What is your feeling when someone said you doesn’t look like your actual age? I will be happy if he says i look younger than actual age, but it will be a disaster especially for girls, when we’re told that we look older than actual age. I just turned in 25 this year, while i can see some slight change of my face, physical look and some habits. For example, the slight wrinkles around my eyes, and the hormones changes which lead to popping out of excessive pimples at no reason. And feel so tired easily. But this is not the main point, the main point is the girls once turn into 25, that is a big possibility we can anytime look older compared to guys who are about same age or age older than us. It’s hurting but quite true, while we can’t control how our body hormone activities react. For most of the time, my husband that stood with me, people thought he is my younger brother! if not, people will think that i am about same age as him. At first i thought the problem is him (before i was 25), because that fellow really like forever young, there is people think he is still Form 5. Of cause, after i 25, i can’t blame his “forever young” as excuses anymore, especially i also sense there is some changes in my habit and physical look. Is time to take care of ourselves, not just to stay pretty but healthy. I must admit i am into another new cycle of life, which the focus should be on looking good with healthy lifestyle and healthy emotion. For all the girls that going into 25 or already inside there, please don’t feel sad when someone told you that you look older. Remember, no matter how thick the make up is, it can’t cover the reality, we should be confident being ourselves and admitting our true age, though some works still have to be done to stay happy and healthy all the time. =)
This post is dedicated to Stephanie.
Showing posts with label Health talk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health talk. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Sunday, August 15, 2010
想增重了
今天又去了古晋节，作了一个免费健康测试。其实，他们是想要借这来推销他们的保健产品。填好表格后，量好身高，后体重。他们的体重计能粗略估计我们的体脂肪，内脏脂肪，身体水分，肌肉量，骨量，一天卡路里和新成代谢年龄。
除了要增加体重之外，其他算还好。以下是结果：
身高：165cm
体重：44kg （依我身高，我必须增重16kg到60kg才标准）
体脂肪: 17.4% （正常）
内脏脂肪：1 （正常指数是女性：2-6，男性：4-8）
身体水分：60.4% （正常指数是女性：50-60，男性：55-70）
肌肉量：34.3%
骨量:2.0 (55kg 以下：正常是1.95）
卡路里：1078
新成代谢年龄：16！
基本上，我是“underweight”，然后几乎没脂肪，应该说我的新成代谢太快了。吃的食物跟营养消化太快，所以我都不会胖。不过，那也对身体不好。现在还是要努力增重，可能以后吃饭要吃快一点。LOL。
Friday, October 31, 2008
Heart disease in our population
In a recent study, it showed that the mean age of Malaysian population getting heart disease is about 59 yrs old, which is 6 years younger compared to mean age of European population.
Heart disease, or coronary heart disease (CHD) has been a serious health problem in Malaysia, as well as for worldwide nations. Most clinicians consider that family risk history, hypertension, diabetes, smoking and poor diet are the conventional risk factors that cause the CHD. However, how can we explain a young patient, who is only 30 yr old that got an acute heart disease when he has none of any history of the above conventional factors?
Recent years, more and more young patients admitted to hospital with a higher risk of CHD, and we called it as Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS). The ACS is a complex complication, and it involves a sudden chest pain, blockage of arteries and thus causing heart ischemia, which is the heart muscle will lack of oxygen and eventually cause heart failure. This explains why some people get heart attack and suddenly die.
It's by far interesting to know what are the reasons of more and more young people getting these ACS problems. Is it because of our social culture that make us more susceptible to be attacked by these diseases?
Based on the annual report of National Cardiovascular Disease (NCVD) Database, some statistics show that:
1. About 40% of patients do not smoke
2. About 49% of patients do not have family history of heart disease
3. More than 50% patients do not have myocardial infarction/heart attack, means the ACS happened to them is all by sudden
4. More than 70% of patients are Male!
5. Most of the patients have high BMI value, above normal value (>23)
6. 36% patients do not have diabetes
7. 23% patients do not have hypertension
8. More than 80% patients do not have most co-morbidity, such as renal disease, chronic lung disease, diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, etc.
Obviously, it's getting more people to be susceptible by the ACS, even we claim ourselves to live healthily, no smoking habit, not alcoholic, it may still happen to us.
