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| Study reveals interesting relation between cerebral recipient and the diet |
| Cerebral reaction to the meal would influence obesity |
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| The use of the meal seems to be a fundamental factor in deciphering if someone can or not to endure excess weight. AP |
For Lauran Neergaard
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A study in which the cerebral waves of young women were observed while they were savouring malteadas concluded that, when the brain does not feel enough gratification of the food, the people can eat in excess to compensate it.
The study, the first one in his type, might allow to predict who will tend to increase of weight during the following year: those who have a gene that does that the factor of use of the brain is slower.
“ While slower is your answer to the flavor of the milk malteada, there are more probabilities of which you increase of weight”, said the doctor Eric Stice, scientist of the Institute of Investigations of Oregon, who headed the investigations which results were published in the magazine Science.
Genetic diet
A healthy diet and very much an exercise there are the principal factors that prevent someone from having excess weight. But the scientists know for time that the genetics also is important, and a key piece of the process it might be the dopamina, a chemical compound that determines the answer to the pleasure.
Eating can raise momentarily the dopamina levels.
Uses previous to the cerebral escaneos have pointed out that the obese ones have less receiving for this chemical compound that the thin persons. And a particular version of a gene, call Taq1A1, is related to a low number of recipients.
“ This document takes the things a step passes”, said doctor Nora Volkow, of the National Institutes of the Health, specialist in dopamina that has studied for time his relation with the obesity.
“ It takes the gene linked with a major vulnerability towards the obesity and the porqué of the things wonders.
What is happening with the form in which the brain does that a person is more vulnerable to eat in a compulsive way and becomes obese?” the expert said.
“ It is a very elegant work”, he added.
A reading of cerebral waves demonstrated that a key region, named estratio back, center of rich pleasure in dopamina, was entering activity when the women were savouring the malteada, but not when they were proving a liquid used for intentions of comparison, which imitates the saliva.
This region was less active in obese that in thin persons and in those with the variant of the gene A1, the investigators said, and they indicated that the women with this version of the gene would stretch to gain more weight during the following year.
| He interviews the psychologist John Ryder: |
| ““It is possible to teach to the mind to be more flexible” |
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| Dr. Ryder is an author of “Positive Directions, How to Change Polarities to Escape of the Stress and to Increase the Happiness”. Photo John Ryder. |
For Felipe Lagos
Washington Hispanic
““The people must learn to find a comfortable space and teach to the mind to relax and to allow to go”.
With the hardest of the economic crisis for be still seeing, the effects in the psyche of the persons are already allowing to feel.
For example, according to a recent survey of the American Association of Psychologists, eight of every 10 Americans feel stressed for the economic situation.
Not only that, 60 % of the interrogated persons admit to be irritable, 53 % is tired and 52 % is experiencing insomnia.
Although the federal government is trying to face the crisis, it is important that the persons also do something for their own well-being in spite of the difficult times through that they live.
The psychologist John Ryder, author of “Positive Directions, How to Change Polarities to Escape of the Stress and to Increase the Happiness” points out that in this epoch it is not sufficient to have a good physical, but also mental condition, what will allow to face of better form the stress and another type of challenges Psicol.gicos.
“ One of the things that the persons forget is that it is possible to have unabuena mental condition, in English metal fitness. As well as a person goes to the gymnasium to be stronger or more flexible, the individuals can do the same with his minds. The difference is that instead of using machines or raising weight as it is done by the body, what the people must do is to find a comfortable space and to teach him to the mind to relax and to allow to go.
It can be across sitting down in the antejardín and seeing the evening. To see a child sleeping, going to go fishing or camp and to listen to the nature in the dusk. Any thing that is the one that chooses, must be capable of being disconnected of the stressful ambience and of being located in your own space. This does not mean to read or look at television, but be disconnected of the daily world. This will serve to obtain balance internally, to find the peace inside”, says the specialist.
— How can the people face the stress in these difficult times?
“ The first thing is to take perspective. Other is that it is necessary to assemble the proper resources that are had to have a better understanding of the real position of the person opposite to the situation, be already financial, moral or socially, between other things. Third, it is necessary to do something to promote some new level of balance that allows him to face the situation. Remember that we all are in the same, and this crisis is global. She is not an only one person the one that is in this”.
— What are the benefits of a good mental condition?
