Archive for March, 2010

Diet for gout

Friday, March 26th, 2010


The basis of this disease is a violation of the so-called purine metabolism, when the decomposition of proteins in the body, is formed increased amounts of uric acid and its salts. All the true sufferer from gout uric acid in the blood is always improved. At the same time, urine may contain normal sufferer from gout, and even reduced the number of uric acid salts that are trapped in the joints, cartilage, muscle and other tissues of the body (gouty nodes) and causes pain attacks and distortions of the joints.

At the origin of the disease seems to play role is not one but several simultaneously operating points. It is based on a lack of education of enzymes break down uric acid. In addition, in gout disrupted the process of extracting uric acid propensity of tissues due to the deposition of these salts.

On the occurrence of the disease affect the causes, which depend on external influences and manifest themselves in relation to age, lifestyle, nutrition, etc. An important role among all these elements plays a character meal.
Uric acid in the body is formed from animal protein foods, especially meats and proteins fish, as well as some vegetable proteins (pulses, vegetables). Number of her body in a healthy person is negligible, and in patients with gout dramatically improved.

Sufferer from gout diet composed mainly of products with a minimum content of purines. This apurinovaya diet consists of the following dishes.

Drinks: milk, weak tea, coffee substitutes, fruit juices.
Soups: vegetable, mushroom, milk, fruit and decoctions of cereals.
Fruits and Vegetables, berries, and greens: in all kinds and all grades except for legumes. Tomatoes are prohibited only if all the oksalurii.
Dairy products, eggs and egg dishes are permitted in all forms.
With regard to meat and fish, the long-term exclusion of such products is not necessarily useful. Allowed to eat them boiled not more than once a day during gouty attacks of meat and fish should not eat. For washout from the tissues of uric acid salts appoint increased drinking of alkaline mineral water and other beverages, and limit to a minimum any dense foods, especially protein.

Roasted meat and fish, as well as broths of these products are prohibited in all stages of gout.

Assuming a certain amount of meat dishes, we do not make any difference between different varieties of the original product, as against purine bases white meat no poorer than the black. Of far greater importance is the method of cooking meat and fish dishes: when cooking meat and fish are losing some of its purines and proteins, and broths, by contrast, contain them in abundance due to the fact that the dense substance of meat and fish move into the broth.

Most varieties are rich in purines small fish (herring, sardines, sprat). To improve the taste of cooked meat and fish can be added in the form of roasted steaks, chops, chopped meatballs, etc.

When combined with gout, obesity is recommended to time the hungry days of fruit and vegetables for better discharge of the organism from slags.

From vegetables and fruits are of particular importance varieties that have strong diuretic (strawberry, cherry, melon, watermelon, cabbage), through which the body abundantly washed uric acid salts. Similar effect and radish juice (mix of choleretic and diuretic effect).

The prerequisites are a sufferer from gout treatment exercise and regulation of the chair. In working joints of uric acid salts are deposited not as easy as in the fixed. When sedentary gouty symptoms intensified, so the sufferer from gout should exercise regularly and gymnastics, walks, and, where necessary, to resort to a massage.

Caring for the right daily stool dictated by the fact that between gouty attacks and bolts of a strong connection (delay of salts in the intestines). In the presence of constipation to the main table gouty added prunes, yogurt, sugar water, raw vegetables and greens, etc.

Table calories

Friday, March 26th, 2010


Daily intake of calories at an average labor costs should not exceed:

The number of calories for women between the ages of about

2200. . . . . . . 25 – 40

2100. . . . . . . 40 – 65

2000. . . . . . . Over 65

2800. . . . . . . Pregnant

To make your menu and do not gain excess weight, you will help this table caloric content of some products:

