Healthy life

Healthy life means to make positive choices which improve your physical, mental and spiritual health. You made these choices when you :

• eat a d' variety; food of nutritional quality as suggested by the Canadian food Guide; # develop a circle of social contacts supporting l' help and the respect;
• emain physically active in order to keep the form, to reduce the stress and to increase your energy;
• abstain from smoking and put a term at the unhealthy lifestyles.

The lifestyle choices healthy are influenced by the medium in which you live, work or study. You to maintain with the current positive practices of health in your environment is d' effective means; to improve your general health and your feeling of wellbeing.

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Santé Canada encourages the Canadians to play a more active part in their health. In this section, you will find l' information to help you to make choices informed on your health in fields like the healthy food, l' physical-activity, pregnancy, mental health and sexual and reproductive health. Information is available to l' intention of precise demographic groups such as the children, the women and the elder ones, and in d' fields; interest specific, including the voyages, the prevention of wounds and consumption and abuse substances.

You can also learn some on the following bond brings you to another Web site Canadian Strategy as regards lifestyles healthy, an initiative carried out by the governments federal, provincial and territorial.

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You seek l' additional information about your health? Consult our Spécialement section for you. These specialized pages contain l' information on relevant questions as regards health. It is indicated to you where the educational cases of Canada Health are, likely to contribute to improve your own practices of life.

A protection against the diabetes

It is clearly recognized that regular and prolonged meetings d' physical-activity of the aerobic type, like the bicycle, the race on foot and swimming, increase the sensitivity to l' insulin on the level of the muscles, a phenomenon which delays l' appearance of the diabetes. New research also shows that l' physical drive stimulates the pancreas, the gland which secretes l' insulin. The first event to occur in the chronology of the development of the diabetes is a resistance of fabrics to l' insulin. “But there must be also failure of the pancreas for qu' the diabetes appears”, underlines Raynald Bergeron of the department of kinesiology of l' University of Montreal. The role of l' insulin is to insert in the cells, in l' occurrence those of the muscles, glucose in circulation which arrives of the digestive system. However in the diabetics, all occurs as if the lock which corresponds to the receivers on the muscular cells did not recognize any more the key qu' is l' insulin. “When l' insulin binds to its receiver, a cascade d' intracellular events will lastly cause the migration of conveyors of glucose towards the membrane of the cell where while acting as a channel they will help glucose to penetrate in the cell”, specifies it. However of the biopsies of muscles clearly showed that l' drive improves at l' human the migration of the conveyors of glucose and supports better an insertion in the cellular membrane. In its laboratory, Raynald Bergeron recently carried out studies which showed in rats which become spontaneously diabetics that “l' physical drive prevents l' appearance of the diabetes thanks to an improvement of secretion d' insulin by the pancreatic cells”. That wants to thus say that “if quelqu'

one becomes resistant to l' insulin, [like that occurs initially in the development of the diabetes], l' physical drive will make its pancreas able to meet its increased requirements out of insulin [because of its resistance to l' insulin]. In our experiment, the trained animals were able to secrete d' more; insulin that the more sedentary animals”, underlines l' endocrinologist Bergeron. It is thus clear that l' physical-activity helps to prevent the diabetes.