Archive for May, 2008
May 29th, 2008 -- Posted in Product Discussion |
The vegetables are foods that help hydrate our bodies by their high water content, besides having many nutrients and health to be excellent. They are rich in vitamins, minerals, fiber and low in starch and sugars, which explains its low caloric intake for an excellent diet. They are also a source of indisputable substances antioxidant action. For all these reasons are deemed critical to health and indispensable within the concept of balanced diet, which is more representative model Mediterranean diet.
The Mediterranean diet, based mainly in the consumption of vegetables, helps reduce the risk of diseases maximum impact in countries of high welfare, including cardiovascular, cancer and degenerative diseases.
The recommendations of consumption of fresh vegetables are between three and five servings per day, i.e., a minimum of 400 grams daily.
Along with fruit, are the main dietary sources of vitamin C and vitamin A. Many also are excellent source of other nutrients, fiber and antioxidants and have a low content of protein and fat. To meet the recommendations, although it may seem an elusive goal, it would be sufficient to consume vegetables in the first plate and accompanying the latter, both as food for dinner. It would at least be that a serving of salad because this is the way that best preserves all its nutrients. To understand it better, it would be enough to make an approach similar to that described below: spinach (200 grams) with chick peas and at dinner, mashed potatoes and vegetables (150 grams) and fish with a tomato salad (120 grams). This leads to stress how important it is to continue launching campaigns to promote greater consumption of fresh vegetables. These should extend to the general population and health professionals and the media. Its success will lead to more easily incorporating these foods so essential in the diet for good health in sufficient quantities.
The term refers to vegetables all herbaceous plants that are grown and are suitable for consumption, either raw or cooked. The term vegetable refers exclusively to the green bodies, namely, leaves and tender stems or inflorescence (flower).
The concept of vegetables also include fresh vegetables or green beans and peas as fresh, of which no one speaks in this guide because its composition differs significantly in relation to the rest of vegetables.
May 29th, 2008 -- Posted in Product Discussion |
The idea of meditation is to reach a maximum relaxation to be aware. There are several techniques to achieve but all include focusing the mind without dealing with interruptions. Current popularity of meditation has reached non-religious but to relieve stress and other health related problems.
Different techniques:
The mantra: It is to repeat a word or phrase continually that has a positive meaning for the individual.
Focus on your breath: It is to think of a word that brings peace every time you breathe deep.
Vipassana Meditation: It comes into a state in which you are aware but totally disengaged from their thoughts and experiences.
Meditation with an object: It focuses attention on an object, for example the flame of a candle, sea, river, a flower, and so on.
When is it used?
It is used to relieve stress and anxiety and lower high blood pressure. It also helps to get rid of addictions and promoting staff development.
Exercise:
1. Sit in a chair and closing your eyes.
2. Take a deep breath and feel the oxygen traveling through your body.
3. Imagine that your muscles are relaxing.
4. Concentrate either in word, phrase or object.
5. Before opening the eyes and wait one minute before returning to the regular activity wait another minute. Stretch your muscles and please stand up slowly.
May 29th, 2008 -- Posted in Product Discussion |
Diet should be based on consumption of vegetable foods excluding products from the animal kingdom.
Food banned
Banned foods include: Sugar, fat, salt, meat, seafood, sausages, alcohol, although it allows beer and wine without alcohol.
Food Permitted
Fruits, vegetables, plants, vegetables, cabbage, vegetables, potatoes, brown rice, cakes and flour, bread, meat, boiled eggs, cereals, wheat bread, cheese without salt, skimming yogurt, toasted nuts but not fried, creams spreads without fat or salt. This diet can lose between 2 and 3 kilos per week.
The downside appears if applied in children and adolescents who need a lot of iron, calcium and vitamins that this does not satisfy why it is recommended before starting consultation with a doctor who diet tailored to their needs.
Monday: Day of the fruit
Throughout this day, you should eat fruits every 3 hours throughout the day either chunks, juice, compote, liquefied or in the oven.
