La Asociación de Alimentos y Drogas (FDA) de los Estados Unidos aprueban un sustituto del azúcar solo luego de haber demostrado que es eficaz y seguro para el organismo. La cantidad de edulcorante que se considera seguro, depende de la ingesta diaria. El nivel aceptable de consumo diario esta representado por un margen bastante amplio.

Han aparecido algunas inquietudes sobre el potencial de seguridad de los sustitutos del azúcar. Sin embargo la FDA ha determinado que casi todas estas sustancias son seguras cuando se respetan las recomendaciones sobre su consumo. Los sustitutos que generan preocupaciones con respecto a sus efectos sobre el organismo son los siguientes:

• Acesulfamo-K. Hay cierta controversia con respecto a este sustituto, los escépticos afirman que produce tumores en las ratas. La FDA ha contrarrestado este argumento diciendo que según estudios, estos tumores son típicos de las ratas y no el resultado del Acesulfamo-K. Según la FDA más de 90 estudios han demostrado que el Acesulfamo-K es seguro para los humanos.

• Aspartamo. Numerosos estudios han documentado la seguridad del Aspartamo y la FDA aprobó su uso en 1981. Sin embargo, este sustituto contiene Amino Acido Fenilalanina que tiene contraindicaciones para personas que han heredado lo enfermedad Fenilcetonuria (PKU). Según la FDA, solo un pequeño segmento de la población es sensible a este subproducto de los edulcorantes, por lo tanto  su ingesta debe de ser restringida. En cantidades apropiadas la Fenilalanina es necesaria para el crecimiento y un desarrollo normal, pero el exceso de esta sustancia es toxica para el sistema nervioso y puede resultar en daños cerebrales irreversibles.

Las personas con la enfermedad de PKU no pueden aumentar sus niveles de Fenilalanina y deberían abstenerse de consumir esta sustancia. Quienes tienen enfermedades hepáticas avanzadas, las mujeres con determinados rasgos genéticos (por ejemplo, fenilcetonuria), y las mujeres embarazadas con altos niveles de phenylalanine en la sangre pueden también, tener dificultades en metabolizar la Fenilalanina. La FDA exige que todos los productos que contengan Aspartamo tengan una etiqueta advirtiendo a los consumidores de la presencia de Fenilalanina.

Aspartamo, también contiene acido Aspártico, el cual se ha asociado con daño cerebral y otros efectos neurotóxicos. Sin embargo la FDA ha descubierto que el acido Aspártico no representa ninguna amenaza si la sustancia es consumida en niveles normales. Entre las personas que acostumbran a usar Aspartamo solo consumen un promedio del 4 a 7 por ciento de la ingesta permitida de acuerdo a la FDA.

En el año 2005, estudios Europeos informaron que  el Aspartamo era causante de leucemia y linfoma en ratas de laboratorio. Los investigadores sugieren reevaluar el uso del Aspartamo en seres humanos. Los Funcionarios de la FDA sostienen que el Aspartamo aun esta en el mercado porque las investigaciones demuestran que es inofensivo para los humanos. Sin embargo, la agencia esta revisando las conclusiones a las que llegaron los investigadores Europeos y anunciaran sus resultados en el futuro.

• Neotame. Al igual que el Aspartamo contiene amino acido fenilalanina, acido Aspartico y un grupo Metilo. Sin embargo Neotame tiene moléculas adicionales que impiden que las enzimas digestivas separen la fenilalanina. Como resultado, este aminoácido no se absorbe en el organismo y permite que las personas con PKU puedan consumirlo sin riesgos.

• Sacarina. A finales de los 70, luego de experimentos realizados, surgió la preocupación de que la sacarina causaba cáncer de vejiga en ratas de laboratorios. Por un corto lapso de tiempo, la sacarina fue prohibida en el mercado Estado Unidense. Sin embargo, esta orden fue revocada mas tarde en espera de nuevas investigaciones. Aunque los expertos no han podido demostrar que la sacarina sea segura para el consumo humano, tampoco han podido poner de manifiesto que haya un importante vínculo entre el uso de la sacarina y el cáncer en los seres humanos. Se cree que la sacarina no plantea una amenaza al organismo cuando se consume en niveles normales. En el año 2001, la legislación federal elimino el requisito de que los productos con sacarina debían tener una etiqueta de advertencia.

