Kukucova told the court she had gone to her ex-boyfriend’s home to collect her things when he returned unexpectedly from a trip with his new girlfriend
An ex-swimwear model has been jailed for 15 years for murdering her millionaire British boyfriend in Spain.
Mayka Kukucova, 26, was sentenced for shooting dead Bristol businessman Andrew Bush at his home near Marbella on the Costa del Sol in April 2014.
Kukucova did not formally plead. Mr Bush, 48, died after being shot in the shoulder and then twice in the head.
She was sentenced by the court in Malaga to an additional six months for breaking into his home.
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Businessman Andrew Bush, 48, was shot at his mansion near Marbella on the Costa del Sol in April 2014
During the trial Kukucova said she had “never meant to hurt” Mr Bush and broke down in tears when photos of his body were shown in court.
Mr Bush was well known in his home city of Bristol for his jewellery business and was previously married to former BBC Bristol presenter Sam Mason, the mother of his daughter Ellie, 21.
He met Kukucova when she worked in his shop and the pair were together for two-and-a-half years.
The relationship broke down around six months before Mr Bush was killed.
Mr Bush had an interest in cars, and it was in his Hummer 4×4 that Kukucova made her getaway on the night he died.
Days later she handed herself into Slovakian authorities and was detained before being extradited to Spain.
On Saturday, Mr Bush’s girlfriend, Maria Korotaeva who had been waiting for him on the night he was murdered, posted a report of Kukucova’s conviction on her Instagram page with the caption “Thank God”.
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Instant messaging apps must store data about Iranian users inside the country, Iran has ordered.
The new rule comes from Iran’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace and firms have been given one year to comply.
Campaign group Privacy International described it as “extremely worrying” but said it could prove difficult to enforce.
Iran’s most popular messaging app is Berlin-based service Telegram, believed to be used by one in four Iranians.
Messages shared via Telegram, which is free to use, are encrypted and can be seen by many users at once.
Telegram could not be reached for comment but reports circulating on social networks that it has decided to comply are understood to be false.
Most social networks are officially blocked by the state but lots of people are able to access them via services like Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), which mask a browser’s geographical location.
The country’s president, Hassan Rouhani, has active Twitter accounts in English and Persian.
In my view, Telegram has a tough job ahead of it when deciding whether to go ahead with what the government wants.
People are worried about losing it but they are also saying they will stop using it if the firm complies with the new law.
This is a big thing for people in Iran. They are very sensitive about security.
If Telegram does what is asked, then the government will have control over the content, it can monitor who is saying what, and it can arrest people.
The app was shut down briefly last year for refusing to comply with the government – and that added to its popularity.
Just recently BBC Persian covered a story about high school students protesting about their exams – they created a Telegram group to mobilise and inform other students about the protest.
The group got 20,000 subscribers and the protest went well. But as soon as it got media coverage the government told the group administrators to close it down.
In a short time, the number of subscribers came down to just 300.
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Rashford only made his debut for Manchester United on 25 February
Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford has been included in Roy Hodgson’s 23-man England squad for the 2016 European Championship in France.
Rashford, 18, scored on his debut in his side’s 2-1 friendly victory over Australia on Friday.
Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge is also included, but Newcastle United’s Andros Townsend and Leicester City’s Danny Drinkwater both miss out.
England face Portugal in their last Euro 2016 warm-up match on Thursday.
Hodgson’s side begin their campaign in France by playing Russia on 11 June, before meeting Wales on 16 June and Slovakia on 20 June.
Rashford, who signed a new four-year contract with Manchester United on Monday, only made his professional debut on 25 February, but scored eight goals in 18 club games to earn an international call-up.
Hodgson initially named a 26-man squad after the final round of Premier League games, having intended to reveal his final selection on 12 May.
That was cut to 25 when Manchester City midfielder Fabian Delph was moved to the standby list after picking up an injury.
Goalkeepers: Joe Hart (Manchester City), Fraser Forster (Southampton), Tom Heaton (Burnley).
Defenders: Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Chris Smalling (Manchester United), John Stones (Everton), Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur), Ryan Bertrand (Southampton), Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur), Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool).
Midfielders: Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur), Ross Barkley (Everton), Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Adam Lallana (Liverpool), James Milner (Liverpool), Raheem Sterling (Manchester City), Jack Wilshere (Arsenal).
Strikers: Wayne Rooney (Manchester United), Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur), Jamie Vardy (Leicester City), Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool), Marcus Rashford (Manchester United).
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Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has become a father again at the age of 68.
His wife Sally, who is 38, gave birth to twin girls late on Monday evening, Wood’s publicist confirmed.
A statement said: “Ronnie & Sally Wood are delighted to announce the birth of their twins Gracie Jane (6lb) & Alice Rose (5.7lb).
“The girls arrived on 30 May at 22:30 and all are doing brilliantly. The babies are perfect.”
The twins are Wood’s fifth and sixth children, but the first for him and his wife, who is a theatre producer.
Wood has four children already – Jesse Wood with his first wife, former model Krissy Wood, daughter Leah and son Tyrone from his second marriage to Jo, and Jamie – Jo’s son from a previous marriage whom Wood adopted.
The musician dated Sally Humphreys, as she was then known, for six months before they got married at London’s Dorchester Hotel, with Rod Stewart as Wood’s best man, in 2012.
The couple first met while she was working at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, where Wood was displaying some of his artwork.
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Successive terror attacks in Europe underlined the need to tackle online extremism and hate speech, said the Commission
Microsoft, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook have pledged to remove hate speech within 24 hours, in support of a code of conduct drafted by the EU.
The freshly drafted code aims to limit the viral spread of online abuse on social media.
It requires the firms to act quickly when told about hate speech and to do more to help combat illegal and xenophobic content.
The firms must also help “educate” users about acceptable behaviour.
The need for better ways to combat online hate speech had become more urgent in the wake of terror attacks in Belgium, said Vera Jourova, European Commissioner for Justice.
