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| They promise better nutrition and, with it, more health |
| The keys of the organic food |
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The phenomenon of the organic products promises better nutrition and, with it, more health. Nevertheless, the questions persist on his real benefits. Finally: Are they better for the health? |
Writing / agency
Washington Hispanic
A visit to the supermarket will serve to him to realize the phenomenon. Be already in the section of vegetables or natural products, every time the organic food is more numerous.
The matter is that, if he compares a traditional apple and the organic one to simple sight, both do not present major differences.
Although beyond his appearance there is a difference. The most expensive organic slope and it must have a tag that there says “USDA organic” (the one that guarantees that the product belongs to this category as the Department of Agriculture).
The question finally is: are there these healthier products, or do they deliver more benefits to the health?
As in everything recounted to the food, it is important to be informed. For the same, we deliver excellent information to be able to take the correct decisions as consumers.
Organic conventional versus
The word organic comes from the form in which the farmers sow, harvest and process his products as fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy products and meats. Also, the organic thing puts emphasis on the water conservation and the soil and on reducing the contamination. For example, the farmers who use these methods do not use the traditional methods of fertilization, control of weeds and illnesses prevention to the animals. Instead of using pesticides, the farmers use sophisticated methods of rotation of cultivation in addition to using fertilizer to the ground to avoid weeds.
Others of the differences the fact is that, instead of giving to him to the antibiotic animals, hormones of growth or medicines to encourage his growth (a little especially common in the chicken industry), the farmers give to him to the animal organic food and allow them to go out outdoors. These preventive measurements help to minimize the illnesses.
What is organic?
The Department of Agriculture has established a program of certification that needs that all the organic products expire with strict governmental measurements. These measurements regulate as these products are cultivated and processed. If a product is provided with the tag of the USDA, it means that it was produced in congruity with the standards of the Department of Agriculture.
These products come in different categories: 100 % organic, 95 % organic or done with organic ingredients (more than 70 % organic). The products with minor indexes cannot use the tag of the USDA.
It is probable that in the supermarkets it sees other phrases, like 100 % natural, “free range” (servant in free form) or free of hormones. These descriptions can be important for the consumers, but they must not make a mistake with the organic term.
To buy or not to buy?
Consider the following thing before buying organically:
Nutrition: There does not exist absolute evidence that it shows that the organic products are more nourishing than the conventional ones. Also, the USDA, although it certifies the organic thing, does not establish that these products are healthier or sure.
Quality and appearance: The organic products must fulfill the same quality standards and safety that the conventional ones. The difference takes root in how they are produced, processed and manufactured. It is possible that it notices that the fruits and organic vegetables begin to lose earlier because they are not treated with preservantes. Also, the organic ones can turn less appetizing on having had strange forms, different colors or small sizes, but in most these products are identical in appearance to the others.
Pesticides. The conventional farmers use pesticides to protect his cultivation of insects and illnesses. After these chemists apply, they can leave a residue in the fruit or vegetable. Some persons buy organically to limit his exhibition to the pesticides. Anyway, the quantity of the chemists whom a person exhibits across conventional products is minimal.
Environment. Some persons buy organically not to damage the ambience, since the farmers specializing in this cultivation protect the soil and reduce the contamination.
Costs. Most of the organic products cost more than the conventional ones. The high price owes to a more expensive practice of cultivation, governmental regulations and minor quantities of products.
Flavor. Some persons say that they can distinguish the flavor of the organic products. Others say that they do not notice the difference. Finally, the flavor is something subjective and it obeys personal preferences, therefore, to decide is in you.
| He interviews to the coordinating committee of Walking Together of Capital Hospice, Ofelia Recio |
| ““With hospice not only the patient receives the benefits, also the relatives” |
For Felipe Lagos
Washington Hispanic
“In the last moments of the life, the Hispanics we usually take care of our patients or major adults.
In the developed country, on the other hand, there usually grant hospice services those who live through his last moments in this ground. These usually involve a multidisciplinary team of specialists and enclosed spiritual support.
Thick Ofelia is the coordinating committee of the program Caminando Together, capital initiative Hospice that focuses in announcing and providing hospice services to the Hispanic community. With this intention, Thick it prepared an explanatory DVD that is free for all those who request it without cost. “We have a called DVD ‘We can Help him’, where one speaks about the myths, of what it is truly the hospice care and what is not. As I say to him, the first thing that we have to spend there is the barrier of what is not and what the people imagine. For the same, we cannot know the model of the care because we do not have it in our countries and this is one of the things that is explained well in the video”, says Ofelia Recio.
— In simple terms: of what does hospice talk each other?
“ It is a care for persons with serious, serious and progressive illnesses. This service is delivered in the hearth. The persons who qualify for our program almost always are recounted by the doctors. In this, not only the patient receives the benefits, but also the relatives”.
— Why do not the Hispanics know much of this concept?
“ Because in Spanish the word hospice has a very negative connotation, a place where major persons set as if it was an elders' asylum. In the Latin-American countries there does not exist a system as the American or the one that exists in certain countries of Europe. When a person enters our program, in his house there will have at disposal a doctor of palliative medicine, that is to say, in the care of control of pain, who also evaluates the family. For his part, the nurse entrusts the patient to receive his medicine and that it expires with his physical therapies. Also, the relatives know that for 24 hours seven days of the week can call the nurse and she will attend to the consultations or the problem”.
