Center For Holistic Wellness

A healthy diet during adolescence is essential for proper physical and mental development. But what and how teens should eat? The formula is deceptively simple: balance, variety, sufficient calories, and most importantly, do not ban any food because the constraints and compulsions are counterproductive.a In this critical age, emotions and affections, may adversely affect and interfere with a good education dietetics. Very often we eat in terms of how we feel. At the same time, our mood depends on the food we have eaten. This reciprocal relationship is especially true during adolescence, the stage of the fastest growing life with early childhood. Alterations and nutritional deficiencies may end up having great significance. Not only in terms of development and size, but also in the emergence of serious eating disorders like anorexia or bulimia. At this stage of life, the total rejection or delivery to the food frenzy can become a way to overcome the feeling of emptiness and frustration.

At the same time, adolescence is a period of growth at an accelerated pace, during which the child eventually becomes an adult. The changes affect not only the physical appearance (increased muscle mass, bone mass, fat, sexual development), but also to the entire complex mental (motor coordination, cognitive adaptation, intellectual, emotional and cultural). One of the most stressful situations is, fat or not to follow some standards of beauty unhealthy body. The self-imposed a strict diet can become the prelude to many eating disorders. These alterations occur at a time of life when nutritionally requirements are higher than in adulthood.

What you eat and drink during your pregnancy is extremely important for several reasons. First of all, you have a fetus growing inside you that depends on you and only you to receive a healthy food. Second, you must be sure that you’ll be in your best conditions and strong enough to carry the baby. And finally, want to be sure you did not win too much weight during your pregnancy, making it more difficult weight loss when the pregnancy ends. To achieve these objectives, you’ll want to be sure to follow some basic health guidelines to know that you and your baby to pass this pregnancy in the best way! 1.

Eat foods from the five major food groups (fruits, vegetables, cereals / carbohydrates, proteins and fats.) This is not the time to skimp on portions. Eat healthy portions and try to eat 300 extra calories per day, no more. 2. Leave right now smoking and drinking alcohol! These things are crucial for your health, and more important than this, for the health of your baby. Be responsible and think about it! 3. Drink plenty of water. Carrying extra weight both in your body, this will require more energy than normal, especially if it’s hot outside, and be more prone to dehydration.

Drink 3 liters of water per day, even if it means getting up again at night to pee! 4. Try to ignore some cravings. It is not a pregnancy without orders from a tub of ice cream, but try to change it for frozen yogurt and this will do wonders in postpartum weight loss. Do not want to spend the first weeks of worrying about taking your son or one of your products.

A pharmaceutical industry representative said that the measures of the administration to save 1,500 million in health care costs will lead to the loss of 500 jobs. This type of argument leaves me cold. Or rather disturbs me which group interests come before the benefit of society as a whole. It’s like snuff planters complain about smoking prevention standards or manufacturers of weapons by banning free sale to individuals. What is important in the field of health, is to combat health care waste that also stimulates the corruption, the doctor in prescribing certain drugs, or lose control of many recipes that even resell on the black market. Just like that.

In any case, what can I say, the decisions to save our health system I seem prudish and even ridiculous. What would stop resolving the kits home where we store all kinds of medicines, many of them expired. Only reduce by half would save far more than these meager 1,500 million. And of course, we would avoid many problems caused by self-medication, with the new health care costs they generate. And we have believed that the welfare of this country is an unlimited mana, which justifies any pain you have a CT or MRI, any justification for ill use an ambulance and any request for drugs deserves fill a prescription. To follow so soon will not get 100% of our GDP to meet health care costs.

That, not counting the thousands of foreigners a “many of them with kidney forradoa ” coming to our country and be operated exclusively for treated like royalty with expensive treatments. For all that, I think our politicians are cowards, to raise the cuts. If you establish some kind of payment, even symbolic, for each medical act, we would see what the long queues would soon disappear in the consultations and the real patients may be cared much better.

In addition to balanced diet of adolescents has to be varied and more energy. According to the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO), the daily diet of a teenager who may vary according to lead a life more or less active, must be greater than the 3,500 calories a day. A balanced diet during adolescence must contain the same proportions of nutrients than any other stage of life: 60% carbohydrate, 25% fat, 14% protein and 1% of vitamins and minerals. In addition to balanced nutrition of adolescents should be rich and varied, no forbidden foods, even those who have good reputation, such as hamburgers, red meat or sweets, because the key is to moderate consumption. Educating for eating right nutrition education must also take into account the turmoil and rebelliousness that characterize this stage of life. The diet does not have to be boring and difficult to carry.

The latest trends in nutrition and tax him fleeing coercive. Several studies have demonstrated that the more rigid we are to make dietary rules, unless we get the desired effect. And this is observed reliably in. At this age are extremely dangerous if are not properly addressed by a specialist. Nutritional imbalances can not only produce changes in all cardiovascular risk factors such as elevated cholesterol and, especially, the occurrence of obesity and diabetes, but may also adversely affect the mood and the onset of eating disorders. Body Conscious eating disorder and Adolescence is an especially vulnerable to all forms of social pressure and fashion, and certainly one of the dominant is the cult of the body and the identification of thinness with success in interpersonal relationships . Thus, the preoccupation with weight and figure are exaggerated in this period and even more so in females.

This is a troubling combination for the two most common eating disorders: anorexia (refusing to eat) and bulimia (excessive need to eat). Food thus becomes an emotional nourishment. The attitude of total rejection or delivery emotional frenzy that food intended fill or empty alleviate existential, emotional deprivation, frustration and disappointment of all kinds of love. These eating disorders can affect hormonal balance. In girls can lead to amenorrhea (loss of menstruation) and in boys inhibition of sexual desire. Complex alterations also occur in some neurochemical mechanisms. Altered levels of serotonin, an important neurotransmitter that regulates mood, anxiety and compensation processes and satiety. With a great interest in health and alternative medicine. I believe that natural remedies and alternative therapies have their place in modern medicine. I am confident that an informed person is potentially a more happy and healthy.

