What is Good Health

Let's look to the someone who is not in good health, Bill, a forty five years old business equipment salesman who is in hospital recovering from his first heart attack. Bill is typical of many men in our culture who have spent much of their life pursuing the American dream. He married in his early twenties, had several children soon after, and has spent the last two decades striving for financial security and career advancement - external rewards that he has always thought would bring him inner satisfaction.

Bill future is not assured; in fact, his physician has told him that he has quite a considerable chance of suffering another, potentially fatal, heart attack. As she has noted, Bill's family history contains genetic risk factors (his father died of heart disease when he was fifty five). Environmental risk factors have also increased Bill's chances of developing heart disease, since he lives and works in a city with high levels of air pollution. And his chance of heart disease has also been increased by a number of lifestyle risk factors- factors that she now recommends he try to minimize by making some big changes in his everyday living habits.

• Bill never considered the possibility of having heart attack. He has always been athletically inclined, and even though he has put on a good deal of extra weight over the years. Now, however, his physician has advised him to lose at least 10 pounds over the next two months and to find time in his busy schedule for a regular exercise.
• Smoking at least one pack of cigarettes a day has been part of Bill's lifestyle for the last twenty years. Smoking helps him relax when he feels tense, gets him going in the morning, and makes meals taste better and besides all his friends smoke. His physician has advised him to stop smoking completely and immediately.
• Drinking fairly heavily with friends and at meals with clients has been pleasurable for Bill, and it has helped him "fit in". Now, his physician advised to cut down his alcohol consumption drastically.
• Bill's life, with its long hours on the road and its high pressure selling situations, has contained much of the stress that our society associates with the quest for success. This stress has not all been negative. Like other good salesmen, Bill thrives under pressure, and he has been energized by the push to make sales quotas and reach company goals. But now he has been advised to reduced the stress in his life.

Health for him includes many different aspects, and physical health is only one, he is also concerned with how he sees himself and how he thinks others see him. He is a complex creature, as all of us are, and limiting our attention to his physical problems greatly oversimplifies his heart attack.

But what about emotional health, and what about the social aspects of his life? If Bill can't function as well as he has in the past in his job or among his friends and colleagues, he will be upset; his family will feel the strain, too. Bill's problem is not easy one to solve.

Oversleeping or Hypersomnia

Difficulty to sleep or commonly known as insomnia are not good for health. Likewise with the "opponent", oversleeping (excess of sleep) or hypersomnia, it is also bad for the body. Experts also recommend avoid sleeping more than nine hours each night.

Problem of oversleeping or hypersomnia are as follows:

Narcolepsy, neurological problems that cause excessive sleeping. Narcolepsy affects parts of the brain that controls and regulates sleep. Patients (narcolepsy) failed to identify and distinguish sleep time with time to stay awake. Sufferers can fall asleep anywhere and anytime.

• Stress and depression. These two things had to be avoided because it can cause many mental health disorders, mental as well, also oversleeping.
• Fatigue. Fatigue caused by working too hard, sleep disorders, pregnancy, or lack of sleep is one of the main causes of oversleeping. When feeling tired, you tend to decide to sleep longer, even more than nine hours, to try to get refreshed.

What are the health effects of oversleeping?

• Diabetes. Research shows people who slept more than nine hours each night and 50 percent greater risk of developing diabetes than those who slept seven hours per night. The study also found that oversleeping could indicate a medical disorder that increases the likelihood of the effect of diabetes.
• Obesity. Research shows that those who slept for 90-10 hours each night 21 percent more likely to be obese than those who only sleep for 7-8 hours.
• Heart disease. A study showed that women who slept for 9-11 hours each night and 38 percent more likely to develop coronary heart disease.
• Headache. The researchers believe, the headache can be an effect of oversleeping. Those who sleep too long during the day often experience problems when you go to sleep at night, causing the onset of a headache the next day.
• Back pain. As you lie in bed for hours, often times there is pain in his back. People who suffer from back pain or are prone to back pain were advised doctors to stay active, do not often lie, or lie down.
• Death. Several studies have found that people who sleep nine hours or more each night have higher mortality rates than those who slept seven to eight hours per night. The researchers speculate, depression and low socioeconomic status (also associated with sleep longer) may be associated with increased mortality (death).

Tobacco Control Program

The article from BMJ journal about tobacco control, base on the feeling of smoking cessation. This program base on the believe that tobacco can causes cancer like lung cancer and many other diseases.

On the previous way conducted by the pharmaceutical industry in an effort to change unhealthy lifestyles by providing replacement therapy of consuming nicotine considered ineffective and is more an attempt to sell a cigarette replacement product.

Tobacco control is the program for lead in children so far from nicotine tobacco that can cause non communicable disease. There have been often continuing and enlarge scale of smoking prevalence over the past of 20 to 40 years, in number of cigarettes smoker per day, the test of effectiveness in the incident of index diseases like lung cancer.

Tobacco control more of propaganda program on how to live health. The world health organization’s framework on tobacco control to about 174 nations has think about the applicability of tobacco control model to chronic disease at large. This program will boosted on September United High level Meeting on Non communicable diseases.

To reduce on consuming tobacco globally on whole population become the target of this program, preventing uptake among young people has long been advice for governments political stripes, far more lives will be saved over the next decades by promoting cessation in current smokers.

By this program, Australia has seen daily smoking prevalence fall to 15.1%, with tax and well funded mass media awareness campaign being mainly responsible. Government also agree to support this program and make tobacco tax increases are the ace in the pack.