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If chocolate is high in fat, why is it good?

The chocolate today has become a star of the health, since its beneficial properties extend to almost all its levels, according to various studies that have proven so, but there is a turning point regarding their high fat content.

As a common factor recommendations for daily intake is one stick per day, which can range between 15 and 20 grams, but this dose is always subject to individual status and professional recommendation when there is overweight, being the type of chocolate advised, the “Black” (without milk) and half bitter (low in sugar).

Regarding the question of fat there is some good news as chocolate fat (range mentioned) would increase in a very low cholesterol, its composition is 1/ 3 oleic acid, 1/3 stearic acid and 1/3 palmitic acid:

• Oleic acid, is a healthy or mono unsaturated fat, which is also found in olive oil.
• Stearic acid, is a saturated fat, but that investigations define this particular type has a neutral effect on cholesterol.
• Palmitic acid is a saturated fat that increases cholesterol.

This means that only 1/3 of the fat in chocolate, black can ponder bad for cholesterol levels, which is regulated by the quantity consumed, resulting then in a much wider benefits.

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Tomatoes could be the key to staying slim, researchers believe, because it helps you feel fuller for longer, when incorporated in the diet.

Nutritionists have long recognized that vegetarians and other dietary trends that eat lots of fruits and vegetables are much more likely to be thin, as compared with those who follow a standard modern diet of highly processed foods.

Tomatoes are rich in a compound called lycopene, which scientists believe may help produce a greater feeling of satiety or fullness, as having the capacity to act on appetite hormones.

Researchers at the University of Reading in a small study obtained results that were statistically significant, “says Dr Julie Lovegrove, nutritional metabolism specialist who conducted the project.

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Weight loss after pregnancy is important to understand that weight loss after pregnancy should be “gradual and progressive” because most women want to regain their figure, almost immediately, which lacks coherence as a process that took nine months, can not return to normalcy for the overnight.

As a general rule, should be to aim to lose no more than 2 pounds per week, which although may seem small, the results are added and in less than two months, she’d reached equilibrium, without impairing the nutrition, which also depends on the baby.

To regain a combination of ideal weight healthy and varied diet, along with an exercise program suited to their condition, are the basis to begin the process of rebalancing the body.

It is strongly recommended the inclusion of oriental techniques such as Yoga or Tai Chi under the program to be performed, provided that the postpartum period can have consequences such as depression, which is a natural, common in these times, by which these techniques are not only beneficial to weight loss, but to combat stress and avoid the famous post-partum depression.

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Every diet requires the famous snacks or snacks that allow us to control hunger when it is present in the hours prior to scheduled meals or ingestion.

These attacks irresistible to the meal or snack after hours may be motivated by different factors ranging from extra energy expenditure, to an emotional situation such as anxiety, for example.

But to eat when this happens, without altering our diets loaded with extra calories, dietitians agree good many types of foods and not others, but in general rules seek those who lack or have very few calories obviously.

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Two recent studies and research have provided new clues regarding the control in reducing the appetite. Or, what is the same, losing weight without losing hunger.

And this is an issue facing many people who are taking as much performing a weight control diet.

The first study revealed that one of the best ways to reduce the appetite is to exercise, since according to data obtained in the investigation, apparently a 3-month program of aerobic significantly lower body fat, without changing the normal feed itself.

As said Dr. Henry Anhalt, one of the persons responsible for the investigation, the amount of weight loss and reduction of calories is directly related to blood levels of a protein called BDNF (brain derived neurotrophic factor).

In the words of Anhalt, is quite possible that the increase of this compound can suppress appetite, “noting that even the study participants had succeeded in turn to lower blood pressure.

As regards the second study, published on that occasion in the last edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that eating slowly helps you lose weight as those who, during the research-and chewing slowly made slowly, consuming around 70 calories less.

Something that we’ve already mentioned in earlier times from Healthy Living, because with slow food is achieved not only loses weight and enjoys food but savoring every bite.

