Aphrodisiac foods

Certain foods are known to stimulate sexual appetite. The idea that food has aphrodisiac qualities comes from two sources: a) rarity or novelty of a food, such as the potato was first brought to Europe, or when imported ginseng, and b) the "theory of marks "which assumes that sex can be recovered (or get) to eat foods with characteristics similar to the external sexual organs, such as bananas and oysters.

Some scholars argue in addition that oysters contain zinc, an essential element in the production of testosterone, sex hormone-both men and women.

Lack of appetite in children

Vitamins, calcium and iron are not used to open the desire to eat, as many parents think. For that there are specific drugs that act on the regulator's appetite center, located in the brain.

But they are only recommended when a child has an illness, and must be prescribed by the pediatrician. If you do not eat the small to ensure that parents are awaiting him and make him more cases, stimulants are useless. In such circumstances, the recipe is honey, a little care and patience.

What do you happen if we don't have breakfast?

You are proven that the breakfast has many benefits, but however, the great majority of people fries him for different reasons. You are who argue not to be hungry when they wake up, others sustain that they don't have time and others believe that the fact of not having breakfast is good to get off weight.

The certain thing is that after having passed without ingesting foods for one period, habitually, from 8 at 12 hours, the breakfast is the first fuel for the body. This is fundamental for our brain that feed only of glucose, this doesn't have reservations in the organism, to exception of the liver where the reservation is minimum.

Another of the benefits of having breakfast, is that this avoids that the symptoms of the hypoglycemia like headaches, tremors, concentration difficulty and energy ullage take place. Hence, if one is fried the breakfast, to half tomorrow he/she has anxiety of something sweet, because the body needs urgent glucose. The sweet refined foods, are generally high in fat and first floor in the remainder of the nutrients.

Then, we are substituting an important meal for a less equilibrated collation and with much fatter. For that reason it is so important to have breakfast, you also constitute an ideal opportunity to cover the nutrients that if not, they could not be obtained during the day.

You are good to also highlight that in accordance with several studios, you concluded that people that don't have breakfast are generally irritable, they are tired during the morning; besides possessing a smaller productivity and labor acting or of studio.

Those that have breakfast on the contrary, are not only more enabled and more lucid, but rather they also meet with better spirit and bigger submitted for all type of tasks that you/they are developed in the morning, and during the day.

What to eat among foods?

If you feel the necessity to eat something among foods, make it, but you follow this advice if you want it: you offer that these foods among the foods pricipales belong to the groups of foods that it don't generally include you in your foods. If you eat few fruits and vegetables, you compensate this lack. There are some intelligent proposals of the American Association here of Dietetic:

-Polenta squares, baked and covered with ribbons of red and green pepper.

-Sándwich of bread Arab tuna fill, with mayonnaise light and chopped celery.

-Arróz bread covered with cheese Cheddar.

-Yogurt descremado, with fruits and some integral cereal.

-Bran rolls anointed with cream cheese of low calories and grape raisins.

Do you fatten to stop to smoke?

In a studio published in the magazine Clinical specialized Medicine by Juan Luis Gutiérrez, of Department of Health and Usage, and Fernando Rodríguez, of the Department of Preventative Medicine and Public health of the Stand-alone University of Madrid, shows that the frequency of the obesity is something minor among the smokers. You owe it to that the nicotine increases the energy expense notably.
Gutiérrez and Rodríguez have also observed that, although leaving the tobacco plant causes an increase of weight, mainly in young and in thin people, this effect disappears with the time.

Do you fatten to consume alcohol?
Although you contain seven calories for gram, the alcohol doesn't put on weight, because the energy that contribute to the organism is not usefulness for the cells. Now then, the alcoholic drinks, as the wine, the beer and the brandy, include sugars and other nutritious substances that yes they are metabolized.

To be operated of the obesity

If you surpass in 45 kilograms or you bend the ideal weight, you have been you impossible to lose weight by means of the conventional medical treatments, you are a glutton and, also, you suffer hypertension, diabetes, arthritis or another dysfunction related with the obesity, you are a firm candidate to undergo a surgical intervention to correct your overweight.
"In the decade of the 70, they became very popular the operations called malabsortivas, a surgery type that consisted on crashing the small intestine with the purpose of impeding the absorption of the foods. This practice, already aborted, you have left step to other more up-to-date ones that act on the stomach", Aniceto Baltasar you say, boss of the Service of Surgery of the Virgin Hospital of the Iris, in Alcoy (Valencia), and one of the biggest experts at world level in surgery of the obesity.

