Nutrition and health: dummy beliefs

Statements exist about the health or on the nutrition that you/they are inculcated you from small to one that you/they don't really have any logical reason. You are about myths broadcasted from the antiquity that are sometimes almost impossible to differ of the truth, but that they are erroneous.

To "use glasses weakens the eyes"
It can be that the view of a person that use glasses is worsening, but that is an age question, not of use of glasses! The experts say that if one doesn't go very closely when reading a book or to make a work that require to look from a short distance, the eye you try to adapt to that necessity. But for it, the view should carry out a very big effort. The glasses achieve the same thing, without necessity of forcing the eye. If one prescribes you glasses to the patient to correct your vision, this finds you easier to see. But then, if the patient tries to see without them, you perceive that effort as if you were a great load and you accuse from this to the glasses. But these are not the true cause.

To "shave is made that the body hair grows more thick, darker and quicker"
The color and the thickness of the body hair are a hereditary question. The body hair is only compound for dead cells and let us make that we make, you won't react in another way. Then, what do you feed this myth? When a girl shaves the legs for the first time, the body hair is uneven and with the very thin tips. When you grow again, after first o'clock shaved, it can seem denser and more abundant because you have been cut in form couple but, in fact, you grow in the same way.

"The coffee cushions the effects of the excess of alcohol"
If we give you brown to a drunkard, what do we achieve? That you remain very awake, but the intoxication is only treated allowing some hours to happen. The body metabolizes a vessel of alcoholic drink in one hour. The caffeine doesn't help in anything to reestablish the mental control and normal physique, because the level of alcohol in the blood continues being the same one. The intoxication symptoms persist until the body metabolizes the alcohol.

"If I eat vegetables in one hour I will already be hungry
That makes that one feels satisfied they are not the calories, but the quantity of food in the stomach. The vegetable origin or animal of a meal doesn't have anything to do with the fact of being satiated. Then, from where does that belief come? You happen that if one ingests a meal with high content of fat, the sensation of hard satiety more, because the slow fat more in being digested and you remain for more time in the stomach.

"If you starts a white hair, three grow more"
If you take off a white hair, you exit a white hair again. Each hair is born of a single follicle piloso I insert in the skin, and those that he/she are made to one of them don't have any effect on the other ones. Anything of those that make, as for starting hair refers, you will change the quantity of white hair that you/they grow again. On the other hand, the appearance of white hair has to do with a genetic load and in them there is a narrow relationship with the inheritance.

"The form of the reflective potbelly of a pregnant one the baby's" sex
Not no connection exists between the form of the potbelly and the baby's sex. Then, why do some mothers have the most circular and other, but pointed potbelly? In the primerizas, the potbelly spreads to be more circular than that of the other mothers, because the fetus takes more in being located in the pelvis.

Hypertension. Ways to limit the usage of sodium

According to the experts, the sodium (causing fundamental of the hypertension), almost enters to the diet without we notice it through the processed foods. Next, we propose you some advice to keep in mind.

- To modify the habit of adding salt to the foods during or after the cooking.

- To privilege the usage of fruits and fresh vegetables.

- To read the labels of breads and other packaged products well and to buy those "first floor in sodium."

- If you drink mineral water, to choose those that contain less than 10 mg for liter.

- To have caution since with the "dietetic" products this classification is not synonymous of "free of sodium."

- You are important to carry out medical queries of prevention instead of hoping we suffer a problem cardiológico.

But... where is the salt?

The human beings need certain quantity of salt to maintain a normal operation of the organism; but this dose is covered with the contribution of water and natural foods. Let us see some examples:

1 apple = 1 mg of sodium

1 slice of bread = 130 mg of sodium

90 g of chicken to the oven = 86 mg of sodium

90 g of fried chicken = 500 mg of sodium

1 spoonful of sauce of soy = 1.330 mg of sodium

1 spoonful of salt = 2.130 mg of sodium

The power supply of the baby

If you are not any problem to carry out it, the power supply for breastfeeding is the healthiest for the baby and also, you believe an affective powerful link between him and your mom. The direct contact with the mom's skin helps to the development of the newly born one.

You are very important also that the baby embraces with your mouth the nipple and good part of the areola. The time of suckling should extend approximately during 15 minutes for chest, with a frequency of three hours between suck and suck (this is not strict). If the small one wants to follow succionando, even when you have finished feeding with the two chests, perhaps (it can be given from 30 to 60 ml of boiled water and cooled) enjoyment with the only succionar act or you be thirsty.