Tuesday: Day of plants
This day, try to eat raw vegetables or steamed with fruit for dessert. For breakfast you can take a yogurt skimming with flakes of wheat and rice for lunch a glass of tomato juice accompanied by two white cheeses with crackers.
Wednesday: Day of fruits and vegetables:
During this day you can combine vegetables and fruits either raw or cooked. You can have breakfast with a thick slice of white bread with cheese and snack tomato half with ricotta.
Thursday Prepares for Day:
This day, you could spread into every meal 6 tomatoes, 2 bananas, 2 plates of soup accompanied by comprehensive oatmeal, boiled rice with grated cheese. Breakfast can be an herbal tea with cookie rice and a yogurt snack with skimming pieces of fruit and nuts.
Friday: Day of the imagination
Salads with creativity that you want to add; carrots, Rocket, tomato, cucumber, hard-boiled egg, pepper, everything you want while you are within the allowed foods. Coffee with a toasted cheese and fruit juice snack with a biscuit is your breakfast.
Saturday: Fish Day
Breakfast and lunch may consist of a skimming yogurt with cornflakes for the first since mid-afternoon you can take a cup skimmed milk and a cookie comprehensive. By noon you can eat a salad with tomato accompanied by brown rice and second two fish fillets to the plate.
Sunday: Day of pasta
Breakfast and lunch can be repeated from the previous day. For lunch a plate of pasta with tomato sauce comprehensive natural, basil and garlic accompanied with broccoli. The last meal of the day can be a dish of boiled vegetables with Soya.
For dessert, you can take fruit daily in raw or cooked form.
May 29th, 2008 -- Posted in Product Discussion |
There are various types of anxiety that, in some way or another, affecting each person differently.
In any case, there are various theories associating itself the source of anxiety to changes in brain neurotransmitters. Not for nothing, experiments conducted on animals have shown that stimulation of specific brain areas (such as the locus coeruleus, which contains nerve cells that use norepinephrine), caused a sensation similar to fear.
It is true that many people, themselves, unaware of itself, whether or not really have anxiety.
However, it is possible to know in a straightforward manner taking into account a range of symptoms both mental or physical. In reference to these psychological symptoms, there is tension, nervousness, excessive concern for himself and / or others, want to mourn, insomnia.
The physical symptoms, however, those identified by dizziness, nausea, palpitations, weakness, increased perspiration, tremors, increased respiratory rate, irritable bowel.
While enjoying the little things and face the facts with more positivity is one of the elements that will help us combat the anxiety, then expose various different types of anxiety that in the case that we have, we lend a hand to know exactly when and exactly what kind of anxiety we have:
- Generalized Anxiety: Inability to relax, apprehension, continuing concerns, to ease irritability, impatience, insomnia.
- Anxiety with agoraphobia: fear of open spaces such as squares, streets, and many other places outdoors.
- Anxiety with panic: Feeling of impending disaster, unforeseen terror, fear of dying, going crazy, of unreality.
- Anxiety obsessive-compulsive: Emergence of ideas so strange as repetitive, mechanical acts very unpleasant and negative thoughts.
In this case, and given that the situations considered to be “ideal” or “perfect” does not exist, we must deal with some serenity the various setbacks that can happen, and take-it-various CABI occurring as an opportunity to improve.
May 29th, 2008 -- Posted in Product Discussion |
Depression is a word that everyone has heard or read somewhere. Many speak of depression, even many believe it. But few people really know what depression is. Today is over diagnosis depression, or misdiagnosed, the degree of treating people who are just sad.
In psychology, depression is seen as the cold of mental illness, because it often affects many people over the course of a lifetime. If one took at least not at some lesser degree, sure know someone who it was depressing.
While some small feeling of depression is normal in any part of our lives, a major depression is a serious condition that should be treated. It’s really a mental problem, when the life of the person concerned is taken as a whole and affected by depression. Worst of all is that even takes the desire to go in search of treatment.
