Chile’s bicentennial year, the year most tragic of Chile

Chile is a young country situated in the south of the word: in South America. The born of the Chile was the 18th September of 1810. Is for this reason that this year has been very special to Chile, this year my country celebrate its two hundred years.
During these two hundred years Chile has lived a lot of event, for example the female vote, the earthquake stronger of the word the “Valdivia earthquake” on 1960, when the papa Juan Pablo II visited Chile. But during this years Chile has lived much event stronger.


All the people wants that this years will be the best years, a year of party with much celebration, but, this year has been a lot of tragic for Chile and Chilean.
This year began with the earthquake and tsunami of the 26th of February, in this event much people died, and a lot of people loosed their houses, and actually they don’t recover their houses even.

Other event very important during this year was when thirty three miners were trapped on the “San José mine”. They were much time in the mine. Their families made a camp on the surface for are near of their husband, fathers, sons, etc. This camp was called “Esperanza Camp”, because those people (the families) have the hope of found to husband, fathers, brother, sons. But this story had a happy end because all the miners were rescued and now are with their families.

And the last tragic event of the bicentenary of Chile was the accident of Tour bus on the sun motorway. In this tragic accident died twenty persons. The people said that this was the accident most serious of the last twenty years. The authorities don’t know why this tragedy happened even.

I tell you about this event because during the Chile’s bicentenary the country has lived a lot of bad experiences. Everyone wants celebrate this year, the bicentenary of our country, with much happiness, making parties. Well this year has been filling of tragic events, but the Chilean people follow forward, the Chilean people have much power to continue with their lives, they have a lot of experience when they must help to needy people. Many bad things has happened this year, but we will learn of these event for be a country better.

The things that I can´t stand of the University of Chile

First of all, I always dreamed with study in the University of Chile, and honestly I´m a proud student of this great “Alma Matter”. However, with the experience in my two years here, I noted the weakness in this big university. I don’t want to talk about the economic issue because is a great topic and a delicate trouble, my interest is in some myths. As a University we don’t know about the troubles in our faculties and institutes, we live in our own island or fief, and is a reality that we only comes to study at university. There are a few part of the student here interested in the troubles in other places in the university and I wonder: why are fellows as the students of INAP “Institute of Public Affairs” from the University of Chile studying in other dependencies? Why faculties those like the Faculty of Business and Economy or the Faculty of Engineering have a lot of incomes to makes monumental building versus other faculties like the Faculty of Social Science or the Faculty of Arts don’t have money to development their plans in the short or long term? Or why exist in this university the careers of first category, the second categories and third category? It suppose that we study in the same university, but the sad true is that we are different, we are only interested in our careers and pass the exams, but in the other side we don´t think seriously in the university that we want. I dream with a different University, I dream with a University of Chile that think in the future and don´t live in the past.

Myths and trues about the BrAiN

Hello everyone! This week I’m going to talk about a lecture very interesting made by Dr. Pedro Maldonado, teacher of physiology of the Faculty of Medicine of University of Chile. He spoke about the myths and trues about the brain.
The first myth which he said was “the human brain is different to the other animals” this is false, because the human brain have the same structures that the animal brain (we are animals too), the only difference is that the human cerebral cortex is longer and have more neurons, for this reason the human brain have more furrow.
Other myth is “for each activity we use a part of the brain”, it’s wrong, because in the brain activate a lot of parts, in fact, when we don´t make anything, the brain have activity too.
Many people believe that the “brain is like the computer”, this is wrong too, because the computer can make one thing every time and the memory is store in one part, on the other hand, the brain is more complicated, it can make much thing at the same time and the memory is store in a lot of parts.
Other myth that he said is “we use the 10% of the capacity of our brain”, this is false, because we use all the capacity of our brain. Our brain is plastic, in other words, it can change, for this reason while more we use our brain this have more connections.
And the last myth that he said us was “the brain reproduced the world faithfully” it’s false too, because the brain builds its own world, for that reason we have different point of view and we interpret the thing of different way.
Know this thing is very important because we are controlled for our brain, the organ more complex of our body, and this explains why we can make a lot of things, and why we are and think so different. Know these topics help us to understand that our patients will are very different: a pregnant will think and will feel the pain different that other pregnant, so we should treat them of form personalized.

eat less meat could save a lot of lives in the world

Hello everyone, today I am going to talk about news very interesting about the meat, this news appear in “The guardian” newspaper.
This news is about a research made for the British Heart Foundation health promotion research group at Oxford University, this shows that if we eat less meat could save 45,361 lives a year. This because the meat contains a lot of fat, saturated fat and salt. The meat is very bad for our health.
If the people will follow eats a lot of meat 20,509 people will die by 2050. These days there are 228,000 deaths a year for three causes: heart disease, strokes or diet related cancers, such as bowel cancer. According to this research if the people cutting meat consumption meat two or three time at week, 210 g. approximately, would reduce 31,000 peoples dying early from heart disease, 9,000 from cancer and 5,000 from strokes, this are dates very alarming.
The proposal of the expert is the people shouldn't stop eating meat but they should eat less meat, overcoat processed meat such as bacon, ham and salami and eat more fruit and vegetables.

