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.

Obesity

Obesity is associated with hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol and lack of exercise, all factors contributing to myocardial infarction. Abdominal obesity (curve of happiness) is a major risk. In fact, a 2000 study stated that men with a waist of more than 90 cm. and high triglyceride levels (plus 2 mmol/L) are at increased risk of developing heart disease within five years.

Obesity in children is a risk factor for future heart problems larger than a family history of heart disease. People who are overweight in midlife, may not completely reduce the risk of coronary heart disease later, even though losing excess weight. People who are overweight or obese have high levels of C-reactive protein, a chemical indicator of inflammation and a marker of heart disease.

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.

He said that those evils are now “highly concentrated” in countries of low and middle income, and the poorest groups within them.

According to WHO data, six of every ten deaths that occur each day worldwide are due to not spread diseases that can be prevented and some of which are cost-effective treatments.

Experts say that a quarter of deaths attributed to them could be avoided with appropriate preventive measures.

In total, 35 million people die each year from these diseases, including heart problems, stroke, diabetes, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and mental disorders.

Of those fatalities, up 80 per cent are in developing countries, where the four major risk factors (snuff and alcohol consumption, poor diet and physical inactivity) are increasing.

So have the biological risk factors: increased blood pressure, cholesterol, blood glucose and a high body mass index (a calculated measure based on height and weight of the person).

This realization collapses the myth that non-communicable diseases mainly affect rich countries.

Chan explained that this change corresponds to “global forces that are shaping the health conditions around the world”, as aging societies, the rapid and chaotic urbanization and “globalization” of unhealthy lifestyles.

This situation also has a very real economic cost, he added.

“The cost of care for chronic diseases can be catastrophic for patients and for health systems, and bring millions of households below the poverty line each year,” said Chan, who advocated for all those reasons by emphasis on prevention.

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.

It seemed so funny!

Frequently passed through the kiosk, which was just across the street, bought a bar of milk chocolate and peanuts, giant. The tablet had been prepared to divide it into 10 generous portions that were sold individually.

This man bought a whole and in a while, in the same kiosk, tablet disappeared.

How to not be so!

I’m not saying there are cases of people who are overweight and metabolic disorders.

But if we look around us, we realize that the vast majority are due to problems in eating behavior.

Have you ever thought how important it is for your life and your family has Health Education and Nutrition Education?

Did you think the impact this can have on your life and your loved ones?

How different can be the life of your child with good eating!

Since my children were babies feeding for me was a priority.

More than once received criticism for not encourages them to eat candy.

I remember I had enrolled in a kindergarten appeared to be very beautiful and stimulating activities for the development of my children.

When they began, every time I went to look for my children noticed that they gave a handful of candy to each child, at a time close to the main meal: lunch.

Of course I expressed my disagreement because he felt it was detrimental to all the guys.

It seemed to me absolutely crazy that a place should educate kids that aberration committed food.

The response I received at that time was:

It’s the only mom who complains!

Which is why, immediately took them out of the garden and returned to who attended previously.

Why tell you this?

Because I believe that beyond the role of physicians, state and school, the true guardians of our health and our family we are each of us.

Honestly, if a child comes to a state of obesity, there is an environment that is not doing things correctly.

If you do not know how, then you should ask for help.

Although usually with ordering food, may be sufficient.

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.

I assure you!

But first it is important to know why?

It is essential to understand that overweight is the threshold for obesity.

Obesity, in turn, brings in the child a series of constraints that determines their physical and emotional, but also a serious risk of developing cardiovascular disease, diabetes and risk of earlier death.

If your child is very overweight from early childhood, health is complicated going slowly, without symptoms, and has a 70% chance of being an obese adult.

The childhood obesity epidemic has increased over the past two decades and has devastating consequences.

This makes prevention in early childhood is crucial, and the first control of a child is the mother.

In a study that was done at the Durand Hospital of Buenos Aires to determine the perception of mothers on their children is overweight, it was noted that:

* 45% of mothers of children with severe obesity believed that their children were normal weight (between 4 and 5 of 10 mothers).
* 84% of mothers of overweight children thought their child ate well or somewhat (between 8 and 9 out of 10 mothers).
* 62% of mothers of children with severe obesity, eating properly maintained (6 of 10 mothers).

This study of a population of kindergarten children shows the lack of awareness of mothers about their children overweight.

In other words, do not see overweight or obesity in their children!

That means a huge risk, because…

“Until we acknowledge that there is a problem I will not be willing to seek a solution.”

So they say they recognize the problem, is the beginning of the solution.

The key lies in the eating plan and physical activity and…

As you know, food is an essential part of motherhood.

Therefore, I suggest you start by…

1 – Setting limits:

Learn to say “No”, lovingly but firmly, when your child asks you food after hours, explaining the reasons.

2 – Establish routines:

Enforcing breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner in stable times, with appropriate portions. The order is essential for healthy living.

3 – Provide physical activity:

Not only with outside activities, but by sharing family activities at home, away from the TV and computer. Sharing more family time “play” outdoors.

4 – Encourage appropriate behavior:

Teaching to eat more natural foods and less industrialized … by example.

The development and maintenance of these skills is a challenge for mothers concerned about the health of their children…

I challenge you to start from now and tell me your results!

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.

The continuous action of this explosive cocktail poses serious health consequences in the medium term as it adversely affects cardiovascular function, kidney and eye. The growing number of people who have this double disorder to endocrinologists concerned because diabetes type II only appeared among middle-aged or older, but now an increasing number of cases in all ages and is increasingly being diagnosed in patients younger, especially in children and adolescents overweight and very overweight.

Any person with excessive weight can end up developing diabetes,although there is a type of fat that predisposes them to suffermore type II diabetes: the “central obesity, where fataccumulates more easily around the abdomen and waist andconcentrates around the internal organs.

For many experts the solution to this problem, it can mean for the developed world a similar threat to that posed the infectiousdiseases for the poorest nations, is not dependent on drugs, but to avoid diets loaded with unhealthy fats and sugars and to make physical exercise a duty almost daily.

The Mediterranean diet, with olive oil or nuts, which lowers LDL or “harmful” and raises HDL, or “beneficial”, remains, accordingto experts, the best medicine to prevent obesity-binomialdiabetes.

By contrast, excess fast food or “junk”, and less consumption of fruits and vegetables, favor this disorder.

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.

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.