Health Information Series

why do we need antioxidants?

We are exposed daily to hazardous substances and these create an oxidative stress in the body. Nature has developed a variety of bioactive compounds with antioxidant effects. The substances found in foods, especially fruits and vegetables. Fruits and vegetables and their antioxidant content are believed to help reduce the risk of several chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes, to prevent oxidative stress and inflammation.

Exposed to Harmful Substances

the reactive compounds are created both inside than outside the body. We are exposed to air pollution, smoke, snuff, radiation, inflammation and other substances that cause superoxides radicals in the body’s cells. Not go into too technical explanations about reactions, but simply note that there are and there is this process in our body to fight them.

What role does antioxidants?

Antioxidants are chemical molecules that prevent the oxidation of our cells, “rustproofing” in the body!
Antioxidants fight free radicals and are considered essential for long-term health.

Vitamin A, vitamin C and vitamin E are considered antioxidants, and vitamins C and E are considered the most important antioxidants. The minerals selenium, zinc, copper and magnesium are included in some enzymes with antioxidant properties. There, selenium and zinc are considered particularly.

The body tries to create balance and antioxidants that the body’s own need to protect against free radicals. In case of physical imbalance, free radicals can create illness in the body, such as cancer.

Where are Antioxidants?

Chlorophyll and sulforaphane are phytochemicals that contain green vegetable dyes. Examples of good green leafy vegetables are spinach, broccoli and cabbage many as kale and Brussels sprouts.

The carotenoids (beta carotene) are a phytochemical that contains yellow and red vegetable dyes, such as carrots, red peppers, oranges and pomegranates.

The phytochemical lycopene is a carotenoid type of red dye is present in plants and tomato (see: Tomatoes oxidizers) and watermelon.

Sulfides (sulfur) and flavonoids are phytochemicals that contain white coloring. The sulfur content in the onion and garlic. Flavonoids are actually a general term for various agents and colorants in fruits and vegetables and are found in soy, red wine, black tea and green tea.

Anthocyanins are phytochemicals, a type of flavonoid dyes including blue, purple, red and black and come in blueberry plants, berries, grapes, raspberries, strawberries and cherries.

More and more people, obsessed with healthy eating and ecological suffering from this new and ‘incipient eating disorder? Sufferers tend to be people with prior psychological vulnerability which favors submerged see how serious this problem is health, impairing their quality of life in many ways.

The obsession with food is normally such that, often, patients are affected in their social life being unable to go to a restaurant and even dinners with friends or family. And, eating out becomes impossible. Know for certain the origin of what they eat, take only fruits and vegetables from organic farming or find specific data as in the case of meat as the origin of cattle, the site has been raised or even the time has been slow to gain weight, become essential for a bite.

the physical problem comes when, faced with a lack of food control, these patients choose not to eat rather than risk trying something that is not suitable, which can cause some problems underweight or some type of nutritional imbalance.

In facilisimo.com we have always maintained that people involved in your diet and follow a healthy balanced diet, organic products, though expensive, are a good choice for this, however, as you always have to take into perspective without putting our health at risk. Promote strategies to improve autestima and social relations, and to remember that not knowing the provenance of the food does not make them harmful to health, it is essential to overcome and prevent future cases of orthorexia.

When it starts to pull the heat began to desire, along with increased consumption of fruit, to alleviate the heat.

Have been associated with the regimes, being low in calories and very nutritious because of its great versatility and great taste.

The salads are low calorie foods and provide a low nutritional level, but provide fiber and some vitamins very necessary for the proper functioning of the human body.

A salad a day and your body will thank you.

Ingredients of a salad:

Almost any vegetable helps us to make a salad, but if this mature and tender. The exception is the tubers (potato, sweet potato, cassava, etc) should not be eaten raw.

Example:

Leaf lettuce, endive, escarole, etc. Fruits: tomatoes, avocados, cucumbers, peppers, etc. Flowers: artichokes, cauliflower, broccoli, etc. Stems: asparagus, celery, etc. Estate: red beet, carrot, etc. Bulbs: Garlic, onion, fennel, etc.
Also be enriched with nuts (sunflower seeds, nuts, etc), boiled vegetables or cereals became authentic dishes.