Generally depressive finish turning for help by a family member and most common is that they go to the doctor of the family, which are few times that recognize the signs of depression. If they do, then recommend psychological or psychiatric help, but if they do not diagnose the evil, and the patient can go from one side to another to find out what happens.
To avoid this from happening, a group of researchers armed with a list of 5 symptoms of depression:
1 - Humor depressive (feeling of sadness)
2 - Lack of interest (even in previously enjoyed activities)
3 - Feelings of uselessness, lack of courage
4 - Lack of concentration
5 - Thoughts of death.
These are the five symptoms that show that depression should be treated as a mental illness by a specialist, not by the family physician.
May 28th, 2008 -- Posted in Product Discussion |
The weight loss can definitely be a big challenge for many people. If you’re doing your best efforts to achieve your goals, you should also try to integrate some foods in your diet to accelerate your metabolism. This kind of food can really help your metabolism and lose weight quickly, so be sure to save this list of foods that speed up the metabolism so that the next time you go to the supermarket you make it easier to identify them.
The loss of weight can be achieved by reducing the consumption of products high in calories or burn with exercise and the food they consume can help eliminate weight in a safer and prolonged.
1) Water. Strictly speaking, water is not food, but it helps you stay fed. Not only keeps you hydrated, but also improves your metabolism processes and help you get rid toxins. It is definitely a component that you must work taken with food that accelerate metabolism and increase its effectiveness.
2) Spicy food, the Chile peppers in general. Not only reduce fat deposits in your arteries and controlling your cholesterol levels, also contain capsaicin, which activates the metabolism of fat in the liver and prevents fat is going up in your body.
3) Fish, particularly fish such as salmon and trout that are rich in omega-3 fatty acids. The Omega-3 can have a major impact on the enzymes in your body and determine the rate of fat capabilities of the system. The fish can lower levels of a hormone called leptin, which regulates the energy of our body and it definitely will contribute to a faster metabolism.
A fast metabolism means that you can burn calories much faster or keep them without accumulating as fat stored in your body, so be sure to keep moving and accelerate your metabolism
4) Foods rich in proteins, such as turkey, chicken, beef or lean. A diet of high protein value takes more energy to the body, the process of digesting food can increase the amount of calories that are burned.
5 Plant rich in fiber. The fiber is difficult for your body, digest requires a lot of energy in the body, thus helping you to burn calories.
To keep in good shape and health, you should always help consume the right kind of food. But even foods that help accelerate your metabolism, you must remember that moderation is important and allowing maintain a balanced diet.
Continuing accelerating your metabolism
With a slow metabolism, it is very likely to encounter the retention of fat in your body more easily. To get round this problem, you need to know speed up metabolism. At the same time, you also need to work hard to reduce fat in the body. Do not be misled by those who say that your metabolism can not be changed, there are many ways to accelerate your metabolism. But everything requires a little effort.
Your metabolism contributes greatly to weight loss, so you need to make sure that these ever accelerating your metabolism. For example, might think that those who skip meals or go on crash diets of improving and increasing the weight lost. But what this really makes it deprives them of much needed food and ruining your metabolism retard increasingly; diets of hunger will make your body think you are hungry and will be made after each store fat and calorie it reaches his stomach .
By speeding up your metabolism, you need to know some important things. First of all, always remember to eat breakfast in the morning. This wakes up the metabolism, especially after it has gone without food the entire night. If you jump breakfast leave him with less energy and contributes greatly to obesity.
Do not forget to make exercise. You can make the training of high intensity, resistance to develop muscles, or cardio workouts to keep moving. If you do not have time for very long exercise sessions, you can go out and walk and exercise routines short of helping to burn some calories.
After your workout, you should also consider either naturally or sweat in a sauna. Staying in the fourth of steam even by just a few minutes can help burn some calories.
