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As its name the 2,000-calorie diet is a daily intake of this amount of calories. In general it is close to the amount of calories a person consumes per day. However, the difference is that the diet of 2,000 calories is focused mainly on fruits, vegetables, nuts and other food nutrients that contain saturated fats.

This diet keeps us healthy and energetic. Also enables us to keep our current weight. In general a diet of 2,000 calories can be applied two servings of fruit consumed seven servings of grains, eight servings of vegetables, three servings of milk, eight servings of meat and legumes. Read the rest of this entry »

The twins are the posterior muscles of the legs above the calf. To achieve strong and stylish twins have some exercises to twins. But for that we must be consistent and must be combined with other exercises aerobics.

Do not forget to stretch and warm up the muscles before training. The diet is also something to be taken into account, and it is recommended to do all these exercises for twins to achieve full development of the muscles.

These exercises are very easy for twins to practice at home, but it is advisable to train two or three times a day, no more than three days per week. We have to give rest to the muscles and never exercises two days in a row. Read the rest of this entry »

The blood circulation is an important property of the human body works. If you’d like all your body organs are working properly, then a good circulation is necessary. If it is not as good as it should can cause several health problems such as asthma, blood pressure, anemia and diabetes.

So after the jump will give you all the options you have for increasing blood circulation and therefore good health.

There are many ways but one important thing is to exercise , which does not always mean going to the gym, you may be walking every day, or any aerobic exercise, going to yoga , Pilates, sex, whatever you want. Read the rest of this entry »

High blood pressure refers to the state where the pressure or tension that makes our blood on the walls of the arteries is higher than normal. Headaches, dizziness and blurred vision often are some of the symptoms that identify hypertension, and knowledge is essential to prevent the severity of the problem.

The pressure has two values, the minimum, also known as diastolic pressure and the maximum or systolic pressure. A normal blood pressure value is less than 130 over 85. When we hypertension is diagnosed, it is important to recognize the factors that may be altering this state, so that in the same way, we can begin to combat it. Read the rest of this entry »

Cerebro Vascular Accident (CVA) or stroke is a vascular disease with degenerative consequences affecting the brain arteries that reach the brain.

Because even stroke, nerve cells (neurons and glia) of the brain are starved of oxygen and nutrients and lose their function, appearing box half-body paralysis, slurred speech, coma, etc.

The LCA is divided into two groups: ischemic (lack of blood) or bleeding.

In the first case there is an obstruction to the passage of blood to the brain.

In other cases, what occurs is the rupture of a cerebral artery (for aneurysms or hypertension). Intracerebral hemorrhage occurring abroad can not be released because the brain is enclosed in the skull bone.

Thus the blood as soft pressing, the brain, causing lack of oxygen to the area and the subsequent tissue injury (cerebral ischemia).

Many of our patients in consultation, are afflicted with this silent disease, hypertension. But the disease also has several types, sometimes we do not distinguish, here I leave this small classification:

1 .- Idiopathic hypertension (essential tell) is the most common type, most often in men than in women. The cause is not specified, has to do to many factors all of which give the disease.

2 .- Hypertension flashing occurs only in certain circumstances, when visiting the doctor, or to an emotional stress or exercise. These patients have a high probability of later hypertension and more pronounced.

3 .- Isolated systolic hypertension: Systolic blood pressure is high, while the diastolic pressure is normal (less than 90 mmHg), is characteristic in the elderly.

4 .- Borderline hypertension: defined as elevated blood pressure but not in range of hypertension. Usually these patients are in a state of transition in developing essential hypertension.

5 .- Malignant hypertension is a medical emergency where the pressure may rise usually greater than 180/120 mmHg. It relates to damage to other organs and loss of intravascular volume.

Unexplored effects of high blood pressure is the silent blockage of small blood vessels in the brain, which, in just five years, is able to reduce by 20% functions such as memory, language or orientation.

Is that hypertension is responsible for 70% of those mini-stroke (CVA), which may cause injury to only 1.5 cm. Also known as lacunar infarcts or subcortical, occur when a small vessel is obstructed lesion. If not caught in time can cause dementia and paralysis. Read the rest of this entry »

The medicine is going through a path that is focusing on treating Alzheimer’s in a way that is unprecedented. The effects and characteristics of this disease have been reason enough for some researchers to consider a variant of diabetes, which could identify possible treatments available treatments we know to treat diabetes. Read the rest of this entry »

Already identified 38 genes associated with type 2 diabetes, after the discovery of 12 more by an international consortium of scientists led by Professor Mark McCarthy of the University of Oxford.

To find these 12 new genes related to type 2 diabetes, which serve to detect early susceptibility to type 2 diabetes and to find new drugs, we compared the DNA of 8,000 people with type 2 diabetes with 40,000 people without the disease. Once found genetic variations, they were re-buy with 34,000 people with diabetes and more than 60,000 controls. Read the rest of this entry »

The sound of the sea in Salvador de Bahia is charming and invites two possible outcomes: thinking about anything or think about everything. In the second are those attending the Diabetes Summit Latin America, which began a few days ago and is expected as a great calling attention to the scourge of this chronic disease that affects only in Argentina two and a half million people.

Pierre Lefèbvre, director of the World Diabetes Foundation (WDF) is the great host of this series of meetings with doctors, epidemiologists and health experts from 34 countries. Flowing hair, his back to the sea that speaks, is categorical: “The status of diabetes in the world is worrying is like a tsunami, and the wave has not reached the top.” Interviewed by Clarín, Lefèbvre account the reasons for this development is not unexpected, but dangerous, especially for countries like ours, where eating habits and physical activity (two risk factors) are not the healthiest. Read the rest of this entry »