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Free radicals can be defined as any chemical species capable of existing independently and containing one or more unpaired electrons or free Most free radicals are chemically unstable and highly reactive. Examples of free radicals that are formed in the body are superoxide, hydroxyl, peroxyl, alkoxyl, nitrogen oxide and trichloromethyl.

Meanwhile Cooper, 1995, defines antioxidants as unstable oxygen molecules, reactive oxygen species that are necessary for health when in balance and to be excessive harmful, criminals molecular single most serious threats to public health resulting in more than 100 pathologies. Read the rest of this entry »

It is much more than what a normal person to experience anxiety in their daily lives. Worry and chronic stress are even when nothing seems to provoke. Having this disorder means always anticipating disaster, often worrying excessively about health, money, family or work.

However, sometimes the root of the worry is hard to locate. The mere thought of spending the day provokes anxiety. Concerns are often accompanied by physical symptoms such as tremors, muscle tension and nausea.

People with GAD can not seem to get rid of their concerns even if they usually realize that their anxiety is more intense than the situation warrants. Those with GAD also seem unable to relax. Work often have to sleep or staying asleep.

Their worries are accompanied by physical symptoms, especially trembling, twitching, muscle tension, headaches, irritability, sweating or hot flashes. May feel dizzy or short of breath. They may feel nauseated or have to go to the bathroom frequently. Or they may feel like they have a lump in his throat. Read the rest of this entry »

Anxiety: a normal mechanism

Anxiety is a phenomenon that occurs in all people and that, under normal conditions, improves performance and adaptation to the social, occupational, or academic. Has an important role to mobilize against disturbing or threatening situations, so we do what is necessary to avoid the risk, neutralizing it, accept it or deal with it properly. For example, it helps to consider whether we are facing an exam, be alert for an appointment or a job interview to a fire escape, etc..

However, when it exceeds certain limits, the anxiety becomes a health problem, prevent welfare, and interferes significantly in social, occupational, or intellectual. You can limit the freedom of movement and personal choices. In these cases we are not dealing with mere problems of “nerves”, but to a disturbance. There are several types of anxiety disorders each with its own characteristics. Read the rest of this entry »

A poor diet can worsen anxiety. Anxiety is an emotional state in which the person has feelings of anxiety, hopelessness and emptiness inside.

It is a disorder that starts affecting the mind but may also have an impact on various organs of the body, being able to produce tachycardia, abdominal pain, diarrhea, etc..

Situations that aggravate the situation:

- Unbalanced diets in which there is an insufficient intake of carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals all necessary nutrients for the proper functioning of the nervous system.
- Anarchic times of meals, making only 2-3 meals per day far apart …
- Regular consumption of alcohol or stimulants, and snuff. Do not forget that all toxic deteriorates to a greater or lesser extent, the nervous system.
- Restlessness Read the rest of this entry »

Meals

Overeating is not good, it is always best to allocate various portions of meals and time difference.

The fats are quite harmful for diabetics, so the idea is to eliminate as much as possible. To do this, you can eat lean cuts of meat, remove the chicken skin, always drink skim milk and complete eradication of sausage consumption.

Fiber is essential to maintain good nutrition, and in particular is very benevolent in cases of diabetes and glycemic control that helps. Foods that are rich in fiber are those such as bread, biscuits and pasta, beans and legumes (beans), fruits and vegetables.

Before listing and ranking foods can or can not take people with diabetes, it is worth remembering that the salt should be used sparingly, you should not take more than a glass of wine a day and should be avoided, as far as possible, soft drinks containing sugar. The sugar may be replaced by sweeteners, but always with caution and without excess. Read the rest of this entry »

Diabetes is a very common disease, and has been shown that there is a strong relationship between overweight and this condition so it is very important to control over food.

Diabetes is a metabolic disorder, the process that converts the food we eat into energy. Insulin is the most important factor in this process. During digestion food is broken down to create glucose, the main source of fuel for the body. This glucose enters the bloodstream, where insulin allows you to enter cells. (Insulin is a hormone secreted by the pancreas, a gland behind the stomach-).

In people with diabetes, one of two components of this system fails:

The pancreas does not produce or produces too little insulin (Type I)

The body’s cells do not respond to insulin that is produced (Type II). Read the rest of this entry »

Patient without profile

Binge eaters are both men and women of all ages and social classes. Some are regular and other stuff themselves with food daily. There are also those who do not binge, but do not stop eating all day.

Those who have this problem share some of their sorrows with people with bulimia. Both have recurrent episodes of binge eating in that short space of time ingest large amounts of food, prefer high-calorie foods, sometimes secretly eat, have tried more than once lose weight and due to the alternation between fasting and indigestion undergo variations in weight.

With all this comes after the feelings of disgust toward themselves and depression. It is quite common to make diet constantly. Remain in a permanent state of deprivation, so that when its resolution to continue the scheme have the feeling disappears you have to eat large amounts to make up for past privations. Read the rest of this entry »

Such as anorexia and bulimia, food addiction is often linked to emotional problems.
The root of the problem is not what you eat, but why, so that a unit becomes very difficult to overcome by oneself.

Scientists have shown that electrical activity generated in certain areas of the brain is responsible for that, given certain experiences, we feel pain or pleasure. Sufferers seek with self-induced change addictive behaviors: repeating specific actions to bring them to the brain’s nerve cells produce an activity that generates a specific feeling.

Each person develops a particular way to address the fear, anxiety, stress, pain or guilt. Some are able to directly address the problem, but many resort to drinking, drugs or overwork. For others become chronic headaches, stomach or back. Read the rest of this entry »

Brittle bones

A disease of high incidence in some countries and is caused by a calcium deficiency is osteoporosis. It is characterized by decreased bone mass. The affected bones are more porous and break more easily than normal bone. There are common wrist fractures (radio), vertebrae and hip, but can affect any bone.

Osteoporosis affects women especially after menopause, but also occurs in men. Adequate calcium intake from childhood helps prevent this disease.

Another disease caused by calcium deficiency is rickets, which causes skeletal deformities. Rickets is caused by a decrease in the mineralization of bone and cartilage due to low levels of calcium and phosphorus in the blood as a result of a deficiency of vitamin D. Read the rest of this entry »

While everyone seems to know that it is necessary, very few people consume minimal amounts of calcium, hence the bone diseases are so common.

Statistics show that in Argentina between 40 and 50 percent of young men and women, and between 30 and 40 percent of those over 25 years consume less than 50 percent of the recommended calcium intake for age.

This calcium deficiency and its persistence throughout life, warning about a widespread nutritional problem, since it is one of the agents responsible for the high incidence of osteoporosis in adulthood, as well as the frequency of fractures, says Dr. Maria Luz de Portela, a professor at the Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, UBA. Read the rest of this entry »