— What must do the person who wants to receive the DVD “We Can Help him”?
“ Me 531 6247 can call (703 and with great pleasure I order him an absolutely free copy. Also one of the things that we do is presentations in churches, in offices, business or in single-family dwellings. An important thing is to know that nurses can go and translators if the persons I did not recover to speak English and to explain to them what the hospice care consists without any cost. Many persons receive the explanation in his hearth and then they decide if there want to receive these services that are covered by Medicare and Medicaid. Also, the persons who qualify to our program can receive hospice without cost”.
| More time contaminating ambiences that the second-hand smoke |
| Very much eye with the smoke of third hand |
Writing / agency
Washington Hispanic
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| The smoke of third hand includes heavy metals, carcinogens and even radioactive materials that can be absorbed across the skin by small children. |
Those preventive measurements like opening a window to smoke or to light a fan to clean the air of the second-hand smoke do not achieve his final target. The reason?, the smoke of third hand.
The term refers to the chemists' poisonous miscellany and gases that adhere to the hair and to the clothes of the smokers or to the furniture of the rooms.
This residue of the cigaret is a lot of more time contaminating ambiences that the second-hand smoke.
The smoke of third hand includes heavy metals, carcinogens and even radioactive materials that can be absorbed across the skin by small children.
The term smoke of third hand was minted by doctors of the General Hospital of Massachussets in Boston in a new study that measured the risk of this form of contamination in small children.
“ Many persons know that the second-hand smoke is harmful, but they did not know on the risks of this smoke of third hand”, said Dr. Jonathan Winickoff, author of the study and teacher of paediatrics in the University of Harvard.
The smoke of third hand is that a person smells when it enters a room of hotel that is for smokers, or what smells when a person has smoked and on having gone out of a room, one feels this smell.
“ His nose does not lie to him. This is so poisonous that his brain asks him to go out of this place”, says Winickoff.
Not only that, the study indicates that if children breathe the air in a room where he has smoked yesterday, this air can damage his lungs.
The doctor Philip Landrigan, one pediatric that directs the health Center of the School of Medicine Mount Sinai, of New York, said that the phrase smoke of third hand is a new term that has implications for the behavior.
“ The central message here is that to close the door of the kitchen to smoke is not protecting the boys of the smoke. Carcinogenic substances exist in this smoke of third hand, and there is cancer risk for the person of any age that between in contact with him”.
| To his health |
| The Familiar Reunification Needs Preparation |
For Maria Gomez
the Mary's center president
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| Maria Gomez, the Mary's center president. |
After many years of having left his small children in his native country to the care of his grandparents, a relative or a nearby neighbor to come to prove luck and to look for a better future for his family; both the parents who come and the children who remain happen for quite complex stages in his frame of mind, which sometimes the health and the emotional stability affects substantially. The only thing that keeps them optimistic there is the illusion of turning to find again to begin a life in family.
Both parts idealize this day, but they are not prepared for this new stage and although it seemed that only the meeting was sufficient, there are many factors more that they come with this meeting and that there can cause more worries, stress and depression that the same distance through that they were living previously.
For our twenty years of service to the community, we have lived permanently through this phenomenon in Mary's Center and have been employed arduously at familiar therapies so that the adjustment and the new coexistence take a good course.
That's why I want that those that have the reunion planned with his children in this new year that begins, benefit from our experience so that it is as they were waiting for it.
First that quite, it must bear in mind that although they are in his country and obey the orders of those who stayed to his care, they feel that you also have authority so that when they come here, it is easier to exercise discipline on them. Otherwise, there is going to come undone another series of conflicts more difficult to solve.
The telephone and visual contact is important.
Remember that the children who remained in his country have shared with you his experiences and his histories only across the phone and that the only images that they have of you have been for photos or for a video. The same way, only for photos you have seen the development and growth of his children.
Nevertheless, this photographic contact is essential because when there comes the awaited moment to meet again, they are going to be recognized and are going to look like the image that they had in his mind. Many parents think that it is only important that they have the photo of his children but these children also need to have the image of his parents fresh.
In spite of the love and the illusion, the first moment of the reunion is impactante and both the parents and the children face 'strange' persons those who have not shared in person hardly ever. It is important that in advance you speak with his children of for what they expect from you like parents and of for what you expect from them like children.
Also speak to them about the changes and about the new system which they are going to face so that mentally they are a little more prepared.
The same way, you also owe to prepare to begin a new life rhythm. Many have to keep on working up to two shifts to extract forward his children but also they must dedicate time to share with the new members of the family and to know in what steps they walk and to whom they are related in this new ambience since on having been alone, turn into the perfect bait for the bands.
Also it is important that before they come, it reckons in what school it is going to inscribe them and at what medical center they are going to be present so that they could receive his vaccines and could visit the doctor in case of some illness. Do not forget to ask them to bring from his country the record of his vaccines so that here they do not have to repeat them and if it takes any medicine, also they must bring it together with his medical files so that it continues here the treatment.
Finally, try to identify neighbors, friends or relatives who could receive them and make them feel how in their own country so that the change is not so dramatic and the happiness is more finished.
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