oil&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RnbA3jye06I/AAAAAAAAAFU/shkh7iabUH4/s1600-h/fish+oil.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077457690639127458" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 256px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 281px" height="295" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RnbA3jye06I/AAAAAAAAAFU/shkh7iabUH4/s400/fish+oil.jpg" width="205" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are the Omega 3 oils in flax seed oil the same as the Omega 3 oils found in fish oil? The answer is a resounding no. While the Omega-3 fats in flax seed oil and fish oil are related, they do have a different chemical makeup.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Omega 3 Fatty Acids&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are three main types of fatty acids. EPA, DHA and ALA. Flax seed oil vs fish oil is as simple as EPA and DHA vs ALA.&lt;br /&gt;The Omega 3 fatty acids in fish oil are the EPA and DHA fatty acids and the Omega 3 fatty acids in flax seed oil are the ALA fatty acids.&lt;br /&gt;It is harder for your body to get the Omega 3 out of the ALA fatty acids and that’s why it’s so important that any Omega 3 supplement you take be derived from fish oil like the supplement available at this website.&lt;br /&gt;Do I Need Both?&lt;br /&gt;There is no harm in taking both flax seed oil and fish oil, if you’re taking the supplements to get the benefits touted for Omega 3 then you probably would be well off just taking fish oil supplements.&lt;br /&gt;When taking fish oil supplements, make sure that the supplements you are taking are pharmaceutical grade fish oil. This will ensure that you’re getting quality fish oil supplements without getting any nasty toxins left in the fish.&lt;br /&gt;In the battle of flax seed oil vs fish oil, both have their benefits, but fish oil definitely wins the battle. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-7054736653319176847?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/7054736653319176847/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=7054736653319176847&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/7054736653319176847'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/7054736653319176847'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/06/fish-oil.html' title='Fish Oil'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RnbA3jye06I/AAAAAAAAAFU/shkh7iabUH4/s72-c/fish+oil.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-8100943558630134224</id><published>2007-06-18T20:22:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-06-18T20:26:27.190+03:00</updated><title type='text'>About Omega 3</title><content type='html'>Exactly What You Might Want to Know About Omega 3&lt;br /&gt;So you've heard about Omega 3, but you're not sure exactly what it is? Worry not! My name is "Dr. Omega" and I'm here to give you the ins and the outs of Omega 3.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm rather an expert on the subject of Omega 3 fatty acids and I'm going to make sure you learn everything you need to know about the subject.&lt;br /&gt;It's Good For You -- Body and Soul&lt;br /&gt;From healthy hearts to healthy minds, Omega 3 has been helping people improve their quality of life. The problem is that getting Omega 3 from diet alone isn't the easiest thing to do -- nor is it the safest.&lt;br /&gt;What You'll Find on This Site&lt;br /&gt;I'm going to show you how to get enough Omega 3, where to get it, and what to look for.&lt;br /&gt;You'll learn who should take Omega 3 and what it can do for you.&lt;br /&gt;I'll also be sharing the nitty-gritty information on Omega 3, as well as some easy tips and tricks for you to use, so get ready for the ride of your life -- you're about to learn everything there is to know about Omega 3!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-8100943558630134224?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/8100943558630134224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=8100943558630134224&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/8100943558630134224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/8100943558630134224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/06/about-omega-3.html' title='About Omega 3'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-6191029885158467413</id><published>2007-06-06T21:53:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-06-06T22:04:29.820+03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nano'/><title type='text'>The original nano workout</title><content type='html'>&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073028634464146306" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RmcEqjye04I/AAAAAAAAAFE/fE9QoWC5XsQ/s400/densifiedcar.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method of compacting carbon nanotubes into dense bundles. These tightly packed bundles are efficient conductors and could one day replace copper as the primary interconnects used on computer chips and even hasten the transition to next-generation 3-D stacked chips.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RmcE8Dye05I/AAAAAAAAAFM/arqst5VDAMo/s1600-h/1-carbonnanotu.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073028935111857042" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RmcE8Dye05I/AAAAAAAAAFM/arqst5VDAMo/s400/1-carbonnanotu.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Lu’s team discovered that by immersing vertically grown carbon nanotube bundles into a liquid organic solvent and allowing them to dry, the nanotubes pull close together into a dense bundle. Lu attributes the densification process to capillary coalescence, which is the same physical principle that allows moisture to move up a piece of tissue paper that is dipped into water. The process boosts the density of these carbon nanotube bundles by five to 25 times. The higher the density, the better they can conduct electricity, Lu said. Several factors, including nanotube height, diameter, and spacing, affect the resulting density, Liu added. How the nanotubes are grown is also an important factor that impacts the resulting shape of the densified bundles. Images of the experiment are more striking than any “before and after” photos of the latest fad diet. In one instance, Liu started with a carbon nanotube bundle 500 micrometers in diameter, shaped somewhat like a marshmallow, and dipped it into a bath of isopropyl alcohol. As the alcohol dried and evaporated, capillary forces drew the nanotubes closer together. Van Der Waals forces, the same molecular bonds that boost the adhesion of millions of setae on gecko toes and help the lizard defy gravity, ensure the nanotubes retain their tightly packed form. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Despite his initial successes, Lu said the density results obtained are not ideal and carbon nanotubes would have to be further compacted before they can outperform copper as a conductor. A close-up photo, taken using a scanning electron microscope, reveals there are still large empty spaces between densified nanotubes. The research team is exploring various methods to achieve ever-higher density and higher quality of carbon nanotube bundles, he said. Lu is confident that these densified carbon nanotubes, with their high conductivity, ability to carry high current density, and resistance to electromigration, will be key to the development of 3-D computer chips. Chips used today can only shrink so much smaller, as their flat surface must have enough room to accommodate scores of different components. But the semiconductor industry and academia are looking at ways to layer chip components into a vertical stack, which could dramatically shrink the size of the overall chip. Densified carbon nanotubes, with their ends trimmed and polished, can be the basic building blocks for interconnects that would link the stacked layers of a 3-D computer chip, Lu said. “Carbon nanotubes are one of the most promising materials for interconnects in 3-D integration,” he said. Other potential applications of the densified nanotubes are high surface area electrodes for supercapacitors, fuel cell electrodes for hydrogen storage, heat dissipation materials for thermal conductors, and other situations that require high electrical, thermal, or mechanical performance.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-6191029885158467413?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/6191029885158467413/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=6191029885158467413&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/6191029885158467413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/6191029885158467413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/06/original-nano-workout.html' title='The original nano workout'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RmcEqjye04I/AAAAAAAAAFE/fE9QoWC5XsQ/s72-c/densifiedcar.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-3985138777524365455</id><published>2007-06-02T17:12:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-06-02T17:16:40.358+03:00</updated><title type='text'>BEST 2007 PIC</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RmF7nhZ-U9I/AAAAAAAAAE0/t16pmVrsBRo/s1600-h/54.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071470574308316114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RmF7nhZ-U9I/AAAAAAAAAE0/t16pmVrsBRo/s400/54.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RmF7bhZ-U8I/AAAAAAAAAEs/lD6G4rR048I/s1600-h/AcTT1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071470368149885890" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RmF7bhZ-U8I/AAAAAAAAAEs/lD6G4rR048I/s400/AcTT1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RmF7FRZ-U7I/AAAAAAAAAEk/8QKMBgouYvA/s1600-h/noname.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071469985897796530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RmF7FRZ-U7I/AAAAAAAAAEk/8QKMBgouYvA/s400/noname.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-3985138777524365455?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/3985138777524365455/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=3985138777524365455&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/3985138777524365455'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/3985138777524365455'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/06/best-2007-pic.html' title='BEST 2007 PIC'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RmF7nhZ-U9I/AAAAAAAAAE0/t16pmVrsBRo/s72-c/54.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-1481381531372269770</id><published>2007-06-02T17:07:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-06-02T17:11:37.505+03:00</updated><title type='text'>'Virtual Patient' to simulate real-time organ motions for radiation therapy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RmF6KBZ-U6I/AAAAAAAAAEc/b07qmSsxGWQ/s1600-h/virtualpatie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071468967990547362" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RmF6KBZ-U6I/AAAAAAAAAEc/b07qmSsxGWQ/s400/virtualpatie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Rensselaer researchers awarded major NIH grant to develop 4-D virtual patient model With a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are developing a physics-based virtual model that can simulate a patient's breathing in real time. When used in conjunction with existing 3-D models, adding the fourth dimension of time could significantly improve the accuracy and effectiveness of radiation treatment for lung and liver cancers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The key challenge in this project is to develop the algorithms that will make the virtual lungs and adjacent tissues move in real time according to realistic tissue biomechanical properties, De said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Xu expects that the physics-based 4-D VIP-Man will eventually be used as an even more general anatomical modeling tool for the biomedical community to help patients with respiratory and cardiac diseases. At the same time, Xu will continue to work on the 3-D VIP-Man to create a "family" of virtual patients, ranging in ages and sizes, in collaboration with researchers worldwide through the Consortium of Computational Human Phantoms (http://www.virtualphantoms.org), co-founded by Xu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The collaboration with the group in Texas came about when Xu's former student, Chengyu Shi, a clinical medical physicist, and Martin Fuss, a radiation oncologist, expressed their interests to develop better radiation treatment by accounting for lung movement. Xu contacted De, who had been using the 3-D VIP-Man to simulate tissue deformation for surgical procedures, and the idea to take 3-D VIP-Man into the fourth dimension was born.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Xu has been working on the 3-D VIP-Man since 1997 using the original Visible Human Project dataset provided by the National Library of Medicine, also funded by several grants from NIH as well as a National Science Foundation CAREER grant. The new four-year, $2 million grant is funded by the National Library of Medicine, which is part of NIH.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-1481381531372269770?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/1481381531372269770/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=1481381531372269770&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/1481381531372269770'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/1481381531372269770'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/06/virtual-patient-to-simulate-real-time.html' title='&apos;Virtual Patient&apos; to simulate real-time organ motions for radiation therapy'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RmF6KBZ-U6I/AAAAAAAAAEc/b07qmSsxGWQ/s72-c/virtualpatie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-7931437218113647171</id><published>2007-06-02T16:49:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-06-02T16:57:57.895+03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='other'/><title type='text'>Cellular message movement captured on video</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;These time-lapse images of a bovine aortic endothelial cell reveal the motion toward the cell's nucleus of a message-carrying protein called paxillin (orange) in tandem with actin filaments (green). Credit: UC San Diego &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Proper signaling step required for controlled cell growth -&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RmF3TRZ-U5I/AAAAAAAAAEU/m_2G8EsDtQ8/s1600-h/cellularmess.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071465828369453970" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" height="240" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RmF3TRZ-U5I/AAAAAAAAAEU/m_2G8EsDtQ8/s400/cellularmess.jpg" width="259" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- otherwise, cancer and other diseases can result&lt;br /&gt;Scientists have captured on video the intracellular version of a postal delivery service. Reporting in the journal Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications (BBRC), bioengineering researchers at UC San Diego published videos of a key message-carrying protein called paxillin moving abruptly from hubs of communication and transportation activity on the cell surface toward the nucleus. Paxillin was labeled with a red fluorescence marker to make it stand out in live cells.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“It’s amazing to us. We thought the cell was so simple,” said Shu Chien, the senior author of the BBRC paper and a professor of bioengineering at UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering. “But it’s really very complex and I’m not sure we’re covering much as yet. We certainly don’t know all the interactions among these molecules that bring the cell into action.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cancer researchers are eager to understand paxillin’s many interactions because their malfunctions have been linked to a variety of cancers, tumor metastasis, and other disease processes. Tumor-causing versions of signaling molecules may attach to paxillin and disturb the normal adhesion and growth factor signaling steps required for controlled proliferation and cell growth. For example, human papilloma virus, which can cause cervical cancer, makes a protein that binds to paxillin and that interaction may contribute to the carcinogenic potential of the sexually transmitted virus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chien and Hu obtained cells for their most recent study from the inner membranous lining of a cow aorta. They added genetically engineered proteins tagged with red and green fluorescence markers to the bovine aortic endothelial cells, grew them in tissue culture, and filmed them while they passed fluid across the cells’ surface in a simulation of flowing blood. With that physical stimulus, paxillin consistently moved in the same direction as the fluid flow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paxillin is found primarily at focal adhesions, busy intersections of activity scattered around the cell’s cytoplasmic membrane. Focal adhesions are regions rich with receptors for growth factors and they are also structural attachment points that link the extracellular world to the protein filaments and tubes that comprise a cell’s internal cytoskeleton.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While researchers showed that paxillin serves as a docking station for a variety of signaling and structural proteins, they have been limited to visualizing paxillin with dyes that stain cells rigidly attached to microscope slides. Those snapshots of fixed cells can’t reveal paxillin movement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We can now see the dynamics of how paxillin and other proteins move inside the cell with new fluorescent labels and live-cell video microscopy,” said Chien, director of the Whitaker Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the Jacobs School.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The two-color labeling technique of Chien and Hu revealed that red-labeled paxillin is linked to green-labeled actin filaments, the thinnest of three types of protein filaments that make up the cytoskeleton of cells of higher organisms. Paxillin either slides along the actin filaments or is pulled by them. In a surprise, Chien and Hu also showed that paxillin itself forms long, fibrous structures in the cell cytoplasm.When actin is chemically removed, paxillin no longer moves and its fibrous structures disappear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“As least by showing that paxillin and actin filaments move together we have some insight into the possibility of how paxillin can transmit information from one region of the cell, such as the periphery, to another region of the cell, such as the nucleus,” said Chien. “The whole situation is much more complex than we have been able to show.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chien, Hu, and their colleagues at UCSD had previously reported that paxillin can be rapidly assembled and disassembled, and they hypothesize that this process enables cell migration by assembling new focal adhesion sites in the direction of cell movement and disassembling them on the trailing side of the cell. Researchers are applying the fluorescence-labeling technique to the many other signaling and structural proteins found predominantly at focal adhesions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“When we piece all of these things together we can get a more complete understanding of how the cell functions, both in migration and signal transduction,” said Chien. “If we can understand the details of these processes, we can not only understand how normal cells function, but we can also look at diseased cells to see why they sometimes don’t move properly or why they don’t transmit information properly.” &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-7931437218113647171?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/7931437218113647171/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=7931437218113647171&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/7931437218113647171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/7931437218113647171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/06/cellular-message-movement-captured-on.html' title='Cellular message movement captured on video'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RmF3TRZ-U5I/AAAAAAAAAEU/m_2G8EsDtQ8/s72-c/cellularmess.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-8042827223526038719</id><published>2007-05-24T17:35:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-05-24T17:55:21.193+03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cartoon'/><title type='text'>Woman&amp;Woman</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RlWjYhZ-U4I/AAAAAAAAAEM/hsfeUq18CN4/s1600-h/womanneister+(3).gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068136597354861442" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RlWjYhZ-U4I/AAAAAAAAAEM/hsfeUq18CN4/s400/womanneister+(3).gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RlWjYRZ-U3I/AAAAAAAAAEE/99WYRC15oqQ/s1600-h/womanneister+(2).gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068136593059894130" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RlWjYRZ-U3I/AAAAAAAAAEE/99WYRC15oqQ/s400/womanneister+(2).gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RlWjYRZ-U2I/AAAAAAAAAD8/qZ2wtrN1xQQ/s1600-h/womanneister+(1).gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068136593059894114" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="204" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RlWjYRZ-U2I/AAAAAAAAAD8/qZ2wtrN1xQQ/s400/womanneister+(1).gif" width="200" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RlWjYBZ-U1I/AAAAAAAAAD0/fAWmxGoPqss/s1600-h/womanneister.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068136588764926802" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RlWjYBZ-U1I/AAAAAAAAAD0/fAWmxGoPqss/s400/womanneister.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-8042827223526038719?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/8042827223526038719/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=8042827223526038719&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/8042827223526038719'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/8042827223526038719'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/05/woman.html' title='Woman&amp;Woman'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RlWjYhZ-U4I/AAAAAAAAAEM/hsfeUq18CN4/s72-c/womanneister+(3).gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-5419727789281691786</id><published>2007-05-18T19:06:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-05-18T19:09:54.220+03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Birth'/><title type='text'>Birth danger risk could be cut by taking aspirin</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;TAKING aspirin during pregnancy could help to reduce the risk of pre-eclampsia, scientists said yesterday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/Rk3PrxZ-U0I/AAAAAAAAADs/VKoboyEquEE/s1600-h/240354.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065933506765280066" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="221" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/Rk3PrxZ-U0I/AAAAAAAAADs/VKoboyEquEE/s320/240354.jpg" width="166" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Researchers in the UK and Australia looked at studies involving more than 30,000 women to see if the common drug significantly cuts the danger of the potentially fatal condition, which kills about 1,000 babies a year in the UK.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They found that a daily low dose of aspirin or similar drugs cut the risk of developing pre-eclampsia, which is associated with high blood pressure, by 10 per cent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The likelihood of giving birth before 34 weeks and of having other serious complications also fell by 10 per cent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Doctors and campaigners welcomed the findings, but there were warnings about other side-effects from aspirin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pre-eclampsia is caused by a defect in the placenta, which joins mother and child and supplies the baby with nutrients and oxygen from the parent's blood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The condition occurs in about one in ten pregnancies - and in one in 50 in its most severe form.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is thought to be responsible for the deaths of 600 to 1,000 babies a year in the UK and up to five mothers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The condition is curable only by delivering the baby, which puts some infants at risk of death caused by prematurity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The research, published in the medical journal Lancet, examined the use of aspirin in pregnant women combining data from 31 clinical trials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In these trials, involving 32,000 women, 8 per cent of expectant mothers developed pre-eclampsia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the researchers found that those taking aspirin had a 10 per cent lower chance of developing the condition, as well as lower risks of pre-term births and other serious complications.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As pre-eclampsia is thought to be linked to irregular blood flow, aspirin's anti-clotting effect could be leading to the benefits, the study said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The researchers, including teams from Oxford University and York University, did not find any particular group of women who were more likely to benefit from taking aspirin during pregnancy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said the latest study findings were "very valuable". Patrick O'Brien, a spokesman for the college, said: "It is a moderate reduction of around 10 per cent, but given that pre-eclampsia is potentially serious for some women and their babies, this is an important finding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"No single sub-group of women seems to benefit particularly from low-dose aspirin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The decision on whether to take it in pregnancy should be made following discussion between the woman and her obstetrician, taking into account her individual risk of developing the condition," he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite the findings, the baby charity Tommy's said it believed that not all pregnant women should routinely be prescribed aspirin. Professor Andrew Shennan said: "It's important to bear in mind that if this were the case, for every 50 women prescribed aspirin, it would only have an impact on one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Only pregnant women at increased risk of developing pre-eclampsia should be given aspirin during pregnancy. Risk factors range from women who've had pre-eclampsia before, those women carrying multiple pregnancies and women over 35 years of age."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In another article also published online in the Lancet, doctors from the United States said that the potential risks of aspirin use must be considered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Long-term use has been linked to an increased risk of stomach ulcers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They said in lower-risk cases, it was more difficult to judge whether benefits outweighed long-term risks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A CURE FOR EVERY ILL?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ASPIRIN has been used to help prevent heart attacks and stroke among those with cardiovascular disease for some time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Various studies have found the drug can significantly reduce the risk of heart problems, although concerns about side-effects such as stomach ulcers remain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a particular concern for healthy people taking a daily dose of aspirin believing it is good for their health.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This belief has been boosted by repeated reports of the drug's benefits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since it was first distributed to doctors in 1899, numerous studies have suggested the drug is effective against a whole host of illnesses. These include:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• ASTHMA: Earlier this year research published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine suggested aspirin might reduce the chance of adults developing of asthma.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The study found that among a large group of healthy men, those taking a single aspirin every other day were 22 per cent less likely to develop asthma than those who did not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• PROSTATE: Last year researchers from the Mayo Clinic in the United States said that the use of certain drugs, including aspirin, could help reduce or delay the risk of an enlarged prostate. Another study found that men who regularly took aspirin might increase their chance of surviving prostate cancer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• SKIN: Australian researchers have suggested that the regular use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, including aspirin, could offer protection against skin cancer and the growth of certain types of malignant cells.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• BREAST: Research conducted at Columbia University in 2004 found that the regular use of aspirin might reduce the risk of breast cancer, particularly among women with hormone-sensitive tumours. Daily use seemed to have the biggest benefits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• HODGKIN'S DISEASE: Research from the Harvard School of Public Health found that low-dose aspirin use might lower the risk of Hodgkin's disease.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• BOWEL: In 2004, research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that aspirin in higher doses might protect against bowel cancer. The study, involving 27,000 women, discovered that, as use of aspirin increased, the risk of developing cancer fell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MFTGEGO-uTs"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MFTGEGO-uTs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• PANCREAS: A study by the University of Minnesota in 2002 found that women who regularly took aspirin might be less likely to get pancreatic cancer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• VIRUSES: In 2002 a study found that aspirin might block the replication of a common virus linked to birth defects and immune system disorders &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-5419727789281691786?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/5419727789281691786/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=5419727789281691786&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/5419727789281691786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/5419727789281691786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/05/birth-danger-risk-could-be-cut-by.html' title='Birth danger risk could be cut by taking aspirin'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/Rk3PrxZ-U0I/AAAAAAAAADs/VKoboyEquEE/s72-c/240354.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-565512519647060717</id><published>2007-05-18T19:02:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-05-18T19:06:37.233+03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hair'/><title type='text'>Study: Adult mice can regenerate hair</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;U.S. scientists have discovered adult mice can &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/Rk3OyRZ-UzI/AAAAAAAAADk/NYDECjUVwqg/s1600-h/b_a_h3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065932518922801970" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/Rk3OyRZ-UzI/AAAAAAAAADk/NYDECjUVwqg/s320/b_a_h3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;regenerate hair follicles and hair in a study that might help in developing treatments for skin disorders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The research by George Cotsarelis and colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has also helped resolve a 50-year-long controversy and might aid in the design of treatments for both hair loss and degenerative skin problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For half a century, most people believed mammalian hair follicles form only during development and that loss of adult follicles is permanent. But the new study shows that is not the case, at least for adult mice with skin wounds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wounding, said the researchers, triggers new hair-producing follicles to form. Exposure to Wnt signaling -- a genetic pathway involved in normal hair follicle development and cycling -- following wounding increases the number of regenerated hair follicles. And Wnt signaling inhibition after regrowth of the epithelium prevents new follicles from forming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The study, said the scientists, suggests mammalian skin can respond to wounding with plasticity and a much greater regenerative capacity than was previously believed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The research is detailed in the journal Nature.