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5 Steps to Control Cholesterol

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

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How to control high cholesterol?

If your cholesterol is high, you need to reduce this to prevent cardiovascular complications. This paper will tell you how with just 5 steps you can keep it under control and avoid risking your health.

Levels above 200 mg / dl total cholesterol values above 100 to 130 mg/dl LDL or bad cholesterol, can silently affect the heart and circulatory system.

To prevent this from happening you need to know how to control high cholesterol. To do this you can put into practice five steps to help you keep it under control.

5 steps to keep cholesterol under control

1. Replaces by low fat whole foods.

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Trans Fat and Cardiovascular Disease (Part 2)

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

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This is because they increase LDL cholesterol (bad) cholesterol and lowers HDL (good) and acting on inflammatory mechanisms that accelerate the development of ateroesclerosis.También may increase the risk of diabetes by modifying the metabolism of fatty acids in the adipocyte or fat cell.

In short, there is no justification for their use, for which they provide no nutritional benefit, so it should be restricted to the maximum. To avoid health hazards, you should not consume more than 1 gram daily.

2. What can we do to reduce your consumption?

Priority should be given to the intake of natural products and cooked at home. For frying, cooking and drinking raw preferably be used olive oil.

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Trans Fat and Cardiovascular Disease (Part 1)

Monday, May 10th, 2010

trans fatTrans fats are unsaturated fatty acids obtained one through the hydrogenation of certain vegetable oils, a process that adds strength to the fats and improves their use but makes it highly detrimental to health.

1. Avoidable danger

Some unsaturated fatty acids obtained through the hydrogenation of certain vegetable oils, which makes semi-solid fats for use in food preparation and processing.

They are found in cheap oil for frying in fast food places, some margarines, convenience foods, bakery products, confectionery and biscuits, crisps “bag”, snacks, candies and microwave popcorn.

Its aim is to preserve food longer, improve flavor, promote stability in the fry or make them easier to spread. They are also cheaper than other vegetable fats. Trans acids increase the risk of myocardial infarction more than any other macronutrient.

The consumption of approximately 5-8 grams per day (about 2 to 3% of total calories) increases from 23 to 30% the risk of myocardial infarction. They are also associated with an increased risk of diabetes. This type of fat is much more damaging to health than animal fats.

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Childhood Asthma – Asthma and Sports

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Except for diving with air bottles, a child with asthma can play sports. But there are a number of sports less “asmógenos” than others.

The free running, which is the basis of the running, athletics, and sports like football or basketball, is the activity which can produce bronchospasm. As there is usually a refractory period of 2 to 4 hours’ duration in the exercise-induced asthma during which no bronchospasm occurs again, however much they continue to exercise, so running causes an intense and continuous more bronchospasm that perform the exercise intermittently.

Activities that cause exercise-induced asthma. In order of severity are:

  • Free Race
  • Career treadmill
  • Cycling
  • Swimming

In addition, sports like swimming in warm pool (hot and humid air), gymnastics, walking, golf, hiking and biking on level ground are much less asmógenos. The tennis and ball games, but require much free running, usually take the form of intermittent heavy exertion, so are also good, like the martial arts (judo, karate, taekwondo), fencing, etc..

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Childhood Asthma – Physical Activity In Child Asthma

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Exercise is necessary for all children, and provide moments of happiness while preparing to teach a healthy lifestyle as adults, therefore, the child with asthma should not be an exception, and should make physical exercise a manner “adequate”.

Benefits of exercise in children with asthma:

  • Improved child development
  • Improving physical fitness and exercise tolerance itself
  • The attacks caused by stress are reduced or are less strong
  • The crises are best controlled
  • It helps to reduce the nervousness caused by the attacks.

But keep in mind that at least 80% of children with asthma may have a bronchoconstriction with sports, unless appropriate measures are taken). However, given the benefit of sport psycho and integrator, is a great error overprotect the asthmatic child and prevent a normal level of exercise.

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Constipation – Diagnosed and Treatment

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Who is at risk?

Constipation is a very common reason for consultation. Anyone at any age can present season premiere, especially in conjunction with diet changes or travel. The elderly or low activity with this disorder more frequently.

How is it diagnosed?

Given the number of things that may be related to the occurrence of constipation, should be the doctor, after he met the dietary habits, taking drugs and the existence of other diseases, can determine which studies are needed to do. For it appears that the most likely cause may be a tumor, it must be inside the bowel. It uses a colonoscope, which is a tube with a camera device so you see the walls of the bowel and detect the presence of tumors or other lesions.

What is your treatment?

Treatment of constipation depends crucially on the cause that produces it. Most times it is sufficient to add fiber to the diet. If it relates to the taking of drugs, and these can be changed by others, it is advisable to do so. At other times it may be necessary to resort to surgery.

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Constipation – What are Its Causes?

Friday, February 12th, 2010

The term constipation rather than a disease itself refers to the assessment of each individual about his bowel habits. Given the wide margin of normal bowel habits, it is very difficult to accurately define constipation. In practice a more objective criterion used as the frequency of defecation, constipation considering the individual who performs fewer than three bowel movements per week.

However, this criterion is not sufficient by itself, because many patients with constipation referred to a normal rate but with other subjective complaints such as excessive straining, very hard stools or a feeling of incomplete evacuation.

What are its causes?

The most common cause of constipation is now what is called simple chronic constipation and is mainly due to dietary factors, and its main cause is a lack of fiber in the diet. Sometimes constipation is associated with various illnesses suffered by the individual and is a common symptom in patients with diabetes and thyroid disease.

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Depression in Elderly Descriptions, Symptoms, and Treatments

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Introduction

Everyone gets sad occasion. When we get older, the reasons for going to be depressed seem so clear and are so frequent that tends to assume that it is normal for older people feel depressed. But is it?. Undoubtedly, the sort of thing that normally associate with feeling depressed are more frequent as we age – we have to stop working, probably have less money, you may feel discomfort or pain from osteoarthritis or other physical problems, we sometimes lose our partner or someone close, or even our pets can die.

However, despite this, fewer than one in six older people suffer from symptoms of depression and are perceived by themselves or by others, and fewer than one in every thirty people over is so depressed that doctors believe has a depressive illness.

Symptoms

Feeling discouraged or sad is not the only symptom of depressive illness. To properly identify a depression is important to know that look. The following are common symptoms of depression:

*A feeling of sadness or discouragement that is more intense than normal sadness lasts days and is present most of the time, but with some improvement frequently throughout the day.

*A loss of interest in life and an inability to enjoy things that usually give pleasure or satisfaction.

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Osteoarthritis Definition, Causes, Symptoms, Treatment, and Risk

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease that affects the hyaline cartilage lining the bone surface called synovial joints (knee, hip, joints of hands ...). Far from being a static process, osteoarthritis is caused by an imbalance between the mechanisms of regeneration and degeneration of the cartilage.

As a result of a heterogeneous group of factors, is an alteration of chondrocyte metabolism that leads to a thinning of cartilage, bone changes associated with regenerative, which together will determine the clinical manifestations of the disease to be discussed later.

What are its causes?

The main symptom is pain, of insidious onset, deep and poorly localized, which typically increases with movement and improves with rest. As the disease progresses, pain becomes continuous and can occur even at rest. You may receive further aggravated stiffness after rest.

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