Though nobody in the world prefers to have a humpty dumpty figure which attracts ironic humor from people around, it is a fact that Obesity has become a fast spreading health problem worldwide. According to World Health Organization, more than 1 billion adults all over the world suffer from obesity with around 300 million people categorized as clinically obese. The alarming facts are the consequences of obesity, like hypertension, sleep apnea, gall bladder diseases, osteoarthritis, specific types of cancer and above all cardio vascular diseases.
Heart is the most crucial and critical organ in human body and it needs to be protected and taken care to sustain life. Obesity is an important factor that can cause harm to heart visible through various heart disease symptoms like dizziness, difficulty in breathing, heavy heart and shoulder, long breadths, nausea, cold sweat and rapid heartbeat. The overweight bodies even affect the lungs and its normal working parameters. A detail study on the subject proves that where a normal human body carries 25 to 30 billion fat cells, an obese person carries 100 to 150 billion fat cells. And the major reason detected for this condition is the fast lifestyle and unhealthy and unbalanced consumption of food. Around 35% of the daily calorie consumption of an individual comes from restaurant food, and thus it becomes difficult to maintain a healthy food habit.
So to protect the heart and to maintain a longer and healthy life the most essential activity is to reduce weight. In this process, the best way is to consume weight loss supplements which essentially carry all the necessary nutrients and minerals required for the body in correct proportion so that the body weight remains balanced and heart disease symptoms and other disease chances are lowered. Since there are various weight loss supplements, the choice can be pretty difficult. The internet provides ample option to research on the best supplements available in the market and the advantages and disadvantages of each one of them. There are free diet charts with detail description on body nutrients from eminent nutritionist also for the benefit of the readers. However consulting a physician in this regard is ideal who can guide on the required nutrients unique for each person.
A good diet chart, correct proportion of nutrients consumption, regular exercise are all related towards having the perfect shape and an ideal weight. This will reduce the heart problems as well as several chronic diseases which hamper millions each year around the world.
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Home siding is a protective covering that aims to shield the home from wind, rain, snow and other harsh weather conditions. Home siding should also serve to enhance the look of the house and add value to the property.
Options for New House Siding
There are several types of siding that you can go for, based on requirements and budget. New home siding materials include wood, asbestos, vinyl, hardboard, fiberglass, cement fiber and aluminum. Each of these materials has pros and cons. Most modern designs call for vinyl and cement fiber.
Choosing New House Siding
There are several factors to consider when choosing new home siding. Cost is a major factor. Aluminum and vinyl are popular because they don’t require paint; however, aluminum is prone to denting and vinyl is prone to cracking. Options like stucco and cedar shakes tend to be the most aesthetically pleasing and longest lasting, but they are also commonly the most expensive. Stucco is made of sand and lime mixed in water that’s used over a structural framework of metal. Similarly, solid wood siding has excellent curb appeal and durability, but it’s costly.
Veneer and synthetic options can be aesthetically pleasing, but they lack durability. New home siding can be designed in steel with vinyl coatings for a longer life. New home siding can use synthetic materials like plastic too, which is expensive, but makes up for the cost with low maintenance over the years. Some home owners also have environmental concerns. New home siding should be green, which effectively rules out wood from forests or metal, which involves an energy intensive process.
New House Siding: Metal or Composite?
All materials have pros and cons, and metal is no exception. With metal you don’t need to worry about durability, fire, rot, bugs, hail storms or maintenance, although insulation, transportation costs and excess weight could be concerns. Manufacturing and installing metal sidings is also more labor intensive. Composite materials include asphalt, asbestos, aluminum, clapboard and fiber cement. Composite materials can be costly. Their resistance to wood-rot problems and harsh weather conditions, especially in areas with excessive rain, speaks in their favor.
New house siding should ultimately enhance the look of your home and protect it from Mother Nature. Think of new house siding like clothing. You can dress your home any way you wish, but since your home will be wearing the same outfit for (hopefully) a long time, you should pick your favorite. Combining sharp looks with dependable functionality is usually a strong bet.