• Sucralosa. El cuerpo no reconoce la sucralosa como un hidrato de carbono, por lo que pasa a través del tracto digestivo sin ser desglosadas o absorbida. No afecta los niveles de azúcar en la sangre o la producción de insulina. Por lo tanto, puede ser consumido de manera segura por las personas que sufren de diabetes.

Las preguntas giran alrededor de los efectos de los edulcorantes en las persona con sobrepeso. La mayoría de los estudios han encontrado que los sustitutos ayudan en la reducción de peso o en mantener el peso actual. Sin embargo, otros estudios han indicado que algunos sustitutos del azúcar pueden estimular el apetito, aumentando el peso del consumidor. La mayoría de los expertos sostienen que una dieta con niveles modestos de edulcorante y además ejercicios regulares permiten disminuir el sobrepeso.

Por otro lado, los sustitutos del azúcar pueden beneficiar a las personas con ciertas condiciones de salud. Por ejemplo, los pacientes con diabetes pueden utilizar los sustitutos del azúcar sin preocuparse de la insulina ni de los niveles de azúcar en la sangre. Esto permite que las personas con diabetes puedan satisfacer sus gustos por los dulces sin tener que preocuparse por la hiperglucemia. Sin embargo, como con cualquier alimento que contiene hidratos de carbono y sustitutos del azúcar deben ser dados al paciente en un plan de comidas. El uso de estos edulcorantes puede ayudar también a estimular la ingesta calórico.

Las mujeres embarazadas o que están en periodo de lactancia pueden consumir con seguridad cierto tipo de edulcorantes. Esto les permite disfrutar ocasionalmente de los dulces placeres, sin caer en el exceso de peso. Sin embargo, estas mujeres deben tener cuidado con el uso de la sacarina durante el embarazo, ya que la sacarina puede atravesar la placenta e introducirse en los tejidos del feto. Las mujeres embarazadas con altos niveles de fanilalanina en la sangre también pueden tener dificultades de metabolizar la fenilalanina que se encuentra en el Aspartamo.

El consumo de grandes cantidades de sacarosa y fluctuosa pueden elevar los niveles de triglicéridos. A estas personas con Hipertrigliceridemia se les recomienda recortar la ingesta de alimentos azucarados, sobre todo si su diagnostico ha dado que tienen resistencia a la insulina. Estas personas pueden beneficiarse con el uso de sustitutos del azúcar. Para bajar el nivel de Triglicéridos es importante mantener un peso corporal saludable a través de dietas controladas y ejercicios regulares.

Se recomienda que los niños usen edulcorantes solo de vez en cuando. Ellos necesitan grandes cantidades de calorías y nutrientes que les proporcionen adecuados niveles de energía para que puedan tener un crecimiento saludable.

La FDA  ha establecido una tabla que indica cual es la ingesta diaria aceptable (IDA) de los edulcorantes artificiales:

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It is hard not to talk about anxiety and stress in the conditions of daily existence, regardless if referring to work problems or to the butterflies in the stomach before a first date. Tension is actually part of our life, and it often makes us work harder and do our best to achieve what we have set as a goal. However, anxiety and stress no longer remain stimulating factors when present in too high proportions in one’s life: in most such cases, anxiety disorders are identified and diagnosed. Such a health problem makes the sufferer experience anxiety and stress most of the time, even when there is no reason for feeling so.

Anxiety and stress could thus bother you all day long, preventing you from carrying on with regular activities, or you may experience such discomforts in occasional bouts that are incredibly intense and terrifying. It is false to assume that these health problem represent a character flaw; stop believing that this happens because you are weak. Lots of people try the approach of pulling themselves up by the bootstraps, but this very seldom works. Therapy is necessary, sometimes accompanied by the administration of tranquilizers or antidepressants. Therefore, one needs to eliminate the factors that cause anxiety and stress, and ruin personal and professional life.

