Epidemic of obesity in the world can be prevented by limiting the use of sugar

Reducing consumption of sugar has a small but significant effect on body weight adults, according to a study published in the latest issue of British Medical Journal. An effect that could be achieved if the human race time limit sugar intake, it would be enough to stop the global epidemic of obesity - the expert concludes.

Although the benefits from the use of this technique is relatively small (on average, while reducing the consumption of sugar a person will lose 800 grams per year), the results once again allow scientists say that the share of sugar should account for no more than 10% of total energy consumed in the diet.

Excessive amount of sugar in the human diet is associated not only with obesity - it can also lead to the emergence of a higher risk of chronic diseases. In numerous studies recently conducted the relationship between excessive consumption of sugary soft drinks, which always contains a fraction of a horse sugar and the risk of obesity.

As part of the scientific research on the subject, the research team from the University of Otago in New Zealand analysed the results of 71 studies (30 randomised controlled trials and 41 retrospective studies), which traced the relationship between sugar intake and the level of body weight in adults.

As a result, it was found that the decline in consumption of sugar allows other things being equal gradually reduce body weight. In this case, a person can lose weight by 0.8 kg (in the trials that took over 8 months), while even a slight excess of the allowed rate led to the fact that the person gained 0.75 kg of fat mass in the same period of time.

These effects are associated with the features of human metabolism. Our body needs a certain amount of energy or calories, but when we get energy from the sugar, the body is able to delay it as fat reserves. The highest rates of obesity, the study showed not the people that are extracted from sugar confectionery products, and those that have paid too much attention to the sweet soft drinks. According to the findings of researchers is already developing adult obesity by about 40% of this is exactly the kind of product.

Nutrition And Immunity In Children

Often in first signs of cold parents complain on weak immunity of child imagining badly what signs of illness exactly should cause anxiety. Does your child get diseased with influenza 3 – 4 times a year?

Most likely, in this case there is no need to worry and interfere with process of immunity formation in child. As general strengthening procedures may be recommended cold training of the body, walkings on fresh air and in children over 3 years old taking of natural botanical medicines based on Echinacea juice.

Day regimen
When sleep, rest, exercises, studies, work and food intake occur at one and the same time, then for the body it is easier to turn from one activity to another and there is consumed much less energy. Rhythmic cycle helps the body to effectively recuperate, optimally react on stress and changes, therefore child with an accurate and cozy regimen has more capabilities to meet an attack of bacteria and viruses.

Nutrition
First of all, for adequate development child should consume animal proteins and fats. For cold prevention it is good to eat onion and garlic – natural products containing phytoncides - and also vegetables, fruits and berries of red, orange and green color which do contain great amount of vitamin C.

It is better to avoid flavor enhancer, colorants and synthetic vitamins because they do give an additional load on body systems, provoke allergic reactions and do overload child's immunity because they are taken for a long time without taking into consideration individual needs.

Sugar also overloads immune system, helps to wash away from the body all vitamins and microelements and it would be better to exclude it from baby foods. It is good when meals take place at one and the same time as this helps body to better digest foods.

Children's Immunity

One of most important tasks of all parents is care about strengthening their children's immunity because immunity is the base of human health throughout the whole life from birth to decay.

In order to find out how to develop and strengthen child's body defences it is necessary to know nature and mechanisms of immunity. Immunity is the ability of body to effectively resist the action of foreign microorganisms, for example, viruses and bacteria that cause infectious diseases.

There are two types of immunity:

• specific immunity that develops after past diseases, for example, rubella or measles. This immunity type may be developed for the whole life or for some time depending on the disease.
• non-specific immunity that develops in a baby during pregnancy.

From mother's breast milk child gets antibodies to infectious disease which mother had. It means that child on breast feeding has passive immunity and this is very important in first months of life because in this period proper immune system only starts working. 

Therefore, when mother gets cold she needs to continue to feed child with her breast to give antibodies to baby. WHO recommends to feed baby up to two years or even more. Growth factors presented solely in female milk help baby's immune system develop normally.
 

Bifidus factor and lactoferrin presented in mother's milk do increase healthy bifido and lactic bacteria in bowels and reduce growth of pathogenic flora which strengthens child's immunity and lowers liability to colds. Breast feeding cannot 100% guarantee no diseases, but healthy gastrointestinal tract and calm emotional atmosphere in family lower likelihood of getting sick.

5 Effective Ways to Boost Your Immunity

1. Reduce stress in your life
Stress may have positive effects as it is a kind of training before real run, however excess of stress has negative effects and does great damage to your body. Health experts claim that stress decreases immunity and this makes body vulnerable to diseases. Learn to relax and occupy yourself with things you really like. This would have positive effects on your nervous system.

2. Enjoy regular sex
Remember that sex not only relaxes your body and gives pleasure, it also boosts your immunity. Studies showed that regular sexlife (ideally, with permanent partner) is a key to strong health. Latest study examined the connection between health of middle-aged people and sexual activity. Researchers came to the conclusion that people who lead regular sexlife have significantly better health condition than those who make sex rarely.

