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| It is easy to get lost in his supposed benefits |
| All the truth on the anti-wrinkle creams |
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With the tremendous offer that exists on the products market
anti-wrinkle, it is easy to get lost in his supposed benefits. For it, we announce what it must bear in mind to choose these articles. |
Writing / agency
Washington Hispanic
Many of the creams and lotions that sell in the shops and in Internet promise to reduce the wrinkles and prepare or even revertir the damage caused by the sun.
The question is if they work. The investigations point out that some creams contain ingredients that can attenuate the wrinkles, but anyway the studies have not been it sufficiently rigorous to demonstrate his benefits.
If you are looking for a form of “stretching“ in a bottle, probably do not find it in the products “on the counter”. Anyway, it is probable that someone helps him slightly, depending how long use the product and the quantity and type of active ingredient of the one that is composed.
Common ingredients The effectiveness of the ingredients of the anti-wrinkle cream depends on the active element in them. Next some of the most common.
Retinol: This is a type of vitamin A and it is the first antirust one in be using in wide form in anti-wrinkle creams. The antirust ones are substances that neutralize the free radicals, unstable molecules of oxygen that break the cells of the skin and cause the wrinkles. The retinol is a vitamin A less powerful than the tretinoina, a local treatment approved by the FDA to treat the wrinkles and that it is possible to acquire only with medical prescription. Avoid the derivatives of the vitamin A if it is pregnant because there increase the risks of defects of the birth.
Á cidos hydroxides: The acids alpha hydroxides, beta hydroxides and poli hydroxides are synthetic versions of acids derived from sugar of fruits. These are exfoliants, that is to say, substances that remove the top layer of old, dead skin and it stimulates the growth of smooth skin and pigmentada in homogeneous form. As these acids increase the risk of incurring loss for the sun, solar blocker always uses during his use and at least one week after using it.
Coenzyme Q10: This is a nutrient that helps to regulate the enzymes production for the cells. Some studies show the reduction of thin wrinkles close to the eyes without side effects. Other investigations show that his application before the exhibition to the sun, protects against the damage for beams UV.
Péptidos of Copper: The copper is an element that is in every cell. In products for the skin, called péptidos get together with small proteins. These favor the sanación of wounds, the collagen production and it can be a powerful antirust one.
Kinetina: This element can improve the wrinkles with minimal annoyance. It is not clear as it works, but he can collaborate with the skin on having made her retain his moisture and stimulate the collagen production.
Tea extracts: Diverse types of tea contain antirust compounds with anti-inflammatory properties. Extracts of green tea are the most common in anti-wrinkle creams.
Without guarantees
The FDA classifies creams and lotions as cosmetics, which as definition do not have medical value. For the same, the agency regulates them in form less strict than as it does it with the medicines.
This means that these products do not happen for the rigorous tests of safety and effectiveness before entering the market.
Nevertheless, the FDA yes enters the game when the publicity of a product promotes them like medicines or when the content of a product can be dangerous for the consumers. For example, in 2002, the FDA ordered the manufacturadores of a product to put a warning because the alpha hydroxides they could increase the possibility of burns for the sun.
As the FDA does not regulate these products, there is no guarantee that the cosmetics work.
An anti-wrinkle diet
An anti-wrinkle cream can diminish the appearance of microcreases of the skin, depending that so followed uses it, the type of ingredient of the cosmetic one and the size of the wrinkle to be treated.
Now, if you want to prepare the appearance of them, as far as possible clearly, then continue these advices:
Be protected from the sun. The exhibition to beams ultraviolet (UV) accelerates the process of aging of the skin. In fact, the star king is the reason number one of the aging of the epidermis.
Choose cosmetics with solar protection (SPF in English). Choose these products with a protection factor of at least 15, at the same time of making sure that they protect so much beams GRAPE and UVB.
Use humectantes. The dry skin can favor to the lines creation in the face. Although the humectantes do not prepare the wrinkles, it can mask these lines.
Do not smoke. The tobacco causes the angostamiento of the blood glasses in the exterior layers of the skin. Also it damages the collagen and the elastina, which are fibres that give him the elasticity and the fortitude to the skin. As turned out the skin ages prematurely.
| Worrying discovery causes polemic |
“The use of placebos abounds
between the doctors of the country |
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| According to a study, more than half of the doctors in the country prescribes medicines without clinical benefits to patients. |
For Maria Cheng
AP
“Approximately half of the doctors in the United States him give placebos to his patients without saying to them that the treatment will not treat to them the evil that bothers them, according to a recent survey.