“ The most obvious is that the mental flexibility increases. This means that the person is not rigid, a boss is not forced. On the contrary, it is comfortable where it is that it meets, in the work, in the house, friends, strangers. Namely it is not anxious, is neither nervous nor angry. One of the best things that are achieved by a good mental condition is that the person does not get angry and does not irritate others. It neither offends it nor is offended. Not estresa not estresa. Finally, there becomes stronger the natural aptitude of the person to treat with the life, to adapt itself. If the persons go to my website it can find advices to achieve it [www.JohnRyderPhD.com].
— Why do the people lose the mental flexibility?
“ The people estresa because this is our nature. This is the form in which the body works and is ten times more probable than us estresemos that we are relaxed and comfortable. One of the things that we must do is to try to change this nature. But practically every man woman and child was born fearfully, pain and anger. One must not learn that, but yes it must learn to be resilientes and electric cords”.
— What another advice can it deliver?
“ One of other things that is well important to do is to have faith. This means that it is created in itself and in something bigger than one himself. If the people believe, what is that it is spending that it is worrying or bad, the persons can have the faith that they will survive and that somehow the things will improve. This faith is well important and it is something that can be religious, spiritual or personal, but I him advise to the persons who should look for this faith. These are the times in which now it can help the people”.
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| Overcoming the fear to gain him the battle to the bosom cancer |
For mayte Prida
Spokeswoman of the program PPA of Phrma
There are small the illnesses of that we are afraid more than to the cancer. From the diagnosis up to achieving the recovery, the cancer brings with it frightening thoughts that go from the death, the surgeries, up to the alopecia. But the fear can be so dangerous as the cancer itself. The fear paralyzes us and can us prevent to obtain the medical examinations that we need and that potentially save lives. There are those who prefer to live in the ignorance to face a cancer diagnosis and it must not be like that. Every human being needs to know that a hope exists.
For someone who is facing the bosom cancer, as I did it, the hope is a line of life to be continued to have a good time of a better tomorrow across a treatment, a priest. The hope is for everything that one that it faces to the cancer – patients, his friends and relatives, survivors, since the struggle against the cancer is a team work. October is the month of creating conscience about the bosom cancer with the hope of some day, no person faces again this terrible illness a poor recovery prognosis.
In the Hispanic community, the hope to gain him the battle to the bosom cancer is very special. The bosom cancer is the most common diagnosis and the cause number one of death between the women of our community in accordance with the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). That's why it is very important that the women we do the car to ourselves monthly examination and mamografías you will regulate in accordance with the indicated for his doctors. Nobody knows our better than bodies we ourselves and a simple car examination can show us an aberration called cancer. While earlier it is, more probabilities of keeping on living exist. The mamogramas – x-rays of the bosom - are the best way of knowing if some person has bosom cancer because they can reveal the cancer existence when it even is so small that neither you nor his doctor could feel.
To overcome the fear hopefully is particularly critical for the survivors of cancer of bosom. Nowadays we exist 2.5 million survivors of cancer of bosom in the United States, in accordance with the American Society of the Cancer (American Cancer Society). I am lucky to be one of them. As surviving, living knowing that some day the cancer can return but I do not spend my time worrying about what will be. On the contrary, I am concentrated in really living through the life to plenitude. The foundation Susan G. Komen recommends that the survivors we must return to the things that we were usually doing – inclusive if more time of the thought-out one takes us - since he helps that to feel better. I can say that supporting a healthy life style that includes a good diet and habitual exercises, as well as car monthly examinations and examinations of pursuit, helps to them to your body and to your mind.
More that never, the medicines have also the power to provide hope to the cancer patients. A recent survey done by Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) revealed that 750 medicines exist for the treatment of the cancer, including 90 for the bosom cancer, in development. For the treatment of the cancer of bosom it can help one of the medicines to that the chemotherapy is more effective on having reduced the quantity of a type of protein in the carcinogenic cells. In my personal case the chemotherapy was my stage of more difficult struggle.
The patients who need help to gain access to his medical prescriptions for the bosom cancer and other conditions can come to the Society for the Assistance in the Prescriptions (Partnership for Prescription Assistance). From his throwing in April, 2005, the Society for the Assistance in the Prescriptions (PPA) has helped to get connected to more than 5 million patients needed from programs that provide medicines free or almost free. For major information, the patients can call to 1-888-4PPA-NOW or to visit the Internet page www.pparx.org.
