Only smoking!

A decade smoking, which equals 43.554 cigarettes, at 12 per day, with a variable two years without smoking, telling the teenage rage curve adorned endless outlets and nerves to face the world.

I have over 48 hours without inhaling and exhaling the smoke. I have several copies on hand about the benefits of quitting. Two days after prevent nicotine, it is assumed that my blood pressure has decreased, my pulse is lower and the temperature of the blood in my hands and feet increased.

My oxygen levels are at even that of a nonsmoker.

Ok, I told the doctor. Here you go, my bag and pulled out two packs of cigarettes and two lighters. He convinced me to quit. To me it means that when you get to a meeting to be alone, I can not talk to my friend the Marlboro cowboy. I will miss him, he so handsome ... not tell with advice when you are about to enter a customer visit. I'll send it to fly out of airports, as a jealous boyfriend, where fume gray beings as if they were about to end the world. I will not have to run out of bars, meals or "smoke-free buildings," which now are all so platicarle of my troubles.

Today I learned to glory divorced eggs I had for breakfast. My palate has come to life. Coming soon are expected to climb stairs bofee not, that nicotine disappears, breathe better because almost almost hoarse cremitas I can use my hands tangerine flavor without stink to snuff.

My teeth are like Jaime Camil, my skin and my hair shiny and I predict will be eternal happiness and so on. Oh, and I will not have wrinkles around the eyes. This is wonderful. What creams, my ass! Even lungs I have dark gray, but strangely I have no anxiety. If I was half the disastrous first day, but that's it. I'm not fat, no need.

To not die trying, I suggest, if you are willing, the following tips. I know there are thousands in Google, but they serve me:

1. Buy straws, cut strips of celery or carrot for the time being in front of the computer.
2. Have handy packages or pallets gum candy.
3. Prepare several bottles of water with chlorophyll and / or extract jamaica.
4. No going out to bars and not drink alcohol. Not a beer gentlemen, at least the first few weeks.
5. Drinking coffee to be tested. This is to feel that you are the king or queen of the world survives because not smoking.
6. Placing 40 pesos each day in an envelope and spend it on the weekend of your choice otherwise.
7. Believe it. Ya. You do not smoke.
8. An emergency number in case you feel absolute anxiety. I have not used but I want to see what it is that 1-800 have at our disposal the different levels of health of our beautiful and beloved Mexico.
9. Some reserves cranberries, walnuts, cucumbers, jicama, sunflower seeds, fruit.
10. Walking 30 minutes a day. If you go to your grocery store, buy water, Gatorade and look down on cigarettes. Watch them as enemy number one in his life.

Smile to life. No more having to buy those awful packs showing us stillbirths, gangrene in the foot, tumors in the mouth. They got tough, the marketing of my friends good cowboy. The truth is that I bought a couple of cigarette to avoid them.

Is that for real! A smokers have us cornered. Parents and doctors are the first. And did you know that you can blah blah blah? It's the worst. Yes, we know. And we smoked. Or as a friend said when asked Paul Auster: Why do you smoke?, Well because I like coughing. Missing more, I say.

We are a despicable group, with special places, like having a contagious and incurable. We smell awful the next day. The stark worsens, becomes more intense. Our home traps odors, like our clothes and reproach us for that.

We are in the sights of millions of campaigns.

And in the end, the truth is that the glamor of Maria Felix with his cigar not have the majority. It is very clear that at least I do not.

Mariana Gallardo

U.S. government expands list of diseases resulting from the 9/11

New York (AP). - As part of the commemorations of the attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. government added 50 types of cancer in the list of diseases related to the collapse of the World Trade Center, contained in Zadroga Act.

The authorities added 14 types of cancer to reach a list of 50, including respiratory and digestive system, as a result of substances and conditions to which people were exposed after the collapse of the Twin Towers.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health accepted the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Science and Technology to add certain types of cancer to the list of conditions covered for Health Program of the World Trade Center.

With the measure, rescuers and area residents suffering from lung cancer, leukemia and dozens of types of cancer can now receive federal aid.

The Zadroga Act, passed in December 2010, established a fund of four thousand 300 million dollars for the medical care of rescuers who responded to the emergency and care to residents of the city.

Experts in diseases related to September 11 indicated that at that time there was insufficient evidence linking the toxic smoke from the World Trade Center with the development of different types of cancer.

"Include these cancers reinforce what you already know, our heroes are sick and some are dying of cancer that developed from inhaling toxins from ground zero," said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, linked to the bill.

Kids eat as much salt as adults and double their risk of hypertension

CHICAGO (AP) - American children eat the same amount of salt as adults, 1,000 milligrams in excess, ie the same amount that exists in only one Big Mac Extra salt is associated with increased blood pressure, even in children, but a government investigation in the United States points out that those who are overweight and obese may be most vulnerable to its effects.

