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In Africa and Asia, the access to clean water is very difficult and the problem is so immense especially in slum areas and this means that innovative ways of getting safe drinking water and environmental sanitation are urgently required. The SODIS foundation, which was recently awarded the “Water for Life Award” is saving millions of children living in slum area in Kenya’s and also the Africa’s biggest slums including Kibera, Mukuru-kwa-Njenga, Mathare and other slum dwelling places in the country.  SODIS water sanitation project helps empower the society to be able to preserve and treat drinking water using simple effective methods such as the SODIS methods. Fundación SODIS has already educated close to 1.2 million people mainly women in solar water disinfection. One of the challenges to attaining a sustainable health development is the non-innovative use of the resources the world is endowed with.  The forests covers are being depleted as humans cut trees for economic and h...

Anger is an emotional ill-feeling, which is aroused when persons perceive that they are offended or threatened by actions, thoughts, ideas or people. It is a state of mental insecurity where one feels defenseless.  The body reacts to this situation by emotionally arousing ill-feelings that are said to be powerful, potent and knocks downs ones ability to remain in a mental tranquility.  Anger can arouse other conditions such as stress, anxiety, distress, depression and grief.  It's important to learn to manage anger, since if uncontrolled, it can lead to other emotionally wound up actions and behaviors that may be quite detrimental to the person and other people around.  Often, if people are overwhelmed by anger, they may experience ill-tempers thus being violent.  Emotions of anger are not good and at the same time, they are not bad and with this perception, being angry becomes a perfectly healthy and normal thing that you can cope with. Everybody at some point...

Overweight can cause many problems that are health related as well as affecting your life experiences. As the world gears toward a clinical moment for man, one thing turns out clear; lifestyle is profoundly overwhelming human ability to maintain good health.  Today, there are people struggling to live with diseases and health conditions that have pertinently been contributed by poor eating habits. Researchers hold it that, 75% of people eat food that cause harm to their bodies. In fact, weight gain is a direct result of poor diets.  Excessive weight gain is one of the healthy subjects that have in the recent years raised a lot of concern for the health implications it has been associated with.  Excessive overweight gain is a silent killer.  It's evident that the most immediate reason to loose weight is definitely from a health perspective.  In examining the health complications linked with excessive weight gain, the list would be long than you may imagine. Just...

Experiencing anger can be baneful especially if the affected turns wild and extremely overwhelmed by the ability to control it. Often when people obnoxiously feel that they are offended by either self or other people's actions, thoughts or ideas, they tend to develop anger and it is this ill-emotional feeling that drives them to act or behave harshly. Anger can trigger other conditions such as stress, anxiety, distress and mental indisposition. In fact, if it is not controlled, it can ruin person's relationship with other people and tear down a person's ability to achieve personal goals. But why do people develop anger? The answer to this question lies underneath the understanding that the body and soul react to events that are perceived as threatening to the well-being of a person. This is a mental reflexology reaction that at times can be quite daunting and uncontrollable. There is a biochemical activity in the body that triggers this emotional feeling. Creative ways of ...

Hypertension is a blood disorder whereby the patient has an impaired blood circulation due to a constriction, hardening or narrowing of blood vessels (arteries and arterioles). The narrowing is as a result of cholesterol and other plaques such as calcium deposits that attach themselves on the walls of the blood vessels and block the flow of blood.  Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL) is the cholesterol that are scattered and attach themselves to the walls of the vessels. LDL does not hold their cholesterol to transport them efficiently for reprocessing. It's noteworthy that cholesterol is manufactured by the gall bladder and the body does not need more. High blood pressure occurs as a result of the hardening of the blood vessels and this may be caused by factors such as smoking. This condition is referred to as atherosclerosis. The blood vessels become inelastic and hardened and as a result, they cannot constrict or dilate rhythmically to the blood flow.  When the arteries and ar...

Migraine headache is a vascular-nervous condition in which a person experiences headaches on one side or both sides of the head. This is caused by temporary enlargement of a blood vessel or an artery that supplies blood to the head, for instance, the temporal artery. The blood vessels are usually coiled with nerve endings. When the enlargement occurs, this usually stretches the nerve endings. When the nerve fibers are stretched, the body immune system reacts by sending chemicals of inflammation. The chemicals cause swelling, pain and a further enlargement of the blood vessel. The enlargement occurs when the blood vessel is hardened at some point and when blood reaches the hardened part, it begins to accumulate and the elastic part of the vessel just before the hardened area balloons with blood.  The hardening of the vessel may be due to effects of smoking or high salt intakes among others. The hardening of the blood vessels is referred to as atheroma or atherosclerosis. The migra...

Stroke is a metabolism syndrome whereby there is sudden death of the brain cells. It's commonly referred to as brain attack. The collapse of the brain cells is due to being deprived of nutrients and oxygen. Cells are units of life and must be feed. It's in the cells where metabolic activities take place. Food substances in form of nutrients are absorbed and wastes or toxins are released from the cells through the semi-permeable layer. Stroke is caused by a blockage of an artery feeding the brain with blood. The blockage may be caused by a blood clot (thrombosis). It may also be caused by a blood clot occurring in other parts of the body and especially the heart chambers and it is transported by the blood to block an artery supplying blood to the brain. This is called embolism. There may be cholesterol and calcium plaques that may break off from the walls of the blood vessels and are dislodged to block an artery, capillary, micro-capillary that feed the brain with blood. This w...