A disorder caused by anxiety and stress has two types of components: psychological and biological, and therefore the treatment ought to include a combination of interventions relying both on cognitive and behavioral psychotherapy. Genetics and family history have their share among the possible triggers of an anxiety disorder, but there are other factors that play a significant role in the development of the disease. Traumatic experience, the impossibility to deal with a too high stress level, major life decisions, alcohol or substance abuse, emotional instability and lots of other problems could hide behind recurrent panic attacks.

Family support is incredibly important in the fight against anxiety and stress. It is more than obvious that people with a balanced and harmonious lifestyle who feel happy with their family and living conditions, are less likely to suffer from an anxiety disorder. Nevertheless, coping with stress is something natural in day to day life, and only when too much pressure is put on our nervous system, it may fail. Moreover, the same family support is incredibly helpful for the recovery of a person suffering from an anxiety disorder. Good documentation, open communication with the therapist and the active involvement in helping the patient, represent the most important ways of speeding up recovery.

Eating disorders have become one of the most frequently encountered disorders in the field of medicine.

Although the eating orders were rare some decades ago, it has increased rapidly during the last 2 to 3 decades. It is noted that the popularity of the modeling industry and the movie industry certainly had an impact of the increment of the eating disorders.

Although eating disorders were treated in the conventional way of treating yet another disorder, there are specific metal and physical aspects of eating disorders. Once the need was identified for treating this condition in a special way, eating disorder clinics were introduced.

Since eating disorders and strictly attached to everyday habits of the person, it is quite important to keep the person away from the usually surroundings. For this, there have been residential eating disorder clinics established for the person to be away from the usual surroundings and get away from the eating disorder. Residential eating disorder clinics offer many additional advantages over the conventional eating disorder clinics.
First of all, the person who is being treated at eating disorder clinics is given the basic facilities for residing in the clinic. Based on how much you can spend, these facilities offered vary. As an example, there are eating disorder clinics that are specifically designed for celebrities and models. These are very expensive places with some extra ordinary facilities such as spas, gyms, personal trainers etc.

In addition to that, most of these eating disorder clinics provide you with a personalized treatment. Based on the status of the disorder and your personality, the treatment programs are adjusted. You are simply under the supervision of all 24 hours and the staff will be at your service at any time.

Apart from the medicinal treatments at eating disorder clinics, there are spiritual treatments as well. As an example, there are number of eating disorder clinics that offer sessions about spirituality and mindfulness, de-stressing, relaxation, and other self-help topics. This a great way of treating eating disorders while giving the patients more insight in to the life. Once patients leave the eating disorder clinic, not only they take home the cure for the eating disorder, but something more.

Treating eating disorders is not a straightforward task which ends in one treatment. Some of the patients who go back home after being ‘cured’, get back to the old habits of eating. They have to come back and start the cycle of treatments again.

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Mientras busca el mejor plan alimenticio para perder peso, encontrara muchas dietas que aseguran que perderá peso rápidamente. Sin embargo, debería inclinarse hacia un régimen alimenticio seguro y saludable que no se base en una rápida perdida de peso, sino que sea efectivo a largo plazo. Dependiendo del motivo por el que este buscando un plan alimenticio nuevo, puede elegir una dieta basada en proteínas, o una basada en hidratos de carbono, o también una dieta vegetariana completa. Quienes solo buscan la perdida de grasa y bajar de peso pueden adoptar una dieta vegetariana o una baja en carbohidratos. Mientras que si quiere aumentar la masa muscular lo ideal es una dieta basada en proteínas.

Las dietas Vegetarianas son las que mejor resultado dan. Se basan en productos vegetales ricos en vitaminas y nutrientes fundamentales para el organismo. Puede consumir hortalizas, granos, frutas, cereales y productos ricos en fibras. La ingesta mínima de calorías diarias esta determinada por los alimentos y productos que seleccione en su dieta. Las frutas e hidratos de carbono al inicio son introducidos en pequeñas cantidades, dependiendo de sus efectos sobre la cuenta calórica. Y su consumo puede ser aumentado o sustituido por más o menos verduras. Los productos derivados de animales son generalmente excluidos de este plan de dieta Vegetariano.