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-565512519647060717?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/565512519647060717/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=565512519647060717&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/565512519647060717'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/565512519647060717'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/05/study-adult-mice-can-regenerate-hair.html' title='Study: Adult mice can regenerate hair'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/Rk3OyRZ-UzI/AAAAAAAAADk/NYDECjUVwqg/s72-c/b_a_h3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-936539896439873688</id><published>2007-05-10T21:48:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-05-10T21:58:05.582+03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cancer'/><title type='text'>Risk of Cancer</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Doctors: Swedish Snus Cut Risk of Cancer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People who use Swedish moist snuff (snus) run twice &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RkNrEaJdS4I/AAAAAAAAADc/FMce_O3bWI4/s1600-h/tobacco.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5063008129577208706" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" height="287" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RkNrEaJdS4I/AAAAAAAAADc/FMce_O3bWI4/s320/tobacco.jpg" width="276" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;the risk of developing cancer of the pancreas. This is the main result of a follow-up study conducted by Karolinska Institutet researchers amongst almost 300,000 male construction workers. The study is published today online in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Tobacco smoking is a known risk factor for pancreatic cancer, which is an unusually malignant form of the disease. Since it is common for people who take snus – a tobacco product designed for insertion between the gum and upper lip – to also smoke cigarettes, the challenge facing epidemiological research into snus and cancer has been to isolate the effects of the different kinds of tobacco. What makes this new study unique is that it has been possible to study the correlation between snus and cancer risk in a large enough group of men who have never smoked. The subjects attended health check ups between 1978 and 1992, during which they were asked to report on their smoking and ’snusing’ habits. The researchers have also studied rates of oral and lung cancer amongst the men, but found no correlation to snus. "We’re actually not that surprised," says project leader Professor Olof Nyrén of the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. "Pancreatic cancer has been under discussion in several earlier epidemiological studies on humans, both regarding Scandinavian snus and American smoke-free tobacco. On the other hand, previous studies of oral and lung cancer in relation to Scandinavian snus have been negative." The main contribution of the new study is its conclusion that Swedish moist snus can be carcinogenic. However, the study also shows that the risks for users are small, and, as far as can be judged, much smaller than the risks associated with smoking. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;"If 10,000 non-smoking snus users are monitored for ten years, according to our data, eight or nine of them will develop pancreatic cancer, as opposed to four amongst those who use neither product. But 9,991 won’t, so the odds aren’t that bad," he says. The debate on whether the net effect of snus is positive or negative has been raging for many years. Some scientists and health carers have advocated the use of snus, as it is likely to lead to that people will smoke less. However, Professor Nyrén argues that it is important to have all the facts on the table before any advice can be given about snus as a way to cut down on smoking. "We don’t only need reliable and accurate measures of the risks of both smoking and taking snus, we also need know the effects of other, alternative methods to cut smoking. We also have to be certain that an increase in snus marketing will not cause addictions in young people who otherwise wouldn’t have started to smoke," he says. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-936539896439873688?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/936539896439873688/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=936539896439873688&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/936539896439873688'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/936539896439873688'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/05/risk-of-cancer.html' title='Risk of Cancer'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RkNrEaJdS4I/AAAAAAAAADc/FMce_O3bWI4/s72-c/tobacco.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-6587751461658917837</id><published>2007-05-04T12:21:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-05-04T12:23:44.806+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Pistachios lower cholesterol</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pistachios lower cholesterol, provide antioxidants&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A handful of pistachios may lower cholesterol and provide the antioxidants usually found in leafy green vegetables and brightly colored fruit, according to a team of researchers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;"Pistachio amounts of 1.5 ounces and 3 ounces – one to two handfuls – reduced risk for cardiovascular disease by significantly reducing LDL cholesterol levels and the higher dose significantly reduced lipoprotein ratios," says Sarah K. Gebauer, graduate student in integrative biosciences, Penn State, to attendees at the Experimental Biology meeting today (April 30) in Washington, D.C. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The researchers conducted a randomized, crossover design, controlled feeding experiment to test the effects of pistachios added to a heart healthy moderate-fat diet on cardiovascular disease risk factors. Controlled feeding experiments provide all the food eaten by study subjects for the duration of the study segment. Participants began the study by eating an Average American Diet consisting of 35 percent total fat and 11 percent saturated fat for two weeks. They then tested three diets for four weeks each with a two-week break between each diet. All three diets were variations on the Step I Diet, a cholesterol-lowering diet in general use. The diets included a Step I Diet without pistachios which had 25 percent total fat and 8 percent saturated fat; a Step I Diet including 1.5 ounces of pistachios per day which had 30 percent total fat and 8 percent saturated fat, and a Step I Diet including three ounces of pistachios per day which had 34 percent total fat and 8 percent saturated fat. The researchers added pistachios into the diets by including about half the amount of pistachios as a snack and by incorporating the rest into such foods as pistachio muffins, granola and pistachio pesto. "We had really good compliance and participants were generally pleased with the diets," says Gebauer. Standard blood tests determined the various cholesterol levels in the participant’s blood after each diet. Researchers found that 3 ounces of pistachios reduced the amounts of total cholesterol in the blood by 8.4 percent and low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the so-called bad cholesterol, by 11.6 percent. The study also found that non-high density lipoproteins (non-HDL) decreased by 11.2 percent. Non-HDL levels are considered reliable predictors of cardiovascular disease risk.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-6587751461658917837?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/6587751461658917837/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=6587751461658917837&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/6587751461658917837'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/6587751461658917837'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/05/pistachios-lower-cholesterol.html' title='Pistachios lower cholesterol'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-6285558081654962994</id><published>2007-05-02T12:52:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-05-02T12:56:16.326+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Not so contoversial anymore</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not so contoversial anymore -- panel says moderate coffee drinking reduces many risks&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Although the American Society for Nutrition’s popular “controversy session” at Experimental Biology 2007 focuses on the health effects of coffee drinking, panel chair Dr. James Coughlin, a toxicology/safety consultant at Coughlin &amp; Associates, says that recent advances in epidemiologic and experimental knowledge have transformed many of the negative health myths about coffee drinking into validated health benefits&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Indeed, panel co-chair Dan Steffen, who follows coffee and health issues in the Scientific and Regulatory Affairs group of Kraft Foods, note that the “controversy” is often to educate a wider audience about this transformation in understanding. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RjhgIKJdS3I/AAAAAAAAADU/wt07MC-4FU0/s1600-h/B-coffe-3-thumb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059899874629995378" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 234px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" height="211" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RjhgIKJdS3I/AAAAAAAAADU/wt07MC-4FU0/s320/B-coffe-3-thumb.jpg" width="234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Coffee is among the most widely consumed beverages in the world, and Dr. Coughlin says that the preponderance of scientific evidence - some by the panelists - suggests that moderate coffee consumption (3-5 cups per day) may be associated with reduced risk of certain disease conditions, such as Parkinson’s disease. Some research in neuropharamacology suggests that one cup of coffee can halve the risk of Parkinson’s disease. Other studies have found it reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease, kidney stones, gallstones, depression and even suicide. Dr. Coughlin and two distinguished researchers discussed some of the benefits - and a couple of the remaining increased risk factors (possible increase in blood pressure and plasma homocysteine) - on April 30 at the Experimental Biology meeting in Washington, DC. Dr. Rob van Dam, an epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard Medical School, studies the link between diet and the development of type 2 diabetes. Worldwide, an estimated 171 million persons have diabetes, mostly type 2 diabetes, and an alarming increase to 366 million persons is expected for the year 2030. While increased physical activity and restriction of energy intake can substantially reduce risk of type 2 diabetes, he believes insight into the role of other lifestyle factors may contribute to additional prevention strategies for type 2 diabetes. In recent epidemiological studies in the U.S., Europe and Japan, persons who were heavy coffee consumers had a lower risk of type 2 diabetes than persons who consumed little coffee. Interestingly, he says, associations were similar for caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee, suggesting that coffee components other than caffeine may be beneficial for glucose metabolism. Coffee contains hundreds of components including substantial amounts of chlorogenic acid, caffeine, magnesium, potassium, vitamin B3, trigonelline, and lignans. Limited evidence suggests that coffee may improve glucose metabolism by reducing the rate of intestinal glucose absorption and by stimulating the secretion of the gut hormone glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) that is beneficial for the secretion of insulin. However, most mechanistic research on coffee and glucose metabolism has been done in animals and in lab tubes and therefore metabolic studies in humans are currently being conducted. Further research may lead to the development or selection of coffee types with improved health effects. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Dr. Lenore Arab, a nutritional epidemiologist in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, notes that the first coffee controversy dates back 430 years when in 1570 some monks petitioned the pope to condemn this drink, so popular among Muslims. Pope Clement VIII, liking how it kept the monks from falling sleep during mass, purportedly blessed it instead. The rest, including the United States’ wholesale conversion to coffee following the Boston Tea Party, is history. In reviewing the latest epidemiologic literature on cancers and coffee, Dr. Arab has found there to be close to 400 studies of the associations between coffee consumption and cancers various at various sites. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;The earlier controversy with regard to colon cancer was based on flawed analyses, she says. More thorough analyses and the accumulation of evidence suggest no negative effect on the incidence of colon cancer, and possible protective effects for adenomas of the colon as well as for rectal cancer and liver cancer. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Mechanisms which might contribute to a possible anticarcinogenic effect include reduction in cholesterol, bile acid and neutral sterol secretion in the colon, increased colonic motility and reduced exposure of epithelium to carcinogens, the ability of diterpenes to reduce genotoxicity of carcinogens, and lower DNA adduct formation, and the ability of caffeic acid and chlorogenic acid to decreased DNA methylation. In other cancers - breast, ovarian, and prostate - the evidence is not suggestive of either risk or protection. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;There are two areas, says Dr. Arab, in which there is some evidence of increased risk: leukemia and stomach cancer. The evidence for the former is intriguing, for the latter insubstantial. She concludes that a systematic review of the newer&lt;/span&gt; data for liver, rectal, stomach cancer and for childhood leukemia is due. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-6285558081654962994?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/6285558081654962994/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=6285558081654962994&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/6285558081654962994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/6285558081654962994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/05/not-so-contoversial-anymore.html' title='Not so contoversial anymore'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RjhgIKJdS3I/AAAAAAAAADU/wt07MC-4FU0/s72-c/B-coffe-3-thumb.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-7767387782561740081</id><published>2007-04-27T23:23:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-04-27T23:24:28.580+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Break your kid's whining habit</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;When it comes to torture, we could all learn a thing or two from &lt;a href="http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/HEALTH/parenting/04/26/par.no.whining/story.stop.whining.gi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 221px; CURSOR: hand" height="176" alt="" src="http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/HEALTH/parenting/04/26/par.no.whining/story.stop.whining.gi.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;kids. Who knows better than they how to extract most anything they want within minutes of applying the technique? I'm talking about whining, of course -- that grating mewling that causes us to do anything (anything!) just to make it go away. But you can break the habit. And the rewards of victory can be rich for both of you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Toddlers&lt;br /&gt;Why they do it: Early talkers whine like babies cry. Some experts say that whining tends to peak in a child's development when she's feeling out of control and overwhelmed -- emotions that pretty much sum up toddlerhood. She lacks the vocabulary to articulate her frustrations, and that whimpering is the natural default noise. Certain triggers, such as hunger and fatigue, can also cause breakdowns (true for kids of all ages), so keep that in mind the next time you take your toddler grocery shopping close to naptime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How to stop it: Patience becomes the first rule when confronted with these early bouts of whining. When her son, Matthew, who's almost 3, melts down because he can't wait 10 more minutes for dinner, Rae Sullivan of Durham, North Carolina, gives him a little extra attention, like five minutes of lap or snuggle time. Those five minutes are well spent if it means she can finish cooking without another whinefest. Tossing him a few crackers to eat in the meantime doesn't hurt, either. (Parenting.com: When good kids mouth off )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A lot of toddlers don't even know they're whining," says Sheila Oliveri, a mom of three and a nursery school teacher in St. Louis, Missouri. So give your little complainer an exaggerated demonstration: "Whyyyyyy are you taaaalkingg like thaaaaaat?" The result will be twofold: "You'll show her exactly how irritating whining is," says Oliveri, "and you may make her laugh, which will make her forget why she was complaining in the first place." Or try recording your child. Play it back to her so she knows what she sounds like, and work with her on better ways to ask for the things she wants or needs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Preschoolers&lt;br /&gt;Why they do it: Like toddlers, the 3-to-5 set has a low threshold for frustration. Plus, they're going through a lot of changes -- such as starting school, facing a new baby sib, or graduating to a big-kid bed -- that make them extra hungry for your attention, even if it's the negative kind. ( Parenting.com: Moving to a big-kid bed)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How to stop it: The great thing about preschoolers is that they can still be distracted by a clever trick. For instance, Debbie Granick of St. Louis uses a "whine" cup, or bowl or bucket or whatever's at hand. "Whenever one of them starts, I say, 'Here, go pour out your whine and bring me your regular voice.' It gets a smile, or at least that 'Oh, Mom' look, and then they'll usually change their tone." She then thanks her child for using a "pleasant" voice. Or whisper your answer back. "You may have to whisper it several times, but your child will have to be quiet to hear you, and a lot of times he'll mimic your tone of voice," says Karen Shaffer, a mom of three in Highland, California.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the time they're 4, most kids are able to understand that their behavior has consequences. So you can start using the "I can't understand you when you whine" technique. "When my children complain, I say, 'I'm sorry, but when you talk in that voice, I can't understand anything you're saying. Use your normal voice and I'll try to listen to you.' Then I ignore them until they start to comply," says Audrey Smith, a mom of two in Long Beach, California. It works, she says, but you have to be as consistent as possible. And that's not easy, as we all know. Who among us hasn't caved in? Trouble is, if your child sees you can be broken, he'll simply up the ante, and your whining problem will be worse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besides being consistent, look for ways to reinforce the behavior you do want, like thanking him when he repeats his request in a polite tone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grade-schoolers&lt;br /&gt;Why they do it: Besides whining when they're tired or hungry, kids grumble when they're asked to do things they don't want to do (insert your chore of choice) or when they're bored. Whining is learned behavior, and by the time a kid is in elementary school, she's a pro. (Parenting.com: Little kid, big temper?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How to stop it: Some moms swear by sending their child to the "whine" room as soon as she starts. Sending her away -- to the corner of the living room, say, and letting her vent aloud to herself -- spares you from having to listen to it and may help the offender understand what she sounds like.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shaffer has another tactic when her school-age kids start in. "Every whine costs them a nickel, to be deposited in a special jar," she says. "Then we give the money to the charity box at church on Sunday." When you're out in public, you can head off most whining by establishing some rules before you leave. My two kids know that there's every possibility of a small candy or sticker purchase if they make Mommy's trip to Target as pleasant as possible. They also know that the moment they start complaining in that tone of voice, the deal's off. Sometimes my 5-year-old slips up, but my 8-year-old has this rule down cold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It bears keeping in mind that everyone whines -- moms and dads, too. But our kids model their behavior on ours, so the next time you're griping about soccer-practice schedule, take a minute to listen to yourself and then go put a nickel in the whine jar. Your child will be impressed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besides contributing regularly to Parenting, Julie Tilsner writes about kids and food at badhomecooking.blogspot.com. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-7767387782561740081?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/7767387782561740081/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=7767387782561740081&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/7767387782561740081'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/7767387782561740081'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/04/break-your-kids-whining-habit.html' title='Break your kid&apos;s whining habit'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-1198394416560418406</id><published>2007-04-27T23:13:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-04-27T23:23:12.671+03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='diet'/><title type='text'>BİG Möö</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RjJbh6JdS2I/AAAAAAAAADM/29TaiteAVzo/s1600-h/funlok.com+(1)2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058205969593224034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RjJbh6JdS2I/AAAAAAAAADM/29TaiteAVzo/s400/funlok.com+(1)2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-1198394416560418406?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/1198394416560418406/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=1198394416560418406&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/1198394416560418406'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/1198394416560418406'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/04/big-m.html' title='BİG Möö'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RjJbh6JdS2I/AAAAAAAAADM/29TaiteAVzo/s72-c/funlok.com+(1)2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-4806184584840061732</id><published>2007-04-22T18:40:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-04-22T18:47:05.170+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='new virus'/><title type='text'>New virus found</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://had.independent.sk/data/gal/virus.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 353px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 223px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="223" alt="" src="http://had.independent.sk/data/gal/virus.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The virus was found in three Melbourne patients who died just weeks after they received organs from a 57-year-old man who suffered a fatal brain haemorrhage one week after returning from Europe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Australian officials said the infection was similar to lymphocytic choreomeningitis virus (LCMV), which was linked to the deaths of several transplant patients in the United States last year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I'm very pleased that out of a sad episode we've been able to draw some conclusions and find something new in a world first," Dr Mike Catton from the Victorian Infectious Disease Laboratory said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It's a new virus and it's a new way of finding the virus."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Catton said tests carried out with the assistance of the Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory at Columbia University in New York looked at tissue samples taken from the dead tranplant patients using new gene sequencing techniques.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new virus was found in all samples taken from the transplant recipients but not in tissue taken from the donor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The fact that we haven't yet discovered it in the donor doesn't rule out the fact that this was transmitted from donor to recipient," he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"There's much work that needs to be done characterising this virus in both laboratories and that will be continuing as we speak."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Catton said doctors did not know yet how many people could be infected with the virus or whether it has killed anyone in the past.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Australian officials insisted that the new virus did not pose a threat to the community and was not thought to be an infectious disease.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Organ transplant recipients are hit with a variety of drugs to suppress their immune system so that they don't reject the organ that's transplanted," Victoria state's acting chief health officer Dr John Carnie said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"So if you're immuno-depressed, any kind of infection can have devastating consequences, whether it's the common cold or influenza or anything like that."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Australian doctors began investigating in January when three women who received organs from the same donor died within days of each other and no common cause could be established between the deaths.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two women, aged 63 and 44, each received a kidney while the donor's liver went to a 64-year-old woman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Carnie said he hoped the discovery did not lead to calls to stop the transplant programme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"This may be an extremely rare one-off event and we don't want to deprive people of the benefits of a liver or kidney or something else that would be life-saving for some event that may be extremely rare," he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;© 2007 AFP &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-4806184584840061732?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/4806184584840061732/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=4806184584840061732&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/4806184584840061732'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/4806184584840061732'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/04/new-virus-found.html' title='New virus found'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-2028814604534611013</id><published>2007-04-17T11:53:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-04-17T11:57:16.058+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='damar'/><title type='text'>Kılcal Damar Telenjiektazi</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kılcal Damar (Telenjiektazi) nedir?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RiSZ3ZG50rI/AAAAAAAAADE/1FOuzfx9v0g/s1600-h/top_11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054333858728235698" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RiSZ3ZG50rI/AAAAAAAAADE/1FOuzfx9v0g/s320/top_11.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Derideki çok küçük kan damarları 1 mm ye kadar genişleyerek gözle görünür hale gelmiştir. Genelde yüz ve bacaklarda görülür.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yüzümüzde kılcal damarlar neden olur?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yüzümüzdekiler bazen bir neden olmadan da gelişebilir. Ama en önemli sebep güneştir. Çok güneşlenenlerde boyunda ense gibi bölgelerde üzerinde ağ şeklinde kılcal damarların olduğu kahverengi, kırmızı renk değişikliği olabilir. Kılcal damarlar bazı hastalıklarda, gebelik, alkol ve östrojen alımı, kortizonlu kremlerin uzun süreli uygulanması sonucu da gelişebilirler. Tek olabilir veya gruplar yapabilirler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bacaklardaki kılcal damarlar neden olur?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bacaklardaki damarlar genelde kadınlarda görülür. Genetik, dolaşım problemleriyle ilgili olabilirler. Gebelik sonrası gelişebilir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kılcal damarların tedavisi var mı?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Evet. Hasta kozmetik açıdan rahatsız oluyorsa en güvenli ve pratik tedavi lazerdir. Yan etki riski çok azdır&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vücudumuzda kırmızı benler neden olur?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vücudumuz yaşlandıkça küçük, iyi sınırlı, kırmızı renkte hafif kabarık damarsal oluşum gelişebilir. Lazerle tedavi edilebilirler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kırmızı lekeler doğuştan olabilir mi?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kırmızı lekeler doğuştan olabilir. Bebek doğduğunda veya yaşamın ilk haftalarında ortaya çıkarlar. Çok çeşitli renk, yapı ve büyüklükte olabilirler. Bunlardan hemanjiomların çok faklı tipleri vardır küçük olanlar zararsız da olabilir ama bazıları ciddi kozmetik ve sağlık sorunları yaratabilirler ve tedavi edilmesi gerekir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Şarap Lekesi (Portwine Stain) nasıl bir hastalıktır?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bin bebekten birinde doğum anında vardır. Başlangıçta açık pembe renkli, yıllar içinde koyulaşıp, morumsu renge dönüşebilen çeşitli büyüklük ve yerde olabilen lekelerdir. Önce düzdür sonra yüzeyi sıklıkla kabalaşır ve üzerinde kabarıklıklar gelişebilir. Bulundukları yere göre bazı anomalilerle birlikte olabilirler. En sık baş ve boyunda görülür ve kendiliğinden geçmezler. Estetik açıdan hastayı rahatsız ederek psikolojisini etkileyebilir&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Şarap lekesi tedavi edilebilir mi?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Şarap lekesi tedavi edilebilir. Şarap lekesinin tüm dünyada kabul görmüş tedavi şekli lazerdir ve Pulse-dye laser sistemi halen standart kabul edilmektedir. Türkiye’de de bu tedaviyi kolaylıkla uygulayabiliyoruz. Tedavi ne kadar erken yapılırsa o kadar başarılıdır&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Damarsal oluşumlarda lazer tedavileri nasıl yapılıyor?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Lazer tedavisi derinin damarsal yapıdaki oluşumlarını tedavi etmek için uzun yıllardır kullanılıyor ve daha etkili ve güvenli bir sistem yok denilebilir. Tedavi edilecek soruna göre lazer çeşidi değişir. Yeni lazerler üretilmekle beraber bazı lazerler bazı hastalıkların tedavisinde klasikleşmiştir. Örneğin bunlardan biri Pulse dye lazerdir. Sonuçları çok iyi, yan etkileri azdır. Pulse dye lazerler, yaklaşık 20 yıldır birçok cilt rahatsızlığının tedavisinde kullanılmaktadır. Özellikle şarap lekesinde çok etkilidir. Ve hasta ömür boyu taşımak zorunda olduğu bir lekeden lazerle kurtulabilir. Kılcal damarlarda, kiraz angiomlarında, rozasede(gülleme), güneş hasarına bağlı yaşlanma tedavisinde de çok başarılıdır. Tedavi sırasında sadece lastik çarpmasını andıran hafif bir rahatsızlık duyulur. Uygulama kolaydır ve kısa sürer. Lazer tedavileri seanslar halinde uygulanır.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-2028814604534611013?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/2028814604534611013/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=2028814604534611013&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/2028814604534611013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/2028814604534611013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/04/klcal-damar-telenjiektazi.html' title='Kılcal Damar Telenjiektazi'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RiSZ3ZG50rI/AAAAAAAAADE/1FOuzfx9v0g/s72-c/top_11.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-3930741717566475408</id><published>2007-04-15T12:04:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-04-15T12:06:06.175+02:00</updated><title type='text'>SEÇMEN, SEÇİM, ÇELİŞKİ</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RiH44ZG50qI/AAAAAAAAAC8/F3I6hq0ox1Y/s1600-h/Turhan+Selcuk.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053593904582611618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RiH44ZG50qI/AAAAAAAAAC8/F3I6hq0ox1Y/s400/Turhan+Selcuk.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-3930741717566475408?