Archive for April, 2009

Colic

Crying is baby’s only way to communicate with the parents. With hearing his crying, the parents will know that the baby is starving, not comfortable because his diaper is full or maybe he just want to be near his mommy or daddy. But sometimes, baby cries for no reason. It is usually happen within the first three weeks of life until the baby is three to four months old. This condition called colic, or infant colic.

Dr. Harvey Karp, a Santa Monica pediatrician, and the author of “The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way To Calm Crying and Help Your Baby Sleep Longer” found a method to make babies stop crying and calm down, even when he is colic. The method is called “Cuddle Cure” or the “5 S’s” consists of these steps:

• Swaddling
  It is like wrapping a baby with a blanket very tightly, to imitate the condition in his mother’s womb
• Holding the infant on his Side or Stomach
• Saying “Shhh” loudly in the baby’s ear for white noise
  sometimes the sound of electric breastpump can make the baby calm
• Swinging (or jiggling) the infant
  but don’t shake him, mechanical swing sometimes help keep the pace.
• Giving him something to Suck on.
  It can be breast, pacifiers or your clean thumb. Don’t give milk or expressed breastmilk in bottle everytime he cries, because sometimes it can overfed your baby, and caused the excessive spitting up or reflux

How to calculate Body Mass Index

The best way to calculate Body Mass Index is using this formula
BMI = weight (kilos)/ (height)2 metres2

for example:

weight = 45 kilos
height = 1,51 metres
So the BMI = 45 kg / (1,51)² = 19,7359765
After knowing your BMI, you can match it with BMI classification that stated by WHO in 2000.
Table: BMI classification (for Asian people)

There is one more thing to consider, that is fat accumulation. There are two kinds of fat accumulation, that is in lower part of the body and in abdominal part (abdominal obesity). Research found that there is connection between abdominal obesity and risk of heart disease.

If you want to know whether there is too many fat accumulation, use waist circumreference measurement. For Asian women, it is considered to have another disease if her waist is equal or greater than 80 cm, and for Asian men if his waist is equal or greater than 90 cm

How to maintain Body Mass Index

The best way to keep healthy is with maintaining your BMI (Body Mass Index). A Body that too thin can interfere hormonal action, in the other side too fat body can cause many other disease, such as gout, diabetes, heart disease.

After knowing your BMI from the calculation here, now it’s time to take the right step to keep healthy. If you are included in normal category, you better keep it stable. But if you are included in overweight, moreover obesity, you must do lose weight program. And you must start right now or it become too late.

Tips

There is many kind of food that you must increase and decrease its quality so you can maintain your weight. Here is the table: