The importance of feeding well from the infancy

To take a healthy adult life is not difficult, only little dedication is enough to change and to improve the nutritive habits and to make them healthier. But it is important to clarify that it is always still good to have a healthy feeding, from the first years of life.

Next, this health blog will allude to some advices to have a good feeding from the childhood. These have been provided by two Uruguayan institutions linked to the health, National Institute of Feeding (HINDU) and the Honorary Commission for the Cardiovascular Health, during two campaigns of campaign to raise public awareness realized in Uruguay.

Although it is important to have a healthy feeding from the first years of life, also it is highly advisable that a pregnant woman feed well to take care of the baby who goes in his belly, reported the HINDU. This is fundamental to support a good corporal weight, so that the baby, still if to be born, grows normally inside the maternal belly and so that, after born, it has a happy lactation.

Since one has already reported in the same blog, the breast-feeding is very important to offer to him to the neonato the nutrients that he needs. That's why during the lactation stage it is fundamental to feed correctly to preserve a good nutrition and to produce enough maternal milk the necessary defenses to drink to the baby.

Also it is important that the child has a good feeding in his first years of life. As regards this topic, the HINDU recommends, between other things, the children to consume a breakfast finished and balanced to start the day with more energy. The same debit to include, for example, milk, yogurt or cheese; panificados; and sliced fresh fruit or simply his juice.

For his part, and as regards the feeding in the childhood, the Honorary Commission for the Cardiovascular Health of Uruguay threw a so called campaign “Healthy Snacks”. The same search to manage to impose the habit of which the students complete healthy snacks as fruits and vegetables to prepare such illnesses like the obesity, the cancer and up to cardiovascular pathologies.
If it is interesting to you to know more on this topic, do not hesitate to enter to the web sites Inda.gub.uy and Cardiosalud.org.

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Will there be a vaccine against the addiction to the cocaine?

The humanity keeps on being surprised with the last advances and discoveries of the world of the medicine, unthinkable in other epochs. For example, one of the most important news of last days is related to the creation of a vaccine against the addiction to the cocaine, one of the most well-known and emaciated drugs of the planet.

Although the topic of the Flu TO H1N1, and the urgent need for the massive production of a vaccine to fight an illness that has caused the death of almost 5.000 persons in the world, it has captured the attention of the world, the scientists do not stop keeping on investigating in other areas of the medicine.

For example, the mass media did to themselves echo of the news about that there exists the possibility that in a future the addicts to the cocaine highly addictive and stimulating (drug of the central nervous system) could resort to a medical treatment to stop consuming.

As regards this topic, it is necessary to mention that the first tests realized in the United States in human beings, to whom him the first doses of the vaccine were applied against the addiction to the cocaine, he reported the web site of the BBC, that he added that these were realized by a team of the School of Medicine of the University of yale.

Given in 55 persons for approximately six months, this vaccine had effect in 38 % of the patients. As he informed the web of the BBC, the same ones managed to reach the suitable antibodies levels to stop experiencing the sensation of euphoria that produces the drug. Although also one concluded that this effect only lasted two months therefore it was necessary to repeat the treatment with other injections, he published the web.

It is very early to know when the vaccine might be free, since newly one is in an initial stage and it still had not turned out to be completely successful, but it is important to add that this news gives hope to all those that has problems of addiction and they want to move away from the cocaine to begin a more healthy life.

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Advices for the dinner of the children

The hour of having dinner comes and you do not want to prepare anything, but you have a child at home, for what you cannot give him any thing: his feeding is key in his development. From this health blog we give you a few small advices for the dinner of the children, who happen for light, varied, healthy and healthy meals, as very well you must have learned.

Really, there are no many other advices to be known for the hour of the dinner. What yes is true is the need for a correct feeding in the development of the children, who need to eat all kinds of food, and in proportions adapted to grow healthy and strong.

The first advice that you must know for the dinner of the children is the hour of the dinner. It is important to have dinner soon, so that him of time it is to do the digestion before going to bed. This way, it is advisable that the child has dinner at least two hours before getting into the bed to sleep. Also, the dinner must be light, nothing of main or consistent courses.

In the same way, an advice for the dinner of the children is that it is not too abundant, that it goes as regards what we saw earlier. A light dinner does that the digestion becomes better, and the child has no problems in the night at the time of sleeping. It is necessary to bear in mind that with the full stomach, the rest is more complicated.

It is important to watch, on the other hand, that the menu that is given to the child in the night is varied. For it, especially if in the morning he eats in the school, it is advisable that you know what he has eaten, that you look at the menus of every day to change the type of meal that you give him in the night. This way, if in the morning to eaten pasta or rice, in the night you can do a grilled fish to him with vegetable.

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Flu To and trips

For many persons there has not happened yet the fear of a possible contagion of flu A, despite the insistence of the public organisms and of the means (between which this health blog is) of diminishing the state of collective anxiety. One of the worries that exists in the ambience is the one that relates flu A and trips, since both the airport and the public transport are agglomerations places.

For it, it is advisable to avoid, as far as possible, the masses of people, but only when the flu A is in phases of a major incidence. The airports, train stations, of meter or of bus are very crowded places.

Although there have been some countries that have taken special measures in airports, without allowing the arrival of flights proceeding from countries with source of infection, it seems that this measurement is absurd. In Spain, for example, this measurement has not taken and at the moment, nothing is going to do specially, unless there is detected an upturn of the cases of contagion of flu A not also. While it is not flying away either it is necessary to carry to extremes the precaution measurements, it is enough to keep on doing the same that was done in ground, since the contagion risk is the same.

