Health and Medical Care

<p>The sweetness of wellness is better realized through the bitterness of illness. The book <em>Health and Medical Care</em> dispenses first-aid care and preventive measure in many of our common illness. This book along with its four companion books-<em>Nature Is My Teacher; Of Human Nature and Good Habits; Life Living and Lifestyle and How to Win Nature and Enjoy Good Life</em>-constitutes a series that tells the nature-human connection and its implication in our daily life in the related set of separate episodes.</p><p><em>Health and Medical Care</em> deals with health and medical care services and primarily aids to prevent diseases and stay healthy and thrive. The book contains chapters: Men's Health (Recent findings suggest that men's shorter life span is not due to genetic reasons only; it has partly to do with their behavior lifestyle and living conditions.); Women's Health (Although in medical terms it does not deem that the developing embryo or fetus is as a child an expecting mother is so attached to the pregnancy so early on that when the miscarriage happens the woman loses not just a pregnancy but a child of her own-the very dream of her motherhood. Someone she loved was never born!); Children's Health (Research indicates that 22% of babies who were exposed to antibiotics before 6 months of age have an increased likelihood of being overweight by age 3 compared with unexposed infants.); Medical Care (The health care will represent 20% of the total economy in 2025.); Human Organs (The eye is the extension of the brain. It is the most sensitive part of our central nervous system (that connect to the brain). Over 80% of our learning (and perception) is mediated through our eyes.); Blood Pressure (Most physicians consider a blood pressure of 120/80 as ideal.); Heart Attack and Stroke (To protect from cardiovascular illness please do: (1) exercise (2) eat healthy (3) Lower your B.P. (4) lower your cholesterol (5) control your blood sugar (6) maintain a healthy weight and (7) don't smoke.); Diabetics (Type 1 diabetes is a lifelong chronic condition where the pancreas produces little or no insulin. Type 2 diabetes is also a lifelong chronic condition where the pancreas produces the insulin but the body is partially or completely incapable of using that insulin or the cells ignore the insulin altogether.); The Cancer (Cancer is not just one disease but a set of allied diseases in which a group of cells (a) demonstrate uncontrolled growth and divide beyond the normal limits; (b) invade adjacent tissues; and sometimes (c) metastasize which is very dangerous because it involves an interaction between rogue cells and healthy cells.) Old Age and Death (The inevitability of death infuses us with a meaning and an urgency. Let Mother Nature give you the last kiss of life. You leave the earth dramatically alone and absolutely by yourself.)</p>