Wine & Health. Verónica Cabrera. Maestro Técnico Ciencias Agrarias

Regular moderate wine consumption has been associated with several health benefits. However the risk increases with each drink above moderation!

Drinking more than the recommended guidelines will not provide more benefits, only more harm!
This widely accepted association is represented in the J-curve (J-shaped association between mortality risk and alcohol consumption).

The benefits of moderate wine consumption

Throughout the developed world, cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death and account for up to 50% of all deaths. Consistently, scientific studies are showing that consuming moderate amounts of alcohol reduces mortality from coronary heart disease as well as from other causes by 25-30% in middle-aged individuals, mainly in men aged over 40 years and in post-menopausal women.

Moderate wine drinkers have a lower mortality rate than those who abstain or drink heavily. This widely accepted association is known as the J-curve. The relative risk of dying is lowest among light to moderate drinkers and greater among abstainers. However, the risk increases with each drink above moderation. Thus, while light to moderate drinking glasses can be considered under certain circumstances “good for your health”, drinking more than the guidelines will not provide more benefits, only more harm!

Risks associated with excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages

If consumed in excess, alcoholic beverages increase the exposure to a wide range of risk factors whereby the risk rises with the amount of alcohol consumed. Thus, it is crucial to prevent abusive consumption. Alcohol misuse is associated with a range of long-term chronic diseases that reduce the quality of life. These include hypertension, cardiovascular problems, cirrhosis of the liver, alcohol dependence, various forms of cancer, alcohol-related brain damage and a range of other problems.

However, besides the amount of alcohol, the drinking patterns are also important. Findings from a meta-analysis support results from other studies that binge drinking is detrimental to heart health. The authors concluded that it is best for drinkers to avoid binge drinking -- not only because of the possible heart effects, but also because of more immediate risks, like accidents and violence.

In addition to health issues resulting from the excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages, there are social consequences, both for the drinker and for others in the community. The consequences include harm to family members (including children), to friends and colleagues as well as to bystanders and strangers.

For full details on Wine, Health & Social aspects, visit www.wineinformationcouncil.eu

You should always consult your physician or family doctor for any doubt relating your drinking patterns and health.

Source: http://www.wineinmoderation.eu/en/content/Wine-Health.11/

The Beatles. Leonardo Bonizzi. profesorado Educación Sonora y Musical.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/how-the-beatles-took-america-inside-the-new-issue-of-rolling-stone-20140101

Art KitschAgustina Yaffé (Visual Communication)

Kitsch

Kitsch refers to the low-art artifacts of everyday life. It encompasses lamps in the shape of the Eiffel Tower, paintings of Elvis Presley on velvet, and lurid illustrations on the covers of romance novels. The term comes from the German verb verkitschen (to make cheap). Kitsch is a byproduct of the industrial age’s astonishing capacity for mass production and its creation of disposable income.

The critic Clement Greenberg characterized kitsch as “rear-guard” art—in opposition to avant-garde art. Kitsch, he observed (in “Avant-Garde and Kitsch,” published inPartisan Review in fall 1939), “operates by formulas…it is vicarious experience and faked sensation. It changes according to style, but remains always the same. Kitsch is the epitome of all that is spurious in the life of our time.” He defined kitsch broadly to include jazz, advertising, Hollywood movies, commercial illustration—all of which are generally regarded now as popular culture rather than kitsch. Although Greenberg’s definition of kitsch is overly expansive, his analysis of how it operates remains apt. Today kitsch is most often used to denigrate objects considered to be in bad taste.

Attitudes toward kitsch became more complicated with the advent of Pop art in the early 1960s. What had been dismissed as vulgar was now championed by individuals who were fully aware of the reviled status of the “low-art” objects of their affections. This ironic attitude toward kitsch came to be known as “camp,” following the publication of the essay “Notes on ‘Camp’” by the cultural commentator Susan Sontag in Partisan Review in fall 1964.

Obscuring the distinctions between low and high art was key to the repudiation of modernism and the emergence of postmodernism. Beginning in the late 1970s, kitsch became a favorite subject for such artists as Kenny Scharf, who depicts characters from Saturday-morning cartoons, and Julie Wachtel, who appropriates figures from goofy greeting cards.

Extracts from 'Artspeak' by Robert Atkins (copyright (©) 1990, 1997 by Robert Atkins) reproduced by permission of Abbeville Press, Inc.

From http://moca.org/pc/viewArtTerm.php?id=19 The Museum of Contemporary Art

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Abraham Lincoln. Laura Fagundez Derecho

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln became the United States' 16th President in 1861, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863.

Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it."
Lincoln thought secession illegal, and was willing to use force to defend Federal law and the Union. When Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter and forced its surrender, he called on the states for 75,000 volunteers. Four more slave states joined the Confederacy but four remained within the Union. The Civil War had begun.
The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Lincoln had to struggle for a living and for learning. Five months before receiving his party's nomination for President, he sketched his life:
"I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all."
Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to attain knowledge while working on a farm, splitting rails for fences, and keeping store at New Salem, Illinois. He was a captain in the Black Hawk War, spent eight years in the Illinois legislature, and rode the circuit of courts for many years. His law partner said of him, "His ambition was a little engine that knew no rest."
He married Mary Todd, and they had four boys, only one of whom lived to maturity. In 1858 Lincoln ran against Stephen A. Douglas for Senator. He lost the election, but in debating with Douglas he gained a national reputation that won him the Republican nomination for President in 1860.
As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. Further, he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.
Lincoln never let the world forget that the Civil War involved an even larger issue. This he stated most movingly in dedicating the military cemetery at Gettysburg: "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union military triumphs heralded an end to the war. In his planning for peace, the President was flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily in reunion.
The spirit that guided him was clearly that of his Second Inaugural Address, now inscribed on one wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C.: "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds.... "
On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln's death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died.
The Presidential biographies on WhiteHouse.gov are from “The Presidents of the United States of America,” by Frank Freidel  and Hugh Sidey. Copyright 2006 by the White House Historical Association.
Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/abrahamlincoln