Products (100 g.) Kilocalories
Lean beef 100
Fat beef 280
Pork 260
Chicken 120
Gus 360
Sausages 240
Sausages 260
Bream 62
COD 38
Oil 780
Margarine 730
Lard 930
Mayonnaise (1 tablespoon) 100
Milk 58
Quark 90
White Cheese 100
Yellow fat cheese 260
Processed cheese 210
Egg (1 pc.) 65
Bread Gray 231
Pie Common 252
Pasta 270
Barley porridge 343
Buckwheat porridge 348
Hercules 420
Figure 450
Sugar 395
Marmalade 270
Honey 320
Potatoes 75
Carrots 58
Cabbage 25
Dried Peas 350
Fresh mushrooms 25
Lemon 42
Coffee natures. Sugar 0
Cream butter 135
Chocolate 620
Drinks Cal
A quarter liter of dark beer 150
Large glass of red wine 75
A small glass of vermouth 70
A small glass of liqueur 70
A small glass of vodka 60
Sweet cocktail (1 cup) 175
Tomato juice (1 cup) 44
Grapefruit juice (1 cup) 50

Drinking coffee during pregnancy found unsafe

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010


Women who drank 8 or more cups of coffee a day during pregnancy, high risk of, say Danish scientists. The use of such amounts of coffee in 2-fold increased risk of spontaneous abortion and fetal death. According to researchers from Aarhus Universitet, malicious kofemankam better quit during pregnancy, because even if the use of 4 to 7 cups of coffee a day, the risk of death fetus is 33%.

Breast cancer and obesity threatens to girls whose mothers during pregnancy were carried away by bold

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Women who during pregnancy eat fatty foods, for the birth of girls, with high probability “will give” their daughters to obesity or breast cancer. Doctors from the University of Auckland in New Zealand found that a diet high in fat during the ripening of the embryo is harmful to the future health of girls, because such food causes early puberty, hormonal failure in adolescence, the violation of the monthly menstrual cycles and increase the risk of cancer in the chest area.

Fats, received the mother during pregnancy affects the development of the organism of the child, especially girls. This lays the groundwork for obesity, because the babes from such mothers are born already with a lot of fat in the body, from which it is difficult to get rid of, even if in the future the child will eat healthy. Pediatricians recommend that mothers excluded from power all fried foods, especially meat (different sausages, sausages, chops, bacon, salami) and sweet, and choose low-fat milk and yogurt, in the main cook for a couple and consume more fish and poultry. Fatty foods alter the production of important hormones in the female body, explains Dr. Deborah Sloboda, including increased levels of steroid sex hormones progesterone, and the combination of prenatal and postnatal nutritional factors affecting reproductive maturation, reproductive ability and health of girls.

Breast milk is recommended to give even premature babies

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Even the tiniest of premature babies should get breast milk until they are in the intensive care unit hospital or hospital. Milk improves their mental development, according to a study released in the October issue of the American Academy of Pediatrics Pediatrics. Another study on breastfeeding suggests that it is contrary to popular belief does not increase the risk of tooth decay in children in the preschool period. This danger was in the earlier studies.

The first study was based on observation of 773 premature babies to be born in the United States weighing less than 1 kilogram between 1999 and 2002.

It was found that children who are breastfed infant, showed better results of intellectual development at age 30 months than the rest. Most points scored by those who received the longest breast milk.

Now preterm infants in maternity wards receiving nutrients intravenously. “The results say that, wherever possible, preterm infants should be given breast milk during their stay in the intensive care unit”, – said Dr. Dveyn Alekzander, director of the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and human development, which has made the study. Customer research on the development of caries in children was the school of medicine and dentistry at the University of Rochester in New York. Its authors argue that before the vote, there were some theories, for which long-term breastfeeding was considered unsafe, because it supposedly increases the risk of caries in preschool children.

However, analysis of data from the database of the U.S. government for health 1,5 thousands of children did not confirm the link between breastfeeding and development of caries. “We found no evidence that breast-feeding or its duration are independent risk factors for occurrence of caries in early childhood”, – underline the researchers. Pediatricians recommend that infants fed breast milk for at least the first year of life and further, until it is willing to go as a mother and child, they conclude

Hygiene postpartum

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

In the postpartum period than ever it is important to observe good personal hygiene, as well as the highest percentage of female-related diseases are particularly susceptible to infections, falls exactly at this time.

