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Spanish researchers conclude that obesity can be inherited from the mother’s mitochondrial genes. Also of interest in itself, this discovery is a possible action against obesity, if it can regulate the amount of mitochondrial DNA by certain drugs.

Mitochondria are tiny structures inside cells that have the function of supplying energy to them, in fact, provide 90% of the energy they need. Are characterized by their own DNA (mtDNA), distinct from DNA in the nucleus of body cells (nuclear DNA), with which must not be confused.

An important difference between the two DNA’s is that, at least in mammals, nuclear is inherited from both parents, while the mitochondrial inherited only from the mother, because in the moment of fertilization the mitochondria of sperm does not penetrate the egg .

The deficiencies or mutations in mitochondrial DNA can cause disease, sometimes very serious, especially degenerative nerve and muscle cells. It could also be at the origin of certain cases of diabetes, cancer and stroke, for example.

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Natural fruit juices and vegetables are particularly useful for certain things. Each fruit and vegetable brings its own complement of minerals, trace elements, vitamins, and enzymes.

Here are some of the vegetable and fruit juices, and why they are so appreciated.

Cucumber Juice: It is a natural diuretic, helps eliminate excess water from the body. It also helps to promote hair growth because of its high content of sulfur and silicon.

Carrot Juice: it is the best base for most vegetable juice blends, due to its mild sweet flavor. It blends well with virtually every kind of juice, including fruit juices. It is the best alkalizing for those systems that suffer from heartburn because of the excess food, alcohol or sugar. Carrot juice contains vitamins B complex and vitamins A, C, D, E and K. Combined with the juice of lettuce, beet and turnip, also serves as a rebuilder of healthy tissue. This juice is good especially to treat skin problems.

Watercress Juice: it is useful for women prone to be anemic, and nettle (natural diuretic), are bitter and should be used only in small quantities mixed with carrots, apples, juices or other soft.

Beet Juice: It’s great for cleaning the body, particularly the liver, kidneys, and gallbladder. It is also good for the production of red blood cells in the blood and improves the quality of the blood in general. It is also good when taken in the ratio of one part beet juice for every two parts of carrot juice.

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Eat breakfast every day

Your breakfast should consist of a skimmed milk product, fruit and cereals. If you do not eat breakfast, your body reacts by decreasing its metabolism, as they are not receiving food protects itself by saving energy.

Useful idea: as soon as breakfast, before will start your metabolism

Do not eat less than 1,200 calories a day

Your metabolism may lack sufficient energy to maintain its core functions and protect your metabolic rate down.

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Combine food thoroughly

Although dissociated diets are unwise, yes you can have the logic that defines them: to combine good food. For example: vegetables accompanies the meat and potato chips do not mix different proteins in a single meal (meat and eggs, meat and fish …), avoid combining proteins and starches (bread with cheese, meat and potatoes, chicken …); rice after eating pasta or rice takes more than a fruit yogurt …

Drink plenty of water and tea

Nutritionists and doctors do not tire of repeating: you have to drink at least 1.5 liters of water a day. For the body to function well, so that the skin is nice, so that our muscles and joints perform better … And, also, to help eliminate fluid and toxins fat. Drink between meals will also help fool the stomach: but be careful, drink a lot during the meal will inflate. Try to replace coffee and tea beverages by: some are soothing, cleansing, digestive, that can help you lose weight. Read the rest of this entry »

“The key to giving back to the Tortilla,” is knowing how to eat and make the body expend more energy.

All nutritionists and endocrinologists agree that weight loss should not stop eating but eat everything in moderation. Forbid yourself certain foods that you love will generate an anxiety that often leads to bingeing and many more calories than you would have provided the dreaded whim.

Also do not be fooled by food fever ligth, integral or dietary. What more food, less fattening and more satisfied hunger are the food of life: bread, vegetables, fish, olive oil … In short, all that is the Mediterranean Diet.  Read the rest of this entry »

A team of scientists from Queen Medical Center, Foundation NHS University Hospital of Nottingham, UK, have discovered that a family of drugs used to combat high blood pressure, beta-blockers, can help stop cancer metastasis breast tumor that causes the spread to other parts of the body.

