Komodo Island is the NEW 7 Wonders of The World

Komodo island is the new 7 wonders of the world. 

 

Komodo island is the new 7 wonders of the world.New Seven Wonders of the World was a project that attempted also to update the seven wonders of nature. The aim is to highlight and celebrate the beauty of our planet in order to foster greater respect of humans for the earth’s fragile equilibrium of nature, and mission statement for this campaign is: “If we want to save anything, we first need to truly appreciate it” (Bernard Weber, Founder New7Wonders).


There are currently 28 candidates to compete to be part of New Seven Wonders of Nature. Komodo Island is an island located in the Nusa Tenggara Islands. It is known as a habitat for native animal dragons. This island is known also with the Komodo National Park which is managed by the Central Government. Thus we can promote Komodo Island is the new 7 wonders of the world.


Komodo Island is one of the 17,508 islands that make up the Republic of Indonesia. The island has a surface area of 390 km² and over 2000 inhabitants. The inhabitants of the island are descendants of former convicts who were exiled to the island and who have mixed themselves with the Bugis from Sulawesi. The populations are primarily adherents of Islam but there are also Christian and Hindu minorities.
On the island of Komodo, dragon animals live and breed well. Until August 2009,  on this island there are a bout 1,300 dragon’s tail.  Coupled with other islands, such as the island of Rinca and Gili Motang, their numbers totaled about 2500 tails.  There are also approximately 100 individuals’ dragons in Wae Wuul Nature Reserve on the mainland island of Flores, but not including the Komodo National Park.
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Never There by Secret Heart Doctor

Never There by Secret Heart Doctor

As patients sometimes hid his condition consult your doctor and answered all fine. But there are 5 things that should not be withheld in patients with heart doctor.

"There are many reasons that make the patient does not provide information honestly about themselves, sometimes they are embarrassed, sometimes can not afford the medication or may fear the doctor would be angry," said Dr. Nieca Goldberg, director of the Women's Heart Program at New York University, as quoted by CNN Friday (18/02/2011).

However, heart experts said could have been a particular concern can be fatal if not notified. Here are 5 secrets that should not be hidden in the heart doctor is:

1. Taking vitamins, supplements or other herbal medicines
Alternative and herbal medicine can indeed help a person cope with chronic conditions, but heart experts warned not to drink carelessly. This is because there are certain supplements that can cause a serious risk for people who are known to consume drugs for heart disease.

2. If a test with another doctor
Patients sometimes embarrassed to admit that he received a second opinion or additional inspection test. This is of course to get better health care. If indeed undergo additional tests such as blood tests, ECG, echocardiogram or angiogram, then the results should be taken during the visit so the physician can understand the actual conditions and maximize treatment.

3. If you forget to take medication
Golberg says patients usually lie on medication for blood pressure or cholesterol. And if someone claims still taking the drug but the results of blood pressure or cholesterol is not good, it could have been a doctor will prescribe a higher dose. This can be very risky and cause problems.

4. Lying about conditions of life
Some conditions such as stress or trauma of life, death, layoff or divorce can make the body reproduces the excess adrenaline that can stimulate the heart rate and experience palpitations (feeling uncomfortable because of heart palpitations). To that should not conceal the conditions of life that can threaten health that a doctor can monitor more closely.

5. To say that his condition was fine
Everyone wants to look fine, so would say that he did exercise program and eating healthy foods, but it's not. Though this condition does not necessarily create increased heart health. Because if someone said he did not experience chest pain and then perform a variety of physical activity can actually harm the heart.

For that to get the patient does not lie with his condition, seek a doctor who has a good working relationship, trustworthy and willing to listen. This will make the patient easier to open and honest.

Living with Heart Plastic

Living with Heart Plastic

Oklahama, Troy Golden Living dead could be in the backpack luggage. Wherever he goes there is always a dipunggungnya backpack. This backpack contains a pneumatic pump to help pump his heart.

Troy heart made of plastic material weighing 160 grams, or slightly larger than the biological heart. Artificial heart is powered by a pneumatic pump that can be taken anywhere in a backpack.

Troy should always carry a rucksack containing a pneumatic pump which is connected with a long hose to the heart makes.

The length of waiting for donor heart, make a doctor must think fast to save the troubled heart of Troy. The man from the U.S. Oklahama born with heart defects called Marfan syndrome.

Marfan syndrome or Marfan's syndrome is a genetic condition since birth that slowly attacks the body's tissues, including heart and heart valves.

Finally at the age of 41 years, Troy had to undergo rescue operation by replacing the valve and form the back wall of his heart. But his condition worsened. At the end of January 2010, he entered the heart transplant list, but time passed without any donor.

