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Thursday, January 10, 2013
Sausages and cold meats cause cancer of the pancreas
Washington / specialists researchers warned that too much intake of processed meats Kalnqang cold and steaks, and high consumption of red meat, pork in particular, increases the risk of malignant tumors of the pancreas.
The specialists in cancer research center at the University of Hawaii-American, that the cancer-causing effects are not related to the content of this meat from fat or cholesterol, but are linked in a way prepared.
They said at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, the idea of a link higher consumption of meat with pancreatic cancer is not new, but the results of the previous studies were not fixed or uncertain.
The doctors explained that pancreatic cancer tumors more aggressive, and is the fourth leading cause of deaths cancer among men in the United States, and Fifth among women, but is relatively uncommon in some parts of the world, suggesting that environmental factors and food relationship in appearance between the Americans in particular
Fried contains carcinogens
Fried contains carcinogens
Washington / international scientists have warned that fatty foods and fatty plant foods rich in carbohydrates and poor in protein, containing materials contaminated with cancer-causing.
The officials in the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Health Organization, that such foods Kriqaúq potatoes and coffee products chips, pasta, biscuits and bread, which are produced by cooking at temperatures higher than 120 ° C, containing toxic and carcinogenic formed during cooking, called "Akrlamaid".
The researchers pointed out that more foods that increase the risk of exposure to those DMBA, potato chips fried and crunchy, coffee, pasta, pastries, biscuits, local breads and rolls, cakes and toast.
This information confirms the fatty foods, need to adhere to the advice to eat a balanced healthy foods and rich variety of vegetables and fruits, and minimize the consumption of fried and fatty foods.
The studies conducted on animals, that under article "Akrlamaid" neurotoxicity caused problems in fertility and increase the risk of malignant tumors, noting that the percentage of food per may vary depending on several factors such as the degree cooking temperature and duration.
White bread affects diabetes
Sydney / face scientists in the Australian Cancer Council, a special warning for lovers of white bread and milk products, after it was discovered that these carbohydrates increase the risk of type II diabetes.
The researchers explained that white bread drained and starchy foods such as pasta, biscuits, cakes and brioche encourages high blood sugar dramatically, therefore, the people minimize the intake of these foods and choose foods that do not raise blood sugar levels, such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, etc., and so in order to protect themselves from the risk of diabetes.
The researchers found after measuring the impact of these foods on blood sugar levels according treated her diabetes, which regard carbohydrate materials only, that foods with a higher factor of diabetes caused a significant increase in blood sugar, while food caused low factor, weaker.
To investigate the impact factor diabetes risk for type II diabetes, the researchers followed more than 36 thousand people is infected with the disease, aged 40 - 69 years, for a period of 4 years, and quality control of their diet and developing diabetes, were injured 400 people were infected throughout that period.
The experts noted in their study published in the journal "Care of diabetes," that people who were more consuming bread white, any ate the equivalent of 17 times at least every week, have been exposed to a higher risk of diabetes by more than 30 per cent, also faced lovers starches and foods Working Higher diabetes is also a major threat by increasing weight, which in turn increases the chances of infection.
They say that a diet rich in starch stimulates the pancreas to produce a lot of insulin to regulate glucose levels and reduced in the blood, which exhausts the cells producing this hormone and contributes to the onset of diabetes, pointing out that the sugar found in fruits, vegetables and grains rich also the element magnesium, reduces the risk of a significantly.
Pizza raise blood sugar
Washington / warned a new study conducted in Pennsylvania Center for Diabetes of the pizza pies and especially raise blood sugar significantly may put the patient at risk of death.
The scientists called diabetic patients to inject insulin doses, one over a period of 8 hours to keep blood sugar levels within acceptable limits and to being the best of a single dose or double taken shortly after eating food rich in carbohydrates and fat Kalpatza.
The researchers said the pumping system insulin slowly and steadily may represent the best way to overcome the effects of leverage Diabetes which helps reduce the risk of injuries cardiovascular and health complications resulting from increased is also the best way to help diabetics to enjoy cuisine popular favorite, especially if foods are complex and cause high blood sugar quickly
Cup cake
In the early 19th century, there were two different uses for the name cup cake or cupcake. In previous centuries, before muffin tins were widely available, the cakes were often baked in individual pottery cups, ramekins, or molds and took their name from the cups they were baked in. This is the use of the name that has remained, and the name of "cupcake" is now given to any small cake that is about the size of a teacup. The name "fairy cake" is a fanciful description of its size, which would be appropriate for a party of diminutive fairies to share. While English fairy cakes vary in size more than American cupcakes, they are traditionally smaller and are rarely topped with elaborate icing.