The gastroplastia operation or of gastric grapado that consist on creating a small stomach or reservoir, of about 20 cubic centimetres of capacity, and a hardship to your exit, for ralentizar the emptying, is the one that are carried out with more frequency.
"You are 14 forms at least of carrying out it. We have used in 145 patients two variants of the vertical named gastroplastia in band that are the favorite one for all for your simplicity and surety." Baltasar says. "One of them that it are original our, consists on to divide the stomach and to separate completely of him the reservoir."

The current tendency, however, is toward the calls combined operations. "That that here make - Baltasar comments - you are, on one hand, to operate the stomach, to reduce the quantity of ingested food, and, for other, to crash the intestine, with the purpose of reducing the surface of absorption."

Risks of a diet

The tracking of an intermittent and prolonged way régime doesn't delete the kilos of more, but rather he/she can have the counter-effect. Also, an open debate exists among the experts about if the provoked body weight variations for the diets I-me - they are named this way - they constitute significant risks for the organism. You are nutrólogos that affirm that the sporadic régimes increase the risk of suffering metabolic and coronary dysfunctions, diabetes and even premature death. However, others sustain that, invariably, the loss of weight always bears a beneficial effect for the health.
Now then, for lack of conclusive data, all they recommend normal people that try to stay in a stable weight and inside the healthy borders.

Why do you recover the lost weight?

The statistics speak by themselves: the 95 for 100 of people that have lost kilos after following a thinning régime, sooner or later, they undelete them again. In most of the cases, for not saying in all, the culprit is not the obese one, but the own alimentary régime that you are not adjusted or you don't satisfy the patient's necessities. The failure of the diets conceived to obtain beneficial long term results has been reiterated recently by the participant nutrólogos in a meeting organized by the National Institutes of the Health Americans in Bethesda.

But you are still more. A published studio last month of March for Jules Hirsch, of the University Rockefeller of New York, in the scientific magazine The New England Journal of Medicine, confirms that all the people, so much fat as thin, they adjust the metabolism in a natural way to maintain your own weight. In a group formed by 41 volunteers, Hirsch has checked that, when losing weight, our organism ralentiza the usage of calories until in a 15 for 100, and you accelerate it when putting on weight. "The body equalizes your metabolism making that your muscles are more or less effective when burning the energy", Hirsch says. This would explain why the fats find difficult so much to lose kilos, and, what are more surprising, to win them to the thin ones.

Are the fats indispensable for the life?

No. Contrary to the hydrates of carbon and the proteins, the man doesn't need them for your supercivencia except small quantities of certain essential fatty acids.

Now then, the fact that our energy main reservations stay in form of fat - or lipids, as well as you know them to him - and not, for example, of hydrates of
carbon or glúcidos - the energy main substrate of our organism - you obey your magnificent properties. Among them it highlights your energy high value, because the lipids give nine calories that is to say for gram, more than twice as much that the glúcidos.

However, the calories of these last save a slimming high value, in the sense that they contribute alimentary more mass and they satiate the appetite before having devoured too many calories. A studio fact in the University of Colorado indicates that people that follow rich diets in carbohydrates can eat with more freedom without winning weight. Not it happens similar with the fats.

In front of other components of the diet, the fats have the drawback that they are more difficult of absorbing and later on of metabolizing. This is compensated by your insulating great power of the cold and because, when being stored, they occupy less space than, let us put for case, the glúcidos. These are tremendously hydrophilic that is to say that they absorb water and your storage behaves the parallel buildup of liquid, thing that don't happen with the lipids.

Why do we like to consume fat?
All the rich foods in fats leave a flavor and a tactile special sensation in the mouth that you/they make them almost irresistible. On the other hand, you have been detected that you are people that feel a strange attraction toward the foods with fat. Some scientists postulate that this pulsión could be due to the secretion in the serotonin brain and other neurotransmitters.

The risk of being fat

This depends on the fat thing that one are. In the rich countries, where the population enjoys in general of an abundant meal and you follow a sedentary life - today's children is a 40 for 100 less enabled than those of 10 years ago -, the overweight goes accompanied by a heap of pathologies that you/they constitute the main cause of death.

The arteriosclerosis - that is to say, the obstruction and hardening of the arteries -, the hypertension, the heart attack and the diabetes are double frequent ones in the fats. In them they are also fed the drop, the calculations in the blister and the kidney, and, concretely in the obese women, the chest cancer and uterus, the scatter in the menstruation and the infertility.