The new findings by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, for its acronym in English) were published Monday in the online version of the journal Pediatrics (Pediatrics). Previous studies have shown similar results in adults, but studies on salt, weight and blood pressure are rare in children.

The CDC researchers analyzed data on 6,200 children aged 8 to 18 who participated in national health surveys 2003-2008. Minors detailing asked twice for several days the foods they ate yesterday. The researchers estimated salt intake from their responses.

In total, 15% had high blood pressure called prehypertension or slightly elevated.

Those who ate more salt faced twice the risk of having high blood pressure, compared to those who ate less salty food. But among children obese or overweight, the risk tripled.

The recommended daily intake of salt or sodium for adults and children is no more than a tablespoon a day, or about 2,300 milligrams. On average, children in the study ate 3300 milligrams daily.

Quanhe Yang, a researcher at the CDC, said it is not clear why more weight children are more sensitive to salt, but may be due to hormonal changes related to obesity. The results raise concern because other studies have shown that elevated blood pressure in childhood, and even pre-hypertension, can lead to hypertension as adults and potentially premature heart disease.

Prehypertension and high blood pressure in people under 17 depend on the age, weight and gender.

In those over 18 years, levels between 120 over 80 and 140 over 90 is prehypertension, whereas 140 over 90 or higher is high blood pressure.

Masturbation in young people: A sure way to enjoy sex

Surrounded by guilt and rejection of many religions, masturbation remains the most popular among young people, and people without partners. Recommended at any age and in either sex, in spite of the bad reputation increasingly overcome, now more than ever we are recommending masturbation as a safe way to satisfy the sexual needs, and better sexual response in the future.

For many years we were told that this practice was associated with health problems, sexual dysfunction ... Today we know that the opposite is true.

In August 1999 in Hong Kong, held the World Congress of Sexology, called "Sexuality in the new millennium." In the final plenary WAS president, World Association of Sexologists, we asked all the world sexologists promocionáramos masturbation, as it saw it, and I think all who were there, that masturbation is the best option have in a world full of sexually transmitted infections, a world full of unwanted pregnancies and teenage pregnancies.

To be exposed to one of these tragedies, is undoubtedly safer to use our ten fingers efficiently.

But there are still good reasons to masturbate, I mean: Studies show that women anorgasmic, which formerly was called frigidity or frigid woman, in a high percentage NEVER masturbated. I think that has a lot of logic. Can you imagine a great major league pitcher out to the field to play without heating the arm? Can one think that a child who can not crawl can run?

Masturbation prepares men and women to have a good sexual response, keeps sexually active, but safe and secure with dire consequences. Humans who remain sexually active have a better response and longer, which means that, to masturbate more!

We respect the values ​​and beliefs of human beings who think differently from us, we encourage you to review only what science knows, reading about sexuality and question everything. Fanaticism is responsible for much suffering and death in the world, bigotry is based on ignorance. Do not go for absolute truths, locate, investigate, probe, be curious and especially not close to what is new or what is not in accordance with what he believes.

All great sexologists and sex therapists include masturbation within steps to overcome sexual dysfunctions. Believe me you will not leave hair on hands, will not weaken, not going to become addicted, it's all a lie. All that has been shown to produce fault masturbation who think it's a bad thing.

Luck!


Dr. Nancy Alvarez

We must continue to protect yourself against sunburn after the summer

After the summer we recommend moisturize, exfoliate and do a clinical review of the skin and hair

MADRID , 15 (EUROPA PRESS)

Although, as of September, the sun begins to lose intensity, you should continue to apply sunscreen and avoid exposure throughout the year and especially between 11 and 16 hours, as noted by the oncologist Raul Marquez's MD Anderson Cancer Center.

This expert Europa Press highlights the importance that the prevention of skin cancer, especially in its most aggressive: melanoma. For this reason, "we should avoid intense exposure than large", ie if this "whitey" must avoid the intense sun and, thus, skin burns, he argues.

Thus, advocates the use of sunscreens with high levels, especially in young children, and do so continuously. In general, you have to apply it half an hour before exposure and after bathing in the sea or pool.

This expert believes should check your moles every year, taking into account the ABCD rule. This standard sets out the principles of asymmetry, border, color and diameter. Thus, "if the injury is plump is more benign than if you have spiculated margins" and if the edges are "ill-defined" may be malignant, explains the oncologist.

Also, generally, moles usually have a uniformly brown, but in the case of having "different shades", may be indicative of a break in the skin, he says. Finally, the person has to check the diameter of your moles and, in case you have more than 5 or 6 millimeters, you have to go to the dermatologist.

Also, if the mole experiencing a major change in shape and size, stings more than usual or bleed, the individual has to be ruled a malignant lesion.