Hay alternativas para sustituir determinados productos básicos. Pude elegir leche de soja en lugar de leche de vaca, caldo vegetal en lugar de aceite de cocina o manteca. Usar aceite de canola para la cocción, sustitutos de huevo y principalmente fécula de patata.

Una dieta basada en proteínas incluye carnes magras, pollo, hortalizas, frijoles, pescado y frutas. Evite el consumo de carnes ricas en grasas como la carne vacuna. Seleccione los productos que tengan menor contenido graso. Tiene que introducir un cambio en sus hábitos alimenticios. Debe reducir el consumo de te, café y bebidas gaseosas. Beba mucha agua durante todo el día. Seleccione alimentos con antioxidantes que son buenos para el organismo. Algunos alimentos como el yogur ayudan a quemar calorías y pueden ser incluidos en proporciones adecuadas en sus comidas. Coma vegetales. Seleccione las frutas y hortalizas con bajo índice glucémico, como el coliflor, el brócoli, espinaca, aguacate, etc.

Otro plan alimenticio conocido es la Dieta Atkins. Hace hincapié en las proteínas y no restringe el consumo de grasas, pero reduce drásticamente la ingesta de carbohidratos. Aunque esta dieta es eficaz para perder peso, su proceso no es saludable y ha levantado muchas objeciones. Ya que, las vitaminas y nutrientes que el cuerpo necesita no son considerados en absoluto en este tipo de dieta.

Una cosa que debe tener clara cuando elija un plan alimenticio, es que la dieta debe de ser saludable. Opte por una donde la pérdida de peso sea lenta y progresiva, así su cuerpo se podrá ir acostumbrando a los cambios. Las dietas con drásticas pérdidas de peso dañan el organismo a largo plazo. Seleccione una dieta que le asegure una ingesta que incorpore las vitaminas y nutrientes esenciales. La mayor parte de las dietas apuntan a reducir drásticamente el consumo de grasas. El cuerpo necesita de una cantidad saludable de grasa, asegúrese de que consuma el mínimo de grasa requerida por el organismo. Los productos como el aceite de oliva y el aceite de linaza contienen grasa saludable que puede ser consumida sin problemas.

Las dietas vegetarianas son más saludables que las dietas basadas en carnes y proteínas. Los vegetales y las frutas pueden satisfacer sus necesidades nutricionales y mantener un bajo consumo de grasas. Algunos vegetales contienen las proteínas equivalentes a las encontradas en la carne. Y el punto es que las verduras a diferencia de los productos cárnicos no contienen grasa.

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While thinking about the symptoms of menopause, it is important for you to know and understand that these symptoms differ from women to women.

Certain factors like difference in diet and nutrition, general health and health care, etc all affect the way women experience menopause.

The general physical symptoms of most women approaching or experiencing menopause include:

Longer menstrual periods

For a woman who usually has short menstrual periods of, say, 4 days, this can increase to more days. When this occurs, it could be one of the symptoms that she is approaching her menopause. When you notice that this is happening to you and you are approaching your late 40s, there is nothing to worry about. Simply know that this is a symptom of menopause.

Heavier menstrual flows

Some women also notice that their menstrual flows are now heavier than usual. If this happens to you and you are sure that nothing else is wrong with you physically, then know that you could be approaching your menopause, especially if the age is right. If the age is not right, then you are not approaching menopause.

Spotting

Spotting is the situation whereby little drops of blood comes out during the time when you are supposed to be menstruating. When this occurs, it could be a sign of menopause. First, check whether you could be pregnant or not. If not, and if it continues, then it could be a sign of menopause.

Menstrual periods irregularity

There is also the tendency that you will experience general menstrual periods irregularity when you are approaching menopause. When this happens and you know nothing is wrong with you health wise, then it is a symptom of menopause.