You can dress in many ways, but we’ll see the ideal from the nutritional point of view:
Oil: Virgin olive preferably cold-pressed. Sal: Vegetables and contain abundant minerals, but a touch of salt makes them more palatable. Preferably use sea salt. Limon: because their vitamin C and organic acids prevent oxidation and promote the conservation of vitamins and minerals from vegetables and to encourage the absorption of iron and other minerals. Herbs. Vinegar: Although it is not recommended because it does not favor the preservation of vitamins and minerals such as lime. Sauces: not recommended since they usually contain hydrogenated vegetable fats (Trans).
When I can eat?
The best time to eat as you all studies is the beginning of each main meal. To maintain good health it is advisable to take at least a daily plate of salads containing raw vegetables.

I have heard that the salads are healthier at the beginning of the meal. Is it true?
If it is true, because:
It provides digestive enzymes that only get from live foods, and we facilitate the digestion of other foods dense as proteins, carbohydrates and fats. It produces a feeling of fullness more intense than that obtained by eating foods rich in calories. Very convenient for those who are dieting. Avoid digestive leukocytosis. State of inflammation that occurs at the beginning of the intestine with cooked food.

How I can clean the salad to avoid problems?
This problem is common in developing countries as they tend to clean the salad with sewage. This is good for the lime juice. Immerse for five minutes is sufficient. A good ozone generator unit. Ozonized water is where we will introduce the salad.
Some advice for those who love salads.
Do you reduce the nutritional properties by freezing vegetables? NO, frozen immediately and make industries retain their vitamins even better than fresh vegetables. A cooked food can be thawed and frozen again? There is no freeze problem when you have cooked food. It is advisable to do it right away, not spend time between the end of its preparation and refreezing, when it starts again the cold chain. If for some reason the power was cut and thaw all we have in the fridge, the only solution would quickly cook and freeze again as soon as possible.
A salad a day and your body will thank you
Does the lemon is as bad for blood as they say? NO, there is a rumor rolling around for years that the lemon that destroys red blood cells, and is precisely the opposite, as their vitamin C helps the absorption of iron in food. So every time you eat a steak, which we do not forget bathing with a few drops of lemon or other citrus in order to better absorb iron. I have been told that salads contain vitamin E. Is it important for the body? Resounding yes, because it is a protective substance and antioxidant for fats and the body. Protective cancer with vitamin C and A. Somehow, vitamin E protects from cardiovascular problems causing the fat rancidity in our organismo.las salads are a good source of vitamin E.
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today we talk a little bit of science, according to the post. I will comment on 3 previous treatment approaches for osteoporosis:

1) HRT (hormone replacement therapy) still creates controversy in relation to breast cancer, only take 5% of menopausal women, this treatment should be monitored by the doctor, individualized, tailored to each woman to avoid risks and reviewed annually.
In most menopausal women is a safe treatment but only where evidence indicated a potential benefit.
. Women with a family history of breast cancer suffer more risk when using this treatment.
. Young women with hysterectomy are no risk of cancer.

2) Currently studies are underway to combat osteoporosis in the project ATPBone (combat osteoporosis by blocks of nucleotides: purinergic signaling in bone formation and homeostasis) financed with European funds, have shown that physical activity and other incentives to bone induce the emission of a compound called ATP that regulates bone regeneration.

3) An example of innovation in biotechnology for human health is the Denosumab (marketed under the name Prolia) is a treatment-finally available in Spain and to treat postmenopausal osteoporosis in women at high risk of osteoporotic fracture; reduces the risk of vertebral fracture, nonvertebral and hip fractures.
This drug acts on an essential regulator of osteoclasts (cells that break down bone) and consists of a subcutaneous injection every 6 months.

Osteoporosis (meaning porous bone) is a disease that decreases bone density resulting in fragile bone over the years and we usually realize when it breaks, so it is a silent disease and treacherous.

