En Forme et en Santé

Les recherches "au petit bonheur la chance" sur internet, soulignait l'introduction du guide, n’offrent aucune garantie d’obtenir les informations désirées synthétiques, actualisées et fiables. De même l’information provenant des firmes pharmaceutiques est sous l’influence de leur intérêt économique. " (...) mieux vaut s’appuyer sur des documents rédigés par des équipes au service des soignants et de l’intérêt premier des patients, chargées de faire le travail de synthèse.

1. Petit manuel de Pharmacovigilance

En novembre 2011, la revue indépendante Prescrire a rendu disponible en ligne un Petit manuel de Pharmacovigilance et Pharmacologie clinique rédigé à l'intention des professionnels mais accessible à tous.

Introduction générale : Agir

Partie 1 : Connaître les effets indésirables

Partie 2 : Mettre en balance bénéfices et risques

Partie 3 : Épidémiologie et histoire

Partie 4 : Exploiter les informations

Site du Petit Manuel : http://goo.gl/XAbbF

2. European database of suspected adverses frug reaction reports

L'Agence européenne du médicament (Ema) vient de lancer un site internet d'information sur les effets secondaires des médicaments. Le site est en anglais pour l'instant mais sera disponible dans quelques semaines dans les 22 autres langues officielles de l'Union européenne (UE).

Les données concernant les "effets secondaires suspectés" de 650 médicaments autorisés dans l'Union européenne y sont recensées. D'ici un an, seront ajoutées les informations sur les effets secondaires de médicaments d'usage courant autorisés au niveau national par les pays membres.

Site de l'EMA: http://goo.gl/hRer0

If you sit all day at work, you may want to pay attention to recent research which demonstrates that prolonged sitting at work raises the risk of dying from cardiac and metabolic diseases, as well as the risk of dying from all causes, even if you work out or exercise.

More recent research is focusing on how sedentary behavior–including sitting and lying down– serve as behavioral risk factors for obesity and chronic disease. As employees spend 9 hours a day or longer at work, with fewer than 20% of jobs involving physical exertion at some level, (with many people spending at least 4 hours a day sitting at work), sedentary time at work is high, leading to dangerous circumstances for the many people affected.

The author concludes that those in occupations involving some activity have lower rates for all-cause and cardiovascular or metabolic disease mortality, even when adjusted for demographic, health, and physical activity characteristics outside of work The study further demonstrated that the protective effect of occupational activity appeared to be significant for the groups whose BMIs were in the overweight or obese categories.

The take home points from this study:

1. Reduced sitting at work would benefit overweight or obese people the most because they already have a higher baseline risk for mortality.

2. People would likely benefit from spending more time standing at work.

3. Using a “medicine ball” as opposed to a chair may be beneficial to engage core muscles if you must sit at work.

4. If you do spend a fair amount of time sitting at work, take frequent breaks to stand. Added tone from standing will allow your muscles to expend energy.

What if the key to weight loss had nothing to do with food? What if it actually had more to do with your emotions?

According to several research studies, it often does. And that’s good news because once you learn how to identify and work with your emotions — good and bad ones — you can beat the battle of an expanding waistline.

Understanding our emotions helps us make smarter food choices — even when we’re tired or stressed and see a tempting photo of a hot fudge sundae on the menu.

On the other hand, those with emotional “miscalibration” — a disconnect between the confidence to make choices based on emotions and actual emotional abilities — are more susceptible to impulsive eating, such as ordering that sundae even though they weren’t planning on having one.

In short, people who know their emotional buttons will turn to other healthier alternatives to make themselves feel better. Sometimes that intuitive knowledge is naturally there, but most times we need to teach ourselves how to turn to solutions that actually feel better than food.

To help you do just that, try these seven healthy ways to overcome emotional eating:

Get on Pinterest

Make some hot tea

Take a yoga class

Tap it out

Grab some pistachios

Drink coconut water

Nab some shut-eye

Try meditation

Other helpful tips on overcoming emotional eating include journaling before and after you eat to help assess your hunger level and acknowledge why you ate (were you bored, tired, stressed or truly hungry?). Or keep track with an app: Albers just released her EatingMindfully app on iTunes that you can download to track all of this.

On ne le dira jamais assez : l’activité physique, c’est bon pour la santé. Alors qu’il reste pour beaucoup, synonyme de corvée, le sport est un moyen simple de rester en bonne santé morale et physique. Les efforts à fournir paraissent bien minces, au vu des bienfaits qu’il procure…

...le plaisir

...la longévité

...la ligne

...la condition physique

...moins de maladies graves

...une vie plus facile

Outre leurs notes aromatiques gourmandes, les herbes aromatiques contiennent des principes actifs exerçant une action biologique directe sur l’organisme : antivirales, anti-inflammatoires, anxiolytiques, digestives, etc… Choisissez la vôtre !