This month, while we remember those that gained and lost the battle against the bosom cancer, we must get over to the fear to find the hope to one new treatments that could help to save lives, focused on the remedy of the cancer forever.
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| The illnesses that the climate change will bring |
Writing / agency
Washington Hispanic
The consequences of the greenhouse effect in the bosses of the climate, with the possible increase of the temperatures and the rains, can serve to virus, bacteria, parasites and mosquitoes, between others, to cause problems to part of the world population. For it, we present eleven illnesses that can show a rise due to the climate change.
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| The tuberculosis fond of 10 million persons in the world. |
In simple terms, ‘climate change‘ is understood like the direct modification of the attributed climate or by implication to the human activity that alters the composition of the world ambience, as the Convention defined it Marco de Naciones Unidas on the topic.
The effects that the climate change will have in the planet are still still to be seen, but clearly there will be a challenge for the humanity.
In this regard, the possible increase of the temperatures and the rains they can serve to virus, bacteria, parasites and mosquitoes, between others, to affect every time more people.
For the same, the International Union for the Nature conservation (IUCN, for his acronym in English) spread a list with the pathogenic organisms that would damage both the health of human beings and of animals and the world economy.
In the list they appear from the tuberculosis or the red tides up to others less known as the sleeping sickness. “The best defense is a good offensive: monitorear the wild life to detect how are you illnesses they develop so that the medical professionals could prepare to mitigate the impact”, wrote the authors of the report.
Next, we present eleven illnesses that the climate change will bring.
Fever of the Vale Rift
It is a question of an illness caused by a virus that was identified for the first time in 1931 in a farm of the Vale of Rift, in Kenya. The human being is transmitted by the contact with blood or organs of infected animals or by mosquitoes. In 2000 they were confirmed out of the African continent (in Saudi Arabia and Yemen), and one is afraid of his spread towards other areas of Asia and to Europe.
Tuberculosis
Fond of 10 million persons in the world. Also to animals as the lions and buffaloes of the National park Kruger, in South Africa. The climate change might favor the contact between the cattle and the wild animals. As a result, the tuberculosis would increase.
Sleeping sickness
The cause a parasite that is a relative of the one that produces the Chagas illness. It is a question of an evil that it affects more to areas of the sub-Saharan Africa. For the change of the climate, the distribution of the fly might be modified tsé-tsé, that is the one that transmits the parasite.
Red tides
These excessive microseaweed proliferations in the estuaries or the sea generate toxins that are dangerous for the marine animals and for the human beings. “The temperature changes will have, undoubtedly, an impact, at the moment unpredictable, in this phenomenon of the nature”, he made sure the report of the UICN.
Yellow fever
Not long ago there was a sprout of this illness in Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, provoking several deaths. This fever is transmitted by mosquitoes, which also they make ill to the monkeys. The mosquitoes populations might grow for the increase of the temperatures.
Virus Ébola
It is contagious generally for being in contact with the corporal fluids of someone already infected or with sick monkeys. It kills easily persons, gorillas and chimpanzees. Priest does not exist. For the changes of the rainy seasons, the Ébola sprouts in Africa would be more frequent.
Babebiosis
It is produced by the sting of the tick, which transmits a protozoan that is called Babesia and is capable of producing the death in human beings. Although his distribution area was limited, today it is affecting more the lions in Africa, and is turning into an illness that is in the persons in Europe and in North America.
Illness of Lyme
It received this name because it was identified for the first time in Lyme, Connecticut, the USA, in the 70s. His symptoms are similar to the flu and it is accompanied of an eruption. The cause a bacterium that is transmitted by the ticks stings. Since the temperatures will increase, it is possible that also the ticks extend his distribution.
Rage
It is one of the illnesses that affects the poorest. It produces a bacterium, which is transmitted by the water and the food. On having increased the temperatures of the waters, it is possible that there grows also the incidence of the cholera, which provokes diarrheas and up to the death.
Parasites
They are transmitted across aquatic ambiences. The changes in the sea level and the temperatures will do that many of the parasites survive more time and this way they might infect a major number of populations in the world.
Pest
It is one of the most ancient illnesses of which knowledge is. It cost the life of 20 million persons. The cause a bacterium that is transmitted by the rodents bite. When these animals skimp, the bacterium fond of the human beings. If the climate change affects to the rodents and to his geographical distribution, also it will change the distribution of the infection.
