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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.

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.

Once the information we prioritize what will be the area of intervention and the assumptions regarding the causes that are motivating the problems identified. Typically, areas of intervention can be in:

- The family as a system.
- Regarding neurocognitive and/or school.
- At the individual level.

Regarding the type of intervention, we propose that normally use, without this leading to underestimate other different approaches. In this sense, we consider different models of intervention and the appropriateness of applying them in each situation. Read the rest of this entry »

- Classical Conditioning Techniques

When fears are well structured in relation to illness or taking in charge by the subject of self-management techniques (insulin injections) usually apply some desensitization techniques from this paradigm.
Potential difficulties in managing the patient, family, health personnel and their possible solutions.

The following list includes the major psychological difficulties of managing diabetes:

• Compliance, and difficulties with it, the rules on food.
• expertise in insulin delivery.
• The failure to complete the recommended exercise.
• Difficulties and arguments with regard to adherence to medical indications. Read the rest of this entry »

Or therapeutic approach to patient care, family and personal health
Having known some psychological aspects associated disease propose some techniques to treat it:

- Inoculation techniques and coping with stress

Basically, this technique is analyzed stressors and the availability of resources to meet each family member. The strategy to overcome commonly used are the talks that serve as catharsis and relieve the discomfort. Recommendations tend to be both cognitive and behavioral, that are useful to deal with the situation. Read the rest of this entry »

Family General Psychological Mechanisms

1. Need for coping mechanisms
2. Adjustments to the new family situation
3. Strategy for promoting self-care and prevent deterioration of the quality of life.

The real disease-anxious depression. The clinical magnitude of these will significantly put the hold in charge of the patient. And even facilitate the emergence of these same symptoms in the patient. Sometimes, depending on the characteristics of each of the members of the family and coping skills and problem solving, parents can feel overwhelmed by new responsibilities in relation to care giving rise to situations of conflict against sick or between parents. Read the rest of this entry »

Psychological Aspects of The Disease Involves

Individual Prognostic Factors

Both age and gender presentation has shown a significant weight as risk factors for developing consistent secondary pschology in the diagnosis of diabetes. Thus, it seems that the earlier the disease occurs the greater the risk of emotional and social maladjustments.

Younger patients may have adaptive problems mainly related to the school, while those with ages ranging from puberty to adolescence will be more affected in regard to their social life. In senile appearance is even more impaired and psychosocial problems ensuing guilt.

These aspects have not been clearly elucidated, although in relation to age, it is said that once the patient is relatively younger age are the chances of understanding the constraints of self and the attitude of parents is much more interventionist and overprotective , on the other side the elderly suffer from disorders of care and feeling of embarrassment. Read the rest of this entry »

What Types of Diabetes Exist?

• Type 1 Diabetes: results from the destruction of cells in the pancreas that produce insulin (beta cells) that predisposes to a severe metabolic imbalance called diabetic ketoacidosis. It is more typical in young people (below 30 years).

• Type 2 Diebetes: Characterized by insulin resistance that can be associated or not with insulin deficiency and can be present with few symptoms for a long time. This form is more common in people over 40 years but is becoming more frequent to appear in younger subjects.

• Gestational Diabetes: diabetes whose onset is recognized during pregnancy. Women who suffer from it should be studied after birth because diabetes may or may not persist after. Read the rest of this entry »

Diabetes mellitus is a disease caused by an alteration of metabolism (metabolism is a set of chemical reactions that occur in body cells), characterized by an increase in the amount of glucose in the blood and the appearance of microvascular complications (blood vessel disease, thin body, including blood vessels) and cardiovascular (relative to the heart and blood vessels) that greatly increase the damage in other organs (kidneys, eyes, heart, peripheral nerves) and mortality associated with disease and reduces the quality of life of those affected.

Diabetes affects between 5 and 10% of the general population, this variation depends on the studies consulted. It should be noted that it is estimated that for every known diabetic there is another undiagnosed. Its frequency increases with age and with being overweight and sedentary lifestyle, for these reasons it is expected a significant increase in the number of diabetics in the coming decades. Read the rest of this entry »

LEARN THESE SKILLS

Basic skills for the management of diabetes will help prevent the need for emergency care and among them are:

• How to recognize and treat low (hipoglucemiahipoglucemia) and high (hyperglycemia) blood sugar
• What to eat and when
• How to take insulin or oral medication
• How to measure and record blood glucose
• Testing the cetonascetonas in the urine (only for type 1)
• How to adjust your insulin intake or food intake when changing exercise and eating habits
• Managing the days when one is sick
• Where to buy diabetes supplies and how to store Read the rest of this entry »