10 Ways To Prevent Infectious Diseases

1. Keep immunizations up to date. Follow recommendations for childhood and adult immunizations, and get those shots on time.
2. Wash your hands often, especially during cold and flu season. Be sure to wash hands:
   • After using the bathroom
   • Before eating or handling food
   • After changing a diaper
   • After blowing your nose or sneezing or coughing
   • After caring for a sick person
   • After playing with a pets
3. Be aware of what you eat, and be careful how you prepare it.
   • Keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold until you eat them or cook them.
   • Be sure temperature controls in the refrigerators or freezers are working properly.
   • Wash counters, cutting boards, and utensils carefully with soap and hot water, especially after preparing poultry or other meats.
   • Wash fresh fruits and vegetables before eating them.
   • Cook ground beef until you can no longer see any pink.
4. Use antibiotics exactly as prescribed. Take them for the full course prescribed by your doctor, but not for colds or other nonbacterial illnesses. Never medicate yourself with antibiotics or share them with family or friends.
5. Report to your doctor any infection that is quickly getting worse or any infection that does not get better after you take a prescribed antibiotic.
6. Be cautious around all wild animals and domestic animals that are not familiar to you. After any animal bite, clean the skin with soap and water, and seek medical care immediately.
7. Avoid areas of insect infestation. Use skin and clothing repellents when in areas where ticks or mosquitoes are common. If you have visited wooded or wilderness areas and are now sick, your doctor needs all the details to diagnose both rare and common illnesses quickly.
8. Avoid unsafe, unprotected sex and injecting drug use. Use condoms with every new sex partner.
9. Stay alert to disease threats when you travel or visit undeveloped areas. Get all recommended immunizations and use other protective medications for travel, especially to areas with malaria. If you become ill when you return home, tell your doctor where you've been.
10. When you are sick, allow yourself time to heal and recover. Be courteous to others: wash your hands frequently, and cover your mouth when you sneeze or cough.

How to Prevent Heart Disease

1) Make the effort to quit smoking. If you do not smoke now, don’t start. Find an appropriate method for quitting smoking that works for you. Some people prefer to wean themselves off cigarettes by cutting back on the amount smoked each day. Others find better results when they quit cold turkey and abruptly give up all cigarettes at once.


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Eliminate exposure to all tobacco products, including chewing tobacco. Stay away from smokeless tobacco. It contains nicotine, which narrows your blood vessels, forcing your heart to work harder. This leads to an increase in blood pressure and elevates your heart rate, which increases your risk of heart disease.

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   Speak with your doctor about medications and other smoking cessation aids that he can prescribe to help you break your smoking habit. Inquire about local support groups in your area for individuals who are trying to quit smoking.

10 Tips to Prevent Infections

1. Wash your hands frequently. Did you know that microbes can live on inert surfaces anywhere from a few minutes to several months? Imagine these disease-causing microbes living on your computer keyboard, your light-switch, or even on the pedestrian-crossing button next to the crosswalk!
   
   Surprisingly, most people don’t know the best way to effectively wash their hands. The CDC recommends washing thoroughly and vigorously with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, followed by hand-drying with a paper towel. In the absence of running water, an alcohol-based hand gel or wipe will suffice, although nothing beats good ol’ soap and water. This takes about as long as it does to sing "Happy Birthday", so some hospitals recommend washing your hands for the duration of this simple tune!



 
2. Don't share personal items. Toothbrushes, towels, razors, handkerchiefs, and nail clippers can all be sources of infectious agents (bacteria, viruses, and fungi). In kindergarten, you were taught to share your toys, but keep your hands to yourself. Now try to remember to keep personal items to yourself as well!



 
3. Cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze. In a similar vein, good personal hygiene includes not only personal cleanliness, but also the age-old practice of covering your mouth when you cough or sneeze. Why is this important if you aren’t sick? For most infections, the disease-causing microbe has already started growing and dividing long before any symptoms begin to show. Coughing or sneezing can spread these germs through microscopic droplets in the air. The current recommendation is to cover your mouth with your arm, sleeve, or crook of the elbow, rather than using your hands.



