Stomach cancer....Its all about prevention.

Prevention of stomach cancer

In the era of modern medicine, there are many ways adopted to generate awareness among public about diseases and disability. As more is known about causes and risk factor of cancer in general and stomach cancer in particular, avoiding those risk will prevent occurrence of such ailments. Following prevention are worth practicing;

Quit smoking to keep an overall good health status. It helps to maintain good cardiac status and at later stages of your life, particularly at old age, it will save you from dreadful stomach cancer. You should know that there are supportive products available to help you in your effort to get rid of smoking habit. You can use nicotine patch, gum or spray. They make your nicotine withdrawal much easier.

Take a diet rich in fruits and fresh vegetable. They are rich source of vitamins and anti-oxidants which fight against cancer development. Reduce salt intake in all kinds of meals. Use refrigerated foods, particularly meat. Non-refrigerated meat has more carcinogens.

GERD is known initiating influence in stomach cancer. Take every care to avoid and treat this condition. Reduce spicy foods in your platter. If you have known GERD take specific treatment. Taking small meals at shorter interval will minimize harmful acid effect on your stomach mucosal lining which has particular risk for adenocarcinoma.

Helicobacter pylori should be eliminated with proper anti-bitocs. This will prevent development of precancerous atropic gastritis in your stomach wall.

Occupational hazards like exposure to chemicals used in rubber industry, heavy metals and asbestos should be avoided. If you are working at such manufacturing units take standard measures like wearing mask and gloves, to avoid inhalation as well as accidental ingestion of chemical toxins causing gastric/stomach cancer.

Keep a lean weight if you are obese. Balance between your weight with your calorie intake all your life(American Cancer Society). It will not only prevent stomach cancer occurrence but other obesity related health issues.

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like aspirin, ibuprofen and naproxen have been found to lower your risk of stomach cancer(American Cancer Society). Although they are not being prescribed solely for this reason but when given are prescribed as anti-arthritic drugs their advantage can not be overlooked in preventing stomach cancer.

Genetic counseling and if there is strong history of familial stomach cancer, genetic testing should be undertaken. This may show whether you have the abnormal gene E-cadherin, which is will ultimately lead to stomach cancer at some stage of your life. If such situation arises you may be advised to get your stomach resected to avoid much bigger risk on health and life, the stomach cancer.

Screening for stomach cancer in regions where this life threatening condition is more prevalent have enhanced the life and reduced the risk from stomach cancer( study done in Japan). Such screening includes barium studies involving upper gastro-intestine and endoscopy of your stomach for any suspected ulcer or lesion.

Eat..but be easy on yourself !

Is there a bad Cholesterol and good Cholesterol?

Before we focus on to answering this question let us answer the second question first!

What is cholesterol?
It’s a waxy, fat based substance present in your body cells. It is not possible for this “waxy” substance, named cholesterol to circulate in your body freely. To make its transportation possible , it is shaped into small bundles with carrier protein molecules. The  lipids or fat cholesterol is inside and protein covering outside. The small bundles or molecules can easily mix with blood and circulate. They are termed “lipo-proteins”.  These lipoproteins are mainly formed in liver cells.

What function it performs in our body?

That is a good question, thought you would never ask!. It has very important function to perform in your body.

1) It forms component of hormones in both men(testosterone) and women(estrogens)

2) It forms vitamin D in your body.

3) It builds up outer lining of your body‘s cells.

4) It is a component of bile acid, which helps in digestion of  fats in body.

How much cholesterol or “lipoprotein” do you need each day for all these functions?

It’s a very relevant query. Anything close to 1000mg is what you need every day, of lipoprotein(cholesterol). And that is all being formed by your liver cells. You will be needing 300mg of cholesterol from dairy, meat, fish products. Anything extra will not be of any benefit to your body’s well being. The reason is quite simple. Like oily cutlery that can clog the sink drain one day, extra cholesterol(waxy substance) may clog your circulatory system if the load is in excess of what is needed. Cholesterol(lipoproteins)  present in your body are of different types. These types are HDL, LDL, VLDL, ILDL. Their normal concentration in blood should be maintained for healthy bodily functions, particularly of your cardio-vascular system. But not all lipoprotein types can be harmful for your body.