Japan’s nuclear disaster is a factor that we must protect ourselves against; from nuclear fallout. The Ground Zero workers suffered from life-long lung conditions as a result of inward leakage between face and respirator. Breathe Safely offers a solution to the disastrous problems caused by respirator failure.
Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, CA – When using a respirator to protect individuals, including from Japan’s Nuclear Fallout, the seal between face and respirator (inward leakage) is most important. Inward leakage allows raw hazardous particle that can not be removed from entering directly into the lungs. All respirators without an adhesive seal to the face has an inward leakage problem, as seen with the 9/11 Ground Zero.
First responders and clean-up crews at Ground Zero have suffered life long health ailments. Some have been diagnosed with severely diminished lung capacity. 35,980 people filed for worker’s compensation from the World Trade Center incident.
Congress passed a $4.2 billion bill to pay for health care and compensation of the clean up crews, first responders, and respirator trained workers. A $657.5 million dollar lawsuit settlement was reached for 10,000 of the first responders and these same people.
As the federal lawsuits for 9/11 clean-up staff continues to grow, fingers continue to point, placing the blame on anyone who was calling the shots that day.
Many of the first responders wore respirators. The law suit comes to life because of the failure of respirators. The problem was due to the fact that the respirator’s worn did not have an air tight seal to the emergency worker’s faces.
The first responders at Ground Zero were trained and tested to use the respirators properly. Due to the fact that the airflow went around the respirator medium, the debris and dust reached the lungs of the workers instead of being filtered through the respirator (inward leakage). For more on inward leakage see the two citation sources below.
A recent study from the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene entitled, “Performance of an N95 Filtering Face-piece Particulate Respirator and a Surgical Mask During Human Breathing: Two Pathways for Particle Penetration” The study shows out of 75 participants wearing respirators and surgical masks, the leakage through the contact surface of the respirator to the face was an average of 5% with N95 respirators (best fit, fit test failures). Surgical masks shows an average rate of 40% leakage (best fit, fit test) and leakage appears no matter what size the particle is.
The study shows the compromises existing through a faulty facial seal, not the face-mask or respirator medium. A medical grade adhesive seal; Breathe Safely™ , already exists, this would have made the extent of lung damage substantially less. This technology seals a respirator to the users face, it uses a medical grade adhesive seal so that respirators and masks do not leak inward or outward at the face. After comprehensive testing of Breathe Safely™ seals, test participants felt 100% safer and 70% more comfortable wearing the seal.
Penetration of fatal pollutants and viruses take place around the edge of the respirator, mask, or personal protection equipment (PPE). This is tested and published by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention and a 2011 publication entitled, “Preventing Transmission of Pandemic Influenza and Other Viral Respiratory Disease” issued by the Institute of Medicine.
The U.S. Government (tax payers) will continue paying law suits and medicare as the first responders, emergency workers, and daily respirator users health conditions progressively decline with age, as they did with asbestos.
During the next viral pandemic (like H1N1, but worse) is the same fate to doctors, nurses, hospital workers and emergency workers bound to happen, says the World Health Organization. As stated in the publication, “Preventing Transmission of Pandemic Influenza and Other Viral Respiratory Diseases: Personal Protective Equipment for Healthcare Workers Update 2010,” Page: 5-6; the respirator face-seal leakage is much greater than the filtration material on the respirator. Page: 79; 20 volunteers tested with five different face masks, all failed fit testing. Page 80; 6,160 trained health workers tested and 17% failed fit testing. With the Breathe Safely seal the full capabilities of the respirator will finally be realized.