Usually detected each year in Spain about 3,600 cases of melanoma, "a figure that is increasing every year," warns the expert, who clarifies that this reflects the fact that people are becoming more aware and often come consultation to the early detection of skin lesions.

Moisturize, exfoliate and analyze clinically SKIN

Moreover, it is imperative that after the summer to prepare the skin for the rest of the year. For this, the dermatologist Sergio Vañó stressed the importance of skin and exfoliate, then moisturize deeply to prevent dryness and repair the damage that has occurred during the summer.

Also Vañó recommended to see a specialist to analyze the possible injuries that may have been appearing as a result of continuous radiation from the sun, and begin appropriate treatment.

In this sense, the expert stressed the need to perform a medical evaluation of any mole or spot that has appeared new during the summer months since, she added, an early diagnosis can "save lives."

"Skin cancer is a tumor that was later diagnosed cure but early few are cured more than 95 percent. It is therefore important to be noted that any skin lesion, especially in any mole, is go to a dermatologist to diagnose" Vañó stressed told Europa Press.

Similarly, the specialist has rejected the possibility of centers attend beauty for UVA sessions in order to preserve the tan and recommended use self-tanning creams that oxidize the surface layers of the skin and produce a brown coloration.

But he warned that Vañó to undergo a cosmetic procedure - for example a laser - is "very important" that first skin has lost "the dark" to avoid the appearance of "spots".

NEED TO BE TREATED HAIR

Hair is one of the body parts that are damaged more during the summer because of the sun, sea salt and chlorine pools. In addition, during these months often cause significant seasonal hair fall.

To alleviate these problems, the specialist has recommended reviewing what type of hair loss is occurring and, in the case where the accused is a loss, do a blood test to check that there are no iron deficiency, or any alteration hormonal associated.

"During the summer the hair has undergone various types of attacks and we recommend treating with a suitable shampoo and conditioner to go returning to normal," has settled vain.

Broken heart ... more than a song

These quotes from novel sighs from time to time after a break loving years, swearing that we have broken the heart, may not be as exaggerated as they seem. A "heart partí'o" not only is the work of genius Alejandro Sanz or romantic cards, but something much more serious, especially for women. Scientists have confirmed that Broken Heart Syndrome has nothing to do with sentimentality, but with heart disease more common than we think.

When Juanita, one of my patients at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, he entered the emergency unit, it appeared that he was the victim of a heart attack. The chest pain and shortness of breath made him think. After all the tests there were no results for test it, because his arteries were perfect. However, an echocardiogram or ultrasound showed that his heart was contracting only a third of normal, as if asleep. At that time, I remembered that Juanita had lost the man who accompanied her for 50 years. Then I found the answer to what was happening.

In the United States is known as Broken Heart Syndrome while in reality his name is apical ballooning syndrome or as it is called in Japan, Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy. Symptoms such as chest pain and shortness of breath, are very similar to those of a heart attack, but affects only the heart muscle and the coronary arteries.

Has nothing to do with risk factors for common cardiac conditions, but with stress, emotions and loss. According to studies, the condition is due to an increase of some hormones like adrenaline in times of stress. Not clog arteries like a heart attack, but the muscle suffers and is weakened too much.

It's so easy to confuse it with a heart attack, estimated that between 1 and 2 percent of those who are diagnosed as victims of one, actually they have is Broken Heart Syndrome.

Lack of awareness of this clinical phenomenon, but it is known that particularly affects post-menopausal women as love blossoms in spring, apparently, also the breaks, because between this season and summer, most often occur cases this disorder.

It pays to be clear that:

• In general, it is not a fatal condition.
• With medication and intensive care often heal.
• No sequelae.

To avoid misdiagnosis, it is vital to tell your doctor if you are going through a stressful emotional situation as a loss. Not so easy to rebuild a broken heart, but in these cases, with time, treatment and a new hope, always returns to beat.


Dr. Juan Jose Rivera
Renowned Cardiologist, Medical Adviser to Telemundo

The ABCDE of melanoma, five letters that could save your life

In these days of intense sun looks fresh, fresh, fashionable, sexy and showing lots of skin to give honor to summer. However, beware of ultraviolet (UV) because they can be deadly and damaging your health begin with the appearance of "mere specks" on your skin and thus cause the dreaded melanoma.

Melanoma is a cancer that originates in the skin by malignant transformation of cells called melanocytes. And the melanocytes are the cells that are responsible for the production of melanin, the substance that gives color to skin and hair and protects against UV radiation from the sun.

Melanoma is a type of aggressive skin cancer, which tends to spread very quickly and has a prognosis of less than eight months, however if melanoma is detected early can be curable.

It is therefore important to periodically check your body and your skin for any changes or abnormalities in moles and see a doctor if you have any doubt in the appearance of a mole. This way you could save your life with early diagnosis, preventing the disease continues to advance.

