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the figures for anxiety disorders and depression are increasing rapidly in recent years, statistics indicate that in parallel so do the cases of obesity and overweight. However, anxiety, hunger and depression are directly related to our body through neurotransmitters, which is why people with anxiety and depression incur overweight. Thus, low levels of serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine we produce feelings of anxiety, sadness, insomnia and low desire, promoting fast and eating too much in a small time interval, the uncontrollable craving for sweets, binge night and Eventually, an almost insatiable hunger.

Food anxiety is linked, therefore, to eat, but not only as a way to get energy, but also as a source of pleasure, and therefore many times what is expected to meet a calm state of stress and discomfort, more that the necessary and proper replacement of energy and nutrients. The problem arises when anxiety exceeds certain limits and becomes a health problem.

A person with anxiety food shows a series of symptoms that are not always manifested in public: a frequent snack without feeling hungry, seek comfort in food when feeling sad, angry, lonely or bored, provoked binge to feel painfully full, and Consequently, feelings of shame and guilt.

To solve it we must eat foods that increase serotonin levels as chicken, turkey, fish and eggs, drink more milk and cheese, as well as tofu, soy nuts, but some are rich in tryptophan, omega-3 fatty acids, magnesium and zinc help us to synthesize, such as bananas, legumes, vegetables and wheat germ are also considered natural antidepressants.

Reflexology is based on the existence of reflex areas in the feet that correspond to all glands, organs and body parts, these reflex areas breed in small, like a screen, the status of the person. Thus we find the reflex area of the back that interests us particularly.

How does the back?

- Decreasing stress and muscle tension.

- Improving the blood supply and promoting the unblocking of nerve impulses (particularly in herniated discs).

- Helping the nature of the person to normal and get a better energy balance.

A healthy foot does not hurt, tenderness is warm, resilient and fully irrigated, altered foot is painful and palpation feels like a solid block, hard.

How is it affecting us back to do reflexology?

The body is divided into 10 imaginary lines or zones londitudinales for each finger of the hands and feet, these lines run along the body from head to toes (Do not remember the posterior chain of the “Method Mézières? “). They are like a home electrical wiring, reflexes travel through areas much like electricity through wires do, having nothing to do with the nervous system, reflexes are not nerves.
There are also 4 large horizontal lines that divide the foot and represent areas inside the body, are: head line, diaphragm line, waist line and line of the heel.
With these data and many years of study, has been perfecting a method considered as an ancient Chinese wisdom, although there are historians who claim that ancient Egypt was practiced the art of pressure therapy.

Reflexology as “Method Mézières” attaches great importance to use good footwear as the wrong shoes disturb the reflex zones corresponding, please read the post that is in very easy to: foot deformities.

In this post I want to thank you for helping Magda Claramunt, reflexologist student of mine and whom I have great confidence and image “Luddite Gallery” obtained on Flickr.

bruxism is defined as an activity without specific function of the muscles of mastication is produced inconsistently. The most widespread type of broxismo is nighttime clenching. This condition causes the patient grind or clenches your teeth without realizing it and can have serious consequences for the mouth. There is no known causes of this pattern, but is related to stress, anxiety, occlusal trauma, personality disorders, types of teeth and occlusion.

Bruxism can be manifested in two ways or both ways at once:

* Central Bruxism is when you clench
* the eccentric bruxism in which the upper teeth are rubbed and there is grinding.

This problem can be detected by the dentist to see lower overhead and wear on the teeth, but if left unchecked can lead to other consequences.

In the teeth wear occurs and gums can become weak and inflamed causing tooth movement. When you recharge your jaw muscles and joints can be painful, you can have headaches, ear, neck and mouth open. With its extension are problems with chewing and speaking.

The most important of bruxism is its early detection, treatment is indicated by the specific type of pathology that the patient has. It is recommended parallel assistance with medications and therapies for stress management, stress and anxiety.
Treatment for bruxism
Diurnal bruxism

For daytime bruxism patients should control the habit, depend on the patient to detect the time when the movement tends to pressure. And replace them by pressing the tip of the tongue on the palate it is a relaxing motion for the mouth area.
Bruxism

the use of oral splints or plates are used discharge in patients with sleep bruxism, the effect of wear on the teeth is completely removed from the first time it is used. The splint is constructed according to the measurements of the upper arch mouth. This prevents wear splint dental and patient despite pressure to do the movements of the resin will wear the splint.

