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A recent report written in the British Medical Journal explains that there is no evidence that drinking lots of water can prevent some health problems and the threat of dehydration.

Even a number of health professionals in the UK claim, the recommendation to drink eight glasses of water a day as saying that it could be mistaken and even dangerous.

Responding to the report, a specialist in internal medicine of the Hospital Dr. Mitra Kemayoran Jakarta. Chandra Wibowo, SpPD, stating that the claims about the need for water can indeed be a very relative. However, according to him, the recommendation to drink eight glasses of water a day (about 1500-2000 cc) is right, and in accordance with community needs, especially in tropical regions like Indonesia.
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Being overweight can be caused by many things, one of which is food intake. To lose weight, most people only focus on the application of a good diet and healthy.

Whereas increasing weight is not solely the fault of the diet.

Let your attention everyday lifestyle. What you do is show you live a better and healthier. If the answer is not, it might be one cause of the scales you never diminished.
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Reminding surgical staff about the expense of taking daily blood samples (phlebotomy) from patients for routine blood work appears to reduce the practice, a new study finds.

“The use of laboratory tests has been rapidly increasing over the past few decades to the point where phlebotomy is a substantial proportion of hospital expenditure, and much of it is unwarranted,” wrote Dr. Elizabeth A. Stuebing, of the University of Miami, and Dr. Thomas J. Miner, of Brown University in Providence, R.I.

They obtained data on daily phlebotomy and associated charges for nonintensive care unit patients in three surgical services at Rhode Island Hospital. They calculated the amount spent on taking blood samples and laboratory tests per patient and for all patients. Read more »

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