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Childhood obesity is one of the biggest health problems of the country, particularly for Hispanics.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 20 percent of Hispanic children between 12 and 19 are obese. In contrast 18 percent of all children between 12 and 19 are obese.

“We could say that is the main problem of our community,” said Dr. Philip Lobel, a nutrition specialist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a federal government agency that promotes good health.

“We unfortunately the U.S. group with the highest rates of obesity in adults and children and we must do something about it,” he said. (Download the full interview in. Mp3 (5MB) or read the transcript of the interview.)

That something could be summarized in the following five habits that Dr. Lobelo recommends that parents or guardians who seek to combat childhood obesity at home: Read the rest of this entry »

The term barebacking has its origins in the gay community. Initially used to describe acts of unprotected intercourse, especially anal sex. Today the term encompasses any type of penetrative sexual act in which no condom use (wikipedia).

Although it may seem irrational or silly idea, there are people who want to spread AIDS and to that end they risk “knowingly” participating in this dangerous practice of barebacking or bareback.

The barebacking sex is a new modality that is spreading in big cities and is practiced by homosexuals, bisexuals and heterosexuals. It is a practice that is most at risk in having unprotected sex group in which nobody knows anything about the others, except that one of them is HIV positive. Read the rest of this entry »

Protecting our environment starts at home. The following recommendations are designed to reduce air pollution through simple measures you can implement in your home.

Replace the five most frequently used lights in your house with light bulbs with the ENERGY STAR. In this way you will use less energy and do your part to reduce pollution from power plants. There are over 40 products with the ENERGY STAR, including lights, electronics, air conditioner and heating appliances.

Improving the performance of your air conditioning system. Contact a licensed contractor for annual maintenance and remember to clean or replace air filters regularly. Use a programmable thermostat, ENERGY STAR certified.

The windows and doors with slots, cold walls or ceilings and high energy bills are all symptoms of air leaks (usually in the attic and basement) and poor insulation. Seal air leaks, add insulation and choose ENERGY STAR qualified windows when replacing old windows. Thereby improve the comfort and durability of your home, save energy and help protect our environment.

Talk to your friends or relatives, colleagues or members of the association of parents of school. Discuss how energy efficiency is good for their homes and good for our environment. Let them know five people and together we will help our homes help us all.

According to a study by the National Paraplegics Hospital of Toledo, under the Government of Castilla-La Mancha, the survival of patients with high cervical spinal cord injury, who require respiratory support with diaphragmatic pacemakers have gone from average life expectancy of 13, 2 years in 1998 to 18.18 years in 2009.

The study was conducted by the head of Internal Medicine Center, Dr. Javier Romero, and Ana María Sánchez Aranzueque doctors, Claudia Gambarrutta, María Ángeles Marín, María Elena Diez de la Lastra, María Victoria Merlo, ICU professionals and Pneumology, informed the Board press release.

Pacemakers stimulate the phrenic nerve diaphragm and provide a breathing much better physiologically since it uses negative pressure to draw air into the lungs rather than forcing air under positive pressure, as with a respirator. Read the rest of this entry »

Researchers at the School of Medicine, Yale University, U.S., tested an experimental vaccine with 55 cocaine addicts during a clinical trial that lasted 24 weeks.
The study results were published in Archives of General Psychiatry (Archives of General Psychiatry.) The scientists found that 38% of participants failed to reach adequate levels of antibodies to help feeling a sense of euphoria it produces the drug.

The vaccine works by “wrapping” of cocaine that has no effects on the brain, heart or other organ, “” this is the first successful controlled trial of a vaccine against cocaine, say scientists.

According to previous studies on animals and humans, high levels of anti-cocaine antibodies in the blood can prevent addicts experience that feeling. Read the rest of this entry »

We already know that the measurement of our body can officiate quite useful and reliable indicator in relation to levels of our health. Thus, an investigation showed that some time long legs in women are synonymous with good health and have a big bum may represent a health advantage in that a cosmetic problem.

This time the protagonist is the waist, for a study by the Harvard Medical School studied the waist size of a large sample of people, which did provide data directly proportional to the size of your weight in relation to the state their health.

So it was determined that a waist “fat” is a serious problem for the health of individuals, as have a few extra pounds body in this area makes it more vulnerable to heart attacks, diabetes, incontinence and dementia. Read the rest of this entry »

Want to live a healthy life and do not know where to start? Today we will help in this regard. You just need a little discipline and you will see your quality of life improves significantly. If you want to feel younger pay attention to these six habits for healthy living.

1. Eat a healthy diet: A healthy lifestyle should start changing your eating habits. Diet has a fundamental role in maintaining good health and prevents disease. In fact, most diseases are caused by lack of nutrients. Why you should eat a balanced diet that will provide all necessary nutrients.
2. Exercise: Exercise is essential to maintain good quality of life. The lack of activity is a major cause of weakness and poor health. It is directly related to a number of problems such as arthritis and rheumatism. In addition, heart problems originate from poor blood circulation (which could be improved through the exercise.) Read the rest of this entry »

Being healthy is not never get sick.

Being healthy is to have a large internal flexibility allows us to adapt to each situation and to restore equilibrium to do so.

Good health is expanding the capacity of tension and relaxation, consider the body so wise that he can look for resources when you have enough sensitivity reaction but sometimes we have to help a little.

Good health is all an education of not doing, listening and respect.

So take care of the body and maintain health, not just wrap the body in cotton, feed ultradigerible think, surround it with machines that keep their constant life or infuse energy through a tube. Caring for the body and maintain health is to achieve ever greater autonomy, allowing the body to react and adapt to what interacts with it.

Good health involves sometimes neglect to find one to do more spontaneous, and above all, remove the fear of death, pain and uncertainty that many are living at their expense.