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Washington Hispanic
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| The transition to the life after the cancer must be something gradual. photo: Photos.com |
Writing / agency
Washington Hispanic
After experiencing a cancer treatment, it is normal that, like survivor, the person wants to turn to a good health.
But beyond the initial recovery, there are ways of improving the long-term health to enjoy the years ahead.
In general, the recommendations for a cancer survivor are not different compared from those who would be given anybody who wants to improve his health.
To do exercise, to eat a balanced diet, to support a healthy weight, to avoid the tobacco and to limit the quantity of alcohol that is drunk.
It is clear that for cancer survivors additional benefits exist. These steps help to improve the quality of life and facilitate the transition to a full routine character after the treatment.
Do exercise
The physical activity in regular form will increase his well-being after the cancer treatment and it can help to accelerate his recovery. The survivors who do physical activity obtain major fortitude, improve his defenses, have less signs of depression and anxiety, minor fatigue, few problems to sleep, better frame of mind and major self-esteem. Speak with his doctor to start in soft form and to increase the difficulty gradually.
The American Society of the Cancer recommends the adult survivors of the evil to exercise at least 30 minutes five times a week or more. As it is recovering, perhaps feel the need to do more exercise to feel better.
One of the benefits of the physical activity is that it reduces the risk of a recurrence of the cancer, in addition to minimizing the possibility of dying of the illness.
Many survivors worry for a recurrence of the illness and want to do everything in his hands to avoid it. Although the evidence that the exercise reduces the possibility of dying of the illness is preliminary, verified benefits exist that the physical activity improves the function of the heart, the lungs and other systems of the body.
Eat a balanced diet
The American Society of the Cancer recommends the cancer survivors to eat five or more portions of fruits and vegetables a day, to prefer healthy fats like Omega-3, instead of the saturated ones or the trans, they complete proteins low in unsaturated fats, like fish, smooth meats, eggs, nuts and vegetables; and that they decide in favor of carbohydrates originated from entire grains, vegetables and vegetables.
This food combination will assure that his organism should obtain the quantity of vitamins and nutrients that he needs to become stronger.
Although he can feel tempted to consume supplements vitamínicos, do not do it. Many people believe that to obtain more vitamins will benefit them, but it can achieve the opposite. Consult with his doctor if it is that he wants to consume vitamins.
Take care of his weight
During the treatment, it is probable that he has risen or grown thin. Speak with his doctor to determine the best way of obtaining a suitable weight.
If it must gain pounds sterling, the most probable thing is that there is thought a way of doing that the food is more appetizing and easy to eat. The idea is to control the morning sickness, pain and other side effects of the medicines.
For whom should they grow thin, it is important to do it gradually, and not more than two pounds a week. Control the number of calories that it completes and balance them with exercise.
Do not smoke
Stop smoking once and for all. The cigaret and other types of tobacco increase his risk of diverse types of cancer, and to leave the vice will allow him to lower the possibilities of a recurrence and of to have the second type of cancer.
If he has looked how to leave the cigaret and has not been able, look for help. His doctor will be able to deliver to him some resources it to help him to stop.
Alcohol moderately
If he wants to consume alcohol, support it at a minimal level. Women and any person older than 65 years must not drink any more than one gulp a day, while the males must limit themselves to two.
The alcohol offers some benefits in some persons, for example, a wine gulp a day can reduce his risk of having cardiovascular disease, but also there increases the possibility of suffering certain types of cancer, as of mouth and gullet, for example. Speak with his doctor if it must consume alcohol.
Do what could
If you have going out newly of a cancer treatment, do not try to do these changes in his life style at once. Do it in gradual form. To implement a diet recovers or regular exercise to his life in slow but sure form will make more probable that these modifications remain with you many years more.
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| Seven reasons to exercise his sits-up |
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| Often the persons do not put enough effort to work this area, which delivers stability to the body. foto:Photos.com |
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The stomach exercises, which promote the center of his body, are an important part of any routine of physical activity.
Apart from the typical sits-up, often the persons do not put enough effort to work this area of the body, that is to say, the muscles about the pelvis and the trunk, to be in form.
Next seven reasons to include stomach exercises in his routine.
It improves his stability and balance
The stomach exercises strengthen the muscles of the pelvis, the low back, the hip and the abdomen to be employed at harmony. This improves the balance and the stability, be already for sports like the soccer or the tennis or for the daily routine. In fact, most of the sports depend on a few strong abdominal muscles for his game.
He does not need to go to the gymnasium
Any exercise that uses his trunk without support account as abdominal exercise. The sits-up are a typical exercise for the muscles of the abdomen. Go to bed of back, support the feet in a wall (thing that the thighs are to 90 grades of the hips). Press the abdominal muscles, raise the head and then the rest of the trunk. Arms push-ups also count, and it can rest on the knees so that the exercise is easier.
Does he want to have one “six pack”?
To have abdominal muscles is not admitted sleep of any man. Although to be able to uncover that one “six pack” it needs more that only stomach exercises (aerobic activity principally to burn the fat that usually settles in the abdomen), the exercise for this specific area strengthens and strengthens this area.
Strong abdominal muscles favor other exercises
To have a powerful trunk makes easier to do other tasks, be already to beat him to a golf ball, to do home-made tasks or, even, the drawstrings of the shoes are done up. Weak abdominal muscles can have as a result a poor corporal position, pain of low back and muscular injuries.