"Heart of Troy was so bad that the heart pumps have traditionally been not enough. So, we decided to try something different to completely replace the heart," said Troy's cardiologist, Dr. Doug Horstmanshof, reported by BBC News, Wednesday (16/2/2011 .)

In September last year, Troy became one of the few people in the United States are replacing the entire heart with a device called a Total Artificial Heart (total artificial heart).

"It was certainly quite impressive. Fun to look into his chest and knowing that the only thing that makes it live is just a synthetic gas to replace his heart," said Dr. James Long, a surgeon who handles Troy.

Troy has been used to the sound of non-stop from the pneumatic pump. "This is incredible, can exit the hospital and returned home to a normal life," said Troy.

Total Artificial Heart has given hope to the lives of Troy. But this is not a permanent solution, because this artificial heart using a battery that must be constantly replenished. Risk of infection and clotting is also a concern.

For now Troy's long wait for donor heart. New road from this research focuses on efforts to assist, not replace heart.

Risk of Stroke and Heart Attack Increases in the Morning

Risk of Stroke and Heart Attack Increases in the Morning

Blockage of blood vessels that trigger strokes and heart attacks can occur at any time, but early morning is the most vulnerable time. In the morning, the blood to the heart more susceptible to clotting and lead to blockage.

Increased risk of blockage is primarily experienced by patients with heart problems that put a stent or a tool to widen blood vessels. Although relatively rare, a blockage around the stent highly vulnerable to cause strokes and heart attacks.

This was revealed in a study conducted by experts from the Mayo Clinic, Rochester. Based on observations of 124 patients between February 1995 until August 2009, the risk of blockage of the highest recorded at 7 am and lowest at 8 pm.

"Because of the high risk of blood clots in the morning, then perhaps more appropriate treatment is given in the morning," said one researcher, Dr David R Holmes, Jr., as quoted from HealthDay, Wednesday (02/23/2011).

During this time, medication to prevent blood clotting in patients with ST is given in the evening, just before sleep. By considering these findings, the researchers suggest that doctors divide the drugs into 2 to give each one at night and early morning.

The existence of certain cycles that affect the risk of stroke and heart attack has also been revealed in a study in the Tokyo Women's Medical University in 2005. This study reveals, the risk of stroke and heart attack highest recorded every Monday between the hours of 4-10 am.

In this case, the increased risk on Monday morning, the most widely experienced by the workers. The trigger is the level of stress which surged because so spend the holiday weekend, the workers have to deal with a solid routine in the beginning of the week.

Higher Education Reduce the Risk of Heart Attack

Higher Education Reduce the Risk of Heart Attack

Providence, Rodhe Island, If you want to have longevity, do not hesitate to continue their education up to master's or doctoral level. Higher education can lower blood pressure on average, so less susceptible to strokes and heart attacks.

High blood pressure or hypertension is one risk factor for stroke and heart attack. According to the Blood Pressure Association, people with hypertension had a risk 2-fold more likely to die prematurely due to failure of cardiac function and blood vessels.

In addition to diet and lifestyle is affected, the risk of hypertension is also associated with one's education level. A recent study proved that graduates of S1, S2 and S3 had a lower risk than high school graduates to have hypertension.

Research conducted by experts from Brown University in Rodhe Island is involved 4,000 men and women with different academic backgrounds. Jejang education and everyday lives of the volunteers were observed continuously for 30 years.

The results showed, college graduates had an average blood pressure 2.26 mm Hg lower than those of volunteers who never graduated from high school. Although there is also the male volunteers, this difference is more striking observed in women volunteers.

The researchers speculate, blood pressure was lower in college graduates is influenced by several factors. Among others, scholars have a chance to get good jobs with lower stress levels than those who never graduated from high school.

High levels of education also prevented the scholars from the risk of stress due to early marriage. According to the study, high school dropout, especially women tend to marry and have children at a younger age than the scholar.

"Women with low education more at risk of depression, divorce and being a single parent then living below the poverty line," said one researcher, Dr Eric Loucks

6 Food Substitute Drug

6 Food Substitute Drug

Erratic weather plus a less than ideal lifestyle would make people so susceptible to disease. And generally when the disease attacked people tend to look for a variety of drugs to cure themselves. Though there are some nutritious foods to prevent and cure diseases. Anything?

Nearly all the food affects the human body, but some foods have more efficacy as a treatment if taken regularly and correctly.

