Nutritional therapy is crucial to our ability to manage diseases in general and infections, surgeries and trauma, in particular. The goal of nutrition therapy is to maintain or improve nutritional status and prevent and treat malnutrition by maintaining body tissue, activating plasma protein stores and preventing macro- and micronutrient deficiencies. Nutritional support can be provided either orally (oral nutritional supplements), through a digestive tube (enteral nutrition) or, when the digestive tract cannot be used, through an intravenous catheter inserted directly into the veins (parenter ..read more

There are many types of sports supplements that improve the body’s aerobic capacity or delay fatigue, among other functions. There are supplements for almost any purpose: to fall asleep better, reduce appetite or even increase sexual desire, among others. However, supplementation does not always act positively on our body. Therefore, if your goal is to improve sports performance, we have chosen three types of supplements that can help you with this purpose: magnesium, vitamin D3 and creatine. Do you know them? WHAT DO THESE SUPPLEMENTS GIVE YOU? Although we have catalogued them as sports suppl ..read more

HAVING HEALTHY AND STRONG BONES IS ESSENTIAL SO THAT OUR BODY DOES NOT NOTICE THE PASSING OF YEARS, AND WE CAN CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN OUR MOBILITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE. HOW CAN WE ACHIEVE THIS? The truth is that strengthening bones involves taking into account 3 fundamental factors: diet, exercise and the intake of food supplements. FOODS TO STRENGTHEN BONES A healthy and balanced diet will help us keep our bones in good shape. It is important that we include in our menus foods rich in calcium, magnesium, potassium, boron, vitamin C and vitamin K, in the case of menopausal women. All of these nut ..read more

Summer has arrived with strength and with it the desire to travel, to have fun and to disconnect; however, it is also a perfect season to relax certain healthy habits such as those of our diet, making some mistakes in our diet. KEEP YOUR BODY WELL HYDRATED We believe it is important to continue taking care of ourselves at this time of year. In order to do this, from Mifarma, we want to give you some advice and propose a list of basic foods essential to maintain a healthy diet also in summer. With heat it is essential to be well hydrated throughout the day. In our diet can not miss vegetables ..read more

For many people, summer is accompanied by symptoms, such as swelling of the legs; heat dilates the veins and makes their walls lose elasticity; this makes it more difficult to return blood from the legs to the heart, which will cause poor circulation; another important cause is fluid retention. Both can have a hormonal origin or can be related to other factors such as a sedentary lifestyle, a poor diet, standing for a long time … An important objective that we have in Mifarma is to help you to improve your quality of life. The holidays, the trips, the beach, the mountain or the swimming pool a ..read more

We all think we know what drugs are and what they mean in our lives. If I ask you to define it, you will surely tell me that they are those substances that help to alleviate or cure illnesses and ailments. But I wonder if you really know what you’re ingesting and how you’re using those substances. The majority of Spanish citizens, 52% to be exact, medicate themselves, that is to say, they consume medicines without a doctor prescribing them. Most of them do so if they suffer from a cold, flu or other mild ailment and following the advice of family or friends. These people are not aware that thi ..read more

The Light and Health Institute is a two-day, hands-on seminar for working professionals, providing the latest research as it can be applied, and the knowledge necessary to improve our modern living environments with circadian-effective lighting to support human health and wellbeing. Light of the appropriate quantity, spectrum, timing, duration, and distribution can have a profound effect on sleep, alertness, and performance, and can be used to reduce symptoms associated with conditions such as jet lag, Alzheimer’s disease, insomnia, and depression. This seminar is of critical interest to ..read more

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The gravest of crimes – crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide itself. Ongoing, perpetrators not held accountable, victims still in desperate need, U.S. complicity, indifference. All continue a long and tragic situation of too little action for crimes that are often too large to truly fathom. All demand that we speak up. And from the […] The post Today’s Worst International Crimes and How You Can Respond: Part I appeared first on O'Neill Institute ..read more

Image courtesy of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University  Can companies be held responsible for cancer caused by their herbicides? Courts have been saying yes, and the latest verdict came from a jury in state court in Oakland, California. Last week, they ordered Bayer to pay more than $2 billion in damages […] The post Epidemiology Makes It to Court: from Tobacco to Herbicides appeared first on O'Neill Institute ..read more