Jul/090
You are very happy? Beware, too much happiness can damage your health!
According to research from universities from three U.S. (Virginia, Illinois and Michigan) and published in the journal Scientific Perspectives on Psychological Science “, to achieve a good quality of life and succeed in the economic, social and relational should be” happy, but not too. According to this study because the people who experience a high degree of happiness are unwilling to act, because they fear losing the perfect balance they have created around him.
The study found that people who are happy in an 80 percentage-90% are more successful in every area of people who consider themselves happy at 100%. Are more likely to have good emotional ties, higher incomes, higher educations are more established in society. A surprising since this is added, the finding, perhaps even more surprisingly, affects only be too happy also on physical health.
The fact that a high mood to impact positively on the course of several diseases is a fact widely tested and established. The research certainly does not contradict this fact, but emphasizes how people are very happy to be conveyed to underestimate or ignore signs that may indicate the presence health problems. As explained by Ed Diener, a professor of psychology, including the authors of the study: “People are happy tend to be optimistic and underestimate the disease. This could lead to shrug off the symptoms, to slow the cure or not to follow doctors’ orders to the letter. “
Too much happiness to people and then deprive not only the motivational need to grow as an individual and try to achieve better results but also lacking ‘necessary attention to themselves and their state of health. Remains to be seen whether it is really this high number of people who see themselves happy at 100%. In any case, the results of the research were collected by Diener in a book out where you can find tips on how to be happy … but not too much!
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Gastroesophageal reflux: If you get sick Rigoletto
Next to tuberculosis fatal for Violetta and Mimi, opera singers should breathe a sigh of relief. Their “occupational disease” has another name and, fortunately, a very different prognosis than the disease “prince” of their characters: it is called gastro esophageal reflux, and is the slope of gastric contents into the esophagus, causing inflammation very annoying, with the risk of laryngitis and damage to vocal cords.
To discover that the symptoms of reflux opera singers in afflicting fit almost double than the general population has been a study published in the March issue of the journal Gastroenterology, coordinated by Giovanni Cammarota, a researcher ‘s Institute of Internal Medicine’ s Catholic University Rome, directed by Giovanni Gasbarrini.
Cammarota deals from the time of this disorder.
“Over the years – he says – we encountered many cases of opera singers who suffered from reflux. Based on this clinical observation, we thought it was not just a coincidence. The starting hypothesis of this study is the fact that singers may be more susceptible to illness for the prolonged stress of the diaphragm (the excessive abdominal pressure on the esophageal sphincter is a cause of reflux).
With the help of fellow residents in nine cities where the Opera House (Ferrara, Florence, Foggia, Milan, Naples, Reggio Calabria, Rome, Sassari, Venice), researchers from the Catholic University have therefore given a test to 351 professional singers (157 men and 194 women) and a control sample of 578 subjects in the same territories. And the original hypothesis was confirmed: the frequency with which the singers suffering from two common symptoms of reflux (heartburn – the “heartburn” – and regurgitation) was almost twice that of the population. Among those on the scene of opera houses, is higher than even the prevalence of other symptoms associated with reflux: nausea, dysphasia (difficulty swallowing solid foods), hoarseness, coughing.
“Actually it was not possible to directly observe the disease on our singers,” says Thornton “To do it would take a test called a pH meter, which studies the acidity of the esophagus for 24 hours. And in this case was not possible. Therefore, we used validated questionnaires: Questionnaire, i.e., in which the questions are standardized at the international level to avoid ambiguity. And to establish that you are in the presence of disease symptoms must have passed a certain threshold of frequency (more than twice a week). “
If the results are confirmed by other studies, gastro esophageal reflux could be recognized in all respects as an occupational disease. With all the legal and health consequences resulting “Gastro esophageal reflux disease is a nuisance,” recalls Thornton. “It can impair the quality of life. But for these workers, the consequences could be more serious: the reflux laryngitis and also it can cause damage to vocal cords. And when the situation worsens, many singers could even be forced to discontinue their activities “.
Apr/090
Breastfeed. All the benefits of breast milk
Breastfeeding is the single most healthy and natural that a mother can do for your child. Besides being the most suitable food from nutritional point of view as it ensures the right amount of protein, fats, sugars, minerals and vitamins, breast milk provides the child an outstanding weapon against germs and viruses because his mother at every feeding passes to the child’s own antibodies and other protective factors such as lactoferrin and lysozyme.
Breast milk is also extremely safe as a food does not trigger food allergies and by changing its formula in the day is to meet from time to time the different needs of the small, in the morning for example, when the child needs most energy, is richer in fat and protein. With casomorphin, substance painkiller and sedative effect, children breast, have a more regular sleep and quiet.
