Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of adult blindness in the United States after AMD (age-related macular degeneration) it is the second most common cause resulting in vision loss. Around 2.2 million Americans age 40 and above have the glaucoma, and, as the condition does not express any symptoms in its primary stages, half of them unaware of the disease. According to researchers 5 to 10 million people are at high risk for the glaucoma

Types of glaucoma

• Open-angle glaucoma: It contributes in almost 90 % of all glaucoma cases reported in the United States, develops slowly and don’t mention any superficial symptoms until reach to later stages.
• Closed-angle glaucoma: It occurs mostly in people of Chinese ancestry and few other Asian groups. The difference between open-angle and closed-angle glaucoma is ended by examining the front portion of the eye to test the angle where the iris meets the cornea. Both types can result in blindness by destructing the optic nerve. Even people with normal IOP can experience damage to the optic nerve. In fact, 25 to 30 percent of people suffer glaucoma do not have imminent interaocular pressure (IOP) levels.

Causes of Glaucoma

The eye produces about one teaspoon of aqueous humor each day, a transparent fluid that provides nutrients to, and take away waste products of the lens and cornea. Normally, fluid production and drainage are in equilibrium, and IOP is in-between 12 and 22 mm Hg. People with open-angle glaucoma have higher than the normal IOP levels; Ophthalmologists think that a fractional blockage traps the aqueous humor. Exactly how this occurs is still unknown. As excessive aqueous humor is produced than required, the obstacle causes elevation in IOP. When increased IOP persists or continues to rise, an optic fiber in the nerve is squashed and eventually dies, leading to a progressive loss of eye vision.

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Cataract affects the most sensitive sensory organ of the body i.e. eye. A cataract is a development of a cloud in the eye’s natural lens. The cloud lies behind the iris and the pupil. The lens of eye works much like a camera lens. It focuses light onto the retina at the back part of the eye. These lens also adjusts the focus, which enables us to see things clearly either these are too close or far away.

The lens mostly consists of water and specific proteins (crystallins). These specific proteins in the lens perform specific functions. These are responsible for maintaining the clarity of the lens. As the age passes, the structures of these lens proteins reshape or some proteins start to combine together which result in clouding of the lens .This condition is called cataract which over the time grows. Larger cloud covers most of the lens making almost impossible to see.

Researchers are trying to gain the root cause with which these specific proteins make clusters in abnormal ways which causes lens cataracts. One recent theory suggests that the fragmented parts of these proteins combine with normal proteins, thus creating abnormal functioning. At birth or during early childhood, cataracts occurrence is very rare. It only occurs due to hereditary enzyme defects in this age.

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Abstract

The cholesterol and heart disease has been emerged as a fast growing problem among millions of people all around the world. Now a day spicy and oily foods are the first love of many people and definitely when you will consume oily food, it will lead you to the problem of cholesterol and heart diseases. People are using the foodstuffs and cold drinks such as hot eggs, butter, cheese, burgers, red meat, barbeque etc. It led down their hearts and caused various diseases at sudden.

1. Cholesterol and heart attack

What is cholesterol? It is a kind of heavy stuff which is existed in the human blood. It creates the ramparts around the artery system. These walls are spreading up slowly and gradually in the heart vicinity. All of a sudden the human artery system turns out to be stiff. The artery function moves into contracted direction. As a result the heart is hindered and infertile. The abrupt chest pain is started. The person feels tough breathing in his body which shows the minimal oxygen level in the body. The blood vessels are absolutely contracted. At end a person faces a chronic heart attack. That is the impairment of high cholesterol.

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1. Abstract

The natural sleep aids are the most influential parts of every body’s life. A person is diseased without natural sleep aid. That is the blessing of the supernatural. A person works throughout the day with full of his or her concentration in any field of life. He turns back to the home at evening. He fells very exhausted. A kind of natural aid sleeping is waiting for him. He eats up the foodstuff and suddenly feels sleepy. That is the beauty of natural aid sleeping. But the natural sleep aid is often covered up with a lot of disorders. That creates the natural sleep aid snoring. This is a disease according to the science belief. There are many symptoms and causes of the natural sleep aid snoring. These are discussed as under.

2. Symptoms and causes

2.1 Obesity

The natural sleep aid snoring is often attached with the obese people. Those, who eat a lot of spicy and oily foodstuffs; they indulge in the disease of snoring.

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To know the role of neuroendocrine system in obesity it is essential to know what Neuroendocrinology or Neuroendocrine system is.

Neuroendocrinology is mainly a science that studies the links and associations between nervous system and endocrine glands. The study took a new shape when it was first known that the brain, especially hypothalamus control many secretions related to pituitary and other endocrine glands.

For a very long time and even now it is a general concept that weight loss is only possible through deprivation of tasty but fatty and salty diets and with a lot of exercises. It is a right concept and there is no doubt about the certainty of that concept but the adopted ways and procedures to control diet often proved temporary and unhealthy.

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