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A group of researchers studying the potential benefits of vitamin D said that men with low levels of this vitamin are at increased risk of suffering a heart attack.
Within this study, men presented as deficient in vitamin D have a tendency 2.5 times more likely to suffer a heart attack that men who have higher levels of vitamin.
The author of the study, Dr. Edward Giovannucci of Harvard School of Public Health, said that people with low vitamin D not only have a greater risk of a heart attack but also have more risk that this attack is fatal.
The study involved 454 men between ages 40 and 75 years who suffered heart attacks not fatal or died of heart disease, like other 900 men with no history of diseases; who had to spend tests blood by 10 years for measuring their levels of vitamin D.
The researchers compared to those who were deficient in vitamin D (no more than 15 nanograms per milliliter of blood) with men who were in the normal range (at least 30 nanograms per milliliter of blood).
For those who do not know from where the Vitamin D, researchers said that the body the generated when the skin this exposed to sunlight. In addition, the milk serves to fortificarla and it is also available in some fish such as salmon. Read the rest of this entry »

A group of endocrinologists in Sydney have noted that very ill patients tend to have very low levels of vitamin D, according to the results of the Australian study published in New England Journal of Medicine.
“Until now, the medical community had thought the vitamin D deficiency as a chronic condition,” said Dr. Lee. “Little is known about their acute complications”.
“Last year, we have published several cases that show that the vitamin D deficiency can cause serious complications in the intensive care unit”.
“Recently, the vitamin D has been recognized by their numerous functions beyond the system muscular-skeletal, since it has been involved with diabetes, the immune system, cancers, heart disease and the metabolic syndrome”.
“The vitamin D seems to have a defined role in the control of sugar, calcium, heart function, the intestinal integrity, the immunity and protection against infection”. Read the rest of this entry »

People who suffer personality disorder of type schizoid it is generally distanced from the other and expressed very few emotions with the also few relations that manage to establish throughout his life.
You can that many of us remember people who came for our lives in childhood and which were those children solitary who always played alone and that almost did not relate to others. For them a triumph or a word of praise they do not generate the same feeling that the other.
These children are the cataloguing of “raritos”, but today as people we know that was what that person felt.
The specialists say that it is a disturbance of the personality of type schizoid and in the bibliography psychiatric describes him with features such as:
* A person looking always be distant from the other expressing very few emotions with the also few relations that provides.
* Not like nor enjoys have personal relations nor be a family member.
* Always unfolds solitary activities.
* It has no interest in maintaining sexual experiences.
* Does not enjoy any activity Read the rest of this entry »

The Pregnancy is the process by which ensures the continuity of the human race said in a scientific, but it represents the time more decisive and important in the life of any woman, when it reaches this stage of his life, where you can feel the life itself within him.
Be pregnant represents a set of changes that must learn to understand, to overcome its various stages from the moment in which a pregnancy test provides them with the news of his life.
From that time start to the path of the gestation, that Iran learning with the support professional, that the accompanied to reach the time of giving birth, through the delivery that is going to produce normally around 38 weeks after conception, is approximately 40 weeks since the last normal menstrual period.
The World Organization for the Health establishes as a term normal for the delivery of between 37 weeks and 42 weeks, calculating this date in the light of the periods of 28 days. Read the rest of this entry »

Two common components within the diet china are the “mushrooms and green tea”, which may have the power to prevent breast cancer, according study suggests.
A study in more than 2000 Chinese women done in the International Journal of Cancer, has found that large quantities of both in the diet would drastically reduce the risk of cancer in up to 90 per cent.
The research suggests that the chemicals in foods block the tumor growth and increase the natural defenses of the agency against cancer, but experts say that it is not clear whether the benefits will apply to all women.
More research is needed to confirm these observations and determine if they are relevant to women in the United Kingdom, said Dr. Julie Sharp of Cancer Research of the United Kingdom. Read the rest of this entry »