Aching Legs and Feet

Nowadays, leg pain (or leg aches) is a very common cause for those who are suffering from an injury, now there are a lot of non-traumatic factors of lower leg aching. Chronic leg aches can cause due to several reasons that can harm bones, muscles, joints, ligaments, tendons, nerves, blood vessels, and skin. Normally, tissues with inflammation cause these diseases, aching legs and feet is usually caused by inflammation and it is called as the base of these types of muscle ache. Ailments of back can occur due to leg ache. People (especially elderly) also experience aching legs at night for a prolonged period of time.

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Leg Pain (Aches) Causes

The causes of aching legs include :

a. Trauma

b. Non-Trauma

Trauma

Trauma is the strongest reason of aching legs. Fallings, near fallings, and injuries by twisting can affect bones, joints and muscles or almost all of them. Excessive use of injured places can also be a reason of pain and it can also turn into a multiple minor traumatic injury.

Fractures

Some of the synonyms of the word fracture are broken and cracked; these all means the same when it comes to bone injuries. These types of injuries are caused when the bone of the human body is compromised.

Shin splints

Shin splints can take place by an excessive use of the injured area to the shin bone or tibia. It can also be called as tibial stress syndrome. Jumping running, and dancing are the commonest causes of shin splints.

Sprain and strains

Injury of ligament can also be called as sprain and it causes when the fibers of ligament gets stretched. Stretching of muscles and tendons can also cause a strain. All of them, sprains and strains result in inflammation and swelling which occurs pain.

Bleeding

Severe injuries can start bleeding into joints and tissues. Because blood can’t be compressed, so when the pressure increases, the amount of pain also increases significantly.

Common Food Related Issues In Indian Vegetarians

• Proteins
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  Calories

• Vitamin B12
• Iron
• Bloating
• Food poisoning

Indian Plant Foods High in PROTEINS

Amount of proteins in 100g (except specified otherwise) of food:

• Pulses (cooked)
  • Lentils, Masoor dal = 9g
  • Pigeon peas, red gram, Toor dal = 7g
  • Black lentils, black gram, Urad dal = 7g
  • Chickpeas, Bengal gram, Channa dal = 9g
• Soybean, cooked = 12 g
• Tofu = 9g
• Soymilk (one cup, 243 g) = 8g
• Kidney beans = 9g
• Green peas = 5g
• Nuts: 21-24g
  • Ground nuts, peanuts, arachides, Moongfali, roasted = 24g
  • Peanut butter (2 tbsp) = 8g
  • Pistachios, Pista = 21g
  • Walnuts (Akhroat/Akhrot), dried = 24g
  • Almonds (Badam), roasted = 21g
  • Cashew nuts (Kaju) = 15g
• Cereals: 6-13 g proteins
  • Indian flatbread, Roti = 11g

Vegetables and fruits contain less than 5g proteins per 100g of food.

HIGH-CALORIE Indian Foods

High-calorie low-fat PLANT foods:

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  Pea – Kachori (two) – 380 cal

• Bajji or pakora (eight) – 280 cal
• Upma (250 mL) – 270 cal
• Khichidi (250 mL) – 200 cal (Khichidi recipes and pictures)
• Masala dosa (one) – 200 cal (Masala Dosa recipes and pictures)
• Samosa (one) – 200 cal
• Dahi vada (two) – 180 cal
• Rice, cooked (250 mL) – 170 cal
• Bread (2 slices) – 170 cal
• Paratha (one) – 150 cal
• Idli (two) – 150 cal (Idli recipes with pictures)
• Dosa (one) – 125 cal (Dosa recipes with pictures)
• Sambar (250 mL) – 110 cal (Sambar recipes and pictures)
• Puri (one) – 100 cal (Puri recipes and pictures)
• Plain dal (125 g) – 100 cal

Whenever we talk about the allergy to the cosmetic products and skin sensitivity, hair dye allergies are the third most common allergies that come after fragrances and preservatives. Hair dying has become the most modern aesthetic trend among youngsters. It has also taken lead on the tattoos and body piercing.

Most of the hair dyes cause allergy resulting in burning, redness, and itchy scalp. This problem can be easily coped if treated early on; when you feel irritation in your scalp right after the implementing dye.