At a press conference, Dr. John W. Zinser Sierra, Coordinator of the Oncology Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, Autonomous University of Mexico, said that in America there are 3 million 500 thousand people with skin cancer each year. The survivors of skin cancer, melanoma is caused by about 800 thousand people."

The incidence of melanoma in women aged 18-39 has increased eight times in the past four decades, according to a study by the Mayo Clinic.

This high recurrence warn us to use the chart below as a reference when making your skin periodic review. As a way to detect skin cancer melanoma is taking into account the following aspects of a mole.

By Lourdes Gonzalez

Doctors gun violence qualify as a new social disease

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, USA (AP) - After several recent public shootings in the U.S., public health experts believe it is time to give a new approach to the problem of gun violence: a social disease.

They say it takes a public health approach to address the problem, such as road safety measures, changes in products and traffic laws that reduced the number of deaths in crashes for decades, even as the number of cars on the streets increased.

An example: metal railings highway safety are now curves in relation to the ground instead of straight edges that pose a threat outstanding at the time of a crash.

"People used to be skewered and We blamed the drivers for it," said Garen Wintemute physician, professor of emergency care who directs the Research Program on Violence Prevention at the University of California, Davis campus.

To reduce the number of deaths at the time, not enough to try to improve the driving skills of people, and today is not enough to address gun violence simply focusing on people who commit the shootings, according to Wintemute and other physicians.

What these experts suggest is a pragmatic, science-based, grounded in the reality of a society saturated with weapons to seek better ways to prevent the damage they cause.

The need for a new approach crystallized on Sunday for one of the nation's leading experts on gun violence, the doctor Stephen Hargarten. The doctor treated several victims of the shooting at a Sikh temple in the emergency department he runs in Milwaukee. Seven people were killed, including the assailant, and three were seriously injured.

The incident occurred two weeks after the shooting that killed 12 people and wounded 58 others in a theater in Colorado, and two days before a man pleaded guilty to killing six people and wounding 13 others, among them the then Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Tucson, Arizona, last year.

"What distresses me is: Is this a new social norm? Is it with this with what we have to live if we have more personal access to firearms?" Said Hargarten, chief of emergency medicine at the hospital Froedtert and Director of Trauma Research Center of Wisconsin Medical School.

"We have a problem of public health care," he said. "Are we going to wait for the next outbreak or something we can do about it?".

Between 260 and 300 million firearms are in civilian hands in the U.S., where nearly a third of households have one. Firearms are used in two thirds of the homicides, according to FBI figures.

In about 9% of violent crime using a firearm, or about 338,000 cases each year.

More than 73,000 patients were treated in emergency rooms in 2010 due to firearm injuries, according to estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States (CDC, for its acronym in English).

Ecstasy has serious effects on the fetus

MILAN - There is much talk of MDMA, the scientific name for MDMA (the active ingredient of which is the metilendiossimetaanfetamina), about youthful buzz. It died recently of a minor for having "dropped" a tablet too, but the colorful tablet takes its toll not only among the boys in discos or rave and there are pregnant women (maybe young) who use it. A British team has wanted for the first time demonstrate the plausible, but until now never felt fine, adverse effects on fetal development.

COMPARISON - The team, formed by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in collaboration with the University of East London (UEL) and Swansea University, UK, has compared, at the time of birth and four months of life, some infants whose mothers had taken the amazing pregnant with a sample of "normal" children. Comparing the data showed that the children of young consumers of ecstasy were more often male and had deficits of movement and coordination skills .

STUDY - In essence, the assumption of chemical drugs affect the kind that the study involved a sample of 96 persons and was published in the journal Neurotoxicology and Teratology. In addition, the tablet would have a very significant impact on gait and coordination skills of children, particularly in eye movement and hand, to balance your head and sit without any support. The stresses Derek Moore, a professor of psychology at UEL, adding that they also suggest other side effects long term, as a reduction of memory performance and learning and even emotional development (the authors of the study will continue to monitor the children until ' age of 18 months). Andy Parrott, of the University of Swansea, shows that the impact of ecstasy on the fetus is extremely serious, but not surprising . "This drug may reduce the level of serotonin in fact, which is an important neurotransmitter and is crucial for a number of brain function including motor control, but also the regulation of mood and sleep."

The tablet OF RAVE - The damage of the rest of rave drugs have long been known and not surprising that also have an influence on the fetus of the mother who uses it. In particular, note the action of the drug on serotonin. The substance damages the so-called serotonergic neurons, compromising the ability of the brain to integrate information and emotions. Understandable and predictable were the difficulties, both ethical than practical, the scientific assessment by the British team. Young mothers often consuming ecstasy were also making use of other drugs, but users of this drug have reported discomfort is particularly evident with regard to employment status, and for the social and health problems. Yet for many users this derivative of amphetamine is still not perceived in all its dangers. Including some future mother still unaware of the ongoing pregnancy and the effects of ' prenatal exposure to ecstasy .

