children who are overweight or have a very excess weight (obesity) threatened a range of chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, non-stop breathing while sleeping, osteoarthritis, and disorders of puberty in girls.


Currently, it is estimated there are 300 million people in the world who suffer from obesity. This amount is equivalent to the population starved. In the United States, according to data for the year 2003, child obesity has already reached 15 percent of the population. Meanwhile, in the land of water, according to the Riskesdas 2010 is 14 per cent children aged 0-5 years are overweight.


"Both obesity and overweight is not a problem of aesthetics or appearance. However, this is a disease. Although no data nationally, but obesity is pandemic in Indonesia, "said Dr. Safe Bhakti Pulingan, SpA, Endocrinology of the Faculty of medicine University of Indonesia.


He explains, obesity has now been categorised as a disease by experts from around the world. "Obesity is also a problem because the economy is related to the cost of the health of the country," he said in a press conference event to Examine the excess sugar intake on Milk, Wednesday (3/6/2011) in Jakarta.


Parents who have children obesity are advised to begin taking steps to lose weight the child so that children avoid the risks of the disease.


"Return the child on the patterns of healthy living. Caloric intake must not be more than 1,600 per day, multiply physical activity, and examine the components of the food court, "he added.


Research shows, 1 of 6 teen obese suffer pre-diabetes, a condition when the tolerance of glucose is impaired. "If intervened with the right diet for 20 months, then the child could avoid diabetes. Remember! Once in a lifetime the child diabetes, diabetes would be, "he said.


He also recommends that children who are overweight or diabetes should do the parents suffer from blood sugar checks. "Child of the age of 10 years has been advised to do check up. But if you have risk factors, we recommend that you do not postpone examination until a teenager, "he said.

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You want a diet? If you have a lot to try a diet or a diet drug and still does not meet your expectations, please read the article that we took through interviews with tribal leaders inland Dayak in Central Kalimantan Indonesia.


Most of the Dayak people have a slender body, rarely from ethnic communities are overweight. They do not take diet drugs or spend time exercising, they only consume food everyday around the house or their garden.


One of the leaves which they consume are often young guava leaves or in a language known to shoot dayak guava, guava leaf shoots it tastes bitter. Leaves a bitter taste in guava shoot turned out to make the body slimmer, Dayak people often consume leaves of guava shoots 1 time a day. Aside from being a solution to the diet, guava leaf shoots can also cure diarrhea.

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Itching in the skin from insect bites, allergies, medications, etc., can be removed with different try this natural way:

• Bath milk. Mix oatmeal in milk evaporation (milk that has reduced levels of water_ and use for bathing. Oatmeal (1-2 small bowls) can also be mixed with warm water in a bathtub. Milk works well enough to repel the itching in the skin and make skin more subtle.
• Baking soda (about 1 small bowl) can also be mixed into a tub of warm water to reduce the itching due to irritation, insect bites, bee stings, and others. Soak about 30-60 minutes. For a little wound in the skin, mix three parts baking soda with one part water, then apply this paste to the area to itch. However, do not do this if the skin is injured.
• Apply lemon juice to the itching part of the body, allow it to dry. Oranges contain powerful anti-inflammatory anesthetic and cope with the itching.
• Apply a meat plant aloe vera to the body that itch. Substance in aloe vera, not only can cope with severe burns, but also itching.
• Bathing with water laced with peppermint oil. For a little area, brewed mint leaves and use water to wash the body that itch, or a clean cloth dipped into water and then compress steeping mint leaves to the body that itch. Mint leaves contain menthol which is an anesthetic and anti-inflammatory. Rosmarinik acid in it also are anti-inflammatory that is easily absorbed into the skin.
• Add two tablespoons of balsamic vinegar into the water bath and the itching would be reduced.

After all is done, then compress the itching with a cold pack.

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Most pregnant women experience a variety of  complaints  of pain, such as stiffness, pain around the pelvis, migraine, and so forth. Nevertheless, pregnant women  are advised  to be careful in taking pain medication  for fear interfere with the development of sex organs male babies.

The warning was delivered by the experts that was published in the journal Human Reproduction. According to the study, use of pain medication in the long term can lead to a baby boy so impaired testicular sperm cells produced poor quality and can cause fertility problems.

Pain relief drugs, such as paracetamol, aspirin, or ibuprofen, are widely consumed by pregnant women to cope with pain disorders, especially migraine. Taking drugs such analgesik, especially when taking the two drugs, will increase the risk of testicular disorders.

The most vulnerable period of pregnancy the fetus is a health threat during fetal age 4-6 months. Compared with women who are not taking pain medication, risk taking painkillers was two-fold higher.

The researchers also suspect, the use of pain medication without medical supervision may be the culprit of the increased disorder of reproductive organs in baby boys this past decade. Other factors that also affect the exposure to the chemicals known as endocrine or hormone bully.

"Pregnant women should reduce the consumption of analgesic drugs, even to avoid it during pregnancy,"advises Dr. Henrik Leffers, senior researcher from the Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Pregnant women who consume drugs pain relief  category  codeine,  oxycodone  and opioids on high-risk early pregnancy gave birth to  babies  with congenital defects.

Although the number of cases is small, but the babies whose mothers consumed opioids have a higher risk than other babies to suffer from congenital defects.

Types of abnormalities that may be suffered by infants include heart is not fully developed, neural tube defects (spina bifida), or gastroschisis (bowel is outside the body).

Conclusions are derived from research by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States, which is one of the largest studies on the effects of opioids in pregnancy. The results of this research published in the American Journal of Obstretic & Gynecology. The study was conducted based on data the National Birth Defect Prevention Study involving pregnant women from 10 states who gave birth between the years 1997 to 2005.

Of the 17 thousand pregnant women who delivered babies birth defects, 454 or 2.6 percent reported using opioid analgesics type a month before pregnancy or in the first tri-semester of pregnancy. As a comparison of the control group, the use of opioids accounted for two percent.

"Opioids and their receptors act as growth regulators during embryonic development. This may lead to defects in the fetus," said Cheryl S. Broussard, lead researcher.

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