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These injuries can rob their mobility, its independence to them and cause the premature death to them. In the last year, almost 15.000 people of 65 years or passed away more because of falls. But the falls are not an inevitable part of the aging.The elderly adults, and those take care of that them, can take measures to diminish the risk of falls and injuries related to them and thus to protect their independence.These measures are described in two simple pamphlets directed to the public and four posters of the Centers for the Control and the Prevention of Diseases (CDC, by its abbreviations in English).
Prevention of falls Some examples of the forms to prevent the falls in elderly adults are: • To exercise itself regularly. The programs of exercises of low impact that fortify and improve the balance are especially good. • To ask for to its doctor or phamacist who reviews his medecines, as much those of prescription as those of free sale, to reduce to the indirect effect and interactions.• To be made examine the eyes by an oculist at least once a year. • To make its safer homes when eliminating dangers that cause falls and to improve the illumination.
The rate of mortality by falls between the elderly adults has been increased significantly during the last decade. With the increase of the population of people majors in the United States, one hopes that this tendency continues unless efforts are realized to prevent the falls. The strategies described in pamphlets and posters are quite simple, but they can reduce the risk of falls considerably. Of equal way, the strategies of prevention of falls since doing exercise regularly and the revision of medecines also offers benefits for the health generally. The pamphlets and posters of the CDC for the prevention of falls are available as much for organizations as for the population generally free in the page of Internet: www.cdc.gov/ncipc/duip/fallsmaterial.php
Also it is possible to be called free to the 1-800-232-4636 to request them by telephone.
Secrets of the grandmother
Impeccable handkerchiefs
If the handkerchiefs in water soaking are put with salt during two hours before washing them, will be always white like the snow. The very dirty handkerchiefs must be left at least in salt water soaking during a day before washing them. The salt will soften and absorb great part of the dirt.
Bad scents in the microwaves
The variety of foods that are introduced in the furnace of microwaves can cause bad scents. In such case, it is enough with introducing in this electric home appliance a glass with water mixed with the juice of a lemon. Next to start up the microwaves during a minute. The scent will have disappeared.
Scents in the hands
After cleaning fish or manipulating any type of food of intense scent, as garlic, the hands stay impregnated of that strong scent. In order to undo of, a good trick is to rub the hands with salt or vinegar before washing them of the habitual way.
Chalk antihumidity
In the very humid rooms it is very easy that within the closets they even appear spots of mould. In order to diminish the effects of the humidity, it places a few tied barritas of chalk in the bar of the closet. The chalk is an excellent absorbent of the humidity that will free to him of that you inconvenience spots.
Polillas
A resource to eliminate polilla is to mix nail of scent with cinnamon and black pepper. Pon grain of black pepper in the pockets of articles. Another effective solution against polilla is to prepare in a bottle of mouth not very great, that has cover, a mixture of three spoonfuls of eucalyptus oil, little less than a ethylic alcohol cup and the same amount of soap in grudge. It shakes the mixture well. Once made to this it must use it mixture of the following way: when it washes, for example, a blanket to keep it, must add a spoonful to him of this average preparation in four liters and of lukewarm water and put in soaking the blanket, moving so that it is washed. Not it rinsing. It centrifuges and tiéndala soon outdoors.
Visillos yellowish
Over the years, it is very common that the white visillos are being yellowish. To recover its original whiteness very little hill if they are put in soaking in the correct preparation.
Ingredients: 2 liters of water, 3 lemons and a handful of salt.
Preparation: to peel the lemons and to cut them in fine slices. To place the slices of lemon in a container with the water. To dust the preparation with salt.
Application: to leave the visillos in soaking in the solution prepared during 24 hours. Later to wash of the habitual form.
Stainless steel
All super clean one except the sink. Nothing else easy. Frótelo, after mopping it, with soap mixed with average lemon, clarifies with water and dries it.
Another mixture that gives back the brightness to the stainless steel earthenware vessels is the water of the baking of potatoes. Whenever these have cooked whole and with skin.
Gilded, brass
In order to clean to objects of brass, golden marks, separations in the ground underneath the doors, handles, etc., it uses the following mixture: three parts of clear of egg and one of lye. It smears with this mixture the object, lets dry and it rubs with a cloth. If he is very dirty, must previously wash it with mixed soapy water with vinegar, with a smooth sponge not to border.
Advice to clear spots
The spots are inevitable, comprise of the daily one to live, nevertheless almost all the spots can be cleared. Here a brief guide on as to eliminate the annoying spots:
Drink males: She dries the spots of chocolate, tea, coffee, refreshment and other nonalcoholic drinks with a clean rag. She dissolves to 30 grams of Borax or sodium bicarbonate in the middle liter of hot water and washes the parts stained with that water, refregando and rinsing several times.
Resin spots: It soaks La Mancha with olive oil and next frótela well with water and soap, later puts its article in the washing machine.
Spots of maquillaje in the clothes: it submerges the water article with vinegar before washing it as you accustom habitually.
Wine in the table cloth
If the wine in the table cloth has been spilled, throws quickly a handful of salt on La Mancha, soon to wash with water and soap.
