A balanced diet rich in fruits and vegetables, has long been part of advice on nutrition to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. Studies are now going further ...
Cons of type 2 diabetes, only green vegetables protect
The first publication (1), a meta-study (the researchers grouped all value studies done on the subject and have converted their results to achieve a result that says the state of science on the subject), the effects of increased consumption of fruits, vegetables or both are not significant with regard to type 2 diabetes. In contrast, individuals who consume more green leafy vegetables (like spinach or chard) saw their risk of developing type 2 diabetes reduced by 14%.
Why the greens are they useful against diabetes?
The reasons why green vegetables help fight against type 2 diabetes are not known very clearly. Historically, scientists believed that the antioxidant activity of vegetables that prevents some chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, by fighting against free radicals which has been shown that they can cause an early onset. But the leafy greens are among the richest in antioxidants ...
Friday, August 27, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
We eat too soft!
We eat too soft! With changing food habits, we eat and nibble more food and sugary soft. Finally, we chew enough, leading to adverse consequences on our weight and our teeth.
Less chewed, the more you eat
When we eat soft food, chewing is unimportant. But chewing strengthens our feeling of satiety. Thus we tend to eat more food when they have a soft consistency (hamburger, for example) because they swallowed more quickly but also because the satiety signal arrives later.
Chewing too little teeth alters
In the long run, jaws working less and less and the bones are no longer stimulated. Accordingly, the teeth become less resistant.
And who says eating soft, says eating sticky, sugary and fatty foods. Result, caries and tartar grows, and the gum is assaulted.
And finally, since chewing is reduced, the production of saliva is reduced. N
ow it has a self-cleaning.
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Less chewed, the more you eat
When we eat soft food, chewing is unimportant. But chewing strengthens our feeling of satiety. Thus we tend to eat more food when they have a soft consistency (hamburger, for example) because they swallowed more quickly but also because the satiety signal arrives later.
Chewing too little teeth alters
In the long run, jaws working less and less and the bones are no longer stimulated. Accordingly, the teeth become less resistant.
And who says eating soft, says eating sticky, sugary and fatty foods. Result, caries and tartar grows, and the gum is assaulted.
And finally, since chewing is reduced, the production of saliva is reduced. N
ow it has a self-cleaning.
Listen
Read phonetically
Monday, August 23, 2010
Indoor pollution
Indoor pollution: even the politicians are concerned!
Between March and May 2010, the air quality inside offices and homes of 35 MPs and senators, and Secretary of State for Environment, Chantal Jouanno was analyzed by investigators UFC-Que Select.
Result: 29 of these places have made a living air quality "bad", the other 7 do not exceed the word "average." In other words, in none of the homes tested the air quality has been described as "good"!
Benzene and formaldehyde, carcinogenic substances, were specifically detected in the samples. In some homes, these pollutants exceeded four times the minimum rate recommended. For formaldehyde, this was especially the case for the sample collected from the member Jean Mallot. For benzene, the MP Georges Colombier received the highest value. Conversely, the lowest rates were obtained among members André Flajolet and Jerome Lambert.
Wishing to draw attention to this widespread public health problem, UFC-Que Choisir "calls on legislators, especially those who participated in this survey, to act by adopting a Great Law of the fight against air pollution Internal.
Between March and May 2010, the air quality inside offices and homes of 35 MPs and senators, and Secretary of State for Environment, Chantal Jouanno was analyzed by investigators UFC-Que Select.
Result: 29 of these places have made a living air quality "bad", the other 7 do not exceed the word "average." In other words, in none of the homes tested the air quality has been described as "good"!
Benzene and formaldehyde, carcinogenic substances, were specifically detected in the samples. In some homes, these pollutants exceeded four times the minimum rate recommended. For formaldehyde, this was especially the case for the sample collected from the member Jean Mallot. For benzene, the MP Georges Colombier received the highest value. Conversely, the lowest rates were obtained among members André Flajolet and Jerome Lambert.
