Health and Weight

Maybe you even know what your birth weight was. Most babies weigh less than 10 pounds and sometimes as little as 3 or 4 pounds. But very quickly, a young baby gains weight and everyone is glad about that because it means the child is growing bigger and stronger.

Your weight is still important when you get older. It's something your parents and doctor will probably keep an eye on. When you go for a checkup, the doctor often will record your height and weight and compare it with what it was the last time you came in. The doctor wants to check that you are a healthy weight because weighing too much — or too little — can be a problem.

In the last 25 years, a growing number of kids and teenagers have developed weight problems. Today, 1 out of 3 kids and teens between the ages of 2 and 19 are overweight or obese, which is a word that means very overweight. Many grown-ups understand what it's like to have weight problems. Mostly half of adults are overweight or obese.

For kids and adults, overweight can lead to illnesses and health problems. And a kid who is overweight might get teased or find it hard to keep up with friends on their neighborhood.

Do We Need a Doctor When Dehydration

Some cases of dehydration can be handled at home. But sometimes, that isn't enough to get a kid feeling better. A kid may need to go to the doctor or emergency department if he or she has a heat-related illness or a virus with vomiting or diarrhea that just won't quit.

At the hospital, the good news is that an intravenous (say: in-truh-vee-nus) (IV) line can get fluids into your body fast. An IV line is a special tube (like a very thin straw) that goes right into your veins, so the liquid goes right to where your body needs it most. It may pinch a little when the nurse is inserting it, but it often helps a person feel much better.

Muscles can be strengthens by exercise

Another kind of exercise can help make your muscles stronger. Did you ever do a push-up or swing across the monkey bars at the playground? Those are exercises that can build strength. By using your muscles to do powerful things, you can make them stronger. For older teens and adults, this kind of workout can make muscles bigger, too.

Here are some exercises and activities to build strong muscles:

• push-ups
• pull-ups
• tug-of-war
• rowing
• running
• in-line skating
• bike riding

Keep our hearth

Catch heart disease early and you should be ok. Leave it too late and the statistics are dead against you. Even if you eat well, go to the gym every day and have muscular biceps, you’re still at risk of hearth disease, but there is still a prevention factor in living healthily. Millions of people suffer from the early stages of hearth disease without even realizing it.

Improper diet and risky lifestyle choices are the major causes of hearth disease. Having an annual checkup is essential because your blood sugar level and blood pressure are key indicators.

Hearth disease has four stages, the first one all about impossible to detect.

In stage two the symptoms are barely perceptible and only in stage three do most people realize they have a problem, when chest pains and feeling indigestion show up, the last stage requires hospitalization.

In the early stages, recovery is possible with better diet and exercise.

By the third stage your chance drop to 50 -50, and by the final stage to 15% only.

You need balance in terms of food, exercise and work, the chance becoming stricken with hearth disease increases if you get exhausted easily, smoke, work too much, sleep to little or over exercise.

When body get dehidration

When it's hot outside and you've been sweating, you get thirsty. Why? Thirst is a sign of dehydration (say: dee-hye-dray-shun). Dehydration means that your body doesn't have enough water in it to keep it working right. A person gets water by drinking and eating. You lose water when you sweat, urinate (pee), have diarrhea, or throw up. You even lose a little water when you breathe.

Our bodies need water to work properly. Usually, you can make up for the water you lose — like when you come in from outside and have a long, cool drink of water. If you don't replace the water your body has lost, you might start feeling sick. And if you go too long without the water you need, you can become very ill and might need to go to the hospital.

Many times kids get dehydrated when they are playing hard and having fun. Have you ever gotten really sweaty and red-faced when you've been playing? This often happens when it's hot outside, but it can happen indoors, too, like if you're practicing basketball in a gym.

Kids also can get dehydrated when they're sick. If you have a stomach virus (say: vye-rus), you might throw up or have diarrhea (say: dye-uh-ree-uh). On top of that, you probably don't feel very much like eating or drinking. If you have a sore throat, you might find it hard to swallow food or drink. And if you have a fever, you can lose fluids because water evaporates from your skin in an attempt to cool your body down. That's why your mom or dad tells you to drink a lot of fluids when you're sick.

In addition to being thirsty, here are some signs that a person might be dehydrated:

• feeling lightheaded, dizzy, or tired
• rapid heartbeat
• dry lips and mouth

Another sign of dehydration is not peeing as much. Normally, urine should be a pale yellow color. Dark or strong-smelling pee can be a sign of dehydration.

What to Do

If you can, try not to get dehydrated in the first place. If you're going to be going outside, it's a good idea to drink water before, during, and after you play, especially if it's hot. Dehydration can happen along with heat-related illnesses, such as heat exhaustion (say: ig-zos-chun) and heat stroke. In addition to drinking water, it's smart to dress in cool clothes and take breaks indoors or at least in the shade.

If you're sick, keep taking small sips of drinks and soups, even if you're not that thirsty or hungry. Eating an icepop is a great way to get fluids. How is an icepop a liquid? Well, it's basically frozen water and flavoring. The warmth in your mouth and stomach turns it from a solid to a liquid. Other foods, such as fruits and vegetables, contain water, too.

exercise all the time

Kids exercise all the time without even thinking of it. Just being active, like when you run around outside or play kickball at school, is a kind of exercise. What else counts as exercise? Playing sports, dancing, doing push-ups, and even reaching down to touch your toes.

When you exercise, you're helping build a strong body that will be able to move around and do all the stuff you need it to do. Try to be active every day and your body will thank you later!

Exercise Makes Your Heart Happy

You may know that your heart is a muscle. It works hard, pumping blood every day of your life. You can help this important muscle get stronger by doing aerobic (say: air-o-bik) exercise.

Aerobic means "with air," so aerobic exercise is a kind of activity that requires oxygen. When you breathe, you take in oxygen, and, if you're doing aerobic exercise, you may notice you're breathing faster than normal. Aerobic activity can get your heart pumping, make you sweaty and quicken your breathing.

When your give your heart this kind of workout on a regular basis, your heart will get even better at its main job - delivering oxygen (in the form of oxygen-carrying blood cells) to all parts of your body.

So you want to do some aerobic exercise right now? Try swimming, basketball, ice or roller hockey, jogging (or walking quickly), in-line skating, soccer, cross-country skiing, biking, or rowing. And don't forget that skipping, jumping rope, and playing hopscotch are aerobic activities, too!

Healthy prostate

The prostate is the seat of the masculinity when a man is young, but a specter of discomfort when he gets old.

It is a male organ made up of smooth muscles that help expel semen during ejaculation and according wikipedia, its main function to store and secrete clear fluid amounting 10% to 30% of seminal fluid.

At birth the prostate is tiny but as levels of testosterone rise during puberty, it grows fast, doubling in size by age 20.

Growth slows down during the next two decades, but not causing problems for many years, but as men grow older, the prostate becomes less friendly, it grows for a second time by age 40.

One in four men between the ages 40 and 50 have an enlarged prostate, while almost half of the men aged between 60 and 90 have the same problem.

According to urologist there is no data on the mortality rate of prostate cancer patiens in the world.