In the unhurried past century it was believed that the first 8 days puerperant should be in bed, how well is she not felt. Modern woman at 4 or 5 days after delivery is discharged from the hospital, but on the sixth day starts spinning like a squirrel in a cage. Believe me, dear lady, you need to rest. While the baby sleeps, do not throw headlong into the kitchen to feed the favorite, but not such a helpless man, take a blanket, a pillow, lie down comfortably and at least an hour or close your eyes. There is no need to lie on his back. On the contrary, it is proved that for a long preservation of the horizontal position predisposes to bend the uterus back.
Particularly attentive to themselves should be women undergoing cesarean section. At first she could only walk slowly, cautiously, and only gradually, of course, with the help of relatives, the normal rhythm of life is restored.

When parturients should be allowed to leave the house? Usually, especially in the cold season, it should be prevented from walking the full six weeks. But this rule must be followed not in all cases, as fresh air helps to perfectly recreate.

Around her that everything must be perfectly clean. Underwear should be changed to the extent of contamination, even if it is severe blood loss had to do several times a day. Savings are extremely dangerous, and therefore unwise. Fresh linen should first properly warm up and then had to wear. No need even for a minute lose sight of trait parturients to perspire and easy opportunity to catch a cold.

Bedding is also to be changed daily, and with a good airing bed.

Add that the air in the room must be fresh. In the summer you can keep the windows wide open, and in the cold – often open windows, protecting parturients from drafts.

How often do we see that after the first delivery figure of a woman wrong: breasts hang down, and the stomach bulges forward! Blame not so much pregnancy, as wearing incorrect, unhygienic clothes, especially in the first months after birth. Some mothers returning from maternity home, it is no longer look after themselves. “Climb” in the vast robe, forgetting to wash it once again, ignored her bra, are not prescribed by a doctor postpartum bandage, good drawing inside stretched abdominal wall, and here’s the result – to dissolve “teteha” are unlikely to inspire feats of her own husband. There are other extreme, for example, when puerperant winter walks with the baby in the short yubchonke and thin pantyhose, earning himself an inflammation of appendages.

When allowed to take the first bath? If the postpartum period runs correctly, without raising the temperature, without bleeding, etc., then enjoy the warm water with the addition of any aromatic foam can be for 10-11 days after birth. Stay in the bath should be 10-15 minutes, and then need to lie.

In the first days after birth is very useful several times a day to stand under the shower. It refreshes the skin, removes perspiration, promotes disclosure and generally has a beneficial effect on health. Shower, even cool, can not become a pretext for colds.

After delivery, parturients sprintsuyut only in cases where this is required by the physician. After flowing normal childbirth any more douching is not done, but simply to wash the external genitalia and soiled body parts warm disinfectant solution through a piece of absorbent cotton and osushivat proglazhennym their soft towel.

Log laid tampon into the vagina, which should be changed to the extent of contamination. This tampon absorbs postpartum separation and prevents the penetration of germs inside. If bleeding is very heavy use tampons is not recommended.

Food parturients should be digestible, easy and, of course, fertile. In the early days it can be given chicken broth or soup, oatmeal is very helpful, which is easily digested, or entering the stomach, and at the same time has the parts in which the body needs so much was delivered of a female. Thirst-quenching fruit compote of apples, prunes, etc., as well as the so-called sweet soups and scanty jelly.

5-6 day in the diet parturients add a bit of boiled chicken or chicken, scrambled eggs, porridge, bread nesdobnye, the rest of the food remains the same. From fried meat should be avoided. Generally speaking, nursing mothers, contrary to popular opinion, should not eat much meat, canned goods from the same snacks and pickles it is best to give quite as sharp, spicy dishes have a negative influence on milk and cause the child a variety of gastrointestinal disorders.
important role in feeding parturients take milk and dairy products. The increased consumption of milk (as in the pure form, and tea) promotes lactation, in addition, milk contains a large quantity of vitamins and minerals necessary for both mother and child.
In the popular media dominated by the view that nursing women should as much as possible drink. Omniscient grandmother advised to eat salty (mostly herring), and often forced parturients drink beer. Remember, from excessive drinking will not add milk, pouring stomach fluids leads to improper digestion, and as for beer and other alcoholic beverages – the case, as they say, thrifty, but you should know that every drop of alcohol, adopted mother, the milk enters the body baby.