Eating the right foods to accelerate your metabolism. For example: Foods that are rich in fiber, are more difficult for the body digest, and will be spending a lot of energy while your body processes food, however spicy foods, particularly those of chile peppers containing capsaicin can burn calories easily.
A fast metabolism means that you can burn calories much faster or keep them without accumulating as fat stored in your body, so be sure to keep moving and accelerate your metabolism!
May 20th, 2008 -- Posted in Product Discussion |
We all have a very busy schedule so that leaves us no time to exercise. So the first step to improve our health is finding a time for some exercise. Doing the same training can get reduce Weight but is unlikely to see improvements in a short time.
Here we suggest some ways to maximize our training:
1. Be consistent:
It is important to maintain the same amount of time devoted to training and exercise. Studies have shown that 60 minutes of exercise are best. So we can do at least 30 minutes of exercise at the beginning to experience the benefits and the advantage of weight loss. Then we can go slowly increasing training time to reach a goal.
2. We must keep proper posture:
Maintain proper posture during the training is very important to burn calories. Poor posture can lead to injury and the pain of muscle.
If you are a person who has not carried out or exercise your weight does not get it allows your workout begins with walking because it is an excellent choice. Once you win with fitness walking, you can increase the intensity of exercise.
3. It was cautious:
If we are exercising for weight loss, there is the orientation of the exercises we conduct. Since there are exercises that are not as effective for weight loss, some that help are: swimming and bicycling.
4. Breathing:
During a cardio training, caring your breath. Because during this training, full breaths delivered both oxygen as possible to the muscles you are working, making them more efficient, performs the full breaths during each exercise, exhaling on the effort when inhaling and relax.
5. It increases the intensity:
Starting with a low intensity, and go steadily increasing in training. If you’re exercising weight can integrate a cardio routine in this exercise and you can see excellent results in three to four weeks.
If you can talk to the person next to comfortably, it means you’re not working hard but while. Because we did not go beyond the limit in increasing the intensity of training that can hurt any muscle.
6. He began to walk:
If you are a person who has not carried out or exercise your weight does not get it allows your workout begins with walking because it is an excellent choice. Once you win with fitness walking, you can increase the intensity of exercise.
7. Do not be in the army with an empty stomach:
You should not exercise with an empty stomach. Since your body does not perform efficiently in training you can feel very tired or exhausted quickly.
8. Listen to music:
Music can make training more fun because it can generate more energy to perform the exercises and with more performance.
9. Swimming:
Swimming is one of the best exercises for working all major muscles of the body.
10. Listen to your body:
If those conducting the exercise that makes you feel bad, it is advisable to change your training program. Or on the other hand, and possibly your body can make larger amounts of aerobic exercise.
11. Make stretching:
Apart from aerobics and other exercises, stretching is important to get more of their training. Stretching helps in the recovery of muscle to do vigorous exercise and can prevent pain and discomfort. The whole body feels more comfortable when you have muscles strong and flexible.
12. Exercise at the right time:
Exercise when you have the utmost vigor. Work with levels of natural energy of your body.
13. Take plenty of water:
The water helps to reduce weight. Help for not having a lot of hunger so we eat less. The whole body works less efficiently when dehydrated. It is important to recover the lost water after a training because it may be because of dehydration.
Following one or more of these simple tips, you can maximize your training time and see results in the short term.
May 20th, 2008 -- Posted in Product Discussion |
Recently you gave in Nutrition tips to prevent cellulite gain ground in legs, thighs, belly and back, because now you talk about 7 Super food that help cellulite not be formed.
These foods have diuretic properties and are low in calories, thus acting in three ways: by helping to eliminate excess fluid, improving blood circulation and adding a few calories to your diet, three powerful weapons against the orange peel.
1. Strawberry: is low in calories and helps prevent constipation and accumulation of toxins in the skin.
2. Fennel: is super diet and balances hormone levels, reducing anxiety premenstrual that takes you to eat more and accumulating fat.
