Does peanut butter cause acne?
This is another very interesting topic. For years people thought if they consume oily foods they get acne. But with the recent research they disproved this idea and said food has nothing to do with acne. Now we know some foods are associate with acne whereas the other foods are not.
Now lets talk about peanuts, peanut butter and acne.
As you know peanut is a bit oily seed and peanut butter is produced from that oil. It is 100% vegetarian. All the fatty acids in peanuts are 100% vegetable in origin and there are no hormones or growth factors which can affect the human body. But some foods of animal origin have hormones along with fatty acids which can aggravate acne. But peanut butter and peanuts do not have this property. So the link between peanut butter and acne probably a myth. In addition to that now the researchers say that the peanut butte can reduce dark spots in your face. But not by eating to achieve this affect you should apply peanut butter on your face.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Acne and peanut butter
Red meat and acne
Does the consumption of red meat cause acne?
Actually we have already talked about milk consumption and acne. There we pointed out the hormones in milk like androgens and IGF-1 plays a role in the development of acne. Same applies to red meat also. Red meat usually come from cow, pig or goat. Meat from all these animals contains high amounts of hormone. Actually when we talk about acne only steroid hormones are important for us.
These androgens are known to trigger acne. In addition to that we can assume that the animals produce large amount of stress hormones during slaughtering. This extra amount of stress hormones may also contribute to the development of acne. But as always for some people red meat may not trigger acne at all. But in some it will trigger acne. So you should find out which type person you are. But it is always good to avoid red meat.
Eggs and acne
Can Eggs Cause Acne?
Eggs and acne is a very hot topic. You may think that extra fat in the eggs is the item which causes acne. No its not. Eggs may cause acne but it’s not egg fat. You may already know eggs are one the top five food allergens. And you also know acne is an inflammatory and allergic condition. So as you can see eggs can contribute to acne only in some people. In the other people it may not trigger acne at all.
So if you are suffering from acne and you consume considerable amount of eggs you may need to change your food habits for some time and check the status of your acne. Actually in most of the times it is not necessary to avoid eggs completely. Reduced consumption will help in the most of the cases. And the other important thing is sometimes eggs are not the things which cause acne. It is the additives in the foods. So you may need to change the way you cook eggs. And at last don’t forget the nutritious value of the eggs because of acne. Try to balance risk of acne and egg consumption. If you have only one or two acne don’t worry about the acne at all.
Does peanut butter cause acne ?
Does peanut butter cause acne
Peanut is 100% plant in origin and peanut butter is prepared from the oil extracted from the peanut seeds. So peanut butter only contains fatty acids of animal origin. Peanut butter does not contain any hormones of animal origin or other cytokines which stimulates inflammation. If present, in any food, steroid hormones of animal origin can play a role in the development of acne. So now we are in a position to answer the question does peanut butter cause acne? Actually It does not cause acne. Some years people believed peanut butter causes acne. But recent researches have failed to provide any epidemiological data to support this hypothesis. So we can conclude “peanut butter does not cause acne”.
Monday, May 3, 2010
How gallstones are formed?
Sunday, May 2, 2010
How to relieve codeine constipation?
Thursday, April 29, 2010
How to reduce oiliness of your face?
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
PRECIOUS STONES
E.g.: Amber
After cutting and polishing gem stones/precious stones are used in jewelry.
Gemstones/precious stones fall into different categories because of the composition.
E.g.: Diamonds-Made of carbon
Rubies-Aluminum oxide
Many gems are crystals and classified using a crystal system
E.g.: cubic, trogon, monoclinic
Classification of gem stones/precious stones
Gems/precious stones are classified classified into different groups, species and varieties.
E.g.: ruby is the red variety of species corundum
Other colours of corundum - sapphire
Value of the gems/precious stones
Value of a gem depends on the refractive index, dispersion, specific gravity, hardness, cleavage, fracture and luster. Value of a certain gem changes from the country to country. Coloured gem stones are prized specially for its great beauty and aesthetics.
