Health and Nutrition - Pet Dental Health Month

Did you know?...........February is National Pet Dental Health Month.

Does your hound have bad breath? Is the hair along the muzzle discolored and stiff (this is from bacteria)? Has your hound’s eating habits changed? Do you notice any pawing at the face?

Your hound may have dirty teeth! Check for tartar buildup on teeth, red and bleeding gums, and/or swollen gums and a reluctance to allow you to open the mouth. Retired racers often have dirty teeth. Some of it is genetic but often it is because the food at the racing kennels is soft and tarter builds up fast. Tartar is produced when mucus (called plaque) builds up and hardens on the teeth. If it is not removed through good dental care, once this tartar gets hardened and
established, it can only come off through a thorough professional (and expensive!) teeth cleaning by your veterinarian.

Most adoption group (ours included) have a newly retired greyhound’s teeth cleaned during the spay/neuter process (so the dog only has to be anesthetized once). Why is it important for your hound to have clean teeth? Did you know that oral disease is the most frequently diagnosed health problem for pets? Poor dental care can result in periodontal disease which is severe and
irreversible. It causes red, bleeding and swollen gums, pain, and eventually can lead to tooth loss and severe infections. The gums have a rich blood supply and when an infection begins, it can easily be passed on to other parts of the body and make the hound seriously ill. It can also permanently damage the heart because the infection can lodge in the valves of the heart.

Prevention is the best medicine. Brushing your hound’s teeth once or twice weekly is the best preventative measure; there are lots of tooth pastes on the market for dogs. DO NOT use products designed for humans as they contain enzymes or other chemicals that might make your hound sick. There are also oral cleansing wipes, gels and sprays available if your hound objects too strongly to tooth brushing.

Feeding dry food and hard biscuits and bully sticks can also help break off tartar. Be careful of the dog treats you give a greyhound; some may cause more harm than good. Some people advocate using raw turkey necks and bones, but if your hound has a food allergy or sensitive stomach, you might want to consult with your vet before adding new foods to his/her diet. Watch those teeth! It could save your hound pain and you money!

If you would like to know how to brush your hound’s teeth, watch the video that we have provided. Just click on the title of this post.

Natural Ingredients For Beauty Body Part 3

Natural Ingredients For Beauty Body Part 3

1. Camellia oil (camellia oil)

Materials commonly used for hair care women in japan, they use it to give luster to their hair. This oil is easily absorbed by the hair shaft and increase hair volume without burdensome.

2. Mint

Mint is commonly used to refresh tired legs because of fragrant and refreshing cold effect. Mint reduces inflammation and relaxes muscles. Menthol also contains soothing skin, increase blood flow, and be antibacterial.

3. Soybean

Shampoos that contain soy coat the hair follicle which makes flexible and not dry quickly. For skin, soy is often used to brighten the skin and flatten the skin color.

4. Sesame oil (sesame oil)

Small molecules which makes it very easy to absorb skin. Rich in linoleic acid and fatty acids that nourish the skin. Use sesame oil to soften skin and hair, or rub on your nails dry and cracked.

5. Nut butter

  

Derived from the State of Brazil's tropical, nut butter is a skin softener is ideal because its texture is more viscous than the oil (like butter). Nut butter often diolesan after waxing process to restore the protective layer of skin is lifted.

6. Rice

Masks made from rice water (rice milk) has a sticky texture, able to absorb excess oil, remove dead skin cells and impurities that clog skin pores, and smooth the skin.

7. Shea butter

Derived from the nut tree karite in Africa, shea butter is rich in vitamins A, E and F are able to protect skin from free radicals, prevent wrinkles, and can soften damaged hair, dry and dull.

8. Seaweed

Rich in vitamins A, C, and K, minerals and fatty acids that moisturize and brighten the skin. It also contains antioxidants that can fight free radicals.

source: Femina

Umami: The Fifth Basic Taste

Umami: The Fifth Basic Taste

There is a sense that contains the composition of each such created sweetness of sucrose, glucose, and fructose, while the salty taste of sodium chloride; by the sour taste of citric acid, lactic acid and acetic acid, and bitter alkaloid formed from components, naringin, caffeine and so forth.

Well, umami as a fifth basic taste the newest found compared to other flavors caused by glutamate, inosinat, and guanilat. The discovery of umami preceded by Kikunae Ikeda in 1908 through research by extracting glutamate. next to year 191, Shintaro Kodama found two nucleotides forming other umami taste is inosinat later in 1957 by Akira Kuninaka guanilat invention.

