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They promise quick cures and easy solutions to all kinds of conditions, from obesity and cancer to AIDS and Alzheimer’s disease. They can range from herbal supplements to untested devices and health-related treatments.

But consumers who buy some of these products can only lose their money. These products can even cause serious damage to health, and many of them can be expensive for the patient because health insurance rarely covers expenses. Read the rest of this entry »

Eating large amounts of soy may reduce the risk of developing a breathing problem known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), researchers reported.

Smoking is the major risk factor for COPD, the team said Dr. Andy H. Lee, of the Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Australia, in his article published in the journal Respiratory Research.

“Other factors, such as diet and environmental exposures protect or contribute to the development of the disease,” added the experts.

The team studied 278 patients with COPD (244 men and 34 women) between 50 and 75 years, diagnosed in the last four years. The authors also recruited 340 people (272 men and 68 women) without the disease.

The control group consumed more soy per day (about 60 grams) than patients with COPD (about 45 grams). The risk of COPD was significantly reduced among those who ate more soy. Read the rest of this entry »

The study also confirms that people who eat lots of vegetables, fruit and fish are less likely to develop symptoms of the disease.

The study, conducted by scientists at the University of London, analyzed data from nearly 3,500 public employees with an average age of 55. Each participant completed a questionnaire about their eating habits and self-analysis about their risk of depression, and these data were compared five years later with depression levels of participants.

“Our findings suggest that eating fruits, vegetables and fish may protect against the development of depressive symptoms,” say the authors in the Brisith Journal of Psychiatry (British Journal of Psychiatry).

“However, a diet rich in processed meats, chocolates, sweets and sugar, fried food, refined grains and high-fat dairy products may increase the vulnerability of people to this disease,” he added. Read the rest of this entry »

British scientists created a pill tomato baptized with the name “Ateronon”, which is able to break down fatty deposits in the arteries and thus help prevent heart disease and strokes.

The Ateronon or Tomato Pill was developed by Cambridge Theranostics, a biotechnology company that employs scientists from the University of Cambridge.

An initial trial in 150 patients with heart disease found that taking the pill once daily, could not only stop but reverse the buildup of fatty deposits in artery walls in just two months and no side effects.

The large-scale trials will begin this year at Cambridge and in the USA, Italy and Finland.

Today heart disease is one of the biggest murderers in the world. UK has one of the highest rates with 120,000 deaths annually and 70,000 deaths from stroke. Read the rest of this entry »

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways characterized by recurrent episodes of obstructive. The tract inflammation aéreasprovoca contractions in smooth muscles around the bronchial tubes with the consequent narrowing making it difficult to breathe. Hence, the patient delivers a hissing sound characteristic of asthma during exhalación.Aunque approximately 85 percent of asthmatics fail to be properly treated after symptoms ofa variable period of years (even in many cases improves at puberty) should not be left untreated child to develop freely.

The factors that precipitate asthma attacks are:

* Viral Infections
* Snuff smoke
* Gases emanating from synthetic paints
* Irritants in general
* Exercise and emotions
* Inhaling cold air
* Allergic reactions to certain foods, medication pollen, spores, hair of some animals, mites, dust and cockroaches.

It is the most frequent haematological disorder in childhood and is characterized by a decrease in the concentration of red blood cells (RBC) and hemoglobin in the blood under the values considered borderline or normal.

The function of hemoglobin, the red pigment of blood, is to carry oxygen from the alveoli to the various tissues of the body and take the waste product, carbon dioxide.

When the amount of hemoglobin is insufficient, this limits the ability to carry oxygen to body cells. This situation affects the functioning of the body and in the case of children, affects their development, growth and school performance until this condition is called anemia. Read the rest of this entry »

Breakfast

Make a strong and varied breakfast is essential to our health and our physical and intellectual performance throughout the morning. After the fast of the night, many hours without eating, you have to eat varied and plentiful. Many people have no appetite for such early hours.

In this case, mid-morning so must be something essential. We have breakfast at our pleasure: from the Anglo-Saxon style breakfast (eggs, beans, bacon, butter, milk or tea, juice) but the bacon would be better without it, the most common in Spain and very complete (juice, milk, toast , olive oil, cereals).

The important thing is to eat at breakfast a significant amount of carbohydrates give us energy. It is also very healthy addition to breakfast 7 to 8 almonds, excellent for skin, eyes and cardiovascular system a couple of nuts, are also very good for the heart.
Finally, adding that thanks to abundant breakfast arrive at the food with less hunger, which also help us to not get fat.

Dinner

Starting at 7 pm our metabolism slows down. Our bodies are governed by an internal clock, according to which there are moments of peak performance and activity, and rest of its energy.

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The possible risks of simultaneous use of allopathic or traditional with natural stems from the perception that herbs are harmless or “healthier” or “softer” than allopathic drugs.

However, this belief can generate more than an inconvenience. “The herbal drugs containing active substances as well as traditional medicines, as drug interactions and may have unwanted side effects.

Concurrent use of herbal drugs and allopathic drugs can lead to prescribed therapy does not produce the expected results or adverse events that occur to the patient, “explains Paola Tapia, a teacher at the School of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the U. Andres Bello Chile.

“Although it is commonly found in scientific literature reports of interactions between allopathic drugs, herbal and medicinal plants, there is documented evidence that concomitant use may in some cases alter the blood concentration is expected to achieve with the administration of drugs, leading to see it increased or decreased, “he adds.

“When a drug concentration in the blood reaches higher than therapeutic, we face a greater risk of occurrence of adverse effects and when the plasma is less than desired, the therapy does not achieve the desired effect. For example, There is evidence showing that the concurrent or simultaneous use of herbal drugs containing active substances in garlic and oral anticoagulants, a decrease of plasma concentration of anticoagulant. Likewise, the simultaneous use of St. John’s Wort and certain antidepressants leads to increased plasma concentration of these “, explains the pharmaceutical chemist.

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