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| 2.000 daily calories are those that a normal person needs |
| Seven myths on the nutrition |
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Washington Hispanic
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| It is common to listen to reports of press based on scientific studies that give them certain attributes or characteristics to the food. |
The nutrition is full of myths. For the same, it is necessary to be well informed about what is real or not with regard to the food. Next the most common myths.
It is common to listen to reports of press based on scientific studies that give them certain attributes or characteristics to the food.
That prepare the cancer, which they have antirust, that stop the aging.
Some of them are real, but different not so much.
What happens is that, in some occasions, we base on this information our diet.
Nevertheless, it is possible that these beliefs are mistaken, and for these myths we can be depriving ourselves of important nutrients that our body needs.
For the same, making use that March is the month of the nutrition, it is important to realize well any misunderstanding with regard to nutrients and how we feed.
Next the most common myths.
Myth 1
Do not eat between meals
False. To consume between four five daily meals does not mean that the persons could not taste any appetizer from time to time, but there exists a pair of rules that it is necessary to bear in mind. First, the whole of calories cannot exceed the whole of the nutritional plan (two thousand a day for normal persons), and insure of not consuming snacks with sugar for the damage that it produces to the teeth.
Myth 2
Do not eat before going to bed
False. If the caloric consumption is taken into consideration only, the important thing is not to pass of the authorized daily whole, not when they are consumed. Of course, you present yourself with problems of gastrointestinal ebb they must avoid to consume food before going to bed for the discomfort that that can provoke given his condition.
Myth 3
The breakfast must never skip
Real. Study after study has demonstrated that to consume a good breakfast reduces the possibilities that someone could excel himself in the food consumption during the day. The breakfast also increases the whole of energy available for a person and helps to the brain to concentrate, solve problems and to remember better.
Myth 4
It must always consume proteins
Real. Cheese is already a not greasy meat, yogurt, nuts and beans are all good sources of protein that will help the persons who feed healthily to feel "fuller" in major time, avoiding to feel famine and with that, not to pass of the necessary daily calories.
Myth 5
It is better to eat of to little than to feed on three big daily meals
Real. Six mini daily meals can keep it satisfied during the day. The food that it chooses must be healthy and, as it has already been said, the whole of daily calories must not exceed the maximum recommended by the experts to lower or to support a healthy weight.
Myth 6
There is food that must eat up every day
Real. But obviously they can be exchanged in accordance with the nutritive pyramid. For example, yogurt instead of milk it helps to support healthy bones and strengthen the immune system. With regard to the vegetables, spinach, kale, spinach beet and the lettuce are sources of good nutrients for the bones, the heart and the eyes. The tomatoes, as, diminish the risk of developing certain types of cancer and cardiac illness. Fruits as bilberries, strawberries, purple grapes and you happen they contain antirust that help to prepare the flaw of the memory as we age and also they can prepare the cancer, the diabetes and cardiac illness. Some substitutes of the meat, like beans or vetches, contain antirust that can improve the cerebral and cardiac function. Entire grains, as it drains, quinoa and brown rice they lower the risk of cardiac illness. Healthy fats can be obtained of nuts, almonds, peanuts and pistachio nuts, between others.
Myth 7
Meals skip will help him to grow thin
False. In fact, meals skip will have the opposite effect. Studies have demonstrated that the persons who jump meals tend to have excess weight compared to those who eat his four or five daily meals. After a meal skips, you can provoke a deceleration of the metabolism., therefore, his organism will need less calories and the calories extra that receives will turn them into fat.
| Interview |
| More resources against the bosom cancer |
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| Karol Mirror. Felipe Lagos/WH. |
For Felipe Lagos
Washington Hispanic
The Capital Breast Cancer Care Center offers several services to one of the populations you piss exposed to this evil, the Latin women, tells Karol Espejo.
The mortality valuations for bosom cancer in the District of Columbia are the highest of the United States. While in the country the number is 24 deaths for every 1000 thousand cases, in DC the number rises to 28 deaths for every 100 thousand cases.
