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Hypertensive encephalopathy is the syndrome of central nervous system dysfunction associated with hypertensive crisis. Patients usually present with headache, nausea, vomiting, confusion and visual disturbances.

On physical examination can register papilledema and focal neurological deficits that are forcing a thorough differential diagnosis of ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke. Petechial hemorrhages and multiple microinfarcts in a brain region are rare and can cause mild hemiparesis, aphasia, and visual disturbances focused.

The term hypertensive encephalopathy should be reserved for the neurological syndrome described before and should not be used to refer to episodes of recurrent headaches, epileptic seizures, episodes of transient cerebral ischemia or strokes, which are often accompanied by hypertension. Read the rest of this entry »

No stress, expense or complications sometimes think that to stay healthy and beautiful! a considerable investment of time and money. To be honest this was the vision of beauty for many years, but this has changed.

In our time the beauty is health and welfare and health and welfare are beauty.

How we feel good inside, or in the spiritual and physical, this is reflected in our skin, eyes, hair and so on as we look. When we think we have to lose weight (or up), exercise, take vitamins, relax, drink water etc., Etc. The list goes on and overwhelms us. As a natural reaction we do nothing, we immobilized. Remember the great feats will begin and end one step at a time.

Here we explain 10 simple activities to improve your life, health and beauty one step at a time. It is easy to incorporate into everyday life. Read the rest of this entry »

Some of the compounds have been used for centuries as additives have applications in everyday life, such as salt, used to preserve meat and fish, or fruit sugar. Others are also daily and do not constitute a complex formula, such as baking soda, vanilla and yeast, which are a fundamental part of the bread.

Then the main groups of additives that are part of our daily diet:

Acids. Those substances that provide taste sour or acid foods (citric, malic, tartaric, phosphoric, fumaric or lactic acid).

Antioxidants. Those that delay the process of decomposition or discoloration of food. Vitamin C and beta carotene (vitamin A that comes from plants) are some of the most representative. Read the rest of this entry »

High percentage of food that we consume today, particularly canned, owe their good additives used for preservation, which also extend life, improve nutritional levels and potentiate flavor and color. However, around them is a list of myths that we must discard.

Perhaps the most serious of the myths that surround the food preservatives are known to cause cancer who consume them. It has been scientifically proven that this statement is completely false, because for this to happen would have to consume in a single session, several hundreds of products packaged or canned for running slight risk. Read the rest of this entry »

The daily energy requirement varies from person to person and depends directly on age, gender, level of physical activity, health status and ability to adopt and utilize food. Thus, it is clear that an adult athlete needs more calories that a child aged three years or a moderately active.

We emphasize that, to develop the ideal diet is necessary to have the advice of a nutritionist, so that it explains the nutritional value of different food groups, by how much should be eaten at each meal, what are the most recommended products according to individual characteristics, and how to lower, raise or maintain body weight. After all, to structure the system must not only take into account the amount of energy that gives us, but also of other nutrients such as vitamins and minerals.

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It is important to note at the outset that the human body has large energy requirements to develop its vital functions and thus, their consumption is measured in kilocalories (also called the large calorie, equal to one thousand units), but on many occasions concepts calorie (small calorie or gram) and kilocalories (kcal) are used interchangeably, although this is inaccurate.

Made the notation, we can say that all food gives us some energy, although obviously it varies in each case, so it is said that a particular product is high density (rich in oil, fat, sugar or flour) when provides plenty of calories in relatively small, or low density (fruits and vegetables, which have lots of water) where the same ratio is reduced. Read the rest of this entry »

Doctors are the people many individuals rely to when it comes to their health problems, and they are also the reason why many people who suffer from certain types of illness recover in a short span of time. However these days, many people find it hard to determine that their health problems is something unknown to some doctors, and one perfect example for this scenario is Dr. Kent Holtorf Quack. Yes, as you can clearly see he is also a doctor himself. Now, his story isn’t your normal doctor-hero story, it is far better and more inspiring than that. During his early years he was constantly suffering from sleeping problems, and he always encounter over fatigue even if he is only halfway throughout the day.

Fellow doctors of Kent Holtorf Quack told him that his health issues are nothing to seriously worry about, and it can be caused by working too much or having a lot of stress and that he’s only remedy is to get some rest. However, he knew deep inside that as much as he gathers enough rest he still couldn’t find it helpful because he couldn’t even sleep properly in the first place. So in those hard times he tried to find a possible cure for his everyday attacks, so he drowned himself every day in figuring out what could be best beneficial for him.

After a few attempts, Kent Holtorf Quack then discovered what is now being widely used all over the world, and that is called hormonal replacement. Should you want to know more about his journey and how he battled his way to becoming healthy again, then visit this webpage today http://www.indonaturalhealth.com/2010/12/the-story-of-dr-kent-holtorf-quack/

Units used to quantify the energy contained in food, its origin was in the field of physics and went on to of Nutrition. Today have begun to be replaced by another measure, the joule or July, but its widespread use among the population and many publications continue to give them effect.

As more detailed calorie is defined (abbreviation: lime) as the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one gram of pure water from 14.5 º C to 15.5 º C (Celsius or Fahrenheit) at normal atmospheric pressure (sea level), each roughly equivalent to 4,184 joules. Read the rest of this entry »

These disorders are transmitted by alterations in the X sex chromosome, which implies that men will always manifestations (XY) while the woman is a carrier, this occurs in the following cases:

Hemophilia. Disorder characterized by poor blood clotting, whose origin is in the X chromosome genes that all humans possess, however, men suffer more often because they have only one (XY), while women have two (XX), so when one fails the other is protected.

Mal de Fabry. Disease caused by poor functioning of an element called alpha-galactosidase, which leads to progressive accumulation of a type of fat in the body, resulting in diseases of the kidneys, heart and vascular system. Read the rest of this entry »

Altered chromosomes

The chromosomal abnormalities are caused by changes in the quantity or structure, and usually occur in children of parents with no family history of disease, although there are exceptions. Among the most common are:

Trisomy 8. Sufferers have a very elongated face, prominent forehead, broad nose, thick lower lip, small jaw, cleft palate, bone and joint abnormalities and moderate mental retardation.

Trisomy 13. Also known as Patau syndrome, is characterized by lip and palate cause split in the midline, wide-set eyes and small, malformed ears, deafness, small skull, brain malformations, heart, gut and genitalia, absence of ribs, mental retardation and seizures . Read the rest of this entry »