Tuesday 24 January 2012

Philip Morris Cigarette Production of Highly Hazardous

As we all know, smoking is dangerous. With smoking, we might as well reap the seeds of disease in the body. Although the government has warned of the dangers of smoking hard, there are still many smokers and tobacco companies are not ignoring it. Moreover, tobacco companies even more incentive in producing cigarettes. Philip Morris, the largest cigarette company in the United States, for one.

As quoted by page zeenews, recently, Philip Morris was judged to have manipulated data on effects of cigarette additives. The company has been hiding the actual toxicity while producing a decent standard cigarettes. In fact, tobacco contains so many additives that are at risk of causing heart disease, cancer, and other ailments. According to research by the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).

Research Team headed by Stanton A. Glantz also found hundreds of additives, including menthol in cigarettes Philip Morris. According to him, these substances should be eliminated from cigarettes for the sake of public health. "From the analysis, there are about 20 percent of chemical carcinogens contained in cigarette butts by Philip Morris," Glantz said.

In Indonesia, Philip Morris' Marlboro cigarettes has been producing since 1984. Marlboro is one of the best-selling cigarettes in Indonesia.

Thursday 19 January 2012

Writing, And Waist be Slim!

Writting
Adult women have always longed for the ideal body. Various measures they would take to trim waist. Diet and drugs became the choice of most women in making this happen. But, do you know? It turned out to just write 15 minutes on a regular basis, you will slim waist.

As reported by Zee News, Saturday (7/1), the results showed that women who write about things important and memorable for him to lose weight and tighten their belt during the next few months. The study was conducted on 45 women with a high body weight.

They were asked to always write anything important to him regularly. Four months later, their weight was measured again and the results showed that the weight loss and toning the waist.

According to scientists from the University of Waterloo Christine Logel, writing it was very useful. "In addition to confide, writing can also reduce the fat on your body," he said, adding: "When we face problems such as a fight with a friend, we need to write it." He also hopes to findings published in the journal of psychology, can bermamfaat for women.

Wednesday 4 January 2012

Flushing the Toilet Without Shut it down Spread Bacteria

Flushing Toilet
Modern toilet design is generally shaped toilet seat with cover. When using it, most people just close it when finished. In fact. number of bacteria-prone distributed if the cover is not closed when the toilet flush dirt.

Professor Mark Wilcox, Clinical Director of Microbiology at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said, opening the cover allows some bacteria to spread into the air and settled on the surface nearby. This increases the risk of infectious diarrhea germs to others.

"It is quite clear that the cover is there for a reason," said Professor Wilcox to Country Mail Online, Tuesday (3/1).

Professor Wilcox and colleagues from Leeds University conducted a study to see how to use the toilet lid could affect the spread of disease, particularly in hospitals. They used a sterilized toilet cubicle and created a 'diarrhea effect' in the bowl using stool samples that have been infected from hospital superbugs C. difficile. The bacteria is one of the bacteria in human feces that can trigger diarrhea.

They found C diff carried to a height of 10 inches or 25 centimeters when the toilet seat is open and still be detected in the air until 90 minutes later.

When the lid is closed, no C. difficile were found on any surface, but when it opens the bacteria found in the water tank, on the right side and the left side of the toilet seat and on the floor.

"We then give vegetable dye in the bowl water, lift, and put a plastic cap on top of the toilet seat. Once we flush the toilet, we sprayed it in large quantities. By placing the film on the filter paper, and we found that the toilet can deploy up to 50 points ( bacteria) per flush, "said Professor Wilcox.

The professor said that let the lid open will be a danger to health. From their findings suggest that although the patient may at least have a special toilet.

He added that their research also has wider implications. "It would be prudent to shut it down after flushing." Our advice, put the lid if it exists, and wash your hands afterwards. "