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| Because I think that the obama proposal can help to improve the health of the Latin Americans |
For Dr. Raul Perea-Henze
Checking the proposals to reform the system of health of two candidates for the Presidency, I impress myself the plan of Senator Obama therefore I think can generate a very positive impact for the Hispanics. Like group, we have the highest persons valuation without medical insurance, almost a third part of the Latin Americans are without coverage - 14.7 millions of the whole of 45.7 million persons in the United States without medical insurance (I register 2008).
For this reason, I access to health services and cultural bosses who do not promote to look for medical care until it is not absolutely necessary, we are slow to look for prevention services, what it takes to late diagnoses of chronic illnesses, with more expensive treatments and more unsatisfactory results.
To assure that more persons should have health coverage, is, in my opinion, the most important factor in politics that will have the biggest impact on the state of health of the Latin Americans since it is the best way of assuring access to medical services and medicines. A recent report of "Commonwealth Fund" (October 2, 2008), indicates that the Obama plan will give coverage to 34 million 67 million persons without insurance projectadas in the next 10 years, compared with the plan of McCain that will cover only 2 millions of persons. Since the Obama plan projects a wider coverage for those without insurance in the United States, as it appears, this plan owes, from my point of view to be priority for the Hispanic community. Apart from having the highest persons valuation without coverage, any more children Latinos any more than 3 millions are not covered either. The Obama plan needs that all the age minors have coverage and expands the definition of those that are eligible for the programs of Medicaid and (state) SCHIP, protecting this way the future of our communities.
The Obama approach in preventive services and of public health, he adds also major perspectives to improve the state of health of the Hispanics. In accordance with another recent, this report of "Pew Hispanic Center" (August 13, 2008), more of the fourth one part of all the adult Hispanics in the United States does not have a regular doctor.
Those who do not have a system of regular health are included by a quite diverse group, like the men, the young people, those with less education, which do not have coverage of medical insurance, adjusted of school preparatory, the born in the United States, and still any with medical insurance. A tall number (41 %) of those who answered to a survey of the Center Pew mention that the principal reason for not having a family doctor is "because hardly ever they are sick".
If we have interest to improve our health level, we must begin concentrating in changing this mentality and standard of behavior between the Latin Americans. It is in our benefit to come and to look for prevention services and in accordance with this plan, when it exists coverage must eliminate an important barrier, and not wait to see the alone doctor when we feel sick. Certainly, you fracture, infections and other emergencies need rapid access, but annual medical examinations and examinations of routine of eyes, teeth, cancer and other illnesses prevalentes in our community like the diabetes, can prepare a more advanced illness and other complications.
The Obama plan includes different models of preventive programs across the work places and schools and increases the investment in the training of more medical personnel and giving funds for community programs and progress to the system of public health. Also, the plan provée funds for programs for veterans across his system of hospitals that includes medical services and of mental health, so that our veterans could have access to the best services on having returned from the military service, and of for life. They will have access to services of high quality and the Hispanic veterans must take their advantage also. All these measurements are very important to give to the Latin Americans a message of prevention and attention it medicates.
The target to diminish the cost of the system of health of the plan of Obama and to improve the quality level of the services has also a lot of importance to promote a positive impact in the health of the Latin community.
Specially, improving access to programs of handling of illnesses and services of prevention they can have impact in the disadvantages that the Hispanic community presents in health. Information, education and confidence are the most important factors in determining as we take care of our health. There are effective models in diabetes, asthma, cardiovascular system, obesity and depression - illness much prevalentes in nustra community – that answer to these factors and that can improve the health of the Hispanics.
For all these reasons, I think that the plan of health of Obama can have a very positive impact and can improve the health of the Latin Americans and of the country in general. It is necessary to change our mentality of one who promotes to cover the alone doctor in an emergency, to other one of continuity in the relation with our health system … in a way very similar to having a family doctor and to chatting continuously with the “property development companies of health” and coming to health fairs. Otherwise, the Latin Americans as group will keep on suffering illnesses still with a medical insurance in his hands.
Dr. Raul Perea-Henze is a specialist in the area of public health and he has been a constant taxpayer to the newspaper of Washington Hispanic and to the Hispanic means on matters of the health.
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