Lack of interest in sex

Lack of interest in sex for most women in menopause occurs partly because there is now less fun when having sex. This is because as menopause happens, the estrogen levels decline, thereby making the vaginal walls less elastic and thinner. This eventually leads to pain or discomfort during sex. To solve this problem, there is the need for sufficient vaginal lubrication for women who are experiencing menopause and still want to enjoy sex with their partners.

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Officials of the Federal government believe that the swine flu vaccine that would protect all Americans from future H1N1 outbreaks would be available by January or late November at the earliest.

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wever, countries outside the United States and other nations that manufacture vaccines would take several years to generate sufficient vaccines to meet global demands.

Although manufacturing of the vaccine is faster than it was a few years back, it may still not be enough to prevent death and illness if the dreaded virus begins to spread and becomes virulent, experts predict.

In the United States, the main obstacle despite long years of effort remains to be the 50-year old technology they use in manufacturing flu vaccines. The Federal government had invested time and billions of dollars shifting to a quicker and more reliable method.

One such procedure involves cultivating the vaccine viruses in vats of cells instead of hen’s eggs. There are several small companies that are developing new methods that would pave the way for the creation of large volumes of vaccines in a span of weeks.

Dr. Greg Poland, who is the head of the vaccine research program at the Mayo Clinic, admits that the cell-based cultivation technology is not yet available while the never technologies have not yet been proven to satisfy most experts.

In addition, government officials have also not yet decided on whether or not H1N1 is a potential risk that demands production of vaccine. However, they are implementing the initial steps. Andrin Oswald, Chief Executive of the Vaccine Division of Novartis, revealed that one possible problem would be the manufacture of vaccines for swine influenza could hamper the production of seasonal flu vaccines for the coming winter. The most likely thing to do is to compromise, according to Oswald.

However, Robin Robinson, who manages the Emergency Preparation Research Program of the Department of Health and Human Services, believes that majority of manufacturing efforts of vaccine makers would have been completed by June.

According to Dr. Robinson, if the manufacture of the H1N1 vaccine would commence after that, the first 50 million to 80 million would be ready by September.

Dr. Robinson continued by saying that the entire 600 million doses, which are sufficient to give the required two shots for every American would be available by January. Adding the immune stimulant adjuvant to the vaccine could greatly reduce the required dosage, paving the way for the availability of the doses by the latter part of November.

The vaccine industry in the country is now very much capable of responding to the outbreak than it was five years back, when there were only two vaccine manufacturers and encountered a severe shortage. At present, there are five manufacturers supplying vaccines to the domestic market. The vaccine industry, which is used to be the backwater of the pharmaceutical industry, is generating new investments, as a result of government subsidies and higher cost for vaccines.

Despite of this, a World Health Organization and International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations revealed that it would still require four more years of manufacturing to meet global demands for a vaccine that would provide protection against bird flu strain that has been the major concern of health officials over the last few years.

Finally, the Federal government is encouraging manufacturers to shift their production in the United States, since all except Sanofi Aventis is now importing swine flu vaccines.

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Leading companies these days are much more concerned about the fact that their money should not be spent illogically and that is why the employers are more cautious about the spirit of the employees and their proper behavior. They are quite concerned about the better outcome of the money they are paying to their employees. The sobriety of the employees is the foremost criterion of getting the corporate jobs. They want to clear the fact that their hired people are not addicted to any type of addiction basically drug addicted. They are stressing this fact because they want to be quite sure about the fact that their money is not blowing like dry leaves behind the unprofitable causes. They want their employee should not be under the influence of any kind of drugs that may hamper their ability to work. So all these days it has been finalized that before getting the appointment letter you have to pass all he stages of a drug test in order to clear the air that you are not addicted to any kind of drugs. In many countries this drug testing before employment has been legally proclaimed. Therefore according to the law of the state you are bound to go through all the stages of drug test and must pass them in order to get your appointment letter. Not only that many employers often doesn’t think that to be enough to have a drug test conducted before employment. They often conduct periodical drug tests, i.e. they use to conduct such tests with regular intervals, in case any of the employees have put on the habit after joining.