“Social media is unfortunately one of the tools that terrorist groups use to radicalise young people and racists use to spread violence and hatred,” she said in a statement.
Hate speech and xenophobia also had a “chilling effect” on groups that sought to champion tolerance and non-discrimination, she said.
The agreement of the four web firms was an “important step forward” in making sure the net stayed a place where free expression was possible, Ms Jourova said.
A core part of the code is the requirement to remove hateful content within 24 hours of being properly notified about it.
The tech giants have also agreed to work more closely with groups that monitor and flag violent and hateful content. They will also develop and promote “counter narratives” to challenge those who post hate speech or illegal content.
Karen White, Twitter’s head of public policy for Europe, said “hateful conduct” had no place on its network and added there was a “clear distinction between freedom of expression and conduct that incites violence and hate”.
The code also requires the four firms to overhaul their notification systems to ensure people can quickly report inflammatory content when they find it.
The Commission will hold regular meetings with technology firms to monitor what effect the code of conduct is having. A preliminary assessment of its effectiveness will be drawn up for the Commission’s high level group on combating racism and xenophobia by the end of 2016.
The code of conduct for net firms was one of several initiatives to tackle abuse online, the Commission said. Other work involves research to help ISPs assess information posted online and produce tools that can counter intolerance.
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Many trafficking victims are forced to work on fishing boats
More than 45 million people are living in modern slavery, with Asia accounting for two thirds of the victims, a new report says.
The 2016 Global Slavery Index, from the Walk Free Foundation in Australia, defines slavery as “situations of exploitation that a person cannot refuse or leave because of threats, violence, coercion, abuse of power or deception”.
Modern forms of slavery can include debt bondage, where a person is forced to work for free to pay off a debt, child slavery, forced marriage, domestic servitude and forced labour, where victims are made to work through violence and intimidation.
The BBC looks at five examples of modern slavery.
1. The seafood industry
Media captionBecky Palmstrom investigated the murky world of human trafficking in Thailand’s fishing industry
Human rights groups say thousands of people are trafficked and forced to work on fishing boats, where they can be kept for years without ever seeing the shore. Victims say those who are caught trying to escape can be killed and thrown overboard.
Thailand, which is the third largest exporter of seafood in the world, has been accused of crewing fishing boats with Burmese and Cambodian men who have been sold and forced to work as slaves. The authorities are trying to crack down on people traffickers.
Many victims say they were tricked by brokers who promised them factory jobs, and then put them on fishing boats where they were forced to work.
One Burmese man who escaped his traffickers said he was forced on to a tiny boat in the open sea where he fished 20 hours a day, with no pay.
“People said, anyone who tried to escape had their legs broken, their hands broken or were even killed,” he told the BBC.
Figures suggest there could be between 10,000 and 13,000 victims of slavery in the UK, trafficked from countries including Albania, Nigeria, Vietnam and Romania.
About 3,000 children from Vietnam alone are thought to be working in British cannabis farms and nail bars.
Many victims are told their families will be hurt if they leave.
Media captionA Vietnamese teenager who was trafficked into the UK was sent to work at a house where large amounts of cannabis were grown
One victim, Lam, was 16 years old when he came to the UK, hoping to earn money to send home to his family. Instead, he was forced to work in a cannabis factory.
“I remember asking the man who took me there if I could leave because I didn’t like it but he threatened to beat me or starve me to death,” he said.
Lam was arrested when police raided the house, and charged with drug offences – but was eventually helped by the NSPCC child trafficking advice centre.
Shandra and three other trafficking victims near a brothel in Connecticut. They were told to pose.
The International Labour Organization estimates that there are 4.5 million victims of forced sexual exploitation.
Shandra Woworuntu, an activist against human trafficking, was forced into sexual slavery in the US in 2001.
She left Indonesia when she was promised work in the hospitality industry in the US, but the agents who met her at the airport passed her on to armed traffickers, who forced her to carry out sex work.
“They told me I owed them $30,000 and I would pay off the debt $100 at a time by serving men,” she said.
She eventually managed to escape, and helped the FBI locate a brothel with other trafficking victims.
Children can be forced to beg on the streets (file photo)
The report highlights that many children across Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East are forced to beg on the streets by criminals.
One victim told researchers: “Though I am begging I am not paid a single amount. I have to deposit all to them. I am deprived of food and good sleep. I am not paid my wages only working as a bonded labour.”
Another said: “I can’t say anything to you because I am in constant fear. I am threatened by my employer not to open my mouth to anybody otherwise I will be punished severely.”
5. Behind closed doors
Much modern slavery isn’t visible in public. It takes place in homes and private farms.
Last week, three men from the same family in the UK were jailed for forcing a man to do heavy labour for next to no money.
Michael Hughes, 46, was forced to work for the family for more than 20 years, doing building work and road laying.
He said he was made to live in a 1.2m (4ft) wide garden shed with no heating or running water for two years.
And last month, a UK man was jailed for two years in the first case of a man holding his wife in domestic servitude.
The wife was tortured, forced to do all the chores, and not allowed to leave home, prosecutors said.
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Marcel Proust in 1896: He struggled to persuade his father that writing was a worthwhile career
Intimate letters and family photographs that belonged to the celebrated French writer Marcel Proust are being sold at auction in Paris.
Among the items is an original signed edition of Swann’s Way, the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past.
After Proust’s death in 1922 the collection passed to his brother Robert. A great-great-niece is selling the items at Sotheby’s auction house.
There are boyhood photos of Proust and Man Ray’s image of him on his deathbed.
One of the photos, dated 1896, shows Proust with his secret lover Lucien Daudet. Proust’s mother had ordered him to destroy all copies of it.
There is also a letter from Proust to another lover, the pianist Reynaldo Hahn, whom he describes as “really the person who, besides mummy, I love most of all in the world”.
The collection, put up for auction by Patricia Mante-Proust, is valued at between €520,000 (£396,000; $580,000) and €740,000.