Of all, public should aware about these data and change their lifestyles, since hypertension, overweight and smoking is still a common risk factor for CHD.
Be aware, love our heart!
Heart disease, or coronary heart disease (CHD) has been a serious health problem in Malaysia, as well as for worldwide nations. Most clinicians consider that family risk history, hypertension, diabetes, smoking and poor diet are the conventional risk factors that cause the CHD. However, how can we explain a young patient, who is only 30 yr old that got an acute heart disease when he has none of any history of the above conventional factors?
Recent years, more and more young patients admitted to hospital with a higher risk of CHD, and we called it as Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS). The ACS is a complex complication, and it involves a sudden chest pain, blockage of arteries and thus causing heart ischemia, which is the heart muscle will lack of oxygen and eventually cause heart failure. This explains why some people get heart attack and suddenly die.
It's by far interesting to know what are the reasons of more and more young people getting these ACS problems. Is it because of our social culture that make us more susceptible to be attacked by these diseases?
Based on the annual report of National Cardiovascular Disease (NCVD) Database, some statistics show that:
1. About 40% of patients do not smoke
2. About 49% of patients do not have family history of heart disease
3. More than 50% patients do not have myocardial infarction/heart attack, means the ACS happened to them is all by sudden
4. More than 70% of patients are Male!
5. Most of the patients have high BMI value, above normal value (>23)
6. 36% patients do not have diabetes
7. 23% patients do not have hypertension
8. More than 80% patients do not have most co-morbidity, such as renal disease, chronic lung disease, diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, etc.
Obviously, it's getting more people to be susceptible by the ACS, even we claim ourselves to live healthily, no smoking habit, not alcoholic, it may still happen to us.
Of all, public should aware about these data and change their lifestyles, since hypertension, overweight and smoking is still a common risk factor for CHD.
Be aware, love our heart!
Friday, October 17, 2008
World Heart Day'08 at The Spring
This morning i worked as volunteer for World Heart Day' 08 Health Screening exhibition at The Spring shopping mall. I arrived there ard 830am, and not ready with any warm up yet, slightly near 9 o'clock, i can see the crowd lined up at the registration counter.
It was abit mess at the early start, and the people supposed to line up and wait for their turns, instead of this most of the crowds came to the test counters themselves after registration. Just take as example, mine counter (measure for Body Mass Index: BMI) should be the last second counter for all people after they taking the blood pressure, total cholesterol and glucose tests. Yet, most crowd thought (or confused?) the exit entrance is the first entrance, so they all rushed in to mine counter to take their BMI measurement. The normal flow route should be as below diagram:
Anyway, this little mess finally getting controlled and we can get our "customers" have their testing one by one in fair, and more discipline manner. During this health screening, most of the nurses from SGH cardiac clinic, some pharmacists and some from our CRC department were the volunteers. The main aim of this exhibition is increase the public awareness of cardiovascular risk, therefore through this health screening we believe it can help the public know more about their health status, based on blood pressure, cholesterol level, obese etcs as these factors can indirectly affect the most population with heart disease. With that, the exhibition even sent a few doctors as consultants for our "customers" after their health screening. These doctors would explain and suggest the way to avoid if the "customer" is in high risk.
Anyhow i feel this exhibition has succeed as more and more people nowadays are getting aware about their health. Like today, though 75% above were elderly, we had some young adults to spend some time to join this free health screening. This is good.
I also measured mine at the end of today's health screening. My blood pressure is normal, just the pulse rate abit too high (May be i get too excited?), normal cholesterol (4.8 mm Hg) and glucose level. I sastified all these results, except one thing: my BMI! Can you imagine, it was just 16.4! It's nearly underweight category if i have it below 15. And my waist only 60 cm. O.o''
It was abit mess at the early start, and the people supposed to line up and wait for their turns, instead of this most of the crowds came to the test counters themselves after registration. Just take as example, mine counter (measure for Body Mass Index: BMI) should be the last second counter for all people after they taking the blood pressure, total cholesterol and glucose tests. Yet, most crowd thought (or confused?) the exit entrance is the first entrance, so they all rushed in to mine counter to take their BMI measurement. The normal flow route should be as below diagram:
Anyway, this little mess finally getting controlled and we can get our "customers" have their testing one by one in fair, and more discipline manner. During this health screening, most of the nurses from SGH cardiac clinic, some pharmacists and some from our CRC department were the volunteers. The main aim of this exhibition is increase the public awareness of cardiovascular risk, therefore through this health screening we believe it can help the public know more about their health status, based on blood pressure, cholesterol level, obese etcs as these factors can indirectly affect the most population with heart disease. With that, the exhibition even sent a few doctors as consultants for our "customers" after their health screening. These doctors would explain and suggest the way to avoid if the "customer" is in high risk.
