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Homocysteine

Abnormal blood levels of the amino acid homocysteine ​​are strongly linked to an increased risk of coronary heart disease and stroke. Homocysteine ​​can damage the inside of the arteries and promote blood clotting. You can find high levels of this amino acid in the presence of deficit of vitamins B6, B12 and folic acid. Some experts believe that high homocysteine ​​levels are only indicators, not causes, of heart disease. However, some studies have suggested there is a strong association between this factor and heart disease. Read the rest of this entry »

This is the statement made by the director of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan.

He warned that the current generation of children “could be the first in a long time to have a life expectancy lower than that of their parents.”

As part of the first global gathering of non-communicable diseases said these diseases are increasingly preying on young people and even children can suffer from hypertension and some cancers.

WHO says no less than 43 million preschool children are obese or overweight, a condition that causes health risks throughout life and potentially high medical expenses.

He also stressed that diseases are not transmitted are considered specific to the societies of abundance, which no longer applies today. Read the rest of this entry »

Each child with Childhood Obesity is the result of a number of factors that malfunctioned or did not work.

There are many factors to consider, but basically we talk about genetic and environmental.

Genetic factors are often overstated, at least from my humble point of view.

Perhaps you never heard …

What happens is that my whole family is chubby!

Usually a dramatic excuse for not taking responsibility for an adverse outcome.

I remember many years ago, was a resident of another building that was a very fat young man.

It was so obvious that he was entering his car, at the time was a Citroen 3CV, this bent in an exaggerated manner and was very low on their side. Read the rest of this entry »

The mothers can be good mediators in control of our children are overweight because they are enacting ordinances and establish feeding routines of daily activities.

If you have your child overweight can happen…

* Not admit it
* You have doubts and you are looking for information
* You’re sure your child is overweight and need to know that you do to help.

It is very important to know where parties, in which group you are.

Anyway, you know you have a fundamental role in the development of your child, so we’ll see how small changes can significantly improve the everyday health of your child. Read the rest of this entry »

Imbalances in blood sugar and excess weight may appear together or one following the other, especially after middle age. When that happens not only produces a semantic combination of the names of these two disorders, but triggered a mixture of effects which is harmful to health.

The generalization of overweight, obesity and diabetes among the population has already reached in many developed countries the size of a real pandemic, which in 2025 may affect worldwide to 300 million people, with a high risk of suffering severe vascular disorders.

The problem is much greater in countries like the U.S., where smoking also threatens to collapse the health system unless we take drastic measures to narrow, but the so-called “diabesity” ‘-clever contraction of the words diabetes and obesity-is reached worrying proportions in other developed countries.

The relationship between excess weight and diabetes was one of the main issues discussed during the last congress of the uropean Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) held in the city of Jerusalem. The participants have agreed on linking diabetes with the current sedentary lifestyle and poor diet which encourages overweight, and warned that there will be an escalation in the incidence of both diseases if urgent measures are taken so that society change their behavior.

Excess fat, excess sugar behaves like a true gland attached to the body and dangerous to your health. This is because fat cells secrete molecules that promote insulin resistance, a process that causes blood sugar to rise, along with promoting inflammation, alter immune response and damage the inner lining or endothelium of the blood vessels.

Diabesity sufferers are born with a pancreas that produce insulin in adequate quantity and works well. But due to obesity that insulin than before did its role in the body is now produced in exorbitant amounts, the muscles have to
carry the glucose to fly resistant to this hormone and an increased glucose level blood, in what is called diabetes II.

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Alcohol, obesity and depression abuse seem to go together in many women, revealed the first study of how these three disorders are interrelated over time in young adults.

Men and young women participants had followed since 1985, when they were in fifth grade. The team analyzed the results of interviews conducted when participants were 24, 27 and 30 years to understand the interrelationships between depression, obesity and alcohol abuse.

At age 21, 8 per cent of women and 12 per cent of men had at least two of these three problems. At the time, having more than one of those problems was more common in women but less common in men.

The only relationship observed in the obese men was for 27 years, they were less likely to be depressed at 30. But the 27 depressed women were three times more likely at 30 years to meet the clinical criteria that define alcohol abuse.

Women with alcohol problems at 24 were four times more likely to be obese at age 27, while being obese to 27 doubled the risk of having depression at age 30.

Meanwhile, people of both sexes on low incomes had an increased risk of depression and obesity.

The tendency to have a style for which the person becomes obsessed with playing and negative experiences would be one of the problems attached to alcohol abuse, obesity and depression.

Dr. Susan Nolen-Hoeksma, a psychologist at Yale, called the “toxic triangle” of “eat, drink and think too much,” they add. She showed that women-and men-with this style are more depressed and more likely to binge drink or food to cope with emotional problems.

There are interventions for the three legs of the toxic triangle, such as exercise, mental training and stress management.

Strategies to treat depression, excessive alcohol consumption and obesity are problems with the “reward system” brain should help people to find alternatives autorrecompensa to food and alcohol.

Obesity is a chronic disease recently described by the World Health Organization as an epidemic of this century.

The increased availability of food, more energy and nutrient content of the body can burn or absorb and sedentary lifestyle are the main causes that have led to increased disease.

Other factors that help this condition are the heritage, the presence of certain disorders or ingestion of certain drugs. There are also some afectana diseases of the thyroid gland or adrenal glands.

Obesity is a disease risk, which can lead to the subject suffering eating disorders such as bulimia medicamentosy taking substances that are harmful to health, as are some anorectics, amphetamines, cocaine and ephedrine .

The main factors that influence obesity are:

* Eating too: In the majority of people who are overweight, this is because they eat too much, either in quantity or variety of food, so they can not spend all the calories they consume the which leads to overweight.

* Lack of exercise: Lack of physical activity and sedentary leisure too, and customs as a general guideline, are those that produce patterns that do not consider exercise. One factor causing this is that the jobs generally require fewer physical activities, and as for leisure, sports and games that require exercise have been replaced by television and video games.