Eat yourself happy? Mediterranean diet link to less depression

This new talk about one research who said that people that eat a Mediterranean diet have fewer possibilities to get depresses. They based on some evidences: the Mediterranean counties have lower rates of depression and suicide than other countries. So, they followed to ten thousand of Spanish graduates and studied their eating habits.

A Mediterranean diet consist in eat plenty of olive oil, fruits, nuts, vegetables, and fish, more than met. Drink red wine too, just a bit.

Although they found that people who eat a Mediterranean diet have less depression, they don’t control other factor that might influences too. For example, if the people do exercise, the area where the people live in. These are two factors that help to get less depression too. So we don’t know wath is the relation between the diet and depression, yet.

Anyway, the appeal is to have a healthy life: do exercise, eat healthy food, are both important to not get depression, and other condition like stress or cardiac problems.

If you want to read this article, I write a link to http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/besttreatments/2009/oct/06/eat-yourself-happy-mediterranean-diet-link-to-less-depression enjoy it!!

Pets: my experience

My family have had six pets since I can remember, always dogs. But only one have been mine, whit she (it was a female) I had good and bad experiences, and I want to talk something about it. Unfortunately she doesn’t be with me anymore, she died six year ago.

My uncle gave her to me for Christmas, when I was six, she live ten years, so I grow up whit her. She was a cocker spaniel, brown head with some white spot in the leg and head. Her name was “Nala” like the girlfriend of the “Lion King”, this movie was my favourite when I was a child, so I choose this name for her, when she was a puppy she was like a little lion too.

I liked her so much because she was really kindly and when I was sad she just sit next to me and put her nose in my hand, and smell me. She played a lot whit me, and sometimes mi mom allowed her to stay in the house with us. I had to cleaned her and feed. She comes with us to everywhere.

My life is different without her. She died when I was sixteen; I knew that she was really old and very ill, but I felt very sad. I never could have a pet again, I have dogs in my house, but I don’t considerer mines, my father take care of them. I don’t involve and, I don’t know if it is a good or a bad thing. I hope to can have a pet again, but for now, I prefer to don’t have one.

I don’t know if is necessary to have a pet. Maybe when you are an only child (this is not my case). But you run the risk of involved too much, like me and feel terrible if something happen to your pet.

In some case, have a pet is an important way to learn some responsibilities, like feed they, or cleaning them. Some parents use this way to teach to the kids to take care of their pets and themselves.

Sometimes the family doesn’t take care about their pets, and sometimes they abandoned them. Something like happened in Chaiten. I feel really sad when this situation happen. Fortunately some families want to adopted abandoned animals and give them a better home.

I don’t know if I can adopt an abandoned animal, but this is because I prefer to not have one yet. Maybe I going to have a pet again when I have my own place, and this will the moment to thinking about it.

Santiago: a lot of things to do!!

I feel like a tourist answering this question. I`m not from Santiago, I live here because the university, so I don’t know all the interesting places to go or things to do here. The places that I know are supposed to be “typical places”. So I think that a foreigner tourist should to visit them.

Some of these places are the Central Market, the Lastarria neighborhood, the San Cristobal hill, Plaza de Armas, La Moneda palace, etc. These are typical places where you can admire the view; you can see nice architecture and eat good Chilean food. These places are typical; you must take some photos, or buy a postal.

Besides the typical places you have a lot of nice places to go and things to do. If you want to spend a nice time you can go to some museums, like Bellas Artes Gallery and walk for the Forestal Park, take a coffee and enjoy the sunset. For me the sunset is really nice because I stop to hear the noise, is the quieter time of the day, only five minutes and the noise beginning again.

If you want to have fun you can go to some typical neighborhoods where you find restaurants, bars and discotheques, like Lastarria, Brazil, Bellavista, or Providencia.

If you ask me, in my top five activities I suggest some of typical places and some fun thing, sometimes the typical places are not very funnies and you need to do some activities to relaxing. So my top five is this: go to Santa Lucia or San Cristobal hill, lunch in Central Market, go in the afternoon to some gallery, I prefer Bellas Artes, then walk for the Forestal Park and end the day with some friend and take some drink in Lastarria neighborhood.