The seven-volume Remembrance of Things Past is considered a literary masterpiece, rich in personal memories, the most famous being the evocative taste of a madeleine bun dipped in tea.
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These photos, circa 1882, show Marcel with his brother Robert (in central pic Marcel is on right)
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An original edition of Swann’s Way, dated 1916
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The photo shows Marcel Proust (C) with French playwright and journalist Robert de Flers (L) and French writer Lucien Daudet
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A drawing of Amiens Cathedral by Marcel Proust
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Proust on his deathbed – a famous photo by Man Ray
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Mr Mutharika said that this belief was surrounded by “superstition, foolishness and ignorance”.
“The people who are telling people that it makes people rich are not even rich. They are wearing rags. How can a person like this make your rich if he himself cannot make himself rich?” he told BBC Focus on Africa TV.
The president said that he had not rejected the idea of increasing prison sentences for people behind the attacks – but that he would not introduce a death penalty as it already exists for homicide in Malawi.
He added that he was sending officials to neighbouring Tanzania to learn how they had dealt with similar attacks.
Tanzania’s government banned witchdoctors last year as part of its efforts to prevent further attacks and kidnappings targeting people with albinism, who lack pigment in their skin and appear pale.
UN expert Ikponwosa Ero warned in April that Malawi’s estimated 10,000 albinos face “extinction” if they continue to be murdered for their body parts.
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A total of 65,469,298 Tumblr account details are being offered for sale
Hundreds of millions of hacked account details from social networks MySpace and Tumblr have been advertised for sale online.
In both cases, the logins appear to have been stolen several years ago but only recently came to light.
The incident comes the same month it emerged that a four-year-old database containing more than 167 million LinkedIn IDs had been traded online.
One expert said it was “intriguing” all had emerged in such a short period.
Security researcher Troy Hunt also said millions of IDs from adult dating site Fling – which had been breached in 2011 – had been offered on a hacking forum at the start of the month.
“There’s been some catalyst that has brought these breaches to light and to see them all fit this mould and appear in such a short period of time, I can’t help but wonder if they’re perhaps related,” he blogged.
“Even if these events don’t all correlate to the same source and we’re merely looking at coincidental timing of releases, how many more are there in the ‘mega’ category that are simply sitting there in the clutches of various unknown parties?”
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Of the two most recent leaks, MySpace is potentially more serious.
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MySpace was under different ownership when the breach occurred
The touted list contains details for 360.2 million accounts, including email addresses and up to two linked passwords.
The passwords were stored in a modified form that was meant to protect them, but the technique used was relatively weak and it seems the vast majority have been cracked.
News site Motherboard has been in contact with one of the sites selling access to the list. It said of the five accounts it tested, all yielded the real passwords, suggesting the leak was real.
“We have invalidated all user passwords for the affected accounts created prior to June 11, 2013 on the old MySpace platform,” the social network said in a statement.
“MySpace is also using automated tools to attempt to identify and block any suspicious activity that might occur on MySpace accounts.
“We have also reported the incident to law enforcement authorities and are cooperating to investigate and pursue this criminal act.”
Despite the age of logins and decline in use of the social network, expert Mr Hunt said some users should still be concerned.
“It all comes back to whether they’ve been following good password practices or not,” he told the BBC.
“If they’ve reused passwords across multiple services – and remember, these breaches date back several years so they need to recall their practices back then – then they may well have other accounts at risk too.”
At the time it referred to the leak as a “set of Tumblr user email addresses with salted and hashed passwords from early 2013”.
Mr Hunt’s analysis indicates that more than 65 million accounts were affected, making it one of the largest data dumps of its kind.
The reference to “salted” means that the firm added random characters to the passwords before converting them into a string of digits and recording them to a database.
This makes it much harder to expose them.
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LinkedIn says it has now reset the passwords of everyone affected by the hack on its site
Motherboard reported that a hacker, nicknamed Peace, had said the Tumblr dump amounted to “just a list of emails”, and so was advertising it at a lower price than the MySpace and LinkedIn logins also offered for sale.
However, the addresses could still be useful to scammers as a basis for a phishing attack.
Mr Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned site already provides a free way to check whether people’s Tumblr, Fling or LinkedIn IDs are among those contained in the data dump.
The security researcher said he was also in the process of “finalising the load” to make it possible to search for affected MySpace accounts as well.
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India’s economy grew by 7.6% in 2015-16, up from 7.2% the year before, as the country retained its place as the world’s fastest-growing major economy.
And quarterly economic growth leapt to 7.9% in the three months to April from a revised 7.2% in the previous quarter, government data shows.
That acceleration was greater than analysts had predicted.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said with China slowing, the world was seeking “other shoulders to rest… growth on”.
Speaking at The Future of Asia conference, he said that India, with planned infrastructure spending, could be a very powerful economic driver.
The sectors which registered growth of more than 7% during the year were; financial, real estate and professional services (10.3%), manufacturing (9.3%), trade, hotels, transport, communication and services related to broadcasting (9%), and mining and quarrying (7.4%).
Agriculture, forestry and fishing grew by 1.2% and construction by 3.9%. Electricity, gas, water supply and other utility services posted growth of 6.6%, as did the public administration, defence and other services sector.
The release of the quarterly GDP estimate for the April-June quarter, the first quarter of 2016-17, will be released on 31 August.
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Finland’s military held large-scale training exercises last week
Finland’s armed forces caused alarm on one of the country’s own islands when an after-dark training exercise was mistaken for a real invasion, it’s reported.
Kamholmen island resident Bjarne Winberg watched as a large boat docked near his house and unloaded a group of uniformed men carrying rucksacks and what looked like guns, the Ilta-Sanomat newspaper reports. When the group headed into the forest, Mr Winberg hopped into his own boat, fled the island and called the emergency services. “Of course I was scared,” he tells the paper.