Processing
Most of the gems are cut and polished before they fit into a particular purpose. Some gems are treated to increase their beauty and some of the non-gem stones are converted to gems by treating.
Methods of gem treating are,
Heating
Irradiation
Waxing/Oiling
Fracture filling
Some gems are synthesized artificially
E.g.: Cubic zirconia
Synthetic corundums
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Enzyme test or a CPK test : What is it ?
E.g.: C.P.K- Heart muscle
Saturday, November 14, 2009
CPK blood test range
- Female 24-170 U/L
- Male 20-260 U/L
- CK-MB fraction
Friday, November 13, 2009
INR test PT/INR test
INR test
If you are currently on warfarin your doctor may request for a PT/INT test or you may see one of your relatives getting done a PT/INR test. But what is it? You may wonder. Warfarin is an anticoagulant mainly given to patients who at increased risk of the development of intravascular blood clots. For this discussion we will restrict our patient category to patients with prosthetic heart valves. Patient with prosthetic heart valves at increased risk of development of blood clots. These clots can cause various catastrophic events. E.g.: strokes, Myocardial infarctions, Peripheral vascular disease and etc. To reduce this an anticoagulant is given. But this has side effects. Major side effect of our interest is excessive bleeding. To balance this risk and benefit anticoaguability of the warfarin PT/INT test is used. Actually the PT part is the test. PT is the abbreviation for prothrombin time. INR means international normalized ratio. Due to diversity of the chemical manufacturers different laboratories get different result for the PT test. But the manufacturer of that particular chemical compound gives the data to convert it to the universally accepted INR. This value doesn’t change from the laboratory. So is a single patient’s blood checked by two laboratories the INR test value should be equal.
Labels: INR test, PT/INR test, warfarin
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Free Etrade US bank account for non US residents
Free Etrade US bank account for non US residents
If you were looking for an us bank for non us residents you might have searched the internet a lot. And read number of articles and paid thousands of dollars for a US bank account and got scammed. The method I am going to tell you will allow you to open a free us offshore bank account being a non us residence. Still you may ask can I open bank account in us etrade as non residence? Yes possible they allow you to open a complete investment account. And even though you are a non US resident you eligible for a platinum VISA debit card with Etrade account. Your US bank account can be managed online with Etrade. As far as I know this is the easiest way to open a free us offshore bank account non us residence. Other people say that this US account can be used with paypal. Etrade is probably the best us bank for non residents. This is a free guide for us bank account as non resident (non US resident).
Sunday, August 2, 2009
PT/INR Test
PT/INR Test
PT/INR test is a special blood test designed to give an idea about the coagulation status of a particular individual. But what does PT/INR Test shows? Many people don’t know that. Actually PT is “Prothrombin time” and INR is “International normalized ratio”. Prothrombin time measures the extrinsic path of blood coagulation. In PT/INR Test blood is collected to a tube containing sodium citrate. Then tissue factor is added and time taken to the sample to clot measured optically. As you can see in this PT/INR Test the test result depends on the methodology used and the quality of the tissue factor. So the PT/INR test result is specific to that particular laboratory. That’s why there is an INR part. INR takes the ratio between patient sample and the control sample. When it is added to the formula PT/INR Test results can be compared globally. PT/INR Test is usually perfomed for the patients on warfarin, Liver damage and vitamin K status. This test is the most sensitive and widely used method to determine the blood coagulation profile. After a prosthetic valve replacement of the heart is is almost always necessary to check the coagulation profile by PT/INR test. Some times it may be necessary to measure it after an myocardial infarction.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Medicines that affect cpk test
Medicines that affect cpk test
As you already know medicines can affect most of the biochemical tests. One such test is creatine kinase test or the cpk test. Medicines which affect the CPK test are, amphotericin B, ampicillin, some anesthetics, blood thinners, aspirin, clofibrate, dexamethasone, furosemide, alcohol, and cocaine. Actually above substances increases the blood CPK level giving rise to false positive values. But in addition to this I would like to discuss other factors which affect the CPK test. Those factors are cardiac catheterization, intramuscular injections, trauma to muscles, recent surgery, and heavy exercise. So when someone goes to the hospital and had a positive CPK test the above factors should be considered. When the above factors are excluded a positive CPK test can be due to heart attack, Brain injury or stroke, Inflammation of the heart muscle and etc. So I think now you have some understanding about the other factors which affect the CPK test.