It affects mostly:
- 35% of women older than 50th. With menopause due to estrogen loss (40% of women will suffer a fracture, I think it is a devastating fact with great social and economic impacts).
- Men aged 65-70th. Loss of testosterone (20% of the total cases of osteoporosis).

Currently estimated that 3 million people diagnosed with osteoporosis in Spain and it is estimated that in 20 years this figure will triple.

We have:
A) A primary osteoporosis due to age, from 30-35 years there is a decrease in bone mass is not known it is due.
B) A secondary osteoporosis, the decline in bone mass that occurs at age 30-35 is exacerbated mainly by: snuff, alcohol, steroid use, a slim, rheumatoid arthritis, and immobilizations.

Symptoms:
Small vertebral collapse causing a sharp pain that many end up in fracture with a loss of height (we ought to realize), and deformities as kyphosis (hunchback posture).

Treatment:
There is no cure but can help prevent it by:

- A treatment with estrogen in menopausal women.

- A diet rich in calcium and vitamin D throughout life especially during adolescence, monitor carbonated beverages, coffee (no more than one cup a day), and animal fats and carrying phosphoric acid that helps to decalcification ósea.Recomiendo a diet rich in copper that strengthens bones mainly found in legumes, liver, celeares and chocolate. 30% of the diets are low in copper.
Also advise foods high in bacteria (probiotics) have essential vitamins and minerals like calcium and magnesium, such as kefir (water better and many people have lactose intolerance) and also stimulate growth beyond of bones helps us to relax to reduce stress because it contains serotonin.

- A healthy lifestyle with a weight less than 55kg. Not smoking, sunbathing 10 ‘day for the absorption of vitamin D and above all avoid a sedentary lifestyle.

- Aerobic exercise for sedentary end this without risk of falls such as: cycling, I always recommend walking on inclined belt (no scientific evidence to go 1.6 km. A day produces more bone mass).

a) The weights are beneficial for strengthening bones, but I do not think any muscle tone should be avoided, such as muscle comp is already in excess of tension as the muscles that form part of the posterior chain back.
A level of the back muscles tonificaré only the shoulder blades close; separate the gluteus maximus, isometric abs so – to avoid trunk flexion vertebral collapse favors me, look at the entry that talked about how to make these abs-the quadriceps and chain extender arm and the triceps.
No fatigue when doing weights.

Note: to try to slow the fall of the chest (sooner or later we will fall by gravity) tone many women, the breast is always a mistake has never stretch tone.

b) This work will combine weights with global stretching as the “Method Mézières” to rebalance these muscle decompensation reharmonizations the body, when the posterior chain stretch back helps take the compression between the vertebrae.

- Postural advice: avoid bending the back and combine it with lifting weights (watch the grandchildren) to avoid such vertebral collapse, please read the label of “postural advice.”

- The parties agree that we always see the body as a unity, a wholeness, everything is connected not only I look at the crushed vertebra, therefore, I also recommend to help relax the muscles do 1 bath as explained in the entry: “stress management”.

For complete information on osteoporosis watch a video I have on facebook, I leave the link below my blog and from there you shall enter:

- Osteoporosis-3D Medical.

The next day talk about the latest research on osteoporosis and to complete the picture I want to thank: Go Elsewhere gallery obtained from Flickr.

Osteoarthritis is the most common chronic rheumatic the world and the leading cause of disability after 45 years, the first thing that affects the cartilage that covers the bone until it finally ends up destroying it, also has to add a degeneration intervertebral disc with a loss of elasticity and density from 25-30 years.
These 2 factors cause friction caused vertebrae osteophytes and often due to this friction vertebrae are together in the elderly.

We have:

A) A primary osteoarthritis due to genetic factors that predispose the disease.

B) A secondary osteoarthritis due to aging, but aggravated by trauma (falls, traffic accidents) or microtrauma accumulated over the years that the joint takes its toll due to: poor posture of the spine when sitting, do not bend at the hips, lifting, obesity and others.

Symptoms:

- Arthritic pain is not related to the degree of involvement can be seen on the radiograph (x-ray people with osteoarthritis have very little pain and vice versa) and is characterized by mechanical pain increases when doing an activity and improves at rest, as the disease progresses the pain can be frequent and even at night.