It subsequently transpired that last week’s unexpected late-night arrival, was part of the military’s spring training exercises. What isn’t clear is whether Kamholmen was a planned stop on the military’s route. While the local Ostnyland newspaper quoted a defence spokesman as saying the island wasn’t meant to feature in the exercises, other reports suggest organisers had intended to land there but forgot to tell residents.
There’s some consolation for islanders who were worried by the non-invasion, though. Ostnyland reports that coffee brand Gevalia, long marketed as being ideal when faced with “unexpected visitors”, has spotted an unlikely marketing opportunity in the news. The company says it will send free packs of coffee to anyone who had “unexpected military guests”.
Media captionVirgile Resende: “This group of people decided to group under a tree to get to safety and it was a bad choice for them”
Most of those injured by the lightning bolt in a city park were children.
The child who died on Sunday was found in the basement of their family home in the village of Saint-Martin-d’Ordon.
It appears that the child slipped and fell, French media say.
One of the towns particularly affected by the flooding on Tuesday was Bruay-la-Buissiere, near Lens, where firefighters patrolled the streets on a dinghy.
Emergency services were called out 4,500 times across the country between Monday evening and Tuesday morning as “numerous” roads flooded and hundreds of evacuations were carried out, AFP news agency reports.
Monday’s washout at the French Open was the first time in 16 years a whole day’s play had been cancelled but tournament director Guy Forget remained confident the tournament would finish on schedule on Sunday.
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India has around 2.09 million people living with HIV/Aids
At least 2,234 Indians have contracted the deadly HIV virus while receiving blood transfusions in hospitals in the past 17 months alone.
The information was revealed by the country’s National Aids Control Organisation (Naco) in response to a petition filed by information activist Chetan Kothari.
Mr Khothari told the BBC that he was “shocked” by the revelation.
India has around 2.09 million people living with HIV/Aids.
The highest number of patients who had been infected with HIV as a result of contaminated blood in hospitals, were from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh with 361 cases, Mr Kothari’s RTI (Right to Information) query revealed.
The western states of Gujarat with 292 cases and Maharashtra with 276 cases rank second and third respectively.
The Indian capital Delhi is at number four with 264 cases.
“This is the official data, provided by the government-run Naco. I believe the real numbers would be double or triple that,” Mr Kothari told the BBC.
Under law, it is mandatory for hospitals to screen donors and the donated blood for HIV, hepatitis B and C, malaria and other infections.
“But each such test costs 1,200 rupees ($18; £12) and most hospitals in India do not have the testing facilities. Even in a big city like Mumbai, only three private hospitals have HIV testing facilities. Even the largest government hospitals do not have the technology to screen blood for HIV,” Mr Kothari said.
“This is a very serious matter and must be addressed urgently,” he added.
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The Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir and Albarn will open the Pyramid Stage on different days
Glastonbury has announced its full line-up, adding chart toppers The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir and Blur frontman Damon Albarn to the bill.
Albarn and the choir will both open the festival’s main Pyramid Stage.
Other new additions include Australian rockers Tame Impala and French singer Christine & The Queens.
The bill also revealed headline slots for singers Cyndi Lauper and Billy Bragg, rock band New Order and children’s TV star Basil Brush.
Albarn, who headlined Glastonbury with Blur in 2009, will be accompanied by Africa Express musicians and The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians for the first set on the Pyramid Stage on 24 June.
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Both Christine & The Queens and Blossoms will appear on the Other Stage
Christine and The Queens, the stage name of singer Heloise Letissier, appear in the Friday line-up on the festival’s second stage, the Other Stage, sandwiched between rising stars Blossoms and Scottish folk rocker Frightened Rabbit.
New Order headline there the following day, while dance acts Disclosure and LCD Soundsystem take the stage’s other two top slots.
Tame Impala will be the main support ahead of Adele’s Saturday night headline set, while indie rockers Foals and American singer Beck take the same slots before Muse and Coldplay’s bill-topping appearances.
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Glastonbury’s website has the listings in full
Lauper is one of a number of big names playing away from the festival’s two main stages and will close on the Acoustic Stage on 26 June.
That stage will also see sets from American folk pioneer Art Garfunkel, former Squeeze and Mike and the Mechanics singer Paul Carrack and Welsh rockers The Alarm.
Brush is one of a number of non-musical names to appear on the bill, which also includes Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in conversation, poets John Hegley and Murray Lachlan Young, and comedians Dane Bapiste, Josie Long and Stephen K Amos.
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Polar dominaba el mercado venezolano de la cerveza.
A Venezuela le quedan apenas unos cuantos días de inventarios de cerveza Polar, la marca privada que copa el 80% del mercado local de esa bebida alcohólica.
Después, lo que se ve venir para los venezolanos es una fuerte reducción en el consumo de cerveza, pues no parece haber alternativa nacional o extranjera que en el corto plazo cubra toda la demanda.
A menos que Polar y el gobierno venezolano lleguen antes a un acuerdo que permita recuperar la producción de esa firma, encabezada por el empresario Lorenzo Mendoza.
La compañía detuvo desde finales de abril su producción de cerveza, alegando que no tenía materias primas para sus fábricas.
Mientras, el gobierno del presidente Nicolás Maduro repetidamente acusa a Mendoza de ser parte de una supuesta conspiración de empresarios privados y de Estados Unidos para llevar adelante una “guerra económica” contra Venezuela.
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Polar había advertido que paralizaría sus plantas de forma temporal hasta que el gobierno del presidente Nicolás Maduro le vendiese las divisas necesarias para importar la cebada malteada que no se produce en el país.
Cuando Polar, que además es la principal empresa de alimentos de Venezuela, advirtió sobre la inminente paralización de sus plantas de cerveza, el gobierno de Nicolás Maduro calificó la decisión como un “delito”.
“Quien llame a un paro de plantas creo que debe actuar el ministerio Público, porque en condiciones de emergencia es un delito grave”, dijo entonces en televisión el mandatario, quien ha advertido repetidamente que las empresas privadas que detengan sus fábricas están exponiéndose a perderlas.