The breast milk shortcoming is not very frequent. However, the pediatrician (who will frequently check the increase of weight) will say if the quantity is enough or if you need to add you bottles. A fact that serve as reference is that the baby should usually wet between 6 and 8 daily diapers.

If you are necessary that the baby feeds with bottle, the pediatrician's instructions should be continued according to the quantities.

You are also to have the baby's higienizado (with water boiling) team in the cooler, with the clean tetinas face down inside the baby bottle. To prepare the milk, you are to use the suitable measures and to even the powder with a knife. More quantity of powder should never be added because you would concentrate the milk, what can be dangerous. You should finally always become agitated the mixture until they are not lumps, and to control the hole of the tetina.

The power supply and the sexuality

What relationship are you between the power supply and the sexual health?

In the last years, to think of treatments for the sexual problems, you were to think exclusively of drugs. Indeed, they are indispensable in many cases and some of them with spectacular results. But they are potentialized in significant form when, besides your ingestion, you are added a régime or dietetic programa that it allow to control the weight, to tune the silhouette, to download the figures of cholesterol. The call cellular" "nutrition allows a maximum use of the managed medication, an increase of the energy and also, a significant reduction of the values (after a prudential time) of the quantity of incorporate medicines.

Today you are known that the fat tissue is considered by the World health organization like an organ, desperso for the whole body, and that hormonal substances that are "antierógenas", antieréctiles and antiorgásmicas take place. Of there the importance of the complete power supply, saciable and beneficial for the health.

In The last decades, a group of investigators makes a physical analysis of the foods, that which determined your classification in seven types, of different features one of the other and indispensable each one for the good health maintenance. Unfortunately, due to the civilization and to your technological advances, we also ingest several types of altered energy that it interfere with the vital processes, modifying them and dostorcionándolos. Also, they don't only exercise a chemical contamination, but rather tanbién "dirties" the diverse energy levels.

To understand better ésto, we will make a brief resume: the font of vital energy for all the alive beings is the sun. When your light crosses a crystalline prism, the phenomenon of decomposition of the same one takes place in seven different energy bands that we identify for your color and that we all know with the rainbow name. We need the solar energy in your entirety, and to take advantage of it there is in our body seven energy structures with different features one of the other, specific each one for each band of solar spectrum. A structure, in turn, is the one in charge of giving your energy type to the group of organs and systems that are low your dependence and with which you/they will work under good conditions. To clarify it better, let us take the example of a fabricated motor for certain type of fuel. If you receive it, you will work well; if you are put another that don't correspond you, you will begin to fail at one time more or less prolonged until finally it will be ruined. With us it happens something similar. To the end of a time, they appear functional minimum alterations that, if the composition of the diet doesn't change, they follow prograsando until the damage is bigger, being able to make even anatomic and, in consequence, more serious.

As for the pollutants to avoid, they are several that is: the tobacco plant as much for the smoker as for the one that you don't smoke and you breathe the produced fume. The marijuana the same as the tobacco plant and the smog in all the cities that have it. The addiction drugs. The chemical preservatives, so much those that are used in the foods packaged as the dyes, edulcorating agents, saborizantes and perfuming chemists, pesticides and fertilizers. As for the detergents, you are to rinse the china quickly and to use of preference the biodegradable ones.

You are Fat? Do You Want to Lose Weight? Healthy Power Supply

The growing concern to follow an equilibrated diet to prevent illnesses and the alarming cult to the thinness has propitiated that we worry about issues related with the power supply more and more.

This great interest has allowed that erroneous beliefs that confuse people that want to stay in weight or to lose some kilo, since too often food arise you are given to ideas on nutrition that you/they lack scientific rigor. The myths around the power supply proliferate especially in these dates, for what are the moment to clarify some alcoholatura concepts.

The energy of the foods
Many people include the foods in two groups: those that put on weight and those that don't put on weight. This simplistic classification lacks nutritional foundation and it can cause that we follow an inadequate diet.
The human organism obtains energy of the distributed macronutrientes (hydrates of carbon, proteins and fat) in a heterogeneous way in the foods. Our body needs energy to carry out the vital features: the nervous system works with electric energy, the muscular one with mechanics, the thermal energy regulates the corporal temperature and with chemical energy it is possible to obtain different molecules. These energy types take place in the organism starting from the substances chemical constituentes of the macronutrientes by means of metabolic complex reactions. The energy value of the nutrients and, therefore, of the foods that control them it expresses in Kilocalories (Kcal), since during the metabolism heat was generated.