Wishing to draw attention to this widespread public health problem, UFC-Que Choisir "calls on legislators, especially those who participated in this survey, to act by adopting a Great Law of the fight against air pollution Internal.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Orientation and Gender Identity
Orientation and Identity sexuelle Chacun feels very own personal sexuality. And there are two very important and complementary aspects: gender identity that matches the gender (I am man or woman?)
Sexual Identity
Gender identity is the feeling of being fully man or woman. It's not as simple as that may seem! Indeed, outside of anatomy and hormones, there is also a social conditioning. Everyone learns to become a man or woman of his environment, because we do not deal with a little boy as we take care of a little girl. We do not talk to them in the same way, we do not interpret their attitudes in the same way, we do not ask them the same things ...
So when everything goes just, and this is the case most of the time, everything is obvious and classic! As adults, we get people feeling fully men attracted to women, or women fully women attracted to men ...
Transexuality
But sometimes you may become a grown man, and do not feel very manly, then there is suffering, that of a sexual identity slightly felt. At the extreme, we can meet men who perceive themselves as women: this is called transsexualism. On women, it is also possible to feel very unfeminine, to live poorly in her female identity. This can even cause a female to think, to consider, as a man. And it also transsexualism.
Along with this question of identity, there is another personal aspect of sexuality: sexual orientation is. I can be a man and be attracted to women. This is the most common situation! But I can also feel 100% manly man and be attracted to men. I feel so gay.
And I can be a woman, like most women attracted to men, or a woman attracted to women.
The difference between sexual identity and orientation is sometimes misunderstood. An example: it is sometimes said that homosexuals are effeminate. If this is true for some gay men (that is noticed more than others), we simply can not make a generalization: A gay man may well have a strong masculine identity and not feel feminine at all .
And it is the same for women. A very feminine woman, a healthy woman's sex, may be attracted to women.
We must therefore separate identity and sexual orientation that may not have a clear link between them and which lead to very different problems.
Thus, what is often suffer a difficulty in accepting to live with his sexual identity. If I am a woman and my breasts bother me, I judge myself as ugly woman, I may be struggling to accept me woman! This gives a lack of confidence ...
For sexual orientation, homosexual way when obvious suffering is that of acceptance by the surroundings, and society that domestic personal suffering. It is also necessary to know how to locate, which can also ask many questions ....
Sexual Identity
Gender identity is the feeling of being fully man or woman. It's not as simple as that may seem! Indeed, outside of anatomy and hormones, there is also a social conditioning. Everyone learns to become a man or woman of his environment, because we do not deal with a little boy as we take care of a little girl. We do not talk to them in the same way, we do not interpret their attitudes in the same way, we do not ask them the same things ...
So when everything goes just, and this is the case most of the time, everything is obvious and classic! As adults, we get people feeling fully men attracted to women, or women fully women attracted to men ...
Transexuality
But sometimes you may become a grown man, and do not feel very manly, then there is suffering, that of a sexual identity slightly felt. At the extreme, we can meet men who perceive themselves as women: this is called transsexualism. On women, it is also possible to feel very unfeminine, to live poorly in her female identity. This can even cause a female to think, to consider, as a man. And it also transsexualism.
Along with this question of identity, there is another personal aspect of sexuality: sexual orientation is. I can be a man and be attracted to women. This is the most common situation! But I can also feel 100% manly man and be attracted to men. I feel so gay.
And I can be a woman, like most women attracted to men, or a woman attracted to women.
The difference between sexual identity and orientation is sometimes misunderstood. An example: it is sometimes said that homosexuals are effeminate. If this is true for some gay men (that is noticed more than others), we simply can not make a generalization: A gay man may well have a strong masculine identity and not feel feminine at all .
And it is the same for women. A very feminine woman, a healthy woman's sex, may be attracted to women.
We must therefore separate identity and sexual orientation that may not have a clear link between them and which lead to very different problems.
Thus, what is often suffer a difficulty in accepting to live with his sexual identity. If I am a woman and my breasts bother me, I judge myself as ugly woman, I may be struggling to accept me woman! This gives a lack of confidence ...