Yes ,there is bad cholesterol and good cholesterol!

“Bad cholesterol” is also known as Low density Lipoprotein(LDL). This is a form in which most cholesterol is concentrated and carried to different tissues of  your body. It is called low density because the particles are less dense than other lipoprotein types. It gets easily deposited along the walls of your arteries while it circulates, if concentration is on higher side. It results in formation of plaque and ultimate narrowing of effected vessel’s lumen. Of serious danger are the blood vessels of your heart, as narrowing of lumen will hamper its oxygen supply. Then there is more serious consequence of breakaway of plaque from main deposit and causing sudden heart attack by blocking major vessel or its branch to heart muscles. The safe blood level of “bad cholesterol” is 100mg/dl or less, above and beyond which it can get real bad! The VLDL(very low density lipoproteins)and IDL(intermediate density lipoproteins) also fall into same category. It happens so, that they ultimately get converted into LDL.

Now the “good” cholesterol! HDL(high density lipoprotein). And why it so called? It is a volunteer, acting to get rid of excess cholesterol from circulation. What it does is ,it absorbs extra circulating cholesterol ,takes it to liver. From there through bile juice the excess cholesterol is excreted. A blood level of 60mg/dl is protective(negative risk factor) for your heart and circulatory integrity. Level below 40mg/dl puts you at high risk of coronary artery disease.


Now you know who’s bad, what you should be doing to protect yourself?

Making physical activity your routine, is one good answer. A slow to brisk walk of 30 minutes daily to total of  two and half hours/week maximum will increase your “good cholesterol HDL”. quitting smoking raise HDL blood level. Loose excess weight you carry. Prefer vegetable fat over animal fat. Use olive oil, canola oil or peanut oil. Your meal platter should have more fresh fruits and vegetables. All these measure will raise your HDL, the “good cholesterol” and will keep you clean from excess and “bad cholesterol”.

It helps to know.

Does Alcohol kill the brain cells?

You must have noticed that when you attend  a party and take few drinks just for pleasure and company, you feel drowsy with slurred speech. In addition, your vision gets blurred, and sometimes the gait also becomes difficult. But as you stop drinking all reverts back to normal. That may give you some idea that alcohol does effect your brain! But drinking at constant period of times, you start getting signs of deficit in your mental functions. The memory loss and social interactions, work performance and living hygiene. All these features stay even if you stop drinking, indicating a significant negative and harmful influence of Alcohol on your brain cells. Memory loss in terms of incidence, people, spoken words and objects.

Why Alcohol upsets the activity of your brain?

This question is still to be answered for sure. Under controlled drinking, alcohol effects are easily reversible. But heavy drinking for longer periods (binge drinking) have far reaching negative  influence on your brain cells. It is termed alcohol related brain impairment (ARBI). One aspect of damage to brain function in alcohol drinking in excess, is vitamin B1 deficiency. How this happens is not very difficult to guess. Alcohol causes such inflammatory changes in stomach wall that it hampers absorption of thiamine (B1) vitamin. This can be secondary to liver damaging effect of alcohol. Whatever the causative influence, the net result appears in form of damage to your brain. You may just experience memory impairment, or may develop episodes of black outs. If you keep on drinking heavy, the brain damage can go into syndrome of symptoms of memory loss, visual impairment, in-coordination of muscles, called Wernike-Korsakoff’s syndrome (Thiamine deficiency). The damage alcohol does to brain in W-K syndrome is sometimes permanent if left untreated with marked reduction in brain cells density.

Alcohol does not kill but succeeds in paralyzing brain cells.

As for number counts, alcohol does not literally kill brain cells. Or you may say it is still to be proved that it does, although it does everything else to your brain functions! But it has some inhibitory effect on new brain cells growth. What it does do is, it destroys the dendrites or antennae of brain cells. The impact is loss of proper communication between cells and malfunction. In more simpler term brain cells stop talking to each other. The damage to these communication channels is reversible once alcohol drinking stops for longer duration for regeneration to take place. The younger you are, the more damaging effects you will manifest, when indulgence in alcohol is of longer duration.