- A loss of muscle strength or altered sensation (tingling, cork, etc.) caused by a nerve impingement due to osteophytes or intervertebral disc that is out of place giving a spinal compression affecting the spinal nerve.

- Dizziness or vertigo due to bone spurs that can compress the holes through which the vertebral artery.

- Stiffness due to loss of mobility of the vertebrae helped by chronic excess muscle tension we have in the back, besides adding he has poor hygiene postural we do every day, I advise you read the entries I made talking about the postural advice (at the time of sitting, lifting a weight and sleeping) not to increase muscle tension in the back i the entry of “stress management” to relax the muscles.

- Deformities caused by these rigidities for example is seen in older people with a pronounced kyphosis.

Vertebral arthritis: the disease toll collectors. Kyphosis back.

Another type of arthritis present in 70% of women over 50 years is called post-menopausal osteoarthritis.

Treatments:

Treatments today are limited.

- Medical: Paracetamol (analgesic) and NSAIDs (antiinflammatory drugs), we can use to reduce consumption chondroprotective of inflammation like condrotín sulfate and glucosamine sulfate

- Diet: There is no scientific evidence but it is recommended foods high in bacteria (probiotics) have essential vitamins and minerals like calcium and magnesium such as kefir (water better and many people have lactose intolerance) and apart from stimulating bone growth helps us to relax to reduce stress because it contains serotonin.

- Moderate exercise (high evidence), such as aerobics

I recommend the global stretching of the posterior chain back as the “Method Mézières.”
When this tension decreased muscle stretch that compresses the vertebrae, a muscle strain behaves like an iron exerting much force on the bones helping to wear and cause imbalances in the joint, the muscle is very malleable and when we stretch beyond reduce stress can return to realign the joint, but as I said before, accompanied by good hygiene and controlling postural stress.

Studies are currently using ammiòtica membrane (tissue that is removed after delivery) to prevent arthritis using 2 types of cells capable of synthesizing the tissue surrounding the injured site specific cartilage lesions when for example we take a hit; is still under study by the Institute of Biomedical Research Coruña (INIBIC), we will be waiting.

To complete the information into my site (I’ll leave the link at the bottom) and from there into my facebook page (there is a link) and look for:

- Mattress mattresses relax-hr Aznar.avi Styria (helps to reduce muscle tension in painful compression points back because of arthrosis).
- Degenerative Disc (3D video).
- Cervical Chiropractic adjusment, it looks very good relationship with the cervical vertebral artery.

we celebrate the World Day Against Breast Cancer and from the Health Channel jurnalk3.com we take to try to raise, once again, the people of the importance of prevention in these diseases, also to congratulate all those women that recently suffered a tumor of this type and have successfully passed and, of course, give our wholehearted support for those currently struggling to overcome it.

Breast cancer is one of the tumors with the highest incidence among the population and one of the leading causes of death in women in Spain alone there are more than 20,000 new cases every year according to the Spanish Association against Cancer (AECC). However, thanks to advances in treatment, both the survival rate and quality of life of the patient improved considerably, always remembering the importance of early diagnosis. Therefore, it is important to go to regular gynecological examinations, mammograms regularly and observe any changes in the body through breast self-exam at least once a month, especially if a family history.

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- Benefits of Pilates in breast cancer.

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- Immediate Breast Reconstruction.

- 3 tips to prevent breast cancer.

- New advances in breast cancer.

- Doing a breast self-exam.

Do you know someone who has suffered this harsh disease? Do you follow all the prevention tips? He congratulated all the women here who have passed one and show your support for those who are suffering today.

Fashion is the canary. We are saturated with birdseed diet and weight loss benefits and the many benefits of milk of birdseed for our health. Base your diet on a limited number or type of food is a big mistake. Fortunately, more and more people realize how important it is to learn to eat different foods to achieve a balanced diet and healthy. With a good diet that we get all the nutrients our body needs, we feel more energy and get a sense of well being.

