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| To do and to support friends are a good way of assuring a self-esteem positive, what in turn helps to have a positive perspective of the life |
| The friendship is good for the health |
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Washington Hispanic
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| The good friends are beneficial for the health. |
They offer his shoulder as support, give good advices and they are partners in the good ones and in the bad ones. The friendship offers all these benefits and many other, since they increase the self-esteem, they offer company and help to protect the general well-being and the health of the persons.
It is clear that it is not easy to form the bonds of a strong friendship. In fact, it is difficult to support and to strengthen these bonds taking into consideration the current life style, with the demands of the work, of the family and of the school.
Nevertheless, the friends are important both for men and for women. One take a minute to think about the friends in his life: does it have nearby friends?: would he like having more friends?
Why are the friends important?
The good friends are beneficial for the health. To speak with a friend a coffee being drunk, to go to some party, to converse while the children play in the park or in any other circumstance there are simple but powerful ways of getting connected with others.
Some of the benefits of the friendship are the sensation of belonging to something, an increase of the happiness, of reducing the stress, of growing his personal value, of diminishing the risk of suffering a mental illness, of helping to exceed traumas like divorces, serious illnesses, loss of the work and the death of a dear being; the suggestion of changing harmful life styles, like absence of exercise or drinking excessively; and sharing the happy moments of the life, like obtaining a better work, the birth of a baby or a new house.
How to look new friends
Some persons benefit from a wide and diverse friends network, while others prefer a small circle of friends and acquaintances. Without embrago, many persons, especially the men and those in problematic relations, it is difficult to them to find new friends and to support the ancient ones. One of the reasons is not to have time due to the work or to other obligations or to the fact to have come recently to a city.
Here some recommendations to find new friends:
Go out with his pet, do exercise in a gymnasium or community center, invite an acquaintance to have lunch, accept invitations to holidays, dinners or meetings, be voluntary in community organizations, únase to a social cause, take a course in a community school or register in a faith community or to a church.
How to support the friends
Almost as important as to meet new friends is how to support them. This is a task that implies giving and receiving. To allow him to know his friends who matter for him and how much appreciates them will help him to support their support when you need it.
Here some forms to support the friends. Do not flood to his friends with calls or e-mails. The communication must be brief, five minutes by phone, or a pair of words by e-mail is sufficient. Ask what so sooner or later can call someone and respect these schedules.
Be conciente in how the others perceive him. Ask a nearby friend how he believes that he wishes them they perceive it and be employed at the areas where it can improve.
Do not be competitive. Do not leave that a friendship turns into a career for the one who gains more money, it has the best clothes or the most modern car. Do not fight for other friends, because this will transform the friendship into a slightly healthy rivalry.
Be friendly. The constant criticism and the vanity are not a good combination.
Be improved like person. Cultivate the honesty, generosity and humility will increase his self-esteem and will help him to be a more comprehensive friend.
Do not complain so much. The fact of being complaining constantly especially tires the friends. Speak with his friends on how changing the negative aspects of his personality.
Be positive. Try to find the humor in the negative things, the laugh is contagious.
Listen. Ask his friends how is life, do not speak about your own problems all the time, since the friends do not last when anybody only worries about if the same.
| Health Pact is looking for medical professionals who could not practise in the United States to qualify them |
| Medical technician, route of entry to the system of health |
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| Evar Sandoval. Foto:Felipe Lagos/WH. |
For Felipe Lagos
Washington Hispanic
In the Hispanic community, there exist many persons who have knowledge in the sector of the health, but for not having his license in the United States they cannot practise.
This is the situation with several doctors or nurses who, for different motives, could not have done the steps that allow them to be employed at what they were doing in his fatherlands.
Nevertheless, there exist some initiatives that are carried out and that can serve like point of entry to the system of health of the United States.
This is what offers the training program for medical technical staff, offered by the organization Health pact.
This institution is carrying out workshops of four months of duration to persons that has some type of training in the field of the health in his fatherlands.
As there explains the director of the program, Evar Sandoval, the idea is that the persons could make use of his knowledge and be employed at his field. “The program began in Houston and on DC it concentrates in forming trainers' instructor of medical technical staff. With this, the persons will obtain his certificates and then they will be able to train other technical staff. That's why we are looking persons who have experience in the field of the health in his countries, like doctors and nurses and who for diverse reasons are not practising here.