Here are some foods that have the potential for treatment, as reported by Healthmad, Wednesday (09/03/2011), namely:

1. Salmon
Salmon contains omega-3 the highest, which can prevent heart problems. Research shows that eating salmon once a week will reduce the risk of heart attack and also lowers blood pressure, arthritis (rheumatoid arthritis), prevent asthma and prevent stomach and breast cancer.

2. Carrots
Carrots are foods that contain lots of beta carotene. Beta carotene is associated with anti-cancer, boost the immune system and protects the arteries (blood vessels). One carrot a day may reduce the risk of lung cancer and is very good for the eyes. Carrots are believed to prevent eye diseases such as cataracts.

3. Garlic
Research shows that garlic will prevent many cancers in animals. In humans, garlic is known to lower blood pressure, diabetes, clean the plaque in blood vessels and prevent stomach cancer because they contain antioxidants.

Eat a few cloves (half unit intact large cloves) garlic every day can lower cholesterol and reduce blood clotting.

4. Orange
Oranges are loaded with vitamin C that can prevent flu and colds. In addition, orange also can prevent lung cancer, stomach, pancreas, stomach and breast.

Most importantly, because oranges contain potassium (potassium) and vitamin B that can prevent stroke and heart disease, is also believed to maintain a masculine male.

One or two oranges per day is useful for the treatment, because the orange is very common and easy to eat, so it is more effective for the treatment.

5. Broccoli
Many do not know that serving 1 serving of broccoli contains 97 percent vitamin C which is a treatment for heart problems. Antioxidants maintain normal blood flow and reduce blood pressure. Fiber also may reduce cholesterol and regulate blood sugar levels, so good for diabetics.

Broccoli is also believed to prevent lung cancer, stomach, prostate and breast cancer because it affects hormone levels.

6. Apple
1 apple a day may keep the doctor away. Apples contain vitamin C and A are effective for lowering cholesterol levels and cancer risk.

Horrible Facts Heart Attack

Horrible Facts Heart Attack

Unhealthy lifestyle that make heart attacks are now not only attack the person of old age but also young people. There are a few facts about heart attacks that occur worldwide.

Human heart pumps blood around the body is constantly at around 4-5 liters of blood per minute. Therefore, if blood flow is not smooth can cause heart muscle damage, which causes the pump disorders of the heart (heart failure) and death.

To be able to get a long life, the heart is one organ that absolutely must be kept healthy. Heart disorders can be deadly, so prevention becomes the wisest step to avoid sudden death from heart attack.

Some of the facts about heart attacks that occur worldwide, reported by Medindia on Wednesday (03/09/2011), namely:

   1. 12.5 million of the estimated 32 million heart attacks that occur worldwide fatal
   2. 40-75 percent of all heart attack victims die before reaching hospital
   3. 50 percent of heart attack patients waited for 2 hours or more before getting medical help
   4. Disease
      heart kills more women than men in the United States each year
   5. 38 percent of women die within a year after suffering a heart attack, compared with 25 percent of men.
   6. 1 of 5 Naturalife Greenworld some form of heart or blood vessel disease
   7. Risk of second heart attack within six years of a first heart attack in the estimate of 35 percent in women and 18 percent in men
   8. South Asian men are more prone to heart attacks at a younger age compared with persons belonging to other ethnic groups
   9. It is estimated that worldwide 15.6 million people have rheumatic heart disease, 470,000 new cases of rheumatic fever and 233,000 deaths are caused by rheumatic fever or rheumatic heart disease every year, especially in developing countries.
  10. High blood pressure is called the 'silent killer'
  11. High blood pressure can cause stroke, heart attack, heart failure or kidney failure.
  12. People can reduce the risk of heart attack with lifestyle modifications, such as quitting smoking, not obese or lose weight, no alcohol consumption, physical activity and manage stress.
  13. People can add up to 5 years life expectancy with quitting smoking
  14. Eating fish once a week can reduce the chance of having a heart attack by 52 percent
  15. Having a personality that is vindictive or rather hostile (hostile Personalities) increases the risk of heart attack
  16. Watching the World Cup also increase the risk of heart attack.

Tips for Choosing Safe and Healthy Food Snacks

Tips for Choosing Safe and Healthy Food Snacks

Most children are very tempted with foods that are brightly colored or interesting shape, but the food was not safe. Then how to choose healthy foods and snacks?

In Indonesia, in general, any food can be freely distributed and sold without having to first go through quality control and safety control.

This makes it still more than 70 percent of food sold is still produced by traditional producers, who in most of the production process is still far from health and safety requirements, so that cases of food poisoning is increasing.