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Bananas or apples. Fresh bread or toast. Skim milk or yogurt. The rise of homemade diets has sown much confusion among those who wish to practice. The answers to these questions:

Skim milk or yogurt

A glass of milk is preferable to one of yogurt. Skim milk and raw form a clot in the stomach that demand more time to be digested, so there is greater satiety for longer. Yogurt, however, is a type of milk easier to digest.

200 cubic centimeters of skim milk equals 65 calories (*)

Bananas or apples

A 100 gram banana, an apple is better than 150 grams (both red and green, they have the same calories). If the banana is ripe, will have more starch than sugar, and bring increased satiety and longer, further reducing addiction tastes. In addition, can provide much potassium, which strengthens muscles.

100 grams of banana equals 100 calories (*)

Fresh wheat bread or toast

A fresh bread is preferable to one white and/or crispy toast. Cool bread disintegration produces more work, thus causing greater satiety, while the crunchy, dried and therefore, is rapidly digested.

40 grams of bread equals 105 calories (*)

Water, tea or soft drinks, beer and wine

Water, tea, vegetable broths, fruit juices without sugar, the bitter mountain dietary or dietary instant juices are preferable to wine, beer or soft light, especially colas. The latter drinks contain gases that can swell, and in the case of queues, you can find caffeine and phosphoric acid, components that interfere with calcium absorption. Drink plenty of fluids to thin.

200 cubic centimeters of gas light is two calories. 200 cubic centimeters of regular gas is equivalent to 84 calories (*)

Semolina pasta or egg

Semolina pasta with thick laminate, or corkscrew-type bun, and cooked al dente, are preferable to those made with egg. One of the starch-containing pastes, starch becomes resistant to digestion, so it provides greater satiety, and also acts as a fiber.

One cup of semolina pasta equals 88 calories (*)

Plant more or Pumpkin

Any vegetable is better than the pumpkins. The latter are very easy to digest and separation, and absorbed very easily, causing appetite shortly. Furthermore, 300 grams of pumpkin provide the same calories as half a box of ravioli.

100 grams of pumpkin add 100 calories (*)

Milanesas soy and cereal bars

Both consumed in quantity, are inconvenient to lose weight.

(*) A man of 70 kilos and 1, 70 meters, should take, on average, a total of 2,600 calories a day.

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Diet: “regime that sends observe or convalescent patients in eating and drinking …”

Diet is one rule to follow for the selection and preparation of food, establishes a rate schedule of meals according to the objective of your diet. Erroneously, the allowance is considered as synonymous with the complete deprivation of food.

There are many diets, some with a solid scientific basis, that have helped improve many diseases effectively. Usually, for ordinary people, called allowances, to measures to lose weight.

There are many such diets, some help to significantly improve health, to be harmonious, balanced, varied economic considerations. Others may cause, without professional guidance, serious health disorders.

Before starting any diet, for health care:

Resolving to lose weight: a successful diet is not quick weight loss, but in slow decline and once achieved the goal, which is maintained in the rest of life.

This is accomplished by assuming the commitment to compliance with the Food Plan and changing dietary habits to eliminate errors and to initiate or increase physical activity.

Complete medical checkup: the doctor will indicate the type of diet to follow, according to age, weight, height, physical activity.

Consult with a nutritionist or dietician: the professional nutritionist, is able to adequately guide the selection of an eating plan personalized, balanced, harmonious, appropriate, respecting the preferences in the selection of food and according to schedules available.

Select diets, in order to lose weight quickly, without professional advice can cause serious damage to health.

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One of the most popular diets around the world is called the Atkins diet, named after the American doctor who created it. Atkins was followed by numerous celebrities, who have not hesitated to air his gratitude to this method of thinning.

But what is the Atkins Diet and above all, it is effective? The foundation of this diet is simple: according to Dr. Atkins’ body will burn carbohydrates is simpler than protein, so their method is based on a diet based almost exclusively on the latter, dismissing almost entirely carbohydrate. Thus, by eating only proteins the body is forced to use energy stored as fat, causing an immediate weight loss.

