‘Obesity’

Family and Exercise

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

swimming pool

How important is the support of the family in physical exercise in adolescents? Recent studies claim that it is quite important that families support their children in physical exercise. However, it is so important for families to simultaneously carry out physical exercise with their children as contributing to these hooked to the sport (through the continued payment of club dues, transportation to the fitness center, swimming pool ….) .

It is therefore important that in families there is a culture of physical exercise as well as children (a true reflection of what they see at home) will continue conducting the exercise behavior of leading a healthier life.

But how can you create a habit of physical exercise in families? There are plenty of general information campaigns (TV ads …) that bombard us on the benefits of physical exercise to prevent obesity and risk of cardiovascular disease. (more…)

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Sleep Deprivation and its Effect

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Sleep Deprivation

Sleep is necessary to help the body regenerate and this means that one of its most vital organs, the brain. Sleep is necessary to enable it to restore to continue to perform at optimum levels. Sleep deprivation can affect your decision as does alcohol while driving.

After long periods of wakefulness or reduced sleep, neurons in the brain begin to misfire and visible this can affect a person’s behavior. This also affects a person’s overall health. Sleep temporary loss difficult to monitor and sustained attention.

With decreased sleep, higher-order cognitive tasks are more difficult to perform. The testing involved both accuracy and speed makes it difficult, while hampering the speed and accuracy is challenged to a limit. All that the person with sleep deprivation trying to achieve is disproportionate to what would normally be completed. The inability to concentrate may be because people are using some of their brains resources to fight the urge to sleep. (more…)

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