Community Health Care

Archive for February, 2012

The care and oral hygiene are essential to have a perfect smile.

The wear of tooth enamel and tooth decay are favored largely by the consumption of carbonated soft drinks, according to a study published by the U.S. Academy of Dentistry.

Which is not so much by high amounts of sugar, but these drinks acids (phosphoric, tartaric, malic, etc..) That directly attacks the enamel.

The best steps you can take to prevent this from happening to our teeth is:

Consuming soft drinks, coffee, tea and those that contain too many chemicals and dyes.

If you keep eating them is recommended that:

1. Use a straw better than a glass and drink to avoid retention in the mouth.

2. Do not drink soft drinks before going to bed.

3. Avoid brushing teeth immediately after drinking, and brushing erodes the tooth most recently attacked by acids.
Prevents wear of tooth enamel

4. Brushing in a circular, never horizontal.

And you can increase the fluoride. Fluoride is one of the best ways to help prevent tooth decay. It is a mineral that, when combined with tooth enamel to strengthen it.

The preventive measure is the amount of salt added with the proper amount of fluoride, and in areas where drinking water contains large amounts of fluorine, salt should be consumed without fluoride. It is also advisable to use toothpaste with fluoride in all cases. Ask your dentist which toothpaste to use to get the appropriate level of fluoride.

Fibromyalgia is a disease that affects more than one million people only in Spain and with which many people feel misunderstood because, until it is diagnosed, no one knows the cause of the pain of the patient.

The disease affects each person differently and therefore, the diagnoses are complicated by not allowing some general symptoms quickly discover. Symptoms are thought to come from a central nervous system dysfunction that results in a generalization of the sensitivity to pain.

The most characteristic symptoms that may allow you to orient yourself to see if you suffer from fibromyalgia are:

- First appears oscillating intermittent pain in the cervical area, in the crosses and in the lumbar area.

- The sensitivity increases and is accompanied by persistent fatigue, muscle stiffness, dizziness, or headache.

- The disease usually develops in difficult moments of life, for example, after a very stressful period or after the loss of a relative.

- The pain starts to spread to the arms, hips, thighs, knees, hands, ankles and feet.

- The feeling of fatigue is persistent but does not fall asleep at night.

From here is when you make the first medical consultation. Knowing these symptoms it is advisable to see a specialist as soon as you have the least suspicion, since the sooner treatment starts, the sooner we can return to our lives.

The spur red, orange to socialize, yellow for the concentration and reflexes … did you know that the colors you paint your drawings will now serve as small treatment?

Chromotherapy is the use of colors to treat physical illness and emotional disturbance. The colors have properties that affect our mood and make us feel differently.

There are different forms of treatment as it can be applied to the food, but what interests us here is that you apply directly to us. Treatment should be completely white in a room so you can project any color and we need to be with the minimum of clothes or a white silk gown.

The sessions are 30 minutes a day using the same color, the results begin to appear after 15 days. Eight colors are used and each has unique qualities. Here’s the detail for you to choose the one that best fits your needs:

Red is stimulating and energy used to treat disorders (physical apathy, anemia, cold …). Orange is the symbol of the feminine energy of creation, friendship, life and happiness which promotes the relationship between people. Yellow is the color of intellect and stimulates the brain and nervous system. The turquoise strengthens the immune system and is used in diseases such as AIDS or infection. Green brings balance and harmony, is good for treating physical fatigue and injury. The blue symbolizes peace and tranquility, is used against the thyroid and throat in general. Purple is a color that conveys spirituality and intuition, is used to calm the nervous system and against mental disorders. Finally, the magenta is spiritual and affects the body and mind and spirit.

Surely you too have experienced the moment of being on the beach and your mother tell you to cleanse your nose with salt water or rub you the sand on the beach. The natural properties of beach environment have been known for many years but only now begin to put into practice in the resorts and spas, will you discover us?

The ‘Thalassotherapy’ is a therapeutic method based on the use of the marine environment, which boasts features antitumor, antibacterial and antiviral. Advantage of this means absolutely everything we water whirlpool, with stones strengthen circulation, algae help us against aging and antioxidants, the clay is perfect for the skin … to the sea air is rich in ozone and iodine and increases the body’s defenses!

It is important that schools offer this type of method is close to a sea whereabouts since, the effectiveness of their treatments, lies largely in the freshness and naturalness of them. Also important is considered very quiet and relaxing atmosphere that is breathed in coastal areas.

Thalassotherapy is especially recommended for people with muscle or joint problems. Also for those who have a deficiency in your body as due to chemical processes, the body is balanced by the salty water

One day we wake up and decide that we need to exercise. Just then run to the gym to sign and that afternoon we Aerobics, spinning and body-pump. Bottom line? Just full of aches and possibly injury by excessive sport in our lives.

Then I leave a decalogue essential for those who have decided to begin ‘Operation Bikini’ with time.

1 .- Do not obsess. Do not expect to have a six pack on the first day of stroke or rock hard legs. The effects, as I said, are the long term.

2 .- Heat. This prevents injuries. The muscles need to be prepared to start making physical activity.

3 .- Exercise gradually. Start with a short time and low intensity and is gradually increasing. There is no point hiding hit you the first day.

