Archive for January, 2010

Healthy Eating – The Debate Continues

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

There are just a few things as debatable as precisely what makes up ‘healthy eating‘.

Everybody wants to eat more healthily, and producers of food desire their clients to believe that whatever they are selling will help them do that. Somewhere along the line, the truth becomes lost in the noise. In objective terms, most diet gurus agree the best trail to eating healthily is to eat all of the different food groups carefully. These means to avoid any trend diet that restricts one food group and go mad with another, and by not eating too much of food. The secret is to eat some carbohydrate, protein and fat at every meal, hopefully balancing out stuff like pasta and rice with beef or other fats and proteins. It’s also important to limit calorie intake, which fundamentally means not eating too much overall.

How many calories you need varies depending on your sex, how old you are and what type of work you do, but somewhere between 2000-2500 calories each day works as a rule.

A more debatable part of the push towards eating sensibly is that some food ingredients are often said to be unhealthy in any quantity and the massive food makers are not ecstatic about this, because these ingredients have a tendency to be inexpensive, or succulent, or helpful, or all 3. Preservatives are a nice example, as are insecticides and sweeteners, and consumers’ tries to avoid all of these have led on to manufacturers being made to go to all kinds of lengths to get rid of them from their foods. Central authorities have got in on the eating sensibly act, too, with a lot of them mounting campaigns on it to attempt to drive down obesity and other food-related conditions. The commonest one is the message to eat 5 portions of fruit and plants a day, that has led on to a promoting feeding madness, with other campaigns including anti-salt, pro-oils, anti-trans fats, and infrequently anti-junk food in general.

Where to Find a Catheter

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

If your doctor or urologist has told you that you need to use a catheter, for whatever reason, you may be wondering where you can find one. The truth is that there are several places you can buy these useful tools, and it’s not difficult to find them in your community.

Although you can’t buy a catheter at a typical drug store or pharmacy, you can probably buy them at a medical supply store in your area. Sometimes these stores will be located nearby to hospitals, and many times they’ll cater to actual doctors’ offices. You’ll want to be sure that you’ll be able to actually shop at one of these stores and that you don’t have to have a medical license to buy from the stores. You can easily find these stores in a phonebook or online, and you can give them a call beforehand to see whether or not they carry catheters.

Another convenient place to get a catheter is online. There are several online stores that specialize in medical supplies, and you’ll want to get yours from a large store, where you’re likely to find good deals. Before you buy a catheter from an online store, though, be sure that you’re getting the type that you want, whether that is disposable or reusable.

When you’re buying a catheter, you should always be sure that you know how to use one. While you don’t technically need a prescription to use a catheter, you will need someone who will teach you to use the tool correctly and safely. Also, if you’re ordering a reusable catheter, be sure that you know how to clean it and store it properly to keep yourself from getting infections, and don’t forget to keep some lubricant with your catheter, since you’ll need it, too.