A lower activity of the thyroid gland represents one of the conditions endocrine more dealt with in the United States and is looking view if the thyroid may be the key for a long life, at least for some people, they say the researchers.
Dr. Martin Surks and his colleagues in the Montefiore Medical Center and the Faculty of Medicine Albert Einstein in New York studied hundreds of people who had lived up to the 100 years and found evidence in people with low thyroid activity, which were more likely to be in that group.
We used a national health survey to assess the average levels of the hormone, in people of different ages.
The thyroid gland located in the neck and is a kind of master gland secretes hormones that affect metabolism, which has a relationship with the obesity.
Doctors often control their activity as indirect measure on the levels of its hormone (TSH) or stimulating hormone thyroid.
Indicate that the high levels of TSH represent a condition known as hypothyroidism and low levels suggest that is hyperactive, known as the hyperthyroidism. Read the rest of this entry »

The sedentary is one of the worst habits that acquire the people in regard to the health (between all vices, by course). This is a fairly common problem in children, who have acquired the habit of such a way that has become widespread in almost all households in which exist children and a television or a play station.
This habit generates in first place obesity, which causes other diseases, one of them is the arterial hypertension.
The University of California has yielded important information regarding this fact, since a survey conducted by scientists from this institution has thrown the conclusion that children who watch many hours of TV have great potential to develop hypertension. Specifically speaking, children who watch television four or more hours per day are three times more likely to have high tension that those who look TV two hours a day or less.
This study envisaged a sample of 546 obese children of between four and seven years of age. To these children are measured its Body Mass Index and they were measured their voltage levels while studying, and they were asked to their parents who entered many hours of television watching these children per day. Read the rest of this entry »

The rosehip oil or mosquito (Rosa eglanteria, synonym Rosa rubiginosa) is a shrub wild of the family of the rosaceous with a beautiful flower of pale pink color. It is a native of Europe, and particularly cultivated in England. But that also found in the wild in the southern regions: in the Cordillera de los Andes (both of Chilean side as the argentine) and the foothills Mendocino.
Its fruits are used to prepare jams and jellies, and its oil (extracted from its seeds) is used in cosmetics. The oil de la Rosa Mosqueta is obtained by the maceration of the flower, from the Andes and recognized by being a great regenerative skin.
Its content in essential fatty acids (AGE) unsaturated is very high, an 80 per cent of which: 41% is Daily. Linoleico, 39% Daily. Linolénico and 16 Percent Daily. Oleic. The AGE is nutrients very important in many physiological processes and biochemical of the human body, related to the tissue regeneration and the cell growth. Furthermore, they have a structural role, forming part of the phospholipids cell membranes of the body tissues, and are precursors of prostaglandins and leukotrienes, parkhotel of the synthesis of arachidonic acid. Read the rest of this entry »

Probably heard about the psychosomatic illnesses. If it is not or if you simply want to know a little more about this we will talk about them. In the first place clarify that the psychosomatic diseases occur when a process psychic has influence over what somatic. In other words, are those diseases that have a psychological origin?
Many times happens that the emotions and negative feelings that we cannot externalizing manifested in our body through certain symptoms. To the extent that the emotions or stress are more intense greater will be the responses of our body.
The medicine try taking increasingly to the individual as a whole and understands that the mind and body are not separate elements without which function as a unit. For example, a person who has been depressed for a long time be weakened their immune system. Therefore, his body will be more vulnerable to certain conditions.
The stress on the other hand, increases the levels of cholesterol, high blood pressure and until may cause heart attacks and brain hemorrhages. In the digestive system the psychosomatic illnesses are manifested through the gastritis, ulcers, and diarrhea. Read the rest of this entry »

The men who are fighting against the prostate cancer are twice as likely to die by the disease if they are obese, according to a new study.
Michel Pollak one of the oncologists of McGill University that next to the Harvard University conducted the study declare: “If we were detectives could say that we have a suspected very serious”
The study found that obese men who suffer from prostate cancer are twice as likely to die as men who carried a healthy weight. The high levels of insulin (which is linked to obesity) are related to the possibilities of dying in cancer patients.
This new study linking the prostate cancer to obesity is important not only for having confirmed the link between these factors, but also spoke of the possibility of a new line of studies in relation to the treatment of prostate cancer.
The relationship between the secretion of insulin and the risk of dying of prostate cancer gives rise to more research to develop strategies to prevent and treat this type of cancer. Read the rest of this entry »