1,000 hands committed to health originally
during the awareness day be sure your kidneys you break the heart ”
– the action takes place on 15 and 16 March in 82 hypermarkets Carrefour de whole Spain
– in booths, cared for by volunteers from ALCER, may be submitted texts into the hands of paper that will be exhibited in a panel
Madrid, March 2012.- the National Federation of associations for the fight against the diseases of the kidney (ALCER) and Carrefour solidarity Foundation organized on 15 and 16 March the day of awareness be sure your kidneys you break the heart ”. Its aim is to disseminate among citizens who attend 82 hypermarkets Carrefour correct care of our kidneys and the close relationship that exists between the kidney and cardiovascular diseases. Although many people think that kidney disease only affects the kidneys, there is an intimate connection between the kidneys and the heart: some diseased kidneys may pose a sick heart.
ALCER volunteers will travel to the centers to develop this action and will be given a booklet which explains in a simple and direct way how to improve health originally, through a proper diet and healthy lifestyle habits.
ALCER and Carrefour solidarity Foundation have been set, in addition, a solidarity challenge during these two days: find over 1,000 supportive hands of persons participating in the day of awareness. Persons wishing may leave a testimony written in the hands of role will be exhibiting in panels.
Also stands in which interested persons may be made with one of the more than 300,000 rings cardiorenales, underpinning the informative campaign will be placed be sure your kidneys you break heart ” and which has been supported by faces known as singer David de MarÃa, the dancer Victor Ullate, or the actors Paco Valladares and Luis Fernandez.
Disease originally
Among other healthy tips, ALCER volunteers inform citizens (from 10 to 14 hours and from 17 to 20 hours) on the need to take care of your diet, controlling blood pressure, tobacco cessation, moderate alcohol consumption, restrict salt intake, physical activity regularly, maintain a weight appropriate – depending on the height and the weight – and regularly visit the specialist.
The kidneys act as a filter and eliminate body waste substances. But what most persons unknown is also the kidneys produce hormones, maintain mineral balance of the blood and the volume of liquids containing our body. When the kidneys stop working correctly occurs chronicled Renal disease, suffering from 6.8 per cent of the Spanish population.
According to data from the Spanish society of Nephrology and the Spanish society of Cardiology, persons suffering from a Chronic Renal disease are between 20 and 30 times more likely to suffer a cardiovascular problem, regardless of other risk factors such as diabetes or hypertension.
For the President of the Federation ALCER, Alejandro Toledo, if you look at how they are located in our body, the kidneys and the heart form in the body a triangle of gold for our health. We must raise awareness of the kidneys affect the heart and the heart to the kidneys. All are interrelated and, therefore, we must guard them all at the same time ”.
The President of the Carrefour solidarity Foundation, Rafael Arias-Salgado, has expressed satisfaction at the fact that hypermarkets can be a point of meeting with health, thanks to an initiative, aims to make responsible citizens of their own health and be active in preventing disease, in this casethe heart and the kidney-related ”.
