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Archive for December, 2009

Do you think you eat healthy but nevertheless your health is not like before? Do you carry a varied diet and yet you feel low energy? Do not commit excesses food but your body does not respond with vitality? Balance your diet and see how much better you feel until you take off years off!

1. Does coffee prevent absorption of nutrients?
Coffee, like tea and all soft drinks with caffeine makes your body absorb more difficult as calcium, which lost more in the urine, such as iron. So you have to try to distance making foods rich in these minerals of making coffee, a contradiction in the case of coffee.

2. Is something if I do several meals?
Apportionment. It is shown that the best way to divide the intake is in five meals. If you make a proportionate contribution of nutrients does not necessarily influence the distribution of meals.

However, it is shown that the best way to divide the intake throughout the day is with three main meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner, and two less important at midmorning and midafternoon. In doing so we have a continual supply of energy and avoiding failings.

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What is anemia?
Anemia is a decrease in red blood cells. It is common found in children between 6 months and 3 years of age, especially in children who have not received either iron prevention through a supplementary feeding with iron-fortified foods or supplements medicated duly communicated by the pediatrician.

Typically, children in the first year of life have a rapidly growing stores of iron being used for that purpose. If these are supplemented at the time, children are at risk of iron deficiency that lead to a condition called iron deficiency anemia. The teenagers because of menstruation and also the rapid growth are likely to have anemia.

Why did it happen?
The most common is anemia caused by iron deficiency. Other causes include: infectious diseases, deficiencies in vitamin B12 or folic acid deficiency, poor nutrition and parasitic diseases. The use of whole cow’s milk and other animals under 1 year may lead to increased red blood cell loss in the intestine.

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