Unfortunately most of the people are unaware of the allergic reactions of hair dyes and they buy special shampoos and conditioners which may aggravate the condition instead of curing it.

Contact allergen

The culprit compound that used to cause allergy and present even in the most selling brands is known as paraphenylenediamine (PPD) or “contact allergen” or in scientific terminology, “sensitization dermatitis”. This ingredient is mostly found in oxidation and permanent hair dyes. If you know that you are sensitive to PPD, you should avoid such dye.

It’s a common thinking about skin cancer that it appears on the sun exposed areas of the skin, like face, scalp, lips, ears, neck, chest, arms and hands. But a lot of cases are reported with skin cancer, on the skin parts which are rarely exposed to the sun, palms, beneath finger nails, spaces between the toes or under the toe nails, and genital area. Moreover, skin complexion may very in case to case.

The appearance of symptoms depends on the type of skin cancer. In some types, it gradually developed and slowly showed itself while in other it can be appeared suddenly.

The symptoms, according to the type of skin cancer, have been mentioned as below;

Basal Cell Carcinoma

The most common type that does not metastasize is Basal Cell Carcinoma. It showed up itself in one of the of following symptoms;

• A translucent or waxy bump on the face, ears or neck
• Appearance of flat and scar like lesions, having brown or flesh like color, on the chest and back
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You must have heard about type1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, but the least existing form of diabetes is gestational diabetes. If you are pregnant and during pregnancy you develop diabetes that condition is referred to gestational diabetes or GDM.

In accordance with the normal procedure alimentary canal digest the carbohydrate of food into glucose and absorb into blood. Glucose is the key source of the energy of human body.

After that, the essential organ of the body ‘pancreas’ release hormone called insulin, that get the glucose from blood and provide them to the body cell for proper functioning.

Development of diabetes refer to the state, that either your body in not producing enough protein or your body cells are not recognizing the insulin present in your body, that is why they are not using it in the way they should.

A proper sleep is the thing that your arteries may need for avoiding calcification, the results of a new study seem to suggest so.

In their study the researchers from the Chicago Medical Center found that those middle aged people who took an extra hour of slumber every night had lesser odds to develop calcification in arteries.

“It is worth mentioning that the results of our study do not suggest that people should go to sleep prematurely or take sleeping pills,” Diane Lauderdale, the lead author of the study, says.

“It is not known yet what’s the link between proper sleep and arteries calcification and as far as we are not able to find why it is so, we can’t tell whether this link is serious or a casual one.”

Too much TV watching, video games and internet surfing makes children more likely to develop multiple health conditions such as obesity, U.S. researchers said.

Researchers compared 173 studies made since 1980 till to date to understand the reason that how electronic media cast effect on the children health.

The most studies, focused on TV but few looked for other electronic media as well. Most of the studies concluded that viewing of electronic media overall have adverse effects on health.

The studies give proves that children obsessed with media watching may get obese, start smoking and may involve in immature sexual activities than those who spend far less time in front of screen. Researcher also added, previous record also indicate the early drug and alcohol addiction and poor performance in class.

A U.S. study concludes that overweight children and teens have to undergo more frequent and intense Migraines and the severity and intensity of these headaches can be eased by losing weight.

The study was carried out at seven pediatric headache centers and it noted that 34.1 % of patients were obese or had the risk of becoming obese. It was somewhat the same to the rates of obese in the general population of the teens and children.

The researchers examined the data collected on 913 migraines patients in the beginning of the study and after three and six months. They noticed a significant link between obesity and headaches.

Skin rashes can be diagnosed through a physical examination by your doctor or a dermatologist. In some special cases, a skin biopsy or other test (blood test, urine test) may be required to find out the exact nature of a rash. Details from a medical history can also be helpful for diagnosis.

Some skin rashes cannot be prevented, particularly those developed from an underlying illness. However, people can lower the risk of skin rashes by taking several precautionary measures.

Treatment option varies depending on the nature of rash. Some rashes clear on their own over time. Patients can avail several skin rash treatments to relieve symptoms associated with the rash until it clears.