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/3930741717566475408/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=3930741717566475408&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/3930741717566475408'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/3930741717566475408'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/04/semen-seim-eliki.html' title='SEÇMEN, SEÇİM, ÇELİŞKİ'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RiH44ZG50qI/AAAAAAAAAC8/F3I6hq0ox1Y/s72-c/Turhan+Selcuk.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-8696255701831277482</id><published>2007-04-09T11:15:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-04-09T11:25:04.883+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Smokers make poorer workers</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Smokers were also more likely to have a less than &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RhoGUWs70fI/AAAAAAAAAC0/FWMqf4RGj-w/s1600-h/sigara.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051356878810632690" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RhoGUWs70fI/AAAAAAAAAC0/FWMqf4RGj-w/s400/sigara.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;honourable discharge, to be demoted, to desert, and to earn less than their non-smoking colleagues, the study showed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Historically, the prevalence of smoking among US military personnel has been higher than among civilians, say the authors. After a period of decline, smoking rates have once more started to climb.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are currently around 59,000 women serving in the US Navy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The findings are based on an analysis of the career progression of almost 5,500 women entering the US Navy over a period of 12 months between 1996 and 1997.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time in service, the proportion being discharged early or facing disciplinary procedures, as well as promotions, demotions, absences without leave, and pay grades were all assessed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The women’s progress was tracked for around eight years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some 45% had never smoked. But 27% were daily smokers when they enlisted. The remainder were ex smokers or smoked occasionally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Compared with non-smokers, daily smokers were less likely to enlist for eight years, and they were significantly more likely to leave before they had served their full term.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non-smokers achieved the longest period of service; daily smokers achieved the shortest. Significantly fewer regular smokers re-enlisted&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regular smokers were significantly more likely than non-smokers to be discharged for medical reasons, bad behaviour, misconduct, including drug misuse, and personality disorders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On average, non-smokers were paid significantly more than daily smokers, even after taking account of educational attainment and time in service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The performance of those who had smoked in the past or were occasional smokers typically fell somewhere in between that of people who had never smoked and daily smokers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Cigarette smoking might simply be a ‘marker’ for other underlying factors, such as non-conformity and high risk taking, that contribute to poorer performance in the military," they explain. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-8696255701831277482?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/8696255701831277482/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=8696255701831277482&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/8696255701831277482'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/8696255701831277482'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/04/smokers-make-poorer-workers.html' title='Smokers make poorer workers'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RhoGUWs70fI/AAAAAAAAAC0/FWMqf4RGj-w/s72-c/sigara.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-6629208574376529584</id><published>2007-04-05T18:13:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-04-01T18:18:42.992+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Value of Herbs in the Treatment of Cancer</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/Rg_a_InldjI/AAAAAAAAACk/ruyCaojQA6M/s1600-h/organic-herbs-spices-250px.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048494485485745714" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/Rg_a_InldjI/AAAAAAAAACk/ruyCaojQA6M/s400/organic-herbs-spices-250px.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Of all conditions which the herbalist/traditional Chinese medical doctor may treat, cancer represents a major test of the herbal tools we have at our disposal. A common and largely accurate perception of the damaging effects of malignancy is that "if the cancer doesn’t kill you, the biomedical treatments for it will." This statement, while accurate in some regards, doesn’t take into account the growing effectiveness of chemotherapy against many forms of cancer. Determining the effectiveness of biomedicine must be considered within a long-term perspective, however; survival rates are commonly measured in 5- and 10-year intervals, while a "cure" is considered when a cancer survivor has been cancer-free for seven years after cessation of treatment. The issues surrounding human health and the sequelae of malignancy are not as simple as these statistics suggest, however. While some rapidly growing forms of cancer may develop within ten days to two weeks of cancer cell implantation (malignant melanoma, for example), other slower-growing tumors (consider prostate cancer) may take up to ten years to make themselves detectable. To use the term "cured" for a patient who remains cancer-free after seven years is both unrealistic and arbitrary, given the unpredictability of cancer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aside from whether or not a cancer survivor is presently ‘cancer-free’, also of consideration is&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/Rg_bNonldkI/AAAAAAAAACs/C4NiPvX1mFY/s1600-h/herbs.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048494734593848898" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/Rg_bNonldkI/AAAAAAAAACs/C4NiPvX1mFY/s400/herbs.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the general state of health of the individual, which oncology tends to disregard. Of primary concern to the oncologist is whether malignancies have redeveloped, not whether conditions exist which may portend the derangement of cellular processes which could ultimately lead to loss of differentiation. This is one of the most appropriate and effective roles the TCM doctor/herbalist can fulfill—to help reestablish an underlying balance in the individual, and to unravel the complex patterns inherent in the body which can, if left untreated, lead to the development of cancer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another appropriate role for TCM doctors and advanced herbalists is in the use of herbs as an adjunct to ongoing biomedical treatment for existing cancer. This can be addressed using any or all of three main approaches: 1) to offset the damaging side-effects of radiation and chemotherapy; 2) to benefit the patient’s immune system, which biomedicine overwhelms and supplants with its powerful agents; and 3) to aid in tumor reduction itself, potentially shortening the length of time the patient needs to receive radiation and/or chemotherapy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Listed below are ten herbs from the Chinese and western herbal traditions which address this third treatment approach--tumor reduction itself, via their 'antineoplastic' action. Consider that different forms of malignancy are treated with different substances, and each individual case may require entirely separate treatment principles, suggesting that anti-neoplastic herb choices must be chosen from appropriate categories of action. Obviously, there are more than 10 herbs with antineoplastic action in the Chinese and western pharmacopeia, but these can be considered a 'jumping off' point for further study; this is my personal intent. Information provided on these herbs is based on both empirical and clinical evidence gathered third-hand; verification of clinical and/or empirical findings is difficult to provide without access to the studies themselves, and no guarantees are made for these herbs’ effectiveness. References for all information is provided below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chinese Herbs:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Common Name: Oldenlandia&lt;br /&gt;Chinese Name: Bai He She She Cao&lt;br /&gt;Latin: Herba Hedyotidis Diffusae/Oldenlandia Diffusae&lt;br /&gt;Family: Rubiaceae&lt;br /&gt;TCM Category: Clear Heat/Relieve Toxicity&lt;br /&gt;Antineoplastic Action(s):&lt;br /&gt;--Used in treatment of stomach, esophageal and colon cancer;&lt;br /&gt;--Activates reticuloendothelial system and increases phagocytosis by lymphocytes. Also, in high concentrations shows inhibitory affect in vitro on cells from acute lymphocytic and granulocytic leukemia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Common Name: Selaginaella&lt;br /&gt;Chinese Name: Shi Shang Bai&lt;br /&gt;Latin: Herba Selaginellae Doederleinii&lt;br /&gt;Family: Selaginellaceae&lt;br /&gt;TCM Category: Clear Heat/Relieve Toxicity&lt;br /&gt;Antineoplastic Action(s):&lt;br /&gt;--Mice inoculated with granuloma-180 and injected with Shi Shang Bai showed 40-50% tumor inhibition of tumors; Mice with hepatic cancer lived significantly longer than control group not treated with Shi Shang Bai.&lt;br /&gt;--Helpful in treatment of lung and throat cancer, and malignant hydatidiform moles, with remission in 50% of patients. Commonly used in China in treatment of smaller body cancers in nose, throat, lung and liver. When used with chemotherapy and radiation shown to accelerate cancer remissions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Common Name: Sophora Root&lt;br /&gt;Chinese Name: Shan Dou Gen&lt;br /&gt;Latin: Radix Sophorae Tonkinensis&lt;br /&gt;Family: Leguminaceae&lt;br /&gt;TCM Category: Clear Heat/Relieve Toxicity&lt;br /&gt;Antineoplastic Action(s):&lt;br /&gt;--In doses of 60g/kg had significant effect in treatment of cervical cancer in mice, and an inhibitory affect on sarcoma-180. Used in treatment of acute lymphocytic/granulocytic leukemia, inhibiting dehydrogenase activity and cellular respiration of malignant cells.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Common Name: Zedoania&lt;br /&gt;Chinese Name: E Zhu&lt;br /&gt;Latin: Rhizoma Curcumae Ezhu&lt;br /&gt;Family: Zingeberaceae&lt;br /&gt;TCM Category: Invigorate Blood&lt;br /&gt;Antineoplastic Action(s):&lt;br /&gt;--Inhibits granuloma-180, often combined with San Leng (Rhizoma Sparganii Stoloniferi).&lt;br /&gt;–-In China, 80 cases of cervical cancer patients were treated with a solution of Zedoania, which was injected directly into the tumor sites. 30 patients were completely cured, while 15 were found to have a 50% size reduction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Common Name: Rhubarb Root and Rhizome&lt;br /&gt;Chinese Name: Da Huang&lt;br /&gt;Latin: Radix et Rhizoma Rhei&lt;br /&gt;Family: Polygonaceae&lt;br /&gt;TCM Category: Clear Heat/Relieve Toxicity&lt;br /&gt;Antineoplastic Action(s): --Injected subcutaneously had a killing effect on neoplastic granulomas in mice. Inhibited growth of melanoma, breast tumor cells and ascitic hepatic carcinoma in humans via the actions of emodin and rhein, major constituents of Da Huang.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western Herbs:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Common Name: Red Clover&lt;br /&gt;Latin: Flos Trifolium pratense&lt;br /&gt;Family: Papilionaceae&lt;br /&gt;Antineoplastic Action(s):&lt;br /&gt;--Red Clover contains isoflavone compounds, such as genistein, which have weak estrogen properties. Various laboratory studies show that these isoflavones may help prevent and combat malignant tumors, especially of the breast and prostate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Common Name: Pau D’Arco, Lapacho, Taheebo&lt;br /&gt;Latin: Tabebuia impestiginosa&lt;br /&gt;Family: Rubiaceae&lt;br /&gt;Antineoplastic Action(s):&lt;br /&gt;--Lapachol and beta-lapachone (known collectively as naphthaquinones) are two primary active compounds in Pau D’Arco. These compounds have anti-cancer/anti-tumor properties, although the effective dosage is considered toxic; Pau D’Arco is commonly used in the treatment of cancer in Central and South America with good results.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Common Name: Mistletoe&lt;br /&gt;Latin: Viscum alba&lt;br /&gt;Family: Loranthaceae&lt;br /&gt;Antineoplastic Action(s):&lt;br /&gt;--Contains anti-tumor proteins, and has been shown by current cancer research in Germany to have antineoplastic activity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Common Name: Cleavers&lt;br /&gt;Latin: Galium aparine&lt;br /&gt;Family: Rubiaceae&lt;br /&gt;Antineoplastic Action(s):&lt;br /&gt;--Cleavers is considered the best lymphatic tonic in the western herbal pharmacopoeia, and is both alterative and diuretic. It has a long tradition of use for tumor reduction and lymphatic drainage, especially indicated when cancer has nodal involvement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Common Name: Sweet Violet&lt;br /&gt;Latin: Flos Viola odorata&lt;br /&gt;Family: Violaceae&lt;br /&gt;Antineoplastic Action(s):&lt;br /&gt;--Sweet Violet has a long tradition and reputation as an anti-cancer herb, used especially as a poultice for cancers of the skin. Current scientific research has yet to bear out this reputation in the clinical setting &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-6629208574376529584?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/6629208574376529584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=6629208574376529584&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/6629208574376529584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/6629208574376529584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/04/value-of-herbs-in-treatment-of-cancer.html' title='The Value of Herbs in the Treatment of Cancer'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/Rg_a_InldjI/AAAAAAAAACk/ruyCaojQA6M/s72-c/organic-herbs-spices-250px.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-3875819218850504279</id><published>2007-04-02T18:09:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-04-01T18:12:53.945+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Acupuncture</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/Rg_ZkonldiI/AAAAAAAAACc/vq5I4LDi3y0/s1600-h/story_acu.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048492930707584546" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/Rg_ZkonldiI/AAAAAAAAACc/vq5I4LDi3y0/s400/story_acu.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I don't usually stick my tongue out at my doctor. But that is exactly what Bianca, a clinic intern at the Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College in Berkeley, California, has asked me to do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The college offers a discount on acupuncture if you agree to let students like Bianca observe your treatment. And because nothing else seems to be helping curb my back pain, I've decided to play along.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Like, really stick it out?" I ask, glancing at the five other interns clustered around Bianca, all leaning forward and staring at my mouth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Yes," she says. "We all want to take a look."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reluctantly, I open wide and extend my tongue as far as it'll go. Bianca has already asked me about my menstrual blood and vaginal discharge in front of the group (both are pretty normal, thank you). Now, as the students debate various aspects of my tongue --like its color (dusky purple) and coating (thin and white). I think of a different question: What, exactly, does this have to do with my backache?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acupuncture is a type of traditional Chinese medicine that's been practiced for at least 2,500 years. It's partly based on the idea that backaches (and any other complaints) aren't singular problems. "You're taught that what happens in one part of the body is reflected in the rest of the body," says Jill Blakeway, a renowned acupuncturist in New York. "It emphasizes the interconnectedness of everything in the universe." (Health.com: Feel better, naturally )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acupuncture also teaches that the body contains two opposing forces: yin and yang. Together, they contribute to your chi (pronounced "chee"), a Chinese word roughly translated as "vital energy." If this energy flow is interrupted or blocked, it can cause pain and disease. This is part of the reason that Bianca's examining my tongue -- acupuncturists think your tongue can reveal energy imbalances in your body. Turns out a purple color suggests stagnation in your chi, which could lead to a range of disorders, including a sore back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acupuncturists try to restore balance in the body by stimulating specific points, often by inserting thin metal needles into the skin. Sometimes electrical currents are even added to the needles to increase their effectiveness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No one is entirely sure how acupuncture works, but groups like the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization agree it's a useful remedy. The WHO lists more than 40 conditions for which acupuncture is often used, including addictions, nausea and vomiting, asthma, digestive issues, sinusitis, osteoarthritis, and allergies. It's also used increasingly for infertility. Some of the best evidence shows it may offer relief for pain -- from post-surgery dental pain to menstrual cramps, from migraines to tennis elbow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It's definitely effective in some cases," says Mehmet Oz, M.D., a heart surgeon and vice chairman of surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University, who recommends acupuncture to his patients. "What I love the most is that acupuncture makes us think very differently about how the body works." Oz and Blakeway both agree that acupuncture is worth a try if Western medicine seems to fail you. (Health.com: Immunity boosters )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After my tongue exam, Bianca and her classmates ask questions about my overall state. Do I have trouble sleeping? No. Am I generally hot or cold? I fluctuate. And how is my appetite? Healthy! Then their professor, Hua Ling Xu, chair of the AIMC Oriental Medicine Department, identifies treatment points on my wrists, shoulders, hands, ankles, and the backs of my knees. As I lie face down on the table, Xu swabs each point with alcohol, flicks it with her finger, and briskly taps sterile needles into my body.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel a slight prick when the needles -- inserted a quarter-inch to an inch deep -- puncture my skin. (If you experience pain, they need to be adjusted). I also feel what acupuncturists call a chi sensation, which I've heard described as "deep," "achy," "tingly," or "quivery." One point in my back makes my left hand twitch. Another, next to my thumb, sends what feels like a flash of electricity through my entire body. And in the 20 minutes I'm on the table, I notice something ironic: Having 14 needles stuck in my body is surprisingly relaxing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I leave the clinic feeling energized, with the muscles in my back looser and my mind peaceful and centered, despite my microscopic puncture wounds. I return for two more sessions, and, although I don't feel completely pain-free, I've started recommending acupuncture to friends and family --no matter what their tongues look like.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cnn.com&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-3875819218850504279?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/3875819218850504279/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=3875819218850504279&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/3875819218850504279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/3875819218850504279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/04/acupuncture.html' title='Acupuncture'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/Rg_ZkonldiI/AAAAAAAAACc/vq5I4LDi3y0/s72-c/story_acu.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-408651644014821509</id><published>2007-03-25T15:26:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-03-25T15:29:05.232+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Birth'/><title type='text'>Birth Control</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Women today have a wide variety of birth control methods to choose from. From condoms to the contraceptive pill, from IUDs to diaphragms, every woman can find a type of birth control that they feel comfortable with. Yet, all this choice can make it difficult to decide just which form of contraception is the right one for you. By reading up on the tried and tested kinds of birth control, as well as newer contraceptives, you can get a better idea of what would be most suitable for you. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5045853506779686354" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RgZ5B8RDJdI/AAAAAAAAACQ/JKOSDxYfy78/s320/Birth_Control_Image.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because there are so many different methods of birth control, contracpetives are typically sorted into various categories. Contraceptive types include barrier methods, hormonal birth control, long-term contraceptives, and natural birth control. Although some contraceptive methods are inadequate, the majority of birth control options are effective. However, it is important to note that no form of contraception provides 100% protection against pregnancy. The only fool-proof way not to get pregnant is to abstain from sex completely.&lt;br /&gt;Barrier methods of birth control work to prevent pregnancy by stopping sperm from coming into contact with an egg. Contraceptives that fall into this category include female condoms, diaphragms, cervical caps, the contraceptive sponge, and male condoms. Associated with few birth control side effects, these contraceptives are non-hormonal. Additionally, the male and female condoms are the only forms of birth control that offer any type of protection against STDs. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hormonal contraceptives help prevent a pregnancy by using synthetic forms of naturally occurring hormones to prevent your body from ovulating. In some cases, the hormones may also work to thin the lining of the uterus and to thicken cervical mucus. Unfortunately, hormones can also produce some unpleasant side effects, causing some women to be turned off of these very effective birth control methods. Depo-Provera (the "birth control shot"), birth control pills, the birth control patch, the birth control ring, Implanon as well as some IUDs, such as the Mirena, are examples of hormonal contraceptives.&lt;br /&gt;Forms of long-term birth control include tubal ligations, IUDs, and, for men, vasectomies. Both tubal ligations and vasectomies are meant as permanent birth control methods, although they can be reversed. Once an IUD is inserted by your health care professional, it can stay in place for anywhere from five to seven years. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many women prefer to use natural, hormone free birth control. Known as Fertility Awareness Methods (FAM), this type of contraception relies upon periodic abstinence when a woman is fertile. FAM can involve charting your basal body temperature and/or menstrual cycle; noting the changes in your cervical mucus; and using the rhythm method or it’s newest incarnation, the standard days method. Breastfeeding is also a very effective type of natural birth control known as the lactational amenorrhea method (LAM). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-408651644014821509?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/408651644014821509/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=408651644014821509&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/408651644014821509'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/408651644014821509'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/03/birth-control.html' title='Birth Control'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RgZ5B8RDJdI/AAAAAAAAACQ/JKOSDxYfy78/s72-c/Birth_Control_Image.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-647125047353591961</id><published>2007-03-25T15:12:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-03-25T15:15:36.989+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fıtık'/><title type='text'>Gel 'could treat major back pain'</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;A hi-tech gel could be used instead of major surgery to treat &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RgZ10cRDJcI/AAAAAAAAACI/7v-JwJUycPg/s1600-h/backpain.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5045849976316569026" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RgZ10cRDJcI/AAAAAAAAACI/7v-JwJUycPg/s320/backpain.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;chronic lower back pain, according to a study.&lt;br /&gt;The gel contains tiny particles which swell and stiffen when injected into a damaged area.&lt;br /&gt;Tests on animals, reported in the journal Soft Matter, showed it was able to repair the discs that provide a cushion between the bones of the spine.&lt;br /&gt;The University of Manchester work raises the possibility of patients being able to regain full mobility.&lt;br /&gt;Our approach has the advantage of restoring spinal mobility whereas spinal fusion surgery results in a significant loss of mobility at the fused and adjacent discs&lt;br /&gt;Professor Tony FreemontUniversity of Manchester&lt;br /&gt;It offers a potential alternative to spinal fusion surgery, a technique in which the bones of the spine - the vertebrae - are fused together to reduce pain by eliminating motion in the affected area.&lt;br /&gt;This is a major procedure, which requires considerable recovery time and can lead to a significant loss of mobility.&lt;br /&gt;Degeneration of the intervertebral discs causes holes in the load-bearing tissue of the disc.&lt;br /&gt;This decreases the height of the disc, reducing its ability to insulate the vertebrae, and resulting in pain.&lt;br /&gt;Smart sponges&lt;br /&gt;The micro gel particles the research team have developed are like "smart sponges" when dispersed in water.&lt;br /&gt;The material is a fluid with a low pH - indicating a high level of acidity - and can be injected through a syringe.&lt;br /&gt;However, at the higher pH found in the body it changes to a stiff gel because of the absorption of water.&lt;br /&gt;In tests, the researchers injected the gel into a damaged disc taken from a pig, and increased pH to levels similar to those found in the body by injecting alkaline solution.&lt;br /&gt;Researcher Professor Tony Freemont said there was a pressing need to develop a non-surgical method for repairing intervertebral discs.&lt;br /&gt;He said: "Our approach has the advantage of restoring spinal mobility whereas spinal fusion surgery results in a significant loss of mobility at the fused and adjacent discs."&lt;br /&gt;However, his colleague Dr Brian Saunders said: "Although we are encouraged by our findings, much work lies ahead to develop a viable non-surgical repair technology to replace spinal fusion as the standard surgical treatment for chronic lower back pain."&lt;br /&gt;Complex problem&lt;br /&gt;The Manchester team plan to investigate the development of biodegradable micro gels that can release additives to stimulate regeneration of intervertebral disc tissue.&lt;br /&gt;Dr Alison McGregor, an expert in back pain at Imperial College London, described the research as "very exciting".&lt;br /&gt;However, she said: "Managing the back pain of people with degenerate discs often goes beyond damage to the disc itself and leads to many problems in the surrounding tissues, especially muscles and ligaments.&lt;br /&gt;"I am not sure that restoring some of the properties to the disc will lead to normal motion and normal function.&lt;br /&gt;"Often there are many psychosocial factors and other factors that are contributing to the pain and disability that these people present with."&lt;br /&gt;Dr Joan Hester, president of the British Pain Society, agreed the gel would not work for all back pain sufferers.&lt;br /&gt;"Pain can come from the tiny nerves that run round the edge of the disc, from ligaments, facet joints, inflamed nerve roots, from bone and from muscle spasm.&lt;br /&gt;"Improving mechanical function of the disc and increasing mobility must have a beneficial effect, but will not provide a cure for all back pain.&lt;br /&gt;"Injecting material into an intervertebral disc carries a small risk of introducing infection."&lt;br /&gt;The research was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-647125047353591961?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/647125047353591961/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=647125047353591961&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/647125047353591961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='internet'/><title type='text'>Trojan horse</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Trojan horse strategy defeats drug-resistant bacteria&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;A new antimicrobial &lt;strong&gt;approach can kill bacteria in laboratory experiments&lt;/strong&gt; and eliminate life-threatening infections in mice by interfering with a key bacterial nutrient, according to research led by a University of Washington scientist. The joint project, conducted at the UW, the &lt;strong&gt;University of Iowa&lt;/strong&gt;, and the &lt;strong&gt;University of Cincinnati&lt;/strong&gt;, will be featured in the April 2 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bacteria are increasingly resistant to antibiotics&lt;/strong&gt;, and existing drugs work poorly against chronic infections like those that occur in wounds, on medical devices and in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis. For these reasons, a great deal of research is focused on finding new antibiotic compounds. In this study, researchers took a different approach. Rather than trying to find agents that best killed bacteria in test tubes, they sought to intensify the stress imposed on microbes by one of the body's own defense mechanisms. "The competition for iron is critical in the struggle between bacteria and host," explained the study's senior author, Pradeep Singh, associate professor of medicine and microbiology at the UW. "The body has potent defense mechanisms to keep iron away from infecting organisms, and invaders must steal some if they are to survive." Iron is critical for the growth of&lt;strong&gt; bacteria and for their ability to form biofilms&lt;/strong&gt;, slime-encased colonies of microbes that cause many chronic infections. "Because iron is so important in infection, we thought infecting bacteria might be vulnerable to interventions that target iron," explained Yukihiro Kaneko, senior fellow in microbiology at the UW and the study's lead author. To accomplish this, the researchers used gallium, a metal very similar to iron.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;"&lt;strong&gt;Gallium acts as a Trojan horse to iron-seeking bacteria&lt;/strong&gt;," said Singh. "Because gallium looks like iron, invading bacteria are tricked, in a way, into taking it up. Unfortunately for the bacteria, gallium can't function like iron once it's inside bacterial cells." The researchers showed that gallium killed microbes, and prevented the formation of biofilms. Importantly, gallium's action was intensified in low iron condition, like those that exist in the human body. Gallium was even effective against strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from cystic fibrosis patients that were resistant to multiple antibiotics. In mice, gallium treatment blocked both chronic and acute infections caused by this bacterium. The idea of using gallium as a substitute for iron was developed by a group led by Bradley Britigan, a researcher at the University of Cincinnati and a co-author on this study. The general approach of targeting stresses already applied by natural defense mechanisms could be a promising new way to treat infections. "We badly need new approaches to fight bacteria," said Singh. "The gallium strategy isn't ready for clinical use yet," he added. "However, we think this approach is promising, and we can't afford to leave any stone unturned." Source: University of Washington &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-2398738571862810134?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/2398738571862810134/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=2398738571862810134&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/2398738571862810134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/2398738571862810134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/03/trojan-horse-strategy-defeats-drug.html' title='Trojan horse'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-5001731745005170970</id><published>2007-03-08T13:06:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-03-16T17:36:35.716+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='melanoma'/><title type='text'>Melanoma</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;What is melanoma?