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Coffee could reduce the risk of prostate cancer on men. It was known from a research that conducted by a team of researchers from Harvard Medical School, United States. That research was conducted on 50.000 men who were regularly drink coffee. The result showed that the risk of prostate cancer on men who were drink coffee regularly was reduced to 60%. The researchers estimated that substances that contained in coffee could suppress the growth of cancer cells.

According to the researchers, coffee has an effect on insulin and glucose metabolism, as well as sex hormones which play an important role on prostate cancer. There were only few lifestyle factors that directly related to the risk of prostate cancer. This finding is very encouraging, especially for the coffee lovers. That research could be an indication that drinking coffee regularly can reduce the risk of prostate cancer.

Although further research is still needed to know the content in coffee that can suppress the growth of triggers cells of prostate cancer. Suggest to your spouse and your male friends to drink a small cup of coffee per day. But remember, do not be excessive. That matter so that coffee can reduce the risk of prostate cancer and not cause other health problems. Balance it by exercising at minimum of 15 minutes each day to reduce the risk of death that cause by prostate cancer.

All of us know that the world consists of thousands of islands with hundreds of ports, both ocean ports and inland ports. Therefore, it requires a marine transportation system, one of them is a system with a trailer hitch and tugs. In world waters such systems are suitable as a means of transportation between islands, especially in the ports where its facilities can not be visited by ship, like the ports on the river, on the coast, bay, which is less depth of water, because the draft of hitch and the ship is small enough.

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The full name of diabetes is diabetes mellitus, which means “sugar honey“. The term of “diabetes mellitus” comes from the Greek which when translated it means “flowing through the pipe with atmospheric pressure” and form the Latin language which can be translated as “sweet as honey“. The terms from Greek and Latin were describing diabetes precisely. Because the water runs through the body of diabetic as if poured from the mouth through the urinary tract and directly out of the body. The urine of diabetic (patient of diabetes), it taste sweet because it contains sugar.

In the past, a test for diabetes was to pour the urine from the diabetic near to the ant’s nest. If those ants gathered around the urine, then this indicates the existence of sugar. That is why diabetes is often referred to as sweet urinary disease. Each food that we eat is converted into energy by the body. Inside the stomach and the intestines, the foods are elaborated into several basic elements, including one type of sugar, namely glucose.

If there is sugar, then the pancreas produces insulin, which helps drain the sugar into body cells. Then, the sugar can be absorbed well in the body and then burned to produce energy.

Do not underestimate the health problems that seem trivial. Like when your waist size increases, although you have ideal body weight. The waist size can predict a variety of health risks like heart disease and diabetes. Detecting the disease through the waist size is considered quite effective rather than by measuring the body mass index. Measuring the waist size is very easy. Put the meter that is often used by the tailor around the waist.

If the waist size touches to 35 inches on women and 40 inches on men, or more, then it should need to be cautious because it would be dangerous. A woman that has waist size more than 35 inches is indicating the risk of metabolic syndrome. A set of conditions that increase the risk of diabetes and heart disease. Even when you have an ideal weight. Fat belly with a waist size of more than ideal could suppress the fat in the lungs. Especially when you bend the waist, it will make it hard to breathe.

To overcome this, do the exercise regularly to burn calories in the body. There should also need to control the heart beat routinely after doing the exercises. Besides exercising, change the carbohydrates that are high in sugar such as white bread, sweets and biscuits with low carbohydrate calories.