Eating Disorders
High Blood Pressure in Alcoholism
High intake of alcohol can cause some severe health complications. Within these complications can mention hypertension. Both risk factors together and empowered can result even in death, so it is important to know how alcoholism is associated with high blood pressure, to understand their potential complications.
While mild to moderate consumption of alcohol may be beneficial for cardiovascular health, an excess of the damages. Even for many researchers, moderate consumption can have an effect on blood pressure by raising it above the normal values (70 / 140 mmHg). This risk would increase if alcohol consumption is excessive.
Why sleep disorders affect our body weight?
More and more studies associate the weight gain to sleep loss. Experts recommend that adults sleep between seven and nine hours per night to stabilize a healthy body weight. Why should we sleep to maintain a healthy weight?
One theory is that the lack of sleep disrupts hormones such as leptin and insulin, which regulate appetite and body weight. But an appetite that goes awry and benchmarks for weight management that are erased, it can make you fat.
Another scientific explanation suggests that deprivation of sleep leaves us too tired to exercise. But it is well known that weight loss and then stabilize the weight lost, there is not enough to follow a balanced diet and healthy, it must also exercise regularly (4 or 5 times a week, at least 30 minutes each time).
Furthermore, as sleep deprivation can disturb our mood (making us uncomfortable or irritable for example), we tend to look to food for our spirits up. We eat when our emotions, without being able to control our portions, and this can cause weight gain.
Cooking techniques: 3 healthy cooking methods
A healthy cooking is a good start to improving your health. A preparation for eating healthy makes your daily meals healthier and tastier. Cooking healthy does not mean you must become a chef or invest in expensive cookware.
3 tips to cook more healthy:
1) Use fats wisely for healthy food
All fats are not bad. Choose unsaturated fats (like olive oil) instead of saturated fats (like butter). But use good fats in moderation anyway, because all fats (whether good or bad) are loaded with calories.
2) Buy unprocessed foods to your kitchen
Choose whole grains instead of processed grains. Whole grains and brown rice come bulgur have kept their sound intact and therefore provide more fiber, B vitamins, magnesium, zinc and other nutrients.
3) Incorporate more fruits and vegetables for a healthy cooking
Most people do not consume enough. Try to include between 5 and 13 servings of fruit per day to your cooking. Choose fruits and vegetables of various colors to meet your needs in antioxidants and vitamins.
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Cancer and Eating Disorders
When we think of cancer treatment we forget the importance of diet in this disease, which is the most common sequel excessive weight loss patient.
Some of the eating disorders related to cancer patients are:
Early anorexia
Rapid weight loss due to alterations in the digestive tract, either in the stomach, esophagus or intestines. Also alterations in taste and digestion much more slowly than common. These are causing this type of anorexia that alters the sensation of hunger the patient.
Nutrient loss
Due to cancer treatments required, the patient experiences a significant loss of nutrients, which can put you in malnutrition, along with the elimination of blood by different routes (urine, oral, fecal matter). This is why patients require a higher caloric diet to normal.
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