101 Razões para Tomar Café

From: Darcy Lima

chega às livrarias "101 Razões para Tomar Café"

Um estudo definitivo sobre a bebida: saúde, história, sabor e cultura

Em abril, chega às livrarias de todo o País o resultado de anos de pesquisa do médico Darcy Roberto Lima. Direcionado aos apaixonados por café, o autor transformou seus estudos em conteúdo leve e inédito sobre a bebida e publica, pela Café Editora, o livro 101 Razões para Tomar Café.

Com textos bem-humorados e informativos, a obra apresenta 101 motivos para quem não deixa este hábito de lado nem por um dia. As razões passam por quatro temas: sabor, história, saúde e cultura. Nelas, Darcy conta a cultura do beber café e a presença dele no dia a dia, a história do grão em diversos países, o sabor por ele proporcionado e ainda faz comparações com outras bebidas; por fim, destaca mais de metade das razões, e ainda mais intrigantes, sobre os benefícios do café para a saúde. Dentre eles que pode prevenir câncer, obesidade e proteger contra a gripe e ainda que é bom para o coração, para a pele e diabetes.

A coisa mais comum que todo homem gosta de fazer desde que acorda é tomar café, um ritual que repete a vida toda. E para se ter excelente qualidade de vida basta tomar café regularmente, escreve o autor logo nas primeiras páginas. E sendo o Brasil um dos maiores países produtores do grão e contabilizando tantos amantes da bebida, não poderíamos deixar de encontrar 101 razões para mostrar por que somos tão apaixonados por ele.

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Is Time Real?

Is Time Real?

Written by Steve Nerlich

Time is an illusion caused by the passage of history (Douglas Adams 1952-2001).

The way that we deal with time is central to a major current schism in physics. Under classicNewtonian physics and also quantum mechanics – time is absolute, a universal metronome allowing you determine whether events occur simultaneously or in sequence. Under Einstein's physics, time is not absolute – simultaneity and sequence depend on who's looking. For Einstein, the speed of light (in a vacuum) is constant and time changes in whatever way is required to keep the speed of light constant from all frames of reference.

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Nocturia Improves with Antidiuretic

By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage TodayPublished: June 07, 2010 Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner SAN FRANCISCO -- Nocturnal polyuria and its associated adverse effects declined quickly and significantly during treatment with a quick-dissolving oral formulation of desmopressin, investigators in a multicenter clinical trial reported here. The frequency of nocturnal voiding declined by as much as 50%, and the voided volume of nocturnal urine decreased by as much as 40%. The initial period of uninterrupted sleep doubled or tripled across the range of desmopressin doses, as compared with placebo.

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June 8, 2010 by RR

Yet most commentary can’t get beyond the individual (random [medical] gobbledeegook) aspect. Why don’t we try something completely different and give it a try.
As critical as this article (Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price) suggests the implications may be from multitasking, especially using multiple electronic devices and applications, it still emphasizes the individual effect.
The social and societal effects are utterly ignored.
The social determinants of health identifies the critical role of inequalities that exist across societies in determining population health states. It matters less how wealthy a nation, region, or state is than how that wealth is distributed between the people of that area./.../

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Rio de Janeiro, 07/06/2010Países definem 'governo digital' como meta
Em evento no Brasil, representantes de 26 nações defendem sistema eletrônico aberto para facilitar elo entre poder público e sociedade civil

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Investir em sistemas de comunicação abertos para garantir uma maior interação on-line entre as esferas governamentais e a sociedade civil, facilitando serviços e informações oficiais à população por meio da internet. Esse foi um dos desafios assumidos por representantes de 26 países na declaração final do Encontro Global de Interoperabilidade entre Governos 2010, no Rio de Janeiro./.../

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YOUR BRAIN ON COMPUTERS

YOUR BRAIN ON COMPUTERS

Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price

Brenda and Kord Campbell, with iPads, at breakfast. More Photos »

By MATT RICHTEL

Published: June 6, 2010

Not just for a day or two, but 12 days. He finally saw it while sifting through old messages: a big company wanted to buy his Internet start-up.

“I stood up from my desk and said, ‘Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God,’ ” Mr. Campbell said. “It’s kind of hard to miss an e-mail like that, but I did.”

The message had slipped by him amid an electronic flood: two computer screens alive with e-mail, instant messages, online chats, a Web browser and the computer code he was writing. (View an interactive panorama of Mr. Campbell's workstation.)/.../

Gout Drug Effective for Angina

Gout Drug, Allopurinol, Effective for Angina

By Peggy Peck, Executive Editor, MedPage TodayPublished: June 07, 2010 Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston. An old, cheap gout drug may be an effective treatment option for patients with chronic stable angina, according to results of a small placebo-controlled study. Exercise tolerance tests revealed that patients randomized to high dose allopurinol for six weeks significantly improved time to ST depression (P=0.002), total exercise time (P=0.003), and time to chest pain (P=0.001) compared with placebo, Awsan Noman, MB, of the University of Dundee in Scotland reported online in The Lancet./.../

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New statement urges caution for primary-prevention aspirin in diabetics

JUNE 3, 2010 | Michael O'Riordan

Chapel Hill, NC - A new scientific statement on the use of aspirin for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in patients with diabetes recommends that low-dose aspirin is "reasonable" in those with no history of vascular disease but who are at an increased 10-year risk of cardiovascular events [1].