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Melanoma is a type of skin cancer. It begins in certain cells in the skin called melanocytes. Each year more than 53,600 people in the United States find out they have melanoma. To understand melanoma, it is helpful to know about the skin and about melanocytes, what they do, how they grow, and what happens when they become cancerous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THE SKIN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;The skin is the body's largest organ. It protects us against sunlight, injury, and infection. It helps regulate body temperature, stores water and fat, and produces vitamin D. The skin has two main layers: the outer epidermis and the inner dermis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The epidermis is mostly made up of flat, scalelike cells called squamous cells. Round cells called basal cells lie under the squamous cells in the epidermis. The lower part of the epidermis also contains melanocytes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dermis contains blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, hair follicles, and glands. Some of these glands produce sweat, which help regulate body temperature, and some produce sebum, an oily substance that helps keep the skin from drying out. Sweat and sebum reach the skin's surface through tiny openings called pores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Healthy cells that make up the skin normally grow, divide, and replace themselves in an orderly way as the body needs them. This helps keep the skin in good repair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 333px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="319" alt="" src="http://images.medicinenet.com/images/illustrations/skin.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MELANOCYTES AND MOLES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Melanocytes are spread throughout the lower part of the epidermis. They produce melanin, the pigment that gives our skin its natural color. When skin is exposed to the sun, melanocytes produce more pigment, causing the skin to tan, or darken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes, melanocytes grow in a cluster. Benign (not cancerous) clusters of melanocytes are called moles. (Doctors also call a mole a nevus; the plural is nevi). Moles are very common. Most people have between 10 and 40 of these brown, tan, or black areas on the skin. Moles can be flat or raised. They are usually round or oval and smaller than a pencil eraser. They can be present at birth or appear later, usually before age 40. Moles generally grow or change only slightly over a long period of time. They tend to fade away in older people. When moles are surgically removed, they normally do not return.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CANCER &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cancer is a group of diseases with one thing in common: cells become abnormal, dividing too often and without control or order. These malignant (cancerous) cells form a tumor and can invade and destroy nearby tissue. The cancer cells can also spread through the lymphatic system or the bloodstream to other parts of the body and form new tumors. The spread of cancer is called metastasis&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MELANOMA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Melanoma occurs when melanocytes become malignant. The disease is also referred to as cutaneous melanoma or malignant melanoma. (Another type of melanoma, ocular melanoma, develops in the eye and is not discussed here).&lt;br /&gt;Melanoma can occur on any skin surface. In men, it is often found on the trunk (the area from the shoulders to the hips) or the head and neck. In women, melanoma often develops on the lower legs or the trunk. Melanoma is rare in black people and others with dark skin. When it does develop in dark-skinned people, it tends to occur under the fingernails or toenails, or on the palms or soles. Melanoma affects people of all age groups, but the chance of developing this disease increases with age.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-5001731745005170970?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/5001731745005170970/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=5001731745005170970&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/5001731745005170970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/5001731745005170970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/03/melanoma.html' title='Melanoma'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-280323013828488756</id><published>2007-03-08T12:58:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-03-08T13:10:07.337+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tumor'/><title type='text'>Brain Tumor</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;What is the brain?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Together, the brain and spinal cord form the central &lt;a href="http://health.yahoo.com/media/mayoclinic/images/image_popup/ww990304.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 266px; CURSOR: hand" height="180" alt="" src="http://health.yahoo.com/media/mayoclinic/images/image_popup/ww990304.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;nervous system. This complex system is part of everything we do. It controls the things we choose to do,like walk and talk,and the things our body does automatically,like breathe and digest food. The central nervous system is also involved with our senses; seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling, as well as our emotions, thoughts, and memory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The brain is a soft, spongy mass of nerve cells and supportive tissue. It has three major parts: the cerebrum, the cerebellum, and the brain stem. The parts work together, but each has special functions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cerebrum, the largest part of the brain, fills most of the upper skull. It has two halves called the left and right cerebral hemispheres. The cerebrum uses information from our senses to tell us what is going on around us and tells our body how to respond. The right hemisphere controls the muscles on the left side of the body, and the left hemisphere controls the muscles on the right side of the body. This part of the brain also controls speech and emotions as well as reading, thinking, and learning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cerebellum, under the cerebrum at the back of the brain, controls balance and complex actions like walking and talking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The brain stem connects the brain with the spinal cord. It controls hunger and thirst and some of the most basic body function, such as body temperature, blood pressure, and breathing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The brain is protected by the bones of the skull and by a covering of three thin membranes called meninges. The brain is also cushioned and protected by cerebrospinal fluid. This watery fluid is produced by special cells in the four hollow spaces in the brain, called ventricles. It flows through the ventricles and in spaces between the meninges. Cerebrospinal fluid also brings nutrients from the blood to the brain and removes waste products from the brain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The spinal cord is made up of bundles of nerve fibers. It runs down from the brain through a canal in the center of the bones of the spine. These bones protect the spinal cord. Like the brain, the spinal cord is covered by the meninges and cushioned by brospinal fluid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spinal nerves connect the brain with the nerves in most parts of the body. Other nerves go directly from the brain to the eyes, ears, and other parts of the head. This network of nerves carries messages back and forth between the brain and the rest of the body.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are brain tumors?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The body is made up of many types of cells. Each type of cell has special functions. Most cells in the body grow and then divide in an orderly way to form new cells as they are needed to keep the body healthy and working properly. When cells lose the ability to control their growth, they divide too often and without any order. The extra cells form a mass of tissue called a tumor. Each year, more than 16,000 people find out they have a brain tumor. Tumors are benign or malignant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Benign brain tumors do not contain cancer cells. Usually these tumors can be removed, and they are not likely to recur. Benign brain tumors have clear borders. Although they do not invade nearby tissue, they can press on sensitive areas of the brain and cause symptoms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Malignant brain tumors contain cancer cells. They interfere with vital functions and are life-threatening. Malignant brain tumors are likely to grow rapidly and crowd or invade the tissue around them. Like a plant, these tumors may put out "roots" that grow into healthy brain tissue. If a malignant tumor remains compact and does not have roots, it is said to be encapsulated. When an otherwise benign tumor is located in a vital area of the brain and interferes with vital functions, it may be considered malignant (even though it contains no cancer cells).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Doctors refer to some brain tumors by grade - from low grade (grade I) to high grade (grade IV). The grade of a tumor refers to the way the cells look under a microscope. Cells from higher grade tumors are more abnormal looking and generally grow faster than cells from lower grade tumors; higher grade tumors are more malignant than lower grade tumors.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-280323013828488756?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/280323013828488756/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=280323013828488756&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/280323013828488756'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/280323013828488756'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/03/brain-tumor.html' title='Brain Tumor'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-5818675586906931709</id><published>2007-02-20T00:45:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-03-16T17:39:56.040+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Excuse For Not Responding</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Nagging Spouse? You May Have An Excuse For Not Responding&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New research findings now appearing online in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology began with a professor's desire to understand why her husband often seemed to ignore her requests for help around the house.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RdoolAINcGI/AAAAAAAAAB8/j46Cw9b88Gs/s1600-h/resim2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5033380149694656610" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RdoolAINcGI/AAAAAAAAAB8/j46Cw9b88Gs/s320/resim2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"My husband, while very charming in many ways, has an annoying tendency of doing exactly the opposite of what I would like him to do in many situations," said Tanya L. Chartrand, an associate professor of marketing and psychology at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Chartrand envisioned a formal academic study of people's resistance to the wishes of their partners, parents or bosses, her husband, Gavan Fitzsimons, became not only her inspiration, but also her collaborator. Fitzsimons is a professor of marketing and psychology at Duke who, like Chartrand, is an expert in the field of consumer psychology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Working with Duke Ph.D. student Amy Dalton, Chartrand and Fitzsimons have demonstrated that some people will act in ways that are not to their own benefit simply because they wish to avoid doing what other people want them to. Psychologists call this reactance: a person's tendency to resist social influences that they perceive as threats to their autonomy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The team found that people do not necessarily oppose others' wishes intentionally. Instead, even the slightest nonconscious exposure to the name of a significant person in their life is enough to bring about reactance and cause them to rebel against that person's wishes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Psychologists have known for some time that reactance can cause a person to work in opposition to another person's desires," Chartrand said. "We wanted to know whether reactance could occur even when exposure to a significant other, and their associated wishes for us, takes place at a nonconscious level."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The researchers undertook a set of experiments to determine whether reactance might occur unintentionally, completely outside of the reactant individual's conscious awareness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the first experiment, participants were asked to name a significant person in their lives whom they perceived to be controlling and who wanted them to work hard, and another significant and controlling person who wanted them to have fun. Participants then performed a computer-based activity during which the name of one or the other of these people was repeatedly, but subliminally, flashed on the screen. The name appeared too quickly for the participants to consciously realize they had seen it, but just long enough for the significant other to be activated in their nonconscious minds. The participants were then given a series of anagrams to solve, creating words from jumbled letters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People who were exposed to the name of a person who wanted them to work hard performed significantly worse on the anagram task than did participants who were exposed to the name of a person who wanted them to have fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Our participants were not even aware that they had been exposed to someone else's name, yet that nonconscious exposure was enough to cause them to act in defiance of what their significant other would want them to do," Fitzsimons said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A second experiment used a similar approach and added an assessment of each participant's level of reactance. People who were more reactant responded more strongly to the subliminal cues and showed greater variation in their performance than people who were less reactant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The main finding of this research is that people with a tendency toward reactance may nonconsciously and quite unintentionally act in a counterproductive manner simply because they are trying to resist someone else's encroachment on their freedom," Chartrand said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The researchers suggest that people who tend to experience reactance when their freedoms are threatened should try to be aware of situations and people who draw out their reactant tendencies. That way, they can be more mindful of their behaviors and avoid situations where they might adopt detrimental behaviors out of a sense of rebellion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not surprisingly perhaps, Chartrand and Fitzsimons, as wife and husband, also take home some slightly differing messages from their experiments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chartrand believes her husband "should now be better equipped to suppress his reactant tendencies." Fitzsimons, however, believes the results "suggest that reactance to significant others is so automatic that I can't possibly be expected to control it if I don't even know it's happening."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-5818675586906931709?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/5818675586906931709/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=5818675586906931709&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/5818675586906931709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/5818675586906931709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/02/nagging-spouse-you-may-have-excuse-for.html' title='Excuse For Not Responding'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RdoolAINcGI/AAAAAAAAAB8/j46Cw9b88Gs/s72-c/resim2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-6999343961900088592</id><published>2007-02-20T00:43:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-02-20T00:45:06.798+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Office Desks Havens for Bacteria</title><content type='html'>A worker is shown sitting behind his desk at an office. A new research report shows your office desk harbors far more bacteria than your workplace restroom, and if you're a woman, chances are your workspace has more germs than your male co-workers. (AP Graphic)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RdooVgINcFI/AAAAAAAAABw/tMhjCa3P9JE/s1600-h/resim1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5033379883406684242" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RdooVgINcFI/AAAAAAAAABw/tMhjCa3P9JE/s320/resim1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(AP) -- Your office desk harbors far more bacteria than your workplace restroom, and if you're a woman, chances are your workspace has more germs than your male co-workers', a new research report shows.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women have three to four times the number of bacteria in, on and around their desks, phones, computers, keyboards, drawers and personal items as men do, the study by University of Arizona professor Charles Gerba showed. Gerba, a professor of soil, water and environmental sciences, tested more than 100 offices on the UA campus and in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oregon and Washington, D.C. The $40,000 study was commissioned by the Clorox Co.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I thought for sure men would be germier," Gerba said. "But women have more interactions with small children and keep food in their desks. The other problem is makeup."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't get Gerba wrong: Women's desks typically looked cleaner. But the knickknacks are more abundant, and cosmetics and hand lotions make prime germ-transfer agents, Gerba said. Makeup cases also make for fine germ homes, along with phones, purses and desk drawers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Food in desk drawers also harbors lots of microorganisms, and it is more abundant among female office workers. Gerba found 75 percent of women had munchies in their desks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I was really surprised how much food there was in a woman's desk," he said. "If there's ever a famine, that's the first place I'll look for food."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The news isn't all negative for the fairer sex.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gerba found the worst overall office germ offender is men's wallets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It's in your back pocket where it's nice and warm, it's a great incubator for bacteria," Gerba said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another hot spot for bacteria in men's offices: the personal digital assistant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Men tend to play with their Palm Pilots more," Gerba said. "I think they're playing video games or something."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The average office desktop has 400 times more bacteria than the average office toilet seat, Gerba said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gerba said using a hand sanitizer and using a disinfectant on office surfaces helps, with 25 percent fewer bacteria found on surfaces that were regularly disinfected. Once-a-day use should be sufficient.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"You don't have to go crazy with it, but with the key areas, desktops, phones and keyboards probably need to be disinfected once in a while," he said.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-6999343961900088592?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/6999343961900088592/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=6999343961900088592&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/6999343961900088592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/6999343961900088592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/02/office-desks-havens-for-bacteria.html' title='Office Desks Havens for Bacteria'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RdooVgINcFI/AAAAAAAAABw/tMhjCa3P9JE/s72-c/resim1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-365230122097079777</id><published>2007-02-17T14:30:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-03-16T17:40:30.485+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='internet'/><title type='text'>Affect Birth Weight</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Childbirth: Cutting Caffeine Not Found to Affect Birth Weight&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reducing caffeine consumption during pregnancy from three cups of coffee a day to one has no effect on the baby’s birth weight, Danish researchers report.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/02/12/health/vitals_coffee.190.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 209px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 123px" height="140" alt="" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/02/12/health/vitals_coffee.190.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Some studies have suggested that cutting caffeine consumption could raise average birth weight, but this randomized placebo-controlled analysis of more than 1,200 healthy women showed no effect on either birth weight or length of pregnancy. The study was published online in The British Medical Journal on Jan. 26.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The researchers recruited 1,207 pregnant women at 20 weeks’ gestation or less who reported drinking at least three cups of caffeinated coffee a day. About half of the women were randomly assigned to drink caffeinated coffee, while the other half were instructed to drink decaf for the duration of their pregnancies, with no other changes in their usual consumption of tea or caffeinated soft drinks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After adjusting for prepregnancy weight, smoking status and other variables, the average birth weight of babies in the decaf group was a statistically insignificant one-half ounce higher than that of babies in the coffee-drinking group.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I think it’s O.K. to drink a moderate amount of coffee during pregnancy,” said Bodil Hammer Bech, the lead author and an assistant professor of epidemiology at Arhus University in Denmark. “But our study says nothing about higher consumption. One or two cups a day, I think, is O.K.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the control group also consumed some caffeine (for practical reasons, it was impossible to create a control group that consumed none), the authors acknowledge that their study does not show that caffeine consumption is harmless, but only that reducing consumption has no discernible positive effect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/17/health/17vaccine.html" target="_blank"&gt;Next Article in Health (1 of 15) »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-365230122097079777?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/365230122097079777/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=365230122097079777&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/365230122097079777'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/365230122097079777'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/02/childbirth-cutting-caffeine-not-found.html' title='Affect Birth Weight'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-2250006533740897184</id><published>2007-02-06T12:13:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-02-06T12:19:12.367+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cancer'/><title type='text'>Face to face with chronic disease: Cancer</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO estimates that 7.6 million people died of &lt;a href="http://www.who.int/features/2006/cancer/YS1H2332.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 264px; CURSOR: hand" height="177" alt="" src="http://www.who.int/features/2006/cancer/YS1H2332.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;cancer in 2005 - representing 13% of deaths worldwide. Between 2005 and 2015, 84 million more people could die if urgent action is not taken. Cancer is not simply or even primarily a problem of rich countries. More than 70% of all cancer deaths occur in low and middle income countries.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Noemia Vicente Ribeiro from Brazil and Miriame Nnamusoke from Uganda are both battling cancer. Their personal stories show the tragic reality of cancer in poor countries and its strong impact on people and their families. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;These two stories are the latest in the series &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;"Face to face with chronic disease"&lt;/span&gt; focusing on people living with heart disease, stroke, cancer and other chronic diseases.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  ......&lt;a href="http://www.who.int/en/" target=_blank&gt;go to WHO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;[ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.who.int/features/2006/cancer/en/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Photo stories&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; ]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-2250006533740897184?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/2250006533740897184/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=2250006533740897184&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/2250006533740897184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/2250006533740897184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/02/face-to-face-with-chronic-disease.html' title='Face to face with chronic disease: Cancer'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-7477078322359898970</id><published>2007-01-25T12:25:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-03-16T17:41:53.118+02:00</updated><title type='text'>$1 billion in cancer research</title><content type='html'>A sister's promise led to $1 billion in cancer research&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the 25 years since, the foundation has grown from a small gathering of women in Brinker's living room to a world-renowned operation that will have invested roughly $1 billion in community outreach and research by year's end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Dallas-based organization has 200 employees, more than 100,000 active volunteers and 125 affiliates. Its annual Race for the Cure has grown from 800 women who ran for charity in Dallas to about 1.5 million participants in 120 races worldwide. The foundation has funded work in more than 47 countries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The nonprofit is celebrating its 25th year with a new name -- Susan G. Komen for the Cure, an edgy new advertising campaign that includes T-shirts reading: "If you're going to stare at my breasts, you could at least donate a dollar to save them," sales of pink promise rings and a pledge to raise another $1 billion in the next 10 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the help of organizations such as Komen and prominent figures including first lady Betty Ford, who spoke openly of about her experience with breast cancer in the mid-1970s, the culture slowly began to change from breast cancer being a taboo subject, said Dr. Gabriel Hortobagyi, president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I grew up at a time when most families didn't talk about either sex or cancer," said Hortobagyi, chairman of the department of breast medical oncology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. "Those were sort of taboos. It was sort of shameful if anyone in the family had cancer. And people didn't talk about breasts, either healthy or sick."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The numbers tell the story&lt;br /&gt;Today, the Komen Foundation reports: Nearly 75 percent of women over 40 get regular mammograms compared with fewer than a third who got breast exams in their doctor's offices in 1982; the five-year survival rate for breast cancer when caught before it spreads is 98 percent compared with 74 percent back then; the federal government devotes more than $900 million each year to breast cancer research, treatment and prevention compared with $30 million in 1982.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I truly believe if Nancy hadn't started this thing, that that would not be the case, it just needed that special focus," said Hala Moddelmog, Komen's president and chief executive officer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Komen organization says it is second only to the U.S. government as a source of funding for breast cancer research and community outreach programs, which include education, screening and treatment. It says about 84 cents of every dollar it raises is spent in those areas, totaling about $157 million this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Every advance in breast cancer has been touched by a Komen grant," said Komen spokeswoman Emily Callahan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This year the organization is refocusing its research money to concentrate on more focused areas, such as finding biological signs that can help predict cancer before symptoms appear. (Interactive: Breast cancer warning signs. )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moddelmog says the goal is to support research that is "transformational and that definitely ties back to the cure."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Funding both research and community programs is important, said Moddelmog, herself a five-year breast cancer survivor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We're helping to discover the cures by funding the research. And we're helping to deliver the cures by providing access," Moddelmog said. "What we want to wake up and see one day is a world without breast cancer."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There will be an international emphasis this year including a September summit in Budapest, Hungary, where Brinker served as U.S. ambassador from 2001 to 2003. The event will pair 25 U.S. activists with 25 people from around the world to look at the social, cultural and financial circumstances that prevent women from getting quality breast health care and treatment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By getting the subject of breast cancer out into the public, Komen led women to becoming advocates, said Jean Sachs, executive director of Living Beyond Breast Cancer, a nonprofit provides breast cancer education. Komen is one of the sponsors of the group's annual conference for those diagnosed with breast cancer under the age of 45.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"If you look at where we are today, it's so different. Women have so many choices," said Sachs, who added that her 15-year-old organization could be viewed as "one of the grandchildren of Komen."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the advances made in the 25 years since Komen was formed are reason to celebrate, the organization's ultimate goal remains unachieved: the eradication of breast cancer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About one in eight women will get breast cancer, and the disease is the second most lethal kind of cancer after lung cancers in women. About 41,000 U.S. women died of breast cancer last year. Worldwide, it kills about 370,000 women each year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"When you look at where we are, we're still not where our mission is, and that's a world without breast cancer," Moddelmog said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/01/24/komen.anniversary.ap/index.html"&gt;........................&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-7477078322359898970?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/7477078322359898970/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=7477078322359898970&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/7477078322359898970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/7477078322359898970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/01/sisters-promise-led-to-1-billion-in.html' title='$1 billion in cancer research'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-4381272360918487545</id><published>2007-01-23T23:38:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-01-23T23:41:00.514+02:00</updated><title type='text'>ASTHMA</title><content type='html'>ASTHMA - a patient's guide &lt;br /&gt;Dr Adrian Harrison - Chest Specialist, Mercy Hospital&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is asthma?