3. Kiwi rich in vitamin C relieves stress, it is also a natural laxative and potassium content favors the balance of fluids.
4. Pineapple: helps digest proteins, accelerates the repair of tissues, eliminates toxins and fluids withheld and is anti-inflammatory.
5. Grapefruit: purifies the body and takes it into the fast lifted eliminates toxins night.
6. Celery: is a powerful soothing to the stress and anxiety, which decreases the desire fatal eating everything.
7. Carrot: is rich in beta-carotene and helps to give color and elasticity to the skin.
May 13th, 2008 -- Posted in Product Discussion |
Certain substances containing green tea, called catechins, are effective against some serious ailments. In laboratory experiments conducted on rodents, green tea catechins proved effective against the excessive increase in cholesterol.
In Japan, where tea is drunk several times a day, statistics show that cancer mortality was significantly lower (both men and women) than in the rest of the world. Only 254mg of catechins sufficient to produce effective results in the bloodstream. One cup of green tea contains 100 to 150mg of catechin.
In 1998, Chinese scientists presented a detailed report of the studies conducted over six months, indicating that drinking green tea reduced the size of pre-cancerous lesions in patients who were treated with this infusion.
An investigation conducted by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that consumption of green tea can help you lose weight by stimulating the body to burn calories and reduce body fat.
Dutch Scientists discovered that women who drink more than five cups of green tea a day are at less risk of severe arteriosclerosis. In April 1999, a group of experts from the University of Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, USA published a report which shows that drinking four or more cups of green tea a day can prevent rheumatoid arthritis and decreases in patients who already suffer from it.
Green tea helps control diabetes. It has provided green tea extract to laboratory mice, proving that the product decreased the level of sugar in their blood. Japanese researchers have determined that catechins deactivated the flu virus. The green tea is very effective in preventing this disease.
Doctors of the Institute Aichi Cancer Control verified that catechins green tea inhibit the activity of the AIDS virus. The green tea stops the process of formation of plaques and destroys the bacteria that way. Some studies have shown a significant reduction in tooth decay among groups of students who drank green tea after lunch. The green tea also kills bacteria that cause bad breath.
It is a good treatment for diarrhea. It reduces and prevents high blood pressure avoiding the release of angiotensin II, a substance in the blood responsible for blood pressure increase. The green tea extract, which stimulates the metabolism of fats, can be used to increase endurance in sports.
The best way to get nutrients healthy is to drink green tea infusion freshly prepared, leaving infuse the leaves inside the hot water three to five minutes. The decaffeinated green tea, bottled ready to drink and instant components have less beneficial.
Experts point out that green tea can not be considered a cure against the disease, but it can be seen as a vitamin that strengthens the immune system.
Recent research has shown that although not miraculous, green tea can offer a real help in the fight against overweight.
Substances containing Green tea are anti inflammatory and anti-cancer properties and recently it has also been found that can play an important role by stimulating metabolism, reducing the accumulation of fat, and lowering cholesterol levels.
The green tea extracts increased energy expenditure (burning calories) in a 3.5% compared to placebo and a 2.8% compared with caffeine.
Also, you found that what most contributed to the increased energy expenditure was an increase in oxidation of fat, this means that increased the amount of calories your body burns per day, and the source for burning these calories was mainly fat, not bad for weight loss!
More recently, in January 2005, a new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, conducted by Nagao, and collaborators.
The researchers found the effect of catechins in reducing body fat and weight loss in a group of 35 Japanese men, all men showed similar weight. After 3 months, the men who drank tea with the greatest amount of catechins, they lost their weight, 5.3 pounds on average during the 3 months. In summary, studies show that green tea not only helps burn more calories, but favors the reduction of body fat and also helps protect the heart.
May 13th, 2008 -- Posted in Product Discussion |
The heart and circulatory system are just as vulnerable to certain diseases. For this reason, we should pay more attention on prevention so that our hearts are not sick.