With this we give them the opportunity to enter the system the USA”, says Sandoval.
— What are the particulars of the course?
“ The course lasts four months. The first group already began the classes and they are doing his practices and his rotations at present in hospitals of the metropolitan area. Regularly, the program in itself includes measurements of cholesterol, glucose, blood pressure and index of corporal mass, but also the Department of Health of the city also qualifies them in VIH commission, in addition to receiving training in resuscitation and national certification of the Red Cross to be instructors in VIH. This means that the persons will be able to instruct other advisers about the virus”.
— What is what Health Pact does?
“ HealthPact is a national organization that does examinations and training at level of the whole United States. Apart that we have contacts with the different medical organizations in the country. If the persons have consultations on this program, they can call Agustín Arévalo to (240 481 9832 ".
| To seem thin not necessary means to be healthy |
| Women diet for appearance |
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| Most of the women are discontented with his weight. AP. |
For Lauran Neergaard
Washington Hispanic
Many women want to lose weight only to seem better and not to be more healthy, and others complain about his figure although they are perfectly healthy, he says a study.
The investigation carried out by Associated Press as a whole with the iVillage, determined that there is sometimes a contradiction between the physical condition of many women and the image that they have of themselves.
“ The priorities are invested”, said doctor Molly Poag, head of department of psychiatry of the Hospital Lennox Hill of New York.
60 % of the Americans is obese or it is exceeded of weight, it found the investigation, confirming numbers of the government. But the most surprising thing are the attitudes of the women.
The half they are discontented with his weight although 26 % has an interrelation acceptable weight / height / mass. A third part of them is discontented with his state of health.
In average, the women exercise 80 minutes per week although according to the experts two hours and a half of weekly exercise are needed to have good health. Scarcely 8 % consumes the minimal rations of fruits and vegetables recommended by the government.
The fourth part of them says that they would be ready to surrender to plastic surgery to seem more beautiful, and the reduction of the abdomen is the favorite operation although she consists only of the reduction of a layer of superficial fat.
On the other hand, the study found that 16 % of the women of normal weight is dieting.
To seem thin not necessary means to be healthy, warns Samantha Kwan, sociologist of the University of Houston.
“ A person can be fat and healthy at the same time if he eats a balanced diet and practises physical activity”, says Kwan. “Our culture definitely presses very much the women so that they shine of certain way”.
The study AP-iVillage was realized between 20 and on April 30 for Knowledge Networks, by phone, mail and Internet. The opinion poll has a margin of error of 3,7 percentage points.
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| 17 % of 5-year-old minors runs famine risk |
Writing / agency
Washington Hispanic
Approximately three million and a half children younger than 5 years run risk of enduring famine in the United States, according to a review of the numbers of the government that carried the group Feeding America out.
That means more than 17 % of the children who can incur cognitive and evolutionary losses if one does not feed them in a suitable way.
Feeding America, organization without lucre ends, based his conclusions on information from 2005 to 2007 of the National Office of the Census and the Department of Agriculture. The study is the first one that observes the numbers for children younger than 5 years, according to the group.
The study also reveals that in eleven states, more than 20 % of the children younger than 5 years runs risk of enduring famine. Louisiana has the biggest valuation, with a little more of the fourth one part of the children in risk, followed by North Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, Texas, New Mexico, Kansas, South Carolina, Tenesí, Idaho and Arkansas.
According to the Department of Agriculture, 11 % of the housings was lacking sufficient food as for a working and healthy life, before the economy was deteriorating towards ends of last year.
The study includes a series of children in risk, from whom they have low quality or scarce food variety up to those who experience famine regularly.
The absence of nutrients, especially in the first years of formation, can exercise a lasting impact in the physical health and the behavior, together with the development and the academic achievements.
“ These children without an available nutrition do not have the possibility of recovering”, said Vicki Escarra, the president and executive director of Feeding America.
Escarra affirmed that the group is pressing to the Congress and the White House in procura of more federal funds for banks of food directed to young children. The president Barack Obama has promised to expand the nutritive help and finish the famine in the childhood for 2015.
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