Sea cual sea el detonante de la crisis de producción del producto, lo cierto es que la cantidad de cerveza disponible al público en Venezuela se está reduciendo.
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El presidente Nicolás Maduro ha advertido que las empresas que cierren fábricas corren el riesgo de perderlas.
“Podríamos decir que a lo sumo en dos semanas más ya no debe encontrarse en el mercado la marca Polar”, le dice a BBC Mundo Omaira Zayago, directora de la Cámara Venezolana de Fabricantes de Cerveza (Caveface), entidad gremial que cuenta con Polar entre sus afiliados.
La dirigente asegura que las existencias han durado desde que el 29 de abril se suspendió la producción de Polar, porque en los comercios se está dosificando la venta, limitando el número de cervezas que un individuo puede comprar a la vez.
Una vez se agoten las existencias de Polar, quedarán en el mercado los productos de la firma privadaRegional y de otras empresas pequeñas y artesanales, como la marca Tovar.
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El empresario Lorenzo Mendoza ha recibido críticas del gobierno.
A diferencia de lo que ocurre con Polar, la empresa Regional sí está recibiendo del gobierno los dólares que necesita para importar la cebada que usa en la producción de la cerveza, señala Zayago.
“Pero incluso produciendo al 100%, Regional apenas puede abastecer al 20% del mercado”, le dice a BBC Mundo la directora de Caveface, organización que también tiene a esa cervecera entre sus afiliados.
Las graves restricciones de acceso a los dólares hacen poco probable que pueda llegar pronto cerveza importada a Venezuela a cubrir el 80% faltante, mientras que cualquiera de los pequeños productores locales o cervecerías artesanales enfrentaría también problemas para aumentar sustancialmente su producción, asegura Zayago.
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Se estima que las existencias de Polar terminarán en los próximos días.
La producción de una pequeña planta de cerveza que Polar tiene en Florida, Estados Unidos, es totalmente insuficiente para la demanda venezolana, advierte.
Tampoco parece haber muchas alternativas de otras bebidas alcohólicas disponibles a precios bajos si falta la cerveza.
“El mercado de bebidas alcohólicas en Venezuela estaba básicamente concentrado en el producto cerveza, precisamente por su costo tan bajo”, explica la dirigente gremial.
“Inevitablemente va a haber una disminución en el consumo”
Por lo pronto, si los venezolanos consiguen una botella de cerveza en un mercado, tienen que pagar más de lo que estaban acostumbrados.
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Polar es acusada de estar en una “guerra económica” contra el gobierno.
“Por aquello de que a mayor demanda y poca oferta los precios suben se está dando aquí al pie de la letra”, advierte Zayago.
“Hace poco, una caja de cerveza, que podría estar en el orden de 3.000 bolívares (cerca de US$300 a la tasa de cambio oficial más baja, o cerca de US$3 empleando la tasa de cambio del mercado paralelo), se dice que se estaba vendiendo a 10.000 bolívares por caja“.
Aunque Zayago aclara que en días recientes no ha visto muchas existencias de cerveza en los supermercados para poder cuantificar el precio actual.
Zayago asegura que Polar sigue haciendo gestiones ante el gobierno venezolano para restablecer la importación de cebada para sus fábricas y así reiniciar la producción de cerveza.
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Polar dice que necesita divisas para restablecer la producción.
Por el momento, sin embargo, se cierne sobre Venezuela la perspectiva de una caída fuerte en el consumo de cerveza, que va a ser más difícil de encontrar a cualquier precio.
Caveface estima que los venezolanos consumen normalmente cerca de 2.000 millones de litros de cerveza al año.
Pero en Venezuela, estos no son tiempos normales, ni para los cerveceros ni para nadie más.
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Cold Feet star Hermione Norris has slated “women being sexually demeaned” on TV as “not a good thing”.
“The overt sexualisation of women on TV is an issue for me. I find that really hateful,” she told Radio Times.
The actress added: “If you do show that on screen, then at least give a nod to it being really inappropriate and cruel; that it is not humane.”
Norris, 49, is to appear in the Cold Feet reunion series later this year.
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Cold Feet was first broadcast on ITV in 1997
The actress described herself as a “feminist”, saying there was still progress to be made in the depiction of women on TV, but that it was not an issue you could protect children from.
“Although we’ve moved forward in some areas, I think we’ve regressed in a lot of others,” she said.
Speaking about her son and daughter, she added: “I think you can help educate them to deal with it, so I just keep talking to both my children.”
She also revealed she did not initially think the Cold Feet reunion was a good idea, and when she was asked if she liked the prospect of going back to the show, she said; “I didn’t, to be honest.
“It was really good, of its time, and I didn’t want to undo anything positive that we had created back then.
“But I was persuaded it would be interesting to see how they have been dealing with things.”
ITV’s hugely successful show, which was originally broadcast from 1997 – 2003, followed the ups and downs of three 30-something couples, and made household names of the cast.
It was not initially well received by critics but became a firm favourite with viewers, with more than 10 million people tuning into the final episode in the UK.
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Aún no hay pistas sobre el paradero del niño de siete años abandonado el sábado en Japón por sus padres como castigo.
La búsqueda del menor, Yamato Tanooka, continúa hoy en un área de cinco kilómetros cuadrados en una zona montañosa en la isla de Hokkaido, en la que habitan osos salvajes y en la que la temperatura mínima es de unos siete grados.
Más de 100 agentes de policía y bomberos participan en la búsqueda.
Los padres relataron que obligaron al menor a bajar del auto “para disciplinarlo” y cuando regresaron al lugar minutos después el niño había desaparecido.
Vea el operativo de búsqueda de Yamato en este video de BBC Mundo.
Dan Aykroyd is an executive producer on the new film
Dan Aykroyd, who played Ray Stantz in the original Ghostbusters film, has praised the upcoming reboot.
