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Drugs for osteoporosis may reduce by up to 40 percent the risk of breast cancer, according to a study by the Cancer Research Center Fred Hutchinson in Seattle (United States) that is published in the journal British Journal of Cancer.

The research found that women using bisphosphonate drugs for more than two years had nearly 40 percent lower risk compared with those not taking them.

New evidence against cancer

As explained Polly Newcomb, director of the study, “this large study provides new evidence that bisphosphonate use is associated with a significant reduction in risk of breast cancer.

The protective effect was observed only among women who were not obese. “Obese women may have elevated estrogen levels and therefore the underlying hormones could influence the ability of bisphosphonates to reduce the risk of breast cancer,” says Newcomb. Read the rest of this entry »

Osteoporosis, a name that gives the condition related to “porous bone“, is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as decreased bone mineral density, making its fragility and inadequate mechanical support function. This disease is a serious public health problem, affecting one in three women and one in eight men after age 50.

Unlike other ailments “silent”, this results in high costs to the health sector since, according to data from the National Center for Gender Equity and Reproductive Health, in a year is $ 730 million required to meet the 36 thousand 500 fractures femur that occur as a result, coupled with a cost of 15 thousand dollars on average that are intended to restore the bones of each person.

Clearly, osteoporosis is a debilitating disease that causes high costs to the Health sector in Mexico and all caused by a lack of knowledge. Although, knowing her condition is the main tool that is who have osteoporosis, since according to the Ministry of Health, eight out of ten women who have the disease do not know. Read the rest of this entry »

To enjoy a better quality of life … should avoid or prevent osteoporosis, a disease that causes your bones to become fragile as crystal. Follow the advice of the Hispanic Foundation of Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Diseases:

1. Enjoy a varied diet. Rich in calcium and vitamin D throughout life, although you should increase to 1,500 mg per day (4 glasses of milk, 2 yoghurt or slice of cheese) the amount of calcium after menopause.
2. Get physical exercise regularly. Physical activity for only 30 minutes a day, 3 days a week, increase bone mineral content.
3. Try to keep a healthy lifestyle. Avoid excessive alcohol and coffee, not smoke and take the sun gently to increase vitamin D.
4. Always be straight. Sit in a straight chair with feet on the floor with his back and neck straight. If you have to do heavy lifting without bending. Read the rest of this entry »

Osteoporosis

The bone turnover cycle takes 2 to 3 months. When you’re young, your body makes new bone before the old breaks and increasing bone mass. This reaches the summit around 30 years.
The strength of your bones depends on bone mass and density, and this, in turn, the amount of calcium, phosphorus and other minerals that compose it.

The decalcification process accelerates with age, about 0.3 to 0.5% per year and more, when not supplied enough vitamin D and calcium.

At menopause, when estrogen levels low, the softening is accelerated by 3% per year.
Around age 60, women have lost 35 to 50% of their bone mass.

The risk of developing osteoporosis depends on the amount of bone mass that you have achieved between 25 and 35 and the speed with which the miss later. Hence the importance of consuming calcium and vitamin D, essential for proper absorption of calcium and regular exercise helps keep your bones healthy and strong for much longer.

Risk Factors

* Sex
* Age
* Race
Family history
* Snuff
* Drugs
* Ill estrogen
* Low calcium intake
* Sedentary lifestyle
* Alcoholism
* Depression

For you are well

* Consume adequate doses of calcium, the average is 1,000 to 1,200 milligrams of calcium daily. A glass of milk gives you 300 milligrams of calcium. A pregnant woman should consume at least 1,500 milligrams.
* Exercise regularly to strengthen your bones. No matter what age you start, a daily brisk walk for 30 minutes is           sufficient.
* Prevents snuff.
* Hormone replacement may help (See your doctor).
* Avoid alcohol.
* Reduce caffeine consumption.
* Maintain good posture.
* Use low and safe footwear (slip).

Osteoporosis has no symptoms, it does not hurt or cause any change in itself. However, the extreme fragility occur in bone, appear with great frequency bone fractures, which are what determine the symptoms in these patients. The most common fractures in osteoporosis in postmenopausal women are vertebral fractures, which produce very sharp pains in the back and condition the progressive appearance of deformities of the same, fundamentally progressive decrease in size by crushing vertebrae. This pain can give way to a more continuous dull pain produced by micro fractures, and often is the symptom leading to diagnosis. Osteoporosis of the elderly typically occurs in long bone fractures, especially in the wrist, and even more in the femur, being responsible for the typical hip fractures in the elderly. Read the rest of this entry »

It may be that everything you thought you knew about migraine headaches – except that is among the greatest non-serious ailments of humanity is wrong.

At least that’s what the researchers headache. Recent studies question the long-standing concepts.
There is sufficient evidence that almost all so-called sinus headaches are actually migraines.

Not surprisingly, the number of remedies against them that are in the market and the endless prescriptions for antibiotics have produced so little relief for the millions of sick sinus course.

The good news is that there are drugs that can prevent migraine attacks in those affected or suspend frequent headaches.

Migraine therapy has come a long way in two decades and it is recommended that those who know or suspect they have migraine, see a neurologist or headache specialist to obtain an accurate diagnosis and improved treatment.

The World Health Organization (WHO) ranks migraine among the most disabling diseases. A migraine is more than a headache. The stabbing pain of a migraine, which usually appears on one side of the head, often accompanied by nausea, vomiting and extreme sensitivity to light and sound. You feel completely sick.

Symptoms may include nasal congestion, blurred vision, diarrhea, abdominal cramps, abnormal sensation of heat or cold, anxiety, depression, irritability and inability to concentrate.