Due to the overweight that you/they must support, the load articulations, generally ankles, knees and hips, suffer more breaks, artrosis and other damages. When the obese one is lying, the weight of the viscera and the abdominal fat presses the abdomen, what hinder the respiration. This breathing failure can cause the appearance of the illness of Pickwick or syndrome of the sleep apneas that it end up being mortal. Also, the superobesos sleeps restless and they snore. Then, during the day they show a chronic fatigue.

As consequence of the unjust rejection and the discrimination of the society toward the obese ones, these also suffer sometimes psychological serious problems, as depression and low self-esteem.

The last investigations suggest that a modest loss of weight that can oscillate between 10 and 20 kilos (or the 10 for 100 of the body weight) is enough to withdraw the phantom
that some of these wrongs appear.

Does you put on weight when aging?

As we age, and more concretely starting from the 30 years, the physical activity falls and they are unchained a series of hormone changes that you/they cause a slow but unstoppable reduction of the meager muscular mass in benefit of the fats. This moderates the metabolic activity until the end that the ingested foods burn in a less efficient way. Even, during the exercise they wear out less calories. The increase of senile weight is something higher in the women that in the men.

You are fat, as knowing it?

Starting from the height and the weight, you can end up calculating which the ideal weight is. The inferior table, well-known as pointer of the corporal mass or IMC, you allocate to each person, reading from left (height) to right (weight), a number of the 19 at the 40.
For example, if you measure 1,73 meters and you weigh 64 kilos, your IMC is 27. This means that you show up a certain overweight that could not be beneficial for your health. The ideal thing for everybody would be that your pointer doesn't pass of 25, according to the experts.

Society with overweight

In the developed countries, the obesity has transformed into a disturbing phenomenon, due to your pernicious effects for the health. If one keeps in mind that a person is obese when more than a room of your corporal mass you/he/she is formed by fat, then about 200 millions exist in the world of fat. Of them, five millions live in our country. But the figure doesn't seem to stop here.

In the VII International Congress on the Obesity that took place at the end of last year in the Canadian city of Toronto, the nutritionists alerted that in the last decade the number of people with excess of weight had increased a 30 for 100 in the industrialized countries. For example, in United States, where you are considered that you are 58 millions of rounded, the mature population has won in the last ten years a stocking of 3,5 kilos for person. And what are even worrying: the overweight has begun to affect the children.

The concrete causes of the obesity and of your alarming advance they are difficult to sum up. The inheritance and certain metabolic, hormonal scatter - as the estrogen deficiency and thyroid hormones - and psychological - anoresia and bulimia - they are natural some of the unchaining ones of the overweight. They also play an important role the limitless usage of calories, the abuse of rich foods in fat, the calls diets garbage - pizzas, hamburgers, precocinados - and the exercise ullage. These are some habits acquired by the current society difficult to combat if one keeps in mind that, to give an example, the American children are bombarded annually with 10.000 announcements of greasy, saliferous and sweet foods.

Is the overweight hereditary?

Jeffrey Friedman and your colleagues of the Medical Institute Howard Hughes, of the University Rockefeller, in United States, they have given hunt to a gene that, in your version mutant, you cause a hereditary severe obesity in mice. The team of Friedman has also discovered that one exists similar in the human adipose tissue, the place where the fats are stored. Now then, the scientists ignore if the alterations in this fragment of hereditary material - that is to say, of DNA - they are frequent in the man and if they play an important role in the appearance of the obesity.

The thing gets complicated if one keeps in mind that, at least, 20 genes involved in the godura exist. Only two decades ago it was said among the physicians that "the fats usually have fat dogs, for what are patent that the explanation is not genetic." They were very mistaken: you have been demonstrated that if the two parents show up overweight, the 80 for 100 of the children will suffer it.

The segment of DNA in question, well-known as gene ob, you have been isolated of the chromosome 6 of a stock mutant of mice that it arose spontaneously in the Lab Jackson, in Bar Harbor (Maine), in 1950. These rodents end up weighing three times more than the normal ones and they develop a type of similar diabetes to the non insulinodependiente or of type II that it generally affect old people. The works made during two decades by Douglas Coleman, of the lab before mentioned, they pointed to that the mice mutants had lost a hormone that regulate the obesity. But which? Are you maybe about the same one that synthesize the gene ob? You are not known.

The experts coincide in affirming that what have been baptized as the gene of the obesity should call you the gene of the satiety. The rodent carriers of the version mutant show up a voracious appetite and they take much more time in feeling full. This dissatisfaction could be due to that the gene ob is inactive, for what the hormone antiapetito that he/she inform to the hipotálamo would not take place - area of the brain that contain the control rooms of the appetite - that the body has stored the enough fat. You also fit the possibility that yes you are even manufactured in excess, but, when being about a gene mutado, the hormone would be completely useless.

