Smoking is cancer's queen. It is the most versatile and deadly chess piece that cancer can use against you. And while everyone knows about the link between smoking and lung cancer, you may not know that smoking as also associated with many others cancers, affecting almost every organ of the body.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, smoking causes about 90% of lung cancer deaths in men and almost 80% in women. It also increases the risk of cancers of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, stomach, cervix, kidney and pancreas as well as a type of leukemia.

Other cancers are also suspected of being related to smoking. It is estimated to have caused some 57,000 new cases of bladder cancer in 2003 in the US and 30,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer. Secondhand smoke was designated as a known human carcinogen by the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1993.


If you do smoke, do whatever it takes to stop. See your doctor about getting help. If all your attempts to stop smoking fail, smoke as little as you can. Cutting back from a pack a day to half a pack or three quarters can reduce your risk. Make sure you get adequate Vitamin C if you do smoke.

 If you are not a doctor or some other expert from the field of medicine, I bet you make difference between these three terms: a heart attack, cardiac arrest and stroke. "I have a heart attack", may change into "I have a stroke " from day to day, not knowing actually which term to use it. But, in practice, that does make a big problem.

It is a problem more specifically for you. Not always you need a help from a doctor. Some causes you can treat it at home IF, only if you know what is the right thing that happens to you. Let's get to work and distinguish those three very often problematic situations.


Heart Attack, It is a circulation disorder.

When the flow of the blood rich with oxygen is blocked to a certain part of the heart muscle, if not restored causes dying of the muscle, thus resulting with heart attack. If a person has a heart attack, his/her heart continues beating.

Cardiac Arrest, It is an "electrical" disorder.

If your heart's electrical activity undergoes chaos, it'll result with irregular heart beating, and immediate stop of the blood pumping throughout the body. This condition is cardiac arrest. In this heart condition, the heartbeat stops completely.

Stroke, It is a brain disorder.

There are three types of stroke:

Ischemic stroke: it appears when there's a blockage of the artery which transports blood rich in oxygen to the brain
Transient ischemic attack (TIA): it's called a "mini-stroke" and appears when the artery which transports blood to the brain, temporarily stops transporting the blood.
Hemorrhagic stroke: it appears upon rupturing an artery inside brain
Heart Attack Symptoms:

These are the heart attack symptoms which can occur early and be your first sign of something wrong happening to your heart:


Pain in chest (angina): Often characterized as heaviness in the middle of the chest, and confused with indigestion. It can come and go in a matter of minutes.
Aches in the body: pain in the neck, abdomen, back, jaw, and arms, especially the left one.
Lacking of breath and wheezing
Cold sweating
Feeling dizziness and light headedness
Grown anxiety
Coughing
Nausea
You can't treat these symptoms with home remedies or medications, since they are connected to the heart, and not to the digestive or some other system.

Heart Attack or Cardiac Arrest ?

Cardiac Arrest Symptoms:

In some cases, several minutes before a person experiences a cardiac arrest, s/he can feel similar symptoms to those of a heart attack

Fainting
Blackout
Pain in the chest
Lacking of breath
Weakness
Extreme palpitation
But in most cases of a cardiac arrest, the person will experience:

Loss of breath
Lack of responsiveness
Sudden collapse
Loss of pulse
These symptoms are appearing suddenly and are often resulting in instant death.

Person who has suffered a heart attack has a greater risk of experiencing a cardiac arrest.

Stroke Symptoms:
Mental confusion, like forgetting names, places, and inability to follow a conversation
Disrupted speech
Numbness of paralysis of the face, arm or leg, especially on one side
Walking inability, accompanied with dizziness
Blurred vision, and double seeing
Headaches and vomiting
Excessive sweating
Nausea
Source: healthylifestyleteam.com

If you are not a doctor or some other expert from the field of medicine, I bet you make difference between these three terms: a heart attack, cardiac arrest and stroke. "I have a heart attack", may change into "I have a stroke " from day to day, not knowing actually which term to use it. But, in practice, that does make a big problem.

It is a problem more specifically for you. Not always you need a help from a doctor. Some causes you can treat it at home IF, only if you know what is the right thing that happens to you. Let's get to work and distinguish those three very often problematic situations.

Heart Attack, It is a circulation disorder.

 Scientists onboard the International Space Station (ISS) are assessing the ability of a novel compound to prevent skeletal muscle wasting and weakness in mice exposed to long-duration spaceflight.

The findings will advance our understanding of the risks that long-term space exploration poses to astronauts, and can be applied towards the development of counter-measures to protect health of astronauts, researchers said.



Exercise and eating right is a common prescription for maintaining muscle and building bone, but more advanced solutions are needed to address serious diseases that lead to loss of muscle function in the general population.

The ISS provides researchers a unique opportunity to study muscle loss and to investigate means for muscle preservation. Rodent Research-3 is a study launched aboard the eighth SpaceX resupply mission to the space station this month.
When we unload, or remove the force of our body weight from the muscles that normally work against gravity to support us, those muscles rapidly atrophy, or waste away and weaken.

That is exactly what happens in microgravity unless counter-measures are applied. The astronauts on the space station, for example, follow rigorous exercise programmes that apply forces to their musculo-skeletal systems and help them stay strong throughout their missions.

