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If your triglyceride level (188 mg / dl) is slightly above the reference values (up to 150 mg / dl), the strict diet is highly effective and can be a very good alternative for treating high triglycerides. Generally the effectiveness of the diet is reflected in the term of 3 months.

If after this period of time not triglycerides down to normal, the doctor may consider the need to prescribe drugs to treat hypertriglyceridemia. Fibrates are usually one of the drugs chosen by doctors to treat the condition.

Do not forget to include foods rich in omega 3 fatty acids in the diet to reduce high triglycerides. You can also consider herbs, with which you can prepare tea for hypertriglyceridemia.

Remember that physical activity is an important pillar for reducing triglycerides.

Often when we want to lose weight when the magic formula, really, with a good diet to lose weight have more than enough.
What is a weight loss regimen?

A weight loss regimen is a diet designed to get the person to lose weight. A diet is all the food that determines how we eat.

The diet should be designed taking into account the health, habits and customs of each person.

The weight loss regimen should not cause nutritional imbalances or be detrimental to health. It is therefore important that the diet contains a greater variety of foods.
Is it the same as a low calorie diet?

Yes, indeed is itself a restricted diet. “Hypo” means “inferior”. The diet provides less energy (measured in kcal = kilocalories, commonly abbreviated to bad calories or kilojoules = Kj), the energy we consume.

The energy consumed by an individual is the sum of resting energy expenditure (the stay alive), the energy consumed in the digestive processes and the energy we consume with exercise.

Protein diets are trendy but it is very important to know as well as its potential benefits, what are the risks and what precautions to take.
When one considers that a diet is protein?

Protein diets are characterized by a predominance of protein foods (fermented milk such as cheese or yogurt, eggs, meats, seafood and meats) or replacement of foods rich in protein (bars, shakes and other preparations)

Protein in the diets of carbohydrates such as sugars, bread, pasta, potatoes, rice or other grains are completely excluded from the diet and usually also severely limit the servings of vegetables, mostly vegetables and fruit (to be rich in fructose , a sugar)
Its objectives

When weight loss protein diets are a quick way but very dangerous for health and few lasting results.

With the rapid weight loss diet is protein but only in the short term because the weight is recovered in record time to abandon the diet for physiological or psychological reasons (such as anxiety)

Data leads Galicia in Spain in the proportion of obese children, almost 30% – and is the third community in adults suffering from the same disease -23% compared with 14.5 of Spain, according to surveys by the explained to Efe managers of the Galician Association of Dieticians and Nutritionists (AGDN).

The president of the association, formed in November 2008, Maria Gonzalez, told Efe that the Galician reality about obesity has the same explanation as in other places, ie in children given an increasingly sedentary leisure fast food, poorly prepared or purchased.

The lack of adequate information, he said, makes the citizens believe that the bread and potatoes are fattening, “and that is not true, because like any other food, fattening if eaten in excess,” and in that sense advocated encourage children “more snacks and fewer give a dollar to buy themselves some sweet pastries.”

Gonzalez, 26, and Vice President AGDN Jose Antonio Lopez, 28, working respectively in the Public Health and in private, but said that among the challenges of the Association is claiming the role for graduates in Dietetics and Nutrition, like them, both in the public health as government programs like “concello healthy.”

Both formed outside Galicia and here the only dietary health degree is the Training module which trains technicians in Dietetics, “who are crowding out some jobs whose skills are, in fact, college graduates, as are developing and evaluating diets, “he said.

The newly formed association has 40 members, is part of the Spanish Association of Dietetics and Nutrition and its objectives, immediate, is promoting the roles of nutritionists, “that are clear to all of society and the administration,” he said, create, as soon as the College of Dietitians and Nutritionists, existing in other 5 regions.

In this sense, Galicia has more than 10 years behind in Catalonia and Navarre “and obesity data sample of Galicia are some areas where we are needed, and disseminate good eating habits, increase physical activity and provide information truthful, and judiciously, “said Lopez.

Meanwhile the president, although it works natural Ourense Hospital Clínico de Santiago de Compostela, said it was “worrying” that the data of childhood obesity in Galicia are only surpassed by the U.S. and UK, the rest of world.

He explained that in Spain begin to organize interventions to alleviate this problem, such as summer camps for obese children “idea imported from the USA and China, similar to the camps for diabetics and other patients.”

