Fëmijët të cilët kanë janë të diagnostikuar me epilepsi duhet gjithashtu të shqyrtohen për autizëm, sepse zhvillimet e problemeve shpesh shkojnë së bashku.
Një studim nga hulumtuesit në Spitalin e Fëmijëve në Çikago vlerësoi rezultatet e dhënies së pyetësorëve te shqyrtimit të prindërve të fëmijëve nën moshën 5 vjeçare epileptike.

 Rezultatet treguan se më shumë se 75 për qind e fëmijëve të studiuar gjithashtu kishin një vonesë në zhvillim dhe 41 për qind kishin autizëm.
Sipas Anne Berg dhe Breanne Fisher të cilët paraqitën studimin e tyre në takimin e Shoqërisë Amerikane për Epilepsi, asnjë nga fëmijët nuk shfaqen vetëm shenja për autizëm.

"Gjetjet tona sugjerojnë gjithashtu që të gjithë fëmijët në klinikën për epilepsi duhet të shqyrtohen edhe për këto autizëm."

Duke ngrënë tre hurma një orë para mëngjesit, drekës dhe darkës do të dobësoheni më lehtë. Sipas studimit të realizuar nga spitali i Kërkimit dhe Edukimit Umraniye bëhet e ditur se me anë të dietës e cila konsiston në ngrënien e tre hurmave një orë para mëngjesit, drekës dhe darkës do ta keni më të lehtë të dobësoheni.

Me dietën e bërë duke ngrënë nga tre hurma një orë para mëngjesit, drekës dhe darkës është vërtetuar se dobësoheni më shpejt sepse hurma të jep ndjesinë e ngopjes dhe përshpejton lëvizjet e zorrëve. Tani ky fakt do të argumentohet me anë të të dhënave mjekësore.
Të dhënat tregojnë se hurma është një produkt i pasur me vlera ushqyese. 100 gr hurmë përmban 65 gr karbohidrate, 2 gr proteina dhe 0,2 gr yndyra. Ngaqë përmban sheqer fruktozë nuk përbën asnjë rrezik as për të sëmurët me diabet. Është i vetmi produkt i cili përmban sheqer, proteina dhe yndyra.

Cilat jane 5 rregullat e arta per nje ushqyerje te shendetshme dhe perfekte? Ne po jua zbulojme nepermjet ketij artikulli teper interesant dhe te dobishem…

Ndoshta ju keni dëgjuar se e qeshura është shëndet! Kjo është një thënie e vjetër që thuhet prej një kohë të gjatë, por që është e vërtetë.

Shumë studime kanë zbuluar efektet pozitive të të qeshurit në trupin e njeriut. Përveç kësaj për të konfirmuar të gjitha përfitimet psikologjike nga të qeshurit, shkenca e shërimit përmes të qeshurit, e quajtur “guelotologie”, gjeti gjithashtu disa përfitime shumë interesante fiziologjike. Hidhni një sy në 7 mëposhtme për të gjetur arsye të mira për ia plas të qeshurit:

Ulje e ndjesisë së dhimbjes. Disa studiues kanë zbuluar se pas 10 minutave të qeshura të forta, ka një reduktim të dhimbjes.

Forcim i sistemit imunitar. Nga eksperimentet e shumta është vërtetuar se e qeshura shkakton ndryshime të rëndësishme neurologjike.


Përmirësimin e funksionit njohëse. Duket se e qeshura  rrit performancën tonë mendore dhe aftësinë për të mbajtur informata.


Parandalimin e sëmundjeve kardiovaskulare. E qeshura aktivizon qarkullimin e gjakut duke reduktuar rrezikun e problemeve kardiovaskulare, sidomos infarktit.

Rrit kapacitetin e mushkërive. E qeshura bën lëvizjen e organeve të barkut dhe shkakton, rritjen e elasticitetit të mushkërive.

Lehtëson stresin dhe lodhjen.