Mice exposed to spaceflight have proved to be valuable research models to understand, target and treat causes of human muscle atrophy.

"This includes modelling serious diseases that involve muscle wasting such as muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, cancer cachexia and even ageing-related musculoskeletal frailty," said Rosamund Smith, the principal investigator for the Rodent Research-3 mission.

"The ability to expose all muscles of an organism to conditions that induce muscle atrophy is not easily achieved on Earth," said Smith.

Loss of muscle function, rather than just a decrease in muscle size, is the critical aspect that leads to problems with physical performance in patients suffering from muscle-wasting conditions.

"The Rodent Research-3 study is unique not only in the experimental compound that will be tested, but also because, for the first time, muscle function of the mice will be assessed during spaceflight," said Janet Beegle, Rodent Research-3 project manager at NASA's Ames Research Centre in US.

Although the primary research focus of Rodent Research-3 is skeletal muscle, the researchers are studying other organ systems, such as bone, both at the tissue and molecular levels.

New Delhi, April 18: Taking a dig at opposition parties, Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu today said the opponents 'want to have RSS-free India' but Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants India free from poverty, corruption and unemployment.
'Modi ji wants Garibi Mukt Bharat, Brashtachar Mukt Bharat, Berojgari Mukt Bharat. Our opponents want to have Sangh Mukt Bharat (Modi wants India free from poverty, free from corruption, free from unemployment.
Our Opponents want to have RSS-free India),' he said in a tweet. 'They want RSS-free-India. They are not worried about ISI, ISIS,' he added.
Congress had yesterday backed JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar's call for an RSS-free India, saying the saffron fountainhead was 'posing a threat to the country's unity and democracy'.
Kumar had mounted a counteroffensive against Modi for his 'Congress-mukt Bharat' slogan, saying, 'Sangh-mukt Bharat banane ke liye sabhi gair BJP parties ko ek hona hoga (to usher in a Sangh-free India all non-BJP parties will have to come together).'
BJP, however, defended, saying it was unfazed by Kumar's efforts to form a united front to counter it and that such attempts to stop the Modi government 'from working for the development of the country and for the poor will not succeed'.

India is a country of young people. If youth are given right direction their courage, belief and commitment can achieve the dream of country's development. It is this dedication that makes up youth take up responsibility of cleaning up their cities.
On 2nd October 2014, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched throughout length and breadth of the country as a national movement by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi. Today the movement has truly become a mass movement.
Picking up the broom to clean the dirt, making Swachh Bharat Abhiyan a mass movement across the nation, the Prime Minister Modi had said people should neither litter, nor let others litter.
@narendramodi this street was full of garbage now its neat & clean ,done by 'youth for Parivartan' pic.twitter.com/Sl0vTufol9
Sonu Shah (@mrdnsahji007) February 2, 2016
In one such drive students of Bengaluru got together to form a group called 'Youth for Parivartan' with an aim to keep Bengaluru clean.
Students it is said saved their pocket money and used the modest sum of money to paint the city walls and clean the streets.
The group Youth For Parivarthan is bringing in Parivartan (Change) wherever it finds dirty streets, dirty... http://t.co/xZmW3cLdcb
SwachhBharatAbhiyaan (@Swachhbharatt) December 23, 2014
Students got together and painted the city walls that were made to look ugly by sticking different advertisement bills.
Bengaluru students began cleaning first the streets where they live and cleaned the walls of the streets.
Dfrnt start 2 a Saturday Morning.Took part in'youth for parivartan' initiative in beautifying diary circle underpass. pic.twitter.com/9X2JmGdJNu
Smitha Dixit (@RjSmitha) April 25, 2015
Bengaluru students showed how they are obsessed about the cleanliness. After cleaning the students are educating people that they should not make the walls and the city dirty.
Amit Amarnath, Founder of Youth for Parivartan had this to say about the initiative, 'We all study we all wants our city to look clean and beautiful. For this work instead of asking for money from someone we are using our pocket money. We are painting the wall red and yellow. Some people might not change but we will remain persistent in our work.'
Uma Shenoy, Member, Youth for Parivartan had this to say about putting efforts to clean Bengaluru, 'I feel delighted to do this work. All these people study and do this work using their pocket money. Wasting money on cinema and at other places it is better that we utilise our money for such works and not just clean our city but our country as well. I want to participate in such programmes in future as well.'
Mayor of Bengaluru B N Manjunath Reddy had this to say about the efforts of students of the group Youth for Parivartan, 'Many organisations are joining their hands for this work. Youth for Parivartan has done much work in the city. I want to extend greetings to these people. From BBMP for carrying out such work. It is nice work,'
It is really true that these students are young in age but their thoughts are matured and their deeds have shown mirror to the city in particular and society in general. These students have shown how to keep our cities clean and environmentally pristine by keeping cities free from posters and slogans on the walls apart from other things which are necessary to keep Bengaluru clean.
@forever_stonedd I just received the message, it was done by Youth for Parivartan (NGO) with support from authorities. Nonetheless its great
Bangalore/Akshatha (@WeAreBangalore) January 10, 2016
These students have proved why cities are called mirrors of our identity and why we should keep our cities clean. Truly our country's youth is its identity and strength.