The results of this research, which were presented at the European Conference on Breast Cancer held in Barcelona, in patients treated with these drugs – which work by blocking hormones that allow the spread of cancer cells – is reduced in a “significant” metastasis and thus, improved survival compared with those who did not.

The study, carried out in collaboration with experts from the University of Witten (Germany), had a total of 466 breast cancer patients were divided into three groups: those that were already under treatment for hypertension with beta -blockers, those treated with other hypertension drugs, and those not suffering from hypertension and therefore did not take treatment for it.

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Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine, U.S., have found that older age, obesity, hypertension, alcohol consumption or use of diuretics are risk factors predictive of women’s risk of developing gout, a disease produced by an accumulation of uric acid in the body, according to results of a study published in the latest issue of the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism. ”

This condition is characterized by inflammation of joints resulting from this accumulation of uric acid in the blood and, although this condition has been considered a disease more prevalent among men, more and more cases are being detected in older women advanced, the incidence has doubled in the last 20 years. Read the rest of this entry »

Some people believe that the scar is the unfinished business of cosmetic surgery, and after several procedures, inevitable scars appear.

The healing process has two main actors on the one hand, the plastic surgeon must place the scar, if possible, at the least visible by also required a suture to facilitate proper healing and on the other hand, the patient may have a better or worse scarring.

Plastic surgeons say they are the suture and the patient as cicatriz. Algunas scars that appear after a facelift, because of its location (behind the ears and scalp), often go completely unnoticed, others such as those produced after breast reduction or abdominoplasty can be hidden by underwear or a bathing suit, but is visible when the person is naked. Read the rest of this entry »

Given the association of colon cancer with lifestyle habits such as sedentary lifestyle, obesity, regular intake of red meat, or smoking, the main recommendations for cancer prevention in the general population are:

* Folate-rich diet (vegetables) and calcium (milk and derivatives), and low in fat and red meat.
* Leaving snuff consumption and avoiding excessive alcohol consumption.
* Perform regular exercise.

In medium-risk patients, ie older than 50 years without symptoms or family history, according to the criterion of your doctor may be appropriate to make, as appropriate:

* Fecal Occult Blood: 1 time per year, and if the result is positive, colonoscopy should be performed.
* Flexible sigmoidoscopy every 5 years.
* FOBT with flexible sigmoidoscopy: FOBT annually and sigmoidoscopy every 5 years, which if performed first match fecal occult blood.
* Colonoscopy every 10 years.
* Barium enema double contrast every 5 years.

The recommendation for regular screening tests in patients with colorectal cancer risk depends on the level of risk:

*Increased risk of colorectal cancer, ie patients with first-degree relative with colon cancer or adenomatous polyps diagnosed before age 60 or suffering from colon cancer in several relatives: it is recommended to conduct the study with colonoscopy every 5 years starting at age 40.

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How is it diagnosed?

The clinical history, with the description of symptoms or family history is always essential in suspected colon cancer. Among the tests to be performed, colonoscopy is the diagnostic method of choice, is the most sensitive and specific, and allows for biopsy and resection of polyps.

Other tests are useful in specific cases, such as barium enema to study intestinal areas inaccessible by colonoscopy, or CT, which allows evaluating the presence of metastases or involvement of adjacent organs and glands. May also be necessary radiography, MRI or ultrasound to facilitate the identification of metastases in certain areas.

The study of fecal occult blood test is a rapid, first line, before the suspected diagnosis of possible colon cancer, and the study of tumor markers in the blood, which have a prognostic value or to suspect the persistence of tumor after surgery.

How is it treated?

Surgical treatment with removal of the tumor, is the only curative treatment. The extent of the area to remove depends on the degree of progress or extent of the tumor, since the removal of a polyp if the cancer does not invade the intestinal mucosa yet to surgical resection of the colon. In very advanced tumors and may be necessary to complement surgical treatment with chemotherapy.

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