Ekspozimi ndaj ajrit të ndotur gjatë shtatzënisë dhe vitit të parë të jetës është lidhur me rrezik më të lartë nga sëmurja prej kancerit te fëmijët, kanë bërë të ditur shkencëtarët nga Universiteti i Kalifornisë. Në studimin e tyre janë përdorur të dhënat për paraqitjen e kancerit te 3.600 fëmijë më të rinj se 6 vjeç dhe të dhënat për shkallën e ndotjes së ajrit në zonat ku kanë jetuar ata fëmijë.
Ato rezultate janë krahasuar me të dhënat e 3.600 fëmijëve të shëndetshëm. Është vërtetuar edhe sesi ndotja më e madhe e ajrit lidhet me rritjen shtesë të rrezikut nga sëmurja nga kanceri te fëmijët e asaj moshe. Rritja e rrezikut nga sëmurja ka qenë 5 për qind për leu kemi ndërsa deri në 15 për qind për kancer të testiteve dhe vezoreve.
Shkencëtarët shtojnë se duhet të bëhen analiza shtesë para se të konfirmohet lidhja shkaktuese ¬pasuese mes ndotjes së ajrit dhe rrezikut më të madh nga kanceri te fëmijët. /Telegrafi/

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For years, medical groups have been encouraging moms to wait until their baby has remained in utero for 39 weeks. At the same time, the number of women choosing to induce labor or have an elective cesarean section for nonmedical reasons has been rising.
Just last month, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists reiterated its recommendations, encouraging moms to avoid early elective deliveries.
The study

Twenty-five hospitals in California, New York, Florida, Illinois and Texas implemented what's called the Big 5 State Prematurity Initiative, a program that used a tool kit designed to help hospitals eliminate elective deliveries of babies before 39 weeks of gestation unless medically necessary. Thirty-eight percent of births in the United States occur in these five states.
In just one year, there was a remarkable decrease. "These 25 hospitals overall saw an 83% drop in early-term deliveries," said Dr. Edward McCabe, a pediatrician and medical director for the March of Dimes Foundation, which developed the tool kit and partly funded the study. In January, nearly 28% of babies were born at 37 or 38 weeks, but by December, that number had dropped to 5%. There was a corresponding increase in births at 39 to 41 weeks, McCabe said.

This table shows the drop in early-term deliveries.
A cultural change has to occur for more hospitals to help mothers wait just a little longer, he said. With this tool kit, labor and delivery nurses were empowered to tell moms-to-be if there was a medical reason to deliver the baby before 39 weeks.
Why women deliver early
Often it can be a matter of convenience. A doctor may be going out of town, and the mother may want to ensure that doctor delivers her baby. Or grandma and grandpa may be coming a little earlier than the due date. Some couples may even try to have their baby before the end of a year, so they can claim a tax credit.
They may think that it's OK, because they've been told or have heard that 37 weeks of gestation is full term.
What is full term?
"It wasn't until recently that we recognized that there are more complications and mortality at 37 weeks," McCabe said.
"Important growth and development occur throughout pregnancy – all the way through the final few weeks," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "If the mother is healthy, current research indicates that delivery should not be scheduled before 39 weeks' gestation."
According to a 2007 CDC study, infant mortality risk for babies born at 37 or 38 weeks is 1.5 times higher than babies born at 39 to 41 weeks.
"That's a 50% higher risk of infant mortality," McCabe said. Mortality at 39 to 41 weeks is very low, he said.
In 2009, researchers showed that delivering a baby a week or two before 39 weeks, or even three or four days before that milestone is reached, can have a significant impact on the child's health. For one, babies need every extra day for their lungs to mature.
McCabe said he hopes more hospitals will consider banning elective inductions and C-sections unless medically necessary. One way for this to change is to make it clearer what full term really is.
"The nomenclature is changing," he said. "Thirty-seven and 38 weeks are now considered 'early term.' It's not yet official, but there is a movement toward calling 39 to 41 weeks full term. It's in the literature; people are using it."
It's hard to say exactly how many women choose to induce labor before 39 weeks. In 2008, 23% of babies were born because the mother's labor was induced, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. It's unclear, however, how often labor was induced before full term, as the data is gleaned from medical records that don't specify at what gestational age a baby is born.
Data from a 2006 report from the National Institutes of Health found an estimated 2.5% of all babies in the United States were delivered by C-section at the mother's request.