Experts indicate that the discharge splints are not soft material, as these encourage more clenching.

So apparently the main cause of bruxism is stress so we must find ways to change our lifestyle to relax, like taking a bath, reading, listening to music or exercising.

Nosocomial infections are those that are incurred by the patient during the stay in the hospital or health center, which are not related at all with the condition for which admission was due. This means that the infection was not present in either the incubation period when the patient was admitted.

Most frequent nosocomial infections

the most common nosocomial infections of this type occur in wounds or surgical incisions in the lower respiratory tract and urinary tract. Research related to this type of pathology denote the areas of greatest risk are the operating room, intensive care and orthopedics wards for care of severe pathologies.

Nosocomial infection of the higher recurrence of urinary tract infections, caused mostly by fungi, enterobacteria, enterococci and Pseudomonas. Early surgical infections that occur between 24 hours and 48 hours after surgery are usually caused by hemolytic streptococcus B or Clostridium. Staph infections occur 4 to 6 days later.

Respiratory infections are caused by Klebsiella, Enterobacter, and Proteus Ecoli, which are germs that usually occur in isolated environments. Intravenous catheters and major surgeries such as neurosurgery have high risk of infection, taking into account the catheters and prostheses implemented are likely to be infected or colonized.
Causes and consequences

Individuals are more likely to get patients whose immune system is compromised, patients receiving chemotherapy, with underlying diseases and the elderly.

Nosocomial infections can prolong hospital stay, increasing costs of patient care, an average of nine days.

These infections occur when microorganisms colonize patients derived from the hospital environment, either on the skin, respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract being the main carriers of staff hands, water, food, and bathroom surfaces rooms, other patients and environmental ventilation system among others.
Prevention of nosocomial infections

the nosocomial infection control becomes an increasingly important and complex for hospitals and medical centers. Continuing education programs in infection control procedures are being implemented, including the verification of academic preparation in terms of infection prevention nursing staff, cooking and cleaning at medical centers and hospitals.

According to a publication made in recent days INES.ES, a research team at the Hospital de Jove, Gijón, has conducted studies of 150 patients with prostate carcinoma and has identified some proteins are associated with a worse prognosis of prostate tumor .

You can open “the possibility of new treatments for this tumor,” said the director of research, Dr. Francisco Vizoso, in a press release from the hospital Gijón.

Researchers have discovered that certain expressions of metalloproteinases (proteins involved in tumor growth and metastasis), not only by cancer cells themselves but also by fibroblasts surrounding them, are associated with a worse prognosis of prostate tumor.

The relevance of this finding is that the urologist provides potentially useful information on tumor characteristics. The center also underlined gijonés studies Vizoso group led by the expression of TLRs (Toll-like receptors) in prostate cancer.

These proteins are related to the immune defense against pathogens such as viruses and bacteria, but over-expressed by tumors may lead to more aggressive growth thereof, through the activation of proteins involved in the inflammatory process.

Vizoso noted that “these results are important because they are placed in the context of the relationship between the process of inflammation and cancer.”

Studies have already been published in scientific journals like “British Journal of Cancer”, “World Journal of Urology” or “Cancer immunology immunotherapy.”

Five were the work, also involving urologists Escaff Safwan, Aurelio Suárez and Jesús Fernández, Luis Ovidio González pathologist, biologist Salome Gonzalez-Reyes and lab technician José Manuel González.

Escaff, which has warned that it is a tumor whose frequency in the population “is increasing,” he pointed out that autopsy studies reveal that this tumor can affect one in three men aged between 30 and 40 years, although many cases it is very aggressive and does not manifest clinically.

It is “a cancer of diverse behavior, there are cases that moves aggressively, while others have much slower growth,” said Dr. Safwan Escaff to indicate the need to investigate the molecular biology of these tumors.