What damage does alcohol causes to brain?

Poor nutritional status, due to chronic (of long standing) alcoholism may cause Thiamine deficiency. There is not only damage to nerve supply to eye muscles, but also to very important part of brain called Cerebellum. The Cerebellum is helping in your body’s  coordination movements and some learning abilities. You should know that computerized tomographic (CT scanning) studies have revealed significant shrinkage of brain in both male in female alcoholics compared to non-alcoholics. There is all possibility for you to develop alcoholic dementia (deterioration in intellectual functions) if  binge drinking goes unabated. More of female alcoholics are effected by this condition. As it is very clear to you by now that, your heavy alcohol drinking, has deleterious effects on brain functions, whether it results from direct impact or general nutritional deficiency is still unclear. If you are female, you should be aware that alcohol harms you faster than male, even though men drink more. It is also a fact of significance that , when you are pregnant your baby will show signs of arrested growth and brain defects. Saying all that, most of adverse effects on your brain due to heavy drinking are reversible once you start rehab. Supplementing this recovery phase with good diet and vitamins will improve your mental and physical performance.

A good news ..is news!

Great news...in a long while and may be more to come...OGRA/petroleum ministry/ CNG owners racket/mafia unearthed by non other than...highest court...another one..mallack interior's undue long reach cut short..again..by..The highest court of my country...he holds no authority in shutting down cell phone service ..says The CJ.. now next...Dr.Asim hussain may be called in to regurgitate what/how much he took from 10 million minted from licence kick backs of new CNG station owners during his tenure..so will mallack..

should they not runaway/resign,as they made mockery of the honorable office they were holding ..and hold accountable for day in day out price shuffling/playing around !

its past midnight and I want to see..CNG go down to 51 next morning..as announced by Mr.Ghayas paracha..CNG association boss..

Reality pains.....

where a country is in religious turmoil, fanatics running amok with burning effigies , banks, churches, vehicles and killing fellow humans at free will...where economy is plagued by price hike, extortionist, innocent biz people getting kidnapped and returning dead, where life ,property and respect of common citizen is safe at worst ever level...and yet our ever so incompetent " interior minister " takes a luxury trip to watch a "bat ball"match....what was in for him?...yes your guess is my guess...he made...no less than..billion plus.....and yes before he boarded the aircraft..he was overheard while he kicked the runway strip with his shoes"patriotism my foot...let the money roll"......and the pathan boy was right"doctor saab phir bhi eik chance hai humare paas"poor boy...I wonder how many grown ups are still calculating what went wrong...they might be as good a fool as.........

Who cares..but I........

Pakistani fans..be ready ..The spoiler has reached again..he did it once and now he is surely gonna do it again..he is going to spoil your world cup....with this shaitan sitting with players..we are bound to be on loosing side....very strangely and to my amazement a pathan boy of ten working errands at grocery shop informed me about this criminal reaching srilanka...he added..."Doctor saab phir bhi eik chance hai hamare paas" I was speechless....you make out what he meant !

(written 9 hours b4 the schedule match...turned out true!)

Rehman Malik Will Watch Pakistan Vs India Match In T20 World Cup -

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Today in history...

Yes !please ,I like to have two sunny-side ups, two parathas, some jam, and hot tea with full cream. But Sir, this is not your usual! So don’t you know today is not a usual day…..they announced today as to “Mark their love and so much respect for our Holy Prophet(PBUH) “…..now what they plan to do for the rest of the year…..oh! That …don’t you worry …they have mother’s day, father’s day, granny’s day, granna’s day, Easter, valentine, apple picking, earth day, forest day…ahhhhhh so much all the year…and Satan’s days…..almost all the year round!

A religion so sacred and practical has been converted into a violent theme. Practicing on teaching of Islam a far cry for all…a shameful present of such a strong faith. This is not a sermon ..this is what we have become….Hypocritical in our acts and statements.
So today is a “Public Holiday”…and they have “promised” it will be same day each year,21st of September.