The American government’s goal of vaccinating young girls against the human papillomavirus has been disappointing, with less than a third of teenagers having completed a full course of HPV vaccine. But now the United States can look to Australia, which six years into a successful nationwide HPV vaccination campaign has experienced a sharp decline in the number of new cases of genital warts among young men and women.
The country, one of the first to establish a nationally financed HPV vaccination program for girls and young women, has also seen a decrease in the number of cases of cervical abnormalities, a precursor to cervical cancer.
Australia’s program, which started in 2007, offers free HPV vaccination to girls who are 12 and 13 years old, and catch-up programs for girls and women under 26. The vaccine protects against genital warts as well as cancers of the cervix, head and neck.
The vaccine is typically administered in three doses, beginning around age 12. In 2010, coverage rates for girls that age in Australia’s school-based programs reached 83 percent for the first dose, 80 percent for the second dose and 73 percent for the third.
The findings suggest that Australia’s program, which has experienced little of the resistance that has stymied vaccination efforts in the United States, has been an overwhelming success, said Basil Donovan, an author of the study and a professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
As part of the new research, which was published in BMJ, a British medical journal, Dr. Donovan and colleagues compared rates of HPV-related diseases in the three years before the vaccine program began and in the four years afterward. The study included data on nearly 86,000 people who visited clinics in Australia between 2004 and 2011.
The researchers found that diagnoses of genital warts among young women ages 12 to 26 plummeted 59 percent in the two years after the program began. For men in the same age group, genital warts cases dropped 39 percent. During the same period, there was also a striking decline in the rate of high-grade cervical abnormalities in teenage girls, a sign that a decline in cervical cancer cases may be on the horizon.
Although a driving force behind the vaccine recommendations is the prevention of cancer, it is too soon to measure an impact there. The incubation period from HPV infection to the development of an HPV-related cancer is typically two to three decades. But for genital warts, the incubation period is about three months.
The findings showed a trend of sharply decreasing diagnoses among younger age groups. The rate of genital warts cases among girls younger than 21, for example, fell to less than 1 percent in 2011 from about 12 percent in 2007, a decline of nearly 93 percent. Among women ages 21 and 30, the decline in diagnoses was roughly 70 percent, to just 3 percent in that age group in 2011 from about 11 percent in 2007. At the same time, however, there was no significant decline in cases among women 30 and over.
A similar pattern was seen in every age group of men, with the infection rate falling more and more sharply with decreasing age. Dr. Donovan said it was clear that the high rate of immunization among young women was protecting young men who have not been vaccinated, a phenomenon known as herd immunity.
“The mathematical modelers told us that a large decline was to be expected, but we tend not to believe it until we see it,” Dr. Donovan said. “We were particularly surprised to see a 93 percent drop in genital warts in young women when only 85 percent were vaccinated. This suggests that the herd immunity that is protecting men is, in turn, also protecting unvaccinated women.”
Australia’s vaccination campaign sharply contrasts with the program in the United States where, studies show, parents often opt out of HPV vaccination for their children, calling the vaccine unnecessary, citing concerns about its safety or saying they have difficulty explaining to their teenagers what the shots are for. Some parents have also hesitated over fears that HPV vaccination might give their teenagers license to have sex, even though studies have countered the notion that the vaccine alters sexual behavior.
“There was little resistance to the HPV vaccine in Australia, just the usual anti-vaccination people and a few religious groups,” Dr. Donovan said. “But even the religious groups have gone quiet, and I suspect that many of them are quietly getting their children vaccinated.”

They went to the dentist to get a wisdom tooth pulled or perhaps have their jaw realigned. But they may have also contracted a blood-borne virus.