Council to have a good breakfast

Have you show up these advice so that your breakfast is productive for your health and performance.

- You should take coffee moderately
The coffee has caffeine, the one that stimulate the nervous system and you allow us to be lucid and awake. But you should not be abused of her.

- You are advisable to drink milk
This energy offers us the fundamental proteins for the increment, the scaring of wounds and the formation of hormones and antibodies for the defenses. Also, when possessing calcium, you are good for the development and for the bony maintenance, for the regulation of the cardiac beat and for the nervous transmission. You also avoid the cramps. Also, you are very important for cardiac since allows you not to rise too much the arterial pressure. The match, another component of the milk, is good for the development and for the dental and bony maintenance. You are also good for the production of cellular energy, and you help to the protean synthesis, being part of the cellular membranes. The vitamin A that the milk offers us, is elementary for the formation and maintenance of the skin and to see better at night. Sometimes vitamin D is added to the milk that are ideal for the absorption of the calcium and of the match. The vitamin B2, helps to download the stress and the fatigue, because you participate in the obtaining of energy of the glucose.

- You should be careful with the excess of sugar
The sugar in excess, only offers us quick (without vitamins neither minerals) energy, without possibility of generating reservations of glucose. Hence, we can use edulcorating agent that don't give us calories.

- You are advisable to eat cereals
The bread or the cereals offer us complex hydrates of carbon, fiber (if they are integral) and vitamins of the complex B, what indicate that we don't only have energy, but rather we can also store a little bit to avoid the hunger of the stocking tomorrow.

- Not forget the fruits
The fruits are main since they possess a great content in vitamins and anti-oxidants that prevent illnesses and they allow us to conserve the health.

The children that don't have breakfast

The breakfast prepares the children for the challenges of the whole activity of your day. Those that have breakfast, generally surrender very much more, and they obtain better qualifications that those that don't make it.

The children that don't have breakfast suffer:
- fatigue
- decrease of the concentration capacity
- muscular coordination
- ability to analyze school works.

All ésto, undoubtedly, bears to that the children have a difficult development intellectual.

This energy ullage, produces hunger halfway the morning, what drive them to eat goodies in excess, stops later not to have appetite in the lunch and this way, feel bad dietary habits.

Does your son have the appropriate weight?

In start, you are to define what you mean overweight. This happens, when you exist a bigger weight that the one considered normal for that person.

You are different forms of evaluating the weight of a boy, among them, they are the tables of weight for the age, where the weight is compared from the boy to that age in relation to a population standard. The weight is also evaluated in relation to the size. Another way is by means of IMC (pointer of corporal mass).

In this last case, IMC is calculated in the following way: I weigh in divided kg the height in cm to the square. This method can be carried out starting from the 2 years of age.

An application example: a 6 year-old girl that measure 110 cm and you weigh 25 kg, this is the calculation that you are to make: IMC = 25: (1.1 x 1.1) = 20.6. in this case the result is high for your age.

In the following table, the limiting value is arranged for the overweight:

Age in years male IMC IMC woman
2 18.4 18
3 17.9 17.6
4 17.6 17.3
5 17.4 17.3
6 17.6 17.3
7 17.9 17.8
8 18.4 18.3
9 19.1 19.1
10 19.8 19.9
11 20.6 20.7
12 21.2 21.7

All ésto carries out it the nutritionist or the pediatrician in the clinic, but one should see not only the weight, since it can possess a high weight, but to have a lot of muscle or being of big constitution.

The obesity is an illness that can have genetic or endocrine origin, but you influence that learned in the home very much. If the parents pick and they don't make sport, the children copy the same habits. This carries that the boy gains weight.

Infantile obesity - periods of the development

They exist three periods in the development of the infantile obesity and they are the following ones.

1 - during the gestation and the first year of life

In the pregnancy, the mother should take care of not increasing more than 10 kilos. This doesn't mean you to make a diet hipocalórica. For this reason he/she seeks advice to eat with moderation the four foods of the day. To choose milky for the calcium, flesh for the iron, tuna for the omega3 and vegetables for the folic acid. Also, you are elementary that the future mom makes physical activity during the pregnancy.

As for the baby, you are convenient to give you of suckling until the 5 or 6 months to nurture it appropriately. Also, you are proven that who were fed to chest, they have less overweight than those that you/they were fed with formulas. You are transcendent in this stage to go educating them from your cries and not to give you of suckling otherwise every time that cry, in the future, you will treat your pain eating. In the case of not being able to give you of suckling, an appropriate milk should be chosen to the age and not to add you sugar. You are to also keep in mind that when the baby doesn't want more milk, you should not be insisted so that you end the bottle. This doesn't only avoid that you gain weight, but rather from tiny he/she already knows inwardly when you are hungry and when to say coarse.