Postpartum thrombophlebitis (white swelling of the feet)

Friday, March 19th, 2010


There are times when the 10-21-th day after birth, often later in childbirth sick one leg, usually the left. The woman appears malaise, temperature rises, the foot begins to ache, swells, becomes pale, shiny, sometimes it can be seen on the red stripes stretched subcutaneous veins. Sometimes the same way and the other leg is affected.

Common outcome of the process – recovery. As for his reasons, it is determined by occlusion of the lumen of the veins, resulting in venous circulation in them is highly difficult. The very existence of such obstructions depends on the slowing down of blood flow, increasing its clotting and changes in the walls of the veins. Postpartum thrombophlebitis is observed in women with varicose veins during pregnancy.

This disease is rare. The duration of its various – from several days to several weeks or even months. Tendency to swelling and weakness of the legs are sometimes for years. Medical assistance is needed, before the arrival of the doctor must give the limb elevated position.

Three questions about beautiful skin

Monday, March 15th, 2010


Caring for your skin – a serious matter because the skin is not in vain is a mirror reflecting the state of internal organs and the entire human organism. But often in the fight for clean smooth skin, we tend to make mistakes that come primarily from not knowing how to be interdependent skin problems with our health in general and with the action of some cosmetics, in particular. Here are just three points on the skin, which “Pravde.Ru” said cosmetologist Natalia Boronilova.

If a person is usually the skin is dry, but with very wide pores, which, if any excitement begin to actively produce fat, then what type of skin can be so classified and what creams to use if you have already tried without success, and for dry and oily skin? And is it possible to get rid of large pores?

- First, we should find out whether the patient has severe hormonal disease or any infection in the body, which makes itself felt in this way. There are special microbiological tests, which help define it. If you have an infection – it is necessary to treat it, because otherwise all the other measures will not give any result.

In our face reflects all that is in our body and the first step would be to fix it. The presence of infection can stimulate an increase in time and if you treat the infection, they then steal. It is to get rid of them, of course, should not, but that is not possible: no not yet do – through their skin breathe.

But, of course, they should be moderate, not glaring. If the infection is not – the problem is simplified. Perhaps it’s just in the wrong care. Apply in person then cream for oily, the dry skin can not. Perhaps, there were some mistakes. To see all of this, we must go to the doctor dermato-cosmetologist.

A lot of girls after 20 years begin to use anti-wrinkle creams, citing the fact that there are wrinkles around the eyes. At what age can use cream to remove wrinkles.

At the age of anti-wrinkle cream to use, let’s say, not helpful. The fact is that the wrinkles are different. At a young age to cause some reasons, an older – other. In old age is changing the entire facial skin, it odryablenie etc. The young, as a rule, there are wrinkles, and they usually occur in people with excessive moving person.

Often “hands” around the eyes appear in girls who hide their short-sightedness, not wanting to wear glasses or lenses, all the time schuryatsya. So these lines – not a reason to use such serious creams, as anti-wrinkle cream.

And these creams really serious, calculated at a certain age and certain changes of the skin. To combat wrinkles only need constant monitoring is: we must accustom ourselves not to wrinkle the face, if you have nearsightedness – to wear glasses. And it is desirable to use simple nutritious or moisturizer.

Is it true that men’s facial skin is better, because they shave every day and remove an unnecessary layer of lifeless?

- No, this assertion is incorrect. From shaving the skin can not be better, because shaving in fact – this is her day to day injury. To properly preserve the skin, should shave at a certain scheme, a certain route, the lines while doing a facial massage. And it applies only to electric shavers, machines do not pobreeshsya.

People who shave machine, skin, after 50-60 years to deteriorate faster than those who shave electric razor, just due to the fact that they have no end remove the top layer of skin and not only dead cells. Leather men had for the most part better than women, but this is due to their hormonal characteristics that make the skin more oily. This is exactly the quality and prevents the person from the adverse influences and impacts.

Slimming Apparel

Monday, March 15th, 2010

It is well known that any person regardless of age interested to have a good figure. However, to ensure that people did not die of starvation nature has provided mechanisms for deposition of fat – among women, primarily on the legs and buttocks in the field, men’s – on his stomach. Proper diet and exercise help lose weight, but often this process is very zanyanut time.

