Archive for December 2009
Cancer: a preventable disease
Each day may even help to reduce their personal risk of cancer. Although not possible to prevent any form of cancer, as about five percent have genetic causes. But 90 percent of cancers are environmentally determined, of which apply to each third tobacco smoke and poor diet as a trigger.
In the fight against cancer is prevention in the foreground, with about half of all cancer patient dies. Overall, the figures are frightening: Every year eleven million people worldwide suffer from cancer.
In Germany makes a diagnosis each year, about 400,000 people. Cancer is thus still number two cause of death after cardiovascular diseases.
The new report by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF report), based on the analysis of some 7,000 cancer studies, confirms and underlines the importance of prevention.
Nutrition Tips
The benchmarks that follow consumption can cover the total dietary energy in a sport. These contributions must be divided into 3 meals per day minimum, plus one or two snacks if the time between meals is more than 4 hours. Training should not immediately follow the meal so as not to disturb the digestion. It is recommended that a minimum of 3 hours between meals and training, a minimum of 1 hour between a meal and a workout, and 2 hours between breakfast and training.
Spend at least 35 minutes of ingesting food as satiety signals do not appear immediately after ingestion of food. Remember that while chewing reduces the time for digestion and allows nutrients to be absorbed in greater quantities by the body.
Vary the food. This is the best way to cover the needs for vitamins and minerals. This allows more to take more pleasure in eating and avoid monotony ..
The natural diet largely covers the needs of the athlete, he has no need to use nutritional supplements that may be harmful to their health: competing in the assimilation, kidney problems, allergies, addiction, …
Osteoarthritis
What is it?
Osteoarthritis is a degeneration of the cartilage without infection or inflammation special. This degeneration leads to destruction more or less rapid cartilage coats the ends of bones. Anatomically, this destruction is accompanied by a proliferation of bone under the cartilage.
Joint disease is the most common. The first symptoms usually appear from 40-50 years, but the disease often starts much earlier in life.
Mechanisms ?
The articular cartilage tissue is not inert: it is the seat of intense activity where production chrondrocytes (cartilage cells) precludes, at least initially, the destruction of these cells. When the phenomena of destruction outweigh the regeneration of cartilage, the cartilage thickness decreases and the joint is altered permanently.
This intense activity of producing new cells occurs at the margin of the joint by producing new growths of bone: bone spurs.
During cartilage destruction, small pieces of cartilage may break off and “float” in the pocket joints: they then trigger outbreaks inflammatory mechanisms that result in hypersecretion of fluid and swelling of the joint.
Osteoarthritis is characterized by three anatomical lesions:
Glaucoma
Glau
coma is a disease by increased fluid pressure that is inside the eyeball. As in most things, prevention, ideally with a single test, particularly if there is a history in our family.
1. What is glaucoma?
Outline of the eye. An increase in IOP causes glaucoma. Glaucoma is a disease characterized by increased pressure within the eyeball.
Inside the eye we have a fluid called aqueous humor, which is responsible for maintaining proper eye pressure.This is done because there is a balance between the amount of liquid entering and leaving. If this balance is disrupted and the amount of fluid that comes in is greater than the sale will be an increase in pressure.