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Asthma is an inflammatory condition of the breathing tubes (or bronchi). The inflammation causes airway irritability and results in airway narrowing (called bronchospasm).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, to explain that in a little more detail, let's go back a few steps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How the lungs work&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our breathing "equipment" is made up of two parts: a set of breathing tubes - similar to the trunk and branches of a tree, except that our breathing tubes, of course, are hollow. At the end of the finest branches of a tree there are leaves. In our bodies, instead of leaves, our lungs are made up of a sponge tissue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inhaled air travels down the breathing tubes, out to the finest branches, which are in close communication with blood vessels containing blood. The blood takes the oxygen from the air and carbon dioxide travels in the other direction, from the blood stream back into the airways, where it is breathed out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The process of gas exchange occurs in the sponge tissue of the lung. The job of the breathing tubes is to get the air in and the carbon dioxide out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is different about the lungs in asthma?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In asthma, the sponge tissue works well. The problem lies in the breathing tubes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The breathing tubes (bronchi) have an inner lining, which is similar to the lining of your mouth. In the middle of the airway wall is a layer of muscle. In asthma, this muscle layer is very irritable or "twitchy" so that a wide variety of trigger factors cause it to tighten. This causes narrowing of the breathing tubes, making it harder to breathe, and also causing chest tightness, wheezing and coughing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is the muscle layer in the breathing tubes so irritable? By far the main reason for this is inflammation. An example of inflammation elsewhere in the body is sunburn. Inflamed tissues are red and swollen. In asthma the lining of the breathing tubes are inflamed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a) Inflamed tissue contains a large number of white blood cells and these are like tiny chemical factories. The substances they release have a number of harmful effects. They cause blood vessels to become leaky so that fluid seeps out into the tissues - the tissues then become swollen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;b) Other chemicals or substances from the white blood cells attack the inner lining layer of the breathing tubes, causing it to become so damaged that, under the microscope, it looks as though the lining layer has been attacked with sandpaper. Because of this damage, infections and irritating substances we breathe in can affect the breathing tubes more easily and cause problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.medic8.com/healthguide/articles/asthma.html" target=_blank&gt;devamı...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-4381272360918487545?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/4381272360918487545/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=4381272360918487545&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/4381272360918487545'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/4381272360918487545'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/01/asthma.html' title='ASTHMA'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-1164975561393416146</id><published>2007-01-23T23:34:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-01-23T23:37:36.713+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hormonal'/><title type='text'>GUATR</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ZEHİRLİ GUATR (HİPERTİROİDİZM)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Tiroid bezesinin gereğinden daha fazla hormon salgıladığı guatr türüne “zehirli guatr denir. Zehirli guatr, nodüllü veya nodülsüz olabilir. Nodülsüz zehirli guatr’a &lt;strong&gt;Basedow Graves&lt;/strong&gt; Hastalığı da denilebilir. Nodüllü zehirli guatr, sıcak nodüllü zehirli guatr, sıcak otonom nodüllü zehirli guatr veya diğer nodül çeşitleri ile birlikte olabilir.Zehirli guatr’da çarpıntı, ellerde titreme, vücutta titreme, ani kilo kaybı, saçlarda dökülme, kaşıntı, boğazda dolgunluk hissi, aşırı iştah dolayısıyla çok yemek yeme ve çok su içme, aşırı terleme, çabuk yorulma, aşırı sinirlilik sık görülen şikayetlerdir. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bazı hastalar, bulantı, ishal, kusma ve çok sık dışkılamadan yakınır.Bunların hepsi birlikte olmak zorunda değildir. Bu şikayetlerin bazıları ön plandadır, diğer şikayetler ancak doktorun sorgulaması ile ifade edilebilir. Bazı hastalarda göğüs ve boyunda devamlı bir kızarıklık söz konusu olabilir. Nodülsüz guatrlı hastaların bazılarında gözlerde büyüme ve gözlerin ileriye doğru çıkması mümkündür.Hastaların muayenesinde; kalp atımının çok arttığı, solunumun hızlandığı, ellerin titrediği, avuçiçlerinin nemli olduğu görülür.Bu hissedilen belirtiler, aslında zehirli guatrın vücut içinde yaptığı hasar ve etkilerden daha önemsizdir. Zira zehirli guatr başta kalp ve damar sistemi olmak üzere vücudumuzda bir çok organ ve dokuya kalıcı olabilen hasarlar verebilmektedir. Örneğin, kalbin büyümesi ve takiben kalp yetmezliği, yüksek tansiyon, şeker hastalığı, kemik erimesi bu hasarların bir kısmıdır. Kısaca söylemek gerekirse, zehirli guatr, &lt;strong&gt;EN YIKICI VE TAHRİP EDİCİ guatr türüdür. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TİROİD KRİZİ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zehirli guatrda, yüksek hormonların kontrolden çıkması ile seyreden çok ağır bir durumdur. Yaşlı hastalarda ölüm oranı %25’e kadar yükselebilir. Acil tedavi gerektiren bir hastalıktır. Böyle bir durumda hasta, hastaneye yatırılıp tedavi edilir. 40 derece ve üstünde ateş, kalp çarpıntısının çok şiddetli olması, ishal ve kusma, ateş basması hissi, algılama bozuklukları bu krizin haberci ve belirtileri arasındadır.Bu tür hastalarda acil müdahele muhakkak tiroid konusunda deneyimli hekimlerce yapılmalıdır. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ZEHİRLİ GUATR’DA GÖZ BULGULARI&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gözlerin ileriye doğru çıkması zehirli guatr’da hastaları ilk ele veren görüntüdür. Bu ileriye çıkış genellikle çift taraflı iken bazen tek taraflı olabilir. Ancak her zehirli guatr hastasında göz bulgusu olmaz. Özellikle nodüllü zehirli guatr hastalarında göz bulgusu sık değildir. Göz bulgusunun şiddetine göre hastada şikayetler olur: uyurken gözlerin kapanmaması, gözlerde kızarıklık, yanma, gözyaşı akıntısı, hatta cerhatli göz iltihapları görülebilir. Göz bulguları, zehirli guatrın kalıcı olarak tedavisinden (örneğin kapsül tedavisi ile) sonra önemli ölçüde düzelir. Ancak, hangi yöntemle olursa olsun, zehirli guatrın tedavisinden sonra (örneğin ameliyattan sonra dahi) sıklıkla ortaya çıkan tiroid hormon yetmezliği (hipotiroidizm) yeterli düzeyde tedavi edilmezse göz bulgular düzelmez ve hatta ilerleyebilir. Eski bilgilere dayalı ve hatta kasıtlı bazı iddiaların aksine, zehirli guatr tedavisinden sonra hastanın tiroid hormonları normalize edildikten sonra göz bulguları &lt;strong&gt;"daha kötü"&lt;/strong&gt; olmaz. Göz bulguları olan zehirli guatrlı hastalarda &lt;strong&gt;oto-antikorlar&lt;/strong&gt; genellikle yüksektir. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-1164975561393416146?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/1164975561393416146/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=1164975561393416146&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/1164975561393416146'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/1164975561393416146'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/01/guatr.html' title='GUATR'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-6941894104244887047</id><published>2007-01-16T22:46:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-01-16T22:49:31.103+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='felsefi'/><title type='text'>KONFÜÇYÜS</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Confucius_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_15250.jpg/180px-Confucius_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_15250.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 204px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 367px" height="357" alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Confucius_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_15250.jpg/180px-Confucius_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_15250.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EGITIMLI İNSANLARIN 9 DUSUNCESI VARDIR :&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Baktıklarında berrak görmeyi düşünürler, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Dinlediklerinde, iyi duymayı düşünürler, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Görünüşleri bakımından sıcak olmayı düşünürler, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Davranışlarında saygılı olmayı düşünürler, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Konuşmalarında doğru olmayı düşünürler, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. İşlerinde ciddi olmayı düşünürler, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. Kuşkuya düştüklerinde soruları nasıl soracaklarını düşünürler, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. Öfkelendiklerinde sorunları düşünürler, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. Kazancı gördüklerinde adaleti düşünürler...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konf%C3%BC%C3%A7yus"&gt;Konfüçyüs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-6941894104244887047?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/6941894104244887047/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=6941894104244887047&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/6941894104244887047'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/6941894104244887047'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/01/konfys.html' title='KONFÜÇYÜS'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-8053439115285379597</id><published>2007-01-10T11:53:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-01-10T11:56:38.710+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kanun'/><title type='text'>Kozmetik Kanunu</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;Kozmetik Kanunu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Tarihi:24.03.2005 Sayısı:5324&lt;br /&gt;R.G. Tarihi:24.03.2005&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amaç&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Madde 1- Bu Kanunun amacı; kozmetik ürünlerin topluma güvenli, etkili ve kaliteli şekilde ulaşmasını temin etmek üzere, ürünlerin piyasaya arz edilmesinden önce bildirimde bulunulması, piyasa gözetim ve denetiminin yapılması ile bu ürünlerin üretim yerlerinin denetimi konularındaki esasları belirlemektir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kapsam&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Madde 2- Bu Kanun, insan vücudunun epiderma, tırnaklar, kıllar, saçlar, dudaklar ve dış genital organlar gibi değişik dış kısımlarına, dişlere ve ağız mukozasına uygulanmak üzere hazırlanmış, tek veya temel amacı bu kısımları temizlemek, koku vermek, görünümünü değiştirmek ve/veya vücut kokularını düzeltmek ve/veya korumak veya iyi bir durumda tutmak olan bütün preparatları veya maddeleri kapsar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bildirim ve denetim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Madde 3- Kozmetik ürünün piyasaya ilk kez arz edilmesinden önce Sağlık Bakanlığına bildirimde bulunulması zorunludur. Bildirimden sonra üründe veya üreticide meydana gelen değişikliklerin de bildirilmesi zorunludur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bu Kanun hükümlerine göre eksik bilgi ve belge ihtiva eden bildirim yapılmış sayılmaz.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Piyasaya arz edilen kozmetik ürünlerin üretim yerlerinin denetimi ile piyasa gözetim ve denetimi Sağlık Bakanlığı tarafından yapılır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Üretici ve yükümlülükleri&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Madde 4- Bir kozmetik ürünü üreten, imal eden, ıslah eden veya ürüne adını, ticarî markasını veya ayırt edici işaretini koymak suretiyle kendini üretici olarak tanıtan gerçek veya tüzel kişi; üreticinin Türkiye dışında olması halinde, üretici tarafından yetkilendirilen temsilci veya ithalatçı; ayrıca, ürünün tedarik zincirinde yer alan veya faaliyetleri ürünün güvenliğine ilişkin özelliklerini etkileyen gerçek veya tüzel kişi, bu Kanunun uygulanması bakımından üretici sayılır. Üreticinin yükümlülükleri aşağıda belirtilmiştir:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a) Sağlık Bakanlığına bildirimde bulunulmaksızın kozmetik ürün üretmek, ambalajlamak, ithalat müessesesi açmak veya işletmek veya ilk bildirimden sonra yapılan değişiklikleri bildirmeksizin bir müessesenin faaliyet sahasını genişletmek yasaktır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;b) Bu müesseseler sorumlu teknik eleman ile hizmetin gerektirdiği nitelikte personel istihdam edilmeden işletilemez.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;c) Herhangi bir kozmetik ürün, ürün güvenlik bilgileri Sağlık Bakanlığı Zehir Araştırma Merkezine bildirilmeden piyasaya arz edilemez.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;d) Kozmetik ürün, normal ve üretici tarafından önerilen şartlar altında uygulandığında veya ürünün sunumu, etiketlenmesi, kullanımına dair açıklamalara veyahut üretici tarafından sağlanan bilgiler dikkate alınarak öngörülecek kullanım şartlarına göre uygulandığında, insan sağlığına zarar vermeyecek nitelikte olmak zorundadır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;e) Muhtevasında hiç veya belirli limit ve şartların dışında bulunmaması gereken maddeler içeren kozmetik ürünler piyasaya arz edilemez.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;f) Kozmetik ürünlerin ambalaj ve etiket bilgilerinin yönetmelikte belirtilen esaslara uygun olması zorunludur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;g) Kozmetik üretim yerinin Sağlık Bakanlığınca belirlenen esaslara uygun olması zorunludur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;İdarî para cezaları&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Madde 5- Bu Kanunun;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a) 3 üncü maddesinin birinci fıkrasında belirtilen yükümlülüklerinden herhangi birini ihlal eden üreticiye yirmibin Yeni Türk Lirası,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;b) 4 üncü maddesinin;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) (a) bendinde belirtilen yasaklardan herhangi birine uymayan üreticiye yirmibin Yeni Türk Lirası,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) (b) bendinde belirtilen personeli istihdam etmeyen ve (c) bendi uyarınca bildirimde bulunmayan üreticiye onbin Yeni Türk Lirası,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) (d) bendine aykırı hareket eden kozmetik ürünün üreticisine ellibin Yeni Türk Lirası,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4) (e) bendine göre muhtevasında hiç bulunmaması gereken maddeler içeren kozmetik ürünleri piyasaya arz eden üreticiye yirmibin Yeni Türk Lirası, muhtevasında belirli limit ve şartların dışında maddeler içeren kozmetik ürünleri piyasaya arz eden üreticiye onbeşbin Yeni Türk Lirası,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5) (g) bendinde belirtilen yükümlülüğü ihlal eden üreticiye yirmibin Yeni Türk Lirası,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;idarî para cezası Sağlık Bakanlığınca verilir. Verilen para cezalarına dair kararlar ilgililere 7201 sayılı Tebligat Kanunu hükümlerine göre tebliğ edilir. Bu cezalara karşı tebliğ tarihinden itibaren en geç yedi gün içinde yetkili idare mahkemesine itiraz edilebilir. İtiraz, verilen cezanın yerine getirilmesini durdurmaz. İtiraz, zaruret görülmeyen hallerde, evrak üzerinden inceleme yapılarak en kısa sürede sonuçlandırılır. İtiraz üzerine verilen kararlara karşı Bölge İdare Mahkemesine başvurulabilir. Bölge İdare Mahkemesinin verdiği kararlar kesindir. Bu Kanuna göre verilen idari para cezaları, Bakanlığın bildirimi üzerine 6183 sayılı Amme Alacaklarının Tahsil Usulü Hakkında Kanun hükümlerine göre Maliye Bakanlığınca tahsil olunur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bu Kanuna göre idari para cezasını gerektiren fiilin tekerrürü halinde idarî para cezaları iki kat olarak uygulanır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bu maddeye göre idarî para cezası verilmiş olması, ihlal edilen yükümlülüğün niteliğine göre gereken diğer idarî tedbirlerin ve müeyyidelerin uygulanmasına engel olmaz.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diğer idarî müeyyideler ve tedbirler&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Madde 6- Bu Kanun hükümleri ile bu Kanuna göre yürürlüğe konulan yönetmelik ve diğer düzenlemelerde belirlenen esaslara uygun olmadığı tespit edilen kozmetik ürünler ile ilgili uyarı, piyasadan toplatma ve imha için gereken işlemler ile kozmetik ürün üretim yerinin ıslahı ve gerektiğinde kapatılması ile ilgili bütün tedbirleri almaya ve uygulamaya Sağlık Bakanlığı yetkilidir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bu Kanun ile bu Kanuna göre çıkarılan mevzuata uygunluğu belgelenmiş olsa dahi, bir ürünün genel sağlık yönünden güvenli olmadığına dair kesin belirtilerin bulunması halinde, bu ürünün piyasaya arzı, kontrol yapılıncaya kadar Sağlık Bakanlığınca geçici olarak durdurulur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kontrol sonucunda ürünün genel sağlık yönünden güvenli olmadığının tespit edilmesi halinde, masrafları üretici tarafından karşılanmak üzere, Sağlık Bakanlığı;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a) Ürünün piyasaya arzının yasaklanmasını,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;b) Piyasaya arz edilmiş olan ürünlerin piyasadan toplanmasını,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;c) Ürünlerin, güvenli hale getirilmesinin imkansız olduğu durumlarda, taşıdıkları risklere göre kısmen ya da tamamen imha edilmesini,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;d) (a), (b) ve (c) bentlerinde belirtilen önlemler hakkında gerekli bilgilerin, ülke genelinde dağıtımı yapılan iki gazete ile ülke genelinde yayın yapan iki televizyon kanalında ilanı suretiyle, risk altındaki kişilere duyurulmasını,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sağlar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Risk altındaki kişilerin yerel yayın yapan gazete ve televizyon kanalları vasıtasıyla bilgilendirilmesinin mümkün olduğu durumlarda, bu duyuru yerel basın ve yayın organları yoluyla, risk altındaki kişilerin tespit edilebildiği durumlarda ise bu kişilerin doğrudan bilgilendirilmesi yoluyla yapılır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Türk Ceza Kanunu hükümleri saklıdır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yönetmelik&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Madde 7- Kozmetik ürünlerin teknik niteliklerine, ambalaj bilgilerine dair şartlara, bildirimlerine, piyasaya arz edilmelerine, piyasa gözetim ve denetimlerine, üretim yeri denetimlerine, analiz metotlarına, tedbirlere ve ilgili diğer hususlara ilişkin usûl ve esaslar, bu Kanunun yayımı tarihinden itibaren bir ay içinde Sağlık Bakanlığı tarafından hazırlanarak yürürlüğe konulacak bir yönetmelik ile düzenlenir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yürürlükten kaldırılan mevzuat&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Madde 8- 23/2/1994 tarihli ve 3977 sayılı Kozmetik Kanunu yürürlükten kaldırılmıştır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Geçici Madde 1- Bu Kanunda öngörülen yönetmelik yürürlüğe girinceye kadar mevcut yönetmeliklerin bu Kanuna aykırı olmayan hükümlerinin uygulanmasına devam olunur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yürürlük&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Madde 9- Bu Kanun yayımı tarihinde yürürlüğe girer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yürütme&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Madde 10- Bu Kanun hükümlerini Bakanlar Kurulu yürütür. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-8053439115285379597?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/8053439115285379597/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-6099940946838494185</id><published>2007-01-07T01:49:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-01-07T01:52:57.033+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eklem'/><title type='text'>OSTEO ARTRİT</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Genel olarak dejeneratif bir eklem hastalığı olan Artritin en yaygın çeşidi &lt;strong&gt;Osteoarttriir&lt;/strong&gt; ve yaklaşık &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;her 8 yetişkinden birini etkilemektedir&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Genelde daha çok yük binen eklemlerdeki kıkırdak dokusundaki aşınmaya bağlı olarak gelişen ancak eklemde yer alan diğer ligamanlar, kapsüller, sinovyal zar ve kaslarda da sorunlara yol açarak gelişen &lt;strong&gt;osteoartirit&lt;/strong&gt; başta diz olmak üzere meydana geldiği eklemlerde ağrı, hareket kısıtlılığı ve şişme gibi klinik belirtiler vermektedir.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eklemlerdeki zaman içinde ortaya çıkan ve bazen obezite, diyabet gibi koşulların hızlandırdığı dejenerasyon, vücudun kaybolan dokuyu yenileyememesi nedeniyle zaman içinde osteoartirite dönüşmektedir. Osteoartirit için geleneksel tıp uygulamalarının sunduğu iyileştirici veya kaybolan dokuyu yenileyici bir tedavi bulunmamaktadır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Genel olarak uygulanan tedaviler çoğunlukla ağrıyı azaltmak için uzun süreli ağrı kesici ilaç kullanımı, kilo kontrolü, beslenmenin düzenlenmesi ve besin takviyeleri kullanımı, kaplıca tedavileri ve fiziksel rehabilitasyondur. Girişimsel tedaviler arasında ise atroskopi ile eklemde düzeltici müdahaleler yapmak ve deformasyona karşı osteotomi uygulamak gibi müdahaleler veya eklem içine kayganlaştırıcı jeller enjekte etmek bulunmaktadır. Ayrıca yürümeye yardımcı olan çeşitli aletlerde kullanılmaktadır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yukarıda bahsedilen yöntemler kalıcı bir sonuç vermediği için hastalığın ileriki aşamasında ağır ve riskli bir ameliyat olan ve total eklem artroplastisi olarak bilinen yapay diz veya kalça protezi önerilmektedir. Ancak bu ameliyatların iyileşme dönemi birkaç ay sürebilmekte, ameliyat sonrası ve kullanım döneminde enfeksiyon riski bulunmakta, protezler 10-20 yıllık sürelerde kullanılamaz hale gelmekte olduğun kesinlikle ideal bir çözüm değilerdir. Buna karşın her yıl yalnızca ABD'de 500,000'i aşkın total &lt;strong&gt;eklem artroplastisi&lt;/strong&gt; ameliyatı yapılmaktadır. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-6099940946838494185?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/01/ostreo-artrit.html' title='OSTEO ARTRİT'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/6099940946838494185/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=6099940946838494185&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/6099940946838494185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/6099940946838494185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/01/osteo-artrit.html' title='OSTEO ARTRİT'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-6640144935059114443</id><published>2007-01-06T02:34:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-01-06T02:37:31.897+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='internet'/><title type='text'>MAIL IZ SURME</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.onimoto.com/images/50/1.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 412px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 187px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="172" alt="" src="http://www.onimoto.com/images/50/1.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Posta kutunuza gelen ve Canınızı sıkan mailleri sizlere kimin gönderdiğini merak ediyorsanız bazı ipuçlarını bu adreste bulabilirsiniz. &lt;a href="http://www.onimoto.com/cache/50.html" target="_blank"&gt;TIKLA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-6640144935059114443?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/01/mail-iz-sume.html' title='MAIL IZ SURME'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/6640144935059114443/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=6640144935059114443&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/6640144935059114443'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/6640144935059114443'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/01/mail-iz-surme.html' title='MAIL IZ SURME'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-5365007892170828108</id><published>2007-01-02T12:49:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-01-02T12:55:09.112+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beyin'/><title type='text'>BEYİN ANEVRİZMALARI</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RZo6BEM_ZFI/AAAAAAAAABc/MukJHW-O0Is/s1600-h/tedavianevrizma.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5015384925012976722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RZo6BEM_ZFI/AAAAAAAAABc/MukJHW-O0Is/s320/tedavianevrizma.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Halk arasında baloncuk olarak bilinen anevrizma denince; genel olarak temiz kan taşıyan damarlara (arter) ait genişlemeler anlaşılır. Anevrizmalar aort damarı gibi çok geniş damarlarda oluşabildiği gibi, küçük ve orta boy damarlarda da teşekkül ederler. Bu bölümde konu edilen, bazen hiç bir belirti vermeden ani kanamalarla bazen çok dramatik sonuçlara yol açan beyin anevrizmalarıdır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anevrizmalar yapı itibarı ile damar duvarının doğuştan zayıf olduğu noktalarda, genellikle de damarın daha küçük dallara ayrıldığı noktalarda oluşur. Damar duvarının zayıf olduğu noktada damar içi basınç (tansiyon) nedeniyle her kalp atımında damar duvarı zayıf noktadan dışarı doğru bombeleşerek baloncuk oluşur. Baloncuk duvarı, basınca dayanamadığı anda da patlar, patlama ya kendiliğinden olur ya da eforla oluşur. Örn. öksürme, ıkınma, cinsel temas gibi basınç artmasına neden olan aksiyonlar...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Anevrizma kimlerde oluşur, risk faktörleri nelerdir...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Damar duvarındaki yetersizlikler (Doğumsal)&lt;br /&gt;Damar duvarındaki Arteriosklerotik veya hipertansif değişiklikler.&lt;br /&gt;Travmatik (darp veya kaza sonucu kafa yaralanmaları)&lt;br /&gt;Enfeksiyona bağlı&lt;br /&gt;Risk Faktörleri:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hipertansiyon&lt;br /&gt;Sigara kullanımı&lt;br /&gt;Oral Kontraseptifler (Doğum kontrol ilaçları)&lt;br /&gt;Alkol (Şüpheli)&lt;br /&gt;Kokain &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Anevrizmanın beyinde oluştuğu yerler:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beyini besleyen damarlar, beyin tabanında birleşerek Willis Poligonu adı verilen damar ağını meydana getirirler. Anevrizmalar genellikle bu willis poligonunda oluşur.&lt;br /&gt;Anevrizması olan insanların büyük bir bölümünün hiçbir şikayeti yoktur. Ancak bazen migren tarzında ya da spesifik olmayan baş ağrıları olabilir. Ayrıca anevrizmanın büyük olduğu durumlarda kitle etkisi nedeniyle beyinde komşuluk yaptığı sinirlerle ilgili belirtiler görülebilir. Koku ve görme duyularındaki bozulmalar gibi...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Anevrizma nasıl ortaya çıkar?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Genel amaçlı yapılan tomografi veya MR tetkikinde tesadüfen&lt;br /&gt;Kafa sinirlerine ait belirti vererek. Örneğin görme sinirine ait felçler.&lt;br /&gt;Kanama sonucu: Kanama da sızıntı şeklinde beyin zarları arasına (subaraknoid kanama) veya beyin dokusu içerisine olmak üzere iki türlü olabilir. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yukarıdaki nedenlerden en önemlisi kanamadır. Aniden, çok şiddetli baş ağrısı, arkasından menenjit belirtisi olan ense sertliği, kusma, kanamanın cinsi ve ağırlığına göre bilinçte bozulma ve bazen bel ağrısı ile ortaya çıkabilir. Teşhis için yapılacak ilk iş bir nörolog ya da beyin cerrahisine müracaat etmektir. Anevrizmalarda ilaçsız olarak çekilen ilk beyin tomografisi kanama olup olmadığı konusunda yeterli bilgiyi verir. İkinci aşamada MR veya kateter anjiografi mutlaka yapılmalıdır. Anevrizmaların rastlanma oranı Amerika'daki istatistiki verilere göre yüzbinde 6-10 arasında bulunmuştur. Anevrizmaların tedavisi cerrahidir. Ancak buradaki önemli olan nokta anevrizmaya kanama olmadan müdahele etmek, ya da hiç değilse birinci kanamdan sonra hastanın genel durumu uygunsa ameliyatını yapmak şarttır. Ameliyat, mikroşirürji uygulanarak yapılmaktadır. Son yıllarda endovasküler girişim de başarıyla uygulanmaktadır. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-5365007892170828108?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/5365007892170828108/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=5365007892170828108&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/5365007892170828108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/5365007892170828108'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2007/01/beyin-anevrizmalari.html' title='BEYİN ANEVRİZMALARI'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RZo6BEM_ZFI/AAAAAAAAABc/MukJHW-O0Is/s72-c/tedavianevrizma.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-3395154279303650528</id><published>2006-12-25T12:08:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-12-25T12:12:59.515+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fıtık'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sinir'/><title type='text'>BOYUN FITIGI</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-jqHMXuuI/AAAAAAAAAAw/mnXW2LGvCMA/s1600-h/boy1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012404854167419618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-jqHMXuuI/AAAAAAAAAAw/mnXW2LGvCMA/s320/boy1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;BOYUN FITIĞI NEDİR?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;Boyunda 7 adet omur cismi bulunur. Yapıları itibariyle bir önceki bölümde anlatılan bel omurlarından tek farkları, daha küçük olmalarıdır. Her omurga arasında yastıkçık dediğimiz kıkırdaklar mevcuttur. Bu kıkırdak yapının yırtılarak , omurga içinde seyreden omurilik veya kola dağılan sinirlere baskı yapması donucu oluşan hastalığa boyun fıtığı denir. Hastada şiddetli bir boyun ağrısıyla birlikte kola yayılan ağrı, uyuşma mevcuttur. Zamanla yırtılan kıkırdak sinirlere baskı yaparsa kolda kuvvetsizlik, eğer omuriliğin kendisinede bası yaparsa tüm vücutta hareket kusurları ortaya çıkabilir. Hastalığın çok ileri dönemlerinde yatağa bağımlı hale gelen hastalara rastlanır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012404858462386930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-jqXMXuvI/AAAAAAAAAA4/Qpw04e_o0LE/s320/boy2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;BOYUN OMURLARININ YAPISI:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;Kafa tabanından itibaren 7 adet omur cisminden oluşur. Her omur cisminin ortasında , beynin devamı olan omurilik bulunur. Vücudun çeşitli yerlerinden beyine dönen duyular veya beyinden vücuda dağılan emirler omurilik içinde seyreder. Boyun bölgesinde her omur cismi hizasından çıkan sinirlerde kola ve sırta yayılarak, bu bölgelerin duyu ve hareketini sağlar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012404862757354242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-jqnMXuwI/AAAAAAAAABA/KBMPkh4iuWI/s320/top.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Omurgalar arası yastıkçık dediğimiz disk dokusunun dış kısmı (anulus fibrosus) ve iç kısmı (nucleus pulposus ) bulunur. Jelatin kıvamındaki iç kısmın , daha kuvvetli bir bağ dokusundan oluşan dış kısmı yırtarak omurilik ve sinirlere bası yapması sonucu boyun fıtığı ortaya çıkar. Burada dikkat edilmesi gereken ve bel fıtığından başlıca fark, sadece sinirlere değil omuriliğin kendisinede baskı olması sonucu vücudun tamamında kısmi veya tam kuvvetsizlik oluşmasıdır. Omurilik ilk bel omuru hizasında sonlandığından ve alt bel omurları içinde sadece ayağa giden sinirler bulunduğundan , bel fıtığında belirli sinirin dağıldığı alanda felçler görülür&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-3395154279303650528?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/12/boyun-fitigi.html' title='BOYUN FITIGI'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/3395154279303650528/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=3395154279303650528&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/3395154279303650528'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/3395154279303650528'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/12/boyun-fitigi.html' title='BOYUN FITIGI'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-jqHMXuuI/AAAAAAAAAAw/mnXW2LGvCMA/s72-c/boy1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-8841119522566464122</id><published>2006-12-13T12:44:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T12:55:40.306+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deri'/><title type='text'>Vitiligo Nedir?