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The lifestyle, the factor that most health conditions

47% of the Spanish recognized the sedentary, which places our country as one of the most inactive in Europe.

The lifestyle we lead is the factor which largely determines our health , with a specific weight of 43%, followed by genetic inheritance (27%), the environment or environment in which they live (19%) and health care system (11%). Are the data collected by the Book of Health of the BBVA Foundation and Hospital Clinic of Barcelona. It draws attention to diseases that are at the top in mortality can be partly prevented with a healthy daily habits.

Fatal and preventable.

If you look at the main causes of death, the book emphasizes the circulatory system diseases (33%) and tumors (27%), followed by respiratory system diseases (10.5%). Also draws attention to domestic accidents, responsible for one death every five minutes in the EU countries and are the leading cause of death among children under 35 years.

If we add to this chronic health problems or long-standing physician-diagnosed more frequently, have arthritis and rheumatic problems (21.3%), hypertension (20.7%), high cholesterol ( 16.1%) and allergies (12.3%), according to latest data from the National Health Survey.

However, when these professionals analyze lifestyle and risk factors associated with these conditions, we warn, certain risk factors associated with diseases such as cardiovascular disease or cancer are modifiable, including excessive consumption of alcohol, snuff smoke, physical inactivity and obesity or diets high in fat and low in fiber.
Are we aware of this?

Experts issue recommendations in the book on healthy living habits such as exercise and healthy diet.
Do we exercise and take care of our diet?

If we look at the figures, 47% of the Spanish recognized the sedentary, one of the highest rates for the countries of our environment. Moreover, Spain has 15% of obese men and women, and the trend is upward, which leads him to occupy a position between the EU countries. This increase in the proportion of obese individuals is higher in men and in the age group over 65 years.
Smoking, leading cause of preventable disease and death.

The data is alarming: cigarettes are responsible for 30% of all cancer cases. Thus, the mortality rate of people who smoke three times that of nonsmokers.

Let the figures. In Spain, 34% of the Spanish more than 16 years of smoke, that is, about 12 million people, according to the latest National Health Survey. If half the world’s smokers hiciese definitely off the gesture of smoking, avoid 30 million deaths worldwide in the next 25 years.

On deaf ears.

Every so often, this type of studies of health professionals find their echoes in the media. In fact, increasingly, these investigations are disseminated through blogs such as the Health Insurance Nectar , which contribute to raising awareness about health problems that could be improved with changes easily affordable in the day for each person.
In these studies alert us with objective data and practical advice for the losses of many of our daily habits and prevention as the best weapon to prevent death and improve our quality of life. However, judging by the numbers, medical advice and the evidence seems to fall on deaf ears.

In this case, in the Book of Health, health professionals respond in a language accessible through 1,500 questions on health issues in areas ranging from healthy habits and prevention to diagnosis and treatment of a variety of diseases . The work aims to bring the latest medical knowledge and help citizens better understand some common terms and concepts as they relate to health professionals

Child obesity, ie, overweight in children is a growing reality for 15 years: more and more children and adolescents are over weight, both in size and age. For example, a 10 year old boy weighs 7 kilos.

In addition to genetic and environmental factors, childhood obesity is the cause in the lack of healthy food education by the adults around children. Parents, brothers, uncles, grandparents and teachers we forget that part of education is to teach the child to eat a variety of food and encourage them to try new flavors.

In the fast pace of our lives we forget that the main cause of child obesity is poor nutrition education, letting the child choose his own pleasure, which always tastes lean toward sweet or too salty.

It is key to help the child to eat everything, leaving no free choice feeding to avoid future health problems. A balanced diet is important, but should not be imposed, but agreed with the child. It is also important to perform daily physical activity, which helps maintain healthy body and heart.

Treatment and Counseling
The methods to reduce the degree of obesity in terms of behavior modification should first analyze the behavior focused on actions related to food (type and frequency of food consumed) and the background and consumption behavior food).

We must lead the way with a family basis. The family needs to get a set of skills for behavior change is appropriate. Parents should be aware of the poor eating habits and activity of your child (or family in general), and the behavior of their parents to the problem.

Behavior should be amended in a slow and gradual, but permanent, making small changes only when they have managed to establish previous changes.

Emotional support is very necessary during adolescence, a period in which worsen the emotional problems of children with obesity and family, so it is advisable to work in groups to support family impact.

Obesity must be detected and treated early to prevent complications and persistence in adulthood. Successful treatment of obesity lies in the reduction of caloric intake relative to energy expenditure, bearing in mind that eating patterns continue to be inculcated eating habits and appropriate lifestyle that promote long term weight loss in relation to their size and age and to maintain your ideal weight without affecting the growth and development of children.

The three pillars of treatment of obesity are the modification of intake, increased physical activity and changing eating behavior. Treatment of obesity in children is usually done in three phases:

a) Phase of start of treatment: do not claim to reduce weight but also stabilize and instill eating habits and healthy lifestyle. Therefore requires a change in behavior around the family.

b) Phase adherence to treatment: You must ensure understanding, acceptance and implementation of the proposed treatment and can start to set goals to start the weight loss. It required close monitoring of the child to determine their capacity to adhere to treatment and continue to advance in it.

c) Maintenance phase: During this stage we must continue to monitor the consolidation of eating habits and regular physical exercise.

This disease is associated with factors such as genetics, environment, diet consumed and lifestyle. It is known that those with a matrimonial family who has had breast cancer have a higher risk of contracting the disease as having the first period before age twelve or menopause after fifty-five. Also, some benign breast diseases such as atypical epithelial hyperplasia intensive surveillance.

There are other risk factors that although issue should be considered as obesity, alcohol consumption, hormone replacement therapy (estrogen) for many years, feeding and first pregnancy after age 30.

Prevention is key. They are great allies for help, daily exercise, walking, gymnastics, aerobic or any outdoor sport. Current studies confirm that cancer cells thrive in an oxygenated environment.

Exercising daily and deep breathing helps to carry oxygen to the cell level. This new oxygen therapy, is otherwise used to target cancer cells, and also serves to relieve stress, another evil that is associated with malignant tumors.

Remember that cancer is a disease of the body, but also the mind and spirit. A woman who refuses to be folded and fight with tenacity to overcome it, is most likely to survive. The anger, bitterness and resentment, blaming others, or cringe and the thought of death, put the body in an atmosphere of tension and ill suited to resist and which tend to diminish the immune response, ie calls “defenses” of the body. It is important to the diagnosis, learn to relax and think that they will all evidence winner. Read the rest of this entry »

Presence of diabetes in patients with depression and symptoms of depression more often than in the entire population. This association may be due to increased risk of depression in patients with diabetes, increased risk of diabetes in patients with depression, or both.

Several factors associated with depression symptoms, including obesity, healthy lifestyle (sedentary, high-calorie, etc.). And activation of the neuroendocrine system and inflammatory responses may cause insulin resistance and diabetes onset. Furthermore, the diagnosis of diabetes or suffer the burden of its complications can also cause depression.

One study conducted repeated measurements of fasting blood to assess whether depressive symptoms predict the occurrence of diabetes mellitus type 2 (dm2) and whether participants with T2DM are likely to present significant depressive symptoms and compared with the population without neither of the two at the beginning of the disease. Read the rest of this entry »