The new recommendations, from a joint statement of the American Diabetes Association (ADA), theAmerican Heart Association (AHA), and the American College of Cardiology (ACC), essentially call for tighter criteria for aspirin use in the diabetic population. The organizations state that only men older than 50 and women older than 60 who have one or more additional major risk factors should be treated with aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular events./.../

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FAMÍLIA CECCHELLA/CECHELLA

Dra. Marília Cechella, esposa de um primo (Dr. Claudio), apresenta uma página sobre a família de minha mãe.

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"Feliz aquele que se recorda com prazer dos seus antepassados, que conversa com estranhos sobre eles, suas ações e sua grandeza e que sente uma satisfação secreta por se ver como o último elo de uma bela corrente".

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749~1832) - Texto em "Le pays natal", de Henri Bordeaux (1870~1963).

"Então atentei em que nada passa de todo sobre a terra. O homem reproduz os pais, como também se revê nos filhos. Nada somos individualmente, mas sobrevivemos prolongados um pouco nos outros, perpetuação da vida através da morte, na infindável cadeia dos tempos".

Antônio de Almeida Prado, médico paulista (1889-1965).

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Nas páginas deste sítio, apresenta-se a descendência de LUIGI CECCHELLA, imigrante originário do nordeste da Itália, que aportou no Rio Grande do Sul-Brasil em 1880, junto com outros imigrantes italianos. 

World Cup 2010

What's Wrong with the World Cup Ball?

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Adidas pays big bucks to be an official World Cup sponsor, which gives it the right to make the official match ball for this year's event — and the chance to sell a zillion of them worldwide. This World Cup ball is called Jabulani, which means "to celebrate" in the Bantu language of Zulu, one of the official languages of South Africa, but some players are hardly cheering. The level of complaining about the new ball is so loud that perhaps Adidas should rename the thing. What's the Zulu word for gripe?/.../

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The 1918 influenza and 20th century CHD

Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Cambridge University Press

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doi:10.1017/S2040174410000292

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Maria Ines Azambujaa1 c1 a1 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rua Ramiro Barcelos 2600 4/420, Porto Alegre, RS. Brazil

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Dear Editor,

As a medical doctor studying, since 1990, the role of influenza as a determinant of the 20th century rise in CHD mortality, I welcome the publication in this journal of other papers also suggesting an association between the 1918 influenza pandemic and CVD occurrence.¹

While our target birth cohorts and methodology were different, the underlining idea behind our studies was the same: that influenza priming would have a role in the differential birth cohort distribution of CHD and CVD events later in life./.../

Katrina Survivors May Have Cardiac Risks

By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today. Published: May 27, 2010 Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner

NEW ORLEANS -- Poor mental health may result in physical problems for relocated survivors of Hurricane Katrina, researchers reported here.

A group of survivors who relocated to Oklahoma not only had more mental health problems but had higher resting heart rates and worse heart rate variability -- risk factors for heart disease -- than matched controls, according to Phebe Tucker, MD, of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in Oklahoma City, Okla., who has researched similar issues in survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing./.../

110th anniversary of the birth of Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor's birth celebrated by Google doodle

The Google doodle has marked the 110th anniversary of the birth of Dennis Gabor, the Nobel Prize winner who invented holography.

 

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The Hungarian-born electrical engineer won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1971 for the invention - a system of lensless, three-dimensional photography that has many applications.

He moved from Hungary to Germany as a young man and from 1927 was a research engineer for the firm of Siemens and Halske in Berlin./.../

No Dia Mundial do Ambiente a Saúde Ambiental pode fazer a diferença!

Escrito por Manteigas em Friday, June 4th 2010   

Quando a preservação do Ambiente é uma prioridade, a Saúde Ambiental pode fazer a diferença.

Esta é, pelo menos, a convicção dos estudantes de Saúde Ambiental da Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa que, a propósito da comemoração do Dia Mundial do Ambiente (5 de Junho), decidiram divulgar esta ideia pelas inúmeras redes sociais por onde se fazem representar.

O slogan do Dia Mundial do Ambiente 2010 “Muitas Espécies. Um Planeta. Um Futuro” deu o mote para esta iniciativa, à qual não ficamos indiferentes porque na verdade acreditamos que podemos mesmo fazer a diferença.

Desafiamos todos aqueles que têm a Saúde Ambiental como “modo de vida” a juntarem-se a nós e a divulgarem também esta ideia.

Core Competencies Adopted to Help Strengthen the Public Health Workforce

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)

Council on Linkages between Academia and Public Health Practiceunanimously adopted a new set of Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals. 

Available online at: http://bit.ly/bmIjUF

These competencies can be used by you and your organization to help guide public health workforce development efforts that are vital for achieving high-performing public health organizations to protect and promote the public’s health./.../

Health Inequalities Intervention Toolkit

 

Welcome to the Health Inequalities Intervention Toolkit

Policy Context for the Toolkit

To support Primary Care Trusts and local authorities, the Association of Public Health Observatories and Department of Health have developed the Health Inequalities Intervention Toolkit. This is designed to assist evidence-based local service planning and commissioning, including Joint Strategic Needs Assessments./.../