TOMATOES zapped with radiation could be heading towards your lunchbox or dinner table. Food Standards Australia New Zealand has declared the treatment -- to destroy insects and bacteria, but which has been linked to pet deaths -- is safe for fresh tomatoes and capsicums.
FSANZ spokeswoman Lorraine Belanger said irradiated food passed through a radiation field generated by high-energy electron beams, X-rays or gamma rays.
Irradiated food must be labelled and notices placed at sales areas or on menus.
Queensland's Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry wants the option of an alternative fruit fly control after restrictions were imposed on dimethoate and fenthion, two common chemical insecticides.
"Permitting the irradiation of tomatoes and capsicums will allow domestic and international trade in tomatoes and capsicums to continue without disruption," FSANZ decided.
"Decades of research worldwide has shown that irradiation of food is a safe and effective way to kill bacteria in foods, extend its shelf life and reduces insect infestation," the nation's food regulator said.
Ministers responsible for food regulation have until mid-May to decide on a formal approval.
While herbs, spices, some herbal teas, some tropical fruits and persimmons are already allowed to be irradiated, the bulk has been exported rather than eaten in Australia.
The Federal Government banned irradiation of imported cat food in 2009 after dozens of cats consuming high doses of dry food suffered neurological damage or death.
FSANZ says a dose of up to one kilogray is suitable for tomatoes and capsicums -- well below the levels in pet food.
Anti-irradiation campaigners, including Friends of the Earth Australia, have raised concerns about potential nutritional deficiencies, immune system disorders, and genetic damage.

Amazing arms exercises

How is getting a stronger, sleeker upper body like math? It's something otherwise smart women think they just can't accomplish. Or they use the excuse of getting too "bulked up." The moves here definitely won't turn you into the Incredible Hulk, but they will get your arms longer, leaner, and ready to bare when the weather warms up. Best of all, most can be done at home using your own body weight—no need to invest in pricey gadgets or gear! Trainer tip: To boost your calorie burn and see results faster, march or jump in place for 2 minutes after completing each move.

Roll-the-Ball with Uneven Push-Up

Best for: Those who need an upper-body-strength challenge. (Tip: you can use a soccer ball, stack of books, or a medicine ball to create the uneven surface.)

How to do it: Get into plank and put right hand on the ball, left hand on the floor. Squeeze your abs and shoulders as you lower towards the floor, keeping elbows in. Push back up and pass the ball to the other side. Do at least 5 on each side.

Pilates Boxing

 Best for: Pilates and yoga fans who want to burn fat.

How to do it: Standing with feet a hips-width apart, bend your knees and hinge forward from your waist, maintaining a neutral spine. Raise fists to your shoulders and, keeping elbows up, box your right hand forward, clenching your abs. Bring hands to center and switch. Box on each side 20 times. 

Clean and Press Windmill

 Best for: Those who want to work their legs and glutes too.

How to do it: Stand with feet shoulder-width apart, a free weight between them. Push hips back to lower into squat and grab weight with left hand. Push through feet and rise to standing, lifting weight toward left shoulder and up overhead. Bend at waist to right, allowing right foot to turn out; right hand is on inside of right leg. Continue to bend sideways, sliding right hand down to foot, keeping left hand overhead. Reverse movement to return to squat. Switch sides and repeat. 

Biceps and Arm Circles

 Best for: Exercisers who want a full-body strength workout.

How to do it: Stand with legs slightly wider than hip-width, a 5- to 8-pound dumbbell in each hand, elbows bent and palms up. Keeping spine straight, squat and circle left hand up and in toward your shoulder in a circular motion (as if beckoning someone toward you); reverse to lower hand. Do 16 reps, then switch sides and repeat.

Triceps Swing



 How to do it: Lie faceup with feet on floor, knees bent, a 5-lb dumbbell in each hand. Keep them a few inches off floor. Keeping arms straight, raise left arm over chest while right arm stays over head. Lower to start and repeat. Do 15 reps with left arm, then switch sides. Do 2-3 sets. 