Aykroyd is listed as an executive producer on the movie, which features a female-led cast including Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig.
He commended the “brilliant, genuine performances from the cast both female and male”.
The actor made the comments after seeing test screening of Paul Feig’s new film.
“It has more laughs and more scares than the first two films, plus Bill Murray is in it!” Aykroyd wrote on Facebook.
The first trailer became the most disliked movie trailer in YouTube history when it was released in March.
A second trailer was released last week on social media, which was more warmly received.
Referring to the character he played in the 1984 original, Aykroyd said: “As one of millions of man-fans and Ray Stantz, I’m paying to see that and bringing all my friends.”
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L to R: Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig and Leslie Jones star in Paul Feig’s film
Almost all surviving members of the original Ghostbusters cast are set to make appearances in the reboot, including Aykroyd.
Rick Moranis declined an offer to be in the film.
Murray, Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson played the original ghost-busting quartet.
Directed by Ivan Reitman, the film made almost $300m (£198m) at the global box office. A sequel, Ghostbusters II, followed five years later.
McCarthy and Wiig are joined by Saturday Night Live comediennes Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon in the reboot.
Ghostbusters is released in the US on 15 July, and will be screened in the UK soon after.
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No harmless prank but rather intimidation – the owners of Tbilisi’s vegan cafe denounced the sausage-wielding nationalists
A vegan cafe in Tbilisi has appealed for public solidarity after being invaded by alleged ultra-nationalists wielding grilled meat and sausages.
More than a dozen men stormed into the Kiwi cafe in the Georgian capital on Sunday evening, the cafe said, shouting and throwing meat at patrons.
A brawl erupted but the attackers fled before police arrived.
The cafe has appealed for public support, saying it was no prank but a case of intimidation by neo-Nazis.
It said it was already the target of some local hostility due to its patrons’ alternative lifestyles – “the way we look, music that we listen to, ideas we support, and the fact that we don’t eat meat” and backing of causes such as rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
“During these hard times you can support us just by visiting our cafe, we will be very grateful if you come to show everyone that here are a lot of us who care about the issue!” the Kiwi cafe said in a statement on Facebook.
The incident comes amid growing concerns about the rise of far-right nationalism in Georgia.
Last week, hundreds of nationalists marched through central Tbilisi – waving Georgian flags and anti-communist banners, reports said – to mark independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Homophobia is also commonplace in Georgia, correspondents say. The country made world headlines in 2013 when a small group of LGBT activists were attacked by a large mob led by an orthodox priest.
The cafe statement blames Sunday’s incident on the group of men who came into the premises, talking loudly, throwing meat and smoking, and then “yelling, laughing, and talking to us sarcastically”.
These people “were neo-Nazis… who support fascist ideas”, the cafe said.
Some minor injuries were sustained.
The police arrived only after the attackers had left, but the cafe said even some of those officers behaved aggressively, “yelled with anger, said that we are guilty of what had happened”. Some cafe workers were taken in for interrogation.
The BBC is trying to ascertain whether there is an official investigation under way into the clash.
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Militants from the so-called Islamic State have launched a dawn counter-attack as Iraqi government troops push into the city of Falluja.
A day after troops advanced through the southern suburb of Nuaimiya, scores of IS fighters attacked them, army officers told news agencies.
The army defeated the attackers but suffered casualties, the sources said.
Aid workers are increasingly concerned for the safety of 50,000 civilians said to be trapped in Falluja.
Reports speak of people starving to death and of being killed for refusing to fight for IS.
The Iraqi military has urged those remaining to either leave the city or stay indoors but IS is preventing civilians from fleeing.
Falluja fell to IS in January 2014, a key moment in the Sunni Muslim jihadist group’s rise that saw it declare a caliphate across swathes of Iraq and Syria.
It is one of two major cities held by IS in Iraq – the other being Mosul.
‘They came at us’
Lt Gen Abdelwahab al-Saadi, the overall commander of the Falluja operation, told AFP news agency around 100 IS fighters had taken part in the attack and 75 of them had been killed.
“They came at us heavily armed but did not use car bombs or suicide bombers,” he said.
But two officers with special forces in the area told the Associated Press news agency that the jihadists had sent out six explosives-laden cars, none of which reached their targets.
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A long line of government armoured vehicles could be seen outside Falluja on Monday
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Helicopter gunships are backing the government advance
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Photos of militants said to have been taken in Falluja have been posted online by Islamic State
IS also used snipers and tunnels in the attack, they added, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, which helps families displaced from the city, warned on Tuesday that a “human catastrophe” was unfolding in Falluja.
“Families are caught in the crossfire with no safe way out,” he said.
“Warring parties must guarantee civilians safe exit now, before it’s too late and more lives are lost.”
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Civilians from Falluja have found shelter in the Iraqi town of Garma
The situation of civilians in the city is dire, the BBC’s Jim Muir reports from Iraq.
They have lived through a nine-month siege with little food or medicine and now they face mortal danger if there is an all-out assault on the city centre, our correspondent says.
The IS fighters are being widely accused of using them as human shields, he adds.
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Falluja – key facts:
had population of more than 300,000 before it was seized by first al-Qaeda and then by IS in 2014
has always been a hotbed of Sunni defiance, becoming a symbol of resistance to US forces in violent battles in 2004
controls main highway from Baghdad to both Jordan and Syria
is known as the “city of mosques” – more than 200 mosques in city and surrounding area
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Messi está acusado de tres delitos de fraude fiscal.
El futbolista estrella del Barca y de Argentina, Lionel Messi, enfrenta a partir de este martes, junto con su padre, un juicio por fraude fiscal.
El juicio que se espera durará tres días en la Audiencia de Barcelona, se inicia tres años después de que la Fiscalía española presentara la querella contra el jugador.
Se le acusa de haber defraudado a Hacienda por US$4,5 millones al eludir el pago de impuestos durante los años 2007, 2008 y 2009.
