Vitamins

Type	Benefits	Sources	Quantity
Vitamin A	Vitamin A prevents eye problems, promotes a healthy immune system, is essential for the growth and development of cells, and keeps skin healthy.	Good sources of vitamin A are milk, eggs, liver, fortified cereals, darkly colored orange or green vegetables (such as carrots, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, and kale), and orange fruits such as cantaloupe, apricots, peaches, papayas, and mangos.	Teen guys need 900 micrograms of vitamin A each day. Teen girls need 700 micrograms each day. It is possible to get too much vitamin A, so be careful with supplements. Don't take vitamin A supplements If you're taking isotretinoin (such as Accutane) for acne or other skin problems. Oral acne medicines are vitamin A supplements, and a continued excess of vitamin A can build up in the body, causing headaches, skin changes, or even liver damage.
Vitamin C (also called ascorbic acid)	Vitamin C is needed to form collagen, a tissue that helps to hold cells together. It's essential for healthy bones, teeth, gums, and blood vessels. It helps the body absorb iron and calcium, aids in wound healing, and contributes to brain function.	You'll find high levels of vitamin C in red berries, kiwi, red and green bell peppers, tomatoes, broccoli, spinach, and juices made from guava, grapefruit, and orange.	Teen guys need 75 mg (milligrams; 1 milligram equals 1,000 micrograms) and girls need 65 mg of vitamin C a day.
Vitamin D	Vitamin D strengthens bones because it helps the body absorb bone-building calcium.	This vitamin is unique — your body manufactures it when you get sunlight on your skin! You can also get vitamin D from egg yolks, fish oils, and fortified foods like milk.	Teens need 5 micrograms (200 IU) of vitamin D from food every day.
Vitamin E	Vitamin E is an antioxidant and helps protect cells from damage. It is also important for the health of red blood cells.	Vitamin E is found in many foods, such as vegetable oils, nuts, and green leafy vegetables. Avocados, wheat germ, and whole grains are also good sources.	Teen guys and girls need 15 mg of vitamin E every day.
Vitamin B12	Vitamin B12 helps to make red blood cells, and is important for nerve cell function.	Vitamin B12 is found naturally in fish, red meat, poultry, milk, cheese, and eggs. It's also added to some breakfast cereals.	Teens should get 2.4 micrograms of vitamin B12 daily.
Vitamin B6	Vitamin B6 is important for normal brain and nerve function. It also helps the body break down proteins and make red blood cells.	A wide variety of foods contain vitamin B6, including potatoes, bananas, beans, seeds, nuts, red meat, poultry, fish, eggs, spinach, and fortified cereals.	Teen guys need 1.3 mg of vitamin B6 daily and teen girls need 1.2 mg.
Thiamin (also called vitamin B1)	Thiamin helps the body convert carbohydrates into energy and is necessary for the heart, muscles, and nervous system to function properly.	People get thiamin from many different foods, including fortified breads, cereals, and pasta; meat and fish; dried beans, soy foods, and peas; and whole grains like wheat germ.	Teen guys need 1.2 mg of thiamin each day; teen girls need 1 mg.
Niacin (also called vitamin B3)	Niacin helps the body turn food into energy. It helps maintain healthy skin and is important for nerve function.	You'll find niacin in red meat, poultry, fish, fortified hot and cold cereals, and peanuts.	Teen guys need 16 mg of niacin daily. Teen girls need 14 mg a day.
Riboflavin (also called vitamin B2)	Riboflavin is essential for turning carbohydrates into energy and producing red blood cells. It is also important for vision.	Some of the best sources of riboflavin are meat, eggs, legumes (like peas and lentils), nuts, dairy products, green leafy vegetables, broccoli, asparagus, and fortified cereals.	Teen guys need 1.3 mg of riboflavin per day and teen girls need 1 mg.
Folate (also known as vitamin B9, folic acid, or folacin)	Folate helps the body make red blood cells. It is also needed to make DNA.	Dried beans and other legumes, green leafy vegetables, asparagus, oranges and other citrus fruits, and poultry are good sources of this vitamin. So are fortified or enriched bread, noodles, and cereals.	Teen girls and guys need 400 micrograms of folate daily.