The tendency discovered in the magazine BMJ (British Medical Journal in English), contradicts the guidelines of the American Medical Association (MISTRESS), according to which the doctors can only prescribe treatments with the approval informed about his patients.
“ It is a worrying discovery”, mentioned Franklin G. Miller, the director of the Department of Ethics of the National Institutes of Health of the United States and one of the authors of the study. “The trick violates the beginning of the approval informed about the patient”.
Widespread method
The placebos used in the study go beyond the sugary tablet usually used in the medical experiments. They were including any treatment that not necessary would help the patient.
According to several investigations, many persons recover or at least they improve with a false treatment even if this treatment should not supply effect.
“ It seems that there are many doctors doing things that should not be doing”, thought Irving Kirsch, teacher of psychology of the University of Hull in Great Britain and who has studied the placebos.
“ I admit that the doctors are under an intense pressure to help his patients, but this is unacceptable”, it added.
The investigative team of the National Institutes of Health sent questionnaires to 1.200 internists and reumatólogos, and received 679 answers from which 62 % thought that the use of placebos was acceptable and ethical.
Half of those who answered admitted to have used placebos several times a month. Their almost 70 % was saying to his patients that it was a question of a treatment “potentially beneficial that is not usually applied for the problem of health that you endure”.
Only 5 % of the doctors was telling the truth to his patients.
In most cases, the placebos were medicines of some type: 41 % analgesic, 38 % vitamins, 13 % antibiotic, 13 % sedative, 3 % injections salinosas and 2 % sugary tablets.
In the questionnaire one asked the doctors about him if they would recommend a tablet sweetened for someone who suffers from chronic pain if it is demonstrated that it is more effective that not to give any treatment. Almost 60 % answered affirmatively.
| He interviews Silvia Glyer, expert in alternative therapies: |
| “The illness is a disconnection between the mind and the body” |
For Felipe Lagos
Washington Hispanic
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Silvia Glyer was born in Ecuador and it takes almost 30
years in the USA. |
As his name indicates it, the alternative therapies think about how to complement the methods of the traditional medicine. If the modern method thinks about how to solve the problems of health from his clinical dimension, the alternative therapies do it from the spiritual perspective.
In fact, this November 1, the institution Life With Cancer will do a workshop on complementary and alternative therapies for persons and families that have an oncological illness. The event will be realized of 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Life With Cancer Family Center located in 2700 Prosperity Ave. Suite 100 Fairfax, GOES 22031 (more information in (703 698 2529 or to (202 483 2600 ext. 142.
Silvia Glyer, educator registered in therapies of polarity (polarity) and yoga teacher, will speak on the benefits of these methods. “In simple terms, we think about how to integrate the physical, mental and emotional health of the patient to achieve a positive change in his health”, he says. — To what is called he an alternative therapy?
“ It is everything what complements the conventional medicine. What I do is a therapy of polarity, yoga, a language of the body, reiki and therapy of cellular activation, between others. All these serve like complement to the conventional medicine”.
— How are you can therapies align the mind and the body of a patient?
“ The illness, from the alternative point of view, is a disconnection between the mind and the body. However much the brain is ordering the signs adapted to be improved, the body does not assimilate them because there is a blockade of the energy lines that take these signs. These therapies use specific protocols so that there is an energy reconnection of mind and body. For example, if we are with stress, it is breathed more rapid and not deep. On having had less oxygen in the body, the mind stops working to his entire capacity. An alternative therapy does that the person between in the state of much more calmed and deep respiration. The stress, in accordance with the WHO, is responsible for 70 % of the illnesses. Therefore, if we can handle the stress in alternative form, we can eliminate the possibilities in 70 % of suffering illnesses for this reason”.
— What will be his role in the seminar of Life With Cancer?