2 - during the 5 to 7 years

In the first place, you are important that the boy grows well increasing muscle and diminishing the fat. For that it should be stimulated to carry out physical activity, either games or a sport in particular. You are significant that they are put borders from small. This will benefit the parents and the boy. You are to avoid to prohibit the good and bad foods, because you are the union of the whole diet that make that one is well or not well fed. You should be motivated, taking it to make the purchases with the parents, and to that choose fruits and vegetables. The vegetables and the fruits can be blended with foods that they like. For example, you pasture with vegetables, mashed potatoes with zapallo, sándwich with tuna and tomato, etc. You should remember that the portions should be small and they can choose milky descremados but to avoid the dietetic foods. People that are about controlling the intake of the children with prohibitions and remunerations, make the children not to differentiate the hunger of the appetite.

3 - during the development pubertal or adolescence

In this stage, the boy with overweight can suffer low self-esteem for the jeer of your partners, for that reason always it should be stimulated and to see the positive thing that he has. The family support is main. You are to keep in mind that to lose weight it is necessary to follow a treatment and as all treatment, you leave little by little, carrying out positive changes for a healthier power supply.

Prevention of the overweight in the childhood

The variety, the control in the power supply and the physical activity, they are key in the prevention of overweight.

The childhood is an ideal stage to learn how to eat, to choose the foods appropriately, to sit down correctly in the table with the family, to masticate each mouthful well, and this way to be able to be well nurtured and with energy.

You are who they worry because your children are with overweight and they put them to régime. Not it is necessary to despair, since that indicated is that the boy doesn't download more than 200 grams per week. Equally, each case is particular. Not it is necessary to carry out diets hipocalóricas.

You are momentous in this stage to give the example to the children. If one eats to untimely moments and you don't exercise, that is what the boy goes and you learn.

The children when having a high metabolism download quick of weight, but one should notice more in that grow well that they diminish the fat and increase the muscle. This is achieved stimulating them with activity or games and carrying out a varied diet.

You are to keep in mind that the children, they should almost eat ¼ of the portion of the adults.

You are convenient that the whole family supports the boy, stimulating it and not criticizing it if you ate something of more.

You are good that you know that all ésto is to learn how to eat and not because you are a régime to get off weight.

You are to give you time so that you eat. Not it is necessary to demand you to end the plate or the bottle.

You seek advice to incorporate new (vegetables) foods little by little together with those that the children like it.

You should also register what the boy ate every day, this way him same he can observe and to improve your habits.

Of course that should be capped the goodies completely.

The family support, the dialogue, the physical activity, the daily control of what ate, the input of different types of foods, makes that the development and the boy's increment is normal for your age and you get this way off weight.

How to live more than 100 years

Thomas T. Pearls, Beth's medical geriatrician Israel Deaconess Medical Centers of Boston, United states, you have dedicated these last years to gather information on approximately 1500 Americans that have something in common: all have already turned at least 100 years of age.

Evidently that this whole work has taken to general conclusions that allow us to deduce some reason of the age of these people. They are the following ones:

- In the first place, centennial studied people are usually much healthier of what one could think, because they maintain far to those devastating illnesses until the last years of your lives.

- Most turns out to be exceptionally good in the handling of the stress and in the interaction with other people. Even those that have not never married and they are alone. They are full with good humor and they are very sociable. Basically, they are very happy people and optimists.

- Pearls and your colleagues, they have discovered that these centennials possess a small handful of genes that you/they allow you to arrive to that age. The investigators hope a biotechnology company with which have associated, investigate these genes.

- Although Pearls has met with some fellows that arrive to the 100 years in spite of to smoke and to take a rich diet in fat, for this investigator, these are exactly those in those that one supposes that they really have a spectacular genetic material working.

- On the contrary, the great majority of the fellows studied by Pearls, they have never smoked, few drink in excess and although any diet in particular seems to assure the longevity, the obesity is not part of the life of these people.

- In the years that it take studying the topic, the physician Pearls has found enough curious things. For example that one of each five women that arrive to that age, has had a son at least after the 40 years (only 5% of the women in the general population has children after that age). For this investigator, the late maternity it is a sign that the body is aging very slowly.

- Lastly, Pearls has been able to observe that the longevity is hereditary. You have demonstrated that a person with a brother or sister centennial, almost has five times more possibilities to arrive, at least, to the 91 years. What are not a little.