Smoking problems and healthcare

No HEALTH problem in our time has commanded more attention than smoking. The issuance of the official Surgeon General's Report in 1964 constituted a major scientific and medical event and began a public and medical concern that continues. Despite the concern, however, one third of the women and half the men in the United States still smoke cigarettes. 

Deaths from diseases associated with cigarette smoking continue. A large proportion of health resources and money must be devoted to trying to treat such diseases. But there are encouraging events. As many as 1.5 million people a year recently have been abandoning smoking.

Among them, fortunately, are young and middle-aged men who are at particularly high risk of premature death from lung cancer and coronary heart disease. Also hopeful is evidence from a Public 

Health Service survey indicating that while 29 percent of boys and 15 percent of girls at age 17 are regular smokers, this represents a significant reduction in the proportion of young people taking up smoking. And school systems across the country are emphasizing educational programs on smoking and health in the hope of creating a "smokeless generation."

The evidence about the dangers of cigarette smoking to health is now overwhelming. In the words of the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service, smoking "is the greatest preventable cause of illness, disability and premature death in this country."

 A conviction shared by medical and health agencies has been expressed by the New York State Commission of Health: "No other single factor kills so many Americans as cigarette smoking .... Bullets, germs and viruses are killers; but for Americans, cigarettes are more deadly than any of them. No single known lethal agent is as deadly as the cigarette." Smoking is a certain irony in the history of tobacco use. American Indians, early explorers discovered, smoked tobacco in pipes for ceremonial silicoses, and believed it had some medicinal values. 

How to make vacations painfree and stress free?

An ointment for itching bites and sunburn Rules for Vacationists Remember that your vacation is not for the purpose of overexertion, for Relaxation filling lip for year-round sedentary living, for acquiring a copper skin. Recreation for change of scene and change of pace that can trip wiping away ennui and mental fatigue. It is to restore your zest.

 And one should return from it with zest restored instead of with vacation I V, illness and even vacation illness. Don’t plunge immediately into a heavy program of physical activity. You can virtually count on immediate collapse, if you go from a sea-level or high altitude; promptly indulge in a few highballs and a set of tennis. You are likely to have trouble, in fact, at any altitude if you overdo.

Take it easy for the first day or two. Play ball or swim for daily 10 hour or so; work up to increased activity gradually. In this way, you can avoid exhaustion and muscular cramps. Don't overeat. Chances are you will be tempted to do so when you II down to a hotel or restaurant dining table lavishly laden with food. 

Certainly you are paying for it and you may be even more hungry than usual because of all the activity. But you are likely to pay in other ways or overeating. The extra food may put more strain on your heart, which will be pumping fairly hard as you dash around the tennis court later. Never stuff yourself to the point where your stomach feels distended.

Avoid, during vacations, those rich foods that give you indigestion at home. If you are plagued by the unpleasant problem of diarrhea-which may develop because of an overly rich diet, eating strange foods, or drinking contaminated water-change to the softest, blandest foods possible: boiled or poached eggs, custard, rice with milk and sugar. After each movement, drink something hot-soup, tea or milk-to compensate for fluid loss. Sunburn An attractive skin tan is not anything that can be acquired in a day or two.

If you try to tan quickly, you are likely to get a burn that reddens and blisters your skin and may even put you in a hospital. You can prevent painful and ugly sunburn if you are careful about just a few things: Watch out for the noonday sun. When the sun is high overhead, its rays are short, direct, more burning. 

Late afternoon is the safer time to start your sunbathing. Remember that when the sky is overcast, the sun can still burn cruelly, so be careful on hazy as well as bright days. Know your own type of skin and how it burns. Skins differ. A child's burns more quickly than an adult's. Among adults, people with fair skins are quicker to burn than brunettes. 

CALORIE CONTENT OF FOODS AND BEVERAGES - Weight Control - Weight Loss

FOODS AND BEVERAGES 1000S

 Soup Bouillon or consommé Cream soups Split-pea soup Vegetable-beef or chicken Tomato Chicken noodle Clam chowder Meat and fish Beef steak Roast beef Ground beef Roast leg of lamb Rib lamb chop Loin pork chop Ham, smoked or boiled Bacon frankfurter Tongue, kidney Chicken Turkey Salami Bologna Veal cutlet (un-breaded) Hamburger patty (regular ground beef) Beef liver, fried Bluefish, baked Fish sticks, breaded (including fat for frying) Tuna fish, canned, drained Salmon, drained Sardines, drained Shrimp, canned Trout Fish (cod, haddock, mackerel, halibut, whitefish, broiled or baked)

 Whole lobster Vegetables Asparagus Beans, green kidney lima Beets Broccoli Cabbage, raw cooked Carrots, sweet white potato chips Radishes Spinach Squash, summer winter Tomatoes, raw canned or cooked fruits Apple Applesauce, unsweetened sweetened Apricot, raw canned or dried Avocado Banana Cantaloupe Cherries, fresh canned, syrup Cranberry sauce Fruit cocktail, canned Grapefruit Olives Orange Peach, fresh canned, syrup Pear, fresh canned, syrup Pineapple, canned (with syrup) Plums, fresh canned, syrup Prunes, cooked with sugar Raisins, dried Tangerine cereal, bread, and crackers.  

      

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CALORIE CONTENT OF FOODS AND BEVERAGES 

Cereal, bread, and crackers Farina, cooked Oatmeal, cooked Rice, cooked Macaroni or spaghetti, cooked Egg noodles, cooked Flour Bread, white, rye, or whole wheat Ry-Krisp Saltine Ritz cracker Biscuit Hard roll Pancakes Waffles Bun-cinnamon with raisins Danish pastry Muffin Dairy products Whole milk Evaporated milk Skim milk Buttermilk (from skim milk) Light cream, sweet or sour 

Heavy cream Yoghurt Whipped cream Ice cream Cottage cheese Cheese Butter Egg, plain fried or scrambled Cake and other desserts Chocolate layer cake Angel cake Sponge cake Fruit pie Cream pie Lemon meringue pie Chocolate pudding  Fruit ice Doughnut, plain Brownie Cookie.