The delicate nature of umami (subtle) and can mix with others to make the existence of umami taste is not real than the other flavors.

Research on the umami still continues, in 1992, Mehaia et. al., find the free amino acid glutamate as the most commonly found in breast milk (breast milk). Where the amount of glutamate in the breast milk was higher than from cow's milk, goat milk, sheep milk, or camel milk.

On tomatoes that taste meaty flavor was glutamate is the dominant shaper of amino acid composition was mainly on ripe tomatoes. The study was also conducted on Parmesan cheese, is one of the world's most famous cheese. Cheese is rich in umami taste and based on research, glutamate amino acid profile was dominated in the cheese.

Source libraries:

Kumiko Ninomiya, Director of the Umami Information Center, at the Symposium on A Century of Umami, The Fifth Basic Taste, Jakarta, August 6, 2009.

ERRORS IN FITNESS

ERRORS IN FITNESS

Hi, friend of all health. I'm back again to give you information about the world of health. And this time, I will share some of my experiences, especially in sports activities in the fitness. Yes, I've been doing gym for about 6 months and from there I have some experience you should know. At the start registering as a member at the gym, of course I have a strong desire to shape my body to better contain and proportionate and I'm sure that for you instead. And as a beginner, I also do exercises that were supposed to be done to achieve my goals. However, there are some things that I may forget or even me wrong in the run. Well, on my blog this time I will reveal some of the mistakes I did it for doing fitness and I'm sure you might as well do this. For that let us describe one by one these errors.

Mistake 1

SCHEDULE mess

It may be that some of us also do this, and I used to do this. Does not have a definite schedule of fitness is one of the mistakes if you really want to really get maximum results. Do cuman do the gym if you have time just because it will make yourself to put aside your workout. Make sure that the schedule would have you adjust to your time. Try to exercise every day with a rest interval of 1 day in 2 days as you do the gym every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, week and you rest the gym on Wednesday and Saturday. A fixed schedule can also help your body to adjust to your exercise pattern.

Mistake 2

Memorized BODY

Maybe there are some who think that the longer we do the exercises the faster we'll get results. Wrong! You do not have to spend long hours in the fitness to perform various exercises in one day. Remember, your body also has a fatigue limit. Average exercise carried out for 45 minutes-1 hour or you see the condition of your body. If you really feel tired, stop your workout. Go home and rest.

Mistake 3

EAT LOTS BEFORE EXERCISE

It probably will happen: You throw up when training. Indeed, during the exercise we need a lot of energy but that does not mean we eat a lot before practice. Eat enough or try these tips, eating apples with a cup of esspresso (carbohydrate combination with caffeine can increase your energy-Men 's Health Indonesia in July 2010 -). If the food you eat a little weight, eat 1 hour before exercise. This helps your food to "go down" before you do the exercises. If your program I recommend to burn fat do not be too excessive consumption of foods that can cause fat deposits before the gym, you will be more difficult to burn your fat in your body.

Mistake 4

ALL MUSCLE IN 1 EXERCISE TIME

Once again, do not make your body more tired. Set a schedule for each of the muscles of the body to be trained. Monday Suppose you train your biceps, chest, and abdominal, Tuesday triceps, shoulder, abdominal. Never in a day you train all the muscles of the body because your entire body will experience fatigue. Home gym instead of more fresh instead maybe you'll faint.

Mistake 5

REST BETWEEN SET TOO OLD

In effect, you will feel lazy to do the next set because if we are too old to do her a break between sets, your muscles will fixed and you will increasingly feel weak and may also feel drowsy and began to lazy to do the next set. Make a break for 45 seconds or 1 minute for each part.

Mistake 6

DOING TOO FAST reps

Remember, in shaping the most important muscle is contracting your muscles when you're going to exercise. Many I met at my place (especially beginners) do reps with very quickly. Do it slowly, lift weights and hold 1-2 seconds then release and remember to contracting muscles that you want to go.

Mistake 7

FORGET COOLING

Well this is one of the most frequent and sometimes I still do it. After finishing the exercise, due in a hurry, we just headed locker and change clothes. 3 things most important thing in sports is warming up, playing exercise, cooling. Maybe we always remember to warm up but we often forget to do the cooling. This cooling may serve to prevent aches that usually occur after strenuous exercise because we are here we relax the muscles that have been trained.

Some of the above error we often encounter or even we may still do so. For that I share this information based on my personal experience and what I wrote above it is also the result of a "warning" from my trainer at the fitness. So, let's practice correctly!

