Arabic sessions on arthritis

The Emirates Arthritis Foundation (EAF) will organise three awareness sessions in Arabic about arthritis.
The seminars will be held on October 23, October 30 and November 4 between 7pm and 9pm at the Movenpick Hotel, Dubai. The sessions will be conducted by a team of experts, including rheumatologists, nurses, physiotherapists, dietitians and psychiatrists and will discuss different topics including types of arthritis, symptoms, lifestyle management, benefits of exercise, dietary advice, latest treatments, pain management and handling the psychological impact of arthritis.

Dr Cathy Leibman EAF’s Director of Operations said, “The foundation is keen to educate the public about the disease and explain the different kinds and treatments in a way that enables the patient to live a normal life.”
Rania Abu Yaghi, Operations Manager at Dubai Bone and Joint Centre, said, “We have invited the arthritis patients, their friends and relatives to attend these sessions which highlight the importance of dealing with the disease and its related aspects. Source

30% of women in UAE have osteoporosis

Around 30 per cent of women in the UAE suffer from the common bone disease osteoporosis, said Dr Shivanand Shetty, an orthopedic surgeon at the New Medical Centre.
The age of onset is around 50-years-old. Osteoporosis is a major risk factor for fracture. Dr Shetty spoke to Gulf News regarding reasons behind developing osteoporosis. Risk factors that enhance osteoporosis include smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, lack of calcium in one's diet and lack of exercise.
However, osteoporosis can be avoided at an earlier stage, said Dr Shetty. Until the age of 30 there is constant turnover of the bone in the skeletal system. Bone formation and resorption takes place at an equal rate.

Diet

Peak bone mass (adequate deposit of calcium in the bone) is reached by the age of 30. To achieve peak bone mass one needs a diet adequate in calcium, vitamin D and good exercise during the early phases of life. Osteoporosis runs in families; having a parent or sibling with osteoporosis puts a person at greater risk.
"I advise patients to drink a lot of milk and consume dairy products as well as green vegetables. One whose diet is not adequate in calcium requires calcium supplements and regular exercise," said Dr Shetty.
One of Dr Shetty's patients, Shahnaz Ihsan, a housewife, aged 56, spoke to us regarding her experience with osteoporosis.
"Exactly three years ago I started to feel immense pain in my back, my bones were cracking and I visited the doctor who prescribed medicine .. and now feel so much better," she said.
Ihsan advised other woman to seek medical help if they start to suffer menopausal symptoms.

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Looking your age is a Taboo

Are wrinkles to become a thing of the past for the self-selected few, like crooked teeth after the invention of modern orthodontics?

As recently as a decade ago, the obliteration of wrinkles required full face-lifts or deep laser resurfacing. To partake of these expensive treatments required disposable income and recovery time; patients retreated with their wounds, to reemerge weeks later with smoother skin or a tighter jaw.
But now newer, less invasive treatments — including Botox injections to temporarily paralyze muscles beneath frown lines, Restylane injections to fill out facial creases and updated lasers to eliminate surface layers of skin — are easily available and relatively safe, albeit still too expensive for most people of middle-class.
These cosmetic technologies are also changing the way pop culture perceives the aging face. Once a biological fact of life like wrinkles now appear to be optional for those who can afford to smooth them.

Up to what extend would you go?

If All Else Fails

At some point in life we all face aging. Some feel it earlier and some fight until the last day. Women are in particular very much affected from the process of aging and often suffer emotionally in silence.
There is a lot we can do. Every day new and more advanced methods are discovered to preserve our beauty.
I presume the secret of keeping fit and pretty is the combined result of many efforts: regular exercise, the use of the proper skin care, nutrition and most of all keeping mental youth. However there is something more that you can do easier ad costlier, but assuring instant results.
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Your Skin and How It Functions

Skin is an amazing structure. The body’s largest organ, covering between 1.5 and 2 square meters (15 and 20), it measures a tent of a millimeter tick (one twentieth of an inch) and weight anything from 2.75 to 4 kilograms (to 9 pounds). This wonderful “waterproof” and washable coat serves as a temperature regulator, a major route for the elimination of waste and, given the right nutrients, has the incredible capacity to heal it self when injured and act as an efficient defence against trauma, infection and invasion.
Healthy skin is slightly acid and is protected by the “acid mantle”, a naturally lubricating mixture of sebum and sweat which provides additional protection against assault by harmful bacteria. The skin and its padding also cushion internal organs against impact.
Trough approximately two and half million sweat glands, the average adult human being loses around 850 milliliters (a pint and half) of sweats each day. In every squire inch there are hundreds of pain, heat and cold and touch sensors, 5 meters (15 feet) of blood vessels, 4 meters (12 feet) of nerves 100 sebaceous glands and over 1500 sensory receptors, totaling three million cells, all shedding constantly – at an amount equal to an entire layer every seven to ten weeks.
This perpetual “moulting” means that to maintain the status quo, new cells need to be formed at an equivalent rate.
The outer surface (the epidermis) is actually a layer of dead keratin cells which are continually being shed and replaced by new cells working their way up from the dermis bellow. When this exfoliation process becomes sluggish – as we grow older or when health is under par – cell renewal slows right down, elimination pathways can become blocked, skin less supple and so becomes more prone to injury and disease.
To remain in good condition and to work efficiently, your birthday suit needs to be fed and cleaned from the inside as well as the outside.

Here is a Four-point Protection Plan:
Diet and Nutrition: Healthy skin depends on a healthy diet brimful of healing and nurturing nutrients.
Detox: A regular one- or two-day detox diet, using cleansing skin foods and purifying fluids, improves your beauty routine from the inside out, helping to clean out internal sludge, encourage efficient elimination of wastes and reenergize your system.
Beauty on the outside: It’s just as important to take time to pamper your self and attend to the external care of your skin – deep cleansing, exfoliation, massage, toning and moisturizing.
Well-being: Stress, poor quality sleep, shallow breathing, inadequate exercise? They are all seriously bad for your skin and do nothing for your long term wellbeing.

Looking Good!

Appearances do matter. Looking good makes people feel good. Looking after your self and your skin makes very good sense. How you look projects your personality and demonstrate that you are thinking positively about your self.
For the young, looking good become all-important- for some, a consuming passion. For many people, as the years advance, interest in hair, skin care, make-up, healthy eating, posture and dress begins to wane.
It shouldn’t have to and doesn’t need to!
There are bound to be people reading this who disagree with me. They will say: “It doesn’t matter what someone looks like. It’s the actual person that’s important. Inner beauty will shine trough no matter what.”
Of course it can. But there is nothing wrong with giving it a little encouragement. After all, how a person looks is often a reflection of how he/she feels. And fillings affect the attitude.
Cosmetic beauty may be only skin-deep, bur real beauty reflects your whole being. And two are connected. I believe that there is an inextricable link between good health and beauty at all levels. Good skin care and hair care can transform a personality. Even something as simple as applying some lipstick or giving your nails a salon treatment can chase a negative outlook away for long enough to spur you into more positive action.
Nourishing and nurturing yourself properly bring immense and immeasurable rewards of confidence, vitality, energy, positiveness and good health, of looking and feeling good- inside and out.
And age really has nothing to do with it. One person’s wrinkle is merely another person’s laughter line.