"Do not facilitate the child to be able to buy snacks, unhealthy snacks. Sometimes the need to 'cruel' to son in the interest of the child," said Ir Chandra Irawan, MSI, food chemistry and nutrition experts from the Academy of Chemical Analyst Bogor, in gathering Yupi Media Support Movement Towards Healthy Food Snacks at School Cafe Tartine, fX Senayan, Jakarta, Tuesday (03/01/2011).

Here are some safety tips to choose foods that are given by Ir Chandra:

1. Observe the color, conspicuous or not
Observe whether the food is bright or much different from the original color. Snacks, crackers, noodles, ice cream is too light in color may have been added dyes that are not safe.

2. Sample a taste
Usually tongue sharp enough to distinguish which foods are safe or not. Unsafe food is generally tasteless sharp, eg, very tasty, make a vibrating tongue and throat itch.

3. Baui aroma
Rancid smell of stale or a sign the food is damaged or contaminated by microorganisms.

4. Observe composition
Please read carefully the content is there any additional food ingredients that can damage the danger and health.

5. Note the quality
Note the quality of food, whether fresh or moldy which can cause poisoning. Foods that are moldy indicates the process is not going well or has expired.

6. Registered in BPOM
If you want to buy imported food, try the products listed on the BPOM (Food and Drug Supervisory Agency), which can be observed in the label shown on the packaging.

"Remember also secure that the criteria varied. Safe for one person may not be safe for others," said Ir Chandra.

According to Ir Chandra, could have on a particular child preservatives cause allergic reactions. For example Calcium Benzoate preservatives in soft drink products are very loved children.

"For children who are healthy may not affect anything, but for children with asthma contain this preservative can make asthma relapse," continued Ir Chandra.

Ir Chandra also provides some tips for choosing foods that contain borax, namely:

1. Wet noodle containing borax
Its texture is chewy, more shiny, not sticky and not easily broken.

2. Meatballs containing borax
Its texture is very chewy, not the color of brown as the use of meat but are more likely to whitish.

3. Snacks (rice cake) containing borax
Its texture is chewy, sharp as a very savory taste, makes the tongue vibrate and give a sense of bitterness.

4. Crackers contain borax
Crunchy texture and creates a feeling of bitterness.

While foods that contain formalin has the following characteristics:

1. Wet noodle
No damage up to 2 days at room temperature (25 degrees Celsius) and lasted more than 15 days at refrigerator temperature (10 degrees Celsius). Not sticky and more shiny than regular noodles.

2. Know
No damage up to 3 days at room temperature and can survive more than 15 days at refrigerator temperature. Know too hard, chewy but not dense.

3. Fish berformalin
No damage up to 3 days at room temperature. Colors are not bright crimson gills rather than fresh red meat color and pure white.

4. Salted fish
No damage to more than 1 month at room temperature. Clean bright and does not smell like salted fish. No infestation of flies in the area that many berlalat.

5. Meatball
Not damaged more than 2 days at room temperature and the texture is very chewy.

6. Chicken
Not damaged more than 2 days at room temperature and the texture is very fast.

Do not Let the Kids Swim Too Old

Do not Let the Kids Swim Too Old

Children are most happy to linger in the pool. New kid out of the swimming pool after her lips blue, his face pale and cold due to long hours in the water. But you should not let children swim for too long. Why?

Swimming is excellent for physical and brain development of children. Swimming is one sport that well, because it involves a lot of muscles and organs. But if too long soak in cold water also can lead to various diseases.

Water used for swimming normally be cooler than the surrounding air. Immersing the body in cold water will lower a person's body temperature, so that when out of the swimming pool or hot air at a lower temperature, the body will try to menormalkannya.

If done in sufficient time or not too long about 1-2 hours, the reaction can make the child feel hungry after your swim.

But when children are left to linger to soak in water for more than 2 hours, can cause chills and trigger an increase in heart rate suddenly (tachycardia), as reported by the heart-problems.net, Monday (03/07/2011).

Swim or soak in water temperature lower than body temperature for a long time can make arteries contract and the expansion of small veins, which may cause the blood to stop the subcutaneous blood vessels.

Under these conditions, heart rate and blood flow will be disrupted and cause a deficit (lack) of oxygen that can cause serious matter.

In addition, the swim too long in that cold water can increase the load on the heart, which causes the heart beats faster all of a sudden, that in certain people can trigger heart disease.

Therefore, you should not let children or people with weak heart conditions linger to soak in cold water. If there are symptoms that felt uncomfortable, get out of the water to prevent freezing and the increase in heart rate suddenly.

Child Fever Not Always Need Drugs

Child Fever Not Always Need Drugs

When the child's body temperature rises, parents often panic and hastily took him to the doctor or give him a febrifuge. Though the fever does not always need drugs, sometimes an increase in body temperature can be lowered naturally.

