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Indoor air is bad and we breath it for too time

“Indoor air quality” refers to the quality of the air in a home, school, office, or other building environment. Most pollutants affecting indoor air quality come from sources inside buildings, although some originate outdoors. Typical pollutants of concern include combustion products such as carbon monoxide, particulate matter, and environmental tobacco smoke; substances of natural origin such as radon; biological agents such as molds; pesticides; lead; asbestos; ozone (from some air cleaners); and various volatile organic compounds from a variety of products and materials. Indoor concentrations of some pollutants have increased in recent decades due to such factors as energy-efficient building construction and increased use of synthetic building materials, furnishings, personal care products, pesticides, and household cleaners.

The potential impact of indoor air quality on human health nationally is considerable, for several reasons. Americans, on average, spend approximately 90 percent of their time indoors, where the concentrations of some pollutants are often 2 to 5 times higher than typical outdoor concentrations. Moreover, people who are often most susceptible to the adverse effects of pollution (e.g., the very young, older adults, people with cardiovascular or respiratory disease) tend to spend even more time indoors. Health effects that have been associated with indoor air pollutants include irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat; headaches, dizziness, and fatigue; respiratory diseases; heart disease; and cancer.

From: United States Environmental Protection agency

For the politicians sport is not in agenda

To increase  at least of 10% the people who lead a physically active lifestyle should be part of any government project, when we talk about?

Read more on: http://www.huffingtonpost.it/alberto-cei/per-i-politici-lo-sport-n_b_2245751.html?utm_hp_ref=italy

Sport benefits and excesses

Benefits and excesses of sports. Complete the project “ComunicAnimare health “, produced by Humanitas Gavazzeni and focused on healthy lifestyles aimed at younger people and in collaboration with local health authorities, the Provincial Education Office and CSI of Bergamo. Stress and lack of exercise. Two extreme ways and even dangerous of understanding and living physical activity are the main themes of the new cartoons “ComunicAnimare health,” the project by Humanitas Gavazzeni and Studio Bozzetto & Co focuses on healthy lifestyles for young people .

The cartoons – available on YouTube and on the website of Humanitas Gavazzeni were previewed at the conference “For a safe and healthy sport” organized by ASL of Bergamo and held in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Engineering in Dalmine (Bg). ”

(from http://www.humanitasalute.it/sport-e-allenamento/5812-se-ami-lo-sport-non-esagerare)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FxI9ONr_u4&feature=channel&list=UL

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbGR-e29Z4g&feature=channel&list=UL

 

 

 

 

Life style and diet

The srudy of Malik  Falkenmark and his colleagues of the Stockholm International Water Institute shows that food reserves are steadily decreasing, while the global population continues to increase: http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/SWW2012/. We must therefore change, becoming vegetarian because as outlined Umberto Veronesi: “We cannot use half of the cereals, and three quarts of soy products in the world to support the growth of grazing animals while a piece of humanity dies of hunger.” Are in fact 900 million hungry people and 2 billion malnourished ones. In addition, cardiovascular problems, diabetes and obesity already in childhood are determined in large part by this diet, that consists of too much food. It’s clear that in the West we  often are sedentary, overfed and without the social support to change. Therefore, next to the radical change of diet,  we must combine physical activity and positive social relations. Certainly, the genes of which we are provided give us a hand, but a life style based on the satisfaction of these three aspects will allow us to lead a healthy and positive lifestyle as long as possible.

Talking about Olympics

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