Obesity or overweight disease turned out to be contagious. The process of transmission where people who have more friends or relatives who are obese will be greater risk to his being overweight. Similarly, a recent study confirmed that held Arizona State University’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change in the United States. 

The assumption in advance if we are next to fat people, will make us appear thinner in the eyes of others. But the new findings could give birth to different assumptions about the friendship between the fat-slim this. Researchers have found a number of ways in which obese people may affect the weight of others. Friends with fat people make others see your ideal weight is pushing you to eat with a rate equal to them.

The reason is said researchers could also be indirect, in which fat people forcing their friend to eat more and not have to exercise so you achieve the same body size. To be near a friend who is obese can put you at risk of further weight increase, due to socialize with them makes you close to the activity of eating, watching television, lack of exercise or other energetic activities.

The researchers interviewed 101 women from 812 Phoenix Arizona with their closest friends and relatives. By looking at Body Mass Index (BMI) of the respondents, friends and relatives. In conclusion the researchers found that the more overweight a woman’s social circle the more likely he is to be fat. With a friendship based on food and physical activity, we are slightly more likely to become obese.

The study, published in the paper entitled Shared Norm And Their Explanation For The Social Clustering of Obesity is stated unequivocally that the average woman will be very embarrassed when I assessed her put on weight. A quarter of women say they prefer to suffer from major depression than to be overweight and more than one in ten women (14.5 percent) said they preferred to blind eye rather than obesity.

Herbal medicine has a preventive nature that protect the body as a whole. Or traditional herbal medicine derived from plants is proven to treat some diseases.

Call it temu lawak, pegs the earth, and turmeric noni fruit is a small plant that can be used as herbal medicine extracts. Various kinds of diseases like malaria, cough, or even the heart can be cured by using traditional medicine. 

Professor Sumali Wiryowidagdo of the Center for Drug Studies Nature Materials Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science University of Indonesia (UI) argues the use of herbal medicines in Indonesia is now developing very good, both in terms of efficacy, the more modern forms, as well as manufacturing process that uses the latest technology .

Data research last year showed 87 percent of users of herbal medicines to admit that this type of drug is efficacious. The results of health research base in the same year also proves that 54 percent people of Indonesia to use herbal medicine. From the herbal users, 95 percent admit there are benefits.

The socio-cultural, community and had used herbal hereditary proved to be useful. In addition, the phenomenon back to nature helped push society to select herbs. In addition to the community also felt increasingly high prices of medicines, plus the over-medicalization of behavior physician, said Chairman of the Confederation Medical Association in Asia and Oceania Fachmi Idris MD Dr (PH).

Nowadays a good momentum to develop herbal medicines. The government is heavily-incessant build awareness, even now there saintifikasi term herbs. The doctors are also trained through courses herbs for 120 hours. Dream we all are pointing to it, more herbal medicines could be curative. On the one hand, we must make prevention of disease. On the other hand, we also must conduct continuous research and development of degenerative diseases to problems such as diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol, uric acid, and so forth. Types of herbal medicine is commonly used in the process of healing therapies, such as therapy for hypertension, diabetes, kidney and even heart.