According to Karol Espejo, coordinating committee of education of health of the Capital Breast Cancer Care Center (CBCCC), this number is worse in Latin, since the Hispanic ones usually wait up to the last second to make see for a specialist, when generally already it is much late.
“ In the Capital Breast Cancer Care Center, we see 200 patients a month and 57 % of them is Latin. There is a big need. DC has the highest percentage of mortality of cancer of bosom. Although this cancer is not diagnosed in major quantity compared with other parts of the country, if we see more mortality of Latin because of it, since they do not look for services on time”, says the community educator.
— What is the work that the CBCCC realizes?
“ We provide mamografías and papanicolaos for women who do not have medical insurance or resources for these examinations. Also we educate the women on the importance of the preventive examinations. Many people do not know the excellent thing that is and we try to teach them some measurements that can help him to that, like eating healthily, doing exercise and other things that can reduce his risk of developing cancer to the bosom or cervical”.
— In the case that someone has a result that is not good: what is the following step?
“ We have two patients' navigators that find resources for them. We have also agreements with the Washington Hospital Center and recount them there. We take charge up to the biopsy, and hence the navigators entrust that they could obtain services”.
— Is there any eligibility to gain access to his services?
“ The only thing for that we ask is that they have an identification with photo and one tries where from they live. It can be a consular registration, passport, GO of House of Maryland or of Project Health. The only difference is that the persons of the district are those that they qualify for the papanicolau. But everything is free. There are persons who have private insurance but they like our service, or the fact that we are all women. Also we attend if it takes insurance as the Alliance, but one does not receive the client”.
— If someone has some question, what can do
“ 784 2700 can call us (202 and if they need that we do chats in churches or institutions on this can call me to the same number. Also we are releasing a service of transport for that he can go to look and to stop patients from community clinics”.
| To his health |
| How to recognize the chatterboxes |
For the doctor Elmer Huerta
The director Preventorium del Cáncer
The chatterboxes in medicine have always existed. From the ancient sellers of magic potions and oil of snake, up to the modern sellers of grasses, supplements and wonderful products; who using the radio, the television and Internet, take advantage of the ingenuousness of the people cat gives to them for hare. There exist several reasons for which the chatterboxes are economically successful in the society:
1. The absence of information of the public. Mixing science and pseudo science (scientific verbiage with the intention of confusing), the chatterboxes fool the public of scarce formal education and convince them that his products are effective.
2. The absence of access to the medical system. Logician, after there is no access to the conventional medical system, the people look for something good, nice and cheap. There the chatterboxes are, offering "natural" products, easy to use that they solve all the problems and that they do not need medical recipes.
3. The natural desire that the human being has of “living long and with more health”. There the chatterboxes are, offering to lengthen the life to the one who consumes his products.
4. They handle a lot of money and buy easily spaces in the radio and the television.
5. And finally, a very sinister reason: the chatterbox takes advantage of the pain and the frustration of the public before the limits of the conventional medicine.
But before continuing, I believe that it is important that we define some important terms.
Conventional medicine: it is the one that is used commonly in the western world. It takes the doctor, the hospital and the medicines as his essential parts. The one who writes has criticized it with hardness for thinking that it is too much centred on the illness and not on the promotion of the health and the prevention of the illnesses.
Complementary medicine: It is that that uses interventions and skills in parallel or along with the conventional medicine. The meditation, the yoga and the massages that patients use with cancer, Been or artrosis, there are some examples.
Alternative medicine: It is that that uses interventions and skills that they replace to the conventional medicine. I have seen patients with cancer, for example, that instead of occurring or receiving treatments of quimio or radiotherapy, they surrendered to sanación skills with magic and spiritual rites, grasses and philters of unknown origin; penitents returned all and very serious to the hospital.
Integral medicine: It is the one that combines the conventional medicine with both, the complementary medicine and the alternative medicine; but it uses interventions that they have demonstrated científicamente. Certain forms of acupuncture fall down in this category.
The big problem, and the principal reason for which I am allowed to alert them to myself of the activity of the chatterboxes, is that for following his instructions, seemingly easy and cheap; many people hurt to his health, losing the opportunity to control on time his illnesses.