According to Gonzalez, one of the keys to act against obesity is that mentalizing is a disease that increases the risk of others, all serious.
The partners and managers AGDN devoted in the coming days, several hours to give lectures all over Galicia, to remember to eat five meals a day, of which 3 must be major and three type “snack” that there that reducing the intake of fried and fat, and you have to eat everything, but in fewer than usual.

The Atlantic diet, like the Mediterranean, according to Lopez, are healthy and balanced, but the first is spoiled by the large amount of food that is linked to the gastronomic traditions of Galicia, and the second is impaired because the Mediterranean coastal settlements incorporate foreign dishes to accommodate foreign tourists.

They also considered a problem “that borders on fraud” that people seeking help to balance your intake “have to be put in the hands of biologists, veterinary colleges and even when such jurisdiction is exclusive of the doctors of Endocrinology and Nutrition and graduates in Dietetics and Nutrition. ”

the eating disorder in the diet and the inability to control the environment conducive to the emergence of childhood obesity.

Antonio (name) looks like a happy teenager, talks up a storm. At 113 kilos, certainly too much for the 1.73 tall and 16 years who has not seem to mind too much. “You see me bitter? No, really? I love to eat! And at night, when I at 11 sports, Jart me!” He explains, neat to show that he is depressed, or angry with himself, or unhappy. Unlike … “I am so happy,” repeated several times.

“At home, diet, like a fly round you do not you take off”
Ana always hungry, but only as what the grandmother says.
Then, as it moves the conversation in which no single question that has not timely answer, Antonio suggests, first drop at their struggle to reduce the amount of food, and after countless battles lost against excess weight, but also its contradictions emerge.

Antonio a few years ago decided to shield against anxiety and depression, social rejection against the insults and cruel comments that he often did in their environment, friends and school. “They invented a shield to protect him and lives in it,” says his mother, an economist who has been fighting a decade to “your child” expires to obesity. “I worry about his health. At home cook without fat, we do not have candy and little by little we have changed eating habits to support your efforts, but no way. If my child is overweight is by what you eat on the street I think, “said the mother. What, then, Antonio, what happens? “Nothing. Let me love sweets. Every week I spend 5 euros on sweets. After school, midday and evening bag goodies…! And the snack recess is” baloney with mojo picon “he says. And then come Saturday, when going to the Chinese buffet restaurant with friends. “And I eat Jarte!” he repeats, smiling. There are also ice cream and Cokes through.

This teen is among those who do not drink alcohol or smoke, or “I get nothing.” Only likes to eat. And he has accepted, he says, might someday be diabetic, or gets some of that long list of diseases that are associated with excess weight, such as hypertension or cholesterol. But he insists, does not care if it shortens life. “Overall, we all have to die,” reflects like a philosopher. Philosophy is precisely what we want to study when you get to college, but in the last assessment has had three suspended. Of course, loves to read. In less than a month has read Luces de Bohemia de Valle Inclán and two volumes of I Claudius by Robert Graves.
Even the love of a teenager as he could to change his mind, he says, and start a new diet. However, in this case, certainly. “I would have thought, truth would be a dilemma,” he reflects.

The conflict began for Antonio when he was nine. “Until then I had only been a chubby child,” says his mother. But then came into crisis. The comments of the people led him to become aware of and deny their appearance. “Still, when I remember those days, I come nightmares,” he says. He went to the professionals; started a diet, two … The second time held out from August until she could not resist the Christmas delicacies. Then he has tried six or seven times. “At home, always round diet as a fly that there is no way to get rid of, my mother tells me, cares about my health but I do not mind me and you say, I prefer to be happy and accept me to be bitter and depressed, “he concludes.

If Antonio is the cross, Ana (not her real name too) is the face. The smiling girl of 9 years, 1.38 tall and 43 kilos of weight but has come to weigh almost 50, is on a diet for two years and so far, no bad leads. The key is his grandmother Manuela, while his mother works, is responsible for feeding. “Ana is always hungry, but for now accept that prohibit eating certain things,” he says. “The peach juice we have changed to orange,” says Carmen, his mother also obsessed with dieting. “You do not want my child to look like me a lifetime to plan!” So Ana has started so early to watch what you eat, for that reason and because one day he entered the flamenco dress and began to mourn.
Ana is a good student, swims, dances, does not eat fruit, salads despises accepts lentils, is greedy, does not like sweets but he loves french fries and ice cream … This is Anna, an Andalusian girl, like many thousands, have weight problems and a lot of confusion about food. “Because to me, when I go food ads on TV … I get a hunger …!”, resume. Ana walk up to see his grandmother, who lives in a 4th floor, to fight weight. “Grandma, I’m Esmay. Give me something!” says, while asking those custard cookies are so fond. “It gives me a penita it is so small …!”, apologizes Manuela.