The three steps to a healthy life are weight control, healthy diet and the use of technology to monitor and control diabetes. Kathy Vlietstra is a woman who underwent surgery because they had diabetes. After the surgery lost 50 kilos extra weight I had and now his diabetes is under control, using an insulin pump and glucose monitor. Kathy has followed three simple steps to maintain a healthy life by controlling your diabetes: weight control, healthy diet, and monitoring and control of diabetes through the use of technology. Before surgery, Kathy performed little or no exercise and had a poor diet.

This helped to develop diabetes and weight to go up, trying to lower with no success. Their quality of life was poor due to illness and being overweight is not allowed to perform many activities. Several years ago while working as a nurse in a hospital in Bronson, noticed the product many medical complications of diabetes, and it was then decided to make a radical change in his life, with the aim of improving their health and live better. A classification of diabetes: type 1, type 2, gestational diabetes and prediabetes. Type 1 diabetes is when the body stops producing insulin, the hormone that unlocks the cells of the body, and the glucose enters them. There is an estimated 5-10% of Americans diagnosed with this type of diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is when there is resistance to insulin, as well as deficiency of it. Most people diagnosed with diabetes have this type.

Gestational diabetes occurs during pregnancy when levels are elevated blood sugar regularly during the second or third semester. Although some women after pregnancy the condition disappears, many others develop type 2 diabetes later. There is another condition called prediabetes, which is when they rise above normal levels of blood glucose, but not enough to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes. In the U.S., about 57 million people have prediabetes, and 23.6 million have diabetes. Some of the complications that Kathy, working as a nurse saw in their patients, are: vision problems, amputations, etc. Diabetes has characteristic symptoms: frequent urination, excessive thirst and hunger, fatigue, irritability, blurred vision, unusual weight loss, among others. Many people do not seek diagnosis or treatment for diabetes because most of the symptoms seem harmless and let pass the time until reaching complications. Kathy underwent bariatric surgery in April 2008 in order to lose weight and control your diabetes problem. Now follow a healthy diet and maintaining healthy eating habits. Step 3 is to use technology to control their diabetes. With an insulin pump can know how many carbohydrates consumed, so you can compensate with the right amount of insulin. It also has a glucose monitor, which together with the insulin pump, to save you time and keep it healthy. Previously he had to inject twice and stick your finger several times a day to see the level of sugar in your blood. Now it’s easier and more comfortable for her. Having suffered from type 2 diabetes since she was 10 years, now having dropped about 50 kilos of sugar level is controlled and feels better than ever. Obesity causes or worsens, several diseases that threaten life. Diabetes is one of them. If you have diabetes and are overweight, or body mass index exceeds 40, go to Obesity Goodbye for information about bariatric surgery.

Doctors who specialize in psychiatry and clinical psychology specialist psychologists, psychotherapists are credited, if they show documented their practice, activity and clinical supervision. 2 .- A minimum of three years part-time in the period of post-graduate university dedicated to theoretical training, technical and clinical psychotherapy with a minimum of 600 hours. 3 .- A minimum of two years of practice professional psychotherapists, properly supervised. It should include also, at least the treatment of 2 cases with a minimum of 300 treatment sessions and 100 sessions of supervision of these treatments. This monitoring of professional practice, be done with expert psychotherapists accredited by the respective associations of psychotherapists.

4 .- A minimum of six months of practical activities in public or private environments of Mental Health, in which the psychotherapist in training, may have direct experience of clinical psychopathology, allowing you to make direct contact with various forms of manifestation of disorders mental, and the various professionals involved in Mental Health. With these filters is much more difficult for someone to “brew” to the harm that means for potential patients. As we see, and summarized to a good education must be more than three years and must necessarily include personal psychotherapy with a clinical supervision of own cases. From a practical standpoint, when someone asks me for example, that if I know a therapist in Albacete. I say no, but see the guide, FEAP and find someone in that city, because anyone who is registered here, at least claims to have properly trained and is no upstart.

Honestly I think the specialty of psychiatry is the most difficult of medicine. I say this because we know that psychiatrists are crazy enough fame and when you ask me, I usually reply that that statement is probably true. I think it may be true for two main reasons: first because we are people and not the same to operate a walk, say, to deal with a neurotic person, whose problems can be very similar to mine, being in such cases very difficult to make therapeutic distance and avoid “contagion.” The second reason is that many professionals, by virtue of their specialty, they begin to treat patients directly, ignoring “That is madness itself.” In other words, it is absolutely essential, as I have written above, be well analyzed. There have been “cook before friar” or in our case, “have been before patient therapist.” I was born in Barcelona (Spain). I’m a psychiatrist, psychologist and psychotherapist. I have over 30 years dedicated to psychotherapy, both in appearance and clinical teaching. I have given numerous training courses in many very prestigious institutions. I’m currently very focused on integrated brief psychotherapy, that does not know which therapy is planned that embraces the individual as a whole (physical, psychological and social). It is a therapy “face to face” where the teacher is very important factor because of what it is that the patient is that you learn to solve their conflicts. The therapist lends his “observing ego” and the patient learns to observe from the outside to be facing the various conflicts that have led to consultation. Therapy is a very creative and that led to (work with the photographic history of the patients) that along with writing, sports and reading are my favorite hobbies.