As for the public transports, it is not necessary to stop using them. But eye, it is always advisable not to do it when the incidence of the flu A is major, as we were saying earlier. In case it is necessary to use and do not be able to avoid it, it is advisable that you do not touch yourself the eyes, the nose or the mouth and that you wash your hands as soon as you could on having gone out of the transport way.

Now then, if you are enferm@ of flu A, what is advisable is that you postpone the trip that you reckon, any time you could, for skylight. This is done in order to avoid more contagions of the virus. But for being able, you can travel, there is no problem.

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WHO presented report on risk factors for the health

The World Organization of the Health (WHO) presented an interesting so called study “Global Health Risks”, which basically expresses that controlling certain risk factors for the health it might increase the expectation of life of the persons in the whole world. Next, this health blog will allude to this interesting document that was presented some days ago by the international sanitary organism.

As informed the web site of the WHO, some days ago the World Organization of the Health, recently distinguished with the Award Prince Asturias of International cooperation 2009, a report presented about the most common factors that they affect to the human health.

We are speaking about the titled report “Global Health Risks”, whose translation to Spanish would be “Risk for the World Health”. The same one was realized by the World Organization of the Health like an answer to the need to be provided with information first hand, constantly and comparably on the dangers for the health of the persons, so much on a global scale as regionally, he informed the web of the WHO.

As regards the factors that they put in danger to the health, there is five of them that are causative of about 15 million deaths a year and that controlling them one might go so far as to increase five more years the expectation of life of the human beings, he published the web.

Although the report speaks of up to 24 risks for the human health on a global scale and regionally, like for example the environmental ones and the physiological ones, it is recommended to pay a lot of attention to five of them. The above mentioned factors to be born in mind are: 1) the insufficiency ponderal in the infancy; 2) the sexual risk practices; 3) the alcohol consumption; 4) the absence of healthy water, of sanitation and of hygiene; and 5) the arterial hypertension, it spread the web page of the organism.

To read more on this interesting report, do not hesitate to enter to the official web site of the WHO.

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Who must be vaccinated against the Flu To in Spain?

For several months, this health blog has come publishing about the last innovations on the Flu TO H1N1. For example, in previous articles one reported about the beginning of the vaccination against the illness in Spain. Next, this blog will continue with this topic and will refer to the high-risk groups who must be vaccinated.

Since one has already reported, the vaccination campaign against the Flu To in Spain will begin next Monday, the 16th of November, as was informed after concluded the meeting of the Interterritorial Council of the National System of Health (SNS). The fact is that it was during this meeting, in which there took part the minister of Health, Trinidad Jiménez, who noticed this date.

In the frame of this meeting there were announced, also, the high-risk groups to whom they are recommended to be vaccinated from November, informed the web site of the Ministry of Health and Social policy, that he added that the immunization, although it is important, is not obligatory.

- Sanitary workpeople and parasanitarios so much of primary health care as hospitable, public and private, as well as the personnel of residences of the third age and centers of attention to chronic patients.
- Workpeople of essential public services as forces and safety bodies of the State, firemen and services of civil protection. Also there integrate this group the persons who are employed at the services of sanitary emergencies and workpeople of penitentiary institutions and of centers of attention to the refugee and immigrants.

- Adults and major babies of 6 months with a high risk of complications derived from the infection for the pandemic virus for suffering some of the following pathologies: chronic cardiovascular diseases (excluding the hypertension); chronic respiratory illnesses; diabetes type I and type II with pharmacological treatment; moderate or serious renal insufficiency; hemoglobinopatías and moderate or serious anemias; asplenia; advanced chronic hepatic illness; illnesses neuromusculares serious; patients with immunity suppression (included the caused one by infection by VIH or by medicines or in the transplants recipients); morbid obesity (index of corporal mass equal or superior to 40); and children and adolescents, 18-year-old minors, who receive treatment prolonged with acid acetilsalicílico, for the possibility of developing a Reye syndrome.

- Pregnant women.

It is important to add that in case of the adults between 18 and 60 years, which the high-risk groups integrate, one will apply only one dose of the vaccine to him, he informed the web.

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Can an animal infect the flu to me A?

To avoid the contagion of the flu A. This is one of the worries of million persons in the whole world, although little by little the incidence of the illness is minor than it seemed to the beginning, when all the alarm voices came untied. Immediately after the contagion, in this health blog we have risen the following question to ourselves: can an animal infect the flu to me A?

We could finish rapidly saying a round one not, since the new virus of the flu A (H1N1) only is transmitted between human beings. Namely there is no risk of contagion of animals to persons, therefore if you have animals at home, you do not have to be afraid and can live with them without problems.

This is the conclusion to which they have come in the WHO (World Organization of the Health), which has said publicly through that the persons can live with animals without any risk of contagion of the flu A on the part of these.

At the beginning of the spread of the flu A there were many persons who were thinking, ignorantemente, that the animals that had been in contact with gluttons, the supposed initial bearers of the new virus of the flu A, could transmit the illness. Well, studies carried out in different points of the planet have shown that there is no any contagion risk and that at the moment, there is not known any case of contagion of animals to human beings.

In the same way, to eat pork is sure, as we saw already in this blog. Therefore, and to conclude, we answer with a round one not to the question: can an animal infect the flu to me A? If you live with cats or with dogs as favourite animals you do not have why to be afraid of anything.

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