The studies included 150 patients diagnosed with prostate cancer and the hospital was funded by the pharmaceutical companies Glaxo Smithkline Pharma and Ibsen.

Poor eating habits and poor lifestyle choices can lead to produce cardiac ischemia. Preventable disease, if you are aware of a number of symptoms and / or signs that may occur. In this note brindaré you information about what they are.

Ischemia is a condition characterized by reduced blood flow to the heart. This results in less oxygenation of the tissue. This reduction in blood flow caused by the formation of plaque that clogs the artery.

Ischemia can be prevented if one is aware of the symptoms and / or signs that may occur.

What are the symptoms of ischemia?

* Tightness in the chest.
* Feeling of lack of oxygen.
Fatigue.
* Pain in the lower arms.

What are the signs of ischemia?

* Palpitations.
* Cold hands and feet.

Watch for these signs and symptoms can prevent cardiovascular disease such as ischemia, and in turn a possible heart attack can cause death.

Another way to prevent this disease is to reduce risk factors that cause, such as hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, metabolic syndrome, high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes, obesity, sedentary lifestyle.

According to a study by Swedish scientists and published in the latest issue of the British medical journal British Medical Journal, the idea that enough sleep is like a beauty treatment is not a myth.

The experts from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm report that people who have slept well for a period of hours recommended, more attractive and healthier than people who have been deprived of sleep.

Experts photographed a group of 23 volunteers after they sleep eight hours and returned to photograph them at another time, but after keeping them awake for 31 hours.

Volunteers who had not slept appeared less healthy and less attractive in snapshots, the study says, adding that the participants did not wear make-up and photos were taken always at the same distance and mass facial expression.

According to scientists at the Karolinska Institute, these findings may help doctors detect health problems in patients as they are an important indicator of poor health.

in cases where you need to induce sweating (in colds and flu) may develop an infusion of borage (10 grams in a liter of boiling water) if supplemented with equal parts Tilo results are enhanced.

For swollen eyes, must prepare a decoction of 5 grams of borage oil per pint of water.
In order to strengthen the heart, can make a tea of borage. This tea also helps to dispel the sadness of hypochondriacs.

For women who are breastfeeding, you should grind the seed and take it with white wine, because it stimulates milk production.

Culinary uses of Borage

In countries like France and Italy is a vegetable prized for its delicate flavor.
In Spain it is very popular especially in Aragon and Navarre, but now, fortunately, re-used increasingly in other areas.

Borage can be used as a starter, boiled with potatoes and carrots, and using the cooking water and its dissolved salts broth.
Tips to consider

if we do not want to lose their color can boil them immediately after cooking a few minutes in cold water or leave a few minutes in your own cooking water.

summer leaves us holding the pants dry and packed. Dieting for a few weeks before returning to the habits of always just multiply the number and thickness of handles. It is best not to deceive. The only solution: change habits.

Every May, the operation bikini preaches that it is possible to achieve perfection in two weeks. Of course, hungry. Then comes the summer and stay healthy habits at the entrance of the bar. Until September surprise with four extra kilos and the urgency to get again to plan. “It’s outrageous,” said Clotilde Vazquez, head of nutrition services at the Hospital Ramon y Cajal in Madrid. Subject to a regime, as one opens a parenthesis and then on with her life without any lessons learned, not only thins the medium term, it is fattening.

Half of the Spanish weighs more than it should, increasing the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular problems
“After two years, which recovers lost, probably with some more tips kilos,” says Felipe Casanueva, director of the Center for Biomedical Research Network, Pathophysiology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBERobn). “Syndrome of weight regain is a complicated phase in which problems can arise from hypertension,” says Susana Monereo, chief of endocrinology at the University Hospital of Getafe (Madrid). When it comes to saving energy, human beings are “stingy and greedy,” said Vazquez endocrinologist, which means that if we skip a meal (breakfast is typical), your body is put on guard to spend less. And when the next batch of food falls into the stomach, she lunges for squeezing every last calorie. This feature, which has led to our survival as a species, in times of abundance becomes a curse for many people. “The fatter I am, faster, thus saving mechanisms are triggered and fatter.” So says Dr. vicious circle. He knows Cristina V., Madrid 37, is remembered on a diet since she was 16. “I got tired, he left and stayed with it weighed twice as much as before.” Came to 121 kilos (measured 1.53 meters): “Not to care, poor nutrition and some bad habits,” sentence.