Outre leurs notes aromatiques gourmandes, les herbes aromatiques contiennent des principes actifs exerçant une action biologique directe sur l’organisme : antivirales, anti-inflammatoires, anxiolytiques, digestives, etc… Choisissez la vôtre !

1. L'Aneth

2. Le Basilic

3. La Ciboulette

4. L'Estragon

5. Le Laurier

6. La Menthe

7. Le Thym

You no doubt have heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but here some reasons in compelling statistical and infographic format from Massive Health: People who eat breakfast tend to eat 12.3% healthier throughout the day.

Besides that correlation, Massive Health's infographics suggest that picking any type of diet (it doesn't matter which one) can help you eat at least 15.2% healthier, and you're likelier to eat 12.7% healthier when you're at home (no real surprise there). Healthiness is measured by the fit/fat ratio in the Eatery app—a crowdsourced rating of your foods by peers.

Massive Health : http://data.massivehealth.com/#

Fatigues oculaires, maux de têtes, mal de dos, douleurs dans la nuque, rester plus de sept heures devant un ordinateur, pour les besoins de son travail notamment, n'est pas anodin pour notre bien-être, voire notre santé.

Generation-NT propose un dossier donnant des conseils pour une utilisation plus confortable de l'ordinateur en essayant de préserver notre santé au mieux.

Sommaire du dossier :
1 - Des troubles à prendre au sérieux
2 - Protégez votre dos, vos poignets
3 - Protégez vos yeux
4 - Conclusion

Les mythes sur la nutrition sont comme les restaurants d’alimentation rapide : on en retrouve partout, ils sont difficiles à éviter et ils peuvent faire dérailler vos meilleures intentions de manger sainement et de façon équilibrée. Afin de souligner le Mois de la nutrition des Diététistes du Canada, oublions l’alimentation minute pour nous pencher sur quelques croyances bien ancrées.

MYTHE : Une alimentation faible en glucides est idéale pour perdre du poids.

MYTHE : Si un aliment est sans gras, il est donc sain.

MYTHE : Seules les personnes hypertendues devraient consommer moins de sodium.

MYTHE : Le moyen le plus facile de couper le sel consiste à cesser d’utiliser la salière.

MYTHE : Cuisiner des repas maison prend beaucoup trop de temps.

Lire les faits : http://goo.gl/N0iIR

Vous souhaitez être plus actif?

Voici des ressources, des conseils et des comptes rendus d’études qui devraient vous aider à faire les bons choix en matière d’activité physique : http://goo.gl/13MKR

Consulter ce grand dossier sur la forme physique en trois volets : http://goo.gl/Zie1M

In the industrialized world, a conflict between two opposing forces — biology and the alarm clock — is helping to make people fat, new research suggests.

A discrepancy between the natural timing of sleep and work or school schedules leads to sleep deprivation, since people forced into schedules unnatural to them don't get enough sleep. And survey data indicates people with larger discrepancies are more likely to carry extra weight, according to the researchers.

There is a well-established link between sleep and metabolism. Previous studies have linked shorter sleep to obesity, and some have even linked longer sleep to obesity, although this link is less well established, said Jamie Zeitzer, an assistant professor at Stanford University who studies circadian rhythms and sleep. Zeitzer was not involved with the current study.

Different people need different amounts of sleep; this is a separate phenomenon from discrepancy in sleep timing, or as Roenneberg calls it, social jetlag. He and colleagues measured the timing discrepancy by looking at changes in the timing of the midpoint of a person's night sleep between work and free days. [Infographic: Are You Getting Enough Sleep?]

Roenneberg and his colleagues drew on survey data from more than 65,000 people, primarily in central Europe, on their waking and sleep behavior during work and free days. The results were published online May 10 in the journal Current Biology.

Their analysis indicated that for each hour of sleep discrepancy someone experienced, they were 33 percent more likely to have a high body mass index (BMI, or an indicator of body fatness), Roenneberg said. (Someone with a BMI of 25 is considered overweight, greater than 30 is considered obese.)

The value of mental-training games may be speculative, as Dan Hurley writes in his article on the quest to make ourselves smarter, but there is another, easy-to-achieve, scientifically proven way to make yourself smarter. Go for a walk or a swim.

For more than a decade, neuroscientists and physiologists have been gathering evidence of the beneficial relationship between exercise and brainpower. But the newest findings make it clear that this isn’t just a relationship; it is the relationship.

NY Times Magazine