Diabetics

WHY MUST DIABETICS MONITOR BLOOD SUGAR? Simple sugars are absorbed so quickly that they trigger a rise in blood sugar levels: this is called hyperglycemia. The pancreas produces a surge of insulin in response to remove the excess glucose from the bloodstream, but this sudden influx can't be turned on and off like faucet. Soon there is too much insulin, causing a low blood sugar level. This is called hypoglycemia. Low blood sugar levels cause the body's adrenal glands to produce extra glucose from proteins, starches and other fuel sources in the body to bring blood sugar levels back to normal.

ABOUT TYPE I DIABETES: This is known as an autoimmune disease, because the body destroys its own cells: those that produce insulin. When all those cells have been destroyed, the symptoms of type I diabetes appear. These include unexplained weight loss; vision problems; more frequent urination; and feeling very hungry, thirsty or tired. Among other long-term complications, type I diabetes means there is an increased risk of kidney failure, nerve damage, heart disease and blindness.

ABOUT TYPE II DIABETES: Type II diabetes is the most common form of diabetes. In this form of the disease, either the body does not produce enough insulin, or the cells in the body ignore insulin. This can stop glucose from moving out of the bloodstream and into cells. Cells need the energy that glucose provides, and too much sugar in the blood can cause damage to the eyes, nerves, kidneys, or heart. These complications are very similar to the threats from type I diabetes, though type II can sometimes be treated with medications and diet instead of insulin (obtained through injections or in an inhaled form).

Time Management for Nursing Students

Are you one among the people who have trouble in dealing with all your daily activities? Are you tired because you fail to manage all these activities?

Keep that frown away. You can manage your time in ways that are more useful in many ways. Read this article and learn how to deal with time management

Typical person got many activities to do everyday. These things should be done to facilitate living. People however need to work to survive life. Earning for living is one among the major task of every individual. It is never easy to gain money; everyone should work hard for it.

It is not only the working people who experience busy lives, but almost all people including the ones that lives at home, they are the ones who do all the house hold shores. Students as well, they also live busy lives. You, as a student, know how busy a student life is. Schools have so many activities and task to be done.

Sometimes these activities are even brought home. Students are pre-occupied with these activities almost everyday of their lives. If they will not manage it well, they may neglect some of their activities that also need attention.

These activities are also worthy to our life, like bonding with family members, spending time with friends and mingling with other people. A student may need to know how to handle all their tasks well to be able to manage it properly. How are they going to manage all these task well?

Being a nursing student is also a hard task. Nursing students deals with study of care to the people who need it. Nursing is the care for the sick and healthy people as well. It deals with activities such as feeding and caring for infants, promoting growth and development, promoting prevention to all the diseases, to preserve injuries and promote health faster wound healing and promoting good health to the entire citizen.

A student nurse should learn these tasks. These students are learning how to deal with diseases that are not easy to learn. As you know, science is never an easy subject but most of the subjects in nursing course are under the curriculum.

In nursing course, students need to learn many skills that are important for practicing the nurse profession. With all these activities, student nurses are not able to do some of their tasks other than learning nursing alone.

Student nurses may need to prioritize all their activities to provide more room for other activities that are important as well. Time management maybe the best tool for student nurses.

Time managements are one of the most important techniques that everyone needs to learn. This is a technique used by many people to facilitate better management of time. Activities are done in an organized manner. With the use of time management, these nursing students will be given the chance to perform other useful activities other than the nursing course itself.

These are the suggested techniques that should be followed by the student nurses to manage time in a systematize manner.

First thing to do is to organize all the activities to do. Make a checklist of the tasks with proper prioritization. After the end of the day, check off the completed or accomplished tasks. This is a great help in the identification of the tasks not yet done over a day.

Begin to focus on the activities giving less priority to the things you do not need to do. Before venturing in to the activities that are not included in the list, your priority tasks must be done first. Avoid interruptions such as chatting with classmates and doing unnecessary activities. You can entertain these activities after your tasks are done.

