How much should you eat?

Have you ever wondered how much you should eat and of what types of food? Well here you will be informed about it! Hope it helps you to get a better lifestyle and food habits! :)

A well nourished person needs to eat food from all the alimentary groups in the proportions indicated by the alimentary pyramid. Here´s an alimentary pyramid that will help you to have better eating habits

A calorie intake of 15 to 20 kcal per kg per day is recommended.

To know what your appropriate weight is you should check alimentary tables and you can also use your BMI to know if you are in a healthy weight. BMI (body mass index) is a measure of body fat based on height and weight, that will help you to know if you have an appropriate weight.

Alzheimer Video!

For my health class, I needed to make a video about a nervous system disease, the one I chose was alzheimer!

These video is about a murderess that starts to forget things because of alzheimer, it´s a really great video. Here´s the link so you can watch it.

Hope you like it!

http://vimeo.com/64291692

Nutrition course :)

All around the world there´s a lot of people that have problems with their way of eating and this can cause them many problems!

Here you will learn some things about nutrition and hopefully this will help you to have better eating habits and have a more healthy lifestyle

So let´s learn about nutrition!!

Nutrition is the study or process of obtaining thing valuable for the body (nutrients) by eating them, and how the body use them. It includes the process of ingestion, digestion, absorption, metabolism, transport, storage and excretion of those nutrients. 

There are six classes of nutrients which are:

• carbohydrates
• fats
• proteins
• vitamins
• minerals
• water

This was just a little introduction in order to start getting informed about nutrition, so you can have a healthier and happier life! For more interesting nutrition info don´t stop visiting the healthforus blog!

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Diabetes Organization :)

If you know someone that has diabetes or after reading the last posts about diabetes you think you can be diabetic, I found a really helpful and complete webpage from diabetes organization.

If you want to find out more about diabetes, how to prevent it, causes, diseases that are caused by it, what kind of things can you eat if you are diabetic, etc; this is the perfect webpage for you!

Here I will post the link so you can go and get more info about diabetes! Hope it will be helpful!

http://www.diabetes.org

thinks that can make you diabetic!

As I posted before, there are a lot of myths around diabetes that people believe are true. But there are also some things that people don´t know about facts that can cause you diabetes!

Here we will inform you about those things that people don´t know about what causes diabetes!

• Inheritance (genetics)
• Being from Latin America
• Obesity
• Toxic substances
• Pregnancy
• Pancreatic diseases

             

The fact that I was most shocked about from this list is that only from being a latin american I have more chances that the rest of the world of getting diabetes. These definitely made me more conscious about taking care of myself to prevent being a diabetic girl.

The 5 most shocking facts about diabetes!

Do you know how many people is diabetes affecting day by day? Diabetes is a disease that not everyone is aware of how much it is affecting people all around the world!

Now you will know the 5 most shocking facts about diabetes and how it is affecting people all around the world. 

• Around 90% of all the diabetes in Mexico have obesity as a predisposing factor
• Obesity is related to other diseases including hypertension, vascular diseases, osteoarthritis, and cancer
• Form 1988 till 2006 the prevalence of obesity in Mexico increased in 300%
• 70% of mexican adults have an  inappropriate  BMI
• In 2008, 42000 millions of pesos were spent in health care for diseases related directly to obesity and an extra 9100 millions were spent on indirect cost

To know these facts about diabetes will help you understand how important it is to prevent diabetes.

If you want to know more about diabetes stay tuned in healthforus blog!

Get rid of diabetes myths!

Diabetes is a metabolic disease in which the person has high blood glucose (blood sugar), either because insulin production is inadequate, or because the body's cells do not respond properly to insulin, or both. 

These are some of the most common myths around diabetes:

• Diabetes is not that serious of a disease: It is a serious disease and can´t be taken as something not so important
• If you are overweight or obese, you will eventually develop type 2 diabetes
• Eating too much sugar causes diabetes
• People with diabetes are more likely to get colds and other illnesses
• If you have type 2 diabetes and your doctor says you need to start using insulin, it means you are failing to take care of your diabetes properly
• You can get diabetes if you are really scared
• Insulin may blind you or even kill you

My grandmother has diabetes and when I told her about these myths she told me that actually she believed more than the half of these ones were true!! Imagine how many people with diabetes also thinks that these myths are truth! If people believe these myths it can be really dangerous for their health! So let´s make everyone more aware of what´s true and what´s just a simple myth in order to be more healthy persons.