Bedding and discover insect repellent herbal 77,000 years ago

An international team of archaeologists has discovered preserved plant beds and evidence of the use of insect repellent plants 77,000 years ago in a rock shelter in southern Africa. This discovery, which dates back more than 50 thousand years previous reports preserved bedding, offers a fascinating insight into the performance practices of early modern humans in Africa.

The team, led by Professor Lyn Wadley of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa , in collaboration with Christopher Miller, University of Tübingen, in Germany , Christine Bamford Marion Sievers and also of the Witwatersrand, and Paul Goldberg and Francesco Berna Boston University in the United States , have described the discovery in the journal ' Science '.

The old bed was discovered during excavations in Sibudu, a rock shelter in the province of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), where Lyn Wadley, a professor at the University of Witwatersrand has been excavating since 1998. At least 15 different layers contain bedding, 77,000 and 38,000 between years. The bedding consists of layers of several centimeters thick compact stems and leaves of reeds, which extend for at least one square meter and a maximum of three square meters in the excavated area. Christine Sievers, University of Witwatersrand, nutlets identified several types of reed used in the construction of the bedding.

The bedding, which is very well preserved, consists of a layer of stems and leaves fossilized reed covered by a thin layer of leaves, identified by the botanist Marion Bamford as belonging to Cryptocarya woodii, the leaves of this tree contain chemicals insecticides suitable for repelling mosquitoes.

The selection of these sheets for the construction of beds suggests that the first inhabitants of Sibudu had a great knowledge of plants surrounding the shelter, and were aware of its medicinal uses. According to Lyn Wadley, "the ancient inhabitants gathered uThongathi reeds in the river, just below the place and available to the plants on the floor of the house. The bedding was not used only for sleeping, but also provided a comfortable surface for the life and work. "

Microscopic analysis of the bedding, directed by Christopher Miller, Professor of Geoarchaeology at the University of Tübingen, suggests that the inhabitants bedding reformed repeatedly during the course of the occupation. Microscopic analysis showed that the inhabitants of Sibudu bedding burned after use. "They burned the bedding used possibly as a way to eliminate pests," explains Miller.

The bedding is also associated with preserved remains of fireplaces and numerous deposits of ash. 58 thousand years ago, the number of fireplaces, bed and ash increased dramatically, archaeologists believe this is due to intensive use. In the article, archaeologists argue that the increase in employment corresponds to the demographic changes of the moment, in Africa 50 thousand years ago, modern humans began to expand out of Africa, replacing the archaic humans of Eurasia , including the Neanderthals.

This discovery adds to a long list of important findings in Sibudu in the last decade, including perforated shells used as beads, bone points, and sharp, probably used for hunting.

Dental radiographs may predict future bone fractures

Predicting the risk of bone fractures may be possible through the use of dental radiographs, according to a study of the Sahlgrenska University (Sweden) published in the journal Nature Reviews Endocrinology .

In a previous study, Swedish researchers had already shown that a structure of bones scattered in the trabecular bone of the lower jaw is associated with an increased likelihood of having previously suffered fractures in other parts of the body.

Now they have taken a step further with a new work shows that it is possible the use of dental radiographs to investigate the structure of the lower jaw bone, and predict who is at increased risk for future fracture .

"We have seen that the structure of the scattered bones in the lower jaw in the middle of life is directly related to the risk of fractures in other parts of the body in the future," says Lauren Lissner.

40 years of follow-up

The study began in 1968. During 40 years have looked at 731 women who have made films of his jawbone. The study shows that the structure of the jaw bone was low in almost 20% of women aged between 38 and 54 years, when he conducted the first review, and that these women had a significantly higher risk of fractures.

The study also indicates that the older the person, the stronger the link between the structure of the scattered bones in the jaw and fractures in other parts of the body.

The researchers note that although the study was conducted in women, researchers believe that the link is also applicable to men.

"Dental X-rays contain lots of information about bone structure," says Grethe Jonasson. By analyzing these images, dentists can identify people who are at increased risk of fractures, long before the first fracture. "

Demonstrate the relationship between the thickness of the carotid artery and stroke risk

The team of Neurology, Hospital del Mar (Barcelona) has shown that the thickness of the carotid wall may determine the risk of recurrence of stroke or stroke , as reported by the health center Thursday. The research, conducted over 600 patients who have suffered strokes, points to the utility of measuring the thickness of the intima and media layers of the carotid artery by ultrasound, as an early warning in the probability of relapse and therefore, as a clinical marker of prognosis.