Los cargos contra Messi fueron presentados por la Abogacía del Estado, el organismo que representa los intereses de la Agencia Tributaria.
La Fiscalía, por su parte, exculpó al jugador y establece que el responsable del fraude fiscal es su padre y representante, Jorge Horacio Messi.
Tanto Messi como su padre niegan haber actuado de forma incorrecta.
La Abogacía está pidiendo un total de 22 meses y 15 días de cárcel para el futbolista por los tres delitos de fraude fiscal.
También pide el pago de la suma defraudada.
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La querella está vinculada a los ingresos por derechos de imagen del jugador.
El organismo sostiene que Messi eludió el pago de impuestos “de forma consciente y voluntaria” y que tuvo que tener conocimiento de que cada año percibía “exorbitantes ingresos” por sus derechos de imagen.
Las autoridades también señalan que los Messi utilizaron paraísos fiscales en Belice y Uruguay para ocultar estas ganancias.
Ambos niegan haber actuado de forma incorrecta.
Este martes el abogado del jugador, Enrique Bacigalupo, indicó que es “imposible” que Messi vaya a prisión, debido a que no tiene antecedentes penales y a que asegura que “nunca tuvo consciencia de la defraudación”.
“Si dijo que no sabía lo que firmaba es que es así”, indicó el abogado.
La Fiscalía, por su parte, pidió archivar la causa contra Lionel pero está pidiendo una condena para Jorge Horacio de 18 meses en prisión por tres delitos de fraude fiscal.
En opinión de este organismo el futbolista no tuvo conocimiento del fraude perpetrado por su padre.
Los delitos de fraude fiscal están vinculados a ingresos del futbolista por derechos de imagen, que incluyen contratos con Banco Sabadell, Danone, Adidas, Pepsi-Cola, Procter and Gable y Kuwait Food Company.
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El abogado Enrique Bacigalupo, indicó que es “imposible” que su cliente vaya a prisión.
Los abogados de Messi aseguran que el futbolista “nunca dedicó ni un minuto de su vida a leer, estudiar o analizar” los contratos.
En su declaración en 2013, cuando la Fiscalía presentó la querella, el padre de Messi asumió toda la responsabilidad en la gestión tributaria de su hijo.
Ambos realizaron un “pago correctivo voluntario” de US$5,6 millones en agosto de 2013.
La Fiscalía exculpó entonces al jugador pero pidió una condena de 18 meses en prisión para Jorge Horacio.
Y la Audiencia de Barcelona decidió mantener al futbolista imputado en la causa.
Messi, nombrado cinco veces mejor jugador del mundo, es uno de los deportistas más ricos del mundo.
El futbolista no está obligado a presentarse en el juicio más que en la última sesión, el jueves, cuando tendrá que declarar.
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El síndrome del intestino irritable puede ser un grave obstáculo para la vida diaria.
“Tengo 24 años y hace tres me dijeron que tengo colon irritable. No puedo parar de ir al baño, voy al menos entre cuatro y seis veces al día. He perdido mucho peso y me cuesta seguir con mi vida”.
Este testimonio de un paciente con el síndrome del intestino irritable refleja el sufrimiento que puede causar este desorden del aparato digestivo.
El colon irritable, como se le conoce popularmente, es uno de los trastornos más comunes, afectando a entre el 10% y el 20% de la población en países desarrollados.
Los síntomas suelen incluir dolor abdominal, gases y episodios de diarrea y/o estreñimiento.
No existe una prueba específica para diagnosticarlo, tal y como explica el Servicio Nacional de Salud de Reino Unido (NHS, por sus siglas en inglés) en su página web.
Esto hace que normalmente se diagnostique por sus síntomas. Estos son los principales:
Dolor y calambres abdominales, que quizás se alivian defecando
Un cambio de hábitos intestinales, con episodios de diarrea, estreñimiento o ambos
Gases e hinchazón en el estómago
Flatulencia
Experimentar una necesidad urgente de ir al baño
Una sensación de que no se ha liberado del todo el intestino tras ir al baño
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Es importante que haya una buena comunicación entre el médico y el paciente.
Aunque la causa exacta del colon irritable no se conoce, sí que se sabe que hay factores que lo empeoran.
Para la mayoría de la gente, mejorar los síntomas es el resultado de un proceso de aprendizaje sobre el estilo de vida y la dieta.
Como en muchos casos el diagnóstico llega tras pasar por una consulta, es importante que haya una buena comunicación entre el médico y el paciente.
“Es bueno que haya una relación de confianza”, le dice a BBC Mundo el doctor Ramón Argós, de la unidad de Digestivo de la Clínica Universitaria de Navarra, en España.
Así, el médico puede orientar al paciente y ayudarlo a que “identifique y modifique” los factores desencadenantes.
Estas son las principales recomendaciones de los expertos para aliviar los síntomas de esta incómoda dolencia.
1. Recomendaciones generales de dieta
Los expertos coinciden en que la dieta es uno de los factores fundamentales que pueden empeorar o mejorar los síntomas del intestino irritable.
Pero es importante tener en cuenta que no existe una dieta universal para todos los pacientes que sufren de colon irritable.
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La dieta que mejor le sirve a una persona depende de los síntomas y de cómo reacciona a los mismos.
La dieta que mejor le sirve a una persona depende de los síntomas y de cómo reacciona a los mismos.
Por eso IBS Network (Red del síndrome del intestino irritable), organización sin ánimo de lucro de Reino Unido, recomienda llevar un registro de los síntomas y de los alimentos que se ingieren.
Así, con una especie de diario de la alimentación, se puede eliminar o reducir la ingesta de aquellos alimentos que son perjudiciales.
Hay recomendaciones generales aplicables a todo el mundo, según la Asociación de Dietistas de Reino Unido.
Comer tres veces al día y no saltarse comidas.
No comer tarde por las noches y hacerlo en pequeñas cantidades.
