In most cases, the advantages and disadvantages of herbal medication depend on their use and the way they are used. Before taking some herbal medication, you must know about its possible side effects aside from the results you want to get from them and what do they offer. Though herbs are often quite effective, don’t reckon them a panacea or free of all side effects.

Nowadays prescribed pharmaceutical medicines carry a lot possible side effects and problem along with them and perhaps that’s a reason that health supplements and herbal medicines are getting more and more popular with every passing day. Most of these herbal and natural medications have quite well-known advantages and reckoned free of any side effects.

There are several advantages as well as disadvantages of herbal medications and remedies. Let’s talk about the advantages first.

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A study suggests that elderly, who don’t have 7.5 hours sleep a night, are at higher death risk.

Japanese researchers say that those elderly people who get less than 7.5 hours of sleep and have high blood pressure, it may increase their risk of heart disease.

In his study, the researchers tracked the sleep of 1,255 people (With 70.4 year average age) and they also followed their health for 50 months. They found in the follow-up that there were 99 cardiovascular disease events includingheart attack, stroke and sudden cardiac death.

The researchers noted that people who took less than 7.5 hours sleep a night had the highest risk of cardiovascular event. The study has been published in the Nov. 10 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

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According to a Canadian study, vaccination against pneumonia almost halves the risk of a heart attack.

In this study the researchers from the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec compared 999 people (who were admitted to different Canadian hospitals for heart attacks) with those 3996 who were admitted for other reasons. The researchers didn’t find any difference in those who had or hadn’t the penumococcal vaccine in the previous year, but a 50 percent lower rate in those who were vaccinated two years earlier.

The study has been published in the current issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

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Are you worried of your increasing weight and still want to live a happy life?

Obesity is a condition when your body consumes more calories and burns less of them. Obese people not only become a laughing stock in their friends and family but also get several diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, strokes, and many other heart and bone diseases.

Health physicians recommend to spend more time in gym and to avoid consuming enough calories. However, you must keep one thing in mind that you can’t get rid of obesity only with pumping iron for hours. You need to control your overeating habits and its not easy for the majority of people to control their overeating habits. Usually, it is quite difficult to avoid overeating and simple means don’t seem to work in this connection. Many diet pills have been developed to control that bad habit. Adipex, Phentermine, Didrex and Acomplia are some of these diet pills.

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What is high blood pressure (hypertension)?

Hypertension is one of the leading medicinal problems faced by the world today. In simple terms, hypertension refers to the increased pressure of blood in the arteries. Arteries are the major blood vessels that carry blood from the heart to the various parts of the body. When the pressure of blood flowing in these arteries increases, it results in a condition known as hypertension.

Blood pressure of a medically fit person should be below 120/80. The number on top is the systolic blood pressure, which is the pressure on arteries when the heart contracts and pumps the blood. The bottom number represents the diastolic pressure, which is the arterial pressure when the heart relaxes after contraction. Blood pressure till 139/89 is known as pre-hypertension and exceeding 140/90 is considered to be high.

Hypertension is generally classified as:
• Essential or primary
• Secondary

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