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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 »

We already know that the overweight and obesity are fairly common problems for the children today (and for their parents, of course). This means for the most kids an increase of likely to have health problems. To avoid our children should be in form and the most efficient way is to make much physical exercise. However, convince you can sometimes be very difficult. Let’s see what we can do in this regard to prevent obesity of our children.

The trick is that physical activity signifies a fun for them. Organizing sports like hockey, football, basketball or tennis will be a good way to keep them in movement. Not even they will realize that are exercise. Hiking is also a good way to exercise. Children generally love to climb hills, crossing rivers, jump on the rocks and climb into the trees.

On the other hand we all know the benefits of swimming. The ideal is that children practiced at least once a week and is fun in the pool. The swimming helps to shape their legs and arms. In addition is an excellent exercise for the cardiovascular system. Read the rest of this entry »

A new study that appears in Cardiology Clinic examines the average level of physical form of the obese morbid (body mass index between 40.0 and 49.9).

The results show that the sedentary population to prove that during more than 99 percent of the day, on average, walked less than 2500 steps per day, which is far below the guidelines of the healthy life that includes some 10,000 steps per day.

The results provide important linkages between the obesity, the poor physical fitness and cardiovascular diseases.

The study used a sensor of precision in the agency continuously to the extent of physical activity, caloric expenditure and the movement minute by minute during a period of 72 hours within their domestic environments.

After the collection of data, structured the role cardio-respiratory, was carried out the aptitude test in each field.

The majority of the participants obese morbid in the study were markedly sedentary and on average slept 23 hours and 51.6 minutes per day, without daily activity sustained and the remaining group conducted 8.4 minutes of moderate activity. On average, the subject took 3,763 ± 2,223 steps. Read the rest of this entry »