Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Soruces of Vitamins

I would like to dedicate this post to sources of vitamins. I will keep updating the sources whenever I get to know them. If you know vitamin sources let it be any vitamin, please make an effort to post it in a comment. I will try to research the source and add them to the chart of vitamin sources.

Sources of Vitamin A

1) Brocolli
2) Sweet Potato
3) Dark Green Leafy Vegetables

Sources of Vitamin B1 ( thiamine)

1) Watermelon

Sources of Vitamin B2 ( riboflavin)

1) Kiwi

Sources of Vitamin B3 ( niacin)

1) Banana
2) Watermelon

Sources of Vitamin B5 ( pantothenic acid)

1) Oranges
2) Bananas

Sources of Vitamin B6 ( pryidoxine)

1) Watermelon

Sources of Vitamin B9 ( thiamine)

1) Spinach
2) Corn

Sources of Vitamin B12 ( folic acid)

1) Fish

Sources of Vitamin C

1) Brocolli
2) Oranges
3) Sweet Potato
4) Dark Green Vegetables
5) Grapefruit

Sources of Vitamin D

1) Mushroom

Sources of Vitamin E

1) Bananas
2) Apples
3) Vegetable oils
4) Green vegetables
5) Cereals
6) Wheat germ
7) Whole-grain products and nuts

Sources of Vitamin K

1) Brocolli
2) Dark Green Leafy Vegetables

Let us know if you are aware of the vitamin sources not mentioned above by placing a comment here.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Severe Stomach Pain

I was shocked today a bit to see my friend ( female) changing sides on bed, because of severe stomach pain. We will discuss the causes and remedies of severe stomach pain. When we visited the doctor. The doctor asked certain set of questions

1) Whether you had other than normal food(hotel food) yesterday? In our case it was no.
2) Where does it pain? Only the abdomen, the pain was at single location.
3) Are you under period? No.
4) Any problem with excretion in the morning? No.

Doctor concluded the severe stomach pain is nothing but due to swelling in the digestive intestine and gave a 6 day medical schedule.

Based on this the doctor suggested three medicines, 1 tablet in the morning 1 tablet in the evening.
1) Drofem Tablet for controlling the stomach pain.
2) Oflex OZ.
3) Ompraz - To control the nausea caused by Oflex OZ.

The doctor also asked to eat only rice and drink warm water for next two days and if the pain continues, we are advised to do sonography.

I am not sure if the above tablets are available in all the countries and also I would advise you people to communicate with your doctor before taking up any medicines.

I will be making a detail post about the Causes of Stomach Pain in coming days, so watch around.

Tips of Aerobic Exercise

If you are thinking of exercise for a long time but were unable to or interested in some quick tips about aerobic exercise, lets discuss it! Exercise can be categorized into aerobic, muscle strengthening and flexibility exercise. We will concentrate on Aerobics in this post.

Aerobics include simple exercise which does not require any other equipment, just yourself. You can do it anywhere and anytime. Aerobics basically, is an exercise where you keep your major muscle group in action for a long time in action. Exercise like walking, climbing, stairs, dancing, swimming can be termed as aerobic. Aerobic exercise helps you loose weight and keeps you cardiovascular system healthy and fit.

Aerobics Tips
  1. Dancing : If you are interested in dancing join a dance class. It can be anything that interests you. The good thing about it is, if you are interested you get totally into it giving 100% yielding 100%.
  2. Walking : You are going to office, why not take the stairs instead of elevator. If your office is on the first floor. Taking a walk after your lunch or during the tea break watching some colorful things in the surrounding won't hurt you. Lets say you are home, try taking a walk in the neighborhood. Park your car a little far from your regular parking place and walk some distance to get some exercise. While going shopping, walk for 10 minutes straight so that your are done with session for the day.
  3. Swimming : Swimming is a far better and most effective exercise than walking and dancing described above according to my experience so far. So those who are regular at swimming know how fit they are?
  4. Time : You should do aerobics for 20 minutes straight. If your busy schedule doesn't allow you that much time, you can always divide it into two 10 minute sessions.
I would like to share your views as on which aerobic exercise do you follow and any suggestion to the viewers are also welcome.