Thus, there is an almost exclusive consumption of protein, that is, red meat, sausages, cheese, eggs, seafood, butter, margarine, oils, mayonnaise, butter, cream whole milk or yogurt, and so on. Carbohydrates, in a tiny proportion, can only be consumed in the form of vegetables and fruits, and shall remain prohibited foods like pasta, flour, rice, bread and pastries, vegetables, sugar, alcoholic drinks and milk. Also abolished are high-fiber vegetables, which are, for the Doctor, counterproductive to weight loss.

The fact is that, initially, the success of the Atkins regime was international because it really quickly thinned. Soon the specialists began to quibble over this diet. As we know, all doctors recommend a diet that is well supplied, which is clearly not the case here.

Thus, the side effects could be dangerous, although it warned that the Atkins diet could not be followed over 30 days.

European NGO says the Atkins diet ignores all formal recommendations of a healthy diet.

- At first: you lose water, not fat

It is true that they lose weight when you start the diet, but is due to water loss because the body begins to use its reserves of carbohydrates (glycogen is bound to water in the body)

- Second stage: it inhibits appetite

When glycogen is depleted the body starts to consume fat and muscle tissue for energy consumption. In the absence of carbohydrates produces ketone and inhibition of appetite. In the medium term there is a weariness of the foods allowed. In the long term, a year the results are similar to those of other diets.

- Unhealthy Diet

As noted earlier, is an unhealthy diet. It can be harmful for heart disease, like the kidneys, which suffered a heavy workload to be the ones to eliminate the high protein intake. It is nutritionally balanced (deprived of vegetables, fruits, food, fiber and antioxidants).

As sad paradox, Atkins himself had a history of heart attack, heart failure and hypertension, and was obese when he died at age 72.

In short, a reminder to supporters of this type of diet. If it works, can have a high cost to health. And in time it is found that does not work … It’s so easy to get the water … but as we left our bodies without antioxidants and rich in substances that help prevent serious diseases.

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As in the case of cardiovascular disease, the benefit is attributed to omega-3 fatty acids. Eating fish, especially of the class ‘blue’, rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids, is not only good for preventing cardiovascular diseases but also against some respiratory diseases including asthma.

This is what is highlighted in two international studies which have accessed the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR), focusing on the role benefactor of fish in areas such as prevention of lung damage caused by snuff or the onset of symptoms associated with asthma.

According to studies conducted in the United States by the Associations of Lung and Thoracic Surgery in that country, smokers who eat fish two or more times a week suffer over time a smaller reduction of lung capacity than those smokers to which this food is not among his favorites.

The reason this is so is unknown, although it is suspected that the protective effect of fish may be due to smoking its oil, very rich, especially if it is oily fish, omega-3 fatty acids.

In any case, whatever the specific property or properties of fish related to the prevention of lung damage, the truth is regular consumption can be an inhibiting factor inflammatory processes associated with chronic respiratory disease type.

In asthma

In fact, the benefits derived from eating this food have also been associated with asthma, or rather, with the onset of symptoms-wheezing, wheezing in the chest, breathing difficulties in short-that characterize this condition, whenever more common in developed countries.

The latest study on the subject is aware of that the working group on asthma SEPAR was conducted in Australia, and was to compare the usual diet of a large group of asthmatic patients with another equivalent sample that was not affected by population this problem. They concluded that fish consumption was more frequent among the latter.

The reason that the fish would help to prevent or mitigate asthma attacks has not been determined accurately. However, the absence of stronger evidence, that fish is part of the staple diet of the general population, and chronic respiratory patients in particular.

It has been proven, which includes this food in its own right alongside others like vegetables, legumes and olive oil is comparatively much better than diet Anglo, which predominates over animal fat, and this has a direct impact on the health of the person.