4 .- Dose. With two or three times a week is enough.

5 .- Following the advice of a trainer. He is professional and we will indicate the correct way to train.

6 .- Following a draw. According to our needs, the monitor prepares us or other exercises. Do not try to copy to the muscle-gym and be on your table!

7 .- To know the body. No one knows us better than our infirmities and capabilities. Be aware of them and do not overdo or the consequences will be worse.

8 .- Stretching. For at least 15 minutes after exercise. Just as it is important to prepare the muscles, it is important to relax afterwards.

9 .- Eat a balanced diet. We need to incorporate vitamins and protein to help muscles recover.

10 .- Have on hand always a pain reliever. We can help with mild pain that we can lead the sport, but we can also see a specialist (masseuse)

Latinos are accustomed to home cooking. By several factors, we have not entered the maelstrom of the American system, where you can buy everything done, or semi-prepared. Whether it costs, or because the house is someone who has time and inclination to cook, in most households we sat at the table to taste delicious dishes home.

In fact, we are healthier and have less weight problems, that our friends from the north. These Latinos who have emigrated and taken that power, they see the consequences in their own bodies. Even children, here are a slim, harmonica, changing eating habits, have problems of obesity and diabetes since childhood.

For us, it is important to keep our food system and incorporate foreign elements, knowing, as we know, that are harmful to our health. We have explained a thousand ways that alter the chemical additives in different ways nutrients from food we eat.

But the ads, made by experts, they enter our homes through the media and are recorded on the minds of the people the advantages of this or that cereal, one or another gas, or brand of hamburgers. And all bad! I do not argue that one is more palatable than another, or better, but the reality is that all bad!

Latino brothers: let us live in our country, or in the north, on to our customs.
Cook at home and avoid falling into the range of obesity with the whole range of diseases that entails.
Teach children to enjoy the pleasures of home cooking, and Let them help us prepare the dishes that taste as a family then.

If we go for a walk, and you have to snack, choose less harmful foods and fruit smoothies, controls as much as possible the intake of chemical additives.

Having trouble getting pregnant?, Have you thought about the possibility of IVF ‘? The future comes step by step and ‘embryoscope’, a revolutionary incubator to the embryo observed at all times, is here.

Juan, a baby who already has five months old, was conceived with this revolutionary technique. The ‘Embryoscope’ reduces the risk of multiple pregnancies and abortions, and no longer have the risk of having to bottle feed five children at once.

Still want to go further and reach select the healthiest embryos so that finally, those are the ones that are implanted in the uterus of the mother. Although this technique has supporters and critics can not deny is that it is a miracle for those natural causes, can not have children.

When you have an awful night you resent all day: you’re grumpy, tired, do not you give your best, and others will notice. Get plenty of rest is essential for living and that is, if you do not sleep may even die!

Sometimes, especially in times of great stress or worries, we have trouble falling asleep and not even our first responders are able to help sheep. Here we will give you the foundation for a good night’s sleep and you wake up and face the day with a big smile.

- The balance is very important so you should always try to sleep and get up on the same hours. Obviously this weekend but you can not try to follow rigorously apply Monday through Friday. In addition to your resting place should stimulate you and encourage relaxation.

- Try to eat two or three hours before bed and always light foods. Do not accompany with caffeinated beverages and dispenses coffee at dessert time. Water and more water to quench your thirst.

- Bathe instead of shower. This latest alert and you’ll turn while a bubble bath and quiet appease your nerves. Try aromatherapy as a supplement.

- Exercising six hours before getting tired and will help you de-stress. Take example of moms taking their kids to soccer to then fall like angels in bed, you do just that!

- Before calentitas get you between the sheets drink you try a glass of milk, dairy promote sleep.

A glass of wine helps to good cardiovascular circulation, is a protector against cancer, is essential antioxidants in the human diet and act as an aid to skin aging. After what I just told you sure you’ve gone off to uncork a bottle but what if instead of bebérnoslo not give us a massage with him?

The first treatments with wine made near Bordeaux, France and soon to export to Italy, Canada and the U.S., the results were buenísimos! In Spain the first hotel that was began offering ‘Golf Peralta’ is your spa ‘Wine Spa’.

By now you’re wondering how to apply the wine in our body. Do not worry that I am here to explain: it is usually done with whirlpool cedar vats, yes, you’re imagining those where people tread the grapes. In them, the mixture of thermal water with touches of red wine, generates feeling of total relaxation. This can then accompany massage with hot wine and grape seed extracts.

Besides the effects discussed above, the highlight is the consistency that gives your muscles in general but especially the arms, and strength can be noticed in the breasts. Thanks to its antioxidant properties prevent premature aging of the skin, ready for eternal youth?

The wines used are:

- The ‘Lambrusco’ which is rich in minerals and provides elasticity to the skin.

- The ‘Sauvignon’ and ‘Chianti’ soothing properties, ideal for massage.

- The ‘Cabernet’ and ‘Merlot’ is used to remove dead skin cells

Currently in the ‘Spa Vinothérapie Caudalie Marques de Riscal’, located in La Rioja, we can enjoy a complete treatment for six days based entirely on the grapes and their properties. How do you like to ask Santa Claus?