Take it calmly
It is not necessary to do sits-up per hours. Rather, concentrate in doing the exercises well, with the correct position and the form. Do 10 to 15 repetitions of every exercise, and rest between way to prepare injuries. If it gives him five-peseta coin, give him at least a day of rest to recover.
Do exercises in his house
Remember that there must neither go to the gymnasium nor hire a personnel trainer. Do stomach exercises while it sees his favorite show in the television. If it obtains a giant ball, feel above of her with his feet in the soil, cross his arms in the breast, press his abdomen and begin backwards until he feels that his sits-up are working. Breathe deeply in this position three times and then return to the initial position, and repeat 10 times.
Achieve his targets
The aerobic exercise and the muscular tone are the central elements of any physical routine. A real physical routine must include the stomach exercises. If it begins to do exercise or is a fanatic of the gymnasium, a program of physical conditioning is the best way of achieving his targets.
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| Paulina Escobar, coordinating committee of Hispanic programs of Life With Cancer. photo: I file. |
For Felipe Lagos
Washington Hispanic
With the idea of knocking down the barriers that prepare some persons to benefit from his services, Life With Cancer will offer his workshops in the county of Laudon, Virginia.
This way it was informed by Paulina Escobar, coordinating committee of Hispanic programs of the institution. “We want to finish some barriers that prevent the persons from gaining access to the services that we offer in our familiar center. The principal obstacles are a transport taken care of the children and, good, in our case the language”, he says to sweep.
— For what can the persons of these workshops wait.
“ The idea is to grant a complementary support to the medical treatment that the person is receiving and this way to collaborate from the emotional, spiritual and mental point of view, it understanding that to recover integrally we must complement the medicines with more help”.
— How do the people receive these workshops?
“ For example, the art workshop was roundly successful, and many persons have asked us to do it in other areas. It is a workshop that allows to the persons to allow to go experiences of the past that are not helping him to recover integrally. It is very dynamic and entertaining. The educational workshop allows to answer to all the questions, eliminate the myths as regards the cáner and the treatment, and knowledge what comes in the future, when to visit the doctor, which it is the side effects are and teach exercises so that tomorrow does not have complications or a recidivism”.
— Is it necessary to register?
“ Yes. Especially for that of beauty, because we must know how many people will help. This activity has restricted quota, since it is a practical class in which the patient learns to delineate the eyebrows, for example, in the case that has lost them, or how to do several things again that the cosmetician, one, they is taught one. The maximum quota of this course belongs to ten persons. If they have more questions, they can call (703 698 2529 or to (703 698 2539 ".
The workshops
Workshop of art “Gratitude and Pardon”
On Tuesday, the 20th of October
7:30 to 9:30 pm
Christ The Redeemer Catholic Church
46833 Harry Byrd Highyway (Rt. 7)
Seterling Va 20164
Educational workshop
On Tuesday, the 10th of November
7:30 to 9:30 pm
Christ The Redeemer Catholic Church
46833 Harry Byrd Highyway (Rt. 7)
Seterling Va 20164
Beauty workshop
On Monday, the 16th of November
7 to 9 pm
Jeanie Schmidt Free Clinic
500 Grove Street, Suite 330
Rendón, Goes 20172
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| Nursery schools, new front line against infantile obesity |
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| Three-year-old Jean Carlos Rubell, it serves grapes to itself during the hour of the lunch in the nursery school of the Latin American Community Center in Wilmington, Delaware. photo: AP |
For Lauran Neergard
Washington Hispanic
The nursery schools of the United States are a new front line against the infantile obesity and an investigation of the University of Harvard shows that few states force to the places of that there take care infantes to adopt specific measurements of nutrition and of physical activity considered important to support in form the persons younger than five years.
The new menu in a nursery in Delaware, reflects part of a nascent movement to fight the obesity: Grilled chicken instead of hot dogs. Strawberries instead of cookies. Not more it played, better water or milk low in fat.
Although years of efforts have achieved that the schools offer to the children more and more healthy meals, more and more children come to the kindergarten already obese.
" We have to begin early good. In the primary school it is too much late", said doctor Lynn Silver, of the Department of Health of the city of New York, leader in norms establishment against the obesity in the nursery schools.
It is not a question of being on diet to the small children, but of teaching them, before they form bad habits, how of staying active and of eating healthy food, and that the eaten scrap is only slightly occasional.
" It is a question of a completely new form of eating for our children", says Maria Matos, who directs the Latin American Community Center in Wilmington, Delaware and that has reformed what, now he knows, it was not an ideal menu for the nursery school children, although it was fitting to the state norms.
Matos began to serve Hispanic plates with brown rice instead of white rice. The macaroons plate with cheese is prepared now with wholemeal flour pastas. Many of his children had never seen fruits as the kiwi and they had to be convinced so that they were proving them.
Two third parts of the Americans are obese or they have excessive weight and the problem begins at ages surprisingly early.
A study announced in April showed that almost one of the five four-year-old children was obese. The valuations are even more high between the Hispanics, the blacks and the North American natives, but the problem affects to all the ethnic and racial groups.
Nevertheless, the strict norms to improve the habits of health of the children in the nursery schools are not common. The researcher for the University of Harvard Sara Benjamin compiled a list of 20 regulations of nutrition and physical activity that the health specialists consider to be a key.
Between they are:
— At least 60 minutes of structured physical activity and another 60 minutes of free physical playtime.
— Not to allow the children to be seated during any more than 30 followed minutes.
— To serve to the children of two or more years of age only lean milk or with low fat content.
— Not more than 6 ounces (170 grams) of juice of fruit a day.
— Not to serve sugary drinks.
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