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| We present a handlebar to determine the quantity of daily nutrients that his children need in school age |
| Back to classes, the importance of the nutrition |
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Washington Hispanic
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| They all need the same types of nutrients, like vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, proteins and healthy fats. The difference takes root in the quantity. |
The nutrition for the children is based on the same beginning that govern that of the adults. They all need the same types of nutrients, like vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, proteins and healthy fats. The difference takes root in the specific quantity that will be needed in the different infantile ages.
The question is: what is the best formula to stimulate the development of his child? To answer the question, we present the daily handlebars prepared by the Institute of Medicine.
Children and girls from two to three years
Calories: Thousand to 1.400 daily ones, depending on his activity level.
Proteins: Five to 20 % of daily calories must be proteins (13 to 50 grams for every thousand daily calories).
Carbohydrates: 45 to 65 % of daily calories (113 to 163 grams for every 1.000 calories)
Entire fat: 30 to 40 % of the daily calories (33 to 44 grams for every thousand calories).
Sodium (salt): Thousand daily milligrams.
Fibre: 19 daily grams.
Calcium: 500 milligrams a day.
Girls from 4 to 8 years
Calories: 1.200 to 1.880 daily ones depending on his activity level.
Proteins: 10 to 30 % of the daily calories (30 to 90 grs/1400 calories)
Carbohydrates: 45 to 65 % of the daily calories (135 to 195 grs/1400 calories)
Entire fat: 25 to 35 % of daily calories (33 to 47 grm/1400 calories)
Sodium: 1.200 daily milligrams.
Fibre: 25 daily grams.
Calcium: 800 daily milligrams.
Children from 4 to 8 years
Calories: 1.400 to two thousand daily calories depending on his activity level.
Proteins: 10 to 30 % of the daily calories (35 to 105 grm/100 calories)
Carbohydrates: 45 to 65 % of the daily calories (180 to 260 grm/1000 calories)
Entire fat: 25 to 35 % of the daily calories (44 to 62 grm/100 calories)
Sodium: 1.200 daily milligrams.
Fibre: 25 grams a day.
Calcium: 800 milligrams per day.
Girls from 9 to 13 years
Calories: 1.600 to 2.200 depending on his activity level.
Proteins: 10 to 30 % of daily calories (40 to 120 grs/1600 calories)
Carbohydrates: 45 to 65 % of daily calories (180 to 260 grs/1600 calories)
Entire fat: 25 to 35 % of daily calories (44 to 62 grm/1600 calories)
Sodium: 1.500 daily milligrams.
Fibre: 26 daily grams.
Calcium: 1.300 daily milligrams.
Children from 9 to 13 years
Calories: 1.800 to 2.600 daily ones depending on his activity level.
Proteins: 10 to 30 % of the daily calories (45 to 135 grm/1800 calories)
Carbohydrates: 45 to 65 % of the daily calories (203 to 293 grm/1800 calories)
Entire fat: 25 to 35 % of the daily calories (50 to 70 grm/1800 calories)
Sodium: 1.500 milligrams a day.
Fibre: 26 grams a day.
Calcium: 1.300 milligrams a day.
What sound the calories?
A calorie is a measurement unit, but it does not measure the weight or the height. A calorie is an energy unit. If a meal or a drink contains 100 calories, it is a way of describing how much energy the body might obtain on having consumed it.
How to know the nutrients quantity?
If it has doubts on how finding out the quantity of nutrients that every food or product has, must check the nutritional information in the box or labels of the product. In general, it is possible to find the information of all the newly described categories, but the numbers are based on a diet of two thousand daily calories (defined as the quantity of calories that an adult of weight and normal height needs for his daily energy expense).
In any case, most of the children do not have to worry about consuming enough calories because his body and the sensation of famine help them to regulate the quantity of calories that they consume. But the children with certain medical problems can need to insure themselves that consume enough calories. The children with fibrosis quística, for example, have to continue a diet rich in calories because his body has problems to absorb the nutrients and the energy of the food.
| Society of Linfoma and Leukemia looks for Hispanics who enter the national record. |
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| Arlyn Rivera invites to the event of Sunday, the 30th in Mall de Wheaton photo: FL/WH. |
For Felipe Lagos
Washington Hispanic
The Hispanic children have the highest leukemia valuation in the country, and the Hispanic women have the highest linfoma indexes not - hodgkin in the nation.
Both types of cancer to the blood can talk each other with one transplant of bone marrow. One of the determinant factors to find compatibility is the ethnic group. The problem is in that, in the USA, there are very few Hispanics in the donors' record.
For this reason, the Society of Linfoma and Leukemia will realize an event on Sunday, the 30th in Wheaton Westfield Square, of 11:30 am to 4 of the evening, to inscribe Latin Americans in the national record of donors of bone marrow.
“ In the country, less than three of every ten Latin Americans looking a bone marrow donor will be successful. On Sunday, the 30th we want to inscribe Hispanics in the record. Basically, one will ask for a sample of the saliva of the persons and to fill a form. This way one enters the database. In the contingency of which someone is compatible with a patient, he will be contacted to extract the marrow”, says Arlyn Rivera, manager of community scope of the Society of Linfoma and Leukemia.
— Of what does the extraction of the bone marrow consist?
“ It is done of two ways, one is extracting blood to separate the marrow of the hemoglobin, or other one is across a small intervention in which an injection extracts the marrow. This does not have any cost for the donor. If the persons want to know more work that we do or of the events that the society organizes, 399 2903 " can call me (703.
| At Maryland |
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Agenciaa
Washington Hispanic
On Wednesday, the 9th of September, from 3 to 6 of the evening will realize a day of health and services in House of Maryland, in the Community center Pne Ridge (8615 Piney Branco Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20901).
There will be carried out tests of diabetes, blood pressure, vision and will offer him informative resources on centos of health in his area, sexually transmitted diseases, cancer, insurances of health and familiar commission. More information in (703 532 0728 and (301 675 2515.
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| The vaccine for the common influenza protects against the types of flu that attack this winter period. |
Writing
Washington Hispanic
The resurgence of the flu A/H1N1 is “a serious threat to the public health”, and it can infect up to half of the population of the United States, killing 90 thousand persons in the country, it pointed out the White House.
Nevertheless, the authorities said that it is slightly probable that the virus is so dangerous as that of the Spanish flu of 1918-19.
“ The problem is not that this virus is more mortal than another flu, but it is going to infect more persons of the normal thing because it is a new virus and few persons are immunized”, he said the White House.
According to this report, “the severity of his impact will depend for many of the behavior on the individuals”, but the report is not an official prognosis.
In the report advices are indicated for the prevention, like “washing their hands often and remaining at home while sick one is”. Also, he suggests that in the work places norms to be established to prevent “the personnel from without feeling pressed of being present at the work if they are sick”.
Also, they informed that the production of the vaccine advances without mishaps and that this one will become available to the highest groups of risk (children, pregnant women, workpeople of the health, between others) in October.
Nevertheless, the Pan-American organization of the Health informed that Latin America is in disadvantage to gain access to the vaccine.
“ The world production was estimated in 4.900 million doses that would be ready in one year, but we know that this production will be scarcely of a third part... and between 70 % there is already prebought 80 %”, stood out Cuauhtémoc Ruiz, of the Pan-American Organization of the Health (OPS).
For such a reason, the organization purified a tender of 400 million dose. “We do not know what the cost will be, not when we would have them, hope in the middle of September to have an answer of the laboratories”, it pointed out.
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