Citations: Grinshpun, Sergey A., Haruta, Hiroki, Eninger, Robert M., Reponen, Tiina, McKay, Roy T. and Lee, ShuAn(2009) ‘Performance of an N95 Filtering Facepiece Particulate Respirator and a Surgical Mask During Human Breathing: Two Pathways for Particle Penetration’,Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene,6:10,593 – 60 IOM (Institute of Medicine). 2011. ‘Preventing Transmission of Pandemic Influenza and other Viral Respiratory Diseases: Personal Protective Equipment for Healthcare Personnel’-update 2010. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Lead is a soft, malleable, heavy, and toxic metal and has been used as a component of paints since ancient times. As time went on, Lead-Based Paint was recognized for its ability to produce a durable and washable surface that allowed germs to be easily removed. As a result, lead became a component in just about all paints. White Lead-Based Paint was the favorite of homeowners because of its durability that allowed for longer intervals between repaints.
The United States outlawed the use of lead in paints in 1978. Despite mounting evidence on the dangers of Lead-Based Paint, many industrialized, educated countries still use lead in paints. As a natural element, lead does not break down in the environment. Once lead has been dispersed and redeposited in the environment, it remains there and can poison generations, unless it is controlled or removed.
Lead poisoning occurs when lead enters the body via contaminated water, by eating tainted soil, eating paint chips containing lead, and breathing or swallowing dust from lead based paint especially from eroding surfaces. Among the methods of poisoning, lead-dust from lead based paint poses one of the greatest threats due to its subtle method of being easily inhaled, ingested, and unknowingly absorbed. This is especially dangerous to young children and pregnant women, who absorb as much as 50 percent more lead than the average adult due to the body’s inability to distinguish it during periods of stress and the body’s growth demands.
If you find your home or building containing Lead-Based Paint, it is best to come up with a practical plan to deal with it by weighing all your options. You have three choices, do nothing, fully remove it knowing that full blown removal and replacement can be extremely intrusive and expensive plus potentially the most hazardous if not done properly, and lastly the most sensible and best option is to manage it in place with long lasting green coatings. These green coatings should have all the necessary approvals for coating over Lead-Based Paint and sealing it safely, and be acceptable for both interior and exterior surfaces.
There is no law saying you have to remove old Lead-Based Paint. Removing Lead-Based Paint the wrong way can lead to an increase in lead dust which does not completely disappear even after cleanup. A proper, quick and simple way of handling existing Lead-Based Paint is through in-place management, specifically with green approved coatings, sometimes known as encasement or encapsulation. Encasement refers to enclosing interior or exterior building surfaces, including hazardous materials, with accepted green coatings. With Lead-Based Paint one has to coat over those areas to seal the hazard to keep it from being released and harming building occupants.
Not only is in-place management with green, approved coatings a proper way of handling Lead-Based Paint, it is also much more economical compared with other abatement methods, such as removal and replacement. In place management is also less disruptive of ongoing services. It does not require shutting down buildings or having to relocate occupants which is costly and time consuming. Most work can be completed in a minimal amount of time with minimal building down time and can result in savings of anywhere from 25% to 75% over removal and replacement.
An added benefit of in-place management with approved green coatings is that they are sustainable and renewable. They can rapidly reduce the harmful effects of hazardous materials on people and the environment while extending the life of buildings. Compared to other typical paints that last only a few years, green encasement coatings that are approved for sealing in Lead-Based Paint when applied at the right thickness can be assured to last for 20 years. After the end of that time you simply recoat the surface and the coating will cross link bond with the old coating creating a sustainable surface that can be renewed indefinitely.
Approved green coatings used for in-place management of Lead-Based Paint have no environmental downside. They are non-toxic, water-based, low in VOC’s, (Volatile Organic Compounds), contain no ODS (Ozone Depleting Substances) and are Class A fire rated. They should also be backed by toxicological reports proving they are so clean they can be applied even with pregnant women and children present. Green coatings used for in-place management should also be extremely durable, long lasting, able to take a lot of abuse, be especially flexible and able to elongate with the expansion and contraction of normal building movement, and be breathable to allow for moisture vapor transmission.
It stands to reason that in-place management of Lead-Based Paint along with any building restoration using protective green coatings is the best and most practical way to extend a buildings’ life and safely deal with most of its components, hazardous or not, even roofing.