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vitiligo, normal deri görünümünde, pigment kaybı nedeniyle düzensiz beyaz alanların bulunduğu bir deri durumudur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Genelde edinilmiş bir durum olarak görülen vitiligo, &lt;strong&gt;herhangi bir yaşta&lt;/strong&gt; ortaya çıkabilir. Ancak, belirli genetik özelliklere sahip ailelerde hastalığa yatkınlık görülmektedir. Kontrasta bağlı olaraki &lt;em&gt;koyu tenli kişilerde daha belirgindir&lt;/em&gt;. Vitiligo'nun nedeni tam bilinmemekle beraber pigment üreten melanosit hücreleri olan melanositlerin deri veya çevre dokulara hasar vermeksizin seçici kaybına bağlı olarak otoimmünite üzerinde durulmaktadır. Bu hastalık Amerika Birleşik Devletleri'nde nüfusun % 1' ini etkilemektedir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lezyonlar düz, pigmentasyonsuz ve koyu sınırlı olarak görülmektedir. Sınırlar tam olarak tanımlanabilmektedir, ancak düzensizdir. Sıklıkla etkilenen bölgeler yüz, dirsekler ve dizler, eller ve ayaklar ve genital bölgedir. Ayrıca, travma ve basınç görmüş bölgeler de etkilenmektedir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hastalıktan korunma yolları bilinmemektedir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Semptomlar arasında aile öyküsü belirten vitiligo, birden veya aniden gelişen düz, doğal desenli pigment kaybına uğramış deri bölgeleri görülmektedir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fizik muayene ve sorgulama tanı konması için yeterlidir. Ek bir tanı yöntemine başvurulmasına gerek yoktur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vitiligo olgularının çoğu tedavi edilmeden devam etmektedir. Mevcut tedavi yöntemleri zor ve tam olarak etkin değildir. Hastalar, fotosensitize edici bileşikler verildikten sonar ultra-viole ışığa maruz bırakılmaktadırlar. Topikal veya oral 8-metoksipsoralen veya trimetilpsoralen tedavileri kısmi pigmentasyon sağlamak amacıyla birden fazla defa verilmelidir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hastalığın gidişatı değişkendir. Bazı bölgeler pigmentasyon kazanabilir, fakat yeni diğer bölgeler oluşabilir. Pigmentasyon kaybı ilerleyici olabilir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Güneş yanığı gibi komplikasyonlar sıklıkla görülebilirken, vitiligo pernisyöz anemi, hipertiroidizm ve Addison hastalığı gibi sistemik hastalıklar ile ilişkili olabilir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tedavi:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Bu kronik hastalık mutlak olarak doktor tarafından takip gerektirir. Öncelikle hastanın yanlışları yapmayarak hastalığın artışına katkıda bulunmaması amaçlanır. Güneşe çıkış saatleri hastaların kontrol altına alınır.15 faktör üstü bir koruyucu hastaya önerilir.Güneşte aşırı kalmanın doğuracağı sonuçlar hakkında kişiler bilgilendirilir. Lokal olarak uygun birtakım kremler kısıtlı bölgede vitiligosu olan hastalarda başlanabilir ve %40-50 etki sağlanabilir. Deriye uygulanan punch greftle ise bir bölgeden alınan sağlıklı derinin beyaz plaklara ekimi prensibine dayanıp, her zaman başarılı sonuçlar vermemektedir. Vitiligonun en etkili tedavisi dünyada ve ülkemizde ancak birkaç hastanede uygulayabildiğimiz PUVA IŞINI tedavisidir.UVA (320-400nm) dalga boyundaki ışınlar kısa tedavi aralıklarıyla özel kabinlerde cilde verilir.Haftada 2-3 seanslık düzenli uygulamalarla oldukça başarılı sonuçlar elde edilmektedir.Bu tedavi sırasında cilt üzerinde önce kırmızılık daha sonra kahverengi lekelenmeler ile başlayan rengin geri dönüşü görülmektedir.%70 hastada olumlu sonuca yani rengin geriye dönüp beyazlıkların kaybolduğu görülmektedir. Özellikle yüz ve boyun gibi estetik bölgelerdeki olumlu yanıtlar daha hızlı ve umut vericidir.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5007961607901534242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RX_ajI_D2CI/AAAAAAAAAAk/hihURSZ0UUU/s320/skin_hands.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-8841119522566464122?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/12/vitiligo-nedir.html' title='Vitiligo Nedir?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/8841119522566464122/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=8841119522566464122&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/8841119522566464122'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/8841119522566464122'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/12/vitiligo-nedir.html' title='Vitiligo Nedir?'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RX_ajI_D2CI/AAAAAAAAAAk/hihURSZ0UUU/s72-c/skin_hands.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-581842087959516759</id><published>2006-12-06T23:43:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T12:56:12.454+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='güzellik'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='akne'/><title type='text'>AKNE - SİVİLCELER</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RXc6SopexsI/AAAAAAAAAAM/ZRS9oVqxXx4/s1600-h/akne.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005533602669053634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RXc6SopexsI/AAAAAAAAAAM/ZRS9oVqxXx4/s320/akne.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;Akne (sivilce) nedir?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Akne yüz, boyun, göğüs, sırt , omuz ve üst kollarda görülen, yağ kanallarını tutan bir hastalıktır. En sık ergenlik çağında görülmekle birlikte 20-40 yaş arası devam edebilir. Akneli kişiler genellikle yağlı bir deriye sahiptir. Akne zamanla, ilerleyen yaşlarla birlikte iyileşebilir. Yine de bunun olmasını beklemek gereksizdir. Çünkü tedavi edilmeyen akneler skar denilen kalıcı, ciddi izler bırakabilir. Ayrıca akneli dönem uzun sürebilir. Bu dönem içinde kişiye görüntü bozukluğu yaratarak can sıkar ve psikolojik olarak rahatsızlık verebilir. Bu yüzden bir dermatolog tarafından tedavi edilmesi uygundur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;Akne nasıl oluşur :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hem erkek hem de kadınlarda bulunan erkeklik hormonları ergenlik çağında yükselir ve derideki yağ bezlerini uyarır ve genişletir. Bu yağ bezleri, aknenin en sık görüldüğü alanlarda (yüz, göğüs,sırt) bulunur.&lt;br /&gt;Yağ bezleri sebum olarak adlandırılan yağlı bir madde üretir. Sebum ( yağ), deri üzerine deri yüzeyine açılan yağ kanalları ile boşalır. Bu yağ kanalarının ağzı por olarak adlandırılır. Sebum (yağ), yağ kanalına hücrelerin dökülmesi ile birlikte yapışkan bir hale gelir. Böylece por tıkanmış olur. Bakteriler yağ kanalındaki yağ ve hücrelerle beslenerek çoğalırlar. Bu bakteriler kimyasal maddeler salgılayarak burada bir reaksiyon yaratırlar ve yağ kanalı parçalanır. Sebum, bakteriler, ve hücreler deri içine dağılarak kızarıklık şişme ve iltihap akıntısına neden olur. Nadiren akneler hormonal dengesizliğe de bağlı olabilir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;Akne de nasıl bir temizlik yapılmalıdır:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Siyah noktacık, yağ kanalı içindeki kurumuş yağ ve ölü hücrelerden meydana gelir, kir değildir. Cildin günlük bakımında yüz, günde iki kez temizleyici madde ( sabun yada jel) ve ılık su ile yıkanmalıdır. Süt tarzı temizleyiciler yağlı baza sahip olduklarından temizleyici olarak tercih edilmemelidir. Akneli ciltler veya yağlı ciltler temizleyici olarak su ile çıkan sabun yada jel tarzında pH sı 5.5 olan ürünleri tercih etmelidirler. Akne kirlilik sonucu meydana gelmez. Çok sık yıkama ve cildin aşırı ovulması akneyi alevlendirebilir. Düzenli şampuanla saç temizliği de gereklidir. Eğer saç yağlı ise sık temizlemek önerilir. Akneli erkekler tıraş bıçağı yada elektrikli tıraş makineleri kullanabilirler. Eğer tıraş bıçağı kullanılıyorsa tıraş öncesi sakal bölgesi su ve tıraş köpüğü ile yumuşatılmalıdır. Sivilceler koparılmadan yumuşak hareketlerle tıraş olunmalıdır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ff33;"&gt;Aknede diyetin rolü :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Akne yiyecekler nedeniyle oluşmaz. Kısıtlayıcı diyetler derinizi düzeltmez. Uzun yıllar çikolata , yağlı gıdalar akne etkeni olarak suçlanmıştır. Ancak bilimsel olarak kanıt bulunamamıştır. Akne kendi kendine de iyileşmeler veya kötüleşmeler gösterdiğinden gıdalarda yanılgıya düşmemek gereklidir. Yinede böyle bir gözleminiz var ise bu gıdalardan kaçınmanız gerekir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ff33;"&gt;Aknede kozmetikler nasıl kullanılır?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Akneli kişiler göz makyajı, allık ve ruj rahatlıkla kullanabilirler. Yalnızca deri yüzeyine uygulanan fondöten ve pudranın uygun olması önemlidir. Eğer likit fondöten veya nemlendirici kullanıyorsanız yağsız ve su bazlı olaması gereklidir. Seçtiğiniz ürünün üzerinde non-comedogenic ve oil-free ibaresi olması uygundur. Bu tür ürünler geceleri mutlaka temizlenmelidir. Benzoil peroksid, salisilik asit, sulfur içeren kapatıcı deri losyonları akne lekelerini güvenle gizler. Pudralı yağsız ürünler kapatıcı olarak kullanılabilir. Saç spreyleri ve jelllerin yüze gelmemesine özen gösterilmelidir.&lt;br /&gt;Aknenin iç hastalıklarıyla ilgisi var mıdır?&lt;br /&gt;Çoğu kez aknenin karaciğer hastalığına bağlı olduğu düşünülür. Günümüzde aknenin iç hastalığına bağlı olmadığını biliyoruz. Sadece hormon bozuklukları ve kullanılan birtakım ilaçlar akneye neden olabilir. Kadınlarda böbrek üstü bezlerinin veya yumurtalıkların aşırı miktarda erkeklik hormonu (androjenler) üretmesi halinde akneleşme olabilir. Uzun süren, tedaviye yanıt vermeyen, saç dökülmesi ve tüylenmenin olduğu durumlarda dermatologunuz bu açıdan test isteyecektir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ff33;"&gt;Hangi ilaçlar akneyi artırabilir?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tedavi amacıyla kullanılan bazı ilaçlar (kortizon, B12 vitamini, hormon ilaçları vb) akneye neden olabilir veya çoğaltabilir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ff33;"&gt;Stres akneye neden olabilir mi?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stres aknenin ana nedenlerinden değildir. Ancak stresli dönemlerde bazı hormonların açığa çıkması nedeni ile sivilcelerin ortaya çıkmasına veya artışa sebep olabilir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ff33;"&gt;Güneşlenmenin ve solaryumun akne üzerine etkisi nedir?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Güneşin ültraviyole ışınlarının kurutucu ve bakterileri azaltıcı rolü bilinmektedir. Bu nedenle güneşlenme genellikle akneleri azaltır. Ancak bu yanıltıcı bir durum da olabilir. Aşırı güneşlenme sonrasında deri kendini zararlı ültraviyole ışınlarından korumak için kalınlaşır. Önce azalan akneler, derinin kalınlaşıp gözeneklerin tıkanması sonucu daha şiddetlenebilir. Solaryumda ültraviyole ışığı olup aynı etki mekanizmasına sahiptir. Günümüzde ültraviyolenin yaşlandırıcı ve deri kanseri yapıcı etkileri nedeniyle aşırı güneşlenmeyi tavsiye etmiyoruz. Yaz aylarında güneşten koruyucu kullanırken bu ürünün su bazlı ve yağ içermemesine özellikle dikkat edilmelidir. Sivilce çoğalmasına neden olabilir. Bazı akne hastalarında da tam tersi, yaz aylarında sivilce artışı olabilir. Bu durum terleme ile birlikte yağ salgının artmasının artışından kaynaklanmaktadır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;Cinsel yaşamın akne üzerine etkisi var mıdır?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Yapılan bilimsel çalışmalarda cinsel yaşamla akne arasında bağlantı kurulamamıştır. Sivilcelerin ergenlik çağında görülüp 20li yaşlarda sona ermesi ve bu dönemin de cinsel yaşamın başlamasına denk gelmesi böyle bir kanı yerleşmesine neden olmuştur. &lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005533761582843602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RXc6b4pextI/AAAAAAAAAAU/39saIVlzia4/s320/akne_2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;Akne tipleri nelerdir?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;İltihaplı olmayanlar&lt;br /&gt;Açık komedon (siyah noktacık)&lt;br /&gt;K apalı komedon (beyaz yağ butonları)&lt;br /&gt;İltihapsız kist&lt;br /&gt;İltihaplı olanlar&lt;br /&gt;Papül( kırmızı, kabarık şişlikler)&lt;br /&gt;Püstül ( içi cerahatli, kabarık şişlikler)&lt;br /&gt;İltihaplı kist ( derin, kırmızı, ağrılı şişlikler)&lt;br /&gt;Akne derecelendirmesi&lt;br /&gt;Akne hafif, orta ve şiddetli olarak sınıflandırılır. Tedaviler aknenin derecesine ve tipine göre yapılır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;Akne tedavisi genel bilgiler:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Akne etkili bir şekilde tedavi edilebilir ancak tedavi yavaş ilerler. Akne tedavisinde iyileşmeler 2. ayda başlar ve 4-8 ay arasında tamamen bir düzelme sağlanır. Özellikle ilk 1. ayda aknenin artması gibi durumlar söz konusu olabilir. Düzelmeler zaman alır. Eğer akneler 6-8 haftada iyileşmeye başlamadıysa tedavinin değiştirilmesi gerekir.&lt;br /&gt;Dermatologlar tedavileri aknenin tipine göre belirlerler. Bazen başka nedenlerle örneğin makyaj, losyonlar veya alınan ilaçlardan dolayı akneye benzer döküntüler olabilir. Dermatologunuzla görüşürken kullandığınız ilaç ve ürünleri iyi belirtmeniz gerekir.&lt;br /&gt;Dermatologunuz size dışardan porların tıkanmasını engelleyen ve bakterileri azaltan A vitaminli veya benzoyil peroxidli krem, jel veya losyonlar önerebilir. Bu ürünler bazen kuruluk ve soyulma yaratabilir. Dermatologunuz size doğru kullanımı ve yan etkilerin olmaması için tavsiyelerini belirtecektir.&lt;br /&gt;Deriye sürülerek kullanılan antibiyotikler de vardır. Bunların kullanımı daha hafif aknelerdedir. Eğer geniş kırmızı ve derin sivilceleriniz varsa bunlara direk olarak içine kortizon enjekte edilerek hemen iyileşmesi sağlanabilir.&lt;br /&gt;Dermatologunuz siyah noktacık beyaz yağ butonlarını ve iltihaplı kesecikleri özel aletlerle temizleyebilir. Ancak kendiniz bunlarla oynamamalısınız. Akneyi derinleştirerek daha fazla büyümesine ve iz bırakmasına neden olabilirsiniz.&lt;br /&gt;Ağız yoluyla antibitikler özellikle tetrasiklin, doksisiklin veya eritromisin orta ve şiddetli aknede kullanılırlar. Antibiotikler kıl folikülündeki bakterileri azaltırlar. Bu da kızarıklıklar ve iltihaplanmaları azaltır.&lt;br /&gt;Doğum kontrol hapları kadınlarda akneyi önemli derecede iyileştirdikleri gözlemlenebilir bu amaçla tedavi maksadıyla da kullanılırlar.&lt;br /&gt;Hafif akne tedavileri:&lt;br /&gt;Hafif akneler jel solusyon ve losyonlarla tedavi edilir. Ekstra vitamin ve minerallerin kullanımının tedaviye faydası bulunmamıştır. Yüzünüzü su ile hafif bir temizleyici sabun veya antiseptik jel kullanarak günde iki kez yıkayın&lt;br /&gt;Akne ürünlerini sadece akne üzerlerine nokta halinde değil tüm etkileyen alanlara yayarak uygulayın. Akne tedavi ajanları ilk 2-4 hafta kuruluk yaratabilir. Zamanla cilt bu reaksiyonları göstermez. Yağsız bir nemlendirici kuruma şikayeti için kullanılabilir. Yağlı kozmetikler, fondoten, krem ve güneş koruyucular kullanılmamalıdır. Iyileşme 2-4 ay arasında olabilir.&lt;br /&gt;Şiddetli tahrişlerde tedavi bırakılmalı doktorunuzla görüşülmelidir.&lt;br /&gt;Hafif derecede ki aknelerde genellikle topikal yani dışardan sürme şeklinde ilaçlar kullanılır.&lt;br /&gt;Benzoyil peroxid&lt;br /&gt;Azeleik asit&lt;br /&gt;Antibiotikler: Clindamisin, Eritromisin&lt;br /&gt;Retinoidler: Tretionin, Adapalen&lt;br /&gt;Orta dereceli aknede tedavi:&lt;br /&gt;Burada deriye sürülerek uygulanan ilaçların yanı sıra ağız yoluyla tedaviler uygulanır.&lt;br /&gt;Antibiyotikler: Tetrasiklin, Eritromisin, Doksisiklin&lt;br /&gt;Kadınlarda östrojen ve antiandrojen ( erkeklik hormonunu baskılayan) tedaviler Diane 35 , spirinololakton&lt;br /&gt;Tedaviye dirençli aknede İsotretinoin (Roaccutane)&lt;br /&gt;Şiddetli aknede tedavi:&lt;br /&gt;Şiddetli akne ağızdan ilaçlarla tedavi edilir. Hasta mutlaka dermatolog kontrolünde olmalıdır.&lt;br /&gt;Pek çok hasta oral isotretinoin ile tedavi edilir. İsotretinoin hasta için uygun değilse Uzun süreli antibiyotikler&lt;br /&gt;Kadınlarda antiandrojenler tedavi kullanılabilir.&lt;br /&gt;Meyve asitleriyle tedavi-peeling&lt;br /&gt;Son yıllarda meyve asitleri de akne tedavisinde rol oynamaya başlamıştır. Yarı kozmetik yarı ilaç sayılan bu ürünlere glikolik asit, laktik asit örnek verilebilir . % 5-20 oranlarında krem ve jel şeklinde evde uygulamaya yönelik ürünleri mevcuttur. Akne tedavisine yardımcı olarak veya tedavi sonrası bakım amacıyla kullanılır. Ayrıca yağlı ciltlerde yağ kontrolü ve yağlanmanın getirdiği hafif sivilceleri geçirmek içinde önerilmektedir. Meyve asitleri cildi soyarak yeniler , gözeneklerin temiz kalmasını sağlar böylece akneye engel olur. Meyve asitlerinin yüksek konsantrasyondaki formülleri de % 50-90 gibi ofis uygulamaları şeklinde tedavide kullanılır. Doktor kontrolündeki bu uygulamada asit solüsyonu deriye sürülür birkaç dakika beklenir ve daha sonra yıkanarak ciltten uzaklaştırılır. Bu uygulamalıda 1-4 hafta aralıklarla yapılır. Hem akne tedavisi olarak hem de tedavi sonrası izlerin giderilmesi amacıyla uygulanmaktadır. Oldukça faydalı bir tedavi yöntemidir. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-581842087959516759?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/12/akne-sivilceler.html' title='AKNE - SİVİLCELER'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/581842087959516759/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=581842087959516759&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/581842087959516759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/581842087959516759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/12/akne-sivilceler.html' title='AKNE - SİVİLCELER'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RXc6SopexsI/AAAAAAAAAAM/ZRS9oVqxXx4/s72-c/akne.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-7605184280946049737</id><published>2006-12-01T17:13:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T12:57:35.172+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lenf'/><title type='text'>LENF BEZLERİNİN BÜYÜMESİ</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;LENF BEZLERİNİN BÜYÜMESİ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Şişmiş bezeler genellikle vücudun hastalıklara karşı korunma mekanizmasının iyi çalıştığını gösterir. Fakat aynı zamanda ciddi hastalıkların da habercisi olabilirler. Bunun ayırdına nasıl varacaksınız?&lt;br /&gt;Çoğumuz, kulak altında, boyunun her iki tarafında, çene ve koltuk altlarında büyüyen bezelere yabancı değilizdir. Genellikle şişmiş bezeler, bölgesel bir enfeksiyonun sonucu oluşurlar. Daha çok koltuk altı, boyun ve kasık bölgelerinde şişen bezeler, beyaz kan hücreleri ve vücudu hastalıklara karşı koruyan antikorları içeren bir sıvıyla dolar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Enfeksiyonlarla savaş&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lenf bezleri bütün vücuda yayılmıştır.Çene altı,kulak arkası,ve kasık lenf bezleri büyüdükleri zaman belirgin bir hal alır.Buna karşılık daha derinde bulunan ,göğüs ve karın bölgesindeki lenf bezlerinin şişmesi özel muayenelerle anlaşılabilir.Normal olarak bezelerin çapı yarım santimetreyi geçmez, ancak enfeksiyon kaptığınızda, lenf bezleri beyaz kan hücreleri üreterek zamanla büyür. Bunlar daha sonra kan dolaşımına katılarak vücuttaki mikroplarla savaşırlar. Bu bir bakıma vücut içindeki enerji savaşıdır. Genellikle vücudun savunma mekanizması mikroplarla olan bu savaşı yener. Fakat bütün bu aktiviteler aynı zamanda hassas ve ağrılı lokal şişmelere de neden olur. Boğazınızda oluşan bezeler, birkaç gün dinlenmenizi gerektirebilir. Sıcak içecekler, tuzlu su, antiseptik gargara yapmak boğazınızdaki şişliğin geçmesine yardım etse de bezeler bir süre sonra kendi kendilerine kaybolacaktır. Eğer geçmiyorlarsa, ciddi bir enfeksiyon olup olmadığını öğrenmek için doktora başvurun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Nedenini öğrenin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bezeler, lenf bezlerinde beyaz kan hücresi dediğimiz lenfositlerin göllenmesiyle oluşur. Deri ve solunum sisteminin bazı basit enfeksiyonları bezelere neden olabilir.Örneğin bademcikler ve apandis öncelikle lenfatik hücrelerden oluştukları için kolaylıkla şişebilirler. Lenf bezleri vücudun herhangi bir bölgesinin tahriş olması veya kesilmesi sonucu enfeksiyon kapmasıyla da şişebilirler. Örneğin koltuk altınızda beze şişmişse, o bölgeye en yakın olan kollarınızı ve ellerinizi kontrol edin. Eğer herhangi bir kesik veya tahriş olmuş yer varsa, o bölgeyi ılık su ve antiseptik ile silin. Ancak beze iyileşmiyor ve daha da şişerek ateşli bir hal alıyorsa böyle bir belirtiyi gözardı etmeyerek doktor kontrolüne girin. Çünkü bu durum ciddi kan zehirlenmelerine de sebep olabilir. Kasıklardaki bezelerse bacak ve ayaklarınızdaki rahatsızlıkların habercisidir. Bu yüzden herhangi bir enfeksiyon veya yara olup olmadığını kontrol edin. Özellikle şeker hastaları bu çeşit enfeksiyonlara yatkındırlar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bazı bakteriyel hastalıkların etkisiyle vücuddaki bezeler daha da yaygın hale gelebilir. Bunun nedeni, vücuttaki bakterilere karşı savaş veren beyaz kan hücrelerinin sayısı artmasıdır. Ayrıca eklem yerlerinde oluşan bezeler de büyük bir olasılıkla eklem romatizmasının bir işaredir. Bu yüzden, sağlıklı bir beden için kadınların göğüslerini herhangi bir kist olup olmadığını kontrol etmelerine benzer şekilde koltukaltı ve kasıklarımızı da kontrol etmemiz gerekir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Günlük hastalıklar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vücudunuzun herhangi bir yerinde şişlik bulmak belki önemsiz görünebilir. Özellikle gelişme çağındaki çocuklarda sık sık bezeler oluşur ve çoğu zaman fiziksel bir halsizlik verir, birkaç gün dinlenmeyle de geçerler. Bazen şişen lenf bezleri, başlarda farkedilemeyen ciddi solunum hastalıklarının da habercisi olabilir. Örneğin göğüste şişen lenf bezleri ancak X ışınlarıyla görülebildiğinden, tüberkülozun farkedilmesi oldukça güçtür. Ancak diğer belirtileri izlenebilir; bazen kan kusma, ısı kaybı, kilo vermek, geceleri terlemek ve boyunda şişen bezeler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Doktorunuza görünün&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her büyüyen lenf bezi karşısında endişeye kapılmanıza gerek yok.Örneğin dişiniz apse yaptığında çene altınızda şişen bezeler,veya soğuk algınlığıyla şişen bademcikleriniz bir süre sonra kendi kendilerine ortadan kaybolurlar.Ancak hassas ve şişkin bezeler nadiren de olsa kanserin habercisidir. Kanserli tümörler,komşu lenf bezlerine yayılarak,şişmelerine neden olurlar. Örneğin sağ göğüsteki kanser yayılarak sağ koltuk altındaki bezeleri kaplar. Lenf bezleri şekilsel olarak arttıklarında ağrı da olmasa ihmal etmeden GP nizi çektirin. Lenf bezi hücrelerindeki anormal çoğalma, bazen Hodgkin adı verilen ve genç erkeklerde görülen bir hastalığa da neden olabilir. Boyundaki lenf bezleri zamanla ağrısız olarak şişer. Hastalık ilerledikçe diğer lenf bezleri grupları da şişerek solunum darlığı,karaciğer ve dalağın şişmesine neden olur. Erken teşhis edilirse tedavi şansı yüksektir. Bu nedenlerden dolayı vücunuzun herhangi bir bölgesinde şüpheli bir şişkinlik olursa, ağrısız dahi olsa takibe alın.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;OLASI HASTALIKLAR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ffff;"&gt;• Kulak enfeksiyonları: Orta ve dış kulaktaki enfeksiyonlar, lenf bezlerinin şişmesine ve ateşlenmeye sebep olur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Alman Kızamığı: Boyunun arka bölgesinde şişen bezeler, kırmızı isilik gibi görünen Alman kızamığının habercisi olabilir. Bu çocuklar için ciddi bir hastalık olmasa da, hamile kadınların geçirmesi oldukça tehlikelidir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Fıtık: Kasıklarda üzerine basıldığında kaybolan yumuşak şişkinlikler genellikle doğuştan gelen bir rahatsızlıktır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Kabakulak: Hemen hemen her çocuğun geçirdiği kabakulak hastalığı, tükürük bezlerinin şişmesiyle oluşur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Toxoplazma: Bezelerin şişmesiyle görülen bu hastalığa kedi, köpek gibi hayvanların dışkısından insanlara bulaşan bir mikrop neden olur. Diğer belirtileri yüksek ateş ve halsizliktir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-7605184280946049737?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/12/lenf-bezlerinin-bymesi.html' title='LENF BEZLERİNİN BÜYÜMESİ'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/7605184280946049737/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=7605184280946049737&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/7605184280946049737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/7605184280946049737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/12/lenf-bezlerinin-bymesi.html' title='LENF BEZLERİNİN BÜYÜMESİ'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-116457303031212997</id><published>2006-11-26T22:24:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T12:58:13.530+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='zayıflama'/><title type='text'>Ayurveda Uzmanı Dr. Ender Saraç'tan zayıflama önerileri</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ffcc33;"&gt;Ayurveda Uzmanı ve Aile Hekimi Dr. Ender Saraç "Zerdeçal, nane ve yeşil elma kokularını günde 25-30 kere derin derin içinize çekerek, iştah merkezini rahatlatabilir, açlık hissinizi bastırabilirsiniz"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ayurveda Uzmanı (Yaşam Bilgisi) Dr. Ender Saraç, kilolu insanların vücut tiplerine göre beslenerek zayıflamaları gerektiğini söylüyor. Bu konuda "Sağlıklı Zayıflamanın Sırları" adlı bir de kitap yazan Dr. Saraç, bilinçsiz diyet uygulamalarının zararına dikkat çekiyor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;Kalori hesabına dayalı, kısa süreli, klasik diyetlerin handikapları neler?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Artık devir sadece kalori hesabına dayalı klasik diyetle zayıflama devrini geçti. Beden tipinize uygun, yaşa, cinsiyete uygun, mevsime uygun ve yaşamsal özelliklerinize uygun&lt;br /&gt;sağlıklı ve bilinçli doğal beslenme var artık. Çünkü sadece kalori hesabına dayalı diyetlerle zayıflıyorsunuz ama sonra verdiğiniz kiloları fazlasıyla geri alıyorsunuz.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;Siz hastalarınıza kilo verdirmek için beden tiplerinden yola çıkıyorsunuz. Bunu biraz açıklar mısınız?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Standart diyetleri doğru bulmuyorum ben. Uzmanlık alanım olan Ayurvedaya göre, belli beden tipleri var. Mesela birçok insan "Ender bey, bütün günü aç geçiriyorum, sadece salata yiyorum, bir türlü zayıflayamıyorum" diye geliyor bana. Yediklerine ve vücut tipine bir bakıyorsunuz; aslında tere, roka gibi yeşil salataları hiç yememesi gerekiyor. Yani aç&lt;br /&gt;kalıyor ama vücut tipine uygun olan gıdaları yemediği için zayıflayamıyor. Halbuki, doğru bir sisteme geçtiğinizde, tıkır tıkır, sağlıklı bir şekilde kilo vermeye ve sağlığına kavuşmaya başlıyor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;Sizce zayıflama konusunda yaptığımız en önemli yanlış hangisi?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zayıflama işi biraz disiplin ister. Türk toplumundaki en büyük problem ise, disiplin eksikliği. Diyetleri nisan mayıs aylarında, iki aylık bir heves şeklinde yapıyoruz. Ondan sonra uzun kollu, kat kat giyilmeye başlandığı anda, olayı rafa kaldırıyoruz. Ve sonra&lt;br /&gt;tekrar dengemiz bozuluyor. Doğru yaşam biçimini edinmez veya doğru beslenme felsefesini benimsemezseniz, en iyi diyetisyenlere, en iyi doktorlara, merkezlere bile gelinse, bir yere kadar işe yarar. Şunu kabul etmek gerek: İki ay çok yoğun diyet yapıp, bıkıp, yorgun düşmek yerine, yılın 12 ayına daha az kurallı, doğru, boğucu olmayan&lt;br /&gt;bir yaşam biçimi ve doğru beslenme felsefesi şeklinde yaymak daha sağlıklı.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;Sadece bilinçli beslenme yeterli mi?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bilinçli beslenme işin en önemli ayağıdır. Fakat sadece doğru beslenmeyle olmaz; mutlaka düzenli egzersiz de gerekir. Şok diyetler, açlık rejimleri, zamana karşı yarışan diyetler, tek gıda rejimleri, 10 gün lahana çorbası, karpuz diyeti, karbonhidrat diyeti, sadece protein diyeti, bütün bunlar yanlış. Dengeli beslenilmeli. Ama sadece bilinçli diyetle de olmaz, düzenli egzersiz, yürüyüş yapılmalı. Haftada üç- dört gün,&lt;br /&gt;bir buçuk saat civarında orta sporlar; mesela tempolu yürüyüş, hafif koşu, fitness, aerobik, yüzme, neden zevk alınıyorsa, o spor&lt;br /&gt;yapılmalı.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;Spor yapılan saatin herhangi bir önemi var mı?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Evet, var. Ayurvedaya göre, sabah 6 ile 10 ya da 18.00 ile 22.00 saatleri arasında daha çok yağ yakıyoruz. Çünkü bunlar Ayurveda'ya göre vücudun 'kapha' saatleri, yani daha çok biriktirme, yağlanma saatleri. Bu saatlerde metabolizmayı ısıttığınızda daha iyi sonuç alınıyor. Egzersizden bıkmamaya çalışın. Çılgınca egzersiz yapmayın, sporu zamana yayın. Çok ağır egzersiz ve çok ağır spor yanlış. Çünkü vücudu hem çok aç olmak savunmaya sokar, hem de aşırı ağır egzersizler savunmaya sokar. Çünkü vücut bunları bir tehdit olarak ele alır. Bu nedenle, mutlaka düzenli yapılan egzersizlere ağırlık vermek lazım.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;Sizce zayıflamanın en önemli kriteri nedir?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En önemli şey, bu fikre hazır ve zayıflamaya kararlı olmak. Bana zayıflamaya gelenlere, ilk önce şunu soruyorum: "Hazır mısınız, kararlı mısınız?" Eğer gerçekten hazırsanız ve kararlıysanız bu işe başlayın. Şişmanlıkta şöyle bir şey saptıyorum: İnsanın sinir&lt;br /&gt;sistemine bir virüs bulaşmış gibi oluyor, bilgisayar virüsü gibi... Bu virüs sizin kilo vermeniz için gerekli olan doğru davranış, beslenme ve hareket alışkanlıklarınızı olumsuz etkiliyor. "Boş ver şimdi yürüme, sonra yürürsün", "Bu çikolatalı kek çok güzel; bir&lt;br /&gt;dilim daha ye" gibi uyaranları gönderiyor adeta. Onun için ilk başta bu virüsleri silmek lazım.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;Zayıflamaya karar verenlere destek olacak, cesaretlerini artıracak destek yöntemler de var mı?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Evet, bitki çayları, doğal ve bitkisel zayıflama preparatları...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;Doğal bitki özlü çayların hepsi zayıflama sürecinde tüketilebilir mi?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Piyasada tanınmış firmaların hazırladıkları form çaylarının formülleri güzel. Günde iki-üç fincan içilebilir. Birkaç hafta içip, ondan sonra ara vermek gerekir. Bunun dışında, mesela gazımız varsa rezene çayı, iştahımız çok fazlaysa ıhlamur çayı, sindirimimiz zayıfsa zencefil çayı, hormon krizlerinden dolayı daha çok yiyorsak adaçayı, metabolizmayı canlandırmak için yeşil çay, bağırsakları çalıştırmak için sinameki çayı, şekerimiz çok yüksekse kekik çayı gibi bitkisel çayları tüketebiliriz.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;Diyetlerde baharatların yeri nedir?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Baharatlar çok önemli. Mesela zencefil yağları yakar, zerdeçal karaciğerden toksin attırır,&lt;br /&gt;biberiye iyi bir antioksidandır, kekik şekeri düşürür, sarmısak zayıflamaya yardımcı olur. Bir de özel ayurveda tabletleri var. Bunlar, zayıflamaya yardımcı, yan etki oranı son derece düşük olan, güvenilir doğal preparatlar. Bu tabletler de metabolizmayı&lt;br /&gt;canlandırıyor, aynı zamanda kişinin incelmesine ve iştahının azalmasına katkıda bulunuyor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;Kişi zayıflamak istiyor, öğün saati değil ama çok acıktı. Açlığını bastırmak için yapabileceği bir şey var mı?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;İştahı azaltan ve zayıflamaya yardımcı bir ipucu şudur: Zerdeçal, nane ve yeşil elma&lt;br /&gt;kokularını günde 25-30 kere derin derin içinize çekerek, iştah merkezini rahatlatabilirsiniz.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;Bu karışım tokluk hissi mi yaratıyor?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;İştah merkezini sakinleştiriyor. Almanya'da yapılan bir araştırmada yeşil elma ve nane koklayan kişilerin, (bunların aromatik yağları da olabilir) daha hızlı kilo&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-116457303031212997?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/ayurveda-uzman-dr-ender-saratan.html' title='Ayurveda Uzmanı Dr. Ender Saraç&apos;tan zayıflama önerileri'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/116457303031212997/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=116457303031212997&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116457303031212997'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116457303031212997'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/ayurveda-uzman-dr-ender-saratan.html' title='Ayurveda Uzmanı Dr. Ender Saraç&apos;tan zayıflama önerileri'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-116431487611432479</id><published>2006-11-23T22:41:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T12:58:41.442+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='psikolojik'/><title type='text'>DEPRESYON</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 164px; CURSOR: hand" height="138" alt="" src="http://www.hurriyetusa.com/haberler_foto4/depresyon.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;Depresyon ya da (diğer adıyla melankoli) çağdaş toplumun sık görülen bir hastalığıdır. En hafif şekliyle kendini "basit bir uyku bozukluğu", ya da "moral bozukluğu" gibi gösterebilirken, ağır durumlarda kişinin intihar etmesine neden olacak kadar ilerlemiş olabilir. Nasıl olursa olsun depresyon kişinin yaşamını ve ilişkilerini etkili yaşamasını engeller ve hayatta ulaşabileceği noktaya varamadan keyifsiz bir yaşam geçirmesine neden olur. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Bu yazının amacı depresyonu tıbben tanıtmak, ya da etkili tedavi yöntemlerinden ayrıntılı olarak bahsetmek değildir. Amacı, hastalığın varlığını tekrar hatırlatmak, belirtiler konusunda uyarıcı olmak ve depresyonun tedavi edilebilir bir hastalık türü olduğunu vurgulamaktır. Depresyon bir "ruh hastalığı" olmasına karşın, çoğu zaman tanı başka bir branş hekimi tarafından konmakta ve hafif durumlarda tedavi bu aşamada verilmektedir. Ancak ileri durumlarda ilgili doktor diğer psikiyatrik hastalıklardan ayırıcı tanı için psikiyatri uzmanından konsultasyon isteyebilir. &lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aşağıdaki belirtilerden beş veya daha fazlası varsa ve bunlar iki haftadan uzun sürmüşse, ya da belirtilerden herhangi biri iş yaşamınızı veya aile yaşantınızı olumsuz yönde etkiliyorsa yardım almak için bir doktora başvurmanızda fayda var:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;Depresyon belirtileri:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Kendini sürekli olarak keyifsiz ve "boşlukta" hissetme&lt;br /&gt;-Cinsellik de dahil olmak üzere önceden zevk alınan günlük işlevlerin zevk vermemesi ve bunlara ilginin kaybolması&lt;br /&gt;-Kendini "bitkin", yorgun hissetme&lt;br /&gt;-Uyku bozuklukları (uykusuzluk, sabah erken saatlerde uyanma ya da aşırı uyuma)&lt;br /&gt;-İştah bozuklukları (iştahın artması veya azalması, buna bağlı olarak kilo değişiklikleri)&lt;br /&gt;-Dikkati bir konuda toplayamama, hatırlama güçlüğü, karar vermede zorlanma&lt;br /&gt;-Suçluluk, değersizlik duyguları&lt;br /&gt;-Sinirlilik, kolayca ağlama&lt;br /&gt;-İntihar düşüncüleri veya intihar girişimi (bu belirti depresyonun ileri olduğunu gösterir ve asla ihmal edilmemelidir)&lt;br /&gt;-Tedaviye cevap vermeyen eklem, kas ağrıları&lt;br /&gt;-Alkol ve ilaç bağımlılığı&lt;br /&gt;Depresyon ek olarak iş yerinde de kendini şu şekilde gösterebilir:&lt;br /&gt;-Kişinin verimliliğin azalması&lt;br /&gt;-Kişinin işbirliğinin azalması&lt;br /&gt;-İşyerinde kişinin güvenlik hataları yapması ve böylece kazalara maruz kalma riskinin artması&lt;br /&gt;Unutmayın: depresyon ender görülen bir hastalık değildir, utanılacak bir hastalık asla değildir, etkili tedavi yöntemleri vardır. Kendinizde veya bir yakınınızda depresyon olduğunu düşünüyorsanız, tedavi için başvurmayı ya da yakınınızı başvurmak için ikna etmeyi ihmal etmeyin. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-116431487611432479?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/depresyon.html' title='DEPRESYON'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/116431487611432479/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=116431487611432479&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116431487611432479'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116431487611432479'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/depresyon.html' title='DEPRESYON'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-116406227638842623</id><published>2006-11-21T00:21:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T12:59:46.574+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='güzellik'/><title type='text'>VARİS NE DEĞİLDİR?</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ffff00;"&gt;Varis nedir ve sıklığı nedir?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Varis &lt;strong&gt;bacak toplardamarlarının &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2473/2159/1600/varis.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 242px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 199px" height="199" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2473/2159/320/varis.0.jpg" width="254" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;genişlemesi&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;uzaması ve büklümlü hale gelmesi&lt;/strong&gt; olarak tanımlanır. Antik Yunan döneminden bu yana bilinmekte olan bir hastalıktır. 2500 yıl önce yapılan bazı heykellerde varisler çok belirgin olarak gösterilmiştir. Varis ile ilgili diğer ilginç bir özellik doğada yalnızca insanlarda görülmesidir. Diğer hiçbir memeli türünde saptanmamıştır. Ülkemizde sağlıklı istatistikler bulunmadığından tam sıklığını bilmiyoruz. Ancak batı toplumumunda % 10-20 gibi yüksek oranda görülmektedir. Buradan yola çıkılarak Türkiye’de 5 milyon bireyde değişik derecelerde varis olduğu öngörülebilir. &lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kadınlarda&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; erkeklerden daha &lt;strong&gt;sıktır&lt;/strong&gt;. Yaşla birlikte varis görülme olasılığı çok artmaktadır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Neden oluşur?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aslında varisin oluşma nedeni tam olarak bilinmemektedir. Oluşan temel sorun toplardamar duvarında oluşan yapısal bozukluk nedeniyle damarın genişlemesidir. Ancak asıl başlangıcın damar duvarındaki bozukluk mu, yoksa kapakçıklardaki hasar mı olduğu net değildir. Varise ailesel bir yatkınlık söz konusudur ve olguların önemli bir kısmında aile bireylerinde de varis vardır. Bir çalışmada anne veya babasında varis bulunan bireylerde varis gelişme olasılığının % 80 olduğu bildirilmiştir. Hamilelerde de varis sıktır. Bunun nedeni erken dönemde değişen hormonal dengedir. Bilindiği gibi hamilelik sürecinde anne de bazı hormonların düzeyi çok artar. İşte bu hormonlar damar duvarındaki düz kasları da etkiler ve damarlar genişler. Daha ileri hamilelik döneminde anne rahminde büyüyen bebeğin mekanik olarak etraftaki toplardamarlara baskı yapmasıda rol oynar. İyi olan doğum sonrası birkaç ay içinde bu varislerin %60-70 oranında düzelmesidir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Varislerin daha nadir olan nedenleri de vardır. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;Derin toplardamarları tıkalı olan bireylerde yüzeysel toplardamarlar tüm bacağın kirli kan dönüşünü üstlenirler&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Bu nedenle çapları artar ve varis görünümü alırlar. Ancak bu damarlara dokunulmamalıdır, çünkü bunlar vücudun bir savunma mekanızmasıdır. Ayrıca atardamar ile toplardamarlar arasında bağlantılar oluşan bazı hastalarda da varis oluşabilir. Buradada altta yatan hastalık düzeltilmelidir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ff33;"&gt;Hastalığın dereceleri nedir?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Toplardamar hastalıklarının şiddeti günümüzde 0-6 arasında belirtilmektedir:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;Derece 0:&lt;/span&gt; Görülebilen toplardamar hastalığı yok&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;Derece 1:&lt;/span&gt; 1-3 mm çapında ince varisler&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;Derece 2:&lt;/span&gt; Çapı 4 mm üzerinde olan gerçek varisler&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;Derece 3:&lt;/span&gt; Bacakta şişlik&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;Derece 4:&lt;/span&gt; Ciltte kahverengi-siyah değişiklikler&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;Derece 5:&lt;/span&gt; Cilt değişiklikleri ve ayak bileği çevresinde iyileşmiş yara&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#00cccc;"&gt;Derece 6:&lt;/span&gt; Açık yara olması (hemen daima ayak bileği içi tarafında)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#33ff33;"&gt;Yakınmalar:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Çapı 1 mm civarında olan genişlemelere &lt;strong&gt;kılcal varis&lt;/strong&gt; denmektedir. Kılcal varisler genelde görüntü bozukluğu dışında bir yakınmaya yol açmazlar. Özellikle çapı 3-4 mm üzerinde olan varislerde ise görüntü bozukluğuna ek olarak belirgin yakınmalar başlar. Uzun süre ayakta kalma sonrası bacakta ağrı, şişme, hassasiyet ve ağırlık hissi oluşabilir. Hastalar bacakta sürekli bir sızlama olduğunu ve dinlenseler de kolay kolay geçmediğini farkederler. Bu yakınmalar günün sonuna doğru çok belirgin hale gelir ve hastalar ayakkabılarının dar geldiğini tanımlar. Bayan hastalarda adet dönemlerinde yakınmalar belirgin olarak artar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Geç dönem varis hastalarında özellikle ayak bileği iç tarafında şişme ve siyaha yakın renk değişikliği başlar. Bu alan kaşıntılıdır ve ayakkabı vurması gibi küçük kaza ile yara açılabilir. Bu yaralar tipik olarak geniş, ancak derin olamayan yaralardır. Dipleri canlı kırmızıdır. Tedavi çok güçtür. Açılan bu yaraların kapanması için uzun süren pansumanlar gereklidir ve tedavi hayat boyunca süregelir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tedavi edilmeyen varislerde gelişebilecek bir diğer komplikasyon enfeksiyondur. Varis kanın göllendiği alandır ve kan mikroplar içinde çok iyi bir beslenme ve çoğalma ortamıdır. Enfeksiyon gelişirse bu alanda kızarıklık, bölgesel ısı artışı, hassasiyet ve şişlik oluşur. Tedavi öncelikle antibiotikler ile enfeksiyonun kontrolüdür.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ff33;"&gt;Tanıda kullanılan radyolojik yöntemler:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Günümüzde en sık kullanılan yöntem Doppler ultrasondur. Bu yöntem ile gözle görülemeyen derin toplardamarlar incelenebilmekte, kapak yetersizliği değerlendirilebilmektedir. Varis tedavisi öncesi altta yatan tüm sorunları anlayabilmek için Doppler ultrason gittikçe daha sık kullanılmaktadır. Bu yöntem ağrısız olup iğne kullanılmamaktadır. Pahalı bir inceleme değildir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ff33;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tedavi:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yakınması az olan hastalar veya cerrahi riski yüksek olan hastalara varis çorabı önerilir. Ayrıca varisten korunmak içinde kullanılmaları uygundur. Varislerin yerleşimine göre dizaltı, dizüstü veya külotlu varis çorapları önerilmektedir. Ancak hastalar en kolay dizaltı varis çoraplarını kullanabilmektedir. Hafif, orta, yüksek ve çok yüksek basınç uygulayan varis çorapları mevcuttur. Korunma amacıyla hafif basınçlı çoraplar yeterlidir. Ancak varisleri ve şişliği olan hastalar daha yüksek basınç basınçlı çorapları giymelidir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Varis çorabı pek çok kişi tarafından yanlış kullanılmaktadır.&lt;/strong&gt; Varis çorabı hastanın &lt;strong&gt;toplardamarlarının en boş olduğu&lt;/strong&gt; aşamada giyilmelidir. &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Öncelikle hasta yatağa yatmalı ve bacağını 5-10 dakika yukarı kaldırmalıdır. Ardından varis çorabını giymelidir&lt;/span&gt;. Gün içinde ayakta kaldığı süre içinde varis çorabı ile dolaşmalıdır. Gece yatarken çorabın giyilmesi gerekli değildir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tedavi gerekliliği ve tipi hastaya göre değişir. Genç bir bayanda görüntü bozukluğuna yol açan küçük bir varis tedavi edilebileceği gibi, yaşlı hastalarda daha yaygın varisler basınçlı çorap ile yaşam boyu izlenebilir. Genelde bireyi rahatsız edici görüntü bozukluğu, ağrı ve şişliğe yol açan varisler tedavi edilmelidir. İleri derece varisler özellikle ciltte renk değişikliği ve yara varsa mutlaka tedavi edilmelidir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tedavi seçenekleri:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Varis tedavisinde 2 ayrı sorun birlikte giderilmelidir. Dıştan görülebilen varisler tedavi edilmeli, ancak belki bundan daha önemli olan altta yatan ve toplardamar içindeki basıncın artmasına yol açan sorunun giderilmesidir. Böylece hastanın görüntü sorunu giderildiği gibi ağrı ve bacakta şişme yakınlaraı düzelecektir. Belki de en önemlisi hastaların temel kuşkusu olan varislerin tekrarlama olasılığı en aza indirilecektir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skleroterapi (iğne tedavisi): Bacaktaki varislerin içine çok ince iğneler ile bir madde verilerek toplardamarın tıkanmasıdır. Orta ve büyük çaplı damarlarda başarı şansı düşük olduğundan önerilmemektedir. Çapı 1-3 mm civarında olan varislerde kullanılabilir. Uygulanan venin çapı arttıkça yöntemin başarısı azalmaktadır. Köpükle yapılan skleroterapi son 10-15 yıl içinde İspanya dan popüler hale gelmiş ve son zamanlarda bazı Batı Avrupa ülkelerinde de uygulanmaya başlanmıştır. Bu girişim muayenehane veya poliklinik koşullarında yapılmaktadır. Her seansta belli bir alan yapılmakta ve belirli aralıklarla hasta çağırılarak tedavi tamamlanmaktadır. Hasta girişim sonrası yürüyerek evine gidebilmekte, araba kullanabilmektedir. Girişim sonrası 3-5 gün arasında varis çorabı giyilmesi önerilmektedir. Başarı oranı yüksektir. Yan etkiler nadir olsa da görülebilir. Allerjik reaksiyon son derece nadirdir. Verilen ilacın damar dışına sızması renk değişikliğine yol açabilir. Tedavi sonrası bu bölgede oluşan morluklar ve şişlikler geçicidir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lazer tedavisi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lazer teknolojisi varis tedavisinde son 5 yıldır gittikçe artan yaygınlıkta kullanılmaktadır. Cildin dışından verilen lazer ışınları ile çapı 1 mm altında olan toplardamar genişlemeleri yok edilebilir. Ancak daha geniş çaplı damarlar cilt dışından lazer ile tedavi edilmemelidir. Damarı kapatmak için gereken yüksek enerji ciltte yanıklara, renk değişikliğine ve parşömen gibi değişikliklere yol açabilir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Günümüzde tüm dünyada en popüler tedavi büyük varislerin içten lazer ile kapatılmasıdır. Bu girişim eskiden hemen daima cerrahi tedavi gerektiren hastalarda rahatlıkla kullanılabilmektedir. İşlem sırasında öncelikle bir iğne ile damarın içine girilmektedir. Ardından Doppler ultrason denen bir cihaz kılavuzluğunda öncü tel damarda uygun yere yerleştirilmektedir. Ardından lazer ışığını damar duvarına verecek olan ince tüp damar içinde ilerletilmektedir. Son olarak lazer kaynağı çalıştırılarak kontrollü olarak damarın içten tıkanması sağlanmaktadır. Bu yöntem önemli avantajlara sahiptir. Öncelikle lokal anestezi altında yapılabilmektedir. İşlem ortalama 30 dakika-1 saat sürmekte, hasta 1-2 saat dinlendikten sonra yürüyerek evine gönderilmektedir. İşlem sonrası hareketlerinde herhangi bir kısıtlama gerekmemektedir. Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ve Avrupa ülkelerinde heryıl onbinlerce hasta bu yöntem ile tedavi edilmektedir. Girişimin başarı oranı %98 civarındadır. Bu yöntem varis yakınması olan olguların % 70’ine uygulanabilmektedir. Başarı için iyi hasta seçimi çok önemlidir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;İşlemin komplikasyonları nadirdir. Olguların %20’sinde bacakta geçici morluk oluşabilir. Yöntemin önemli dezavantajı maliyettir. Kullanılan lazer tüpleri tek kullanımlık olup herbiri 400 dolar civarındadır. Günümüzde bu teknoloji ülkemizde tarafımızdan yaygın olarak uygulanmaktadır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lazere benzer şekilde damarın içten kapatılmasını sağlayan diğer bir yöntem ses dalgalarının kullanılmasıdır. Bu girişimin uygulanması lazer ile aynıdır. Tek fark lazer enerjisi yerine ses dalgaları kullanılarak tıkanma sağlanmasıdır. Bu yöntemde lokal anestezi altında yapılmakta ve hasta girişim sonrası evine gönderilebilmektedir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cerrahi tedavi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Burada amaç dıştan görülen varislerin çıkartılmasının yanısıra toplardamarların içinde yüksek basınca yol açan, ve hemen daima kasık bölgesindeki kapakçıkların yol açtığı yetersizliğin giderilmesidir. Bu yetersizlik giderilmezse hastaların yakınmaları süregelecek ve varisler kısa zamanda tekrarlayacaktır. Hastaların ameliyat öncesinde Doppler ultrason ile incelenmesi bu nedenle çok önemlidir. Eskiden ayak bileğinden kasığa kadar tüm toplardamar bir tel yardımı ile soyulmakta idi. Bu girişim artık son derece nadiren kullanılmaktadır. Çünkü diz altındaki ana yüzeysel toplardamarın kendisinde varis gelişme olasılığı azdır (resim 10). Bu damar ileride yapılabilecek kalpte bir bypass operasyonu için gereklidir ve olabildiğince korunmalıdır. İdeal tedavi lazer veya ses dalgası enerjisi kullanarak kasık-diz arasındaki sorunu gidermek ve kalan yan dal varislerini bölgesel olarak çıkartmaktadır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hastada kapak yetersizliği yoksa tek gerekli olan genişlemiş varis yumaklarını üzerlerine yapılan küçük cilt kesileri ile çıkartmakdır. Bunlar cildin doğal çizgilerine paralel olarak yapılan 2-3 mm uzunlukta kesilerdir ve çoğu zaman dikiş gerektirmeden iyileşmektedir (resim 11). Bu nedenle ameliyat sonrası iz kalmamaktadır. Girişim yan dal varislerin çokluğuna ve hastanın isteğine bağlı olarak genel anestezi veya lokal anestezi altında yapılabilmektedir. Hasta genelde hastanede kalmamakta ve aynı gün ayağa kalkıp evine gidebilmektedir. 3-4 gün dinlenme önerilmekte ancak kesin yatak istirahati gerekmemektedir. 1-2 hafta varis çorabı önerilmektedir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ff33;"&gt;Korunma&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Varis gelişiminde muhtemel en önemli faktör genetik eğilimdir. Bunun üzerine hareket gerektirmeyen işlerde çalışan bireylerde varis gelişmektedir. Bu nedenle insanlar genetik yapılarını değiştiremeyeceklerinden ve kolay kolay meslek değiştiremeyeceklerinden varis oluşmasından kesin korunma sözkonusu değildir. Sigara ve içki kullanılmasının varis gelişmesi ile doğrudan bağlantısı yoktur. Ayrıca varis gelişimini engelleyecek bir ilaç bulunmamaktadır. Değişik kaynaklarda belirtilen varis önleyici kremlerin bilimsel olarak yararı gösterilememiştir. Bu nedenle alınabilecek en önemli önlemler kilo kontrolü, düzenli egzersiz, uzun süre sabit poziyonda kalmama ve koruyucu varis çolabı kullanmaktır. Hasta her fırsatta bacağını yüksekte tutmalıdır. Varis hastalarının topuklu ayakkabıları olabildiğince az giymesi önerilmektedir.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-116406227638842623?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/varis-ne-deildir.html' title='VARİS NE DEĞİLDİR?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/116406227638842623/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=116406227638842623&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116406227638842623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116406227638842623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/varis-ne-deildir.html' title='VARİS NE DEĞİLDİR?'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-116375923827070675</id><published>2006-11-17T12:13:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T13:02:38.500+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mide'/><title type='text'>REFLÜ NEDİR</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;G&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#33cc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;astroözofageal&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Reflü Hastalığı&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2473/2159/1600/Mide.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2473/2159/320/Mide.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Gastroözofageal reflü özofagusun en sık rastlanan hastalığıdır. Normal bireylerde de, kısa süreli, şikayete ve özofagusta hasara yol açmayan reflü atakları olur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gastroözofageal reflü özofagusun en sık rastlanan hastalığıdır. Normal bireylerde de, kısa süreli, şikayete ve özofagusta hasara yol açmayan reflü atakları olur. Bu fizyolojik bir durumdur. Özofagusa kaçan mide içeriği şikayetlere veya özofagusta hasara veya her ikisine birden yol açarsa, bu durumda gastroözofageal reflü hastalığından söz edilir. Endoskopik olarak görülebilen erozyonlara yol açmış ise reflü özofajit olarak adlandırılır. Buna karşılık, bir hastada reflüye ait şikayetler var fakat endoskopik hasar yok ise, buna eroziv olmayan reflü hastalığı denir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gastroözofageal reflü hastalığının en önemli belirtisi retrosternal (göğüs kemiğinin arkasında) yanma hissidir. Bunun dışında yutma güçlüğü, lokmaları yutarken göğüste ağrı, yenen yemeklerin geri ağıza gelmesi, ağızın acı bir su ile dolması ve geğirti gibi şikayetlere de neden olabilir. Bunlara klasik reflü belirtileri denir. Gastroözofageal reflü hastalığı bu klasik belirtiler dışında atipik reflü semptomları dediğimiz birtakım şikayetlere de yol açabilir. Bunlar kalp benzeri göğüs ağrısı, astım, bronşit, ses kalınlaşması, ses teli nodülü, kronik öksürük, ağız kokusu, larinks kanseri ve dişte mine kaybıdır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gastroözofageal reflü hastalığı oldukça sık rastlanan bir hastalıktır. Ülkemizde yapılan bir çalışmaya göre Türkiye'de yaşayan kişilerin %3'ü sürekli, %23'ü her gün, %46'sı ise seyrek olarak reflü belirtileri tanımlamaktadır. Erkeklerde bayanlara göre 2-3 kez daha sık görülür. Nadiren ölüm nedenidir ancak komplikasyonlar nedeniyle önemli ölçüde morbiditeye yol açar. Gastroözofageal reflü hastalığının komplikasyonları kanama, perforasyon (delinme), striktür (darlık) ve Barret özofagusudur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Endoskopik inceleme, biopsi ile uygulandığında, reflü özofajit tanısı için altın standarttır. Özofagus mukozasının doğrudan görülmesini, hasarın derecesini saptanmasını, darlık olup olmadığını görülmesini ve Barret özofagusu gibi şüpheli prekanseroz lezyonlardan biopsi alınmasını sağlaması nedeniyle, klinik pratikte genellikle ilk tercih edilen tanı yöntemi endoskopidir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gastroözofageal reflü hastalığının tedavisinde ilk basamak yaşam tarzı değişiklikleridir. Bunlar reflüyü arttıran yağlı gıdalar, alkol, çikolata ve kafein içeren gıdalardan kaçınmak, yemekten sonra en az 2-3 saat süreyle yatmamak, normal kiloda olmak, sigara içmemek ve yatak başını 15 cm. yükseltmek gibi düzenlemelerdir. Bu düzenlemelerle hafif belirtileri olan hastalar rahatlayabilir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Proton pompa inhibitörleri (omeprazol, lansoprazol, rabeprazol, pantoprazol ve esomeprazol), reflü hastalığının tedavisinde en etkili ajanlardır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gastroözofageal reflü hastalığı kronik bir hastalıktır. Özofajit iyileştikten sonra ilaç bırakıldığında olguların büyük bir kısmında şikayetler tekrar başlar. Bu nedenle uzun süreli idame tedavisine gereksinim olabilir.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-116375923827070675?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/refl-nedir.html' title='REFLÜ NEDİR'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/116375923827070675/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=116375923827070675&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116375923827070675'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116375923827070675'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/refl-nedir.html' title='REFLÜ NEDİR'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-116354250919837619</id><published>2006-11-15T00:05:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T13:04:48.561+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sinir'/><title type='text'>BİLEK KANALI HASTALIĞI</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img height="130" src="http://img473.imageshack.us/img473/9684/bilekhastaligibf0.jpg" width="412" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;El-Bilek kanalı hastalığı, hekimler tarafından çok eskiden beri bilinmektedir&lt;/strong&gt;. Buna rağmen bir çok hastalıkla karışmakta ve &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;çoğu zaman doğru tanı almadığı için hastalar hekim-hekim dolaşmaktadır&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. Hastalığın &lt;strong&gt;özellikle boyun fıtığı tanısı alarak&lt;/strong&gt; , ameliyata kadar giden &lt;strong&gt;yanlış uygulamalara&lt;/strong&gt; neden olması dikkati çekmektedir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Orta yaşı geçen, &lt;strong&gt;özellikle kadınlarda&lt;/strong&gt;, gece ellerim uyuştu diyerek uyanan kişi sayısı o kadar çoktur ki, bir araya gelindiğinde veya doktora başka nedenle gidildiğinde hep söylenir, ama önemsenmez. Yorucu bir günün ardından uyku için sıcak yatağımıza girdiğimizde, gece yarısı ellerden kola yayılan uyuşma veya rahatsız edici bir ağrı hissiyle uyanırsınız, uykunuz kaçar. Dinlenmenin bu en tatlı saatleri kabusa döner. Özellikle geceleri başlayan şikayetler , zamanla gündüz saatlerinde de yaşanmaya başlarsa, artık hayat kabusa dönüşür. Ellerinizle istediğinizi yaparken sanki bir şey tutamaz olursunuz. Geceleri artan bu şikayetler nedeniyle uyku bozukluğu ve depresyonda hastalığın bir parçası olur. Bileği karışık bir anatomik yapıya sahiptir. Parmak ve el hareketlerini sağlayan adele-sinir-damar kompleksi buradan geçerek, dağılır. Median sinir dediğimiz, başparmak ve işaret parmağının hareket ve duyusunu sağlayan bir sinirde bileğin iç yüzünün ortasından geçerek el içinde dallara ayrılır .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bu sinirin üstü, el bileği hizasında ve kısmende avuç içinde kalın koruyucu özelliği olan bir bandla kaplıdır. Bu koruyucu band , orta yaşlara doğru çeşitli nedenlerle kalınlaşarak, altında kalan ve koruduğu siniri sıkıştırır. Sonuç, özellikle geceleri, elden kola yayılan uyuşma-ağrı, ileri dönemlerde başparmakta ve işaret parmağında kısmi felçler ve uyku bozukluklarıdır. Bu bandın kalınlaşması, çoğu zaman bileğine yük vererek senelerce çalışmaya (daktilo-bilgisayar kullanımı, örgü örme, yoğun ev işleri, oto tamircileri vb.. ) bağlı olarak ortaya çıkar. Menapozla birlikte ortaya çıkan hormonal değişikliklerde hastalığın şiddetini arttırır. Bazen hastalık, şeker hastalığınında bir parçasıdır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tanı, hastanın şikayetlerinin ayrıntılı öyküsü ve bu duruma yol açacak diğer nedenlerin araştırılmasıyla konulur. Boyun fıtığı ve kireçlenmesi tanısı konan hastaların bir kısmında , el bilek kanalı hastalığıda mevcut olup, bu duruma çift darlık adı verilir. Hem boyunda omurilik ve sinir kökü sıkışmıştır, hemde el bileği kanalı darlığı mevcuttur. Boyun MR’ı ve ENMG(sinir elektrosu) tetkikleri yapılarak tanı kesinleşir. Hastalık aralıklarla seyreder. Bir dönem çok şikayeti olan hasta , bazen birkaç ay rahatlar. Zamanla şikayetler sürekli hal alır ve gece yoğunlaşan ağrılar, artık gündüzleride ortaya çıkar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tedavide, öncelikle bileğin istirahati ve ağrıkesici ilaçlar kullanılır. El bileği atelleri ve düzenli alınan antienflamatuar- analjezikler başlangıçta yeterli olabilir. Bir çok hastaya bilek kanalı çevresine uygulanan kortizon enjeksiyonları , birkaç ay şikayetleri azaltır ve rahatlama meydana getirir. Ancak zaman içinde şikayetler tekrar başlar ve kalıcı çözüm basit bir cerrahi girişimle sinirin serbestleştirilmesidir Lokal anestezi altında, mikroskop kullanılarak el bileğinden avuç içine doğru yapılan 1-2 santimlik bir kesiyle, sinirin üstündeki band kesilerek, sinirin sıkışması ortadan kaldırılır. Bu yöntem kalıcı bir rahatlamaya neden olur. Ameliyat sonrası 3-5 gün el bileği istirahatini takiben , hasta normal yaşantısına döner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;El-bileği kanalı hastalığı çok sık görülmesine rağmen, çoğu zaman tedavisi başka hastalıklarla karışmasından dolayı yapılamamaktadır.&lt;/strong&gt; Doğru tanıyla kalıcı çözümü olan bu durumdan kurtulmak elimizde. Rahat bir yaşam her insanın hakkı.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;Öneriler:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Daktilo ve bilgisayar kullanırken , zaman zaman ellerinizi istirahat ettirin.&lt;br /&gt;- Ev işlerinde bileğe çok güç binen durumlarda dikkatli olun.&lt;br /&gt;- Gece uykuda el bileği üstüne yatmayın.&lt;br /&gt;- Özellikle geceleri elde uyuşmalarla uyanıyorsanız, uykunuz bölünüyorsa el-bileği kanalı hastalığı başlıyor demektir.&lt;br /&gt;- Tedavisi mümkün olan bu hastalıkta basit bir cerrahi girişim kalıcı çözüm sağlar. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-116354250919837619?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/bilek-kanali-hastalii.html' title='BİLEK KANALI HASTALIĞI'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/116354250919837619/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=116354250919837619&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116354250919837619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116354250919837619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/bilek-kanali-hastalii.html' title='BİLEK KANALI HASTALIĞI'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-116345788193944918</id><published>2006-11-14T00:37:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T13:03:53.993+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='güzellik'/><title type='text'>SELÜLİT</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Selülit derinin alt tabakasında, yağ dokusunun hemen çevresinde oluşan ve derinin üst bölümünde pütür pütür görüntü bırakan bir hastalıktır. Kadınların korkulu rüyası olan ve bir güzellik kusuru olarak kabul edilen selülite karşı önlemler alınmalıdır. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 304px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="216" alt="" src="http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/227123.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BESLENME&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beslenme ne kadar fazla tek yönlü olursa, selülite o kadar çabuk aday olursunuz. Özellikle de fast fooda ve hazır yemeklere karşı olan eğilimimiz dokuları kötü yönde etkiliyor.Hayvansal yağlar, şeker ve tuz da en kötü düşmanlarımız. Bunlar yağ hücrelerini şişiriyorlar, dokularda su yapıyorlar ve vücudun atıklardan temizlenmesini önlüyorlar. Özellikle de yağlar doyma hissini büyük ölçüde etkiliyor. Örneğin, mayonezli patates salatası veya kızartması yerken "doydum" sinyali karbonhidratlı bir öğünden (örneğin spagetti) çok daha geç gelir. Sonuçta daha fazla yeriz ve dokulardaki yağ depolarını aşırı derecede besleriz. Hücreler şekilsiz bir kütle haline gelir ve on kat daha büyür. Bu nedenle yemek listenizde taze, yağsız ve besleyici maddeleri fazla olan yiyecekler bulunmalıdır. Meyve, sebze, kepek, çavdar ürünleri ve baklagiller gibi. Bu besinlerde bir yanda dokuları atık maddelerden temizleyen, öte yanda hücrelere besleyici maddelerin naklini çabuklaştıran fazla miktarda potasyum vardır. Portakal, muz, karpuz, avokado, havuç, şalgam, fasülye, bezelye ve patates fazla miktarda potasyum içerirler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;BAKIM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Günümüzün yeni antiselülit kremleri deriye hemen giriyor ve doğrudan doğruya yağ hücrelerini etkiliyor. Etkili maddelerin bazıları yağ depolarını bloke eder, bir kısmı trafik polisi gibi etki yapar, yağ alımını ve naklini ayarlar. Baş aktörlerin biri de kafeindir. Kafein yağıayrıştıran enzimleri harekete geçirir ve bununla birlikte lenf akışını kolaylaştırır. Su en iyi temizleyici maddedir. Bol su içmek dokuları zehirli ve atık maddelerden temizler. Ayrıca kalsiyum, potasyum, demir ve magnezyum gibi maddeler dokuları sıkılaştırırlar. Bunların etkisini dışarıdan kullanılan antiselülit ürünleri kuvvetlendirir. Aynı zamanda vücudun atıklardan temizlenmesinde de etkili olur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;MASAJ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Selülitte özellikle de etkili olan insanın kendi yaptığı drenajdır. Bu nedenle kendi kendinize şu masajı yapın: Masaja okşama hareketleriyle başlayın. Üst uyluklara önce bir, sonra iki elinizle yumuşak bir şekilde aşağıdan yukarı doğru kalçalarınıza kadar masaj yapın. Daha sonra derinizi sıkıştırmadan baş ve işaret parmaklarınızın arasına alın ve yoğurur gibi masaj yapın ve bu arada dizlerin iç tarafını unutmayın. Antiselülit kremlerinin dokulara etkisi, daha önce masaj yapıldığı takdirde iki kat daha fazla olur. Nedeni, lenf ve kanın harekete geçmesidir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DURUŞ&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yüksek topuklar, yanlış yürüme hareketleri, kambur oturma... Bunlar selülite yol açan nedenlerdir. Çünkü bu saydıklarımız toplardamarlarda ve lenf damarlarında kanın geriye doğru akışını olumsuz yönde etkilerler.Özellikle de yanlış bir oturma şeklinde iç organlar sıkışır. Sonuçta zehirli maddeler vücuttan o kadar çabuk çıkmaz ve atık maddeler dokularda toplanır. Ve deri gevşer, çukurlar oluşur. Bu nedenle her zaman şunu düşünün: Karın içeri, göğüsler dışarı. Dik durma vücudu uzatır ve daha zayıf görünürsünüz. Oturuş için de aynı şey geçerlidir: Duruş hatalarını bilinçli olarak dengelemek için sırt egzersizlerinin yararı vardır. Haftada iki kere jogging ve bisiklete binmeyle buna yardımcı olun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;ENZİMLER&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enzimler tam bir yağ yiyicidirler. Bu enzimler elmada vardır ve yiyeceklerin hiçbir engelle karşılaşmadan değerlendirilmesini ve nakledilmesini sağlarlar. Böylelikle yağ depolarında daha az birikirler. Elmayı iyice çiğneyin, çünkü enzimlerin faaliyeti ağızda başlar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UZMAN YARDIMIYLA TEDAVİ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/227115.