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| Know how the metabolism determines the excess weight, the truth about a slow process and how to burn calories in more efficient form |
| Metabolism: The key to grow thin? |
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Washington Hispanic
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| The body can fit his metabolism in accordance with the quantity of energy that has. |
It is probable that he has listened to some persons to say that his excess weight is a fault of a slow metabolism, but: what means that? Even more: can the pounds sterling assume of more to the metabolism?, and of being true: is it possible to accelerate this process?
Although the metabolism and how much does a person weigh they are related, it is probable that how this relation is articulated he is not like you he imagines.
In fact, the opposite to the popular belief, a slow metabolism is not the cause of the excess weight.
Although the metabolism influences the satisfaction of the energy needs for the body, in fact the food consumption, drinks and the physical activity is what determines how much a person ends up by weighing.
To turn food into energy
It is called a metabolism to the process into which the organism turns what it consumes in energy. During this complex biochemical process, the calories of the food and drinks are combined with oxygen to provide the energy that the body needs to work.
Even when he is resting, his body needs energy for the automatic processes, like breathing, circulation of the blood, there fit the hormonal levels and the growth and repair of cells.
The number of calories that his body uses to realize these functions is known as a metabolic base valuation, more known like metabolism. What determines this valuation is the height and composition (massive bodies consume more calories), the sex (men have less corporal fat and more muscle than the women) and the age (as it ages there is more fat and less muscle). Also, the body consumes calories on having digested, to be absorbed, to transport and to store the meal that is consumed; and the physical activity.
Metabolism and the weight
The body can fit his metabolism in accordance with the quantity of energy that has. That's why, if someone does a rigorous diet, the organism will diminish his metabolism to adapt itself to the minor quantity of energy that has. This is the reason for which the metabolism is not guilty of the weight of a person. In very rare cases someone gains weight for a medical problem of the metabolism, like the syndrome of Cushing or the hipotiroidismo. Unfortunately, the pounds sterling of more are gained straight when someone consumes more calories than it is burning hot. To grow thin, it is necessary to create an energy deficit on having eaten less calories and to increase the number of them that burn themselves.
Metabolism and exercise
Although the person does not have a lot of control on the speed of his metabolism, it is possible to control the quantity of calories that are consumed and the number that is burned across the exercise.
While more physical activity does, more calories it will be burning hot. In fact, who say to have a rapid metabolism probably are more active than other persons.
To burn more calories, do aerobic exercise in regular form (like gait, gait in bicycle or to swim at least 30 minutes a day) and east weight (this helps to counterweigh the loss of muscular mass associated with the aging). The life style also helps. Walks, jardinear and the work in the hearth also they help to burn calories.
A magic varita does not exist
Do not look for the last pills that exist on the market to grow thin or to burn more calories. The products that they say to accelerate the metabolism are more marketing that reality, and sometimes undesirable side effects provoke. The dietetic supplements are not regulated by the FDA to prove if they are effective or sure. See these products with precaution and skepticism. Ask his doctor if some of the supplements can help him.
But he must know that there is no magic varita at the time of growing thin. Exercise and diet are two keys. It completes less calories and be burning hot more with the physical activity. If he worries for his metabolism, or if in spite of eating less and doing exercise he does not grow thin, speak with his doctor.
The Fact
Although the metabolism influences the satisfaction of the energy needs for the body, in fact the food consumption, drinks and the physical activity is what determines how much a person ends up by weighing.
| The Latin Americans suffer this condition in disproportionate form. Hence the need to know how to avoid the condition |
| How to prepare the diabetes |
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| The internist Chin Oh Kim. foto:Mitzi Macías / WH |
For Felipe Lagos
Washington Hispanic
The diabetes predominance in the Hispanic community underlines the need that the persons should know how to prepare this illness.
This way the internist Chin explains it Oh Kim. “If it goes in the street and sees five Latin Americans, one of them will be diabetic or it it is already, since the diabetes predominance is a from one to five. These numbers are for Hispanics that they have been born in the United States”, says the expert.
But often the myths on the illness limit the comprehension of the persons on how understanding it. “The first myth that exists is that the diabetes is caused by the sugar consumption. There is a study of some years ago where one fed 500 persons with 65 % of fat in the daily diet for two weeks, what provoked that many were presenting diabetes signs. The same scientist gave to another 500 young people one pound of sugar per day and in 11 weeks none turned into diabetic. This does not mean that be necessary to eat sugar, because that is not good since this one turns into fat in the body. But the most problematic thing at diabetes level there is the fat that we consume”.
— When the people listen on the diabetes: what is the first thing that he thinks?
“ What they see there are the complications. Ten years of not controlled diabetes it will bring many vascular complications or of the arteries. This is the consequence of the diabetes, the high glucose in the blood does that the vascular part of the body fails. This affects the retina of the eye, the heart, the brain and the kidneys, for naming some organs. All these parts are damaged at the same time”.
— What can the people do to realize if it is developing diabetes?
“ The problem is that this process is silent. There is no pain. The ideal thing is to be checked at least once a year the glycemia to be seen. There is a laboratory diagnosis that throws the results of the glycemia during the last three months, to see how these levels are. Those are diagnostic that serve to see diabetes tendencies or if the condition is already had”.