The findings, published in Stroke , help identify high-risk patients and to "focus efforts" on them, as highlighted by the author of the study, Jaume Roquer. "Thanks to the report, the thickness of the carotid artery will become another important element to keep in mind to identify patients most at risk," reiterated Roquer, who stressed the great value of the study to improve prevention.

Experts, who have done this work in the Arctic multicenter study that evaluated potential markers of recurrence in stroke, have a "big step" in the study of this disease, with 7 percent of patients who suffer again a new episode during the first year, rising to 15% if you add cardiovascular events and death.

Childhood obesity can be prevented

Childhood obesity is becoming a major health problem in some countries. Childhood obesity not only causes health problems but can also cause social and psychological problems and, most serious, is linked to adult obesity and a worse overall avalanche.

Fortunately, you can prevent. According to a review of studies, school programs to promote healthy eating, physical activity and positive attitudes toward body image aimed at children aged 6 to 12 years are among a series of interventions that can help reduce levels of obese. "There is now evidence to confirm that these strategies can be implemented to curb rising rates of obesity in children. S e know that doing nothing can lead to an increase of overweight and obesity, especially in some countries , "says Elizabeth Waters, McCaughey Centre at the University of Melbourne (Australia). And author of the study is published in Cochrane Library .

Becoming obese is strongly linked to poor nutrition and physical inactivity, so it's no surprise that many of the programs are aimed at improving one or both of these behaviors.

Positive impact

The studies reviewed varied in the programs evaluated for the prevention of obesity and the degree of benefit identified. However, overall the review indicates that the interventions had a positive impact on body weight. "Our findings show that it is worth investing in programs to prevent childhood obesity, but given the variety of programs included in this review, it is difficult to say exactly which components are best, but we believe the most effective strategies are those that focus on changing environments and not only the behavior of individuals, "says Waters.

Among the proposals are proposed in this paper for programs promoting healthy eating to promote physical activity and body image in school programs, increasing the number of opportunities for physical activity during the school week, to improve the nutritional quality of food provided in schools, paying more attention to activities and support to parents at home that encourage children to be more active, or spend less time watching TV or at the computer, among others.

Fish rich in omega 3 protects cardiovascular risk in young women

Consumption of fish rich in omega 3 fatty acids such as cod, salmon, herring and mackerel, could reduce cardiovascular disease risk in young women of childbearing age , according to research published today in Hypertension .

According to the researchers, women who ate no fish or sometimes did counted were 50% more cardiovascular problems at eight years follow-up period than those who ate fish regularly. Compared with women who ate fish rich in omega-3 week, the risk was 90% higher for those who never or almost never ate fish.

The researchers analyzed data from a population cohort of 49,000 Danish national women aged between 15 and 49. The researchers recorded 577 cardiovascular events over a period of eight years, including five deaths from cardiovascular disease in women without a diagnosis of the disease. In total, 328 events were due to hypertensive disease, cerebrovascular disease and 146 to 103 by ischemic heart disease.

Young Women

"This is the first study of this size that has focused exclusively on women of childbearing age," said Marin Strøm, the Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen (Denmark). The message of this study, he said, is that although it was thought that the benefits of eating fish rich in omega 3 may not be evident for 30 or 40 years, our study shows that not always the case. "We have seen a strong association with cardiovascular disease in women who still were still in their thirties."

"Men and women share many risk factors for cardiovascular disease, but studies have shown that there may also be gender differences. For example, levels of inflammation, cholesterol and triglyceride levels may have a negative influence on women, "said Strom.

In this study, even women who ate fish only a couple of times a month benefited, but it is noteworthy that the greatest benefit for fish and fish oils should eat fish as a main dish at least twice a week .

Corticosteroids for preterm

The use of corticosteroid therapy before birth in mothers of preterm infants (between weeks 23 and 25 of gestation) appears to be associated with a lower rate of infant mortality and neurodevelopmental impairment at 18 to 22 months of age, according A study published in JAMA .

"Current guidelines, first published in 1995, recommend the use of antenatal corticosteroids to mothers at risk of preterm delivery between 24 and 34 weeks of gestation, but not before 24 weeks due to lack of data. However, many babies born before this date need intensive care, 'the authors of the article.
The team Waldemar A. Carlo, MD, University of Alabama (USA), has conducted a study to determine whether prenatal exposure to corticosteroids in very preterm infants is associated with improved outcomes including death or developmental disability child neurological 18 to 22 months.

The study included data of newborns with a birth weight between 401 grams and 1,000 grams born between 22 and 25 weeks of gestation. Of these children, 7808 (74.1%) were children of mothers who received antenatal corticosteroids. Of the 5691 children born between 1993 and 2008 who survived until 18 to 22 months, in 4924 (86.5%) assessed the neurological development.