For sexual orientation, homosexual way when obvious suffering is that of acceptance by the surroundings, and society that domestic personal suffering. It is also necessary to know how to locate, which can also ask many questions ....
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Backache, headache for our teens glued to their screen!
Backache, headache for our teens glued to their screen! In addition to promoting physical inactivity and overweight, the hours spent in front of a TV screen, computer and console games are also accused of giving the wrong back and cause headaches. What is it really?
It is a fact, youth have more backache and a headache!
The pain in the back, neck and shoulders, as are headache, do not just affect adults but also teenagers. Among young people aged 12-19 years, the main concern felt pain the head, immediately followed by the back. The stomach ache is only in third position. But we also find that the complaints are more frequent. For example, between 1991 and 2001 they increased by studies, 22-50% for males and 44-50% among girls.
The decrease in physical activity, poor posture, a binder too heavy, are all factors that could contribute to the increasing frequency of pain among adolescents. Unless the time spent watching TV or a computer, which has also sharply increased in parallel, that explains this ... A European study helps answer this question.
The screen is it generates pain in the adolescent?
This study included 30,000 adolescents aged 11-15, living in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland. They were asked to evaluate the average time they spend on daily activities on screen televisions, computers (work and / or leisure), game console.
They should also indicate the frequency with which they felt pain in the neck, lower back, headaches, etc.. (Less than once monthly, once, twice a month ...). Finally, the authors took into account the physical activity of candidates.
They find that among boys, 15-31% are prone to headaches and 11-21% suffer from backache. For girls the percentages are 26-44% for headache and 11-26% for the back. Finally, subjects who complain the most pain are those who spend the most time in front of a screen. The activities on screen thus increase the risk of pain in adolescents.
Caution, however, this relationship between screen and pain is not very strong. This means that activities on screen are not the only factor generating pain.
It is a fact, youth have more backache and a headache!
The pain in the back, neck and shoulders, as are headache, do not just affect adults but also teenagers. Among young people aged 12-19 years, the main concern felt pain the head, immediately followed by the back. The stomach ache is only in third position. But we also find that the complaints are more frequent. For example, between 1991 and 2001 they increased by studies, 22-50% for males and 44-50% among girls.
The decrease in physical activity, poor posture, a binder too heavy, are all factors that could contribute to the increasing frequency of pain among adolescents. Unless the time spent watching TV or a computer, which has also sharply increased in parallel, that explains this ... A European study helps answer this question.
The screen is it generates pain in the adolescent?
This study included 30,000 adolescents aged 11-15, living in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland. They were asked to evaluate the average time they spend on daily activities on screen televisions, computers (work and / or leisure), game console.
They should also indicate the frequency with which they felt pain in the neck, lower back, headaches, etc.. (Less than once monthly, once, twice a month ...). Finally, the authors took into account the physical activity of candidates.
They find that among boys, 15-31% are prone to headaches and 11-21% suffer from backache. For girls the percentages are 26-44% for headache and 11-26% for the back. Finally, subjects who complain the most pain are those who spend the most time in front of a screen. The activities on screen thus increase the risk of pain in adolescents.
Caution, however, this relationship between screen and pain is not very strong. This means that activities on screen are not the only factor generating pain.
Friday, August 13, 2010
5 criteria to choose the right schoolbag
5 criteria to choose the right car table are so many models and at all prices, it is not easy to choose the right school bag for her children. If you are unsure, here are the main criteria you should consider.
A good binder is light
Once completed, the binder must not weigh more than 10% of the weight of the child. It is best to choose a small satchel, especially since surveys consistently show the subject in reality, children are much more often double, with a schoolbag that weighs more in the 8 kg.
The package is to be practical and not wider than shoulders
It is a criterion to meet: no binders wider than shoulders. It must be adapted to the level of education, age and morphology. But also easy to use and therefore easy to handle.
Rigid and durable
The child who tends to store its supplies in bulk, a rigid and resistant binder is preferable not to hurt his back.