All the foods except the water contribute energy, unless they stay in the plate. An energy for if alone you don't have capacity of to put on weight or not to put on weight. The energy value of a concrete energy or a plate is determined by the content in macronutrientes of the energy or of the plate, and for the quantity that the person consummates throughout the day or habitually. The key: to eat of everything in an equilibrated way and in the appropriate proportions.

Foods that put on weight

The bread puts on weight: DUMMY

You are the typical sentence of who start for onés account to diet. You are also said that the pasta, the rice, the vegetables or the potatoes put on weight, when you are not this way. All these foods provide hydrates of carbon, the nutrients that the organism requires in more quantity and that they should suppose between 50% and 55% of the total of calories of the diet. You exist the erroneous belief that the hydrates of carbon put on weight. Your caloric value is of 4 Kilocalories for gram, as that of the proteins, while that of the fats is of 9 Kilocalories for gram. To equality of weight the fats contribute more calories, that is to say, the rich foods in fats are caloricer than the rich foods in hydrates of carbon.
And we don't double-cross ourselves: in many cases what raise the calories of the bread is the accompaniment (butter, inlaid, bacón, cheeses, etc.), most rich foods in fat.

The fruits like the banana, the figs, the cherries and the grapes, put on weight: DUMMY

These fruits contribute more calories for each 100 grams than others as the apple, the orange, etc., for that that taking less quantity, the contribution of calories is similar to that of an apple or orange medians.
For 100 grams:
banana: 85 kcal;
grapes: 65 kcal;
figs: 66 kcal;
cherries: 60 kcal.
other fruits: 30-50 kcal.

Any fruit puts on weight taken after eating: DUMMY

A fruit contributes the same calories or after the foods. If you take before you produce satiety, since it contains fiber. The order in that the foods are ingested doesn't influence in the total of daily calories, although yes it can affect to the digestion of the same ones.

The water taken in the food puts on weight: DUMMY

The water doesn't contribute energy, because you don't contain macronutrientes. Therefore, you don't put on weight although you take before, during or after the foods. If you drink before eating it can cause satiety sensation and this way to avoid the usage of other foods. To take a lot of water during the foods can make that the digestion is more dilatory because they are diluted in her the gastric juices.

The keynote and the bitter put on weight less than other sodas: DUMMY

In spite of your acrid flavor, those two drinks contain a quantity of sugar (90 grams for liter the keynote and up to 135 grams for liter the bitter) that you are to keep in mind if diets hipocalóricas are continued. The keynote, besides the common ingredients, contains extracts of fruits and a petty quantity of quinine. The composition of the bitter is similar to that of the keynote, although you possess less quinine and more sugar. The acrid vegetable extracts confer you certain share aperitiva and digestive. A can (33 cl) of keynote and of bitter they provide some 120 and 180 Kilocalories, respectively.

The hydrates of carbon and the proteins cannot unite in the same food: DUMMY

Practically all the foods are a mixture of hydrates of carbon, proteins and fat, for what are not logical to separate some foods of other when your own composition is a complex mixture. The man's digestive system is prepared to carry out the digestion of the most varied mixture of foods. Only in having determined circumstances (for example, in the event of submitted to the insulin), it can be more effective to split the contribution of nutritious in having determined moments of the day. Nevertheless, this decision corresponds the nutritionist that will take it after a dietetic detailed studio that will include the clinical pertinent analyses.


Foods that don't put on weight (or that they help to lose weight)

The integral foods don't put on weight: DUMMY

The integral foods contribute more fiber than the refined ones, but the composition in the remainder of nutrients you are similar. That is to say, to equality of weight they contribute the same calories. The interesting of the fiber is that you improve the intestinal transit, you contribute to reduce the levels of glucose and cholesterol of the blood and you prevent illnesses like the cancer. You seek advice to include in the diet integral products for these reasons, but I don't eat method to reduce calories.

The olive oil doesn't put on weight: DUMMY

The olive oil, the same as the remainder of oleums, contributes 9 calories for gram, so much if you waste away raw or cooked, for what should control your usage in the event of excess of weight. A soup (10 grams) tablespoon of oleum (olive, sunflower, corn.) contributes 90 Kilocalories. Care when seasoning salads.

