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Milk Fresh from Nature

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

MilkMilk is a valuable addition to food and is highly recommended by natural medicine. Only it is not always tolerated by the body, nor is it pleasing to all palates. Since milk is processed into other products, their properties are also adapted to the needs of an adult human body. Benefits of milk and its importance

Benefits:

• It is a valuable food, almost complete, its only shortcoming is in the vitamin C and iron.

• Has protein (3.5%) in the form of casein, well balanced in essential amino acids

• It also contains carbohydrates (sugars), 5%, in the form of lactose and fat.

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Pasteurised Milk

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Milk CartonMost of us consume milk we buy in the supermarket with the tranquility that is a food that gives us our health benefits. But do we really know what happens to milk, so we can have that assurance?. If we look at the package we will see that it says “pasteurized milk. Now if we did a survey, most people would not clear what this process.

Well, that’s what we want to know and investigate the matter in order to share these things are so common place, but we do not know. The original milk obtained at the bottom of the cow “or the appropriate animal, has a high content of milk components, such as water, fat, protein and a number of bacteria and chemicals that may damage the body, which is why, for distribution in the population undergoes pasteurization.

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WHAT IS THE TYPE OF EXERCISE MORE EFFECTIVE ?

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Paraplegic subjects unable to walk have a 40% decrease in BMD within the pelvis and 25% in the lower limbs after a year of detention. Patients undergoing spaceflight or the absence of gravity have a 0.5% loss of bone calcium per month. It is unclear if this negative balance of bone is the result mainly due to increased absorption or a decrease in training. It has been shown that passive mechanical stress on bone of a paraplegic may decrease bone loss.

On the other hand, several studies have shown that athletes have between 25 and 30% more BMD than a commonplace subject with normal activity, including overhead activities including walking have a greater impact on bone than those who are swimming or cycling. Postmenopausal adult women subjected to work overload after 9 months the lumbar spine increased by 1.6% while the control women have decreased by 3.6% from baseline. In children under stress and impact activities have increased both in femoral neck BMD as radio, trochanter and lumbar spine.


In a longitudinal study in which 22 young cyclists were subjected to 10 hours per week of exercise bike for 2 years, BMD was lower than control subjects. All this helps to understand that only the high-resistance exercise and short-term impact stimulates BMD and that this effect is local and not systemic thing that becomes clear when we see that the cortical area of the humerus of the active arm of a tennis player holds up to 20% more bone than the contralateral arm

Only women who walked over 10 miles per week were so slight but significant higher BMD than those who walked only 1.5 km per week. Moreover postmenopausal women after 6 months of a program that included jumps, there was an increase of 4% in BMD. Finally do 10 minutes of work load is more productive than 30 minutes without charge for bone mass, this has been clearly demonstrated also in animals.

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EFFECTS OF EXERCISE & BONE?

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

What is the mechanism MEDIATOR BETWEEN THE EFFECTS OF EXERCISE AND BONE?

One of the most important factors related to structural characteristics. The functional demand imposed on the bone is a major determinant in the structural characteristics of this. The intensity of the applied stress on the bone segment affects its geometry, its microarchitecture and composition of the matrix. Definitely the intensity of the burden for the recently described effects is important and not the duration of effort, a minimum strain (a strain is equal to one unit of strength by amending the arquitctura moments bone) is required to produce an effect on bone. It has developed a theory which translate mecanoestatos impact force signals that allow an imbalance between osteoblast activity (which builds bone) and osteoclasts (bone absorbing). It is not clear if that signal increases or decreases osteoblastic activity osteoclastic or both. The strain imposed on the active bone osteocyte initiating an increase in the production of prostacyclin and the osteoblast produces prostacyclin and prostaglandin E2, minutes later it has been shown that the osteocyte is an increase of glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase and 24 hours later an increase in mRNA for growth factors.

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At What Age Has an Effect on The Bone?

Friday, January 15th, 2010

First we have to take into account that the growth of bone mass is acquired until the third decade and remains more or less constant until 50 and then begins to decline, there are few studies that have highlighted that the intake of calcium with physical activity completed in the first 30 years of life allows these individuals end up at that age with a higher bone mass, cross-sectional studies have also shown that subjects until 50 years of age who participate in exercise programs have an average between 8 and 12% higher BMD than their peers without exercise, after 50 years this difference is only 6%. In subjects over 50 years has been observed in 1% increments in BMD (4).

26 children under 11 years were subjected to a gymnastics training 3 hours per day and three hours watching television. A second group of the same age was only 1 hour a day of intense exercise and 4 hours of television. We obtained a much higher correlation between BMD and number of hours of exercise in the most active group of both arms and spine. The Amsterdam study on the health and growth habit of life correlated with lumbar BMD at 30 years of age.

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Low Bone Mass & Architecture Poor

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Osteoporosis is a systemic disease characterized by low bone mass and architecture poor, both increase bone fragility leaving it susceptible to fracture.

One in three postmenopausal women in particular have advanced osteopenia francs osteporosis values. Interestingly, this decline in BMD was significantly correlated with levels of sarcopenia, ie loss of muscle tissue, which characterizes the sedentary elderly. This correlation is less significant in men and women of the same age but who remain physically active. Per year in Europe is recorded about 650,000 hip fractures, which cause a 20% mortality and 50% partial or complete disability.

Other variables or factors that may affect bone metabolism, bone would be the use of psychoactive drugs, loss of muscle strength. In fractures, loss of stability and balance, and lost some senses like hearing and sight, predispose to falls and fractures.

In this article we will discuss the relationship between exercise and bone and try to give some idea about the intensity of exercise for optimizing exercise and diet for bone health.

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How to detect the osteorporosis

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

osteoporosis

Unfortunately a significant number of people is caused by the discovery of fractures in typical places – such as hip or wrist. You can also easily fractured vertebrae, may appear a pain in the waist or a striking deformity of the hump-shaped back.

However, as is common in medicine, prevention is the best ally. So when a woman enters menopause, or already suffering the advance notice of what is called menopause (hot flashes, etc..) Should consult your doctor who will take steps to diagnose osteoporosis, avoid or prevent progression .

You can do many tests, but none is specific: there is no laboratory test to diagnose osteoporosis.

Radiographs taken in the areas of the body most frequently occurring fractures, only allow the diagnosis when the disease progressed too.

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