With wide shoulder straps and padded
Large padded needed for comfort. Remember that the whole weight of the schoolbag weighs on the shoulders.
Ideally strap keeps the binder in a good position and limit its movements.
Briefcase on wheels or not?
The advantage of wheels is obvious, provided they do not have stairs to climb. So the question you should ask before making his choice on a briefcase on wheels! If you live on the 2nd floor without elevator and your child's class is also located on the 2nd floor, a wheeled briefcase has more disadvantages than advantages, because it is heavier!
And wear something heavy like a binder for example, children must learn to do it properly to avoid back problems. As explained in the Ministry of Education, do not lean the torso forward, keeping your legs straight, but bend them as much as possible and always lift the load as close to the body.
A good binder is light
Once completed, the binder must not weigh more than 10% of the weight of the child. It is best to choose a small satchel, especially since surveys consistently show the subject in reality, children are much more often double, with a schoolbag that weighs more in the 8 kg.
The package is to be practical and not wider than shoulders
It is a criterion to meet: no binders wider than shoulders. It must be adapted to the level of education, age and morphology. But also easy to use and therefore easy to handle.
Rigid and durable
The child who tends to store its supplies in bulk, a rigid and resistant binder is preferable not to hurt his back.
With wide shoulder straps and padded
Large padded needed for comfort. Remember that the whole weight of the schoolbag weighs on the shoulders.
Ideally strap keeps the binder in a good position and limit its movements.
Briefcase on wheels or not?
The advantage of wheels is obvious, provided they do not have stairs to climb. So the question you should ask before making his choice on a briefcase on wheels! If you live on the 2nd floor without elevator and your child's class is also located on the 2nd floor, a wheeled briefcase has more disadvantages than advantages, because it is heavier!
And wear something heavy like a binder for example, children must learn to do it properly to avoid back problems. As explained in the Ministry of Education, do not lean the torso forward, keeping your legs straight, but bend them as much as possible and always lift the load as close to the body.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Your grocery list to face the season of colds and flu
You probably do your best to provide a balanced diet for your family to keep them healthy. But did you know that our immune system is so hard to keep us healthy? Healthy choices we make, such as the fact of consuming dairy products and low-fat protein, products made from whole grains and fruits and vegetables, enhance our immune system.
However, during the season of colds and flu, it is important to give an additional boost to our immune system to protect us against infection. You can strengthen your immune system by adding these foods to your grocery list for the season of colds and flu.
A good bowl of soup to your health! The soup is an essential food when ill. The portion size can be easily adapted - making it a perfect dish to satisfy the capricious appetite of a sick person. Indeed, nothing beats a good bowl used to treat a weak stomach or a sore throat, or a good vegetable soup (mushroom, celery or carrots) to boost the immune system. The steam emerges from a hot soup can help relieve nasal congestion and calm the tremors that accompany the fever. What about chicken soup? When you are ill, our body mounts an attack defense against pathogens and nutrients contained in the cup chicken can strengthen the immune system during this battle in order to eliminate these symptoms.
Long live the green! Difficult to admit that our mothers are always right, but it's true: we must eat our vegetables!
However, during the season of colds and flu, it is important to give an additional boost to our immune system to protect us against infection. You can strengthen your immune system by adding these foods to your grocery list for the season of colds and flu.
A good bowl of soup to your health! The soup is an essential food when ill. The portion size can be easily adapted - making it a perfect dish to satisfy the capricious appetite of a sick person. Indeed, nothing beats a good bowl used to treat a weak stomach or a sore throat, or a good vegetable soup (mushroom, celery or carrots) to boost the immune system. The steam emerges from a hot soup can help relieve nasal congestion and calm the tremors that accompany the fever. What about chicken soup? When you are ill, our body mounts an attack defense against pathogens and nutrients contained in the cup chicken can strengthen the immune system during this battle in order to eliminate these symptoms.
Long live the green! Difficult to admit that our mothers are always right, but it's true: we must eat our vegetables!
