Let’s talk about stress.

Stress is a very common subject in our days, because everyone of us have it, some are more stress than others, it depends of the way of living.

Actually we live in a country that is always in a hurry, the people wake up very early in the morning and they arrive to their houses very late in the afternoon. This is because a lot of them have a very long laboral working day or some of them do some extra work, that is exhausting.

So the people do not have enough time for themselves, they are not used to have leisure time and if the have a little time they do not enjoy it very much in family or doing some sports, they prefer to watch TV, clearly that is not a good way of relaxing.

This way of living is not very different for students, because most of them have an exhausting class day. You have so much to do like studing for a test, you have to do a work and a homework all for the same day.
I think that Universities are not considering that students need to do different kind of thing in order to be a complete professional, for example, you need time to read a good book, or to do some sports and do thing that help you to reduce stress.

This is very important because it have influence in how I am going to be as a professional. It is very difficult to change the whole system so we have to start for changing oru way of living, for example spending more of my free time doing those thing that I love like dancing.

Obesity crisis 'cannot be solved by exercise alone'

This post is a summary about an article that I read in the guardian newspaper.

Obesity is an epidemic disease that has increased in the last years.
This article said that in all of the different countries and experts all over the world they recommend to do a lot of exercise for several hours a day in order to loss weight.
This part is very difficult for the people who have this disease because they could prefer to eat less.

Professor John Speakman of the energetic research group at Aberdeen University said that is more effective to reduce the calories that they consume, because if you reduced them in one third this is equivalent to exercising for around five hours a day and that is not possible., it is not real.

In a study that this doctor did, they found that people in the world is not becoming more sedentary this has been the same from about 25 years ago, from the other point or view obesity has risen in the last year as a result of eating more high-calorie food than exercising more not of doing less exercises.

John Speakman said that to recommend exercise is always a good idea because it is beneficial in a lot of aspects of life, for example it protects you against heart disease, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis and high blood pressure. But if you want that your patients lose weight they will have to start with healthy eating and diets.

So if you want good health you have to combine both of them, eating well and do some sports.


Here is the link of the article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/sep/15/obesity-crisis-cannot-solved-exercise

Levonorgestrel as an emergency contraception.

As a woman I fell with the duty of knowing how to take care of myself and how women all around the world use different kind of anticonceptions.
One of this anticonceptions is Levonorgestrel.

Last Thursday Dr. Valenzuela, a very important man in the ICBM, he a very interesting man and very brilliant. He came to our english class because we wanted to tell us how does levonorgestrel work in case of and emergency contraception.
It was an amazing presentation about a controversial medical subject. He told us his thought about abortion and he told us a lot about how did he investigate the subject in which he discovered that levonorgestrel is very usefull in an anticonception way but it is also effective when you use it like in emergency contraception.

I think that is very important, before using this, you have to make an opinion about abortion and when do yo believe that life start.

Actually Chile is living that problem, if the goberment should or should not give the drug for free, because there a lot of different opinions and of course that no one can say wich point of view is the correct one.

Dr Valenzuela told us that if a woman have coitus in her ovulation period and she take levonorgestrel 3 or 5 day after coitus, this drug prevent the implantation of the embryo in the uterus, blooking the pass from the ovario to the uterus, in the investigation the saw that this could increase the probability of having stopic pregnancy, so if you have an emergency contraception this drug is not the better way.

Health as a right!!

Last Tuesday we saw a film about the differents kind of health systems around the world.

It was really interesting because there were a lot thing that I did not know.

For example I am very conscius about the situation here in Chile, with the film I realized that we have the same problem than USA.

There exist a lot of health security companys that seld insurance around that country, in this kind of insurance, people have to pay a monthly instalments in order to accredit that this insurance will cover every kind of desease that thy could have.

It is important to considered that the insurance do not cover all kind of desease and it is very difficult to obtain because when you want to by one, the company investigate all your personal history that had all kind of desease and health problem that you had had in your life.

This system is very bad and unfair, because if you can not pay for that insurence you can not have the right to access to health care in a good hospital, so there are a lot of people that do not have this and they learned how to live with the consecuences.

In the film we saw that Canada and France have a different health system.

All the people have the same opportunity and right to get a good and fast medical attention in any kind of desease, in exchange of paying a high tax.

There exist a different point of view because they think that it is very fair to pay for that people who are sick.

So If we want to change the health care in Chile we have to start changing minds.

My favorite movie

I am a very good fan of movies, so it is very difficult for me to choose only one movie and talk about it.

In this case I am going to talk about a movie called, "The Persiut of hapiness" which is a film inspired in the true story of Chris Gardner.

He was a simple salesman of United States, he sold machines for a few hospitals and that was the way that he aerned money.

Chris has a wife and a five years old son called Christopher. One day he started to have problems with his wife so she decided to go away and left Chris taking care of their son alone.

It was really hard for him to sale the machines so he and his son were avicted from their apartament and has to sleep in homeless shelter or in the bathroom of the metro station.

With this situation he started to look for a job in a Wall Street company and he worked really hard in order to win an important position.

Finally he got the job and became the most important man in this business.

I like this movie because it talks about a real situation that hapenned in a simple man's life. And makes me believe that miracles really exist.

The main actor of this movie is Will Smith with his little son Jaden Smith.

They make a really good representation, and it seems to be the first movie in which they worked together.

So it is....

This is the last blog that I am going to write in this english level. Pre-intermidiate.

I created this blog in order to write about different subjects imposed by the teacher.

And in this course we wrote in our blog every Friday during all the first semester.

I think that having a blog is very useful because you can communicate to your classmates your point or view about different subjects and you can read what they think about different kind of things.

Writing in a blog is a great idea because it is the best way to learn vocabulary and grammar.

But there are some things that I did not like, for example, in one or the first class that we had the teacher asked us what kind of subjects did we wanted to write about and we gave him a very long list. But at the end the subjects that the teacher chose weren't the most entertaining for us, maybe it is a good idea to let the student choose the subject.

Other thing that I did not like was that the teacher never gave us a feedback about our writing, so I did not know what kind of grammar mistakes I am committing so I didn't improve my writing very much. The only option to see your mistakes was asking to the teacher while your were writing in the computer of the university on Friday, but sometimes I didn't have enough time to finish my writing and ask at the same time.

I suggest for the next semester to think in some way to improve this, for example the teacher can post like a comment telling you what to fix in the vocabulary and grammar.

Finally I have to say that I enjoyed writing very much, because I knew more about my classmates and I learned a lot of new words.

When I grow up...

It is very hard to talk about this because all my life I have cuestined myself what kind of things I enjoy doing.

When I was at school I was really good at sports, I spent all my childhood practicing gimnastic, because of this I started to fall in love with human body little by little and all of the subjects related with it.

This career have three principal areas of working: respiratory, neurology and traumathology.
This clasification is very limited because there are a lot of things that you can do as a physical therapist.
My favourite part of all of this is the fundamental rol that physical therapists have in rehab because it is very involve with people´s life and families.

It is hard to define which of this three I am going to choose because I am in second year and I have very little information about them.
But there are some things that I am sure that I want to do, in seven more years I would like to work in a public hospital because I think that they are the perfect place to learn and acquire labour experiences.

After this I pretend to go to study to another country like Spain or France, because this is a real challenge for anyone and it is the better way to learn about different cultures and about myself. I think that it is too soon to decide because there are so much more things to know that can be crucial for my desition.
So do not worry and relax, but always be prepared for the future.