“ I will give a chat on how the elements of the body manage in polarity, that are the same of the planet. For example, we have the ground (the bone, textiles, skin), the water there are the fluids (blood, urine, tears), the fire is the temperature and the digestive system; the air is the respiratory system and there is an element more that it considers polarity that is the ether. We will teach to the persons how these systems work and as they can benefit someone with cancer. For example, in polarity a tumor is an excess of the element ground. Then, the therapy will help to that this element, on having got together with other elements, begins lowering the production of the element ground”.
| This Saturday, the 1st of November in National Mall |
They realize new walk
for the heart in DC |
For Felipe Lagos
Washington Hispanic
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| To travel at least half an hour every day offers big benefits to the health. |
This Saturday, the 1st of November, a new “Walk will be realized for the Heart”, organized by the American Association of the Heart (AHA, for his acronym in English).
Considering the numbers of obesity that exist in the country, the physical activity presents itself as an ideal form to be able to prepare the pounds sterling of more, along with a balanced diet.
The Hispanics are not exempt from this risk. In fact, according to numbers of AHA, almost 40 % of the Latin Americans in the country has excess weight or it is obese.
And since the illnesses to the heart are the killer number one in the country, to avoid the factors of risk that could help to add inches to the waist becomes priority.
For example, we find the case of Mirna Taylor, who lost his mother for a cardiac event in 1990, due to a high cholesterol level. With 52 years at present, and knowing that if it was not looking after it could face serious consequences, it began with a plan to grow thin traveling and taking care of his diet.
“ Way from June of this year and I have already lost ten pounds. Also, for the time being I am not taking Lipitor (medicine against the cholesterol) because he wanted to go out of this diet. Now I travel and burn all the calories that I consume. Of course I must count them, because if I do not do it as more than I have to”, says Taylor, who also makes use to the maximum of a program that his employer, Aetna, has to encourage a healthy life style between his workpeople.
That, along with other changes in his life style, like taking more water and eating tinier portions, has allowed to lower his risk factors before a cardiovascular event.
Taylor will be on Saturday in National Mall along with two of his grandchildren. “I was last year and the fellowship, meeting new persons and seeing all those who work with me walking was very good. I invite all to that they come to spend a good moment, walk for his health and know new persons about the monuments of Washington”.
The activities begin at 8:30 a.m.
The walk has a three miles extension. Also there will be entretenciones for children, classes of yoga and tests of health.
The meeting point is the street four, between Madison St and Jefferson St.
More information in www.startgreaterwashington.org.
| According to a report of the World Organization of the Health |
Heart, infections and cancer,
the biggest causes of mortality |
For Eliane Engeler
AP
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| According to the WHO, the women are in major risk of suffering cardiac events. |
The illnesses of the heart, infectious and the cancer are three principal causes of mortality in the world, according to the World Organization of the Health.
The cardiac infarctions and the problems that these bear are the principal cause of mortality — especially between women — since they kill 29 % of the persons who die every year, pointed out the WHO in a report.
Secondly, the infectious illnesses suppose 16,2 % of the deaths on a global scale.
The cancer, in third position, causes 12,6 % of the deceases on a global scale, it indicated the report of 146 pages, based on information of records of death of 112 countries.
The numbers are of 2004 and the most recent information is less concrete, but the tendencies have not changed from 1990, when the WHO realized the analysis for the first time.
Approximately 58,8 million persons died in the whole world in 2004, many of major them of 60 years, it indicated the report. Almost one of the five deaths belonged to a child of less than 5 years.
The level of illnesses of the heart practically has not changed since the WHO published a previous study on causes of mortality, based on numbers of 2002.
The valuation of infectious illnesses went down from 2002, when these supposed 19,1 % of deaths on a global scale, partly because the deaths estimations by AIDS were checked to the fall last year, said Colin Mathers, the principal author of the report.
The women die more often for cardiac illnesses that the men, with valuations of mortality of 31,5 % in the first ones and of 26.8 % in the second ones.
Mathers told that the women are more affected by cardiac conditions that the men because there exist more women of advanced age than men. In general, nevertheless, they are the men most affected by illnesses of the heart, said the expert.
“ Many men in many parts of the world suffer a major risk”, he said, adding that they usually suffer more excess weight and obesity, they realize less physical activity and consume more fats and salt.
Doctor Nieca Goldberg, a spokeswoman of the American Association of the Heart said that “often the symptoms of the women are subtler than those of the men, so they happen more unnoticed and many women do not look for medical treatment as soon as they should”.
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