Diabetes and Dental Health

July 30th, 2010

Patients who live daily with diabetes know the food they eat and those who do not maintain a regular physical activity, and if necessary, medication. What many do not know is that the same medication that helps them control their glucose and insulin levels may have negative effects if you have to go to the dentist.

the problem may be due to interactions between drugs and certain materials and products used by dentists. So it is very important to inform the professional who serves us from disease and medications that are taking before beginning the review or action.

According to a recent study, more than 194 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes, and health authorities estimate that this figure will double or triple in less than twenty years. Dentists should know if your patient is using insulin, and if it is injected daily dosage when they go to consultation in anticipation of possible interaction.

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The Plan of Health and Social Welfare

July 29th, 2010

The director general for Planning and Evaluation, José Luis Lopez said Thursday that the Plan of Health and Social Welfare 2011-2020 “is a complicated but interesting adventure, with which many have dreamed of for people to live better,” while which announced that, as the work developed, it is expected that this plan is now ready to get going, with all administrative past in March 2011.

With the Health Plan and Social Welfare, manchego background Castilian, took place the day SIPA scientific experience in Quebec, which for some years the social and health come together to care for dependent elderly integrating services, resources and professionals, is today one of the highlights in greater international acceptance, the Board informed in a press release.

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The new regional health plan includes a food safety agency

July 28th, 2010

MEASURES UP IN THE DRAFT OF THIS DOCUMENT FOR THE YEARS

2009-2012 The new Health Plan of Extremadura, which is under preparation and will be in force from 2009 to 2012, envisages the creation of a Food Safety Agency of Extremadura, one of whose tasks will assess the possible risk situations caused by the consumption of spoiled food. The roadmap will also incorporate health extremeña the priority areas for action, among which is the struggle against the most prevalent diseases – cardiovascular diseases, cancer, mental health, etc. – other emerging and rare diseases those from the animal world or zoonoses.

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More suicides and crimes crisis

July 27th, 2010

MADRID .- The fall in investment, rising layoffs and the growing fear of the future that can be felt in the environment are not the only consequences of the economic recession which we live. The crisis may also increase the rate of suicides and homicides, judging by the results of an interesting job.

Its authors, led by David Stuckler, University of Oxford (UK), shown in the last message ‘The Lancet’ that unemployment increases similar to those recorded this year in the past caused peaks rise in the number of people they took off the life or committing murder.

Researchers who analyzed data from 26 countries of the European Union dated from 1970 and 2007, also found that increases in unemployment were related also to a significant reduction in the number of road accidents.

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15 Keys to Achieve a Diet

July 26th, 2010

1. The first and fundamental step is that you’re sure to want to follow a diet and be disciplined.

2. Try to eat in company. Eat slowly and chew each bite.

3. Prepare dishes as attractive as possible. If portions will seem small, offer a dessert plate, thus appear more abundant.

4. Do not try to hide that you’re on a diet. Continue with your normal life, without lock yourself at home.

5. Respect, as far as possible, a regular schedule for meals.

6. Do not skip meals but do not feel hungry, in any case reduce the amount you eat, but do not omit.

7. Start every meal with a salad, to satisfy more easily the stomach and appetite center, located in the brain.

8. Avoid temptation. If the office or the kids at home, eat sweet things between meals, have at hand an apple, yogurt or other snacks to help you resist.

9. Faced with an attack of hunger takes a glass of water first and then a natural fruit juice.

10. Do not give in to offers of food that are not within your program, because you can spoil what you have achieved so far.

11. Do not be dependent on the scale. Weigh yourself only once a week to monitor changes.

12. Take your measurements periodically to check the change in volume, this will encourage you to follow. You may not have lost weight, but of the figure.

13. Make sure the clothing is staying high. Please hand the pants that you like and do not fit, and take it as a goal.

14. If you’re out of the diet in one meal of the day as usual with the rest of the daily plan, nor think of “resume tomorrow.”

15. Often think of the joy of seeing you in your weight and imagine that today you avoid situations because of your overweight.

If you feel you just can not start a diet, do not let time pass. Go to a specialist who can guide and control you until you acquire new eating habits.

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Avoid stress and maintain a healthy diet is key for patients with ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease

July 25th, 2010

Experts from the European Institute of Biomedicine (IEB) recommend that patients with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis who try to avoid stress and proinflammatory certain foods like red meats, cow’s milk, flour, refined, simple sugars and trans fat ‘in order to reduce the occurrence of crisis.

According to this expert group said on the occasion of World Day for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), which is celebrated on the 27th May, 25 percent of new cases of ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease diagnosed in the hospitals were in people younger 18 and for processing, propose to modify the usual diet as “beat up the inflammatory processes of any kind and helps reduce the consumption of drugs.” “Inflammatory or restrictive diets have a central role since it can have a positive impact on the evolution of processes, reduce crises and improving the nutritional status of the patient,” explains José Francisco Tinao, medical director of the IEB, also highlighting the importance of detoxification programs that facilitate the work of the liver and the elimination of toxic compounds.

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