Being obese affect episodic memory

Individuals who have an higher B.M.I. (body mass index) and then obese beyond suffering physical and psychological problems may find difficult to recall to the memory events from the past, at least according to a British study conducted on fifty young participants probing with a test on the memory as were vivid reminders about complex scenes in which in a kind of treasure hunt is required to remember where they had been hiding certain information after a couple of days. It was already known that being obese means having structural and functional changes in the brain, but this test shows (not in all cases) also a trend to reduced ability of episodic memory; so is to form of key details to remember that in the next phase of recall at the appropriate time of the specific episode in the memory.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Mar 01, 2016              n°:   3083      


A new device to relieve back pain

Is possible avoid to carry out complex surgeries and radiographs for attaching bone grafts that stabilize the spine in cases of back pain using a simple and inexpensive device to be applied between the vertebrae to stabilize the spine and bone fusion, at least according to a study done in Australia that thus form between vertebrae a kind of biomechanical bridge. Traditional surgery seems to be effective only in a fifty percent of cases; in fact to secure bone grafts are used rods, cages and relative fixing screws that not always integrate in the vertebrae in a solid fusion, then the intervention quite complicated takes time before reaching the result. Needless to say that prevention remains the best therapeutic garrison by adopting correct posture so as to safeguard the health of the delicate spinal column.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Jan 26, 2016                         n°:   3053      


Aerobic exercise to fight prostate cancer

Aerobic exercise can help the body prevent prostate cancer might spread, at least according to a study carried out by British researchers who asked to fifty men with prostate cancer that had not yet spread in the body to test for twelve months this theory; then is proceeded through blood testing to monitor the PSA, a protein that is usually helpful to have the picture of the situation regarding the trend of the disease from which it would seem that there are some benefits of exercise in reducing uncontrolled reproduction of cancer cells and DNA repair even though it is still tests in their early stages. The hope would be, having proceeded to perform a study on a large scale, to be able to offer this innovative therapy in healthcare facilities in the country whereas one hundred men each day are diagnosed with this cancer.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Jan 11, 2016                         n°:   3040      


Obesity perhaps transmitted from fathers to sons

A test performed on six obese men who have undergone surgery to lose weight in Denmark would have highlighted differences in the seed transmitted as if there were an epigenetic marker of the obesity, although this study is interesting isn't tried yet about real consequences at the genetic level (since then the small number of individuals tested). The assumption seems to be that during periods of abundance should be normal for children to eat to a greater extent in order to grow more, accumulating energy and thus better withstand to infection and famine, but only recently (in evolutionary terms) became a disadvantage being obese and therefore the characteristic of hand down to their children what is now considered a defect. It is advisable to be fitter at the conception so as not to pass on the genes responsible for appetite.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Dec 07, 2015                         n°:   3014      


Excessive use of computer for children

With a questionnaire proposed by an association in Australia to two thousand parents concerning the health of children would result at the first place (fifty-eight percent of responses) excessive use of the computer associated with the main cause of poor exercise and so consequently obesity and a range of problems associated with and and typical of a sedentary lifestyle. From another study of nine thousand secondary students would result that seventy-seven percent remains in front of the computer more than the recommended two hours maximum and as only the twenty-four percent plays an hour of physical activity every day. Often see kids with tablet under the arm or at fingertips that ends to divert the attention from an healthy physical activity or of suitable outdoor games, then as far as teenagers they seem to be always attached to the smartphone.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Dec 04, 2015                         n°:   3012      


Belly reduces life expectancy also to lean people

Monitoring data from more than fifteen people researchers would found that doubles the risk of mortality in men who have the belly and considered lean (at least for parameters calculated for the body mass index) than those who are overweight and obese; moreover excess weight that focuses around the waistline increases the likelihood of premature death. As regard for the women must consider the tendency to accumulate fat differently than men, but the situation is little better. Typically a so-called apple shape with abdominal fat is considered more dangerous to health than the pear shape with fat concentrated on the hips and below. Diabetes, diseases of the cardiovascular system and other metabolic abnormalities are particularly linked to a greater extent of abdominal fat than that evenly distributed under the skin.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Nov 17, 2015                         n°:   2997      


Improve mood and well-being doing gardening

Checking a questionnaire to a group of nearly two hundred and seventy participants of which about half are dedicated to gardening activities of British researchers would have found that the people who worked with plants in a allotment of land for this type of activity at least once a week for thirty minutes showed lower levels of fatigue, tension, anxiety of those not dedicated to gardening; moreover would improve the mood, self-esteem and mood. The benefits regarding mental health and generally the well-being extend to individuals who lives in urban apartments while also allowing to maintain a healthy weight, showing a B.M.I (Body Mass Index) less than those not involved in gardening activities. In the past studies showed the need for a kind of athletic preparation in these cases to prepare the body for unforeseen movements.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Nov 04, 2015                         n°:   2986      


Always focused to not get fat

To be always focused on what is do and of the relationship with the environment is a well-known salutary adage that health improves the health condition, then apparently can also be useful to not get fat, at least according to a new study; that however, tends to make a distinction between the kind of concentration that should be focused all the time about everything that happens in life by analyzing the various sensations became a kind of distinctive trait of the personality. Some people a few unthinking would have a B.M.I (body mass index) less favourable than those concentrated and besides being fat often also have a more prominent belly. In the past numerous studies have pointed out how important it is for example focus on nutrition and physical activity to not get fat avoiding mechanical behavioural automation.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Oct 22, 2015                         n°:   2975      


Contraindications to surgery to lose weight

By examining the medical data relating to over eight thousand and eight hundred obese patients three years before and three after the bariatric surgery to lose weight Canadian researchers would have found an increase in mental health disorders until to extreme gestures and although further studies are needed to verify these contraindications decidedly unhealthy means that the benefits get with a rapid weight loss achieved with this type of surgery should be resized. After the operation patients seem most vulnerable; moreover in some cases intentionally are self administered high doses of medicines with consequent poisoning effect that is considered to be a common mechanism of extreme action. Previous studies have already advanced some doubts towards this type of rather invasive surgery typically performed only on large obese at higher risk for correlate diseases.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Oct 09, 2015                         n°:   2964      


Use with caution of smartphones and wellness app

Smartphones are in many cases replacing computers in everyday use as it can now make use of quite readable screens and equivalent programs with similar performance, but some point out that the security and privacy is not always respected and as regards the approximately five hundred million people using the applications on wellness or that monitor health conditions there would be the risk that personal information falling into the wrong hands. For example, might see that on the arm of sporting man a smartphone to monitor athletic performance with an app that often is not encrypted with a risk that experts can take over the data; moreover in some cases they have no privacy policy and then in practice the various private data about fitness and other connected information are visible to all.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Sep 28, 2015                         n°:   2953      



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