It is estimated that adults spend 70% of their lives at work, or at their jobs. This makes the workplace a major impacter of our health. In fact, the quality of health among adults is often dictated by the jobs they hold. While every job may contribute to health problems due to stress they mount [...]
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Top 10 Unhealthy Jobs
Our top 10 list of unhealthy jobs do not take into account dangerous jobs that literally put lives in danger such as fire fighters, police officers, soldiers, and miners. It considers the common and often disregarded jobs, health-wise. While every job may contribute to health problems due to stress they mount on the body, there [...]
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5. Respiratory therapy
Number five on our list is the respiratory therapist. How much risk is there to health in a job like that? Apart from the baseline risk to health, the likelihood of developing asthma is high among therapists. The sad fact that they help improve other peoples’ respiratory health and in the process hurt [...]
Breathe
Air is the most vital substance to human existence: we can survive for many days without food, a few days without water, but six minutes without air would cause permanent brain damage; death, that is. We may pay attention to the food we eat, the car we drive, the clothes we wear, the places we [...]
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Deep breathing (also known as diaphragmatic breathing, abdominal breathing, belly breathing, or costal breathing) is very beneficial to everyone. It fills up the lungs with air and therefore properly oxygenates the body, even at the cellular level.
Experts suggest normal breathing on average only fills up one third of the lungs with air, and therefore the [...]
Asthma Scoop
Asthma is not a disease, it is a condition. It is more of a respiratory problem, than an ailment. It is a chronic condition that causes difficulty in breathing, usually triggered by identifiable stressors or agents.
Asthma sufferers experience constriction of the airways (the bronchial tubes leading to the lungs), which reduces airflow in and out [...]
Hypertension: The Heart Of The Matter
Our hearts beat throughout our lives, an estimated three billion beats per lifetime on average. It never stops as long as we are alive, that is! When we worry about a deadline, run to catch a bus, read a book or email, cheer for our favorite team, and even when we are asleep, it keeps [...]
Read MoreHigh BP: Understanding the numbers
When it comes to heart rate and blood pressure, numbers matter. Both blood pressure and heart rate are reported in numbers. Except you have dealt with them, you may not really know what those numbers mean. Even people who have had their blood pressure checked do not really understand the numbers. Most doctors tell their [...]
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Superstar rap artists, Daz EFX once said “Check yourself before you wreck yourself”. They were not talking about your heart rate nor your blood pressure! But I think its good advice when it comes to heart rate and blood pressure: checking it frequently is a good idea.
Many factors come to play in elevating blood pressure levels: [...]
Quiz: answers
1. Erratic heartbeats always mean heart attacks.
False. Erratic heartbeats almost never mean a heart attack. They very common, almost everyone’s heart skips a beat now and again; heart flutters, or flip-flop are also common place. An abnormal heart rhythm without chest pain or shortness of breath is not a severe condition. However, it should be [...]