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Çeşitli etkili yöntemlerle selülit artık kesinlikle tedavi ediliyor. Selülit tedavisinin tıbbii tedavi şekilleri&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;· &lt;strong&gt;Tıbbi masajlar :&lt;/strong&gt; Selülit tedavisinin en önemli ayağı masajdır. Çünkü masaj kan ve lenf dolaşımını harekete geçirir ve dokuların taze oksijen ile dolmasını sağlar. Selülit tedavisinde etkili olan iki tür masaj vardır. Dolaşım masajları: Kan ve lenfatik dolaşıma yöneliktir. Bu masaj deri altı kan dolaşımını aktive ederek, dokunun canlanmasını sağlar. Lenfatik drenaj masajları: Bu masajlar özellikle lenf dolaşımı üzerinde etkilidir. Masajın, hem elle, hem de aletle uygulanan şekilleri vardır. Elle olan daha yüzeysel olurken, aletli masajın derinlemesine bir etkisi vardır. Her iki masaj sonunda hücrelere bolca oksijen gider ve toksinlerin vücuttan atılması kolaylaşır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;· &lt;strong&gt;Akupunktur:&lt;/strong&gt; Organizmanın değişik fonksiyonlarının hepsinin kumandası kulakta bulunur. Akupunktur ile bu fonksiyonlar harekete geçirilir. Bu fonksiyonların arasında su birikmesine neden olanlar da aktive edilir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;· &lt;strong&gt;Ozon terapi-Ozon banyosu:&lt;/strong&gt; Ozon terapi, hücre oksijenlenmesini baz alarak, başarılı bir şekilde selülit tedavisinde de uygulanır. Artıklarla dolu olan selülit hücrelerini oksijen ile temizlemeye yönelik bir programdır. Ozon terapi bir kabın içerisinde gerçekleşir. Bu sırada ozon buharın epiderm tabakaya kadar girip o bölgenin oksijen ile dolmasını sağlayarak, dokusal kan dolaşımını aktive eder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;· &lt;strong&gt;Lazer terapi:&lt;/strong&gt; Lazer terapi ikiye ayrılır; soğuk lazer ve sıcak lazer. Soğuk lazer, helyum neon lazer olarak da anılır, selülitli bölgedeki hücreler üzerine uygulanır. Lazer, burada hücreleri geçerek değişimleri hızlandırıp, o bölgede su tutulmasını engeller. Sıcak lazer, selülitin oluştuğu hareketsiz bölgeye uygulanarak, orada bulunan dokuların dolaşımını sağlar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;· &lt;strong&gt;Ultrason:&lt;/strong&gt; Kadındaki hemen hemen farkedilemeyecek kadar küçük yağları bile derinliğine yakalayıp, parçalamayı başarır. Daha fazla yağlanmanın olduğu bölgelerde de daha derine gidilerek lenfleri uyarır ve yine parçalar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;· &lt;strong&gt;Basınç terapisi:&lt;/strong&gt; Bu metodda bacaklar sarılır. Hava basıncı ile çalışan bir odaya girilir. Çok dikkatlice yavaş yavaş, hava basıncı azaltılır. Bununla da lenfatik dolaşım ve kan dolaşımı harekete geçer. Tabi burada önemli olan kişiye özel bir programlama yaparak, herkesin ihtiyaçlarına uygun bir tedavi uygulamaktır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;· &lt;strong&gt;Mezoterapi:&lt;/strong&gt; Bu yöntemde, sıvı haldeki ilaçların şırınga darbeleriyle uygulanması esastır. Daha yeni bir versiyonu da homeopati yöntemini kullanarak, tahmin sistemini çalıştırmak ve öngörüden yararlanarak uygulama yapmaktır. Hiç yan etkisi olmayan naturel maddelerden faydalanılır. Bu yöntem, kan toplanmalarını da önler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;· &lt;strong&gt;Lipoelektro:&lt;/strong&gt; Bu, uzun iğnelerden yararlanmak suretiyle yapılan bir yöntemdir. Uzun, çok ince uçlu ve keskin iğnelerle uygulanır. Elektro ile yağlı bölge arasında bir bağlantı kurulur. Çok düşük düzeyde çalıştırılarak, selülitli bölge üzerinde çalışılır. Bu bölge üzerinde, düzenli ve sık aralıklarla işlem yapılır. İğne, selülitli bölgedeki yağları parçalar ve yağları ortaya çıkartır ve aşırıya kaçmadan bunlar boşaltılır&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-116345788193944918?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/sellit.html' title='SELÜLİT'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/116345788193944918/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=116345788193944918&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116345788193944918'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116345788193944918'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/sellit.html' title='SELÜLİT'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-116345737318263260</id><published>2006-11-14T00:35:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T13:05:06.563+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sevgi'/><title type='text'>Sevmek İnanmaktır</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+0;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sevmek inanmaktır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Güvenmektir duygulara.. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Direnmektir sevmek..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Tüm acılara direnmek....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Sevdiğini kendin gibi, kendinden de çok duyumsamaktır&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;İki ten, iki kalp, iki gönül yoktur sevgide, tek bir yürek olunur.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Sevmek paylaşmaktır, sevdiğinle kalbini bölüşmektir sevmek.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Ve sevmek direnmektir, tüm acılarıyla direnmek.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Sevmek sevilmeyi haketmesini bilmektir.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Sevmek, sevgilinin baktığı yerde, sustuğu yerde olmaktır.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Sevginin olduğu yerde dışa vurur istekler..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Sevme özgürlüğünü istersin, sevginin kabul edilmesini istersin,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;bir gün gelir bu istekler de son bulur, kendinden istersin artık, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;sevgiliyi daha çok sevmek istersin, hataları, kusurlarıyla sonsuz kılmak&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;istersin sevgini...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Beklentilerin son bulduğu duraktır, sevda denizinin son limanıdır.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Sevmek, sevgili için yaşamaktır.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Onun eli, kolu, gözü, kalbi olmaktır. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Sevmek vermektir, sevdiğin için, almasını bilmektir..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Güvenmektir duygulara sevmek..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Sevdiğine seni seviyorum! diyebilmektir.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Okuyabilmektir gözlerdeki sözcükleri.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Haykırabilmektir sevgiyi hiç bağırmadan.. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Sevmek sevgiliye bir nefes kadar, yakın olmaktır.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Sevmek özveride bulunmaktır.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Ve sevmek &lt;strong&gt;İNANMAKTIR !...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;İNANMAKTIR SEVMEK...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;İnanmaktır sevmek.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Tüm içtenliğinle...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Güvenmektir duygulara&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Okuyabilmektir gözlerdeki, sözcükleri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Haykırabilmektir sevgiyi hiç bağırmadan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Direnmektir sevmek..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Tüm acılara direnmek....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Sevdiğine seni seviyorum! diyebilmektir&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Anlatabilmektir sevdiğini..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Yazabilmektir en yüce aşk şiirlerini..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;En güzel aşk sözleriyle...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Bazı an'lar vardır; haykırmak&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;gelse de içinden fısıltıyla söylersin &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;''seni seviyorum''ları..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Seni duymayacağını bildiğin sevgilerde.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-116345737318263260?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/sevmek-inanmaktr.html' title='Sevmek İnanmaktır'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/116345737318263260/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=116345737318263260&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116345737318263260'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116345737318263260'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/sevmek-inanmaktr.html' title='Sevmek İnanmaktır'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-116333355300312242</id><published>2006-11-12T14:08:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T13:05:27.687+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kanser'/><title type='text'>MEME KANSERI</title><content type='html'>MEME KANSERİ NEDİR ? &lt;a href="http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/115194.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 208px; CURSOR: hand" height="271" alt="" src="http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/115194.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meme, süt bezleri ve burada üretilen sütü meme başına taşıyan kanallardan oluşur. Bu süt bezleri ve kanalları döşeyen hücrelerin, yukarıda tanımladığımız şekilde, kontrol dışı olarak çoğalmaları ve vücudun çeşitli yerlerine giderek çoğalmaya devam etmelerine meme kanseri denir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MEME KANSERİ RİSK FAKTÖRLERİ NEDİR ?&lt;br /&gt;Bazı özellikleri taşıyan kadınlarda, meme kanserinin daha sık görüldüğünü biliyoruz. Bu özelliklere risk faktörleri diyoruz. Bu risk faktörlerini taşıyan kişilerin mutlaka meme kanserine yakalanacakları söylenemez. Sadece, bu faktörleri taşımayanlara göre, daha fazla meme kanserine yakalanma olasılıkları olduğunu biliyoruz. Bu faktörleri taşımayan kişiler de meme kanserine yakalanabilirler. Meme kanserine yakalanan kadınların yarısı, bu risk faktörlerini hiç taşımamaktadır. Bu nedenle, risk faktörlerinin taşımayan kişiler de olağan kontrollerini yaptırmalıdırlar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meme kanserine yakalanma riskini artıran faktörleri kısaca şu şekilde sayabiliriz;&lt;br /&gt;Yaş: İleri yaş önemli bir risk faktörüdür. Yeni meme kanseri tanısı konan kadınların % 70’i, 50 yaş üzerindedir. Diğer bir deyimle, yaşı 50 yaş üzerinde olan kadınlarda meme kanseri görülme sıklığı, yaşı 50 yaşın altında olan kadınlardan 4 kat daha fazladır. Bu nedenle, 50 yaş üzerindeki her kadın, mutlaka yılda bir defa hekime baş vurarak muayene olmalı ve mamografi dediğimiz meme filmini çektirmelidir.&lt;br /&gt;Kişisel meme kanseri hikayesi: Daha önce meme kanseri geçirmiş ve tedavi olmuş kadınlarda, diğer memede kansere gelişme olasılığı normal kadınlara göre 3-4 kat daha fazladır.&lt;br /&gt;Ailede meme kanseri hikayesi: Aile yakınları arasında meme kanserine yakalanmış kadınların, meme kanserine yakalanma olasılığı, diğer kadınlara göre daha fazladır. Örneğin, kız kardeşi veya annesi meme kanserine yakalanan bir kadının, meme kanserine yakalanma riski, diğer kadınlardan 2- 5 kat daha fazladır. Bu kadınlar daha sık ve dikkatli izlenmelidir. Bu şekilde sorunları olan kadınlar, meme kanseri genetik danışmanlığının yapıldığı kliniklere baş vurarak risklerini hesaplattırmaları gerekir. Eğer aile geçiş riski yüksek bulunursa, genetik testi yaptırmalıdırlar. Vakfımız polikliniğinde bu hizmet verilmektedir.&lt;br /&gt;Daha önce meme biopsisi yapılmış olması: Memede bir kitle nedeni ile biopsi yapılmış ve iyi huylu bir tümör saptanmış olabilir. Bazı kanser olmayan iyi huylu tümörlerin bulunması, kanser gelişme riskini değişik oranlarda artırabilmektedir. Bu, tümörün hücresel yapısına göre değişir. Örneğin, yapılan bir biopside, çıkartılan kitlenin patolojik incelemesi sonucu atipik hiperplazi tanısı konmuş kadınlarda ( bu tamamen iyi huylu bir tümördür), meme kanseri gelişme oranı normal kadınlara göre daha fazladır.&lt;br /&gt;Fertil çağ süresi: Adet görmeye erken başlanması, menepoza geç girilmesi, fertil cağı uzatmaktadır. Bu sırada kadın daha uzun süre östrojen hormonu etkisi altında kalmakta, meme kanseri gelişme riski artmaktadır. Erken menopoza giren kadınlarda hormon tedavisi yapılmıyor ise, meme kanseri riski önemli ölçüde azalmaktadır. Elli yaşından sonra adet görmeye devam eden kadınlarda, meme kanserine yakalanma riski az da olsa artmaktadır.&lt;br /&gt;Doğurganlık hikayesi: İlk çocuğu doğurma yaşı önemlidir. İlk çocuğunu 30 yaşından sonra doğuran kadınlarda meme kanseri görülme oranı 20 yaşından önce doğuranlara göre 2 kat fazladır. Hiç çocuk doğurmayan kadınlarda risk hafif yükselmektedir&lt;br /&gt;Sosyoekonomik seviyenin yüksekliği: Varlıklı, sosyoekonomik düzeyi yüksek olan kadınlarda, meme kanseri görülme oranı daha fazladır. Bu ailelerin kızları daha iyi beslendikleri için daha erken gelişmekte ve erken yaşta adet görmeye başlamaktadır. Ayrıca bu çocuklar büyüdükleri zaman eğitim ve iş nedeni ile daha geç evlenmekte ve daha geç çocuk sahibi olmaktadırlar. Bu nedenlere bağlı olarak fertil çağın erken başlaması, geç doğurma gibi nedenler sebep olarak sayılabilir. Ayrıca bunların dışında başka faktörler de rol almaktadır.&lt;br /&gt;Östrojen hormonu tedavisi görenler: Menopoz nedeni ile uzun süre östrojen tedavisi ( 10 yıldan fazla) gören kadınlarda, meme kanseri oranı artmaktadır. Fakat, hormon tedavisi almayan kadınlarda da, kalp hastalıklarında ve osteoporoz gibi sorunlarda artış ortaya çıkmaktadır. Bu nedenle, menopoz yakınmalarının azaltılması amacı ile, östrojen verilmesi önerilebilir fakat, mutlaka bir hekim kontrolu altında yapılmalıdır.&lt;br /&gt;Doğum kontrol hapı kullanılması: Bu konuda farklı görüşler olmakla birlikte hafif bir risk artışı olduğu ileri sürülmektedir. On yıl önce doğum kontrol hapını bırakmış olan kadınlarda ise, bu risk tamamen ortadan kalkmaktadır.&lt;br /&gt;Alkol kullanılması: Fazla alkol alan kadınlarda, almayan kadınlara göre risk nispeten artmaktadır. Günde 3 bardak yüksek dereceli alkol içen bir kadının meme kanserine yakalanma riski, hiç içmeyen kadına göre 2 kat daha fazladır. Alkol alımının günde bir kadeh ile sınırlandırılması önerilmektedir.&lt;br /&gt;Sigara: Sigaranın kesin bir etkisi gösterilememiştir. Fakat, genel sağlığı etkilediğinden dolayı bırakılması önerilmektedir. Şişmanlık ve yağlı beslenme: Bazı çalışmalarda şişmanlığın, özellikle 50 yaş üzerindeki kadınlarda meme kanserine yakalanma riskini artırdığı gözlenmiştir. Özellikle, doymuş yağların fazla bulunduğu yağlı et gibi yemekler ve yağlı süt ürünlerinin fazla alınmasının bu riski artırdığı ileri sürülmüştür.&lt;br /&gt;Kanserden ne zaman şüphelenmelisiniz?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MEME KANSERİ RİSKİ AZALTILABİLİR Mİ ?&lt;br /&gt;Egzersiz: Yoğun egzersiz ve jimnastik yapan kadınlarda meme kanseri riskinin azaldığı gözlenmiştir. Bu nedenle, tüm kadınlara önerilmektedir. Beslenme:Meme kanseri ile beslenmenin önemli ilişkisi vardır. Sebze ve meyveden zengin beslenme, ağır yağlı yiyeceklerden uzak durulması önerilmektedir. Günlük gıda alımına C vitamini, betakaroten gibi antioksidanların eklenmesinin koruyucu etkisi olduğu ileri sürülmektedir.&lt;br /&gt;Kısaca,&lt;br /&gt;şişmanlığın azaltılması,&lt;br /&gt;alkol alınıyorsa bırakılması.&lt;br /&gt;Hafif egzersiz yapılması(haftada 4 saat tempolu yürüyüş),&lt;br /&gt;Sebze ve meyvenin bol tüketilmesi,&lt;br /&gt;gibi basit önlemler ile meme kanseri riski % 30-40 oranında azaltılabilmektedir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/179512.asp" target="_blank"&gt;devamı için tıkla&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-116333355300312242?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/meme-kanseri.html' title='MEME KANSERI'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/116333355300312242/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=116333355300312242&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116333355300312242'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116333355300312242'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/meme-kanseri.html' title='MEME KANSERI'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-116329564001271142</id><published>2006-11-12T03:38:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T13:05:45.809+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hikayemsi'/><title type='text'>İYİLİK...</title><content type='html'>Howard, yoksul bir ailenin çocuğuydu ve okul giderlerini karşılamak için kapı kapı dolaşarak eşyalar satıyordu.&lt;br /&gt;O gün, hiçbir şey satamamıştı ve karnı da çok açtı. Bundan sonra çalacağı ilk kapıdan yiyecek birşeyler istemeye karar verdi. Kapıyı açan sevimli genç bayanı görünce utandı. Yiyecek bir şeyler yerine&lt;br /&gt;- "Affedersiniz, bir bardak su rica edebilir miyim?" diyebildi yalnızca.&lt;br /&gt;Genç bayan, çocuğun aç olabileceğini düşünerek kocaman bir bardak süt getirdi ona. Çocuk, sütü yavaş yavaş içine sindirerek içtikten sonra&lt;br /&gt;- "Çok teşekkür ederim, borcum ne kadar?" diye sordu genç bayana.&lt;br /&gt;Genç bayan, "Borcunuz yok" diyerek, yüzünde sıcak bir gülümsemeyle devam etti;&lt;br /&gt;- "Annem, gösterdiğimiz şefkat ve nezaket karşılığı olarak asla bir bedel ödenmesini beklemememizi öğretti bize" dedi.&lt;br /&gt;Çocuk "O halde çok teşekkürler, yürekten teşekkür ederim size" dedi.&lt;br /&gt;Howard Kelly, evin önünden ayrıldığı zaman kendisini yalnızca bedensel olarak değil, ruhsal olarak da güçlü hissediyordu.&lt;br /&gt;Yıllar sonra genç bayan çok ender rastlanan bir hastalığa yakalanmıştı. Yöredeki doktorlar çaresiz kalınca, hastalığı ile ilgili araştırmalar yapılması için onu büyük kente gönderdiler.&lt;br /&gt;Dr. Howard Kelly, konsültasyon yapması için çağrıldığı hastanın hangi kasabadan geldiğini duyunca heyecanlandı. Artık genç olmasa da yıllar önce kendisine sevgiyle yaklaşan bayanı ilk gördüğü anda tanımıştı ve onun yaşamını kurtarmak için elinden geleni yaptı.&lt;br /&gt;Uzun süren tedaviden sonra bayan sağlığına kavuştu. Dr. Kelly, denetlemesi için önüne getirilen faturaya şöyle bir baktı ve üstüne birşeyler yazarak zarfın içine koydu ve hasta bayanın odasına gönderdi.&lt;br /&gt;Kadın elleri titreyerek aldı zarfı eline. Açmaya korkuyordu...&lt;br /&gt;Hastane faturasını asla ödeyemeyeceğini ve geri kalan yaşamı boyunca bu faturayı ödemek için çalışacağını biliyordu.&lt;br /&gt;Sonunda zarfı açtı ve faturaya iliştirilmiş bir not dikkatini çekti. Kâğıtta şunlar yazılıydı:&lt;br /&gt;- "Hastane giderlerinin tamamı bir bardak süt karşılığı ödenmiştir.".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-116329564001271142?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/iyilik.html' title='İYİLİK...'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/116329564001271142/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=116329564001271142&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116329564001271142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116329564001271142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/iyilik.html' title='İYİLİK...'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-116320228778645959</id><published>2006-11-12T01:40:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T13:06:02.217+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hikayemsi'/><title type='text'>YAŞAYARAK ÖĞRENME</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2473/2159/1600/p.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 192px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 235px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="221" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2473/2159/320/p.jpg" width="210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bir gün Napolyon düşman askerlerinden kaçarken, bir bakkaldükkanına girmiş. Bakkala hemen kendisini saklamasını emretmiş. Bakkal da Napolyon'u müsait bir yere saklayıp, biraz sonra gelen düşmanları da "Az evvel biri koşarak şu tarafa kaçtı." diye savuşturmuş.&lt;br /&gt;Nihayet biraz sonra Napolyon'un muhafızları yetişmişler. Bakkal ömründe bir daha karşılaşamayacağı Napolyon'a sormuş :&lt;br /&gt;- "Efendim, af buyurun ama merak ettim, ölümle bu denli burun buruna gelmek nasıl bir duygu ?"&lt;br /&gt;Napolyon birden öfkelenmiş ;&lt;br /&gt;- "Sen kim oluyorsun da benimle böyle dalga geçercesine konuşabiliyorsun ?"diye bağırmış.&lt;br /&gt;Hemen askerlerine, adamcağızı kurşuna dizmelerini emretmiş. Askerler bakkalın gözünü bağlayıp, karşısına dizilmişler. Mermiler namlulara sürülmüş, artık "ateş" emri verilecek... Adamcağız içinden "Ah, ne yaptın sen ? Şimdi ölüp gideceksin" diye düşünürken, arkadan bir çift el uzanmış, gözündeki bağı açmış.&lt;br /&gt;Karşısında Napolyon varmış. Tek cümleyle cevaplamış Napolyon :&lt;br /&gt;- "İşte böyle bir duygu !"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;" Yaşayarak öğrenmek, bedeli en yüksek öğrenme biçimidir. "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-116320228778645959?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/yaayarak-renme.html' title='YAŞAYARAK ÖĞRENME'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/116320228778645959/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=116320228778645959&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116320228778645959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116320228778645959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/yaayarak-renme.html' title='YAŞAYARAK ÖĞRENME'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-116320106604353604</id><published>2006-11-11T01:20:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T13:06:36.092+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='şiir'/><title type='text'>Eger Birgün</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T A N I Ş M A&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2473/2159/1600/7c593c72e4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2473/2159/320/7c593c72e4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eğer bir gün&lt;br /&gt;yüzünün renginden ötürü&lt;br /&gt;çıkarsan mahkemeye,&lt;br /&gt;"Vallahi kalıtımdan oldu" diye,&lt;br /&gt;korkma, ben sana tanıklık ederim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;İnsanların,&lt;br /&gt;yüzlerinin ve gözlerinin rengi başka başka da olsa,&lt;br /&gt;gözyaşlarının rengi hep aynıdır.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ne bir kelimede anlaştılar,&lt;br /&gt;ne aynı avuçtan su paylaştılar.&lt;br /&gt;Yalnızca gözyaşında,&lt;br /&gt;bir de kahkaha da buluştular.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yer tanık olsun, gök tanık olsun,&lt;br /&gt;Bütün doğmuşlarla ve doğacaklarla tanışmak mümkün.&lt;br /&gt;Akıllarda ve yüreklerde göz göze geldik bugün.&lt;br /&gt;Bin yıl önceden bana selam söylediler;&lt;br /&gt;Bin yıl önceki anneler, annemden az mı sevdiler?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;Üstün Dökmen - 1989 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-116320106604353604?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/eger-birgn.html' title='Eger Birgün'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/116320106604353604/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=116320106604353604&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116320106604353604'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116320106604353604'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/eger-birgn.html' title='Eger Birgün'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-116319904741722343</id><published>2006-11-11T00:47:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T13:06:56.798+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hikayemsi'/><title type='text'>KENDİNE İYİ BAK</title><content type='html'>"Kendine iyi bak" bir "veda" değil "elveda" cümlesidir çoğu zaman. O üç kelimeden çok daha fazlasını gizler içinde...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Kendine iyi bak. Çünkü bundan sonra ben yanında olmayacağım. Olamayacağım. İstesem de istemesem de. Sevdim bir zamanlar seni, hala seviyorum ve benden sonra da mutlu olmanı istiyorum. Olur da bir gün dönersem seni iyi bulmak istiyorum."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Kendine iyi bak. Çünkü bundan sonra kendinden başkası olmayacak yanında sana bakacak. Ben olmayacağım. Kendine iyi bak ve beni düşünme. Çünkü ben de seni düşünmeyeceğim artık. Arama sakın beni, yazma, çünkü ben yazmayacağım. Sil beni yüreğinden, çünkü ben sileceğim. Fakat, yaşanılan, paylaşılan güzel şeyler hatırına sana yürekten mutluluklar diliyorum. Ve ben bir daha dönmemek üzere gidiyorum."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Kendine iyi bak. Aramızda geçen herşeye rağmen benden sonra iyi olduğunu bilmeyi tercih ederim. Aslında bilmem çok önemli değil, iyi olduğunu varsayacağım ben. Seni bir daha asla görmemek üzere gidiyorum ben, seni kendinle başbaşa, yapayalnız bırakıyorum ben. Biliyorum kendini bırakacaksın benden sonra, o yüzden iyi bak diyorum. Aslına bakarsan, çok da fazla umursamıyorum."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Kendine iyi bak" derler ve giderler. Tutkuyla sevenler, bazen birden fazla söylerler bunu. Çünkü onları ayırmak, eti tırnaktan ayırmak gibidir. Kolay kolay kopamaz onlar, süreç çok acı vericidir, yürek parçalıyıcıdır. Her seferinde azalan umutlarla geri döner ve yine "Kendine İyi Bak" gözleriyle ayrılırlar. Ta ki umut da, sevgi de tükeninceye kadar…Ta ki son elveda mezar sessizliğine bürününceye kadar…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tutkunun ötesinde sevenler, bir kez "Kendine İyi Bak " derler ve giderler. Onlar eti tırnaktan ayırmak yerine ölümü yeğlerler. Onlar bu acıyı bir kezden fazla kaldıramayacaklarını bilirler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Kendine iyi bak" derler ve giderler. Bu sözlerin içinde ihanet yok, hiç bir zaman olamaz derler ve giderler. En büyük ihanet değil midir aslında seni seveni, ihtiyacı olanı yüzüstü bırakıp gitmek. "Kendine iyi bak" derler ve giderler. Seni suskunluğa mahkum edip giderler. Seni parçalara ayırıp, en büyük parçayı yanlarına alıp giderler. Seni senden alıp giderler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daha kötüsü suçlayamazsın onları tüm bunlar için. Kendine iyi bak deyip gidenin geçerli bir nedeni vardır elbet. Suçlatmaz kendini. Savaşmadıkları için kızarsın ama suçlayamazsın. Savaşmışlarsa, yenildikleri için kızarsın ama suçlayamazsın. Yenildiğin için kızarsın ama suçlayamazsın… Ayrılığın kaçınılmazlığına inandırır seni, "kendine iyi bak" derler ve giderler. Elinden umutlarını, düşlerini, sevgilerini alıp giderler. Bir tek anıları bırakırlar geride, bir de hatırladıkça gözyaşlarına boğulasın diye&lt;br /&gt;unutulmayan nağmeler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arkalarına bakmadan çekip giderler eğer yalnız kalmışsan, çünkü insafsızlıklarını görmek istemezler. Herşey o saniye orada bitsin, kapansın bu sayfa isterler. "Bitti" diyemedikleri için, "kendine iyi bak" derler. "Kırıldım ve affedemiyorum" diyemedikleri için "kendine iyi bak" derler. "Seni istemiyorum artık, hayatımdan çıkaracağım ama bil ki hiç unutmayacağım" diyemedikleri için kendine iyi bak derler. "Biliyorum çok kanayacaksın ama daha iyisini yapamıyorum" diyemedikleri için "kendine iyi bak" derler. Vicdanlarını rahatlatmak için kendine iyi bak derler, çünkü o kan uzun süre akacaktır ve o yara asla kapanmayacaktır, bilirler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Kendine iyi bak" bir noktadır çoğu zaman. Kendine iyi bak deme bana, sadece kötülükler noktalansın isterim ben. Oysa sen iyisin… Sen gözümdeki ışık, dudağımdaki tebessüm, sen içimdeki sevinçssin. Sen hayatıma renk katan, sen yüreğimdeki çarpıntı, sen hayatımdaki neşesin. Sen yolumu aydınlatan, sen dert ortağım, sen gönül yoldaşım, sen bir tanesin. "Kendine iyi bak" deme bana. Nokta koyma.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keşke böyle yaşanmasaydı bazı şeyler, keşke affedebilsen beni, keşke ben de affedebilsem… Keşke döndürebilsek zamanı geriye. Keşke bugünkü aklımızla yaşasak herşeyi baştan. Nafile... Ama yine de, gitmesen olmaz mı? Bitmesek olmaz mı? Sen eksikken, ben nasıl tam olurum? Senden kalan boşluğu kimlerle doldururum? Savaşsak, aramıza giren şeytanla olmaz mı? Hani büyük aşklar her türlü engeli aşardı, hani gerçek dostluklar her sınavı geçerdi, hani sevgi eninde sonunda kazanırdı? Hani hayatta hiç kirlenmeyecek değerler vardı? Hani en büyük zaferler, en kanlı savaşların ardından kazanılırdı? Bunların hepsi yalan mı? Sahiden..., gitmesen olmaz mı? Bitmesek olmaz mı?……….&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peki o zaman... Senin istediğin gibi olsun... Öyleyse...Sen de "Kendine İyi Bak."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Kendine Iyi Bak" derler, kurşunu kafana sıkıp giderler.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-116319904741722343?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/kendine-iyi-bak.html' title='KENDİNE İYİ BAK'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/116319904741722343/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=116319904741722343&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116319904741722343'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116319904741722343'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/kendine-iyi-bak.html' title='KENDİNE İYİ BAK'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-116320078749930976</id><published>2006-11-10T01:15:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T13:07:28.062+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beslenme'/><title type='text'>Katkısal Besinler</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Besin Katkı Maddeleri Nelerdir, Bunlar Ne Gibi Sorunlara Yol Açabilirler?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img height="183" src="http://www.pestgo.com/resim/besin/yumurta.jpg" width="123" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besinler içine çeşitli amaçlarla katkı maddeleri karıştırılmaktadır. Bu maddeler ya koruyucu ya renklendirici ya da tatlandırıcı olarak konulmaktadır. Besin katkı maddeleri şu şekilde gruplandırılabilir. Antioksidanlar, lezzet vericiler, besin boyaları, koruyucular, tatlandırıcılar ve diğerleri. Bu katkı maddelerini içeren besinlerin etiketleri üzerinde E ile başlayan kod numarası bulunur. “E”nin anlamı bu maddenin Avrupa Topluluğu tarafından onaylandığını gösterir. Koruyucular, antioksidanlar ve asit düzenleyiciler E200 - 321 arasında, besin boyaları E100 - 180 arasında ve kalınlaştırıcılar E322 - 495 arasında kod numarası alırlar. Bu maddeler aleyhinde sık sık kampanyalar açılsa da günümüz tüketici toplumlarında bu maddeler olmadan sağlıklı besin saklamak çok zordur. Genel olarak bu katkı maddelerine karşı sağlıklı insanlarda olumsuz tepkiler çok az olup yaklaşık bin insandan birinde veya daha az sıklıkta görülür.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bunlar arasında önemli bir yeri olan sülfitler çok sayıda içecek (turşu, patates cipsi gibi), içecek (şarap gibi) ve ilaçta bulunur. Astımlı hastaların yaklaşık olarak yüzde beşinde sülfitlerin yenilmesi sonucu ciddi nefes darlığı oluşmaktadır. Bir diğer önemli katkı maddesi olan monosodyum glutamat yenilmesine bağlı olarak ortaya çıkan “&lt;strong&gt;Çin lokantası sendromu&lt;/strong&gt;” adı verilen hastalıkta genellikle Çin ve Japon yemeklerinin yenilmesinden 15 - 20 dakika sonra baş ağrısı, ensede yanma hissi, bulantı ve kusma görülür. Monosodyum glutamat ayrıca bazı hazır çorbalarda, hazır et ve tavuklarda da bulunmaktadır. Diğer katkı maddeleri özellikle ürtikeri olan kişilerde hastalık belirtilerinin artmasına neden olabilmektedir. Allerjisi olan hastaların, özellikle ürtiker ve atopik dermatitli hastaların, mümkün olduğu kadar taze ve katkı maddesi içermeyen yiyecekler tüketmeleri gereklidir. En sık kullanılan ve tepki yaratan besin katkı maddeleri aşağıda gösterilmiştir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;İnsanlarda Sık Tepki Yaratan Besin Katkı Maddeleri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Besin boyaları&lt;br /&gt;Tartrazin (sarı boya)&lt;br /&gt;Günbatımı sarısı&lt;br /&gt;Amarant&lt;br /&gt;Parlak mavi&lt;br /&gt;Eritrozin&lt;br /&gt;- Parabenler/Benzoatlar&lt;br /&gt;- Parahidroksi benzoik asit&lt;br /&gt;- Sodyum benzoat&lt;br /&gt;- Nitratlar&lt;br /&gt;- Nitritler&lt;br /&gt;- Monosodyum glutamat&lt;br /&gt;- Sülfitler &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-116320078749930976?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/katksal-besinler.html' title='Katkısal Besinler'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/116320078749930976/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=116320078749930976&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116320078749930976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/116320078749930976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/11/katksal-besinler.html' title='Katkısal Besinler'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21356183.post-113796991805227144</id><published>2006-01-23T00:43:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T13:07:50.811+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='başlangıç'/><title type='text'>Meryemce yayında</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2473/2159/1600/bere.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2473/2159/320/bere.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21356183-113796991805227144?l=meryemce.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/01/meryemce-yaynda.html' title='Meryemce yayında'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/feeds/113796991805227144/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21356183&amp;postID=113796991805227144&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/113796991805227144'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21356183/posts/default/113796991805227144'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://meryemce.blogspot.com/2006/01/meryemce-yaynda.html' title='Meryemce yayında'/><author><name>meryemce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09910897149652108935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_XXaUNGRR86w/RY-kc3MXuxI/AAAAAAAAABU/sw8AetcB2Pw/s200/meerr.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry></feed>
