World Aids Day

Unfortunately, it is important to remind people that AIDS is still an illness that we can get if we are not careful.  UN has set a day to focus on the illness and promote the knowledge about its symtoms, prevention, diagnosis and treament; it is on 1st December (last Saturday).

Even though we may not know anyone with this illness, it is important to remember that it exists. If you want to have a closer look at it in class with students or students alone at home or with their parents, there is a good website on the subject, it is called E-School Today.

There are also pages that treat this issue in depth:

• AIDS.gov (depending on the USA government)
• World  AIDS Day 

Have you done something at school this year related with this day?

BEAUTY FEVER

Gema Herrerías from A5Farmacia.

Today I had a great day, a fantastic day!! I have to say thank you to Irene Romero from Mi Universo de Belleza because she has organised a fantastic meeting for Beauty Bloggers  called Beauty Fever in its second edition this year. I had an appointment with three friends to spend the day attending to talks related to beauty and visiting stands of different dermopharmaceutical companies.

In the photo, you can see my friend Gema giving a talk on the combination of social media and beauty; Gema is a great expert on social media, she has a great, very informative blog (linked above) and has her own chemist here in Sevilla. You should read her blog because it shows you how important it is to look after our skin.

We did  not have the time to visit all the stands, but we did go to those of Apivita, they work with natural ingredients mainly taken from what the bees produce, great scents!!; Bioderma, in which they explained their best product called Matricium to us; the Carebell one, with fantastic eyebrow make-up and the fantastic Caudalie one with its marvellous frangance which they take from grapes and wine.

In the afternoon, we attended a talk on the concept of beauty, about how it is imposed on us or what is it that makes us feel beautiful and sense beauty around us, really interesting!! After that, we were offered some water and a flat cake with orange and chocolate flavour by Chocolate y limón.

What do you think of my Saturday?

Tell me about your Saturday in the comments!!

Eating disorders

(taken by Ana Gª)

We have started a unit related with eating disorders; in this unit, we are going to be dealing with anorexia and bulimia from a positive point of view, that is, we are going to keep in mind not only waht we should do to avoid these problems, but also to help people who may be suffering them.

These illnesses are related to self-image and self-esteem; they are relatively new illnesses and, even though they were only women patients at the beginning, more and more men are becoming ill of anorexia and bulimia.

Here is some information in English and in Spanish about how to have a healthy relationship with food and with our body. If you want to live well, you have to take care of your body, it's the only one we've got!!!

I hope this can help someone who needs it. If you want to, you can send a comment.