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Archive for January, 2011

With a virus AH1N1 comfortable and installed between us, it is difficult to understand how the psychosis continues and we are not mentalizing in guard already without fear the worst. The worst already arrived, and in reality is not so serious. Anyway, I do not want back to play for the umpteenth time the debate on the psychosis of influenza A and I want focus in an interesting question.

Leo Yahoo that in the state of Michigan the alarm is lit because of a series of 10 cases of patients of influenza A, of which nine were obese or hyper obese. The element obesity generated questions about whether it impinged on the likelihood of flu swine, and today commented the doubts.

The scientific community came to say immediately that the obesity does not affect the chances of contracting the virus, but that the suffer the obese people conditions such as asthma or bronchitis, this increases your risk. Anyway, this is not tantamount to saying that the obesity in itself opens the door to the influenza A. Read the rest of this entry »

The menopause is a stage in life fertile women which neither can escape. It is a term that gives to the conclusion of menstrual cycles and that is why the reproductive cycle and that is usually occurs in women over 45 years.
During this period, in addition to the amenorrhea (cessation of menstruation) occur infinity of physical changes internal and external as well as emotional that many times is misunderstood by the people around them.

Characteristics of the menopause
Those who are going through this period suffer myriad changes mood, among which is the bad humor and the crying but in addition is accompanied by:
-Hot flashes.
-Sweating.
-Vertigo.
-Dizziness.
-Incontinence.
-Vaginal dryness.
-Problems sleeping.
-Tendency to gain weight.
-Can occur osteoporosis and heart problems.
The menopause is a stage that is sometimes difficult to recognize for the women, since even if it is not a disease, with the disappearance menstruation some get depressed because they feel elderly or unserviceable but all this is mainly due to the disorder hormone that is reflected in lawsuits family Read the rest of this entry »

Oblivion and distraction are two factors that often occur during pregnancy. According to some studies in pregnant women, has been discovering that the brain of the pregnant woman is reduced in size during the last trimester of pregnancy. It is believed that is associated with hormonal changes that would reduce the size of the neurons and alter its interconnection, altering the substances that are responsible for sending biochemical signals between nerve cells.
Other studies related to this have asserted that the “amnesia maternal” is a myth and have linked these losses of the memory with other factors other than those of pregnancy. However, there are many testimonies of mothers that ensure suffer this syndrome.

The people to keep the so-called Mediterranean diet accompanied by olive oil and dried fruit decreases between 40 and 50 per cent the risk of a crisis cardiovascular health.

Reduce the risk factors

The major Spanish on the Prevention of the Mediterranean Diet (PREDIMED) reveals that a based eating fish, fruits, vegetables, wheat and dairy products and supplemented with olive oil extra virgin and dried fruit -walnuts, hazelnuts and almonds- decreases between 40 and 50 per cent factors of cardiovascular risk, already on the three months of follow-up.

After a first evaluation of the study, which is published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine of the American College of Physicians, dr. Ramon Struch, a specialist in Internal Medicine from the Hospital in Barcelona and coordinator of the project noted that the study, “the first to be performed in primary prevention of cardiovascular risk” reveals that the three months of diet patients embodied in a first stage showed “a significant reduction of the cardiovascular risk factors”.

Olive oil

These results reinforced the hypothesis global study aimed to demonstrate that the Mediterranean diet supplemented with olive oil extra virgin and dried fruit decreases the episodes cardiovascular (stroke, myocardial infarction, etc) in people with high risk for this type of disease. Read the rest of this entry »

The oats is one of the most food rich in natural menu; its fiber content is very high and beneficial to human health. You can prepare one thousand and one ways, and all forms help the well-being, to the extent that scientifically has proven that helps keep away evils cardiac and other ailments.

In a grain that has been in the bureau of the people since time immemorial and which is considered basis for many diets, but his qualities as benefactor of health has been known shortly.
The wonders of the oats should be to that contains a considerable amount of the two types of existing fiber: soluble and insoluble.

A bowl of oatmeal, some biscuits prepared with it or as part of a stew, reinforces the health. This has been certified in any way by the Administration of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States, which for years published the first declaration of health for a food:

“The soluble fiber in oats, as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol can reduce the risk of heart disease”.
That fiber is good is something that is heard frequently, there is perhaps that reinforce this idea with data such as these: the soluble fiber has the capacity to absorb water in the intestine, with which creates a mass viscose from the food eaten.

During digestion in the small intestine, this mass appears trap or retains bile acids and cholesterol, with which avoids its absorption its step by the small intestine. These sterols (one of them is cholesterol) are released into the colon, where they are little absorbed or digested by the micro flora or eliminated in the stool. Read the rest of this entry »