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Are you depressed? Must like chocolate

CHICAGO (Reuters) – People who are depressed eat more chocolate than those who are not, U.S. researchers said Monday in a study that provides data on the relationship between the food and mood.

Experts said that people who were depressed on average consumed 8.4 servings of chocolate per month, compared with 5.4 among those who were not.

Meanwhile, people suffering from severe depression, based on the results of a test, ate even more: 11.8 servings per month. A small bar of chocolate or 28 grams was considered a portion . “The depressed mood was significantly associated with increased consumption of chocolate,” wrote Dr. Natalie Rose, University of California, Davis, and University of California, San Diego and his colleagues in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine. Many people believe that chocolate is something uplifting, but few studies have actually confirmed the connection between this food and humor. In addition, most analysts have studied only women. Rose and his colleagues studied the relationship between chocolate and mood among women and 931 men who were not using antidepressants . People in the study reported how most chocolate consumed and also completed a food frequency questionnaire on their overall diet. Your statements mood were assessed using a depression scale used often. The researchers found a strong association between consumption of chocolate and depression. (more…)

They have shown that combines art and health in a new way

The event will take place in the entrance hall of the delegation Rosario provincial health portfolio in Laprida and Rioja, and also participate Health Secretary of the local municipality, Lelio Mangiaterra, the group of designers, “Fashion x Life”; representatives of the various provincial and municipal programs, and community agencies, artists, designers, health equipment, workers and the general public. The venture, which would be realized under a strategy for health promotion, “is defined as the sum of the actions of the population, health services, health authorities and other social and productive sectors, aimed at improving the conditions of individual and collective health,” said Cappiello minister. The artists who participate in the event, which will run throughout the week, said that “constitute a challenge to the aesthetic expresses the central message of the shows you have to do with the construction of health in terms of the collective and interventions that diverge from the traditional concept of disease. ” This promotion strategy” intended to be broad, comprehensive nature, interdisciplinary and cross, “the health portfolio holder, and said that this action goes away from the traditional approaches are based on” disease “and is situated in spaces of everyday interaction between state and civil society. (more…)

Pinera #39, #39 killed, a Chilean poet and Robinson Crusoe quoted as if it had been a flesh and blood

This is the most recent #8220; slip #8221; the president, which begins to appear with increasing frequency in electronic media and social networks as the protagonist of gaffes that make it the butt of jokes. This Friday, inaugurating a literary festival on the occasion of World Book Day, Pinera reported killed Nicanor Parra, the creator of the #8220; antipoetry #8221;, who at 95 years is still alive in coastal town of Las Cruces and who just went on sale this week”s anthol1000ogy #8220; Parranda Larga #8221;. #8220; SOME AND WE LEFT … PARRA AS #8221;
#8220; can find in this show the best of our literature, the best of our creativity, the best of our talent, starting with our Nobel Prize, Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, along with our Cervantes prize as is the case with Gonzalo Rojas and my friend Jorge Edwards is present with us #8221;, Pinera said in his speech. #8220; also some who left us as is the case of Vicente Huidobro, Pablo de Rokha or a large anti-poet, Nicanor Parra as #8221; he added. The night before during a visit to the archipelago Juan Fernandez, Head of State referred to #8220, #8221 Robinson Crusoe, as a man of flesh and bone, called #8220; Island #8221; to this archipelago. #8220; ROBINSON CRUSOE VIVI ACA #8221;
#8220, lived on this island for four long years Robinson Crusoe, whose story not only fascinated the world, but put on the map of the world to this island, in which 800 live in Chile and Chilean #8221;, were the words of Pinera at that time. #8220; This beautiful island of Juan Fernandez was discovered by chance by a sailor named Juan Fernandez, who deviated from the traditional route and came across this wonderful island #8221;, he said. (more…)

Obama warns of migration plans “wrong”

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday warned that without federal immigration reform would open the door for “misguided efforts” as an Arizona decision that raised questions about respect for civil rights. Obama pushed for immigration reform in a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House, in which 24 members of U.S. military forces from China, Mexico, Ethiopia and other countries became citizens Americans. “Today we celebrate the essence of the country we love, an America in which many of our ancestors came from somewhere else,” said Obama, whose father was Kenyan. “So a day like this we should also remember how we remain a country of immigrants and a country under the rule of law,” Bush said. “This includes composing the broken U.S. immigration system,” he said. Just hours after Obama described the Arizona law as a threat that undermines thefdcbasic notions of fairness that we celebrate Americans, “the Republican governor of the State Jan Brewer signed the toughest immigration law in the country. Democratic Congressional leaders are weighing in 2010 trying to promote immigration reform, a hot topic in the United States, where some 10.8 million illegal immigrants living and working in the shadows. (more…)

Hard cross words between Berlusconi and ally of Government

ROME (Reuters) – Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his main coalition partner on Thursday staged a public confrontation, raising tensions that threaten the stability of the conservative Italian government. In a bizarre de1000bate opened between the main posts of training people of Freedom (PDL) from Berlusconi, the rightist leader Gianfranco Fini, the party founder in 2009, raised a pile of criticism of the style and substance of the leadership of Berlusconi. The public confrontation unprecedented in a party congress would affect the cohesion and stability of the Government as the third largest euro zone economy struggles to recover from its worst postwar recession. Fini, a former leader of the conservative National Alliance and now president of the Chamber of Deputies, accused the media tycoon 73 years of stifling internal debate within the party and to give too much power to Northern League. “I hate the camera I helped create,” said Fini, considered a possible successor to Berlusconi. Before a mixture of cheers and boos from the ministers and deputies present, Fini attacked the Government”s hard line against immigration and said he plans to transfer powers to the regions have not been properly thought out or negotiated.

While an angry Berlusconi was interrupted on several occasions without success, Fini said that the success of the recent regional elections were due to the league, while the LDP had lost votes, especially in the industrial north. (more…)