Transantiago: my experience

I never knew the old system. I came to live here in Santiago in 2007, the same year that Transantiago started, so some times my opinion on it was not so bad. Actually I never had a bad experience because from my house here in Santiago to the University I have the subway really close and I only take bus in Grecia Avenue, and never had much problems in this avenue.

However, besides of this bus line, people I know had a lot of problems, especially when started Transantiago, the firsts months of 2007. Even my routine was changed, at the beginning I took a little more than an hour to arrive to the University, and I had only one way: the subway and one bus line. Now the same tour takes me 45 minutes an I have 3 different bus lines. Maybe in my case it is a little difference, but to other people the system is really better now.

I hope that the Transantiago System to continue improving. There are a lot of things to do yet. Maybe we have more buses, more buses lines, more control to the people who doesn't pay. But it doesn't enough. Some sides of Santiago needs more than these solution. And we can see other kind of problems, like the poor condition of the Intermodal La Cisterna. Some times the problem is not the system, but those who implement it.

Other point important for me is that we still have old buses polluting the environment. The new buses isn't do this, so here we have one thing to do to make the Transantiago better, and our life too!

Music

Ok, I’m going to tell you about mi relation ship with music, jejeje! Actually I grow up with music; my big brother is a professional musician and mi sister and my other brother are amateur musicians, my father is amateur too. My home always was a constant concert; even I hated music when I was young, I was tired, guitar, violin, piano and violoncello were sounded all the time. I never played any instrument, so I didn’t enjoy it very much, and of course, I’ve never wanted to learn music.

But now is different, I live with my sister and brother and hear them is really nice, I don’t like so much the classic music, only Bach. And if you ask me about what kind of music I like, I really don’t have one answer.

I know what kind of music I don’t like. I don’t like “anglo” music, I prefer music in Spanish. I don’t like electronic, I prefer folklore and latin rock. I don’t like sound, I prefer jazz. So, I can say that I like latin rock, folk music, jazz and my favorite, at the time, bossa nova.

My favorite singer is “Chico Buarque”, he is a Brazilian musician, and he is grate! I’ve never seen him; I really like to see him in a concert.

About Chilean music and musician I like “Victor Jara” and “Congreso”.

Some times I listen to music in my home, when I’m alone, I enjoy when I listen to music and paint at the same time. It is really relaxing.

The last concert I went was last month; I went with Anita, a friend. We see Joe Vasconcello, Manuel Garcia and Camila Moreno. It was a grate concert!!!

Planning a trip

I’ve always wanted to visit other countries, one in particular, and I have a curious reason… it’s because a movie “brave heart”. I really liked the story of William Wallace when I was a teenager, I read a lot in the net, and of course I saw the movie a lot of times. Other curious reason is that my boyfriend wants to know this country and he has the same reason, he loves the movie. So, I think that Scotland is a wonderful place to visit with him.

Honestly I don’t know much things about Scotland, I don’t know what is they typical food, or some landmarks that I should to visit there, but if I will go there any time I want to visit some old castle, and enjoy the landscape. Take photos of these spectacular hills, listen bagpipes and meet a guy in a skirt (laughter). Maybe try some typical food, and buy some gifts, of course.

Although I would like to visit this place, I wouldn’t like live there, or study. I find it an interesting place, but if I study in another country I prefer a traditional place, to get some scholarship. So I am interesting only on be a tourist.

My first term

In my first term this year I had good and bad points, but this time I’m going to try to see the good side of it.

Some good things related to the subjects that I got in university is that I could learn a little of all the work areas in psychology. With these subjects, now I can chose one and keep learning about it. I like the educational psychology, and I dislike the organizational psychology, this is a beginning.

Actually in my firs term I didn`t practice any sport, I studied a lot. But some weekends I went to scout meeting in Rengo. This is the place were I used to leaved before I come to Santiago to study.

A challenge that I had to face was a course of hypnosis that I got. This was really difficult, because to practiced I had to hypnotized voluntaries, and they always was my friend or my sister, so some time I was scared to hypnotized them. But fortunately I past this course whit out problems.

A bad thing was that my grandfather died in June, he was a really old man, but I mess his. Any way I met some people last term, really nice people, and I hope I can keep contact and a relationship with them.