Healthy Snacks for Children and Teenagers
- Fresh fruit – chop it into bite-sized pieces for young children to make it easier to eat or buy packs of ready-prepared fresh fruit slices or chunks
- Mini boxes of dried fruit such as raisins or small packs of apricots or mixed fruit
- Small packs of chocolate-covered raisins or nuts (avoid giving nuts to young children because of the risk of choking)
- Chopped up vegetables such as carrot, celery and pepper sticks and cherry tomatoes with a favourite dip (look for those low in salt and fat if you’re buying ready-made dips)
- Fresh popcorn made without salt or sugar
- Wholemeal toast with peanut butter and banana or low-fat soft cheese and tomato
- Fruit smoothie
- Unsweetened yogurt drinks or a pot of low-fat fruit yogurt or fromage frais
- High-fibre cereal with semi-skimmed milk
- Wholemeal sandwiches filled with lean meat, chicken, tuna in water, cheese or egg and salad.
- Small packets of unsalted nuts and seeds – try mixing with dried fruit.
ood for Healthy Packed Lunches
Around half of all children take their lunch to school – that’s 5.5 billion packed lunches every year. Unfortunately, many of them are unhealthy!
According to a Food Standard’s Agency study, nine out of 10 packed lunches contain foods high in sugar, salt and saturates and fewer than half contain fruit. Here’s how to pack a nutritious lunch for your kids…
- Use wholegrain or wholemeal bread, rolls and pitta and try ciabatta, mini baguettes, bagels and raisin or sun dried tomato bread for variety
- Pack pasta or rice salads instead of sandwiches from time to time
- Cut fat by using less butter, spread or mayo in sandwiches and choose low-fat fillings like lean ham, turkey, chicken, tuna in water, cottage cheese, Edam or banana
- Add two portions of fruit – don’t just stick to apples and pears, though. For variety, add grapes, fruit salad, a slice of melon, a small box of raisins or a can of fruit in juice
- Include cherry tomatoes, carrot and pepper sticks and add salad to sarnies
- In the winter, fill a flask with vegetable, tomato or carrot soup – or even a casserole or stew.
- Replace cakes, biscuits and chocolate with scones, fruit bread or low-sugar cereal bars (check the labels)
- Swap fizzy drinks for water, unsweetened fruit juice, fruit smoothies, cartons of semi-skimmed milk or unsweetened yogurt drinks.
Sri Lanka
Health promotion in Sri Lanka has been very successful during recent decades as shown by the health indicators. Despite the numerous successes over the years, the integrity of the health system has been subjected to many challenges. Sri Lanka is already facing emerging challenges due to demographic, epidemiological, technological and socio-economic transitions. The disease burden has started to shift rapidly towards lifestyle and environmental related non-communicable diseases. These are chronic and high cost and will cause more and perhaps unaffordable burden to the country’s health care expenditure, under the free of charge health services policy. The previous success of health development increased the life expectancy of Sri Lankan people to 72 for male and 76 for women but the estimated “healthy life expectancy” at birth of all Sri Lanka population is only 61.6
Health is affected by biological, psychological, chemical, physical, social, cultural and economic factors in people’s normal living environments and people’s lifestyles. With the current rapid changing demographic, social and economic context and the epidemiological pattern of diseases, the previous health promotion interventions which found to be effective in the past may not be effective enough now and the future to address all the important determinants that affect health. Promoting people’s health must be the joint responsibility of all the social actors. These challenges require significant changes in the national health system toward new effective health promotion which has been accepted worldwide as the most cost effective measure to reduce the disease burden of the people and the burden of the nation on the increasing cost for treatment of diseases.
The development of this National Health Promotion Policy is based on: (a) the evidences from Sri Lanka health promotion situation analysis, (b) the international accepted concept, the WHO guiding principle for health promotion and the World Health Assembly resolutions and WHO South East Asia Regional Committee Resolution, and (c) the State Policy and Strategy for Health and the Health Master Plan 2007–2016.
The key strategies for health promotion are: advocacy and mediate between different interests in society for the pursuit of health; empower and enable individual and communities to take control over their own health and all determinants of health; improve the health promotion management, health promotion interventions, programs, plans and implementation; and partnership, networking, alliance building and integration of health promotion activities across sectors.