The foods light help to lose weight: DUMMY

The foods light contribute less quantity of calories that your equivalent one normal if you take the same quantity, but that doesn't mean that they are good to lose weight.
Many products light continue being caloric for your own nature, because good part of your ingredients is fat necessary for your elaboration, to confer you your flavor, texture. Examples of this are the mayonnaise light, the potatoes fried light or the paté light that should waste away with a lot of moderation because they continue being very caloric in comparison with other foods non light.
And you are that if we revise the label we can check that not all the products light are as slight as they seem. According to the regulatory scheme, the requirements that it should complete an energy to be qualified light are: that you have reference products in the market (whole milk and skimmed milk, mayonnaise and your homologous light.) that the reduction in value of the energy value is as minimum of 30% regarding the reference product and that in the labeling, besides mentioning the percent of reduction in value of calories, you appear your energy (for 100 grams or 100 milliliters) value and that of the reference energy, including if you want you, the energy value for portion.

The Sex Determines the Food

A studio carried out in 14.000 Americans determined that they prefer the flesh and the shellfish, while they lean for the fruits, vegetables and yogurts

WASHINGTON (AFP).- One of the biggest surveys that have been made lately about human health, determined in your first conclusions that men and women differ in your dietary habits.

The first prefer the flesh, while they opt for the fruits and the vegetables, according to an alimentary realized studio between May of 2006 and April of 2007 among 14.000 American adults.

The differences in the alimentary preferences of the two sexes have been on in evidence in the first survey carried out by the nutritional organization Foodnet, a network of surveillance of illnesses related with the foods.

"We have picked up such a variety of data that we consider interesting to see if they really existed differences between men and women as regards power supply", the physician explained to Beletshachew Shiferawa, epidemiologist and main author of this work, entered in the International Conference on Infectious Emergent, celebrated Illnesses this month in Atlanta.

Alimentary habits. "This is, as we believe, the realized biggest studio on the differences of alimentary habits between men and women", added. To the entrants they were asked what they habitually ate, included the usage of foods of risk, as flesh little cooked.

These investigators have discovered that the men prefer, with more frequency, to consume flesh, mainly of veal, pig and duck, as well as certain shellfish, as oysters and shrimps.

On the other hand, the women more frequently choose the vegetables, mainly carrots and tomatoes. They also have a marked inclination for the fruits, mainly strawberries, apples, blueberries and raspberries

The women also prefer the dry fruits, as the almonds and the nuts. On the contrary that the men, are also attracted by you the eggs and the yogurts.

Eat of risk. On the other hand, the investigators observed which your behavior was before six alimentary products with risk of producing some infection. This way, they had to choose among not very cooked hamburger, raw or not very cooked eggs, raw oysters, milk without pasteurizing, cheese also made of milk without pasteurizing and alfalfa buds.

The men with balance of probabilities would eat not very cooked hamburger and raw eggs, while the women that the women prefer the alfalfa buds.

According to the experts that carried out this studio, the results can be important for the inspectors of Sanity since when understanding the alimentary differences between men and women, he/she can help to create healthy new strategies.

The fruits and vegetables are the favorite of the women when establishing an alimentary diet

The roasted one is one of the favorite foods of the men, while the fruits and vegetables, of the women

Old-age - The Third Age

The maximum duration of the life in the mammalias is on or about the sextuple of the period of increment, that which mean in the man 120 years, since anatomically it is given had concluded the increment with the welding of the epíficis of the long bones of the extremities, fact that happen in the the 20 year-old man alredeor. But this is only the theoretical form of defining the maturity. The man generally dies for cancer or other illnesses.

All ésto takes to that different authors have your respective conclusions about the determination of the period of the old-age, but in all ways it is patent that you are not convenient to be axiomatic in this issue. The involución sometimes begins to ages very different, even for individuals subject to the same conditions of life, emotions, power supply, work, etc.
You have also been observed that in many families there is a predisposition to age prematurely and in other, on the contrary, the fenómenoss involutivos makes your appearance belatedly and they reach very advance ages.

They influence in the beginning of the old-age, apart from the incidence in the individual of certain pathologic processes, the interpretation that each person gives to the ageing, as well as the image that subjectively have of the ancianidad.

Excluded the childhood, the mortality that are relatively low among the youths, ascends slowly toward the groups means and you reach the summit between the 65 and the 75 years of age. On the contrary, in the underdeveloped countries, you are an enormous infant mortality and you are a fixed proportion of people that you/they die in each time unit and you give place to some much more smoothed mortality curves.

They are well many the autore that consider that the start of the phenomena of the senescencia has an etiologic take-off in the degenerative processes, of an organ, well of a system.