Without effective treatment, those most severely attacked can not be repaired or with the simplest tasks and must lie down until the attack happens. After you often feel tired, irritable, listless or depressed, although there are those who feel unusually fresh and energetic.

About 4% of children have migraine pubescent. After puberty, the incidence climbs to 6% among men and 18% among women and gradually declines after age 40.

The higher rate among women is related to fluctuating levels of estrogen in the blood, the drop in estrogen just before menstruation triggers menstrual migraines tend to be more severe and longer lasting than other forms.

Although long believed they were mostly vascular headaches, the results of the expansion and constriction of blood vessels in the head, is now considered that migraines come from neural changes in the brain and the release of neuroinflammatory peptides that in turn shrink the blood vessels.

The headache often begins before these vessels dilate. The inflammatory peptides sensitize nerve fibers that then respond aa innocuous stimuli, like the pulse of blood vessels, causing pain of migraine.

In some people, the headache is preceded by an aura of visual symptoms, sensory or motor, which lasts less than an hour.

These include the sight of flashing lights, numbness in hands, dizziness or inability to speak. People who experience these have a doubled risk of cardiovascular disease. Migraines sometimes run in families, and ways to give families were traced to a mutation in two genes.

Although it is difficult to confuse with its classic form, a migraine can be classified as a headache caused by a sinus or tension, probably because it can cause nasal congestion, pressure or pain in the forehead or below the eye and discomfort on both sides face.

In an Arizona study by Dr. Eric Eross, 90% of people with headaches caused by self-diagnosed sinusitis, migraine actually had. The most common causes include stress, climate change, declining estrogen, fatigue and sleep disorders as well as excessive use of OTC pain relievers.

To determine what might trigger headaches, records each event on your calendar, noting the foods you ate or the circumstances preceding each one. If you are a woman and those of childbearing age, notes the stages of your menstrual cycle.

If necessary, to discover the foods that may have to do with your headaches, try an elimination diet, cutting sharply different foods and then reintroducing them one by tao vez.Tan what treatments and ways of prevention are numerous.

If one does not work, try another. Among the more effective as preventive mediamentos are tricyclic antidepressants, beta blockers like propranolol and antiepileptic drugs as gabapentin.A helps some relaxation therapy, biofeedback or stress management.

Perhaps most important to find relief is to consult a doctor with experience in diagnosing and treating migraines. Too many people try to cope alone to move forward, sometimes causing more frequent migraines by abusing medication prescribed order. Read the rest of this entry »

Sexual activity has been known to both trigger a headache as to relieve migraine pain, depending on their effect on each person, or more specifically the type of headache or headache you have. We have all heard of (and perhaps some of us have used) the old excuse of “Not tonight dear, I have a headache.
But beware! The next time you feel it coming a migraine attack, sex can be the best remedy.

There are two schools of thought and research on this issue: One holds that sex, especially orgasm, can relieve pain caused by migraine, and the other holds that sex can actually enhance the headache. You have to do your own experiments to see whether sex has any effect on their migraine, although it is known that in reality the difference is given by the type of headache. The common headache or tension-type headache can be exacerbated by sex, however the headache a migraine originated corresponds to a vascular headache and sexual activity can decompress the extracranial arteries, causing the migraine pain, relieved. Read the rest of this entry »

Acupuncture is of oriental origin and is derived from a combination of words acus (meaning needle) and pungere (which means prick).

This treatment involves inserting needles into specific parts of both the ear and body. This causes your body to release endorphins, which are able to relax, thus improving the stress and anxiety, problems that often lead to eating without limits.

Acupuncture can greatly aid metabolism and develop the willpower, spare keys and key to achieving weight loss.

However, it is necessary to consider this approach by itself will not achieve the effect you want. It is necessary to conduct a diet, which does not have to be strict, but basically should consist of eating small amounts of food. It is clearly important to avoid excess fat and flour, and junk foods. Read the rest of this entry »

Everybody looks for the easiest way, nothing works, and above all efficient, to achieve weight loss, and thus make yourself with the best possible condition. For those who do not want to go to the gym, diets, slaughtered, take pills, or attend the theater, there is the possibility of acupuncture.

Acupuncture has oriental origin, and treatment consists of inserting needles into specific areas, which may be in the ear or in the body. This event triggers the release of endorphins in your body, which generate so you can relax, manage and relieve stress and anxiety, which are often the cause of ingesting food without limits.

In addition, acupuncture can also help a lot to metabolism as well as willpower, spare keys and so essential to reduce weight. Read the rest of this entry »

The pair of Acupuncture and beauty is of recent development in the West. It is, in practice, an extension to serve the aesthetics of a form of therapy that appeared in ancient China. In recent times people are more aware and convinced of a better aesthetic appearance. The beauty is an essential component for living in society today. There is a way to stretch the skin that requires no points, no pain, no inflammation, or even require the patient to spend some time hiding from the world. Because it is surgery. Already a large and ever-increasing power of acupuncturists say remove the brands of the finest years with the needles of this extraordinary science China.

The system came into vogue in California, United States, including movie stars, and is spreading so incredible today. New York is the second center of Acupuncture aesthetics in the World, thousands of New Yorkers who have had their wrinkles and gathers to the rejuvenating influence of the famous needle and are satisfied with the results. “I feel like a tigress,” says Jerry Blome 58, “I am 42, is a miracle.” “I was resigned to spend the summer wearing a scarf to hide my neck wrinkles,” says Dority Harrys, a teacher fifties. “But after the second treatment cosmetic acupuncture I look in the mirror and I thought I was seeing wrong, neck wrinkles were gone, it’s a great way.” Read the rest of this entry »