In Sri Lanka, other non health government sectors and NGOs are currently active implementing their community development projects with the community empowerment concept that resemble the healthy setting approach for health promotion. These projects are the high potential entry points and good opportunity for the formal commencement of the new effective setting approach health promotion and the holistic life course health promotion. It is also an opportunity for partnerships and alliance building for concerted action to promote health of the nation. This policy is formulated to promote health and well-being of the people by enabling all people to be responsible for their own health and address the broad determinants of health through the concerted actions of health and all other sectors to make Sri Lanka a Health Promoting Nation where all the citizens actively participate in health promotion activities continuously for a healthy life expectancy.
The policy objectives are as follow :
- To strengthen leaderships for health promotion at all levels and all sectors through advocacy.
- To mobilize the society and create nationwide health promotion actions.
- To develop and implement effective comprehensive holistic and multisectoral approach health promotion interventions.
- To establish an effective system and mechanism for health promotion management and coordination at all levels.
- To build capacity for health promotion at all levels and across sectors.
- To improve financing and resources allocation and utilization for health promotion.
- To establish an evidence-base for health promotion effectiveness.
Various strategies have been developed for the attainment of each objective focus on the multi-sectoral comprehensive approach and participation of all stakeholders and the people themselves. This National Health Promotion Policy will be monitored and evaluated at all levels. Participatory monitoring and evaluation will be encouraged at implementation level.The National Health Promotion Consortium and the National Health Council will be responsible for the regular monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of this National Health Promotion Policy. Implementation of this policy will also be monitored regularly as part of the overall process of monitoring the activities of the Government and Ministries and covering various sectors and levels of government.
Norway
The Research Centre for Health Promotion and Resources HiST/NTNU was established in Trondheim 2010. The Centre takes part in the scientific exploration of what promotes, maintains and restores good health – both in healthy, vulnerable and diseased populations. The research group has a bio-psycho-social- existential health understanding. Health is understood as a positive resource which every person has more or less of. The Centre will contribute to new knowledge about the following:Factors that promote, sustain, and restore good health in healthy people, vulnerable or exposed groups, and those with health deficiencies.Factors that promote health (i.e., salutogenesis) as opposed to focusing on factors that generate illness and disease (i.e., pathogenesis).
New Zealand
The Health Promotion Forum of New Zealand is the national umbrella organization of over 150 organisations committed to improving health
Canada
The province of Ontario appointed a health promotion minister to lead its Ministry of Health Promotion in 2005]
The Ministry’s vision is to enable Ontarians to lead healthy, active lives and make the province a healthy, prosperous place to live, work, play, learn and visit. Ministry of Health Promotion sees that its fundamental goals are to promote and encourage Ontarians to make healthier choices at all ages and stages of life, to create healthy and supportive environments, lead the development of healthy public policy, and assist with embedding behaviours that promote health
The Canadian Health Network was a "reliable, non-commercial source of online information about how to stay
The BC Coalition for Health Promotion is "a grassroots, voluntary non-profit society dedicated to the advancement of health promotion
Australia
The Australian Health Promotion Association, a professional body, was incorporated in 1988. In November 2008, the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission released a paper recommending a national health promotion agency ACT Health of the Australian Capital Territory supports health promotion with funding and information dissemination The Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) from the state of Victoria is "the world’s first health promotion foundation to be funded by a tax on tobacco
International and multinational
The WHO and its Regional Offices such as the Pan American Health Organization are influential in health promotion around the world.[20] The International Union for Health Promotion and Education, based in France, holds international, regional, and national conferences
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Work site health focus on the prevention and intervention that reduce health risk of the employee. The U.S. Public Health Service recently issued a report titled "Physical Activity and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General" which provides a comprehensive review of the available scientific evidence about the relationship between physical activity and an individual's health status. The report shows that over 60% of Americans are not regularly active and 25% are not active at all. There is very strong evidence linking physical activity to numerous health improvements. Health promotion can be performed in various locations. Among the settings that have received special attention are the community, health care facilities, schools, and worksites.[10] Worksite health promotion, also known by terms such as "workplace health promotion," has been defined as "the combined efforts of employers, employees and society to improve the health and well-being of people at work".[11][12] WHO states that the workplace "has been established as one of the priority settings for health promotion into the 21st century" because it influences "physical, mental, economic and social well-being" and "offers an ideal setting and infrastructure to support the promotion of health of a large audience".[13]