The most frequent tricks that the chatterboxes use are to offer rapid remedies, without effort and "guaranteed". They announce his products as a miraculous remedy for a big number of illnesses. They are specialists in treating pains or medical problems that “have been already evicted” by the doctors. They offer products of an extraordinary purity that they assure only can prepare and say that they are “the only and patent”. Also, when they offer his products, generally they announce such tantalizing offers as: "buy two bottles for the price of one”, “buy now at this special introduction price” or “call in the next 15 minutes and it will receive a free bottle”.
The chatterboxes are very fond of presenting persons' testimonies that they assure to have recovered on having used his products. Many of these testimonies are paid, others are a product of the “effect placebo” of his products.
If you have listened to speak about some product and have doubts about his effectiveness in the treatment of a problem of health, speak with his doctor and rise the following questions to him:
1. Is an effective product this or does exist any investigation that bases his effectiveness?
2. What would be the possible risks or benefits of this product in my specific case?
3. If I use this product: will he interfere with the treatment that you are giving to me?
4. Has the safety of this product been studied?
5. Do exist other treatments or products that could help me?
Finally, I give him a trick to recognize easily a chatterbox in the radio or television. Pay attention to what the person says in question: if during the program it mentions and repeats incessantly his products, he does not stop praising them repeating that serve for everything, they are giving often phones “for orders” or are constantly asking the public to visit his health center or alternative, to be very careful with his wallet. I recommend to him to change radio or channel, or if he wants, listen to them and amuse (or get indignant) seeing how the merchant does malabares to take the money from the people.
| 8 % of the Hispanics who live in DC has VIH/Sida |
| To live in DC is to live with VIH |
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| 3 % of the inhabitants in of DC is infected by VIH/Sida. |
For Felipe Lagos
Washington Hispanic
A new report of the Department of Health of the District of Columbia announced that the epidemic of VIH that flogs the city is even worse than what was estimated.
According to the document, 3 % of the population of the district is infected by VIH/Sida. This is translated in more than 15 thousand cases. Although the African American population is you piss on it struck with the epidemic, concentrating more than 70 % of the new cases, the true thing is that the virus crosses ethnic groups, life styles and sexual orientation.
The Latin Americans do not escape to this situation. According to the report, of the cases of VIH/Sida of the district, 6 % corresponds to Latin Americans and 3,1 % to Hispanic women.
In fact, the quantity of new cases grew 22 % in whole.
For Catalina Sol, director of the program of VIH/Sida of The Clinic Of The People, the number is not a revelation, since who are in the "battlefield" know what they face. “He would say that it is not a surprise. It is not an indication which anything has changed dramatically in the city, with an exception, which is the aptitude to take into account the epidemic in guessed right form”, says the expert.
Apart from these numbers, also there was announced a study of the heterosexual conducts of 750 residents of the district, done by the University George Washington.
In this report, 45 % of the interrogated persons admitted to have sex with meas of a couple at the same time. 49 % did not know the status of VIH of his couple and, the most worrying thing of everything, 70 % said not to have used a condom on having had sex.
“ The message here is not only to do the test to him in routine form, but to understand that having relations with more than one person, whose status one does not know and without condom, is to ask to be contagious with VIH. The common denominator in many of those who had more than one couple in the last year, was that they did not know the status of his couple and that they were not occupying condoms consistentemente”, he says the Sun.
For the Hispanics, the expert emphasizes that to live in DC means to be in permanent contact with the virus. “For the Latin Americans the message is that, as in all the other populations, the epidemic reaches the Latin Americans in a way disproportionate and major than to other Hispanics in other parts of the country. The message is that when we see the Latin Americans, the infection valuation is almost the triple than in other comparable cities. The levels of VIH are disproportionate. The big message for the community is that to live in Washington is to live in an area where the VIH not only is an epidemic, but one of the most common diagnoses which a person can face.
Living in this area means that there are more possibilities of having a meeting with a person with VIH. Falling in love, to live through us, to share us, to socialize us in Washington means that we must take the VIH as an occupational risk, for saying it somehow”.
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