The alteration in the hormonal secretion of the glands endócrinas, especially your decrease, you have allowed to elaborate diverse hypothesis explaining the lawsuits of the ageing. This way, the atrophy of the sexual glands and the consistent ullage of hormonal secretion was interpreted like lawsuit of the senility.

You were a biologist and Russian surgeon, Voronoff, who at the beginning of the XX century, in a trip for Muslim countries observed the precocious old-age of the eunuchs and your death to early ages; you related these facts with the ablation of your testicles, you conceived the possibility from a therapy substitute inhertando genital glands coming from young primates to aged people, you achieved with it some successes that popularized your theories extraordinarily.
Later on it proceeded also to implant the gland thyroid and the hypophysis at the same time that the genital ones, with that which seemed to come closer more to remedy the bugs that accuse in the hormonal order the aged organism.
You are verified indeed in the senescencia a hipotiroidismo syndrome, with a decrease of the basal metabolism, dry and cold skin, accented sensibility to the cold, dilatory cerebración, memory leak, hypercholesterolemia, etc., that they translate a hipofunción of the thyroid with atrophy of the gland, returning the symptomatology with the implantation of fresh glandular tissue or with the management of the hormone.

Cholesterol

The blood has two types of cholesterol. One of those types is LDL, frequently compound number as bad" "cholesterol. The other type of cholesterol is HDL, also "good called cholesterol." This last help to prevent illnesses of the heart and to delete the bad" "cholesterol of the body. LDL on the other hand, lets that the fat accumulates inside the blood vessels.

If somebody has a lot of LDL, more risk runs of suffering illnesses of the heart. Therefore, it is good to have high HDL and low LDL. If the level of HDL is among 40 or more, it is at a healthy level. If it is in less than 40, he is not.
It is necessary to have present that the organism all the cholesterol that he/she needs to be healthy takes place. The same one arrives to the organism with the foods of high content of saturated (whole milk, lard, cheeses cream, pig fat, vegetable lard, fat flesh, cold cuts, inlaid) fats; and the cholesterol (egg yolk, viscera: liver, brains, kidneys). It is necessary to limit the usage of these foods since with the years the cumulative cholesterol it can clog up the arteries.

It is necessary to maintain the cholesterol to less than 200. if somebody has the cholesterol between 200 and 239, it is in risk and it is necessary that in an urgent way he/she makes changes in the power supply, diminishing the usage of saturated fats and cholesterol. For ésto, it will raise the usage of fruits, vegetables and grains, as well as the physical activity. If the you live them off cholesterol they are in more than 240, the person has a cardiac high risk and you/he/she should consult to her physician in immediate form.

To reduce or to maintain the cholesterol level in normal blood, of debit side to delete the most possible thing, the use of fat of animal origin: the most high and rich font in saturated fats. In such a case, fish will be chosen that is rich in fat desaturadas (omega 3). It will also raise the fiber usage adding to the diet breads, cookies and rice integrals. He/she will also have breakfast a bowl of rich cereal in fiber, preferably oat; and to raise the usage of dry such vegetables as lentils, beans of soy, beans, chickpeas that can be added in salads, soups and stews. It is convenient to add bran of oat in the foods like stews, to thicken and I eat element of union or in the mixture for pancakes.

It is necessary to use milk descremada and to avoid the caffeine, as well as to consume a maximum of two cups of up-to-date coffee and to reduce the usage of sodas queue, chocolate and tea. It is important to include five portions of fruits (with shell when it is possible) or up-to-date vegetables. During the preparedness of flesh, it is necessary to try to delete all the visible fat, and to the chicken to remove him/her the skin before cooking it.
It is advisable also, to include protein of soy in the power supply like part of a low diet in gr4asas and cholesterol. He/she can reduce the risk of cardiovascular illness and it is enough with 25 grs. up-to-date.

It is important the usage of dry fruits for their contribution of set up fat poli. He/she should decrease the calories serving pettier portions and in pettier plates that seem full. Not to chop foods to untimely moment or for pleasure, neither to be served in excess. It is necessary to eat slowly and to reduce the usage of alcoholic drinks. It should not be bought worthless nutritional products by temptation and less to try to take them to the homestead.

It is necessary to know that the changes in the cholesterol induced by the diet begin to the 3 or 4 weeks and they remain stable while the diet is continued. It should be controlled that the children don't abuse of the goodies, fast food, and industrial bollería. It is necessary to teach them to consume fruits in their school snacks. It is not about prohibiting, but of educating in a healthy and equilibrated power supply that he/she will help them to transform into healthy adults.