Worksite health promotion programs (also called "workplace health promotion programs," "worksite wellness programs," or "workplace wellness programs") include exercise, nutrition, smoking cessation and stress management. Reviews and meta-analyses published between 2005 and 2008 that examined the scientific literature on worksite health promotion programs include the following:
- A review of 13 studies published through January 2004 showed "strong evidence... for an effect on dietary intake, inconclusive evidence for an effect on physical activity, and no evidence for an effect on health risk indicators".[14]
- In the most recent of a series of updates to a review of "comprehensive health promotion and disease management programs at the worksite," Pelletier (2005) noted "positive clinical and cost outcomes" but also found declines in the number of relevant studies and their quality.[15]
- A "meta-evaluation" of 56 studies published 1982–2005 found that worksite health promotion produced on average a decrease of 26.8% in sick leave absenteeism, a decrease of 26.1% in health costs, a decrease of 32% in workers’ compensation costs and disability management claims costs, and a cost-benefit ratio of 5.81.[16]
- A meta-analysis of 46 studies published 1970–2005 found moderate, statistically significant effects of work health promotion, especially exercise, on "work ability" and "overall well-being"; furthermore, "sickness absences seem to be reduced by activities promoting healthy lifestyle".[17]
- A meta-analysis of 22 studies published 1997–2007 determined that workplace health promotion interventions led to "small" reductions in depression and anxiety.[18]
- A review of 119 studies suggested that successful work site health-promotion programs have attributes such as: assessing employees' health needs and tailoring programs to meet those needs; attaining high participation rates; promoting self care; targeting several health issues simultaneously; and offering different types of activities (e.g., group sessions as well as print materials).[19]
history of food
The "first and best known" definition of health promotion, promulgated by the American Journal of Health Promotion since at least 1986, is "the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health".[3][4] This definition was derived from the 1974 Lalonde report from the Government of Canada,[3] which contained a health promotion strategy "aimed at informing, influencing and assisting both individuals and organizations so that they will accept more responsibility and be more active in matters affecting mental and physical health".[5]Another predecessor of the definition was the 1979 Healthy People report of the Surgeon General of the United States,[3] which noted that health promotion "seeks the development of community and individual measures which can help... [people] to develop lifestyles that can maintain and enhance the state of well-being".[6]
At least two publications led to a "broad empowerment/environmental" definition of health promotion in the mid-1980s[3]:
- In 1984 the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe defined health promotion as "the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health".[7] In addition to methods to change lifestyles, the WHO Regional Office advocated "legislation, fiscal measures, organisational change, community development and spontaneous local activities against health hazards" as health promotion methods.[7]
- In 1986, Jake Epp, Canadian Minister of National Health and Welfare, released Achieving health for all: a framework for health promotion which also came to be known as the "Epp report".[3][8]This report defined the three "mechanisms" of health promotion as "self-care"; "mutual aid, or the actions people take to help each other cope"; and "healthy environments".[8]
The WHO, in collaboration with other organizations, has subsequently co-sponsored international conferences on health promotion as follows:
- 1st International Conference on Health Promotion, Ottawa, 1986, which resulted in the "Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion".[9] According to the Ottawa Charter, health promotion[9]:
- "is not just the responsibility of the health sector, but goes beyond healthy life-styles to well-being"
- "aims at making... [political, economic, social, cultural, environmental, behavioural and biological factors] favourable through advocacy for health"
- "focuses on achieving equity in health"
- "demands coordinated action by all concerned: by governments, by health and other social and
Health promotion
Health promotion has been defined by the World Health Organization's (WHO) 2005 Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalized World as "the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health".[1] The primary means of health promotion occur through developing healthy public policy that addresses the prerequisites of health such as income, housing, food security, employment, and quality working conditions. There is a tendency among public health officials and governments—and this is especially the case in liberal nations such as Canada and the USA—to reduce health promotion to health education and social marketing focused on changing behavioral risk factors.[2]
Recent work in the UK (Delphi consultation exercise due to be published late 2009 by Royal Society of Public Health and the National Social Marketing Centre) on relationship between health promotion and social marketing has highlighted and reinforce the potential integrative nature of the approaches. While an independent review (NCC 'It's Our Health!' 2006) identified that some social marketing has in past adopted a narrow or limited approach, the UK has increasingly taken a lead in the discussion and developed a much more integrative and strategic approach (see Strategic Social Marketing in 'Social Marketing and Public Health' 2009 Oxford Press) which adopts a whole-system and holistic approach, integrating the learning from effective health promotion approaches with relevant learning from social marketing and other disciplines. A key finding from the Delphi consultation was the need to avoid unnecessary and arbitrary 'methods wars' and instead focus on the issue of 'utility' and harnessing the potential of learning from multiple disciplines and sources. Such an approach is arguably how health promotion has developed over the years pulling in learning from different sectors and disciplines to enhance and develop.
