Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

What is Inside of E-Cigarette Cartridges?



An e-cigarette or electronic cigarette is a specialized unit that’s purposely intended to be an alternative way of providing doses of nicotine to the smoker. By heating up the contents of the cartridge of the e-cigarette, transforming it directly into vapor, that’s after that taken in by the smoker. The electronic tobacco cigarette gadget consists of different parts that works collectively to imitate the way the conventional cigarette functions and is used by a smoker.
Very different from normal tobacco cigarettes available today, the e-cigarette doesn’t only use high tech parts, it’s supply of nicotine is very different to ordinary cigs. Rather than using the tar as well as the leaves from the tobacco plant to derive the nicotine, which is a highly addicting ingredient, the e-cigarette has cartridges used to keep the liquid nicotine that’s going to be vaporized and then converted to a mist.
There are a few types of e-cigarette cartridges that also have a built in atomizer or heating system gadget. A brand new permanent atomizer is expensive. Naturally, this kind of cartridge for the e-cigarette could have a moderately higher price tag compared to normal cartridges nevertheless, it may provide you with significant personal savings in the long term, as there won’t be a need to buy a brand new one. Operating as the mouthpiece for the entire gadget is the e-cigarette cartridge. This particular section of the e-cigarette cartridges also provides a tube like filter similar to a tobacco cigarette end. The e-cigarette cartridges use a sensor that is also run via the battery that detects when the user would like to breathe in a bit of vapor thereby initiating the atomizer to heat up the fluid nicotine within the holding chamber. The vapor that will come out via a different tube coming out of the unit is then able to be inhaled by the e-cigarette smoker.
In an effort to help make the entire e-cigarette smoking experience more like smoking cigarettes a conventional cigarette, some manufacturers build in LED lights on the end of the unit, near the mouthpiece, which lights up once the end user inhales smoke from the unit.
The liquid nicotine that is enclosed inside the e-cigarette cartridges is commonly created from vegetable glycerin or propylene glycol. These types of compounds are commonly seen in a few processed foods sold in the market today because it is permitted for use as a food preservative. The compounds are combined with a calculated measure of the nicotine, thereafter they’re placed in the cartridges of the e-cig. It is possible to make use of a nicotine free version of e-cig cartridge. This is especially very important to individuals wanting to stop smoking but who want to continue the sense of using cigarettes.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

MicroRNAs 103 and 107 regulate insulin sensitivity

Defects in insulin signalling are among the most common and earliest defects that predispose an individual to the development of type 2 diabetes123. MicroRNAs have been identified as a new class of regulatory molecules that influence many biological functions, including metabolism45. However, the direct regulation of insulin sensitivity by microRNAs in vivo has not been demonstrated. Here we show that the expression of microRNAs 103 and 107 (miR-103/107) is upregulated in obese mice. Silencing of miR-103/107 leads to improved glucose homeostasis and insulin sensitivity. In contrast, gain of miR-103/107 function in either liver or fat is sufficient to induce impaired glucose homeostasis. We identify caveolin-1, a critical regulator of the insulin receptor, as a direct target gene of miR-103/107. We demonstrate that caveolin-1 is upregulated upon miR-103/107 inactivation in adipocytes and that this is concomitant with stabilization of the insulin receptor, enhanced insulin signalling, decreased adipocyte size and enhanced insulin-stimulated glucose uptake. These findings demonstrate the central importance of miR-103/107 to insulin sensitivity and identify a new target for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity.

Source:Nature

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Prevention of Allergies

Prevention of Allergies

There is a plethora of allergy medications which
supposedly provide relief for the watery eyes,
itchy/runny nose and sneezing. Over the counter
antihistamines and decongestants are the best
kinds of over-the-counter drugs to take.
Using steam therapy to clear out nasal passages
is also a great way to obtain relief. Since many
believe that symptoms of asthma are attributed to
a spring/summer cold, the best thing to do to
determine whether you are allergic to pollen is to
receive a skin test or a blood test. There are
different ways of prevention for different ways of
allergies.

Mental Health is great problems among youngster

Mental Health

About 500 million people are believed to suffer from stress-related, neurotic, and somatoform (psychological problems which presents themselves as physical complaints) disorders. Mental health is not mere absence of mental illness. Mentally healthy person has three main characteristics:
-He feels comfortable about himself.
-He neither underestimates nor overestimates his ability.
-He is able to meet the demands of life.

Causes of mental illness are organic conditions and social pathological causes. In Newari language some people say "DIKKA JULA" that means headache.Newari has many festivals.They have many problems of money to perform such activities.then they say 'PAISA MARU DIKKA JULA'.There must be a combination of genetic and environmental factors. It includes worries , anxieties, emotional stress, tension, frustration, unhappy marriages ,broken homes, poverty , industrialization, changing family structure ,rejection ,neglect., insecurity ,economic and like.
Due to such types of mental illness people are engaged in drug addiction and do many social crimes.
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Saturday, March 6, 2010

Adolescence

Adolescence


What is the exactly the meaning of adolescence? The adolescence is nothing but the age group between 10 to 19 is period of adolescence among different phases of development of man.
We mostly fall in adolescence group from childhood. There they are considered as adolescence. The WHO (World Health Organization defines adolescence as the age between 10 to 19 years.
There are different changes during adolescence time .They are as follows
Physical changes
Physical changes are the overall growth and development occurring in the size and function of different organs and systems in the body .such changes occur in adolescence time rapidly.
External changes are different in adolescence boys and girls. Internal systems are also changing rapidly such as bones, muscles, glands, digestive system, blood circulatory system and reproductive system.
Mental changes
During adolescence a number of changes also occur in the mental set up. Some mental changes are as follows:
Creativity analytic power and mental maturity grows during adolescence.
Adolescents begin to understand their responsibilities towards self, family, and society in general.
Emotional changes
There are a number of changes also in the emotional set up of adolescents.
These include stronger feelings and expressions of happiness, sadness, anger, likes and love and hatred.
Adolescence is a period of development of newer emotions which are not so prominent in children.
Social changes
During adolescence, both males and females begin to socialize more.
Their group interactions and activities also increase.
Friendship plays an important role in the lives of adolescents.