Polar Bear Medical Blog

Congenital insensitivity to pain is quite an interesting medical condition. There are very few cases of this type of condition, about 100 documented in the United States. The condition involves the inability to feel pain.

Congenital insensitivity to pain is caused by a genetic mutation that affects the reception and transmission of pain stimulus. What is very interesting is that people with this condition still have their sense of touch. They can feel when people are touching them, and can feel different temperatures (although in some cases the person is unable to detect temperature). Only when an action that would cause pain occurs does the person have a defect in their sense of touch.

Unfortunately, due to many problems that can arise from this condition, many who have it die young. The death of those with this condition is not directly cause by it, but is a result what the condition does. Because these people do not feel pain, many cuts and other injuries can go untreated, leading to infection. Sometimes, too much the body will experience too much trauma without the person’s knowledge and death will follow. Many children with this condition have to have constant supervision, to prevent as many injuries as possible.

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In today’s day and age, more stress has been placed on physical fitness, but not everyone is getting serious about getting in shape. Men’s Fitness annual survey shed some light on some of the country’s most fit and most unfit cities.
I would like to congratulate Colorado Springs for being this year’s most fit city in the United States of America.

Obviously the people of Colorado Springs recognize the importance of physical fitness and being healthy. For all those cities wondering how to become fit, look to Colorado Springs and I’m sure you’ll learn something.

However, if you’re wondering what the fattest city is, look to the city of sin itself, Las Vegas. Las Vegas is the one place in the United States where you can get just about everything, for a price that is. Gambling, women, and apparently food are among the top purchases in Las Vegas.
What’s that Texas, you’re laughing at Las Vegas for being the fattest city two years in a row? I wouldn’t be so happy, considering Texas is easily the fattest STATE in America. Of the top 10 fattest cities, 6 of them are found in Texas. So yes, Las Vegas could use a few push up and sit ups here and there, but Texas needs to needs a lot.

Fittest Cities
1. Colorado Springs
2. Minneapolis
3. Albuquerque
4. Denver
5. Portland
6. Virginia Beach
7. Seattle
8. Honolulu
9. San Francisco
10. Milwaukee
Fattest Cities
1. Las Vegas
2. Arlington
3. San Antonio
4. Fort Worth
5. El Paso
6. Dallas
7. Miami
8. Oklahoma City
9. Mesa
10. Houston

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Well if you are like most people and you do not particularly enjoy being sick then continue reading. However, if you do enjoy being sick, then I would suggest some immediate psychiatric help. Anyway, for the normal person there are ways to better your chances at fighting off the flu.

1.The first step is to optimize your vitamin D levels. Vitamin D will help you fight off almost all infections and a lack of vitamin D is often the real cause behind the seasonality of the flu. Maintaining a good level of vitamin D all year will help you stay flu free.
2.Avoid sugar and processed foods. Although sugar is sweet and tasty, it doesn’t help very much with defending your body against the flu. It’s like that creepy guy your mom told you to stay away from because he drives around in an ice-cream truck that has no ice-cream in it. Though it is very hard not to have sugary foods, sugar actually decreases the function of your immune system almost as your drinking it. Obviously your immune system is important for fighting off the flu so try not to have too much.
3.Get enough rest. When your body is tired it is harder to fight the flu, it’s as simple as that.
4.Have effective tools to address stress. Stress is well, stressful. Stress is not good for your body and can lead to some serious medical problems. Also if you are too stressed out you are more susceptible to the flu and less capable of being able to fight it.
5.Exercise. When you exercise the circulation throughout the body increases. Therefore, the different parts of your immune system are also better circulated and that means there is a greater chance that you immune system can find and destroy an illness before it really spreads.
6.Wash your hands. Because there is bacteria basically everywhere, washing your hands quite frequently will help you prevent illness. And although most people think antibacterial soap is a good alternative to soap, it actually does much more harm than good. Don’t settle for antibacterial soap, get the real thing and make sure you wash for long enough.

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