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Risk factors for developing osteoporosis are:

• Ethnicity (particularly Caucasian subjects). This is due to lifestyle (diet rich in calcium, protein and low in vitamins, including vitamins D, B12 and K)
• Age high
• The female
• Low body mass index
• Family history of fractures of the femoral neck
• Deficiencies in calcium and protein
• Excessive consumption of tobacco, alcohol, coffee,
• The vitamin D deficiency (lack of sunshine and vegetable consumption)
• Physical inactivity, prolonged immobilization
• Deficit in sex hormones

premature menopause induced or spontaneous, castration (both sexes) chemical or surgical No late puberty,

• Certain hormonal diseases, hyperthyroidism, hyperparathyroidism, diabetes mellitus, hyperadrenocorticism (Cushing’s disease.)
• Hyperandrogenism, Klinefelter syndrome, Turner syndrome
• Metabolic diseases: hemochromatosis gene, isolated hypercalciuria, idiopathic or family
• Inflammatory rheumatism: rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis,
• Other chronic diseases: chronic renal failure, hepatocellular failure, cirrhosis, mastocytosis
• Some treatments, especially corticosteroids prolonged GnRH analogues, aromatase inhibitors.

At the genetic level, mutations in several genes LPR5 and LPR6 (low-density lipoprotein receptor) appear to correlate with a slightly increased risk of osteoporosis

A new study shows that eating just a little more fiber would have great impact in reducing the waist size of youth in America. Latino adolescents who increased their fiber intake for two years managed to reduce significantly the amount of fat around the waist, while young people who ate less fiber increased abdominal size.

These were the team’s findings Jaimie N. Davis, of the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The team was studying the abdominal fat, which is the most dangerous because it increases the risk of developing diabetes and heart disease.

The authors were asked to 85 men and women between 11 and 17 years are overweight to respond in an initial questionnaire and two years later on eating habits. At that age, “Davis said, the diet of some trends are worsening.

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The decrease in consumption of bread – about 10 percent in just the last year – is due in large measure, the little knowledge about the nutritional benefits of this product and poor medical guidance which was devoted to extending mistakenly believing that bread is fattening.

Experts meeting in Madrid on the occasion of the presentation of the ‘White Paper Pan’ stated that, undoubtedly, the bread is the food that contributes to better nutritional balance, as it provides an important part of carbohydrate of dietary fiber, minerals and vitamins.

Not to mention that this is not a diet rich in fats or sugars, so that the bread itself is not fattening not only provided the diet and living habits are good, but contributes to a healthier diet.

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Obese people may be at particular risk of severe complications or even death due to the new H1N1 virus, U.S. researchers reported.

They described the cases of 10 patients at a hospital in Michigan who were so ill they had to be connected to mechanical ventilators. Three died. Nine of the 10 were obese, seven were severely obese, including two of the three who died.

The study, published as a weekly progress report of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, for its initials in English) on deaths and infections, also suggests that doctors can safely double the usual dose of oseltamivir, medicine Roche AG sold under the name Tamiflu.

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Junk food causes lots of damage to health. For years, the WHO warning people about the bad habit of habitually eating fast food, but millions across the globe consume hamburgers, hot dogs, carbonated drinks, high-salt potato chips. Thousands of calories and fat saturated producing elevation of what is known as “bad” cholesterol or LDL cholesterol.

WHAT IS “bad” cholesterol?
If there is a “bad” cholesterol LDL – is because there is also a “good” cholesterol HDL -. It is important to understand the differences between them. The why is very well studied: HDL cholesterol helps to drive out of the blood vessels while LDL can be deposited within the walls of arteries. Over the years, end up obstructing the arteries and causing heart attacks, circulatory failure, and other conditions.

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