Anyhow i feel this exhibition has succeed as more and more people nowadays are getting aware about their health. Like today, though 75% above were elderly, we had some young adults to spend some time to join this free health screening. This is good.
I also measured mine at the end of today's health screening. My blood pressure is normal, just the pulse rate abit too high (May be i get too excited?), normal cholesterol (4.8 mm Hg) and glucose level. I sastified all these results, except one thing: my BMI! Can you imagine, it was just 16.4! It's nearly underweight category if i have it below 15. And my waist only 60 cm. O.o''
Thursday, October 9, 2008
My plan over the weekend
It has been a while i didn't update my blog. I just too lazy. =) Recently is quite busy with ammending the proposals, and preparing the relevant documents for my master application in unimas. Hope i can get my proposal finalized by my boss and apply it on next week before i continue my another busy week.
Next week from Fri to Sun, i'll be the volunteer for the World Heart Day'08 community project at The Spring shopping mall. Basically i'll help out for the registration and welcome people for cardiovascular screening. As since the World Heart Day is far concerned to increase public awareness of heart disease, so we have this free cardiovascular screening for the first 300 ppl who register. The screening will help to check your cholesterol level, blood pressure and other lipid levels (i.e. LDL, HDL etc). The main aim of this screening is to let the public knows their risk of getting heart disease, thus after all this checking, it helps public know how to change their lifestyle so as to avoid the risk.
After the cardiovascular screening on Fri and Sat morning (from 9 til 12pm), one public health talk will be organized as well, in Swinburne Sarawak campus on Sat afternoon (18th oct), 2pm. Both speakers are from cardiology department SGH. Besides, a jogging campaign (Walk A Mile campaign) at MBKS, Kuching on Sun morning (19th Oct) also included as one of the functions of World Heart Day'08 community project, and i think i'll go for it too, just to grab my free t-shirt and healthy breakfast! lol.. jk jk.
On sun after the jogging campaign, i will rush for my flight to KL for 3 days conference. I shall be back to Kuching on 22nd Oct night, and then start my normal routine working life on the next day. Aww, it's gonna be a tiring week, anyway it's worth to sacrifice for it.
For those of you who are in Kuching that time, join us for any of the functions. And for those you're not, remember to join any similar functions in your place, especially the health screening one. It's time to take care our health, we're actually not that young anymore. Haha.
Next week from Fri to Sun, i'll be the volunteer for the World Heart Day'08 community project at The Spring shopping mall. Basically i'll help out for the registration and welcome people for cardiovascular screening. As since the World Heart Day is far concerned to increase public awareness of heart disease, so we have this free cardiovascular screening for the first 300 ppl who register. The screening will help to check your cholesterol level, blood pressure and other lipid levels (i.e. LDL, HDL etc). The main aim of this screening is to let the public knows their risk of getting heart disease, thus after all this checking, it helps public know how to change their lifestyle so as to avoid the risk.
After the cardiovascular screening on Fri and Sat morning (from 9 til 12pm), one public health talk will be organized as well, in Swinburne Sarawak campus on Sat afternoon (18th oct), 2pm. Both speakers are from cardiology department SGH. Besides, a jogging campaign (Walk A Mile campaign) at MBKS, Kuching on Sun morning (19th Oct) also included as one of the functions of World Heart Day'08 community project, and i think i'll go for it too, just to grab my free t-shirt and healthy breakfast! lol.. jk jk.
On sun after the jogging campaign, i will rush for my flight to KL for 3 days conference. I shall be back to Kuching on 22nd Oct night, and then start my normal routine working life on the next day. Aww, it's gonna be a tiring week, anyway it's worth to sacrifice for it.
For those of you who are in Kuching that time, join us for any of the functions. And for those you're not, remember to join any similar functions in your place, especially the health screening one. It's time to take care our health, we're actually not that young anymore. Haha.
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