Exercising at the age of 20 years to help keep you stay slim while middle-aged

Exercising at the age of 20 years to help keep you stay slim while middle-aged

If you want to fit in middle age, is the active in your 20s and still active in the 30s, and 40s, especially if you are a woman, according to new research shows. In that study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers followed approximately 3.500 people aged between 18-39 years for 2 decades. The women who maintain the lifestyle of moderate exercise to gain weight during the study about 6 pounds less weight, on average, than their counterparts of the least active, as obtained in the study.

This trend is similar among men, but smaller: The most active men reduced their weight about 3 kg compared with the least active men.

"Sports-specific exercise that we examine in this study include running, fast walking, bicycling, engaging in recreational sports, even housework done quickly and work," said lead researcher, Arlene Hankinson, MD, an instructor in the prevention disease at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

The key to maintaining a healthy weight, added Dr. Hankinson, is to "become active and stay active and to integrate activities into the style of your daily life in ways you can defend." Exercising regularly helps keep excess weight regardless of the initial weight of a person or the number of calories they consume in a day usually.

Although the invention is not surprising, most studies of exercise and weight loss will point to the influence of physical activity on weight loss, rather than on prevention of weight gain. In fact, the study authors note, there is little evidence to suggest that current government recommendations for physical activity - at least 30 minutes of exercise moderate, 5 days a week - enough to prevent weight gain, especially in the transition from adolescence to midlife period in which many people increased weight.

Dr. Hankinson and colleagues assess the level of physical activity using questions that measure both the duration and intensity of the 13 kinds of different sports (including work activities), so that the results of research can not be directly translated into a prescription weight loss simple. However, Dr. Hankinson said this research confirms that people who follow the guidelines recommended by the government will see benefits in long-term weight loss.

In relative terms, few people are able to maintain moderate to heavy exercise routines into middle age. Only about 12% of men and 11% of the women in this study are very active during the period of 20 years.

Weight difference between those who exercise that does not exercise regularly tend to be more pronounced in the older study participants, said Tim Church, MD, of Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, LA. "The difference between the 2 groups was only going to continue to get bigger when they were aged 55 and 65 and 75 years," said Dr. Church, who studies physical activity and health but was not involved in current research. "The increase in actual weight loss has not even started in this group, from the viewpoint of age."

Unlike most studies where people reported their weight - an approach known to be inaccurate - staff researcher in the study individually weigh the participants and interviewed them about their physical activity, press Dr. Church. "This is a phenomenal research," he said. "These data are obtained with the most restrictive way possible as you can."

Rainbow Bridge - BP CruisinwithAJ (Ajay)

September 21, 2000 - February 10, 2011

We are heartbroken to report that we lost our wonderful greyhound Ajay. His illness came on so quickly and took him before we had a chance to accept it. Ajay will forever be in our hearts.

He was a special greyhound in so many ways. He was such a large presence in our lives and was not just the average greyhound. He was truly unique.

His loss will leave a HUGE hole in our hearts. Race with the wind our precious boy. You were so loved and will be so missed. Rest in peace with the angels; and wait for us.

Benefits of Morning Walk

Benefits of Morning Walk

Each person must do some type of sport as a form of exercise everyday. The best sports for those aged over 35 is running. Walking in the morning is the best. Is it enough if we walk in the night? We can take a walk in the afternoon as well. But it does provide some specific benefits that we can get, like when we walk in the morning.

That is, when we walk or do sports, we'll burn some energy. This energy will be drawn from our own bodies. But when we walk in the morning, when our stomach is empty, the energy required will be taken from us and liver tissue. In short, the energy stored will be used. For example when someone walks regularly in the morning, the stored energy will be burned, and after lunch the excess fat can be stored longer. When people walk again the next day, the stored energy was going to burn again. Process to burn fat and keep the back so much and will effect both for the human body. Excess weight will be reduced and the stomach will also be flat. But when we walk in the evenings, when there is food in the stomach, the energy required will be taken from the stomach itself, such as when we fancy lunch then energy reserves are still available in the stomach, and no chance to burn stored energy (energy stored in the liver, and stomach tissue.)

In addition, there will be a pure oxygen in the atmosphere in the morning. There will be a calm and peaceful atmosphere. When we take a deep breath while walking or doing sports, there is every opportunity to spread pure oxygen through our bodies in large numbers. Walking in the morning to do after back, after cleaning the teeth and without drinking anything but water.