Kickback with a Twist

 Best for: Firm, sleek triceps

How to do it: Holding a 5- to 8-pound dumbbell in each hand, arms by your sides, stand with your feet slightly wider than shoulder-width apart. Keeping your back straight, bend your legs slightly and lean forward from the waist until your torso is nearly parallel to the ground. Raise your elbows until your upper arms are even with your back. Your elbows should be bent to 45-degree angles with your palms facing each other. Keeping your upper arms still, extend both hands behind you, then rotate your wrists so that your palms are up. Turn your palms back to face each other and bend your elbows to bring weights back toward your body to complete the rep. Do 3 sets of 15 reps. 

Get-Up Plank

 How to do it: Begin in a modified side-plank position with legs stacked and knees bent. Hold a kettlebell (or a water bottle) in your right hand, with your right elbow bent and weight resting against your forearm. Lift your hips so your body is straight from knees to shoulders, pressing kettlebell up to the ceiling. Do 3 sets on each side. 

Split Squat Rotation

 Best for: Leg, glute, and arm strengthening

Stand with feet together, holding a 5- to 10-lb medicine ball (you can also use a soccer ball or a stack of books) at chest. Step left foot back and lower into squat with right knee bent. Push into right leg, straightening both legs while twisting torso to push medicine ball over right shoulder; return to previous position. Continue for 30 seconds; switch sides and repeat.

Opposite Arm & Leg Lift

 Best for: Arm and leg strengthening that stretches your back

How to do it: From all fours, reach your right arm forward; at the same time, stretch your left leg back and flex your foot. Hold for 5 seconds, then release and repeat using the left arm and right leg; that's one rep. Do 10 to 15 reps. 

 

Preparing meals can mean less time for exercise, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed U.S. Census data from more than 112,000 American adults and found that a 10-minute increase in meal preparation was associated with a lower likelihood of exercising for 10 more minutes.
The finding was true for men and women, single and married people, and those with and without children, according to the Ohio State University researchers.
They said their findings suggest that one healthy behavior can take time away from another healthy habit, and that public health recommendations need to take into account the time people have for beneficial lifestyle habits on a given day.
“If we assume, for example, that adults have 45 minutes of free time to allocate to health-promoting behaviors, maybe we need to look at that holistically and determine the optimal way to use that time,” study lead author Rachel Tumin, a doctoral student in epidemiology in the College of Public Health at Ohio State University, said in a university news release.
Tumin and her colleagues found that 16 percent of men and 12 percent of women said they had exercised the previous day. The average amount of time spent exercising was 19 minutes for men and 9 minutes for women.
The average amount of time spent preparing meals that day was about 17 minutes for men and 44 minutes for women.
Overall, men and women spent an average of less than an hour on both meal preparation and exercise on the same day, according to the study, scheduled for presentation Friday at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, in New Orleans.
Because this study was presented at a medical meeting, the data and conclusions should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
“There’s only so much time in a day. As people try to meet their health goals, there’s a possibility that spending time on one healthy behavior is going to come at the expense of the other,” Tumin said. “I think this highlights the need to always consider the trade-off between ideal and feasible time use for positive health behaviors.”

Using MRI scans, a Canadian team of scientists found that areas in the reward centre of the brain became active when people heard a song for the first time.
The more the listener enjoyed what they were hearing, the stronger the connections were in the region of the brain called the nucleus accumbens.
The study is published in the journal Science.
Dr Valorie Salimpoor, from the Rotman Research Institute, in Toronto, told the BBC's Science in Action programme: "We know that the nucleus accumbens is involved with reward.
"But music is abstract: It's not like you are really hungry and you are about to get a piece of food and you are really excited about it because you are going to eat it - or the same thing applies to sex or money - that's when you would normally see activity in the nucleus accumbens.
"But what's cool is that you're anticipating and getting excited over something entirely abstract - and that's the next sound that is coming up."
New tunes
To carry out the study, which took place at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University, the scientists played 19 volunteers 60 excerpts of new music, based on their musical preferences.
As they were listening to the 30-second-long tracks, they had to the opportunity to buy the ones they liked in a mocked up online music store.
All of this was carried out while the participants were lying in an MRI machine.
Dr Salimpoor said: "As they are listening to this music, we can look at their brain activity and figure out how they are appreciating or enjoying this music before they even tell us anything.
"And that's part of this new direction that neuroscience is going in - trying to understand what people are thinking, and inferring their thoughts and motivations and eventually their behaviour through their brain activity."
The researchers found that the nucleus accumbens was also interacting with another region of the brain called the auditory cortical stores.
This is an area that stores sound information based on music that people have been exposed to before.
"This part of the brain will be unique for each individual, because we've all heard different music in the past," explained Dr Salimpoor.
The researchers now want to find out how this drives our music tastes, and whether our brain activity can explain why people are drawn to different styles of music.