Learning to eat intelligently is not to calculate grams or calories. A healthy diet is to eat balanced and moderately. We must do a minimum of 3 meals a day to spread the intake of calories throughout the day. A person who eats wisely as different types of food are not limited to a small group of foods.

Can you eat too much or too little, or even the amount of food is adequate but is not as nutritious as they should. Whatever the case, we need to nourish our body to keep body and mind in motion. Eating intelligently is an exercise in accountability. By learning to maintain a balanced diet and eat healthy foods, we are making smart decisions, evaluating pros and cons and ultimately taking care of ourselves. All this, together with a good workout, even exercises to do at home, get great results.

We say that is a sign of responsibility and in some cases we see how someone can no longer control their diet, it is not able to control other aspects of life (sleep deprivation, smoking, wasting money, etc.).. What we must be very clear is that eating properly is a way of life is something that makes us feel better and helps us improve our lives.

queratococono is a disease that damages the internal structure of the cornea and produces alterations in the surface thereof, thereby taking an irregularly shaped cone that produces astigmatism and myopia that eventually contributes to the gradual loss of sight.

Causes

generally this begins at puberty, the cause is unknown although theories imply a hereditary risk factor, and the ongoing process is recorded to the third and fourth decade of life. Each case demonstrates specific characteristics of progression.
Symptoms

the loss of vision due to keratoconus generated greatly impact the quality of life of patients, limiting their normal activities such as driving or social interaction. In severe cases high levels of visual loss and distortion can prevent the development of every day of the most basic life activities.

Importantly, this condition is a dystrophy of the cornea and its treatment depends on the severity of the deformation and thinning of the skin.
Treatment

Among the treatment options include glasses, intracorneal implantation, and corneal transplant to the more severe cases.

Is currently carrying out the intracorneal ring implants which are positioned within the corneal thickness to change the curvature of the same, without altering the focus area. This technique is reversible if it does not have the expected results.

The studies seek to achieve a recovery technique to morphological original cornea, and visual rehabilitation, regardless of the degree of progress of this disease.
Corneal transplant

Corneal transplants are used when symptoms when patients have hypersensitivity to contact lenses and eye disorders you from driving, working or performing their daily work.

Corneal transplants have a success rate of 95% and the transplant success rate is higher, its techniques are improved day by day. During this transplant is sought to remove the central part of the patient’s cornea and replace it with healthy donor cornea.

Keratoconus is a progressive disease that must be controlled by an ophthalmologist, during frequent visits will be defined when the graduation is needed glasses or contact lenses. At first, the lenses can be used for myopia and astigmatism caused, but given the progress of the disease, contact lenses are rigid gas permeable only way to correct defects in the patient’s eyesight.

a lot has happened to us that one day we wake up and still in bed, we realize we cannot open one eye because the lid has been glued. Others do not go that far and just left with a red eye. When this happening is is very likely that we are suffering from conjunctivitis.

Conjunctivitis is an inflammation of the outer eye and inner eyelid. Conjunctivitis is usually caused by three factors:

* Virus
* Bacteria
* Allergies

However, it may be due to other causes such as exposure to chemicals, burns, external agents, prolonged use of contact lenses, toxins or lack of vitamins and others.

As we have said that the main causes of conjunctivitis are viruses, bacteria and allergies, we will delve a little deeper into these three.

* Viral Conjunctivitis: This type of conjunctivitis is spread by contact with infectious virus. These viruses are not more dangerous than the common cold virus.

* Conjunctivitis Bacterial conjunctivitis is caused by a bacterial infection caused by bacteria in our own skin or respiratory tract flora. Among women, it is common to share conjunctivitis contagious facial creams or eye makeup. In general, be in contact with someone with conjunctivitis may cause it to spread.

* Allergic conjunctivitis: this type of conjunctivitis is a seasonal pattern and occurs in people with allergies. Unlike other types of conjunctivitis, allergic conjunctivitis usually occurs in both eyes and is accompanied by swollen eyelids. This conjunctivitis usually occurs by allergic reactions to substances such as perfumes, cosmetic contact lenses and other products.