Month: January 2006

New Trends Among High School Students In America

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One of the most liked trends of teenagers in high schools in America were alcohol use and cigarette smoking, but the trends have changed and alcohol use and cigarette smoking has gone pretty low, but on the other hand there is a very steep rise of students using drugs like OxyContin is rising, as well as sedative abuse in 26 years.

The researchers had questionnaires and they were asking the students as to whether they have used tranquilizers, barbiturates or sedatives for non-medical use in the last year, about 14 percent of the high school seniors, 11 percent of the 10th graders and about 7 percent of the 8th graders responded in yes.

The figures are going on a rise with high school seniors and about 7.2 percent of them had used sedatives without a prescription in the last year, which has gone up from low of 2.8 percent in 1992. There were about 5.5 percent of the seniors who reported using OxyContin, which is a potent pain killer up from 4 percent in 2002.

OxyContin is a drug that is being taken to relieve severe pain and the drug has a great potential for overdose as well as for creating dependence.

It is another report it was noted that the prescription drugs were much more widely available than the illegal drugs. It was also noted that the kids who are growing up in this day and age are seeing prescription drugs for performance enhancement, there are drugs that can help to focus better in school, as well as to stay awake for long hours and calm one down during anxiety or depressive episodes.

The drugs are being marketed at a very huge scale and everyone just knows about their potential and their effects and this makes people aware of the product at a very large scale.
It is not only that people are using illegal drugs, they are also using legal drugs for illegal use.
The study was conducted on the students going to public and private schools and it was found that the number of students using steroids or marijuana was at a steady figure, but the figures were going high for students using the sedatives or pain killers, which have morphine in them.
To name a few drugs, which are increasingly used by teenagers are Ambien, Oxycontin and inhalants.

The other big issue that needs to be dealt with is that there are other forms of illicit drugs that are entering the market such as Ecstasy, the prescription drugs on the other hand are being made by the pharmaceutical companies, but no one exactly knows as to where the Ecstasy is being made and what harmful effects it bears. So this all needs to be really looked into as to what are the measures that can be taken to handle such a widespread use of illicit drug abuse in the teenage children. This is a pretty serious issue and requires serious attention.


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Risk Of Diarrhea Increased By Stomach Acid Drugs

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According to a recent research the most prescribed anti-heartburn drug such as proton-pump inhibitor blocks the stomach acid production, but on the other hand it increases the risk of an increasingly common infectious diarrhea.

The researchers say that there are some drugs, which are known to triple the risk of diarrhea, which was blamed earlier on the Clostridium difficile, a bacteria, and the names of the drugs are Nexium and Losec.

The other drug, which is prescribed for heartburn activity are called as H2 antagonists, the brand name of which is Zantac, which is found to double the risk of the bacterial diarrhea.
The other thing that causes the most common type of infectious diarrhea is Clostridium difficile, which occurs mostly in the patients aged 75 and older.

According to the statistics, the infectious diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile, which is the source of infection and inflammation of the intestine mostly happens during the hospital stays. But the latest reports suggest that the cases of diarrhea have risen to about 22 per 100,000 people in 2004 from 1 in 100,000 a decade earlier.

The research also suggested that the bacteria, Clostridium difficile, which is the pathogen for causing the infectious diarrhea is on a rise constantly, which is pretty concerning and that may be due to the fact that the bacteria is going constantly through a variation in the strains and this is quite alarming and concerning. The researchers are conducting studies to find out more about the strains and look for how the variation is taking place so that necessary steps can be taken to prevent this from turning into a disaster.

These acid blocking drugs have been gaining popularity over time for treatments of gastric reflux disease.

There is still a whole lot work that needs to be done in conjunction with the pharmaceutical companies to determine as to how we can prevent these drugs from causing the diarrheal symptoms in patients suffering from heartburn.

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Yoga Gives Ease To Patients With Low Back Pain

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Low back pain is the main problem that the adults suffer from and this is something that really hurts the back where one feels like a catch in the back or something is just tearing up the back in two or a stabbing pain that people experience in the back.

There are many treatments that are available for the low back pain such as pain killers, massages, acupuncture, back exercises to strengthen the back etc. There is another method, which is currently being used to help relieve the back pain and relax the muscles of the back, which is yoga. Yoga is considered to be a better approach to help the back of the people who are suffering from chronic low back pain.

In the study, researchers randomly assigned 101 adults to take either 12 weeks of yoga class or 12 weeks of a standard therapeutic exercise class, or to follow the advice of a self-care book.
The effects of yoga on the back are being evaluated through a study conducted on 101 adults in whom they had to go for about 12 weeks of yoga. The yoga class was carried out in the viniyoga style, which goes by the idea that the poses should be adapted to the individual’s needs. This session was conducted by an experienced teacher who had been conducted sessions of therapeutic yoga and the classes were limited only to basic poses that would not be putting too much pressure or strain on the back.

The individuals going through that therapy showed that their back functioning is better than their peers who were going through the same back problems.

It is said that yoga is making the mind and body work for you and to help you with the problems that you are going through with both your body and mind. So with the poses that were being made during the class, helped the individuals to get trained as to how they need to go through those poses and it helped them register those poses in their mind, and whenever they use their back to lift things or bending, they know how to perform those maneuvers in order to help them prevent from the agonizing pain that they suffer from their back pain by doing the movements the wrong way.

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Eat Healthy

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You must always remember that you must eat healthy and exercise. These are the basic factors that are going to ensure you live a healthy and a wonderful life, which will keep you stay away from a lot of diseases and problems.

Some people think that it is better that they should eat less in order to maintain their weight, but in actuality this thought puts their mind into a lot of questions as to what to eat, what not to eat, whether this food will help me take a grip on my increasing weight or not etc.

The basic fact is that you need to make choices, you need to see as to what is the right choice for you and what can help your body and help you to control your weight. For that matter, you need to understand that what are the right foods for you and how can you make choices on the different things.

If you have problem making decisions, you must visit a nutritionist referred by your family care physician and make an appointment with him or her and go over all your questions that you have and try to come up with a plan that is the best for you.

Once you have gone through the appointment with your nutritionist and designed the plan that is best for you, you must take your plan very seriously and must act on it very firmly. Just know that it would always be best that you stay in very close contact with your nutritionist and ask as to how you can keep yourself motivated to the goal of maintaining the diet that you have designed for yourself.

This is a clear fact that you are your best friend and you are your worst enemy. Just do not beat yourself inside and ask your family, friends and colleagues to motivate you to be compliant with your diet.

I believe that you can do it and I also believe that you will comply to every single step that you have designed for you. Best of Luck.

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