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Keto Diet: In Detail Description

What Is A Keto Diet? The keto diet is a low carb, high-fat diet, which has many health benefits. Many studies show that it is very effective in losing weight. Ketogenic diets may even have benefits against diabetes, cancer, epilepsy, and Alzheimer’s disease. Keto diet involves a dramatically decreasing carbohydrate diet and replacing it with fat. Which drives your body to ketosis metabolism. When this happens our body burns excess fat for energy. It also turns fat into ketone which is fuel to our brain. What Are Types Of Keto Diet These are some of the types of a keto diet. Standard ketogenic diet (SKD): This is a very low-carb, moderate-protein, and high-fat diet. It typically contains 75% fat, 20% protein and only 5% carbs Cyclical ketogenic diet (CKD): This diet involves periods of higher-carb refeeds, such as 5 ketogenic days followed by 2 high-carb days. Targeted ketogenic diet (TKD): This diet allows you to add carbs around workouts. High-protein ketogenic...
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Normal Sleep

Normal Sleep  Sleep is a universal behavior that has been demonstrated in every animal species studied, from insects to mammals. It is one of the most significant of human behaviors, occupying roughly one-third of human life. Although the exact functions of sleep are still unknown, it is clearly necessary for survival because prolonged sleep deprivation leads to severe physical and cognitive impairment and, finally, death. Sleep is particularly relevant to psychiatry because sleep disturbances occur in virtually all psychiatric illnesses and are frequently part of the diagnostic criteria for specific disorders. The ancient Greeks ascribed the need for sleep to the god Hypnos (sleep) and his son Morpheus, also a creature of the night, who brought dreams in human forms. Dreams have played an important role in psychoanalysis. Freud believed dreams to be the “royal road to the unconscious.” Electrophysiology Of Sleep Sleep is made up of two physiological states: ◦non-rapid eye movement...

Upper Respiratory Tract Infections - Influenza

Influenza Influenza is a specific acute viral respiratory disease characterized by fever, coryza,  cough, headache, and malaise, and inflamed respiratory mucous membranes. It usually  occurs as an epidemic in rainy seasons. Etiology : It is caused by influenza viruses, which are classified as orthomyxovirus. There are  types A, B & C Epidemiology: • Influenza type A virus is the most frequent single cause of clinical influenza; other  causes include influenza B, paramyxovirus, pneumonia-virus, and (rarely in adults) rhino  and echoviruses. • Spread is by person - to - person contact; airborne droplets spray infects people and  contaminates articles with viruses that can transmit infection. • Persons of all ages are affected, but prevalence is highest in school children. • Persons at highest risk of developing severe disease are those with chronic pulmonary  disease and those with valvular heart disease, pregnant women, the elderly, th...

Upper Respiratory Tract Infections

The Common Cold (Acute coryza) It is an acute, usually afebrile, viral infection of the respiratory tract, with inflammation in any or  all airways, including the nose, paranasal sinuses, throat, larynx, and often trachea and bronchi. Etiology - Many viruses cause the common cold including Picornavirus (rhinoVirus), Influenza  and parainfluenza viruses, Respiratory syncytial virus, Corona- and adenovirus group. Infections may be facilitated by excessive fatigue, emotional distress, or allergic naso pharyngeal disorders and during the mid-phase of the menstrual cycle. Symptoms and signs - onset is abrupt after a short (1 to 3 days) incubation period. Illness  generally begins with nasal or throat discomfort followed by sneezing, rhinorrhea, and malaise. The disease is afebrile and pharyngitis is usually present. Nasal secretions, watery and profuse  during 1st or 2nd day of symptoms, become more mucous and purulent. Hacking cough  associated with sc...