How harmful is noise for our health?
Silence is now become a luxury item. However, noise, especially in cities, is everywhere – and it can make you sick, as demonstrated by various studies. At Americans only 4,000 heart attacks per year happened due on road traffic noise. Number of international studies shows that noise is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Acute noise activates rise of the autonomic nervous system; Stress hormones, blood pressure and pulse. An indirect trigger is noise while an emotional stress reaction is a consequence just like discomfort. But in a direct way, it seems that exist interactions between the auditory system and other areas of the central nervous system. These are primarily responsible for the effects and occur of noise even with low levels. Chronic noise even increases the risk of atherosclerosis the noise is increases blood pressure, lipids, glucose...
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In the fall of health dangers lurk already in shaking hands
Meanwhile, the days are getting shorter and the autumn has arrived. In addition to the golden days means also wet cold rainy weather, which is added to the body and makes it more susceptible to diseases. In addition lumbago, dry skin and depression are especially cold viruses on the health hazards in the fall. So cold, cough and sore throat have now strengthened season, because the cold and rain, many people turn to a walk in the fresh air and keep prefer to warm rooms. But that is what contributes to an increased susceptibility to infection. Firstly, the warm air heating dries out the mucous membranes in the nose and throat, so that they can fend off pathogens worse. On the other hand weaken cold and wet reduce body’s defenses. Both factors together make the body more susceptible to...
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Excessive Sweating – Causes and Treatment Options
Whether in high summer temperatures, during sports or due to an infection – although sweating is often disturbing, but perfectly normal. When the hands, shoulders and forehead but are dripping in sweat for no reason again is actually vital body function to the problem. Sweating the human body is like temperature extremes: sweat but liquid from which evaporates on the skin and ensures that excessive heat is removed – a sometimes vital reaction of the organism. Physical exertion, the summer heat, spicy food or too large meals or excessive alcohol consumption, infections, hormonal fluctuations (eg during menopause), obesity, but also strong emotions such as excitement, anger or fear – all these are reasons that we sweat. However, some people perspire too strong when they barely move and reign cool temperatures. It is estimated that one to two percent of...
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In traffic summer heat
If the trip is interrupted in the summer by a traffic jam, suffer not only the nerves. Also for the health of the tourists is such a forced break a real burden. Adequate preparation is important and also for emergencies, there are tips to avert the potential dangers. With the right preparation to estimate the probability to encounter traffic significantly reduced. This must include information in good time on building sites and turn on the radio traffic before departure. On hot days, it is better not to risk. And even if the progress on country roads is cumbersome, they are in doubt the better choice, because stopping and pausing here is far easier than in a traffic jam on the highway. Among the most important things when traveling in the summer without air conditioning are: Fan for the cigarette...
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Stress weakens the capacity for empathy
Researchers have found why foreign people often have little empathy for each other: reason is the natural stress we get in contact with strangers. However, the empathy is very easy to increase. The natural stress over the contact with strangers leads to decreased level of empathy. Therefore, the empathic related with experience pain of another friends and relatives is more pronounced than empathic with strangers. American scientists were able to prove these relationships. “We have figured out why empathy between strangers is so rare,” says Jeffrey Mogil of McGill University in Montreal. “The reason is quite simply stress: it is social stress in the immediate closeness of a stranger.” From previous studies it was known that the physical proximity of a foreign counterparts can increase the levels of stress hormones. Therefore examined a possible link between stress and empathy....
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Meteosensitivity- When the weather changes it’s become a problem
Especially in spring and autumn when the weather is constantly changing, many people suffer from so-called “weather changes”. In addition to headaches typical symptoms include fatigue, insomnia, lethargy and a general malaise. But even in the absence meteosensitivity, the symptoms of major diseases can be exacerbated when the weather is change. The cause is rather in the autonomic nervous system. This controllable part of the human nervous system normally ensures that the body adapts quickly and easily to changing external conditions. Thus, the autonomic nervous system controls the constriction or dilation of blood vessels according to the external ambient temperature and makes us sweat in the heat or shivering in the cold. In weather dependent people of this system is out of whack and responds increasingly to external influences. This leads to discomfort and adverse health effects such as...
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