Exercise

If You Don’t Exercise Now, Your Brain Will Probably Shrink In 20 Years!

We tend to relate exercise with weight loss, but what we don’t realise is that it has several other benefits as well. One of the main benefits of exercise is that it protects the brain against age-related cognitive decline. Put simply, it keeps your mind sharp as you get older and prevents scary diseases like Alzheimer’s and dementia. Exercise also improves your memory and reduces your stress levels.

As if that weren’t impressive enough, here’s another way that exercise benefits the brain.

A new study has found that exercise prevents brain shrinkage.

A new study published in the journal Neurology found that not exercising in your 30s and 40s can cause your brain to become smaller over the years. The researchers studied over 1,500 men and women who didn’t suffer from heart disease or dementia. They assessed the participants’ fitness levels at the beginning of the study and then again 20 years later, and conducted MRI scans. The people with lower exercise capacities in middle age were more likely to have smaller brains, as compared to those who were physically fit. 

Can’t say we’re surprised. If you want to stop shrinkage, start moving!

AVOID EARS WITH A COTTON SWAB

Why You Should Avoid Cleaning Your Ears With A Cotton Swab.

Next time you come out of the shower and are tempted to use a cotton swab to clean your ears, think of all those people who have caused themselves injury by poking their ears with these buds. In fact, more than 80 per cent of adults use cotton swabs to clean their ears, and most of them are unaware of the potential damage. Regular use of these buds can lead to skin irritation, infection, and even hearing loss. 

Ear wax has antifungal and antibacterial properties as it keeps the inner skin protected from becoming too dry. Ear wax naturally travels to the outer edge of the ear, without any help from an external source. If you block your ears with headphones, you will prevent the wax from coming out and as a result, wax build-up will occur.

Every six month consult your ENT doctor for a checkup and routine preventive cleaning.

Hand Pain

Ganglion Cyst

A ganglion cyst is a growth found on the top or bottom of the wrist, typically near the wrist joint.  Although the cyst may not pose initial problems, pain can become noticeable if the cyst is too close to the joint and restricts normal movement.

Ganglion cysts arise from the capsule of a joint or the sheath of a tendon. They are most commonly found at different places on the wrist. A ganglion cyst that grows on the top of the wrist is called a dorsal ganglion. 

A ganglion cyst contains a thick, clear, mucus-like fluid similar to the fluid found in the joint.  The triggers of formation of a ganglion are not always known.

Initial treatment of a ganglion cyst typically involves avoiding activities which cause pain, oral or topical medications, and even splinting.  A procedure called aspiration may be needed to drain the fluid from the cyst.

Although surgery is not typically the first step, surgical intervention may be needed to remove the cyst.

What Are the Symptoms of a Ganglion Cyst?

A ganglion cyst will start with mild symptoms which escalate if you do not receive the proper medical care. The most common symptom of cysts of the feet include:

Thick, rough, hardened skin around the area receiving friction.

A hardened raised bump of skin on your toe, foot, or heel.

Tenderness, redness, soreness, and pain under the skin.

Flaky, dry, or waxy skin.

One large cyst or many smaller ones may develop. Multiple small cysts can give the appearance of more than one cyst, but a common stalk within the deeper tissue usually connects them. This type of cyst is not harmful and accounts for about half of all soft tissue tumors of the hand.

Ganglion cysts, also known as Bible cysts, are more common in women, and a majority occur in people between 20-40 years of age. Rarely, ganglion cysts can occur in children younger than 10 years of age.

Ganglion cysts most commonly occur on the back of the hand, at the wrist joint, and can also develop on the palm side of the wrist. When found on the back of the wrist, they become more prominent when the wrist is flexed forward.

These fluid-filled cysts can quickly appear, disappear, and change size. Many ganglion cysts do not require treatment. However, if the cyst is painful, interferes with function, or has an unacceptable appearance, there are several treatment options available.

 If the ganglion causes a great deal of pain or severely limits activities, the fluid may be drained from it.

Air Port

If you are travelling to abroad for the first time and you need to know the procedure inside airport?