— If a person is not diabetic and it does not want to be in the future, but it has a sedentary life style and feeds on fast food several times per week: what must do to prepare the condition?
“ There are three things that it must do. The first one is to do aerobic exercise in more than 30 minutes at least three times a week, and the intensity must be such, that the cardiac rhythm beats to more than 100 times per minute. This is the essential thing. Other that must do is to eat I recover. This means to eat bread and brown rice and high meals in fibre. All that is so that the glycemia does not have so many fluctuations and that be a stable energy source. The third one would be the stress handling. Our body is adapted to handle well the sharp stress, but if we have a level of constant tension, is not good. When we are tensed, the body liberates hormones to fight with it, what does that it raises the glycemia. This is necessary to unload it by means of the exercise, or what it serves to relax, but it must have skills to dilute all this tension”.
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| The Economic Crisis Increases the Domestic Violence |
Maria Gómez
The president Mary's Center
Definitely the economic situation that it has affecting to the country, has touched all the sectors of the daily life and there is one it is special that worries us enormously for the social and familiar aftereffects that it brings to the society: The increase of the domestic violence.
Every day listened in the corridors of sad Mary's Center to persons' histories that have lost his employment, which they have been slow in the payment of the rent, which his houses have lost for not expiring with his quotas, anyway. Also, sadly I listen often in the news how this situation has led many people to taking decisions as extreme as that of the suicido.
Although the money it is not quite, let's want or not, this is one of the principal meters of the economic and emotional stability of the human beings. If it was not like that the absence of him would not be causing so many ravages in our families and would not lead many people to taking it as an excuse to generate violence intrafamiliar.
In this month of campaign to raise public awareness of the domestic violence, there has been brought to the discussion table the effect of the economic crisis in the hearths and the increase of the violence in the families for the clippings budget for them of the employers.
This week, in a press conference that was carried out in Mary's Center, spoke to itself about the worrying situation for which they cross our Latin families for the closings of the companies that are leaving them without work places. Other of the topics of the press conference was the clipping presupuestal in few centers of help that they offer I support the women victims of domestic violence leaving them with few alternatives where to look for help.
A specific case was the closing WEAVE alarm, an agency that provides legal support in Spanish and in English to victims of domestic violence, for lack of economic resources to keep on operating. Fortunately the agency solved his situation and it will be able to keep on giving services; but of not having been like that, more than thousand women who receive at present support of this organization had remained without apartment to continue in his efforts to leave behind the relation of violence through that they live in his hearths and of which his children turn out to be affected the same way.
The continuation of these services as well as also the approval of the visa U for victims of domestic violence, which applications are processed lately in a rapid way and the support of the administration of the President Obama to the applications by asylum for the victims of domestic violence there are big advances for our community that offer to him a way of hope to the victims of this scourge.
Nevertheless, there is still greatly for doing. Us our community lacks more centers of support and I more budget to have guided services only and exclusively to this problems. Also there is needed more commitment of all of us as society.
Of demonstrating it, one of many ways is being present this evening at the traditional march and wakefulness against the domestic violence. The march will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Lamont Park located in the intersection of the streets Lamont and M. Pleasant in the sector of Adams Morgan, to the DC northwest.
| Having been exposed to similar viruses in the past would prepare the illness |
| Are they the biggest immune adults to the flu H1N1? |
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| One believes that the persons born before the year 1950 are immune to the influenza H1N1 2009. photo: AP |
Agencies
Washington Hispanic
The biggest people who was infected or vaccinated against the seasonal flu might have a type of immunity that protects them from the virus of the influenza H1N1, according to experts.
The scientists said that the virus H1N1 has component that are in previous flu vines, and that some persons of more than 60 years who might have been exposed to similar viruses in his youth, might have an immunity that protects them.
“ This would indicate that certain populations might have certain level of existing immunity to the flu H1N1, what might explain porqué the symptoms united with the illness they have been generally light”, said Carol Cardona de la University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.
Cardona said that the immunity based on cells might be serving to debilitate the effects of the flu.
“ The clinical meaning is that you are going to fall ill, but it might not be so severe as if it did not have any immunity”, said Cardona.
Cardona said that there is offered a lot of attention to the antibodies that they recognize and strangers destroy gérmenes.
The body also makes cells known as lymphocytes T citotóxicos, that there secrete antiviral chemists who kill infected cells and limit the quantity of the virus in the body. There are these cells those that might be offering protection.
“ It is a part of the primary immune answer. only that is not that that measures himself in a classic way”, said Cardona.
Cardona and his companion Zheng Xing analyzed information of studies previous to the virus H1N1, looking for short sequences of well-known proteins like epítopos, that are in regions of the viruses that have minor possibility of changing vine in vine.
“ Simply we were and we re-analyzed them”, said Cardona.
They discovered that more than one ten of these epítopos in the virus H1N1 also is in the viruses of seasonal flu that might have been circulating per years.
“ Not all the persons can process these protein sequences”, said Cardona, what he might explain porqué some persons who contract the flu H1N1 have severe illnesses and others present light cases.
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