 
4. Get vaccinated. Your immune system is designed to have a “memory” of previous infections. When your body encounters a microbe that has previously caused an infection, it enhances its production of white blood cells and antibodies to prevent infection a second time. However, by getting vaccinated, you “trick” your body into thinking that it has been infected by a particular microbe, hence enhancing its own defenses against subsequent infection.



 
5. Use safe cooking practices. Food-borne illnesses frequently arise from poor food preparation and dining habits. Microbes thrive on virtually all food items, and more so on foods left at room temperature. Refrigeration slows or stops the growth of most microbes. Promptly refrigerate foods within 2 hours of preparation. Use separate cutting boards for raw meats and vegetables, keep clean countertops, and wash all fruits and vegetables well prior to eating. See fightbac.org for more information.



 
6. Be a smart traveler (see travel tips). Infectious diseases can easily be picked up while traveling, particularly when traveling to underdeveloped countries. If your travel destination is one where water is questionable, make sure to use a safe water source such as bottled water for drinking and brushing your teeth. Eat foods that have been cooked, and avoid raw vegetables and fruits. Finally, be sure to update all immunizations that are advised or required for your travel destination.



 
7. Practice safe sex. Sexually-transmitted diseases are probably the most easily preventable infectious disease. By being smart about safe sex (using condoms), transfer of infectious bacteria or viruses from one person to another can be prevented.



 
8. Don’t pick your nose (or your mouth or eyes either). Not only is it a social taboo, but it also leads to the spread of a number of infections. Look around, and you’ll notice how many people have their hands next to their faces. Many microbes prefer the warm, moist environment inside your nose, as well as other mucous-covered surfaces such as your eyes and mouth. Infections can be easily prevented by avoiding touching of these areas.



 
9. Exercise caution with animals. Infections that can spread from animals to people are called “zoonotic diseases” and are more common than most people realize. If you have pets, make sure they get regular check-ups and that their vaccinations are up-to-date. Clean litter boxes frequently (unless you’re pregnant—stay away!), and keep small children away from animal feces. Different types of wild animals can carry diseases such as rabies or bird flu or fleas and ticks that spread plague and Lyme disease. Make the area around your home unfriendly to rodents and other mammals by eliminating areas where they could hide or build nests, using rodent-proof trash cans that contain food waste, and sealing up holes that offer easy and attractive access to animals. And teach small children in your household to be cautious when encountering wild animals.



 
10. Watch the news. A good understanding of current events can help you to make wise decisions about traveling or other recreational activities. For example, a bird flu outbreak in Asia may make you think twice about a trip you were planning. Recent reports of West Nile Virus spread by mosquitoes? You may want to bring some insect repellent on your camping trip after all! Salmonella in tomatoes? Don’t eat tomatoes. You get the idea.

How to Avoid Diseases ( Protect Your Heart )

Heart disease is the number one killer of men in the United States. Nothing ages you faster than mistreating your heart. Gain more control over your cardiovascular health by eating a diet low in saturated fat and sugar, working out regularly, and not smoking. For extra heart protection, follow these steps:

Include fish in your meals each week. Choose fish such as salmon, haddock, mackerel, or tuna, which are high in heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids. Studies suggest that eating fish two or three times a week may reduce your risk of heart disease. Omega-3 supplements are another option, but check with your doctor first.

Stay active during your downtime. Studies show that people who engage often in leisure-time physical activities, such as taking a bike ride or brisk walk, have a lower risk of heart disease compared with people who pass their free time less actively. Two hours per week of leisure-time activities may decrease heart disease risk by as much as 61%. It just goes to show that playing like a kid can help you avoid aging.

Meet your daily requirement for magnesium. Research suggests that men who get adequate magnesium from their diets have a lower risk of heart disease compared with men who don't get enough. Aim to get 400–500 milligrams of magnesium each day. 

How to keep Diet

In morning eat tree (apple or any other fruit)
In lunch eat dish with no bread
In dinner eat again tree

Keep this diet for 2 weeks and you will see results