Month: April 2012

London, 2 APR ( EFE).- the past March was the month more warm in the United Kingdom since 1957 and the driest recorded in the country since 1953, said today the British Meteorological Office. A spokesman for the Met Office (weather service) told Efe that it registered a total of 135.3 hours of sunshine during the past month until March 28, which was 40 percent more than experts had anticipated for the period. In addition, during March just rained a 38 per cent of the average for this time of the year, according to these data. The highest temperatures recorded were 23.6 degrees centigrade in the Scottish town of Aboyne, in the County of Aberdeenshire, on 27 March, representing a new record in Scotland during that month. High temperatures reached in the country have motivated that various points in southern England and London may suffer water restrictions until at least next October, due to low levels of rain recorded in the last six months. Because of the severity of the drought currently affecting most of the country, experts believe that rainwater which can fall during the months of spring and summer will not be enough to be able to lift the ban on the use of hoses. Water restrictions were announced last night by water companies and shall enter into force on Thursday. Drought has been caused by low...

is essential for that guys lower weight the example of his family. When the you parents manage to control their overweight or obesity is much more likely that the children will follow the same line. ″Los parents are the most important people for a boy, being the first and most fundamental teachers. They have a key role in any program for weight loss of children, our study confirms the importance of his example in the establishment of healthy behaviors of food and activity física″, says Kerri Boutelle, psychiatrist at the University of California, San Diego (United States), who led the new research. Obesity, an epidemic at the global level, affects both adults and children. According to the World Health Organization, in 2010 there were around 43 million children under five suffering from overweight. The example to follow specialists, who published their findings in the journal Obesity, worked for five months with kids from 8 to 12 years suffering from overweight or obesity. Boutelle analyzed as three different factors influencing the chances of children to lose weight. These factors were the example of parents to lose weight themselves, changes in food in the House, and the way of raising children, and encourage them to follow a program to lose weight. And research found that the example was the most important thing, that the popes who managed to lose their extra...

BILBAO, Spain (Reuters) – sleep contributes to fix in the brain the knowledge acquired during the day and serves for improve skills language, according to reveals a new study. These are the conclusions of the work of the Belgian researcher Nicolas Dumay, the Centre of Basque on cognition, brain and Language (BCBL for its acronym in English) of San Sebastián, in Spain. Dumay research was looking for entering in the functions that develops the brain while sleep, one question on which science has not even a response complete. Its experiments, according to the author, show that during sleep the brain check words learned during the day, and the sets in the linguistic memory. The BCBL scientist used the word learning new to prove his hypothesis on brain activity during sleep, says a press release from the Basque Centre international research. According Dumay, who developed the experiment with vocabulary in English, “the words fighting among them for access to the “” memory in our brain”, and this experiment demonstrates that “only after sleeping words newly learned achieved the “” Word assimilated status”. “Somehow, sleep makes real the words,” adds. Dumay, published in the journal research scientific Cognition, specializing in the study of the brain, has been tested during the hours of sleep the brain check out the words learned during the day, improves skills language and sets the learned words....

MADRID, 02 (EUROPA PRESS) The Ministry of health of the Madrid has a monitoring system and information system of atmospheric pollen which includes sending free SMS to a mobile phone in the case of high pollen concentrations in the region, as reported Monday the Counselor of the bouquet, Javier Fernández-Lasquetty. To subscribe to the reception of information by SMS from the mobile phone is must remit a text message with the subject ALTAPOLEN to the 217035 phone. The SMS alert sent when expected high levels of pollen of Cupressaceae, banana, or olive, as average levels of grass. Advisor explained that this week is activated at full capacity this surveillance system to “provide systematic information on the concentration of pollen to those affected, to people suffering from allergies, as professionals involved in their care”. And is, in particular, these days flowering banana ride, more present in the cities tree and it generates a broadcast short pollen (two weeks) but of great intensity. However, there are other three types of pollen as the cypress (arizónicas), which are more common in winter; the grasses and the olive tree (present in Morata de Tajuña, Aranjuez or Arganda) are also very frequent. Lasquetty has explained that from January until June the counseling works in the dissemination of information daily through bulletins of prediction of pollen levels to 72 hours of these four types of...

Barcelona, 2 APR (EFE).-five of the wounded in Barcelona during the day of general strike of 29 March continue admitted, among them the man who received the impact in an eye of a ball of rubber launched by the Mossos d ' police, hospital sources reported. This wounded is entered in the Hospital de Sant Pau and its evolution is favourable, as reported sources of this health centre, who have excelled not expected that the patient loses the eye, although not yet determined the degree of vision can be affected as a result of the impact of the rubber ball. In the next 24 or 48 hours will know real involvement on the basis of the evolution of the wound and the damage on the optic nerve, have targeted the sources. During the afternoon and evening of Thursday, in which there were serious riots in Barcelona coinciding with the day of general strike, the Hospital de Sant Pau attended half a dozen people more by mild bruising settled in emergencies without hospital admission. System of medical emergencies (SEM) met on Thursday to 80 injured, half of which were autonomous and one of them urban guard. Two men 22 and 34 years were taken in serious condition to sea Hospital and operated on rupture of spleen continue today stable with prognosis reserved, reported EfE sources of the health centre. In...