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People with high levels of folate, or folic acid in blood are reduced risk of allergic reaction or wheezing, concluded a team of doctors. According to experts said the School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University in a breakthrough in Internet Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, who have a high amount of folic acid in blood tend to have lower levels of IgE antibodies, the body produces in response to allergic disease.

The reduction of folic acid is associated with a variety of inflammatory diseases such as cardiovascular disease or rheumatoid arthritis. Therefore it is possible that folate mitigate, rather than promote, allergic diseases, which are also inflammatory in origin.

The study included data from 8083 people aged 2 and over 85 years (38 on average) who had participated in the National Survey of Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2005-2006. All of them had measured the blood folate levels of total IgE and IgE antibodies to dust mite, cat, dog, cockroach and Alternaria, a type of rust fungus.

A high total IgE level should exceed 100 kU L. Allergic sensitization was defined as at least one value to an allergen specific IgE of 0.35 kU/L or more. The probability of having a high total level of IgE, an allergic response and wheezing during the previous year decreased as they increased blood folate levels, which ranged between 0.7 and 171 ng/mL.

After controlling for sociodemographic factors, the potential for high total IgE levels, allergic responses and wheezing were between 0.60 and 0.70 for the highest quintile of folate in blood, compared with the lowest quintile.

The team recommended further studies to define the relationship between blood folate levels, allergy and asthma, as well as to determine whether these associations cause allergy or wheezing, or if they occur by other mechanisms.

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Treatment for skin cancer depends on the type and stage of disease, age and general health.

The patient may receive treatment that is considered standard based on the results obtained by several patients in past studies, or may choose to participate in a clinical trial. Not all patients are cured with standard therapy and some standard treatments may have more side effects than are desired.

For these reasons, clinical trials are designed to find better ways to treat cancer patients and are based on the latest information. They are conducting clinical trials in some parts of the country for patients with skin cancer.

BASAL CELL CARCINOMA OF THE SKIN

The patient may be one of the following treatments:

1. Micrographic surgery. Where the cancer is removed and the least amount of normal tissue as possible. During the process, the doctor removes the cancer and then uses a microscope to analyze the area of surgery and ensure that it is not any cancer cells.
2. Surgery that removes the skin cancer and some surrounding healthy tissue.
3. Electrodesiccation and curettage. Operation in which electrical current is used to dehydrate the tumor (electrodesiccation), and then used a specialized instrument called a curette, to remove the tumor.
4. Cryosurgery. Surgery that involves freeze and kill cancer.
5. Radiotherapy.
6. Laser therapy. This procedure uses a highly concentrated beam of light that destroys only cancer cells.
7. Topical chemotherapy.
8. Clinical trials of chemoprevention.
9. Clinical trials of biological therapy.
10. Photodynamic therapy technique that uses photosensitive drugs to kill cancer.

It is important to have regular skin examinations so that cancer can be treated if they were to come back (recurred).

SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA OF THE SKIN

The patient may be one of the following treatments:

1. Micrographic surgery. Where the cancer is removed and the least amount of normal tissue as possible. During the process, the doctor removes the cancer and then uses a microscope to analyze the area of surgery and ensure that it is not any cancer cells.
2. Surgery that removes the skin cancer and some surrounding healthy tissue.
3. Electrodesiccation and curettage. Operation in which electrical current is used to dehydrate the tumor (electrodesiccation), and then used a specialized instrument called a curette, to remove the tumor.
4. Cryosurgery. Surgery that involves freeze and kill cancer.
5. Radiotherapy.
6. Topical chemotherapy.
7. Laser therapy. This procedure uses a highly concentrated beam of light that destroys only cancer cells.
8. Clinical trials of biological therapy with or without chemoprevention therapy is important to have regular skin examinations so that cancer can be treated if they were to come back (recurred).

