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23 Signs of Malnutrition

You may be showing signs of malnutrition if you …

 1. feel tired and weak.
2. feel like you never have the energy to clean your home, make meals or even do the dishes.
3. have difficulty losing or gaining weight.
4. can’t easily get to sleep.
5. feel stressed and/or nervous.
6. feel drowsy during the day.
7. sometimes can’t concentrate, you’re mind feels numb, or you get confused easily.
8. have problems with your digestion.
9. have constipation and/or hard dry stools.
10. have mood swings, or get easily upset.
11. don’t have patience for anything.
12. sometimes feel depressed.
13. have overly dry or oily skin.
14. sometimes have nausea and/or abdominal pain.
15. have annoying eye twitches.
16. bruise easily.
17. have muscle cramps and/or low back pain.
18. sometimes get cracks and sores in the corners of your mouth.
19. notice that your nails have become thin and/or brittle.
20. are losing your hair.
21. have water retention.
22. have uncontrollable temper outbursts.
23. don’t eat a well-balanced nutritious diet EVERY DAY

Do You…?

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The Promising Career

You know what; a radiographic technicians or x-ray technician may get $32,000 to $46,500 for the middle position in 2002. The median annual earnings were $40,000, and the top 10% made more than $55,400. Imagine how much they can get the wage today!

But you should know that become an x-ray technician needs special education that one can get from medical institute or medical school which organize special training for radiographic technicians. If you wish to have a promising career as an x ray technician, you can find the information on the web.

I recommend you to go to Medical Career Training website, as there are many choices we can compare about the school and institute which organize the education and/or training for xray technician. The website is so user friendly and to the point that we will ease to find necessary information.

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Cancer Process - Division Problems of Cell

When a cell divides, the DNA in that cell is copied and passed on to the new cell. But the DNA in any one cell can become damaged. Pieces of the instructions on the genes can get knocked out or changed – mutated.

If this mutation occurs in the wrong place – in an active gene, for instance – it can disrupt the function of the cell, causing it to die.

Your beautiful body includes a regulatory system that is mind-boggling. For example, when you get a simple cut on your hand, your cells go to work to repair the damage. When enough cells have gathered around the cut to heal it, the cells stop dividing. Ever wonder why? Because there is a “suicide gene” in the DNA which says “Enough, already.”

Not only is the total number of cells kept in check, but also “proofreader” genes in the DNA look for mutations. When they find one, they either fix it or kill the cell. They are on duty 24/7. Isn’t this stuff amazing?
Your immune system also kills off these damaged cells by the millions every day. It is your second line of defense against mutated cells.

If the mutation happens, however, in a portion of the cell’s DNA that controls cell growth, i.e. an “oncogene,” the result is a rapidly growing and dividing cell – out of control – or what we call “cancer.”
The cell has lost its “suicide” function. The “proofreader” gene missed the mistake. Your immune system is too weak to provide its normal second line of defense. Result: The Big C.

The mutated cells usually travel to the weakest and most highly stressed organ in your body (in a process that is poorly understood) and you have a tumor. The cancer tumor grows because the “daughter” cells inherit the same mutation.

How do these mutations occur? Two ways:

1. One  One is a random mistake in the DNA duplication process. Not much chance for you to control this. But not much reason for concern, either. The cell cycle controllers (proofreaders and suicide genes) and your immune system kill these “mistakes” as soon as they happen.
2. The  The second way is damage to the DNA caused by “free radicals” or other irritants like radiation.

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What Exactly Is Cancer?

What Exactly Is Cancer?
What follows is information available in more detail in a book called REAL AGE by Michael F. Roizen, M.D. Dr. Roizen’s book and the related website and daily “tips” are one of the many resources I will recommend to you.

Cancer means the growth of tumors. It’s a category that includes a broad range of diseases.
About 5 to 10% of all cancers stem from inherited genes. The other 90 to 95% are caused by genetic “mistakes” which develop over your lifetime.

Mutations in your DNA after you are born are these mistakes. We accumulate them.
Cancer is a disease of our DNA. This is the substance that regulates the growth of the body. It is contained in every cell we have. It is the “instruction book” for your body. It determines the color of our eyes, how tall we are, that we have an arm instead of a wing…

If you have a computer and I give you two manuals, each three inches thick, you’ll never learn to use your computer. But if I tell you to read pages 10 through 15 and you will learn how to use your computer, you will do that.
When your body needs a cell, at the last minute it decides if it needs a kidney, eye or fingernail cell. The body then tells that cell which pages of the DNA to read. When it takes the place of a dying cell, it begins to function in that capacity.
This DNA is duplicated with every cell division. Average adults have 75 trillion cells in their body. Once again – 75,000,000,000,000 cells. 99% of the cells in our bodies are called “somatic” cells. All of them except brain and nerve cells get replaced thousands or hundreds of thousands of times during our lifetime. In seven years this process of cell division and death replaces virtually every cell in our bodies.

Another way to look at this is that every day about 205 billion cells get replaced in our body. Why is this important? Because cancer is caused by mutations that occur during this process.

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