Breast-feeding, as well as benefit the health of small, has some positive effects also on the mother: mothers who are breastfeeding their children have a lower risk than other women to develop breast or ovarian cancer and are less exposed the risk of developing the osteoporosis in old age. Furthermore, the suction stimulates production of oxytocin in maternal blood, a hormone that promotes uterine contractions, reducing bleeding after childbirth. Because lactation involves considerable consumption of calories, nursing mothers faster return to weight.
The baby should be at the breast immediately after birth to stimulate the mammary gland and hence the production of colostrums, a yellowish liquid product before the actual milk and rich in substances that stimulate and strengthen the immune system of the child. Colostrums are sufficient to meet the needs of the child for the first three to four days, after which you will have the appearance of breast milk, the so-called lacto genesis. The breastfed baby has to eat as often as you wish, and then feeding should not be scheduled at fixed hours, also exclusive breastfeeding and you should never offer any kind of substitute for small breasts as pacifiers or baby bottles. The feedings should be frequent and close-ups and during the night must meet the same intervals. Because breast milk is composed of 87% of water is not necessary to administer other liquids such as water or herbal teas.
Of course, breastfeed your baby can be tiring but it makes countless benefit mother and child. First strengthens the bond between the two and facilitate the proper and balanced physical and psychological development of the baby. Breastfeeding is also practical, because the child can be fed at anytime and anywhere, and economic, because obviously the mother’s milk does not cost anything! Finally, it is true that there are forbidden foods during lactation, if anything it should reduce the consumption of foods which may also disturb the mother and, as always, limit your intake of alcohol (it is true that the beer or red wine are increase the production of milk!)
Apr/090
Hypnosis to relieve the pain of cancer
Increasingly used in recent times, are the advanced techniques of hypnosis performed by doctors specializing in this area to calm the intense pain caused by cancer and to give to patients with this devastating disease, a life a little ‘more serene.
In support of these advanced techniques is Liossia Christina, a teacher’s University of Wales in Wales. Liossia claims that hypnosis has a high therapeutic potential still not yet fully exploited. Hypnosis, he says, has already been used to stop smoking, lose weight or to combat anxiety and phobias and will be used increasingly in years to come.
We have the scientific evidence says the professor, that hypnosis helps to soothe depression, nausea, vomiting and severe pain caused by cancer, we also found, through research, that hypnosis might prolong life for patients suffering from the disease, but for now we cannot prove it scientifically.
The Liossia, then, with the theme discussed at the annual conference of the British Association for the Association of Science, and says that hypnosis is very important to influence the immune system. Studying children with cancer, it was discovered that those who had been hypnotized before, with the hiring of a local anesthetic, has felt much less pain during surgery, patients who were not hypnotized.
From this, apart from the assertion of Professor John Gruzelier, from Imperial College London, using the advanced technique of “brain-imaging that shows brain activity step by step, believes that when the brain is under hypnosis, there are various changes in its interior and that these changes may help to understand what happens when one is hypnotized and why the brain does all that is asked from the outside.
From this, apart from the assertion of Professor John Gruzelier, from Imperial College London, using the advanced technique of “brain-imaging that shows brain activity step by step, believes that when the brain is under hypnosis, there are various changes in its interior and that these changes may help to understand what happens when one is hypnotized and why the brain does all that is asked from the outside.
Mar/090
Cosmetics: allergies and reactions caused
Increasingly frequent are the cases of allergies due to the use of cosmetics and more frequent are the reactions that our skin shows. This problem, not easy to evaluate, it is taken with little consideration as in most cases has always presented the results of limited clinical importance, because the patient suffered from allergies in general or to consult their GP or apply a cream cortisone caused precisely by eliminating the reactions allergy.
Far the reactions are caused by contact dermatitis, the manager ‘s Institute Dermatologic San Gallicano Dott. San Gallicano Dermatological Dr. Cristaudo, in fact, tells us that statistically the reactions caused by allergies are a lot smaller than the reactions caused by contact dermatitis.
Only 7% of the population is allergic reactions to cosmetics compared with 14% suffering from contact dermatitis, and is to be taken into serious consideration the fact that the percentage increases if one takes into cause dermatitis on the face. The latter often depends on the type of product that has been used, wherever and by the way in which it was implemented, and of course the predisposition of each individual.
Prof. Ayala, director of the Dermatology Clinic, University Federico II of Naples, explains how worrisome allergic reactions caused by cosmetics, not only those affected but particularly for manufacturers. Says that even if these allergies are eradicated there will always be new allergens are ready to take the field and ready to give us serious trouble. Taking a journey from past to present, we can watch the various appearances of allergic skin reactions due to various preservatives used not only in the cosmetic market but also in drug research.
These allergies are discovered and eventually treated in centers that have specialized Dermatological different allergens to test saddle leather of all those suffering from various forms of allergies. To cope with the considerable increase of the phenomenon it was decided to create a sort of cosmetovigilance designed especially for testing and possibly discover any item included in products that can cause allergies.