ACTINIC KERATOSISI

The patient may be one of the following treatments:

1. Topical chemotherapy
2. Cryosurgery. Surgery that involves freeze and kill cancer.
3. Electrodesiccation and curettage. Operation in which electrical current is used to dehydrate the tumor (electrodesiccation), and then used a specialized instrument called a curette, to remove the tumor.
4. Removing the outer layer of skin with a special machine (dermabrasion).
5. Scrape the outer layer of skin (excision of scratch).
6. Laser therapy. This procedure uses a highly concentrated beam of light that destroys only cancer cells.

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Once cancer of the skin, further testing to determine if cancer has spread. This is called staging. The doctor needs to know the stage and type of skin cancer to plan treatment. The following stages are used for classification of treatment.

• Basal cell cancer: The basal cell cancer is the most common type of skin cancer melanoma. It usually occurs in skin areas that have been exposed to the sun. Often this cancer appears as a bump with a smooth appearance and pearl. Another type of this cancer has an appearance of scars, and is firm to touch. Basal cell cancers can spread to tissues around the cancer, but usually do not spread to other body parts.
• Squamous cell carcinoma: The squamous cell tumors also occur in skin areas that have been exposed to the sun, often on top of the nose, forehead, lower lip and hands. They may also appear on skin areas that have been burned, have been exposed to chemicals or radiation therapy. Usually this cancer appears as a bulge red and hard. Sometimes the tumor may have a scaly appearance, or may bleed or develop a crust. Squamous cell tumors can spread to the lymph nodes in the area (lymph nodes are small structures in the form of beans that are found throughout the body, whose function is to produce and store cells that fight infection).
• Actinic keratosis: Actinic keratosis is a non-cancerous disorder of the skin but some people may become basal cell cancer or squamous cell cancer. It appears on the skin as rough, scaly patches, red or brown, usually in areas that have been exposed to the sun
• Recurrent: Recurrent disease means the cancer has come back (recurred) after it has been treated.

Treatment of skin cancer

There are treatments for all patients with skin cancer. Uses three kinds of treatments:

1. Surgery (removing the cancer).
2. Chemotherapy (using drugs to kill cancer cells).
3. Radiation therapy (using x-rays to kill cancer cells).

Several skin cancers are treated by physicians specializing in skin diseases (dermatologist). Usually the cancer can be treated in a doctor.

Surgery is the most common treatment for skin cancer. The doctor may remove the cancer using one of the following methods:

• Electrodesiccation and curettage, operation in which electrical current is used to dehydrate the tumor (electrodesiccation), and then used a specialized instrument called a curette, to remove the tumor.
• Cryosurgery, operation in which freezes and destroys the tumor.
• Excision simple operation in which removes the skin cancer along with some healthy tissue located around it.
• Micrographic surgery, an operation that takes out the cancer and as little normal tissue as possible. During this surgery, the doctor removes the cancer and then uses a microscope to analyze the cancerous area to make sure that it is not any cancer cells.
• Laser therapy, in this procedure uses a highly concentrated beam of light that destroys only cancer cells.

The surgery may leave a scar on the skin. Depending on the size of the cancer, you can take skin from another part of the body to be in the area where you removed the cancer. This is called a skin graft. There are new surgical methods or through the graft which can reduce scarring.

Radiotherapy is the use of X-rays to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. Radiation therapy for skin cancer came from a machine outside the body (external radiation therapy).

Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill cancer cells. The chemotherapy is often administered via a cream or lotion applied to the skin to kill cancer cells (topical chemotherapy). Chemotherapy may also be based pills, or you can enter the body through a needle into a vein or muscle. Chemotherapy given in this way is called a systemic treatment because the drug enters the bloodstream, travels through the body and can kill cancer cells outside the skin. Systemic chemotherapy is being evaluated in clinical trials.

The purpose of biologic therapy is to treat the very body that fight cancer. In biological therapy used substances produced by the body or made in a laboratory to boost, direct or restore the body’s natural defenses against disease. Biological therapy therapy is known as biological response modifier or immunotherapy (BRM).

In photodynamic therapy uses a certain type of light and special chemicals to kill cancer cells.

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