Nuts can add lots of flavor and crunch to your favorite dishes, and they just happen to be good for you. In this week’s Recipes for Health, Martha Rose Shulman celebrates the versatility of the walnut. As she writes:

I routinely throw them into salads of all kinds, and finely chopped walnuts can go into everything from omelets to pungent Mediterranean nut-based sauces to soups, pasta dishes and of course desserts. I consider them a pantry staple and keep a bag of shelled walnuts in the freezer at all times. When unshelled walnuts are available at my farmers’ market I keep them on hand as well. I use them up so quickly that I probably don’t need to keep the shelled walnuts in the freezer, but that’s where I always keep my nuts, because the oils in nuts are volatile and they can become rancid if they are not kept in a cool environment. I toast walnuts occasionally, but most often I prefer the sweeter flavor of fresh untoasted walnuts.

Tomorrow is National Peach Cobbler Day! (A Saturday: Perfect for baking.) We love celebrating this delicious dessert, but it does happen to fall smack dab in the middle of beach-body prep time. Not to worry, it’s possible to use the natural sweetness of peaches to make desserts that are relatively low in calories, but taste just as decadent as Grandma’s recipe.
And there’s more good news. When fruits are paired with a little fat, your body can better absorb key nutrients like beta-carotene and lycopene. (P.S. If fresh peaches haven’t made it to your farmer’s market yet, it’s fine to use the frozen variety!)
Try these recipes:
Blueberry-Peach Cobbler


Ingredients: Peaches, lemon juice, granulated sugar, salt, flour, cooking spray, baking powder, butter, eggs, vanilla extract, buttermilk, blueberries, turbinado sugar Calories: 303
Try this recipe: Blueberry-Peach Cobbler
Peach Upside-Down Cake

Ingredients: Peaches, sugar, cornstarch, a lemon, butter, vanilla extract, an egg, flour, baking powder, low-fat buttermilk, vanilla fat-free yogurt, fat-free caramel syrup
Calories: 307
Try this recipe: Peach Upside-Down Cake
Poached Fruit Over Waffles

Ingredients: Coriander seeds, lemon zest, tarragon, apricots, plums, peaches or nectarines, pears, vanilla extract and whole-grain waffles
Calories: 143

Fitness trainer in trainingIn February 2010, Cherie Hart Steffen weighed 230 pounds and had a BMI of 40. Her size-20 clothing was starting to get tight when she realized she needed to make a change. 
Three years later, Steffen has lost 85 pounds and is a certified personal trainer with the National Academy of Sports Medicine.  LaVerne Hart was a model and didn't seem to know how to deal with her youngest daughter's weight, Steffen says. Shortly before Hart died in June 2009, she made Steffen promise to lose the extra pounds.  These photos, taken on Steffen's birthday in 2010, 2011 and 2012, show her dramatic weight loss.  Steffen and her husband, Mark, have been married for nearly six years. "He loves it," Steffen says of her transformation. "Every day he's like, 'Wow.'"

For now, Steffen is a leasing consultant at an apartment community, but she hopes to eventually pick up enough clients to work full time as a personal trainer. 

Few things are more ethereal than hope. It isn't tangible, easily measurable or available in pill form.