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Archive for June, 2011

Tea for our health

The researchers recommend to the people consume three to four cups a day or more of tea, to drink plenty of water and may even have more health benefits.
The work in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition dispels the common belief that the tea dehydrated.
The Tea not only is so re-hydrating, such as water, but also can protect against heart disease and some types of cancer, as nutritionists of the United Kingdom.
Experts believe that the flavonoids are the key ingredient in tea, to promote their salutary effects.
The polyphenols or antioxidants found in many food and plants, including the tea leaves and have demonstrated its ability to help prevent the cell damage. Read the rest of this entry »

Improve our “sleep hygiene”

There are times when we have problems for rest or sleep, this can happen because we are not taking a good “sleep hygiene”. The hygiene many times it relates only to those habits that helps us to keep clean, however, “hygiene” is anything that incorporates to take a healthier life.
When we talk about good sleep hygiene, is like when we talk about the dental hygiene to keep your teeth healthy and strong. The same is true with sleep, there are times that it is necessary to incorporate some habits, to achieve a dream more cash to help us to sleep better.
Some tips to improve our “sleep hygiene” are:
*Do Not go to bed unless you have dream. If you still do not have dream, although it is time to go to bed, don’t go. Read a book, listening to music soft, look for some method that will help you relax and distract your mind.
*If not able sleep after 20 minutes salt of the bed. Directly related to the previous council, the dream comes when we relaxed, instead of giving laps in the bed, go to another room seeks way to relax and when you feel dream again you back to bed.
*Imposes some customs before you go to bed. For example, a good hot bath or a few minutes of reading, may be ways to induce your dream.
*Wakes every day at the same time. Even in the holidays and weekends, to generate the habit.
*Sleep the number of hours necessary. Each day you sleep the number of hours that your body needs to feel good, this is not always are eight hours, discovers what is the amount of time that you need to rest properly.
*Tries to keep timetables. Trying to impose timetables for your meals, exercises and habits in general. Also for your hours of sleep.
*Not read, scribes, commas, mires television or talk by phone when you are in bed.
*Do Not go to sleep with hunger, but neither commas too before going to sleep.
*Your room should be quiet, a place where you can relax completely.

Reduce the symptoms of depression

Health Problems, fights with your partner, lack of money, disagreement with your work… Unfortunately, sometimes the reasons so bran to fall in the evil of depression.
While you should not compare with the aid can giving a professional, some changes in your lifestyle serve to improve your mood. Keep in mind the following tips even if you do therapy or you taken antidepressants: do not cost anything and safe will make you feel much better.
Do something for yourself and combat the depression with the following tips.
You do not guilty. This is the first step to combat the depression. The feelings of guilt do not lead you to nowhere. Read the rest of this entry »

The vegetarian diet

It has been discussed several times around the shortcomings and benefits of the vegetarian diet (discussions of which Federico has not left unharmed). However, now the lovers of plants appear to have a new data to argue in their favor.
A recent study by the University of Oxford, published by the British Journal of Cancer showed that those who follow a vegetarian diet have a 12 percent less chances of developing cancer. The figure rises to 45 per cent in the case of the blood.
Have been analyzed medical data of 61,000 people during a period of 12 years. The difference in favor of vegetarians was especially in favor in the variants of cancer of blood as leukemia and multiple myeloma. In turn, tumors in stomach and bladder seem to have narrowed being away from the meat. Read the rest of this entry »

After a life of effort and work

After a life of effort and work, the withdrawal was looked forward. The reasons for this so bran, although however many people fear that the times of peace and tranquility come accompanied by a sense of inactivity leading to a depression difficult to crack.
But not worry, because a team of French investigators and Swedes have done a study in which shows that the withdrawal contributes significantly to the welfare of the person, and after taking the step away from work are recovered ten years of youth.
The researchers worked to monitor the physical and mental health of 14700 people of the electric company French EDF-GDF during the final seven years of their work activity, and then during another seven years in which noted their quality of life after the withdrawal.
The conclusions of the investigation pointed to the reality that after the withdrawal people experience a sense of revitalization total, both physical and mental level, which translates into a fading of the aches and pains of the age, in addition to some desire to live that become patents. Read the rest of this entry »