Showing posts with label children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label children. Show all posts

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Prevention of obesity and malnutrition

In child nutrition issues, there was not only malnutrition, but also there is the tendency of nutrition, but also quite common and more serious. Both tend to the harm to children are particularly noteworthy.
All children in the growth and development, requires adequate and balanced protein, fat and carbohydrates, various vitamins and minerals needed supplies, such as cellulose.
A seemingly healthy child, not necessarily true health, a lot of fat in infants, children tend to have significant malnutrition, such as suffering from calcium deficiency, iron deficiency anemia or bone dysplasia, or a vitamin deficiency.
The past ten years, our children phenomenon in overweight or obese increases alarmingly, this is a very worrying problem. Obesity will be a variety of health risk, it will increase the young people in the incidence of hyperlipidemia, atherosclerosis and to occur earlier. According to the United States more than 50 years follow up study, found that overweight adolescent population, who died of heart disease or stroke significantly increased mortality from diseases not related with adult body weight. In addition, adolescent overweight people suffering from arthritis (especially knee), gout, diabetes and the incidence of fractures is also higher than the average person.

Monday, June 7, 2010

Study: childhood diabetes had no parasites grow


As the saying goes, "sloppy, eat no disease." Massachusetts Institute of Technology study shows that childhood too parasitic diseases, such as ascariasis, grew up less susceptible to type 1 diabetes. It is reported that parasites can stimulate the body's immune response, consumption of IgE antibody. People infected with parasites without the body too much IgE, which combined with immune cells, which stimulate the release of histamine, thereby giving rise to a series of symptoms. The researchers said the study will help reveal the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes. The papers published in the April issue of the "Polytechnic Institute" online edition.