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The benefits of yoga, both for infants to young children or those born with disabilities are obvious. However, it should be noted that since different areas have studied the importance of early stimulation, so that different programs have been developed, whose techniques bear many similarities between them.shows you a series of exercises that can be developed for your baby with your assistance, since the first months of life through the year.

Without doubt, early stimulation for infants has a stronger impact on their future development as well as allowing a more intense contact with your little, making you feel content and loved, (more…)

A recent American study analyzed the ‘diseases of travelers’ most frequently related to younger and found that the health problems suffered by children are often different from those affecting adults after international protests. The results of this work published out in the latest edition of the journal Pediatrics.

As noted study leader Dr. Stefan Hagmann, Bronx New York Hospital-Lebanon (United States), one of the main issues is that children tend to travel less prepared than their elders. It is worth mentioning that this work was based on nearly 1,600 children from 19 countries who had traveled to 218 different destinations.

Other outstanding features is that small family often require medical care to return before the adults, and are usually admitted because of their condition or undergoing treatment for longer.

The map of traveler’s diseases in children is then as follows: 28 percent of children’s issues the return match with diarrhea, 25 percent, to skin problems, 23 percent to fevers, and a 11 percent to respiratory disorders, ie, that these four disorders for 86 percent of the total.

By region, skin rashes and other skin conditions occur more in cases of children returning from holidays in Latin America, such gastrointestinal problems have been observed mostly after mobilizations to the Middle East and North Africa, while regions Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa tend to cause more fevers in children who visit them.

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The Confederation of Consumers and Users (CECU) has developed a guide on “fake food myths” in order to clarify and demystify misconceptions about food that have given rise to erroneous beliefs. False beliefs a:

• The fattening bread: The bread can be consumed in adequate amounts without gaining weight energy expenditure. What fat is to take an excessive amount and accompany it with jam, butter, sausages? Bread is a carbohydrate needed for a healthy diet. You need only adjust the amount ingested.
• What makes us fat is not what we spend, so it’s important to exercise.
• The fat fruit dessert taken: Not true, the fruit provides the same taken before and after a meal. If taken before a meal, what happens is that being rich in fiber and water produces a satiating effect. We recommend at least three pieces of fruit a day for his support in vitamins and minerals.

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Exercise is necessary for all children, and provide moments of happiness while preparing to teach a healthy lifestyle as adults, therefore, the child with asthma should not be an exception, and should make physical exercise a manner “adequate”.

Benefits of exercise in children with asthma:

• Improved child development
• Improved physical fitness and exercise tolerance itself
• The attacks caused by stress are reduced or are less strong
• The crisis is best handled
• Helps reduce the nervousness caused by the attacks.

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