lunes, 25 de enero de 2016

TOO MANY FOOTABLL HITS CAN CHANGE THE BRAIN



Scientists discover former football player had developed serious brain damage


Well, I have chosen this article because I’m very into sport and I love being informed about all that means new discoveres or information of my sport, (handball) and others.
This article speaks about the hits in football. A new study has discovered that too many fotball hits can make some changes in the brain. Our brain has tau cells, which move nutrients and other materials from one part of a cell to another. But after head trauma, tau proteins can change. They may form thread-like tangles that jam up the transport system. The problem is this important change in our brain can produce Alzheimer’s, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) which make people more agressive, moody and depressed. Then, the article speaks about a footballer, who started to have a symptoms of CTE, (imnsonia, memory loss, blurred visión, etc) but he is still playing. Then, he started to have hurts and problems, so he quit the game… after some studies, he died with a heart-attack with only 25 years old. Since his death, the study continued until our days.
Now, this discovery shows us that have too many hits in football can make our brain vulnerable to some diseases… and it helps us to know what sports we can do or what sports we can do but having more caution, because the health is the first, and we can’t make sport (synonym of healthy life) a danger for our lives.
 
Published by Luna Cruz Vivas

domingo, 24 de enero de 2016

PICTURE THIS : RARE TIGER BECOMES MOM



I have chosen this article because I think it is an incredible story that shows us that there aren´t any obstacles which stop your lifestyle if you are strong.
This article relates how the first rescue tiger is released back into the wild and then has cubs of her own. This is a really important fact because those cubs mark the beginnings of a recovery and expansion of the last remaining Amur tiger population into habitat lost years ago.
.This investigation it is important because these births mark the return of tigers to habitat that had been lost and also conservation groups are working to further increase the number of these tigers in the wild because it is terrible that wonderful species like this are in extinction.

Published by: Irene Falcón

COOL JOBS: RESEARCHES ON THE RUN




I have chosen this article because it was related to the body and the health. The news is about recent researches in running and doing exercise.

One of the three, articles talked about a man that work in a lab with lizards. He used to train the lizards in a treadmill and found that equal to the humans, they improved when the exercise was harder. The objective of the investigation was to demonstrate that steroids are harmful to the body. The scientific for it, train a lot the lizards and saw that the energy used to train decreased their reproductive and immune systems. This was the notice that I liked more, because I asked me how the scientific make the lizards to train.

The second researcher was about tools for the runner to prevent injury and study the behavior of the body while running. The last one, talked about how trains the astronauts in zero gravity. They get it with the help of sophisticated machines.

These three researches could improved in the future the ways to run and may be the option that people with difficulties to walk, could train with the machines that they are making.

Link to see the news:

https://student.societyforscience.org/article/cool-jobs-researchers-run

Published by: Samuel Medina

martes, 19 de enero de 2016

Heart damage linked to obesity in kids

Of all the issues proposed on the page, I decided to choose Heart damage linked to obesity in kids, because I identify with these children, I was little overweight and had never managed to look good.

Recent studies in children mainly 8 years old, are overweight, which causes the growth of the heart of an unhealthy way, which can cause heart disease. His team used magnetic resonance imaging, to take pictures of 40 kids’ hearts. The children were all between 8 and 18 years old. Half were obese, meaning overweight to an unhealthy degree.

The left ventricle is responsible for pumping oxygen-rich blood to the body. In overweight children this is a difficult and quite dangerous, doctors may try but is something that must be corrected both at home and at school. Only change of mindset and willpower to feel good about yourself.

Overweight is very abundant throughout the world and it has been due to advances in technology and fast foods.
 
Published by Inmaculada Villalbos