Listen Up: How Noise Can Harm Your Hearing

Written by Jane Lake


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Listen Up: How Noise Can Harm Your Hearing by Jane Lake

The good news is that you don't have to lose your hearing as you age. The bad news is, you will - unless you limit your exposure to high noise levels. The most preventable cause of hearing loss isrepparttar 114365 cumulative effect of noise. The following suggestions and decibel (dB) chart will help you gauge your exposure to noise and reduce your risk of hearing loss:

* Wear ear plugs when operating noisy equipment (i.e. lawn mower, motorboat or power tools). * Set car, home and portable stereos to below half volume. Beware of music levels in exercise classes, concerts and bars. * Look for a product recommended for quiet operation when shopping for a fan, air conditioner or other household appliance. * Don't buy noisy toys. Some toy musical instruments emit dangerous sound levels, while cap guns and firecrackers, exploding nearrepparttar 114366 ear, can damage hearing even if you only hear them once. * Any noise which makes your ears ring, a condition called tinnitus, is too loud. * Protect your ears if you hunt or shoot guns. Acoustic trauma - immediate, severe and persistent hearing loss - is directly linked to gunfire. * If your workplace is noisy, ensure that ear protectors are provided, and wear them. * Make sure printers, copiers and other noisy office machines aren't grouped together. * Wear ear plugs at rock concerts. * Avoid places where you cannot talk comfortably with another person who is three feet away. * Wear ear protectors for loud hobbies like snowmobiling or woodworking.

The Danger of Curbing Hunger Artificially

Written by Protica Research


Unhealthy eating is a harmful problem in America, and contrary to a very outdated perception, this harm is not limited to those who suffer from obesity[1]. In reality, according torepparttar Directors of Health Promotion and Education,repparttar 114361 majority of Americans exhibit unhealthy eating habits, with just over one in four women and only one in five men claiming to eatrepparttar 114362 minimum five daily servings of vegetables and fruits[i].

In response to this growing wave of American malnutrition, a number of nutrition-based solutions have been proposed. This has been both a positive, an ironically, a negative, development.

This has been positive in light ofrepparttar 114363 simple fact that it has helped increase basic “nutrition IQ”. The fact that most urban centers are home to dozens of diet and weight loss centers, and that many malls now have at least one health store has advanced awareness of America’s unhealthy eating problem.

So, too, haverepparttar 114364 numerous television shows and news reports that have coveredrepparttar 114365 popular diets that dominate current weight loss discussions, such as:repparttar 114366 Atkins Diet,repparttar 114367 South Beach Diet,repparttar 114368 Zone Diet, and more. The fact that a vending machine may actually contain a piece of fruit these days is further positive expressions of this growing nutritional awareness.

However, there is a downside as well. This increasing information has created a dizzying health and nutrition marketplace within which some irresponsible products are being offered. Among these products – and arguablyrepparttar 114369 worst kind -- are those that artificially suppress appetite.

There are two equally important reasons why appetite suppressants are dangerous and irresponsible nutrition ideas.

The first reason is that they delude dieters into thinking that real weight is being lost. For example, an unfortunately popular choice for some dieters is to take diet pills. These pills are often diuretics that promote weight-loss through water loss. As such, while a dieter will feel less hungry and lose weight while takingrepparttar 114370 diet pills, both of these effects will cease when takingrepparttar 114371 pills cease. Weight gain will return rapidly, as will appetite[ii].

This leads torepparttar 114372 other reason why these appetite suppressant products are irresponsible and harmful. The human body is home to a vastly intelligent network of systems, cells, chemicals, and neurotransmitters. Regardless of one’s personal view of evolution of howrepparttar 114373 human body came to be this way, it is agreed by both creationists, evolutionists, and everyone else thatrepparttar 114374 human body is a remarkable example of comprehensive intelligence.

For example,repparttar 114375 human body is able to synthetically produce – without any conscious help fromrepparttar 114376 owner of that body – 12 ofrepparttar 114377 20 amino acids that comprise protein[2]. Or considerrepparttar 114378 blood, whose plasma carries platelets that enable minor wound blot clotting. Both of these examples reflect a special kind of intelligence thatrepparttar 114379 human body humbly and quietly exhibits throughout life.

When hunger is artificially suppressed it interferes with this intelligence. The body and its intricate network of problem-solving mechanisms become confused. Basically,repparttar 114380 body is still hungry, but it does not feel hungry. The body is still cravingrepparttar 114381 basic nutrition it requires to survive: proteins, essential fats, nutrients, vitamins, and calories. Yet becauserepparttar 114382 hunger signal is not being effectively transmitted from these systems torepparttar 114383 brain – due torepparttar 114384 appetite suppressant –repparttar 114385 individual dieter is not responding. Inrepparttar 114386 short-term, a dieter may lose some pounds[3]. Inrepparttar 114387 long-termrepparttar 114388 dieter will suffer from some form of malnutrition.

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