Comer con tranquilidad. Una buena digestión necesita relajación.
Limitar la ingesta de alcohol a dos unidades al día y mantener al menos dos días libres de alcohol a la semana.
Reducir la ingesta de cafeína. No superar las dos tazas de café al día.
Reducir las bebidas con gas.
Beber al menos ocho vasos de líquidos al día, sobre todo agua o bebidas sin cafeína.
Reducir los alimentos con alto contenido en grasa, como las patatas de bolsa, la comida rápida, el queso, la pizza, las salsas cremosas y los snacks.
Reducir los alimentos manufacturados y cocinar con ingredientes frescos en la medida de lo posible.
El doctor Argós recomienda también dejar de fumar en el caso de los fumadores.
2. Controlar la ingesta de fibra
Un componente importante de la dieta a la hora de tratar el colon irritable, que merece un apartado diferenciado, es la fibra.
Hay dos tipos de fibra: la fibra soluble, que el cuerpo puede digerir, y la insoluble, que el cuerpo no puede digerir.
Algunos alimentos con fibra soluble son la fruta, como las manzanas, las verduras de raíz, como las zanahorias, y las patatas o la avena.
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El baño es el gran aliado y un espacio imprescindible para las personas que sufren este síndrome.
La fibra insoluble la contienen alimentos como el pan integral, los cereales, las nueces y las semillas.
Si tienes diarrea, puede que te ayude reducir la cantidad de fibra insoluble que ingieres, así como la piel y la pepita de la fruta y las verduras.
Otras recomendaciones en caso de sufrir diarreas frecuentes es evitar los dulces sin azúcar, los chicles y las bebidas con los edulcorantes sorbitol, manitol y xilitol.
Si sufres de estreñimiento con frecuencia, puede ayudarte aumentar la cantidad de agua y de fibra soluble, pero en este último caso, hay que hacerlo poco a poco.
Si se hace de golpe esto puede empeorar los síntomas.
Los dietistas recomiendan también añadir una cucharada de semillas de linaza a los cereales, la sopa o la ensalada.
3. Mantener una dieta baja en FODMAPs
FODMAPs es el acrónimo en inglés de oligosacáridos fermentables, disacáridos, monosacáridos y polioles.
Son azúcares simples y complejos que se encuentran en una variedad de frutas y verduras, y también en la leche y el trigo.
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El café es una de las bebidas que pueden empeorar los síntomas, al igual que el alcohol y las bebidas con gas.
Pasan a través del estómago y el intestino delgado sin ser modificados y son o bien fermentados por bacterias, lo que libera gas, o expulsados con los fluidos.
Por eso en personas con intestino irritable pueden causar hinchazón, dolor abdominal y diarrea.
Para llevar una dieta baja en FODMAPs hay que reducir la ingesta de algunas frutas y verduras, leche de procedencia animal, productos de trigo y frijoles.
Pero los profesionales recomiendan primero consultar a un nutricionista o dietista si se toma la decisión de empezar una dieta de estas características.
“Es una dieta muy restrictiva y dura”, dice el doctor Argós.
“Por eso les decimos a los pacientes que vuelvan a las 6 u 8 semanas de iniciar la dieta para ver cómo evolucionan e ir reintroduciendo algunos alimentos”.
4. Hacer ejercicio
Realizar ejercicio puede ayudar también a aliviar los síntomas del intestino irritable.
“El ejercicio mejora las digestiones, ayuda a expulsar mejor los gases y a ir mejor al baño”, explica el doctor Argós.
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El ejercicio físico es recomendable si sufres de colon irritable.
El NHS británico recomienda al menos 150 minutos a la semana de actividad entre moderada e intensa, como andar en bicicleta o caminar con rapidez.
El ejercicio debe ser suficientemente intenso como para aumentar el ritmo cardiaco y de la respiración.
5. Reducir los niveles de estrés
Esto es algo más fácil de decir que de poner en práctica.
Pero se sabe que el estrés está asociado con ataques más frecuentes y graves de intestino irritable.
Como explica IBS Network, mucha gente “descubre que sus intestinos funcionan como una especie de barómetro emocional”.
“La ansiedad, la frustración, la desesperación, todos pueden causarte nudos en el intestino”, dice la organización sin ánimo de lucro.
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Los intestinos son un “barómetro emocional” y el estrés es perjudicial.
Esto no significa que todo lo que tenga que ver con el colon irritable esté en la mente.
Como dice IBS Network, un acontecimiento traumático puede iniciar el colon irritable y el estrés puede desencadenar los síntomas.
Pero, al mismo tiempo, los cambios en la inmunología del intestino o en el contenido bacteriológico del colon pueden afectar a cómo te sientes, y los síntomas del colon irritable pueden hacer que te sientas más ansioso y deprimido.
“El colon irritable es un círculo vicioso que afecta tanto a la mente como al cuerpo”, dice IBS Network.
Hay multitud de formas de intentar reducir el estrés, desde hacer cambios estructurales en la vida hasta buscar métodos de relajación, actividades físicas o, como ya se ha mencionado, el ejercicio.
También acudir a terapia psicológica puede ayudar. Sea cual sea la forma que cada uno encuentre, reducir el estrés ayudará a sobrellevar mejor el problema.
6. Fármacos y otros tratamientos
En caso de que el paciente no mejore con los cambios de dieta y estilo de vida, los médicos recurren a veces a los fármacos.
“Con los fármacos tratamos el síntoma predominante”, explica Argós.
Esto significa que se le da un tratamiento contra la diarrea si es el síntoma predominante, o contra el estreñimiento en caso de que sea éste.
Si aun así el paciente no responde, hay otros tratamientos con antidepresivos, antibióticos, probióticos (alimentos con microorganismos vivos) o prebióticos (sustancias vegetales no digeribles) que se pueden utilizar, según Argós.
Pero todo esto es algo que debe decidir el médico que esté tratando a la persona afectada.
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