Over 30% of respondents in a study of the Spanish Confederation of Housewives, Consumers and Users (CEACCU) had ever followed a weight loss plan. The majority, on its own, without consulting a doctor. Less than 12% took five pieces of fruit and vegetables a day. 25% did not perform any physical activity.

“The only way to lose weight and keep it change my life,” he said experts. Eat better, exercise more. So, before you join the scheme miraculous six weeks he has told his brother that is holy hand, stand to think: why has gained?, Does less exercise than before?, Now do not eat at home ?, Do you drink enough of fruit and vegetables?, ¿more bites between meals? The origin of the flab, if you search well, ending unfold. It may have been a job change, menopause, quitting smoking, start living with a partner, a medication …

Once detected the cause, and the remedy will be clearer, not closer. “No choice but to give up things that give us pleasure,” says Casanueva. And we seem to be the work in the light of the latest National Health Survey: of every 10 adults, 4 are overweight and 1.5 obese. In other words, more than half of the Spanish population weighs more than medically recommended.

The ultimate deterrent, according Monereo, is being, quality of life. “A person will only keep the losses if you notice weight loss as a benefit to their health,” he declares. Only if you know that controlling handles that reduce the danger of fire is cholesterol and triglycerides, have hypertension, sleep apnea and respiratory problems, back pain and cervical or lumbar problems in knees, hips and ankles .. . Or certain types of cancer, another disease that is associated with obesity.

“Someone with morbid obesity (50 kilos or more over ideal), hypertension or diabetes may have a reduced life expectancy by 10 years,” says Manuel Puig, service endrocrinología Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and vice president Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition (SEEN). “In addition, the years you live, live worse,” he adds. But eye, because you do not need to reach this end so that the body will suffer. Just a few kilos remaining concentrated in the abdominal area. This is called the curve of happiness and Formiguera Xavier, president of the Spanish Society for the Study of Obesity (SEED), prefer to define as “mortality curve” measured over 102 inches of waist is to have more ballots for diabetes or cardiovascular failure, no matter what the person in question has legs and arms that look like wires.

There is no research that has figured out how an organism is overloaded if you add up 10, 20, 30 extra kilos, according to Dr. Formiguera points. But there is evidence of what happens when the process is reversed: “It has been shown to lose 10% weight-pass, for example, 90 to 81 kilos, when you are overweight, improved between 40% and 60 % quality of life, because diabetes is controlled, very significantly decrease cholesterol levels and blood pressure, reduces sleep apneas …”. Nearly three years ago, Cristina V. underwent a stomach reduction operation. Of those 121 kilos has gone above 64. Your sore feet have disappeared, their migraines can give you the much less have their hypertension under control and have noticed improvement in their sex life. “I have a tool and I use it well, watching what I eat and exercising,” he says.

The four “P”
Weigh Me, thinking, planning, purposes. Susana Monereo Specialist proposes these four “P” to implement around a holiday. As the purpose of improvement, suggests eating slowly, not skipping meals, no snacking, eating less fat and more fruits and vegetables, walking for half an hour a day and do an hour of moderate exercise a week. Advised to plan a weekly menu and go by without hunger, with a list (and just enough money to not get it), with a basket instead of car and without going through the aisles of snacks and pastries, prepared dishes and avoid not store food.

Lies like fists
Doctors Casanueva, Vazquez Formiguera Monereo and dismantled several misconceptions about the slimming and fat:

The metabolism changes. Well it does, only when there is an illness. Changing lifestyles, increasing physical inactivity or poor eating habits.

From the 35 get fat more easily. Again, often change is the way of life: a job safer, more money for culinary homage to a car … “You lose the vanity, which is an important phenomenon for the epidemic of obesity,” says Dr. Casanueva. We got married, we play less football with friends, we care less kilos …

Drink plenty of water thins. Water with 0 calories, is neutral, neither fat nor thin. The only certainty is that drinking before a meal can stomach fullness and to diminish the appetite.