History of health food stores
Many foods which are now commonplace in groceries first entered the market in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Efforts by early health pioneers such as Sylvester Graham, Horace Greeley, John Harvey Kellogg, George Ohsawa, Ellen White and others spurred an interest in health food. As early as the 1920s and 1930s health food stores started opening in the United States and the United Kingdom selling products such as blackstrap molassesand brewer's yeast.
Perhaps the oldest health food store was founded by Thomas Martindale in 1869 as "Thomas Martindale Company" in Olde City Philadelphia. The Martindale family eventually moved the store to 10th and Filbert St. in the late 1930s and was heavily influenced by the new interest in health and wellness. The store manufactured their own coffee substitute made from dried figs called "Figco". Healthy foods were sold in the lunchroom, with all baked goods being sweetened with honey or maple syrup. Eventually the store evolved into what is known as Martindale's Natural Market which is still in existence today.
In 1896 a new building was built in Birmingham, England to house James Henry Cook's vegetarian restaurant, one of the first in England. In 1898, 'The Pitman Vegetarian Hotel', named after the famous vegetarian Sir Isaac Pitman, opened on the same site, and the proprietors subsequently opened a long-running health food store.
Frank A. Sawall,who earlier worked with John Harvey Kellogg, began selling powdered mineral drinks door to door and lecturing around the United States on the benefits of vitamin and mineral supplements, before opening Sawall Health Food Products, Inc., in 1936, the United States' oldest family-owned natural foods store still in existence today. It began with powdered minerals and vitamins and also sold natural and organic foods. Frank A. Sawall, a bio-chemist, was described as "America's Outstanding Health Teacher and Nationally known Nutritionist" in newspapers across the United States. He lectured extensively across the Midwest and the East Coast. Frank A. Sawall, expanded his stores in Michigan, including Detroit, Kalamazoo, Bay City, Grand Rapids, and Lansing. Creating the first health foods store chain in the United States. Sawall Health Foods is now in its fourth generation of Sawall's running the business.
The Proxmire Vitamin Bill of 1976 that kept the FDA from defining food supplements as "drugs" was hailed as a great achievement in the health foods industry at the time. Senator William Proxmire was married to Ellen Hodges Sawall.
The New Westminster store operated by Health Food Research, opened in 1954 on the outskirts of Vancouver, British Columbia. It was founded by Ella Birzneck, and modeled partly upon Russian "doctors' shops", which carried medicines, herbs, and special foods.
Health food stores became much more common in the 1960s in connection to the newly emerging ecology movement and counterculture.[1]
Many health food stores are worker owned cooperatives and consumers' cooperatives due in part to the ability of cooperative buying power to bring lower costs to the consumer and their growth of popularity during the counterculture movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Over the last decade, health food, and especially organic food, has entered the mainstream. Companies such as Whole Foods Market, a large multinational corporation, have profited greatly and grown substantially during this expansion.
Nutritional supplements
Most health food stores also sell nutritional supplements, like vitamins, herbal supplements and homeopathic remedies. Herbal supplements have never been regulated until the European Directive on Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products came into force on 30 April 2004. The Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive, 2004/24/EC, was established to provide a regulatory approval process for herbal medicines in the European Union (E
Healthy
Whole cereals have their fiber, germ and hull intact and are considered more nutritious. Natural foods are simply foods that contain no artificial ingredients. Organic foods are foods that are grown without the use of conventional and artificial pesticides and must meet certain organic standards
healt food
The term health food has been used since the 1920s to refer to specific foods claimed to be especially beneficial to health, although the term has no official definition. Some terms that are associated with health food are macrobiotics, natural foods, organic foods and whole foods. Macrobiotics is a diet focusing primarily on whole cereals. Whole cereals, along with other whole foods, are foods that are minimally processed
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