Mathematics

ICME — International Congress on Mathematical Education

A major responsibility of ICMI is to plan for the quadrennial International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME), held under the auspices of ICMI.  This entails, for the ICMI Executive Committee (EC), choosing from among host country bids, appointing an International Programme Committee (IPC) to form the scientific programme and select presenters, and overseeing progress of the congress preparations.  The IPC works independently from the Commission.  However in order to ensure continuity with general ICMI principles, the ICMI EC normally has representatives on the IPC — in particular the President and Secretary-General of the Commission are ex officio members of the IPC —, one of whom is acting as a liaison officer with the Local Organising Committee of the congress.

The practical and financial organisation of an ICME is the independent responsibility of a Local Organising Committee, again under the observation of general ICMI guidelines.  In other words, while it is not ICMI as such which is organizing an ICME, neither in terms of the scientific nor of the practical aspects of the Congress, all ICMEs are held under the Commission's auspices and principles.

Starting with ICME-8, a special ICME Solidarity Fund, built by setting aside some 10% of the total amount collected through the registration fees, has provided grants in order to support and increase participation from less affluent regions of the world to the ICME congresses

Launched in 1969 at the initiative of ICMI President Hans Freudenthal (1905-1990), the ICMEs have been held since then in leap years.

la Comisión Internacional de Instrucción Matemática  (I

Questions

CMIW
1)Who is the president of ICMI ?
2)That major responsibility has ICMI?
3)Those who are given economic support?
4)When they held ICMEs?
5)Who organizes ICME?

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Milk Talk. Denise Pérez, Magisterio

Milk Talk – The role of milk and dairy products in human nutrition

Eight Questions we have answers for

27 May 2015 As part of a balanced diet, milk and dairy products can be an important source of dietary energy, protein and fat. But, the scientific evidence is massing up that regular consumption of large quantities of milk can be bad for your health, and campaigners are making noise about the environmental and international costs of large-scale intensive dairy farming.
We put together a list of questions that might spring to mind and the answers you are looking for
1. What nutrients does milk provide?
Milk makes a significant contribution to meeting the body’s needs for calcium, magnesium, selenium, riboflavin (vitamin B2), vitamin B12 and pantothenic acid (vitamin B5).
2. What quantity of milk and dairy is recommended?
There are no global recommendations for milk or dairy consumption. Many countries have developed national dietary guidelines that are based on local food availability, cost, nutritional status, consumption patterns and food habits. Most countries recommend at least one serving of milk daily, with some countries recommending up to three servings per day. A daily 200 ml glass of whole cow milk, on average, provides a 5-year-old child with 21 percent of protein requirements, 8 percent of calories and key micro-nutrients.
3. Is there a link between milk and dairy and obesity?
The role of milk and dairy products in human health has been increasingly debated in recent years, both in the scientific and in popular science literature. Evidence from observational studies does not support the hypothesis that dairy fat contributes to obesity. However, weight gain results from consuming more calories than one expends, and milk and dairy should only be consumed as part of a healthy, balanced diet.
4. Is raw milk safe to consume?
Raw milk and raw milk products can lead to food-borne illnesses. Given that these products are not pasteurized/ treated, alternative safety controls are required to ensure that they do not pose a public health risk.
5. Why shouldn’t infants (under 1yr. age) drink cow milk?
Cow milk does not contain sufficient iron and folate (i.e. one of the B vitamins that is a key factor in the making of DNA) to meet requirements, and animal milks are not recommended for infants younger than 12 months. Consumption of fresh, unheated cow milk by infants is associated with faecal blood loss and lower iron status. Following the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on breastfeeding, most national policies recommend exclusive breastfeeding up to six months of age.
6. Besides cows, what animals produce milk that is suitable for human consumption?
A range of animal species produce milk that is consumed. The nutrient composition of milk from minor dairy animals i.e. animals other than cows, buffalo, goats and sheep, has to date received little research attention. This is unfortunate as some of the minor animals, such as donkey, reindeer, yak, Bactrian camel, moose, musk ox, llama, alpaca and mithun, are underutilized. In other words, the production of milk from these minor species has the potential to contribute to food security, health and nutrition and income generation.
7. What is the global milk production by species?
Global milk production has been dominated by 5 animal species: dairy cattle, buffalo, goats, sheep, and camels. According to FAO 2013 statistics, 85% of total milk production comes from cows, followed by buffaloes with 11%, goats 2%, sheep 1% and camels 0.4%.
8. Is consuming milk and dairy environmentally sustainable?
Producing, processing and distributing milk and dairy products, like other foods, affects the planet. Dairy production systems are important and complex sources of GHG emissions, notably of methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2).  Globally, the dairy sector accounts for around four percent of all anthropogenic GHG emissions, of which  milk production, processing and  transportation account for 2.7 percent.  Growing and providing food does entail some environmental effects and efforts are ongoing in the dairy sector to reduce the intensity of emissions.
Find out more milk and dairy related facts from our infographic!!!
Sourse: http://www.fao.org/zhc/detail-events/en/c/288359/