Most Common Type of Burn

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The most common type of burn within children!!

During an epidemiological study within the Kidhealth.org, they reported that over 2,055 children between the ages of 1-4 are admitted in the hospitals each year because of injuries due to burns. 500 children within this age group are treated and released each year due to burn injuries. We all know that little children like to touch everything and most of the time we do not always realize what those little hands are reaching for.

Burns are categorized in three different types, first, second, and third degree. These depended on how bad the skin is damaged.

The most common type of burn within children is scalding. A scald is caused by contact with “wet heat” such as hot liquids, bath water, steam, hot foods, drinks or cooking liquids. This usually happens in kitchens where the food is prepared. Also, the children having contact or touching the hot tap water or steam from the microwave or bathtubs. Scalds are usually most prevalent with children under the age of five.

The most dangerous place for a child to be is in the kitchen. It is best to keep your kids out of the kitchen while preparing meals. You need to try to teach your children that the stove is a “NO-KID-ZONE”

“KidsHealth.” Burns. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Nov. 2013. <http://kidshealth.org/parent/firstaid_safe/emergencies/burns.html>.

http://www.health.ny.gov/prevention/injury_prevention/children/fact_sheets/young_children_1-4_years/burn_and_scald_prevention_1-4_years.htm

http://www.healthychildren.org/English/safety-prevention/at-home/medication-safety/Pages/default.aspx

Does Running Really Cause Arthritis?

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Does Running Really Cause Arthritis?

By: Carly Tyler

Does running cause Arthritis ? Why wouldn’t it? Arthritis is painful inflammation and stiffness of the joints..When you run you put all your pressure on your knees, and muscles. It would be easy to believe that running would be bad on your knees. Continuous running is an obvious culprit for causing arthritis to the joints of the legs. You are applying big loads of pressure to your knees which would eventually degrade its protective cartilage, which would lead to arthritis.

Many studies have showed that if the runner starts off with good knees the risk of arthritis does not increase due to running. Some research has had some people wondering why running can combine high impacts with a low risk for arthritis. So for a new study helpfully entitled, “Why Don’t Most Runners Get Knee Osteoarthritis?” researchers at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and other institutions looked more closely at what happens, biomechanically, when we run and how those actions compare with walking. Walking is usually considered a low-impact activity. So many doctors highly recommend elderly people to walk more.

During the study called, “Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise” the researchers recruited 14 healthy adult recreational runners, half of them women, with no history of knee problems. They had half of these runners walk, and half run. At the end of this study the researches came to a conclusion that the amount of force moving through the volunteer’s knee over the distances were similar whether they walked or ran. The half that ran generated more pounding while they took each stride, but they took fewer strides than the half that walked. So over the course, say, a mile or the overall loads on the knees were about the same on each person.

Dr. Ross Miller from the University of Maryland who led the previous study that was stated in the article called, “Why Runners Don’t Get Arthritis” said, runners frequently succumb to knee injuries unrelated to arthritis.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/why-runners-dont-get-knee-arthritis/?_r=0

http://www.runnersworld.com/health/does-running-cause-arthritis

Great Habits for a Faster Metabolism!

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Metabolism is process involving a set of chemical reaction that modifies a molecule into another for storage, basically for immediate use in another reaction or as a by product. Our metabolism works around the clock, by the use of our calories and by shedding fat. Basically metabolism sums up everything that your body does for you. However, many people suffer from slow, sluggish metabolisms and blame other things such as genetics. Genetics do play a key role in the efficiency of your metabolism; there are several different options that you yourself can control that can boost your metabolic rate and give you more energy.

First, you have to always eat a healthy breakfast; it is the most important meal of the day. You sleep usually close to 8 hours a night. That means that you go at least 8 hours without a meal. When you wake up your body is in starvation mode, so that means that your metabolism level is not working very fast. Eating breakfast revs up your body for that day. Your body has to receive food in the morning; it tells your brain that you’re going to need to start working to digest it. When this happens it wakes up the system, which warms up the metabolism, so that makes it ready for the long day ahead. Not eating breakfast in the mornings, your body thinks that it needs to conserve the energy it has because it is not getting new nutrition.

Secondly, your body needs plenty of sleep to maintain a healthy metabolism. The University of Colorado sleep researchers did a study with 16 different healthy students for a two-week experiment tracking sleep, metabolism and eating habits. Kenneth Wrightdirector of the University of Colorado University’s sleep and chronobiology laboratory, said part of the change was behavioral. Staying up late and skimping on sleep led to not only more eating, but also a shift in the type of foods a person consumed. So we see that sleep is needed to maintain the better metabolism.

Our Metabolism is very important for our everyday living. Having a great metabolism is not only genetic; you can control this by many of your own actions everyday. As college students, we must get plenty of sleep and we always need to eat a healthy breakfast, so we can get our bodies digesting and working early in the mornings. Remember it is the MOST important meal of the day.

Citations : (URLS)

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/18/lost-sleep-can-lead-to-weight-gain/?_r=0

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/08/26/habits-for-faster-metabolism/

“Metabolism .” Fox news. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Sept. 2010. <www.foxnews.com/health/2013/08/26/habits-for-faster-metabolism/ >.

http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/nutrition/healthy-eating/fact-or-fiction-breakfast-is-the-most-important-meal-of-the-day.html#b