Fortunately, now there slimming products (trousers, breeches, shorts and belt for weight loss), with termoeffektom (also known as the effect of sauna). This is a special clothing for slimming made using neoprene (or its variants) and is intended to facilitate the process of weight loss in women and men.

Modern materials from which clothing is made for weight loss help to lose weight in record time without causing injury. The action is based on termoeffekte. When heating the fat cells burn much faster. Also, always carried a micro, which results in skin tone and prevents the formation of stretch marks.

Clothing slimming can be used both at home and on the street during the summer. For example, in the pants to lose weight, you can do sports or just cleaning the house, parallel to the burning excess fat.

Nutrition for Pregnant Women

Saturday, March 13th, 2010


The successful outcome of pregnancy requires a balanced diet! Your body at this time needs lots of nutrients and vitamins.

Watch for the maximum freshness of the products that are included in your diet. Avoid the presence in it of preservatives, dyes and artificial additives. Totally abstain from alcohol and cigarettes! Refrain from excessive consumption of coffee and spicy dishes. Many women during pregnancy are afraid to type those extra pounds. Calorie food intake must be proportional to energy consumption – this will help avoid excessive weight gain. There is nothing wrong with what you typed 8-10 kg.

In the first half of pregnancy is the formation of organs of the unborn child, so your body should do a sufficient number of proteins, fats and carbohydrates. The optimal consumption of doctors consider 110 g protein, 75 g fat and 350 grams of carbohydrates. The total daily energotsennost should be 2400-2700 kcal.

In the second half of pregnancy, the need for nutrients increases. At this time, your body should be 120 g protein, 85 g fat and 400 grams of carbohydrates. In this period there was growth and development of the placenta, so pay special attention to protein diet. Your diet should be a sufficient number of animal protein contained in milk, kefir, cottage cheese, fish, meat, cheese (in any case not eat spicy and greasy cheese), eggs (not more than one day). 30% fat should be of plant origin – oils containing unsaturated fatty acids (sunflower, olive). A small amount of butter will replenish the body of higher grade animal fats.

Great importance in the nutrition of pregnant women have vitamins. The need for them in this period increased by 2 times. Consider the main contribution of vitamins in your body. Growth and development of the placenta contributes to vitamin A (2.5 g / day). Vitamin B1 (3 mg) and B2 (3 mg) keep muscles toned, vitamin C strengthens the immune system as a whole. Vitamin D (500 mg) is important for bone baby. Be careful! Lack of this vitamin leads to serious consequences: malformation of bones and teeth. There is a risk of anemia in the mother. Vitamin PP (15-20 mg) is also necessary to avoid abnormal fetal development.

In the second half of pregnancy require a large consumption of minerals, especially iron (15-20 mg). If you present an irresistible attraction to the Cretaceous to the salt – this is the first sign that the body lacks calcium. Daily calcium intake of pregnant women is 2000 mg (for the average person about 800 mg). This requirement will help make cheese, milk and cottage cheese. Since salt must be careful: the daily consumption rate should not exceed 5 grams (more can lead to fluid retention in the body).

Number eaten water should be between 2 to 2.5 liters per day. Increase consumption of fruit and vegetable juices, which contain many vitamins. You can alternate them with compote of dried fruits.

In the second half of pregnancy nutritionist recommended to eat 5-6 times a day. Contents of products a day should be approximately as follows: 200 grams of meat or fish, 150-200 g wheat bread, 50 grams of vegetable oil, 40 g butter, 500 g of milk, 200 grams of yogurt, 200 g cheese, 400 g potato, 100 g of cabbage , 100 g carrots, 200 g tomatoes, 1 egg, 50 g of cereals, 70 grams of pasta and tea. By the way, chewing green tea leaves eliminates seizures toxicosis.

Distribute food day can be as follows: breakfast at 8.00 am, lunch at noon, lunch at 14. 00-15.00, dinner at 19.00. At lunch you can afford fruits and berries, juice, or stewed fruit and biscuits. Before bed try a glass of kefir, it will provide the normalization of the digestive tract. Do not forget that the last time food can be taken 3 hours before sleep.

Strictly watch your diet! Remember, depends on the health of you and your child!