TIPS ON DONATING BLOOD…

Some donate blood as a social service and others do it for their relatives/friends in an emergency. Here are a few points to keep in mind before you donate blood.

• Do not donate blood if you are suffering from any ailment.
• Donate blood once in four months. If the frequency of blood donation is increased, you will feel weak and may fall ill. Also the quality of the donated blood deteriorates.
• Make sure you weigh more than fifty kilograms when volunteering blood donation.
• Take sufficient food prior to blood donation.
• Ask the blood bank technician to unwrap the disposable syringe in front of you.
• Take sufficient fruits/fruit juice after the blood donation.
• Don't walk away from the bed immediately after donation.
• Take rest for at least thirty minutes.
  
  

HERE ARE SOME TIPS ON SAFE WATER...

• Always collect water from a clean source.
• If the water looks muddy, let it stand for twelve hours to allow sediments to settle at the bottom.
• Filter the clarified water through a piece of thick cloth or filter.
• Always boil drinking water.
• Pour the boiled water into a clean container.
• Sterilize the container too.

Water borne diseases

Bacteria - Typhoid fever, Asiatic cholera, Bacillary, Dysentery.
Protozoan- Amoebic Dysentery
Helminthic- Round worm infection, whipworm infection, and dracontiasis.


SOME TIPS ON PREVENTING TOOTH DECAY:

• Eat foods that have vitamins and minerals.
• Don't eat sweet or sticky foods between meals.
  After every meal brush your teeth.
• Crunchy fruits/vegetables like apples and carrots also help to clean teeth.
• Eat sweets only at the end of a meal so that your teeth get properly cleaned when you brush them after the meal.
• Visit a dental hygienist for a thorough check up.
• Use a mouthwash to stop bad breath.

SOME EASY WAYS TO QUIT SMOKING

• Leave smoking for at least ten hours in a day, then slowly increase the hours of
  non-smoking.
• Take one gram of vitamin C daily; it will lessen your craving for nicotine.
• Exercising, swimming, jogging, yoga, aerobics or walking keeps you busy and reduces the craving for cigarettes.
• Avoid taking caffeine, sugar and alcohol. Doing this will also reduce your craving
  for nicotine.
• Eating salads, carrot sticks, fruits, popcorn and chewing gum can reduce craving.
• Keep yourself busy after meals as craving for smoking is more after meals.
• Get a health check up.
• Bleach your teeth if it is discolored; it will keep you away from smoking and stop
  bad breath.
• Tell your friends and dear ones that you wish to quit. They will certainly help you.

Benefits of quitting smoking

• After a decade of quitting smoking you can be free of risk from related diseases like cancer, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases and diabetes mellitus.
• Quitting smoking reduces the risk of smoking related heart disease by 24%.
• You will be avoiding those four thousand chemicals that cigarettes contain.
• You will be lowering the risk of smokers' cough.
• You will not be hurting your dear ones.
• Non-smoking will stop bad breath and bad odor from your body.
• You will save your money.
• You will lower the risk of wrinkles on your face.

So decide now. Activate your will power. Wanting to is half the battle won. You can even contact a few counselling centers to help support your fight against smoking.

COUNSELLING CENTRES:

Viswas counselling center: Phone : 663 4489

Afcare counselling center: Phone : 669 3788

STRESS

WHAT IS STRESS?
Stress is the "wear and tear" our bodies experience as we adjust to our continually changing environment. It has physical and emotional effects on us and can create positive or negative feelings.

POSITIVE INFLUENCE
Stress can help compel us to action. It can result in a new awareness and an exciting new perspective.

NEGATIVE INFLUENCE
It can result in feelings of distrust, rejection, anger and depression.

REASONS FOR STRESS
Deadlines, competitions, confrontations and even our frustrations and sorrows, though the reasons of stress add depth and enrichment to our lives.

STRESS MANAGEMENT
We all thrive under a certain amount of stress. As we have seen, positive stress adds anticipation and excitement to life. Our goal is not to eliminate stress but to learn how to manage it and how to use it to help us. Insufficient stress acts as a depressant and may leave us feeling bored or dejected. On the other hand, excessive stress may leave us feeling "tied up in knots". What we need to do is find the optimal level of stress which will individually motivate but not overwhelm each of us.

SOME PRACTICAL TIPS ON STRESS REDUCTION

GET SMART ABOUT TECHNOLOGY
Using the phone just for emergencies keeps you from becoming a slave to it.

HOME IN ON CLUTTER
Put the kids to work. Use the library. Read books to keep your mind off the possibility of unwanted stress.

DON'T WEAR A WATCH!
If you're late, there's not a damn thing you can do about it, and checking your watch a thousand times isn't going to get you there
any faster.

AVOID AN ANXIOUS BRAIN
Do just one thing at a time. Read the newspaper or listen to the radio or eat dinner -- not all three at once. Multi-tasking only feeds anxiety.

INDIGESTION

General tips to fight Indigestion by Anjali Mukerjee

INCREASE WATER INTAKE
An easy way to remember taking in 12 glasses a day is to take 4 glasses on waking up, 4 glasses one hour before lunch and 4 glasses one hour before dinner.

SWITCH TO WHOLE WHEAT BREAD
Intake of refined foods like pastries, noodles, etc., can be constipating. Avoid such foods and switch to whole wheat bread.

EXERCISE REGULARLY
Exercise is a habit that can help fight constipation. Walk 30 minutes daily for
6 days a week. It will go a long way in correcting your problem.

For more tips on health try the Website: http://www.anjalimukerjee.com

Not everyone experiences the same symptoms. The following are among the possible warning signs of a heart attack, according t

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