With the name of diseases “cardiovascular” covers different types of conditions: hypertension (increased blood pressure), coronary artery disease (myocardial infarction), stroke (thrombosis or stroke), heart disease and rheumatic heart disease.
According to WHO (World Health Organization), cardiovascular diseases cause 12 million deaths per year worldwide. Half of all of them occurring in the United States and developed countries. In people over age 50, the risk of suffering some of them rises to 70%.
Because these diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide, some specialists recommend that preventive measures should begin in childhood.
The coronary artery disease is the most common cardiovascular diseases. It is currently the leading cause of death in the United States and other developed countries. But thanks to many thousands of patients in studies, researchers have discovered that certain factors play a significant role in the likelihood that a person suffering from a heart disease. There are two types of risk factors, major (whose effects have been tested without any doubt) and taxpayers (are those whose exact role has not yet been defined). Another way to classify them is modifiable (with treatment could bring problems disappear or not) and non-modifiable (that treatment does not change). Here is each of them.
Risk factors leading:
1. Hypertension.
Increases in substantially the risk of heart disease People with high blood pressure, overweight or obese, who smoke and have high levels of blood cholesterol, have a very high risk of suffering from these diseases. It is considered normal or high systolic blood pressure below 140 mm Hg and the minimum or less than 90 mm Hg When a person succeeds in hypertensive maintain normal pressure, the risk decreases significantly.
2. High cholesterol.
Cholesterol is a fatty substance circulating in the blood and is found in all body cells. It produces the liver to form part of cell membranes and hormones. But the agency also gets additional cholesterol comes from foods of animal origin (meat, eggs and whole milk products). The blood cholesterol often increases rather than cholesterol-containing foods, but by the content in the same saturated fat. Both dairy products and red meat are foods high in saturated fat. Anyone with high cholesterol achieves values below 200 mg / ml. remarkably cardiovascular risk.
3. Diabetes.
In diabetic patients cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death. It is believed that more than 65% of them die for this cause. The good control of glucose levels (sugar) in blood reduces the cardiovascular risk. While diabetes is an incurable chronic illness, patients who suffer decrease the risk if they make normal blood glucose values steadily, and that is why it is considered a factor to change.
4. Obesity and overweight.
Overweight and obesity increase the likelihood of acquiring or improving some cardiovascular risk factors, primarily hypertension, high cholesterol and diabetes. To diagnose overweight and obesity can be used BMI (body mass index) which is calculated by dividing the body weight in kilograms a person by their height squared, BMI = kg. /m2. If the result is between 20 and 25 is normal weight, between 25 and 29.9 is overweight and if it is over 30, obesity.
5. Smoking.
Everyone knows that smoking cigarettes and snuff increases the risk of lung cancer, but not everyone knows what it is that it also significantly increases the risk of heart disease and peripheral vascular diseases especially. Nicotine is the main active agent of smoke snuff; there are also other substances such as tar and carbon monoxide that are harmful to the heart and blood vessels.
6. Physical inactivity.
Inactive people are at increased risk of heart disease than those people who perform regular physical activity. The physical activity burns calories; helps control cholesterol, diabetes and blood pressure. But it also strengthens the heart and arteries make them more flexible. People who burn between 500 and 3500 calories per week, either working or doing physical activity, have a life expectancy far superior to sedentary people.
7. Sex.
Generally men have a higher risk than women to suffer a heart attack. Women up to age 50 are, so to speak, protected by estrogen (female hormones), but this protection disappears after the 50 and 60/65 years the risk is equal to men.
8. Heritage.
Heart disease is often hereditary. If parents or siblings suffered a heart or circulatory problem before age 55, the person has much greater cardiovascular risk than those who do not have a family history.
9. Age.
The elderly are at greater risk of suffering heart attacks. Roughly 4 of every 5 deaths from heart disease occur in people older than 65 years of age.
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