This is proved good for the entire society, as it is not for the work culture of the office but to ensure the entire health of the society. This is good for both the employer and the employee. Many schools and colleges have also taken on this system to have a check on their students in case any of their students are addicted to the harmful effects of drugs. Now come to the main discussion, as this is the stage of drug testing. Here are three stages of drug test that an employee has to clear and they are urine test, saliva test and pass a hair test. Now a day it has been a trend to take some medicines like benzodiazepines or oxycodone as anti-anxiety medicines and painkillers. As these drugs are prescribed medicines the data is not clear that whether they are used for their proper usage or the employees have got addicted to these medicines.

The most commonly used method for testing the presence of drugs is by testing the urine. In this method the urine of the employee is collected in a cup and is checked by using a panel kit that gives instant result. In some cases the sample of urine may also be sent to the laboratory. Another such testing method is by testing the hair or the hair follicle test to find out tresses of drugs that may have been consumed in the last few months. In case the candidate is not having hair on his head, the hair follicle test is done and then this is rather a painful process. The Saliva test is not that a popular method as this has some limitations and can only detect tresses of drugs that have been consumed in the last few days because of its limitations this is not a very frequently used method.

Pass a hair test, Pass a urine test and Pass a saliva test.

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Every woman wants smooth, soft skin, but not every woman knows how to get it easily.

Silky smooth skin has a luxurious feel to it, and is extremely sensual and sexy. No wonder we all want it so bad! We want it because of how it makes us feel, and our partners want it because of how it feels to them.

Most Spas provide some sort of skin softening service where they can drench your skin in some form of moisture rich emollients. I recently got to learn one of the coolest skin softening treatments, where your skin is wrapped in chocolate! Can you imagine! What woman wouldn’t want to be wrapped head to toe in chocolate?

If you didn’t know, chocolate is a fat, and not to break the mood, but how the treatment is prepared, is they heat the fat and oil produced from chocolate, and mix it into another skin lotion base. Thus you have both the chocolate and the lotion working together.

Now I know we all can’t rush out and get the amount of chocolate you need to do this at home. That would be way too expensive and impractical. Plus you couldn’t rub it all over yourself and get every inch like they do at the spa. So what can you do to have the same silky soft skin without the expense? Here is all you need.

All you need to do is do what you do every day, just add one small ingredient to it. First, take a warm to hot shower, the hotter the better. Why? The heat from the shower not only relaxes your body, and soothes your muscles, but opens the pores of your skin all over your body.

Now shower as you normally would, but at the end, take a wash cloth and soak it with baby oil. With the baby oil drenched wash cloth, step out of the water enough to rub the wash cloth all over your body without being hit by the water spray. Once you have rubbed the baby oil all over your body, let the shower water drench your body for an extra minute, then get out of the shower.

If time permits, don’t towel try, but air dry instead. What you will find is the moisture from the baby oil is literally sucked up by your skin like a sponge, leaving you with softer, smoother skin! Give it a try after a long hard day, and I’m sure it will become one of your favorite bath time rituals.

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Have you been watching the news and/or read your daily broadsheets at all recently?  If so, you’ve probably heard the term “Swine Flu” bouncing around a lot.  While you are in the pigs fair or your hog race backyard and you were ever unlucky enough to be sneezed on by a sick pig, would you catch its flu? Not necessarily — it takes more than simply breathing in a pig’s germs (just like kissing his messy and slimy nose) for you to get sick.

While most people come down with the normal human flu at some point, it’s not really a danger to anyone but the very young (from 0 month to 7 years old) and the very old (from 60 to 90 years old).  Fortunately, the human immune system is there to recognize and neutralize the effects of the virus.  Each year, the virus mutates just slightly and most of the population is once again susceptible to the disease.  This is why a new vaccine must be created regularly to reflect the most recent influenza mutants out in the environment.