Etrade US bank account for non US residents
Etrade US bank account for non US residents
If you were looking for a US bank account being a non US residents you should already know how difficult to find one. Many website in the internet trying to scam people by offering US bank accounts for non US residents. I can assure you one thing. Non of these websites can not offer US bank accounts for non US residents. But there is a one bank which offers complete investment accounts for non US residents it’s Etrade. With this Etrade complete investment accounts for non US residents you should be able to do whatever you want. But please keep in mind it is an investment account. And another thing is many websites offering US bank account for non US residents send you information on how to open an account at Etrade when you pay. So I strongly suggest that you should contact directly rather than going around those scam sites. Etrade telephone number is 1-800-ETRADE-1 (1-800-387-2331) Before you call please visit the Etrade website. since this is a toll free number you can use skype to call them for free. If you are trying to find a find a US bank account to use with your paypal account you should be able to use Etrade complete investment account. They also provide you with a VISA debit card. This should be able to use to fulfill the credit card need in paypal.
But if you only need an offshore bank account you can try offshore bank account from HSBC. These account are easy to open and handle and also the HSBC offshore bank accounts offer high interest rates.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Codeine constipation
Codeine constipation
Codeine is a drug which is well known to cause constipation. Codeine is also known as 3-methoxymorphine. It does not have euphoric effects and so it is freely available over the counter. But it only has 20% of the analgesic potency of morphine. (With in the body codeine is converted morphine by an enzymatic reaction) So it is used to treat mild types of pain such as headache, backache and toothache etc.
Codeine constipation is due to its effect on the gastrointestinal tract. It increases the tone and reduces the motility in many parts of the gastro intestinal tract. Since this reduces the gastric emptying and reduces the rate of movement of food in the gastro intestinal tract this produces small amount of hard stools due excessive water absorption. Sometimes codeine constipation can be very severe and troublesome to the patient. Constipation is thought to be mediated by the effect of codeine on gastro intestinal tract smooth muscle cells. Some suggests that it is mediated by the effect on intramural nerve plexuses. Other hypothesis suggests that constipation is partly mediated by its central effect since intra ventricular injection of codeine inhibits the propulsive movements of the gastro-intestinal tract.
Elevated CPK Enzyme
Elevated CPK enzyme level is of great diagnostic value. CPK enzyme is a non functional plasma enzyme and in most of the times elevated levels indicates as underlying organic skeletal muscle disorder or a myocardial infarction. CPK enzyme has 3-isoforms.
CK-BB (Mainly found in the brain tissue)
CK-MB (Mainly found in the myocardial tissue)
CK-MM (Mainly found in the skeletal muscle issue)
Myocardial tissue is the only tissue that contains more than 5% of the total CK-MB activity. So elevated plasma levels of CK-MB isoform of CPK-enzyme suggest a myocardial infarction. But however this should be used along with another cardiac marker like Troponin I ot Troponin T since cpk enzymes coming from the other sources such as skeletal muscle can interfere with the interpretation of the results.
In the case of a myocardial infarction CPK enzyme levels start to rise to rise 4 to 8 hours after the onset of the chest pain and plasma CPK enzyme level reaches the peak in 24 hours.
Serum CPK enzyme is greatly elevated in many muscle disorders including Duchenne dystrophy and polymyositis.But the CPK enzyme level is not elevated in myasthenia gravis and LEMS. In muscle trauma plasma level of myoglobin is also elevated.


