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Red Meat And Cancer

Red meat and cancer, as compared friends. Various literature states dangers of eating too much red meat. One of them is causing cancer. But how could the red meat to cause cancer?

Health recommendations that say meat causes cancer, a conclusion derived from several studies of European populations in the 1990s. The study showed that people who often eat more meat with cancer compared with vegetarians.

Since then, numerous studies continue to learn more about the impact of meat for health. There are several hypotheses about this, including reducing the meat fiber, antioxidants and other essential nutrients that have proved effective to counteract the cancer cells.

Also contains a lot of red meat and fat are often added hormones in livestock products, this will increase the cancer-causing hormones, such as breast cancer or prostate cancer. Meat is also high in protein, and protein will break down ammonia, which is carcinogenic in humans.

Meat cooked in high temperatures can also lead to cancer-causing chemicals (carcinogenic) as hetercycil amines (HCA) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). Studies in mice showed these compounds are carcinogenic.

Types of meat
Various literature mentions red meat increases cancer risk. Meat to watch include beef, sheep, goats, pigs, and processed meats.

In addition to type of meat, is also noteworthy cooking process. Meat is processed in a very high temperature, either fried or baked to produce large amounts of  HCA. Cooking in a long time, like cooking a steak, can also cause carcinogenic compounds.

To reduce the risk of cancer, experts recommend replacing consumption of red meat with white meat. Another alternative is to choose organic meat or meat derived from animals that developed cultures without giving antibiotics or hormones substances.

When The Fever Comes…

At this time, still many parents who did not know how to handling the children with fever, cough, and influenza. They still confused and panic during faced the fever with cough and influenza.

The Understanding
The fever was to be the natural reaction of the body that was healthy to oppose the illness. The fever in the cough and influenza was to be body efforts to clean germs, that were the foreign object for the body. So might be considered to be feverish was “alarm” for the body that showed that the body was opposing some “stranger things” that came.
The body was said feverish if his temperature exceeded the normal temperature (> 36-370C). Generally, the grating of the temperature of the body was with the thermometer done by means of placing this implement of the temperature gauge on the armpit.
The fever could be caused by the virus, the bacteria, the parasite and the fungus. However in the cough fever and influenza usually was caused because of the virus.

What Should We Do?
Generally, the illness that was caused by the virus will recover automatically. Nevertheless, you continued to be able to not underestimate the fever in the cough and influenza that was suffered the children. So that the virus goes from them, you can do the method below this:

• To compress their body could help reduced the temperature of the body. The compress by means of dipping the small towel into warm water and placed on the armpit, or the forehead
• Let they take a rest and really reduced their activity.
• Give many liquids, like juice, warm water, and milk. Drink warm water will make mucus be easy to be issued. With the entry of the liquid that many, then was spent in the form of urine, was one of the body methods to reduced the temperature of the body
• Gave them nutritious food, that is food that was balanced, was enough to contain vitamins and the mineral. In this way, the body the small formed antibody personally. Food could be given with the form in accordance with the capacity and your child’s wish. However, when being accompanied by the inflammation, then better food did not contain citric acid or acid, because of sour food could stimulate the side and made they was really not comfortable.
• If they fell less appetite, then we could give milk that has contained the complete nutrient and contained probiotik that could maintain the function of the channel dissolved, because if the channel dissolved is healthy, then  their resistance  will be good also.
• If they was difficult to sleep, because of the nose clogged up, could be given the solution to salt, that is could take the form of NaCl  (Natrium Clorida) that could have been received in the pharmacy, or could also the solution to give the salt  to their nose. That could help diluted

Immediately Bring To The Doctor if………..
As you knew, really the incubation of the fever that was accompanied by the cough & influenza that is from the entry of the virus to the sign emergence of the illness, in general 2 days with distance extension of time between 1-4 days. After that, just emerged various signs of the cough & influenza, that will remain for 3-7 days.
If the children have the experienced these matters below this, immediately brought to the doctor or RS closest:

• The Temperature of the body exceeded 400C
• When the fever that did not descend after 3 days
• When the children did not want to eat and drink, let alone being accompanied by vomiting, because they will get dehydration