What are the Smoking Effects For Your Health?

August 31st, 2010

Many people should be aware about the detrimental effects of smoking. In this case, people who are health conscious will try hard to avoid this one to support their effort to live a healthy life. What about you? If you do the same thing, you would have saved your life. What are actually the dangers of smoking? The following explanation will be the good guideline to let you know more about the matter above. Cigarettes have been the killer of many people for several years and the campaign to stop smoking has been widely done.

If you want to stop smoking, knowing the side effects can be the best motivation for you to do it. The long term side effects of smoking are such as the increasing rate of death every year. Further, the research shows that one in two lifetime smokers can possibly die from their bad habit. This case occurs in middle age. The tobacco smoke is claimed as the major causes of cancers too. The two examples above are enough to make you area about the danger. Definitely, there are still several other bad effects people will get from their smoking habit.

What can you say more about the habit above? The mixture of carbon monoxide and nicotine will be able to increase your blood pressure and heart rate. Besides, it will stain both your heart and blood vessels. You can be the next target of several detrimental diseases as well. Some of the examples are heart attacks and stroke. They attack you through several ways, starting from slowing your blood flow up to cutting the oxygen off to your hands and feet. The smokers mostly end up by amputated limbs. If you do not want to suffer from the same thing, stop smoking is the only solution.

What about the tar? It coats your lungs and will cause cancer. It is similar to the soot in a chimney. You probably assume the low-tar cigarettes as the good solution. It is actually wrong since the smokers will take deeper puffs and will hold the smoke in for longer. It means that they drag the tar deeper into their lungs. If someone does it for long term, the tar will be accumulated. So, the troubles cannot be avoided. The carbon monoxide is dangerous too since it can rob your muscles, body tissue of oxygen, brain and can make the whole body work harder (especially your heart).

There are still several other effects of smoking which can threat your life. The only solution is to stop this bad habit. It is probably difficult for the first time but you will find it easy if you try hard and have the great will to live healthily.

What is a Perfect Nose?

August 27th, 2010

As  Los Angeles plastic surgeon specializing in rhinoplasty, I am frequently asked by my patients to give them a perfect nose. Well, there not one perfect nose that can work for everyone. When looking at pictures of models or celebrities who are considered to have beautiful noses, one can clearly see they all have different noses. It is not necessarily a certain size or shape of the nose that makes it beautiful but rather how well the nose fits with the rest of the face.

However, there are general characteristics of a male and female know that people find attractive. For example, in most women raised tips with a gently (concave) curve of the dorsum results in a feminine and natural appearing nose. The dorsum is the top edge of the nose. Visit my our rhinoplasty before and after pictures section to view such pictures. During nose surgery (rhinoplasty), the hump on the dorsum is gently shaved until a natural appearing curve is achieved. The next step in rhinoplasty is to raise the tip. In women the tip is raised such that the angle between the bottom portion of the nose and upper lip is about 95-100 degrees.

The goals for rhinoplasty in men are slightly different that those in women. In most men a straight (not curved) dorsum is more appropriate. The tip is typically raised less maintaining the angle between the bottom of the nose and upper lip of about 90 degrees.

Some men, however, will prefer to have a gently curve and the tip raised higher.

So it is important for any rhinoplasty surgeon, to spend enough time with the patient discussing his or her goal of nose surgery, as well as likely outcomes and limitations.