Fever or elevated body temperature is a sign that the body is doing menyerang.Karena resistance to infection, the condition is often said to be a symptom of another disease that actually mainly triggered by bacterial infection.

New research published in the journal Pediatrics said, any high fever will not damage the nerve. Most only trigger sweating in large quantities that it actually accelerate the healing of disease.

Janice Sullivan, MD from the University of Louisville who conducted the study says, bacteria or viruses are also more difficult to breed when body temperature is high. High temperatures increase the activity of the immune system in the lymph glands.

Sullivan said, the only reason to give the drug down the heat is to reduce the sense gelisan and discomfort in children. The disease itself is more suited treated with antibiotics, although sometimes the function of this drug can still be replaced by the immune system.

To reduce hot child naturally is:

   1. Compress the child with regular water, not ice or alcohol because of differences in temperature can make a child's seizures. Make a compress on the forehead, armpits and groin.
   2. Give your child drink lots of fluid.
   3. Put the kids clothes that thin so as not to inhibit the release of heat.


Parents only may panic and immediately took his son to the doctor if the condition is as follows, as quoted from MensHealth.com, Wednesday (03/09/2011).

   1. Body temperature exceeds 38 degrees Celsius for children aged 3-6 months
   2. Body temperature exceeds 39 degrees Celsius for children aged over 6 months
   3. Fever does not go down for 96 hours or 4 days.


If you want to give her medicine down its own heat, make sure the dosage according to age and weight of the child or if you are unsure ask your doctor or pharmacist nearby. Sullivan's research indicates, some parents are giving the drug at a dose that is not appropriate.

The study also says that the real worry is the other symptoms accompanying the fever. Complaints such as severe headaches, dehydration, skin rashes and shortness of breath was more indicates a serious disorder that needs to be sent to the doctor.

Stem Cell Transplant the First Jump in Throat

Stem Cell Transplant the First Jump in Throat

London, Operation transplant (graft) throat using a deceased donor transplant and then developed with stem cells (stem cells) that the patient is usually developed in the laboratory.

But now doctors are able to do trachea transplant from a deceased donor using the patient's own stem cells directly in the throat of the patient without going through the planting in the laboratory.

Donor transplant done by taking the trachea from a deceased donor. Then the doctor will remove all the stem cells from the pedonor and leaves one network and replace them by growing the cells from stem cells (stem cells) of patients.

The operation was the first operation by injecting the trachea with a deceased donor stem cells from boys in England aged 10 years who directly implanted in his throat.

This operation is the development of the first trachea transplant in the world using stem cells in November 2008. Only difference, if the first of the donor trachea with the stem cell patients can not be done directly in the throat but in the laboratory.

Previous expert team from University College London, Florence in Italy and Barcelona, Spain who had throat first transplant using stem cells in 2008 which was also developed this technique to the case of the boy.

With this system the boy stem cells derived from bone marrow is ready for use in just four hours later. These cells will trigger regrowth of cells to create a normal trachea without the risk of transplantation such as rejection by the body.

This operation took place at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. The boy has now been able to breathe alone and unable to speak normally.

This is the first time a child receives an organ transplant directly created by the stem cells directly in the throat. In previous operations throat cells grown in the laboratory prior to a few months before the implanted organ.

The boy has not announced his name will remain in the hospital to be monitored for development growth. It is expected that air pipes will be fully formed within two weeks. Meanwhile, other organs also expected to support.

"This is the first time a child is receiving treatment with stem cell organ stem the longest air route that had replaced that is about 7 cm in length," said Professor Martin Birchall, head of transplant regenerative medicine at University College London, as quoted by the Telegraph, on Monday (22 / 3 / 2010).

Professor Birchall added at this time he and the team is conducting further clinical trials to show that this concept could work well. Himself and the team also plans to do so in other organs, especially the larynx and esophagus.

The little boy was born with only a trachea of a millimeter so that makes it not able to breathe alone.

Previously he had undergone surgery to extend the rod teggorokannya with the help of metal materials for a year, but the metal is pierced large blood vessel that causes bleeding.

Emergency surgery was performed to repair the existing hole. But in November 2009, blood vessels penetrate the metal back, but the bleeding can be controlled. Finally, the surgeon was running out of viable options for care.

Prof. Elliot as director of services at Great Ormond Street trachea revealed patients can benefit greatly from this technique in the future. One of the benefits obtained are to reduce the risk of organ rejection by the body after surgery.

Someone doing an organ transplant throat because the organ is usually imperfect, damaged by illness such as tuberculosis. Graft is needed so that the patient had difficulty breathing and could not speak normally.