When the human flu virus mutates its external proteins, the body’s defenses still recognize them and eventually mount a response (the period of sickness occurs while the body is developing that response).  If this failed to happen, you would eventually succumb to the virus and you will die.

If a people’s immune system might not immediately stop a new human influenza infection, it does recognize that new mutant and begin building a response.  Avian and swine peplomers, on the other hand, are not easily recognized by the human system because our race did not include pressure from those particular viruses.  The animal influenza has been able to mutate enough to cross the species bridge and infect humans as well as humans we have come into a close contact with the animals (e.g. as a hog racer, we care for them and eventually sold out to the market for more extra income) that carry these viruses.

In the past this would not have been a worldwide epidemic.  An infected village might just die out in isolation (the nearest hospital was more than 10 miles away from the village).  Now it’s different: if a traveler can become infected from a hog race backyard in one region and fly thousands of miles to another, long before they experience symptoms of possible flu.

So what’s the fall away message from all of this? Can we do anything?  Well as individuals it’s wise to go through the same sanitary practices as we might during flu season.  We must be aware if our pigs catch flu during the season so that we put them instantly in a quarantine area that no other individual will take care of your pigs without protective suits.  And traveling to places which have reported Swine Flu cases probably isn’t a great idea.

There are people as you observe in different agencies and they have spent their whole lives preparing for just these kinds of epidemics and they are currently working very hard to provide the public with the best information and advice about the Swine Flu.

They are only there waiting for your attention and willingness to diagnose if you suspected yourself a possible Swine Flu virus.  They are there to help you live longer.

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The 2009 outbreak of swine flu or H1N1 virus is recently hugging the limelight due to the potential harm or effects it can have on a patient or on a community. Unfortunately, the source of the virus still cannot be traced.

Before the first case in the United States was discovered, the illness was believed to have started in Mexico which eventually spread to other countries. Recently, the first case of swine flu was reported in

Costa Rica. Alarmed that it could grow into a worldwide flu epidemic, the World Health Organization of the United Nations and the Center for Disease Control Prevention (CDC) in the United States raised its pandemic alert level to Phase 5, which signifies that a “pandemic is imminent.”

While experts believed that the recent outbreak is not as fatal as previous epidemics, such as the SARS virus, health officials believe that the number of cases could go up as the new flu is expected to make its way throughout the United States.

The new swine influenza strain is apparently a new variant of four strains of influenza A virus subtype H1N1. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, one of the strain is endemic in humans and birds and a couple are endemic in pigs.

However, according to scientists the 2009 H1N1 outbreak is of swine origin which is associated with the virus isolated in North America in 1998. To hasten understanding of the current outbreak as well as in coming up with a vaccine, scientists from Canada have completed the full genetic sequencing of the H1N1 virus.

The new strain of H1N1 has become widespread in Mexico and the United States with confirmed cases in 18 countries and suspected cases in 42 others. Travelers have been warned not to travel to affected countries such as Iceland, Singapore, Thailand, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, to name a few.

In addition, warnings have also been issued warnings to visitors of countries affected by the outbreak. It is advisable for visitors to see the doctor right away if they experience flu-like symptoms.

In Mexico, schools, universities, and all public events were suspended from April 24 to May 6, 2009. In the United States, over 400 schools were closed as of May 3, 2009, which included schools in Texas and about 250,000 confirmed or probable cases.

Dr. Keiji Fukuda, who is the Assistant Director-General for Health Securiy and Environment of the World Health Organization confirmed that efforts to control the outbreak is already too late and should now focus on lessening the effects of the virus. He also clarified that closing borders or limiting travel to infected areas will do little in stopping the spread of the H1N1 virus.

On April 28, 2009, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention suggested that as much as possible, people should avoid non-important travel to Mexico.

According to Dr. Ira Longini, who is an expert in the mathematics and statistics of epidemics, staying at home, seeking medical care, closing public venues, and making anti-flu medicines accessible can help reduce the sickness by almost two-thirds.

Finally, according to Dr. Longini, the focus of efforts is to slow transmission until there is a vaccine that can be developed and made available for controlling swine flu outbreaks.

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