Spots of fruit: it washes the article first with water and soap and soon is refriegan with a rag wet in alcohol.
The spots of oil or fat of kitchen are eliminated smoothly refregando the article with bath soap.
Spots of spirits: they take off immediately drying them with a clean rag and, then, refregando them with clean water.
Oxide spots: they take off refregando the clothes with lemon juice. Once dry this one, washes with water and soap.
Oil male to car: La Mancha figure with turpentine spirit so that it is clarified and it washed with hot water.
Oil painting spots: they are refriegan with turpentine spirit and later water and soap are washed with.
Water painting spots: they take off carving the article with cold water.
Spots of I graze: It rubs the affected parts of the article with glycerin and washes later.
Plastilina: very frequent in articles for children, they take off chartting with turpentine spirit and washing with hot water. It remembers that it does not have to use synthetic fabric turpentine spirit.
Red: It sprinkles with spray for the hair the affected part, soon it passes clean and dry a rag and washes. If La Mancha persists, it submerges the milk article and soon it washes in hot water; also it can give good results him of using alcohol. For the chamois, a cotton bathed in white vinegar uses.
Beer: in white cotton, it uses hydrogen peroxide. In fabrics of color, white vinegar.
Strawberries: it rubs lemon and rinsing in cold water. It dries outdoors.
Butter: lukewarm water washing with soap.
Wine spots in the white clothes: it submerges his boiling milk article.
Sauce of tomato: it passes a mixture of half of water and half of white vinegar; rinsing and washes well in lukewarm water.
Rubber to chew: it submerges clear to the white vinegar article or pa him of egg. If no, póngala in a plastic stock market in the refrigerator; the rubber to chew congealed leaves more easily. Another alternative is to pass ice to him and soon to scrape.
Neck of shirts: it passes champú or it grazes of sodium bicarbonate and white vinegar on the stained parts and soon washes.
Spots with oil
On cotton and linen: If one is a recent spot, it will be enough with covering it with dusts with talc and washing it well immediately. If, on the contrary, it has spent time and she is already very dry, the best thing will be to soften it with a impregnated purified gasoline rag, soon it washes well to the article with water and liquid soap.
On wool: Stained the wool moquettes and carpets with oil are cleaned using tricloretileno. The product is applied rubbing, with much force, the zone with a white cloth. If it does not find this substance it by carbonate tetrachloride can replace. Once eliminated La Mancha, it cleans the zone with a special product for the cleaning in dry of carpets.
Oil on soothes: if the article can be washed and it does not require cleaning in dry, it will be enough with putting it to soaking in a container with lukewarm water, liquid soap and a chorrito of ammonia. The amount usually is of a spoonful of ammonia by water book, more or less, later it washes the article again to eliminate ammonia and so that the weave recovers its natural smoothness.
The Latin American crafts are fashionable
The crafts, identity symbol, from culture, memory of the past in Latin America, arrive with force at the modern home, carrying the same essence, but showing new interpretations, forms and colors.
Fique, the cane shoots with an arrow, the palm, the ivory palm, the Coco, have been from always raw material of craftsmen and artists whom being worth of the resources of its surroundings they have designed, sewn and pranced, the different natural fibers to turn them into baskets, trays, plates, containers to collect water, or to adorn themselves and to dress.
The artisan process of elaboration continues being the same that used the old Latin American indigenous cultures, and that they transmitted to his descendants by means of the oral tradition.
But they changed the hands of the craftsmen, who today contribute their reality to the objects that make, incorporating other ornamental materials, colors and drawings chords to the present times.
The contemporary crafts include details in silver and finished of luxury that prints elegance to him. They are small details that heighten the beauty and the work of an old office, an occupation whose aim was to solve the elementary needs of the existence, but always with a sense, becoming the object a manifestation and treads of a whole culture.
The colorful one, the form and the design, were not subject to the whim and the chance. They were representations of the world and surroundings that surrounded to the craftsman.
Natural fibers
The different ethnic groups and Latin American cultures have maintained from times immemorial uses and customs that have created a rich diversity of forms of expression in the weave production and artisan, ceramic embroiderings utilitarian and decorativas, wood statures, jewelry, arts of the fire, and varied workings in alternative materials of particular beauty like seeds, wood, or natural fiber.
The basketwork is part of the artisan work of all the old cultures. The natural fibers like the straw, the palm or fique always have been used to make baskets of diverse sizes and forms. The raw material is submitted to the fauna of each territory and each town has been worth of its possibilities at the time of elaborating its crafts. The dyes used for the dyeing of the fibers are also of natural origin that are processed by means of baking.
Popular crafts
At the moment, several countries of Latin America have rescued old artisan techniques, and impelled the manufacture of beautiful and luxurious decorative objects that have great demand in the international market. This modern crafts have great acceptance and have conquered the most exclusive spaces.
The crafts are valued by the work that entails, its cultural memory, the quality of its raw material, the beauty and I devise that it owns each object. It is common today to find objects artisan where the wood by the silver is replaced, that include in their delicate designs skins, crusts and seeds, and where the color plays a fundamental role. They are seductive and elegant pieces, a culture testimony.
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