First of all you will say bye bye to your family and enter inside airport, two security personals or you can call police will be standing to verify your ticket and passport. (Just to check your name as per passport)

Once you enter you will have to put your luggage in scanning machine. After your luggage is successfully scanned and verified you will have to carry on your luggage to go to the next counter.

You have to go to the one counter in which you are travelling Ex: Jet Airways, Air India.

The representative who attends will ask your passport to issue boarding pass and also you will have to drop your luggage except hand bag. Once you have the boarding pass you will go to the immigration counter.

Sometime it will take more than 2 hours to open the counter. The person in the immigration counter who will ask for your passport to stamp. Before that they will ask few question like who is there in abroad, why are you travelling. You need to answer all their questions to go for further around.

Next round will be Full body scanning -Which they will ask you to remove your belt & shoes, phones, wallet and your hand bags to scan it. Once the scanning is done you will have to wait under the Gate in which your plane arrived (Gate number will be mentioned in boarding pass). There the airhost will ask for your boarding pass to enter it in the system to make sure the person is present to board plane. Once all are inside sitting comfortably the flight will take off. You will land to your destination.

This procedure applies in Mangalore, Karnataka Airport. 

DRIVING LICENSE

How to get a driving license in Dammam,Saudi Arabia?

You need to go to Dallah driving school which is near Dallah Hospital on King Fahad Highway. Take any taxi and ask him to take you there.

Before going to the License Office you need following things:

1. Original Iqamah.

2. Photocopy of Iqama.

3. Photocopy of Passport.

4. Driving License of your country

5. If expatriate, translation of foreign driving license in Arabic from an approved translation institute.

6. Passport size photographs

7. Medical report (Blood Group Test)

8. License Fee (400 SR pay it Riyadh bank/ATM for your iqama id and keep the voucher)

Once you have above mentioned things, just take a taxi and ask him to take you to Old Dallah Driving School. Taxi will take 15-20 Saudi Riyals. You are suggested to go there earlier in the morning (reach by 7 am).

Now go to shop next to the entrance gate. (You will be approached by persons for license payment in bank. They will asking 430 SR or 450 SR as fees for bank payment. Dont turn to them as you had already completed that in Item #8)

From shop, you will get application form which will be filled for you in Arabic then and enclosed in file cover . Total cost for you is 15 riyals.

Now go to Room number 2 in the license office. The person on extreme left will do Eye-sight test. The person on extreme right counter will check your forms, stamp and send you to "License Check" counter. Here one more person will put a stamp on your application and send you for "first try". This trial place is behind the building where you are standing. There will be a car or more and person will be sitting inside. He will ask you to drive the car a little ahead and then reverse a little. Don't worry it is just to see whether you have ever touched the car or not. The person inside will make his comments on your application.

Now come back to room # 2 and deposit SR 100. He will take your file and ask you to attend a 3 hour class. There will be a three hour class in which you will be taught the basics and after that there will be a computer test. Attend the class very carefully and also read all the things written on front and backside of the chart they give you during the class. The questions will be mainly Identification of different signals and general driving rules. Signals & Traffic Rules can be viewed from Riyadh Traffic Site

The questions that are going to be asked for the touch screen computer test, will be mentioned during the class by the training instructor. After class they will take you to a room where you will wait for the test to start. There would be 20 questions and you have to answer them in 30 minutes. If you make any mistake in the first ten questions, then you are failed. In next 10 questions you have to give only five correct answers. If you clear the computer test then they will test your driving. Congratulations, if you clear the test. By the way, it is very easy test. You just have to drive the car for some meters or you might have to do some simple reverse etc. Cars are of model "Cadillac Custom/Camry 2006". Cars are with gears; not automatic. Go to room number 1 (main room) and just on your left there is a place where "License Delivery" is written. Get your counter number from here and the go to the counter. Now wait until they deliver you the New Driving License. Congratulations!!! You can drive the car in Kingdom for the next 10 years from Now. Total Expenses: Taxi fare (1 day) = 30 SR Photo Pictures = 15 SR Blood Group Test = 15 SR File Cover, Application form filling = 8 SR Photocopies = 2 SR Training Fee = 100 SR License Fee = 400 SR Foreign License Translation = 20 SR ------------------------------------------- Total License Expenses = 590 SR =========================================== Your license is valid for 10 years