And this is the drama of Anna, Antonio, and many children they see as the Andalusian diet, eating disorder, height or weight have become his chief obsession.

Children living in a mess
Childhood obesity has set off alarm bells in the Andalusian health. In the unity of nutrition and dietetics at Children’s Hospital Virgen del Rocío de Sevilla consultations to address the overweight will soar. “In 2008 increased 289%,” says Josefa Gonzalez, attending physician in this unit. “Of the 64 children served in 2007, we moved to 185 last year and this year, it seems so far I think the result will be similar,” he concludes.
An obese child has a definite profile, “though there are exceptions,” says Dr. Gonzalez. Usually only child of middle class or low spend much time alone or with grandparents and “lives lost in a big mess vital,” said the doctor. In general, children are autonomous, they eat only what they want when they want and do not accept orders.

“But there is another issue that has not been surpassed in Andalusia or Spain at all, and is still thought to be a chubby child is synonymous with health,” says Gonzalez. Anyway, the child population is outstripping Andalusian, if speaking of weight, any provision of moderation in the diet up to 38% of children has extra kilos, while obesity round and 25%. The rapid social and economic development in recent years is to blame. Then there is the conclusion: “There is already a high percentage of glucose intolerance among these children and youth,” explains Pablo García Luna, head of the Nutrition Unit of the Virgen Del Rocio.
Type 2 diabetes also affects obese adolescents. Although the list of diseases is long: There are already hypertensive children with metabolic disorders, hypercholesterolemia, with early arthritis … In the end, obesity shortens life.

Data scare
- 38% of children are overweight Andalusian and 25% are obese
- The consultations are children between 6 and 12 years
- Obesity accounts for 7% of total health spending, which represents 500 million euros a year in Andalucia
- Every year 6,000 people die from diseases related to excess weight

Experts warn of the need to include iodine in the diet of the Spanish to eliminate disturbances arising from deficiency of this element as the World Health Organization (WHO) requires that 90 percent of households regularly use iodized salt, but only 25 percent include it in your diet.

Therefore, over 70 percent of Spanish is at risk of presenting yododeficiencia levels that can lead to disorders such as loss of IQ, developmental delay, cretinism and goiter. However, says the WHO, this problem is easily preventable, since it is only necessary to replace the common use of iodized salt to ensure optimum levels in the body.

In particular, experts say that only with the recommended daily intake of this food would be achieved than three grams of iodine needs that require the body, so it could prevent an easy deficiency of this mineral and its consequences.

In this regard, the Chief of Endocrinology and Nutrition, University Hospital Carlos Haya in Malaga, Dr. Frederick J. Soriguer, noted that “the authorities are carrying out campaigns to promote and encourage the consumption of iodized salt in place of common salt, as well as legislation increasing the iodine content in foods that are susceptible to it such as salt , bread or milk. ”

In Spain there is still no national plan for the eradication of IDD, however, Asturias, Galicia, Extremadura and Catalonia have implemented programs of this kind, becoming pioneers in our country communities. Among them, the case of Asturias, where, after more than 20 years of monitoring, have managed to eradicate this problem

“The fact that in our country, the law indicates the voluntary consumption of iodized salt is necessary for the administration to conduct a sustained campaign in time for the awareness of the importance of eating this type of salt,” said.

ALMOST HALF of pregnant women have iodine deficiency
According to UNICEF, in Spain between 30 and 50 percent of pregnant women is deficient in iodine intake so that the 500,000 births provided by the INE for this year, about half could pose some risk TDY, a problem that affects over 740 million people worldwide.

In countries like the United States or Switzerland, where consumption of iodized salt is mandatory since the early twentieth century, we confirm that a regular consumption of this type of salt has been the total elimination of IDD. However, it is contradictory that, despite having the solution to hand, according to WHO, are European countries and the eastern Mediterranean, between which would include Spain, which have a higher proportion of inadequate intakes iodine in the population aged 0 to 6 years, precisely the most at risk.