Rachel Thompson, deputy head of science at the World Cancer Research Fund, said that the dates given for this research are agree with his our research, this said that eat a lot of meat, specially processed meat, increasing the risk of developing bowel cancer, the third most common cancer in the United Kingdom.

But the producers of meat criticised this research, they said that the result of the research of Oxford University are very simplistic, because changing one element of the diet can’t have that dramatic result furthermore the majority of people eat lees meat of the recommendation for the specialist.

I recommend you read this news. You can access to this article making click in the following link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/oct/19/eat-less-meat-research.

stress

Hello everyone. Today I’m going to talk about of stress.


The stress is the form like the body response to an extreme circumstance, for example run when a dog want bite you. This is a physiological response because let defend us of the danger, but when this stress interferes in you live, it can be a big problem. Can be a lot of the causes of the stress, for example: harmful stimulus of environment, situation of threat, frustration. Symptoms of stress are anxiety, insomnia, depression, fear, etc.

And some consequences of stress can be have a difficult relationship with other people, you can be irritable.

According to a study of the Adolfo Ibañez University, In Chile one of four people have some grade of stress, and the 27% of the people have bring to a standstill. These dates show us that the stress in Chile is very high and it is in increase. In this study the people said some factor that have influenced in the stress are thing like: high cost of the live, the children education, debt, etc.

For example: Santiago is a city with a lot of people, cars, traffics, pollution, and the people, that live hear, are a life very stressful, with much movement: the job, the children, the school, etc. these are thing that the people think when they are under stress.

There is evidence about the make exercise or have a hobby like paint, sing, etc. help to deal with the stress, learn technical of relaxation, make yoga, pilates too. But if the stress is more serious you can go to the psychologist.

Postovulatory effects of levonorgestel in Emergency Contraception

Hello everyone! This week I am going to talk about a presentation about a research article “Postovulatory effects of levonorgestel in Emergency Contraception” written by Dr. Carlos Valenzuela of University of Chile. The presentation was very interesting and furthermore this has very relation with the midwifery. This was about if the levonorgetrel have or haven’t effects postovulatory and if this is abortive or not abortive. With this presentation I understood better the research paper. Well, first: the levonorgestrel is the principal constituent of the anticonceptive pills, for example postinor 2. This is used for the women after coitus for prevent pregnancies. The Dr. Valenzuela explained us the difference between Contraceptive and anticontraceptive because the majority of people think that both are synonymous: contraceptive is against the conception and antoconceptive is when there isn’t fertilization. Then the levonorgestrel is anticonceptive, because when the woman take the pill before of coitus, this inhibit the ovulation, and according to the Dr. Valenzuela, the levonorgetrel have effect postovulatory and furthermore the levonorgestrel (in case of have happened the fertilization) increase the risk of have a ectopic pregnancy because this catch the cigoto in the oviductus, implanting on it, overcoat if the woman take two pills, then the lenonorgestrel is contraceptive too. An ectopic pregnancy is an abnormal pregnancy where the embryo grow outside the uterus, in this case, this grow on the oviductus. This pregnancy is very dangerous because the mother is in high risk.

Still there isn’t agreement about the beginning of life, some believe the life begin in the fertilization, other think the life begin in the implantation, then, if levonorgetrel is abortive or not abortive depend of religion or ideology of each person. The Dr. Valenzuela think the live begin in the fertilization, then, according to him, the levonorgetrel can be abortive.

“Chile’s Fiestas Patrias”

Hello everyone! In this week i am going to talk about “Chile’s Fiestas Patrias”. This consists in the celebration of Chile´s Independence Day; that day was the 18th of September of 1810. Although is one day, the celebration is during all month of September, for that reason, this month is called “Month of the Nation” (mes de la patria). During this month, every houses have the chilean flag on its window and the colors of the flag (red, blue and white) are in everywhere, like in the Malls, schools, houses, streets, supermarket, etc. And the people make different typical activities, for example: the children climb kits and play spinning top, and the shopkeeper build temporary refreshment stands or fondas that offer typical food like pies (empanadas), kebabs, barbecued meat and chicha. Also, the people dance the typical dancing: the cueca, overcoat the children at schools. This is a dancing very fun, where the man and the woman imitate to the rooster and the hen. And a lot of people dress of huaso and huasa. But this year is special, because is the Chile´s bicentenary. Is for that reason that the government decreed the 17th and 20th of September holiday, for that the people enjoyed more time because the people are very delighted with this celebration. I like this celebration because is very fun, the people are very happy and I eat delicious food very much, but overcoat because the university give me one week of holidays. This year, a French company going to present a lights show on the Moneda Palace for celebrate the Chilean bicentenary, I would like go because this show will be very fun.