Toast and thin light foods. Less fattening to have fewer calories, but that does not mean losing weight.

The fruit for dessert fat. Neither. Calories are the same before, during or after.

The avoidance of carbohydrates. She is the mother of all lies, according to Dr. Vazquez. “It must have carbohydrates in each meal to prevent weight gain and that the mechanism of satiety is well regulated,” he insists.

A chubby child is healthier. Perhaps this was true in postwar Spain (meaning that, at least, ate every day), but today the excess weight itself does not provide benefits and may cause serious problems: have a better chance of becoming an obese adult, and also , your body will be exposed longer to the attacks of the disease. It’s like smoking: start made worse at 16 than at age 50.

The cost
Social coverage and treatment of diseases related to obesity represents 6.9% of total health expenditure, according to a study sponsored by the SEEDO costs in 1999. Jose Maria Labeaga, director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies and an expert on the subject, I think it was an exaggeration when calculating percentage a decade ago – “Spain was a country obese” – but that becomes more real as advancing age. “Right now I would say is around 5% and rising.” In 2006, Elena Salgado, Minister of Health then said that the disease reached 7% of healthcare costs in developed countries; in Spain would be about 3,000 million euros annually. In our country not yet been defined the “invisible costs” as defined Labeaga, and can be infinite. For example, what a person does not win unless you live or whether to retire early for reasons related to their weight.

Obesity also has economic causes, according to the expert emphasizes. “There is more to look at the evolution of prices of healthy foods and unhealthy (fat cakes) in the last 20 years the CPI has risen the first nonstop, while the second is down,” he argues. “Now you have fast food restaurants that were in Madrid for 15 years and there today,” he adds. “Calculate how much and how fast it is, buy a prepared food and microwaving it,” he says as the last factor.

Lower quality of life
Susana says that the more kilos Monereo we had, we realized that our health is worse. The expert investigates the inverse relationship between weight and quality of life. And it concluded that obesity is one of the diseases that impair quality of life. Not only because the patient has pain or physical problems, but because they feel observed when walking down the street or do not fit on a bus or airplane seat in coach. The working group on obesity SEEN that Monereo coordinates, has adapted a test of quality of life from the United States and is applying to 400 morbidly obese and 400 normal weight people to see the differences. Data are available by the end of the year. For now, Dr. Assumpta Caixa, which has been translated and validated the survey, said: “At least 40% of morbidly obese women suffering from depression?”

What is BMI?
The body mass index (BMI) is a mathematical formula which they use doctors to calculate the excess fat that a body, minus the height (80 kilos obesity when measured mean 1.60, but not one of two meters). Is obtained by dividing weight (in kilos) by height (in meters) squared. If the resulting number is between 20-25, normal weight for height. Above 25 is overweight. More than 30, obesity (and is considered disease). Over 40, morbidly obese.

When you are infected with diarrhoea, the condition tends to give you uncomfortable and somewhat embarrassing moments since you seem to have frequent urgencies to go to the toilet. If you are at the office, certainly this condition is not convenient to you.

In most cases you need to take an emergency leave or a sick leave because diarrhoea will also make you feel weak. You are losing a lot of energy since you are losing a lot of water through the frequent bowel movements. Taking Imodium diarrhoea treatment can ease your condition. Make certain that you are taking it in the right dosage and ask your doctor about it if you are not sure.

It is scary to discover the fact that diarrhoea can even cause death especially to children and the elders. This is especially true if the condition is acute or severe. In fact, deaths caused by diarrhoea were reported to be around two millions each year. Imodium diarrhoea treatment is one of the methods you can use to cure the symptoms of diarrhoea. If you take them according to the proper dose, certainly you can get well pretty quickly.

Imodium diarrhoea treatment is very suitable to cure diarrhoea derived from general causes. When taking this medication, you should expect to be cured within two days of treatment. If your symptoms persist, this means you might have a serious condition and you need to see your doctor to find out the real cause of you having diarrhoea.