Less frequent

The researchers found that the presence of death or neurodevelopmental impairment was less common in infants who had been exposed to antenatal corticosteroids and were born between 23 weeks gestation (83.4% vs. 90.5%, with no exposure ), at 24 weeks gestation (68.4% vs. 80.3%) and 25 weeks of gestation (52.7% with exposure to antenatal corticosteroids versus 67.9% no exposure), but not those born at 22 weeks of gestation (90.2% vs. 93.1%).

If mothers had received antenatal corticosteroids, the following events have been significantly lower in infants born at 23, 24 and 25 weeks of gestation: death from 18 to 22 months in hospital death, overall death, intraventricular hemorrhage or periventricular leukomalacia (a type of brain injury) and death or necrotizing enterocolitis (a condition in which tissue is destroyed part of the intestines). For infants born at 22 weeks of gestation, the only result that was significantly less than was death or necrotizing enterocolitis.

However, the authors caution that " despite the fact that survival was doubled with the administration of antenatal steroids in the entire cohort, it remained relatively low (36%). "

Green tea can help prevent hepatitis C infection

A compound of green tea flavonoid epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), appears to prevent the virus hepatitis C into liver cells, according to a study by the Hannover Medical School (Germany). The finding, published in Hepatology , suggest that EGCG may offer a strategy to prevent this virus reinfection after liver transplantation.

The hepatitis C virus can cause chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma or primary liver cancer. This is one of the most common causes of chronic liver disease and a primary indication for liver transplantation. It affects 170 million people worldwide , according to World Health Organization (WHO). Previous studies have indicated that about 2 percent of the world population has chronic hepatitis C and up to 20 percent of the population in some countries. Although the standard treatment with interferon and ribavirin and the latest protease inhibitors may reduce infection in some individuals, a substantial number of patients still do not respond to these therapies.

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In patients who received a liver transplant due to complications from hepatitis C virus reinfection of healthy donor remains a significant concern. Are urgently needed antiviral strategies directed against the hepatitis C virus in its early stages to prevent recurrence of infection and improve long-term health of patients.

To address this key issue, Sandra and Eike Steinmann Ciesek of the Hannover Medical School, investigated the effect of the EGCG molecule, a component of green tea in preventing the attack of hepatitis C to liver cells. According Ciesek, "Green tea catechins such as EGCG and its derivatives epigallocatechin (EGC), epicatechin gallate (ECG) and epicatechin (EC), have been shown to exhibit antiviral properties and anti-oncogenes. Our study has explored the potential effect of these flavonoids in the prevention of hepatitis C reinfection after liver transplantation, "he says.

The results show that, unlike derivatives, EGCG inhibits the entry of hepatitis C virus in liver cells . The authors suggest that EGCG prevents the entry of virus into the cell by acting on host cells, since the study found that green tea catechins alter the density of virus particles. Pretreatment of cells with EGCG before inoculation of hepatitis C does not reduce infection. However, its application during inoculation inhibits the rapid spread of this virus. In the end, the researchers showed that EGCG inhibits the viral attack, the initial step in the process of infection with hepatitis C.

According Ciesek, "the green tea antioxidant EGCG inhibits the entry of hepatitis C virus to cells, blocking viral attachment and can offer a new approach to prevent hepatitis C infection, especially reinfection can occur after a liver transplant. "

The prevention of alcoholism should focus particularly on young

There age to ban alcohol? In 1972 the United States was set at 21 years, a ban which, besides preventing many health problems, saved, according to a study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis just published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research , many lives among young people in terms of homicides and suicides. Not to mention the thrill of road accidents in which alcohol plays an increasingly more devastating: 300 thousand accidents a day just in the U.S. survey just released by the CDC's weekly report, 85% of cases attributed to drunk drivers (5 or more if male and 4 cups or more if female) with an age that in 32% of cases ranges from 21 to 34 years. A threat that causes the circulating every year 11 thousand deaths in accidents and investments of pedestrians, bikers, or cycles.

ALCOHOL AND THE GIRLS - It is, however, emerged as a new and somewhat unexpected to be involved are mostly women, particularly those born in the '60s who began drinking before the age of 21, arriving at the age of the fateful ban when it had already weaned drinkers, a phenomenon which, according to another study of the Duke and the University of California published in Developmental Psychology , comes earlier age if the development comes soon. Researchers at Washington University have calculated that in the United States to prevent alcoholism in young girls could be avoided every year about 600 homicides and 600 suicides. A warning for parents to be vigilant, however, taking into account that what really seems to work in these cases is never to start drinking alcohol, even under their supervision.