Avoid the activities that will suck all your time. There are many activities that needs so much attention but with less productive outcome. Things like watching televisions, sending emails, chat on internet and telephone conversations are just some of the less important things you need to do for a day. Never give so much time on these activities.

With proper time management, student nurses will be able to do other activities that also enhance their personality. Things like dealing with other people and establishing rapport during meeting other people.

It is also healthy that people like student nurses give themselves a break from all of their activities for the day. This will be a great help to manage the precious time.

back at last

I've been in a vacation for almost 3 weeks.
and I really don't have any access then in internet.

Having my Christmas and New year is quite sad
for it was my first season celebrating without my Grandma
she passed away last November.

Moving steady, I wish this year will be my break through
from last year down fall.

Nice to be back. God bless us all!

Christmas is what?

Christmas is the Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, who is considered the Son of God, and the savior of all people. With the birth of Christ, Christianity essentially begins; thus, Christmas also celebrates the beginning of Christianity.

Though Christmas is normally celebrated on the 25th of December, strong evidence suggests that Jesus may have in fact been born in the spring. Though many Christians date Christ’s birth as the end of the "Before Christ" or BC era, most believe Christ’s birth can actually be dated to 4 BC. This is a bit ironic, since the Christian era is thought to begin with the birth of Christ, but actually begins later.

Some of the images inexorably tied with Christmas are things like shepherds in the snow, and the fierce cold of a winter night when Jesus was born. This is an unlikely scenario, though it is quite possible that the Jews participating in the census and taxation were extremely crowded in Bethlehem.

Sextus Julius Africanus, a third century Christian missionary, is believed to have first espoused the theory of Christ’s birth as December 25th. This worked well when the Romans later largely converted to Christianity because Christmas could be tied to pagan winter rituals, making it more palatable. Historical records suggest some forms of Christmas celebrations dating back to the early 4th century CE.

Some, however, argued that Christmas should not be celebrated as a feast date, because of the divine nature of Christ. This position is still held by some minority Christian groups like the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Though most see Jolly Old England as the source for many modern Christmas traditions, England actually banned celebration of Christmas from 1647-1660 in an effort to free the holiday of what was viewed as its pagan trappings and the excess and corruption of the Roman Catholic Church. This, however, was not a popular decision. England reinstated Christmas as a celebratory holiday, though tensions still ran high between the Anglican and the Roman Catholic Church.

Charles Dickens must be mentioned as inspiring many of the traditions we now regularly practice as part of Christmas celebrations. His phenomenal classic The Christmas Carol published in 1843 changed Christmas to a moderate, family oriented holiday. This differed from past celebrations which often verged on the anti-Christian, and which involved pursuing hedonism with graceless abandon.

Clement Clarke Moore’s 1822 poem “A Visit from Saint Nicholas,” firmly established the Christmas/ Santa Claus connection. Actually many Christmas traditions are based in Germanic pagan rituals predating Christianity. Many consider Thor to be a frontrunner as an early Santa Claus figure, and the Christmas tree was once a sacrificial tree to the gods, hung brightly with dead animals.

Today, some argue, Christmas has been inexorably corrupted by the commercialism with which it has come to be associated. For the poor, it may well be a time when, to quote Dickens, “want is keenly felt.” Dickens uses this as an argument for practicing charity and “keeping Christmas in our hearts” on every day of the year.

However, it can be stated that for the many joyous family celebrations where poverty is not a factor, there are still many where poverty is felt at Christmas, and where families despair that there is not even money to give their children basic necessities as Christmas gifts. Such a thought is sobering when one ponders the Christian message as one of personal sacrifice, kindness to others, and loving our neighbors as ourselves.

Still, many Christians feel that even a Christmas with the overt trappings of commercialization has a special feeling that can only be attributed to faith. It can be a time to renew one’s faith, or merely come closer to the birth of a religion which sustains many. In touching on Christ’s message, even small children may begin to understand the sacred nature of Christmas to Christians.