Since October Netherlands has a fitness club for the emotional health: The Therapy Club

Since October Netherlands has a fitness club for the emotional health: The Therapy Club. "As you train your body at a gym, you learn to build with your emotional condition 'says founder Rob van Drunen.

The club developed his unique emotional fitness method. "This is to avoid stress. Ideal because employers often look only at what to do after it has gone wrong. Our method offers them a preventive solution. Not for nothing are correct then more and more companies join us. "

Disease number 1
The Therapy Club - currently active in Amsterdam and Utrecht - is an initiative of a group of therapists and coaches with diverse backgrounds. They saw for themselves eat around people flock running, at salad bars or even meditate before bedtime. But despite being one enormous attention emotionally exhausted health shows one in seven employees and seems to burn out soon epidemic number. Van Drunen: "Why so much attention to the physical health, while they forget to work on the emotional fitness? Science has already proven years ago that physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual aspects are inextricably linked. " While the innovative club-founder himself asked this question, he saw at the same time that there was actually nowhere to build the emotional health and maintain. It proved the germ for The Therapy Club.

Emotional Fitness method
Together with other therapists and coaches Van Drunen then developing an emotional fitness method. "This method is based on seven principles, including learning to listen without judging. Each fitnessessie lasts one and a half hours and has a format with five permanent members. "

Manifesto
This week is the Week of Work stress and therefore The Therapy Club launched a manifesto entitled "Fight for emotional freedom. "Every generation has its own ideals and struggle. Our parents set us up for a fight that did not feel like ours. By some we were therefore dismissed as a generation chips, as affluent young people who did not struggle to provide for freedom. But now we are mature and aggressive than ever! Our generation, especially the group between 30 and 34 years, represents a risk for stress, burnout, depression, et cetera. The search for a different way of life and a different society is therefore urgent, "the firm entrepreneur, who personally suffered from burnout.

Be honest: do you eat too much sugar?

The Diabetes Foundation opens Monday in Amsterdam Leidsestraat an information about sugar. The fund it calls a temporary rehab, to make people aware of the high sugar intake and its effects on health.

,, We have chosen the Leidsestraat because it is a sweet street, where many temptations, with shops full of candy, ice cream and chocolate, "said a spokeswoman. According to the Netherlands fund is unconsciously addicted to sugar. About 80 percent of the Dutch gets too much sugar in, and a half to two times too many. ,, It is in so many products clogged and we are also constantly tempted to unhealthy choices, "says Hanneke Dessing director of the Diabetes Fund.

To many - even the healthy eye - added products is sugar. Healthy alternatives are scarce. The 'rehab' is there to get a lot of information.

Perhaps an idea to also agree to take a sugar-free week itself?

November 12 is World Pneumonia Day. In the Netherlands, 25,000 children receive each year from pneumonia."Pneumonia chops in it, even with a child," said Michael Rutgers, Director Long Fund. "Usually the pneumonia after a week or two or cured, but it can take months for a child again completely recovered." On time treatment prevents worse. Good information can play an important role.

Every year in the Netherlands 125,000 people diagnosed with pneumonia, one in five over the age of 0-9 years. In children, pneumonia is more common, as in the elderly over 55 years old and vulnerable groups such as people with lung disease. "The lungs are a vital organ, at a young age they are very vulnerable," Rutgers explains the severity of pneumonia in children. "Especially children with reduced immunity are susceptible, for example if they have asthma or if their parents smoke." To identify pneumonia on time and to explain what is actually pneumonia, the Long Fund with new information on pneumonia occurs in children, can be found at www.longfonds.nl/ pneumonia child

Recognize the signs
Daughter Amy Sandra Naber and Rick Medendorp was eight months when she was listless and was found to have pneumonia. "I really did not know it could go so fast," says Sandra. "In adults, it takes a while before a pneumonia so serious, but not small ones." Amy eventually ended up in the hospital, where she was given extra oxygen and antibiotics. After five days they could go home. The same happened to Per (4), the son of Myrke van der Does (38). She is happy that she now knows where to look for: "If his nostrils wide stand out during breathing and the dimple draws in his neck inside. This means that breathing takes strength and Per so stuffy. "

Influenza is pneumonia
causes of pneumonia are usually a bacterium or virus, often starts with flu or colds. Children cough a lot, have high fever, feel tired or less active. Cough mixtures or expectorants relieve symptoms. But antibiotics is usually the best treatment. If the fever continues, the pneumonia can be serious. "Children are quite ill," says Rutgers. In a hospital admission is administered a higher dose of antibiotics, often in combination with additional oxygen.

3FM Serious Request
This year pneumonia in children in developing countries as a silent emergency central to 3FM Serious Request 2016 annual action to raise money for the Red Cross. Die each year more than 900,000 young children with pneumonia. Children easily saved with proper treatment and good information. The disease is worldwide one of the leading causes of death for children 5 years and younger. In the Netherlands die happy children rarely pneumonia.
Long Fund applauds this action heartily. Michael Rutgers: "At the time treatment prevents worse. Good information can play an important role. "

Long Fund
in the Netherlands are more than one million people with lung disease. Long Fund (formerly Asthma Foundation) fighting for clean air and healthy lungs. For and with everyone. We make research possible. We take dirty air. And we do everything to make children grow up smoking. We stand up for the best care for lung patients and for anyone who might ever.