HOW TO BEHAVE IN FAMILY - University of Minnesota study published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs , it indicates that the only effective control is to not let minors drink freely at home even in controlled environments such as social occasions, because then attempts to inhibit them end up having the opposite effect. Rather than representing a rite of passage into adulthood and a way to teach adolescents to behave responsibly towards alcohol, allowing them to also drink under the supervision and guidance of adults can route them to a future inability to control himself, ending with the behavior to encourage rather than inhibit drinker. It remains then a last chance, another factor appears to be effective the influence of the partner: if a girl finds a boyfriend who does not drink will be positively influenced to not raise the elbow to turn. The study has demonstrated the Pennsylvania State University published in American Sociological Review that, for two years examining 449 pairs of students, this beneficial effect was observed mainly on males by women.

New materials in pelvic floor surgery

New materials in pelvic floor surgery "are anatomical, are better designed and use of biocompatible materials," says Dr. Juan Evangelista de Burgos Ruiz Moreno, urologist USP San Camilo Hospital in Madrid. These advances allow for minimally invasive surgery and continuing for women who suffer from this problem.

Speaking to Europa Press, the expert acknowledged that the surgery was done before the appearance of these materials was not permanent and the pelvic floor of women returning to sag. This detachment discomfort, urinary incontinence or urinary problems, bowel or sexual abuse, which affect the quality of life of women.

The new materials that feed the current operations of the pelvic floor allows the surgeon to minimize handling. The detachment surgery is to reconstruct the pelvic floor muscles and strengthen weakened pelvic floor membranes using this mesh support devices. Thus, the mesh of Genital Prolapse Nuvia SI (Single Incision), which are placed vaginally through a "minimally invasive", conform to the anatomy of each patient.

According to the urologist, the devices are a "very fine and delicate, perfectly designed", which places the pelvic organs where they were previously, "as if to strengthen the beams of a house," and the structure is like a young person.

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The urologist has recognized that it is a very simple operation, and in this sense, has been such that, during the 'Day Surgical Pelvic Floor and Stress Urinary Incontinence', organized by the USP San Camilo Hospital (Madrid), involved twelve women between 55 and 85 years. The interventions, which lasted between 30 and 60 minutes, were performed with local anesthesia.

Thus, after the woman goes under the knife should be entered between 24 and 72 hours and then is discharged. Although generally not necessary to continue treatment, the practitioner has qualified that "some people are advised to do some type of rehabilitation."

The sagging of the pelvic floor - which affects one third of women - is the detachment of the muscles holding the bladder, rectum and uterus through the vagina. The expert reported that "many women are starting to happen in a mild and are leaving because they do not care" but that should be made to consultation.

Finally, the urologist indicated that genetic factors, certain jobs, such as those carried out in the garden, childbirth, constipation and obesity are crucial when you have this situation.

A gene may be the cause of frequent outbreaks of cold sores

For those with type 1 herpes or cold sores, a common virus that appears as small, painful lesions on the lip area, it seems that the evil attacks them more often than others. And now a new study conducted between the University of Utah and the University of Massachusetts, and published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases , says that this concept may have a genetic basis.

As reported by CNN , researchers say the gene C21orf91 behind Cold sores can be found frequently in the human body. However, there are two variants of it that are associated with more active and frequent them. And even if this does not mean that anyone with the changes more often suffer outbreaks, it could make it more prone to the same .

The scientists reached their conclusions after analyzing data from gene sequences of 618 research participants, half of whom had suffered outbreaks of cold sores in the past. Findings were able to show that of these, 21% outbreaks were due to genetic factors, while 79% could be caused by the virus strain or environmental elements.

Rituximab would be effective in systemic rheumatoid vasculitis

"He achieved complete remission of the VRS (systemic rheumatoid vasculitis) in almost three quarters of patients treated with rituximab in daily practice, with a significant reduction in the dose of prednisone and acceptable toxicity profile," said Dr. Xavier team Puechal General Hospital Le Mans.

The experts noted that systemic vasculitis affecting a small subset of patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

National Register Autoimmunity and Rituximab, the researchers identified 1994 patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with rituximab, including 17 patients with confirmed active VRS.

After six months of therapy with rituximab, 12 patients had complete remission of the vasculitis, four had a partial response to treatment and one had died, the researchers found.

At the beginning, the middle register in the group of VRS on a scale of standard vasculitis activity was 9.6 and average prednisone dose was 19.2 mg per day (mg / day).

These values ​​decreased to 0.6 and 9.7 mg / day, respectively, after six months of rituximab, the report said.

There were three cases of severe infection, one patient died of sepsis, one developed subcutaneous abscesses with cellulitis and the third had a recurrence of postoperative infection in a prosthesis placed on one elbow.

None of the six patients who received subsequent treatment with rituximab preemptively experienced a relapse.

However, three patients receiving methotrexate alone or no maintenance therapy had a relapse of vasculitis.

According to the results, the team concluded: "Rituximab represents a valid therapeutic option to induce remission in VRS, although it seems necessary maintenance therapy."

The authors also reported that at the last follow up 16 patients were still alive and 15 had a sustained complete remission.