Children who are sit and watching TV more the 2 hours are risk twice developing an Asthma. Asthma is effect most 300 million people around the world . Do not upset, most of them are children who taking much time by watching TV.

Andrea Sherriff of the University of Glasgow and colleagues studies, found that 6 percent of children at around age 12 who had no symptoms of the disease growing up had asthma. But children who watched television for more than two hours daily were almost twice as likely to have been diagnosed with the condition as those who watched less.

For all parent, please do not encourage your kids sitting more that 2 hours in front  of TV. Prevent them taking so much time by watching TV. Maybe guide them making others healthy thing rather than watching TV.

Read more on :  Independent.co.uk

Pegaga is mostly found at Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, Madagascar and southern region of US and Africa. It easily grows on the warm ground, low and wet areas of both hemispheres, especially abundant in the swampy areas of India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka up to an altitude of approximately 700 meters.

Traditionally pegaga is put inside the Malay meal. It is so delicious eating with salads and vegetable. You can find this kind of meal at malay restaurant especially at Malaysia and Indonesia until now. The fragrant leaves can act as an appetizer. We can either eat it raw or cook it as part of a soup. The local people believe that pegaga will help to promote wound healing.

On scientific name pegaga is called Centella asiatica. It is a polymorphous, creeping plant, rooting at nodes, with sometimes significant tap root, cylindrical and glabrous stems. This plant, dried and crushed, has been used in the treatment of leprosy, bronchitis, asthma, syphilis, and as a wound healing agent.

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Asthma is an inflammatory disorder of the airways, which causes attacks of wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing. Asthma is a chronic inflammation of the bronchial tubes (airways) that causes swelling and narrowing (constriction) of the airways. The result is difficulty breathing. The bronchial narrowing is usually either totally or at least partially reversible with treatments.

Asthma affects people differently. Each individual is unique in their degree of reactivity to environmental triggers. This naturally influences the type and dose of medication prescribed, which may vary from one individual to another.

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