3. Smile more, laugh more
Researchers tried to find a connection between body protective functions and laugh. It turned out that those who truly laughed during watching cartoons showed immune functions increase.

4. Lead an active life
Regular exercises and generally physical activity do greatly train heart and persistence, they help to increase protective functions of the body and immunity. Spend 15 minutes each day for making exercises. Ideally, spend one hour three times a week.

5. Take up a family pet
Dog is called man's friend for a reason. Among with other pets dog brings a man joy and does not let him seat at one place but instead to move, thus helping to improve human health. It was proved that in these people blood pressure and cholesterol levels get normalized, heart health and vessels health get improved.

Treatment And Prevention Of Virus Infections

It is necessary to create conditions in which fighting between virus and child ends up with child's victory. These conditions include regimen, diet and special medications.

Treatment:
1. Fighting with concrete disease symptoms. For example, treatment of eruptions on skin or cough attenuation, or particular nose drops, or action on high body temperature.
2. Improvement of functioning and lowering of natural loads on cells damaged by virus. For example, anti-inflammatory remedies or medications improving work of liver cells, or medications that activate blood supply of brain cells.

Significant complications and significant limitations that appear when choosing treatment methods of virus infections do define the fact that it is necessary to pay spacial attention on preventive measures.

How to prevent virus infections?
1. Vaccination. Injecting in the body of weakened virus leads to production of antibodies protecting from a particular virus infection (measles, rubella, poliomyelitis, hepatitis B, influenza, tick-borne encephalitis).
2. Avoiding contacts with potential source of infection. At home patient with influenza should be isolated from other members of his family. Selective sexlife to prevent AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
3. Healthy lifestyle helps to formation of a normal immune system.

What Happens When a Virus Enters Your Body

When virus enters human body it starts to fight against the virus, at the beginning at level of non-specific immunity then do appear antibodies. Antibodies do neutralize virus and the disease finishes.

However, it is not so easy as it looks at the first sight. In some cases during the time necessary for antibodies production the virus manages to cause many destructions in the body which leads to severe complications. Sometimes virus enters the human body, infects particular cells and stops his existence. It means that virus is in the body and it really is found in particular cells but this causes no disease – virus does not multiply, it stays in the cell waiting until the immunity weakens.

If virus is able to actively multiply it quickly leads to death and destruction of cell he captured. From destroyed cell they get into blood where antibodies are waiting for them. Thus it happens that active viruses cause acute contagious diseases (rubella, measles, mumps) which last all the time that body needs for antibodies production.

Terms for antibodies production are absolutely determined and as a rule it is 5 – 10 days, therefore it always may be said how long a man will be diseased with measles and when the rash would disappear. The doctor always knows after how many days a patient diseased with rubella would feel better. So if influenza lasts three weeks it means that it is not influenza.

The fact that viruses are found in cells of human body determines major complications in treatment of any viral infection. It is very difficult to destroy virus and leave the cell alive. Not surprisingly, there are few antiviral medications and all of them them are quite specific – it means they act against a particular virus (for example, Tamiflu acts against viruses of group A) or group of viruses (Acyclovir -  against all herpes viruses). It is clear that main principle of viral infections treatment is to help body to fight the virus.

Each Viral Infection Has Its Specific Symptoms

Some time ago one of most terrible diseases was considered natural smallpox, virus of which may live only in human body. During two decades in the world there were registered no cases of infecting human with natural smallpox, it means that the virus causing the disease ceased to exist in wild life. This occurred due to compulsory vaccination against smallpox in past.

Before 1958 each year in the world the diagnosis “smallpox” was made at average 250,000 times. In 1958 the WHO started the campaign of total smallpox liquidation. In 1980 was declared that the Earth is free of natural smallpox.

Each cell in the body performs a number of specific individual functions. After infecting with virus sooner or later do appear problems. Virus damages liver cells – this causes yellow disease and other signs of liver failure. Virus damages mucosa of bronchi – this causes cough, rhonchi in lungs and hurried breathing.

Virus enters cells of the brain – do appear disorder of consciousness, cramps, paralysis. Selectivity of viruses leads to the fact that each viral infection has its specific symptoms and the symptoms will be determined by inability of group of cells damaged by viruses to perform their functions.

Severity of viral infection depends on what cells and how many of them are damaged. It is clear that damage of brain leads to more serious illness than damage of cells of nasal mucosa.

Every cell in human body changes in a certain way during its growth and development. It means that liver cell of a child is not the same as liver cell of an adult. In a child hepatic cell is not maturated yet and hepatitis A virus can hardly multiply in these immature cells, therefore one-year-child never gets diseased with hepatitis A, in older children the disease courses mildly, in teenagers severely than in children, in adults it courses severe.

Childhood infection (rubeola, chickenpox) do course severe in adults. The severity of disease is determined by the condition of a particular cell. For example, hepatic cell of a drunker is weaker than in a non-drunker.