The people who work in the computers for hours every day run the risk of injury by the repetitive movements that are running, which receive the name of repeated injuries, its acronym in eusol is (RSI).

The repetitive strain is a threat rampant century 21 for any user of the computer, the constant mouse click may seem innocent, but many users found that the pain starts in his arm and finally extends to your wrist and shoulder.

In the days of the old typewriter, people were victims of the so-called cramps the scribe and although the phrase has disappeared since then, the problem still apply to any person who spends hours at a desk.

“Any person who spends hours before a computer and makes a series of short and rapid movements, is now at risk to suffer a painful inflammation of the bottom of the arm and its musculature”, said Nils-Graf Stenbock Fermor, of the German Association of prosthetics. (more…)

Barack Obama President-elect of the U.S., signed the extension of the Program of Health Insurance for the State of the Children on February 4, when President George W. Bush has vetoed on two occasions the bill, which also raises the federal taxes on the cigars and other tobacco products.

The sector is not satisfied, with the increase in prices that will lead to a 10 percent of decline in sales of cigarettes and could put 117,000 people without work, said Thomas Briant, executive director of the National Association of Tobacco Outlets.

Briant, whose group represents the operators of 2500 retailers, wholesalers of tobacco, the cigarette manufacturers and others, complained that it was “the biggest increase in taxes on a product in the history of the United States”.

“It is not going to be an immediate fall in sales due to the increase in taxes will be the April 1,” said Briant. “We hope that the fall in terms of the loss of jobs can take six to nine months from that date”.

Employees of shop and cashiers, truck drivers who deliver cigarettes, workers from the warehouse, sales (more…)

It is a fact that the agency needs cholesterol to make enzymes, hormones and vitamin D, which is produced mainly by the liver. However it is also well known that the cholesterol can cause plaques in arteries, when its level in sander is very high.

Types of cholesterol the “good” or HDL and the “bad” or LDL. The LDL is responsible for the emergence of plaques in arteries, greater number plates, less space for that flow through the blood, increasing the risk of a total blockade and, therefore, suffering heart. The saturated fats and Trans fatty acids are two of the most important sources of growth of blood cholesterol, the same as that is unnecessary for the proper functioning of the agency.

The monounsaturated fats and poly-unsaturated found in some foods, such as dried fruit and fish, have the capacity to down the level of LDL in the blood. Other foods that can be consumed to achieve this objective are fruits, oats, barley and pulses, because of the soluble fiber they contain. (more…)

For the problems of memory is good eating a diet rich in folic acid, and so that when we people suffer less deterioration in our cognitive functions is better to start to consume now.

A recent study published in the Netherlands proof that the adult people who follow a diet rich in folic acid have a minor deterioration in the memory as well as in the mental agility.

The study was conducted with people who were aged between 50 and 70 years, to them was given a diet based on the consumption of Vitamin B9 (folic acid), which could be found in food as well as in dietary supplements of 800 per day.

To know what is the food that you must add to your diet we bring the listing of the food rich in folic acid. (more…)

When looking lose weight does not always want to lose fat throughout the body, it is often prefers a gradual decline and sectoral in certain areas, in this case the legs.

One of the recommendations more frequently to tone and shape the legs is to make walks energetic during 15 or 20 minutes, enough to accelerate the pace of the heartbeat and respiration, because when it increases the frequency cardiovascular and breathing are beginning to consume energy stored in the body, however, there is nothing on the surface on which should walk.

It is not like walking on a flat surface to walk on a surface with a slight inclination. The lifting of the soil obliges the body to do more, starting with the legs, so each time you search exercise what is best to find places where the movement must be made with something to work.

Another exercise to thin legs ideal for reducing centimeters in legs is the jump in springboard. It is not get a team immense for exercise, but use one small, portable allow this exercise even within the home, especially for those days of rain. (more…)