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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 »

Get to know how fed the man of the Era Paleolithic can be really interesting, especially to suspect that his food could have been even more healthy diets taken by the modern man.
The Paleolithic was the time of the hunters – gatherers. At that time the wild animals and food of the sea constituted the largest source of protein and fat. The fruit, nuts, seeds and plants conformed the rest of the menu of our ancestors. Moreover, cereals, dairy products and vegetables are excluded from this diet.
A study published in Cardiovascular Dialectology is one of the evidence more recent how this type of food can offer great benefits to modern man. In this study involved 13 type 2 diabetics with an average of 64 years (they were 10 men and 3 women who were not being treated with insulin). Read the rest of this entry »

This South-African plant that at present is located on the rise in its effects slimming, as one element for the fight against obesity, continues to be studied and within the information that we found, the scientists in South Africa in collaboration with a British company called Phytopharm, has isolated what is believed to be an active ingredient of the Hoodia.
This ingredient is a steroid glicósido, they called P57, on which obtained a patent in 1995, where license P57 to Phytopharm, company that has already spent more than $20 million in research hoodia.
Finally giant Pfizer pharmaceutical expressed its interest in the development of a drug hoodia, in 1998, Phytopharm sub-license rights to develop P57 to Pfizer by $21 million.
Much of the publicity about hoodia was immediately after the correspondent Leslie Stahl returns from Africa to publicize the hoodia, was hired locally to go with them to the desert and make the follow-up to the hoodia.
Stahl the consumed and described it as “cucumbery in texture, arguing that it was not evil”, adding that after he had lost the desire to eat or drink all day, also said that no experienced side effects immediate, such as indigestion or heart palpitations. The Hoodia gordonii is marketed in capsules, powder, liquid, in the form of tea in the stores of food and health on the Internet. Read the rest of this entry »

Begins Monday and your behavior in relation to your diet is exemplary. No thee grapes from the stripe and preserved the mentality Tuesday and Wednesday, without switch of your daily consumption because of calories. Thursday and Friday are two other challenges compliments, and you get to the Saturday with the satisfaction of having lost a kilo in five days. However, Saturday what spoil everything.
They are not few people who maintain a nutritional routine during the week and once reached the weekend they forget that they are following a diet and eat overreact, ruining all their efforts weekly.
This is not only a say, but that is a reality endorsed by all the nutritionists, and also a study published in the International Journal of Obesity has shown that people who are consistent with their caloric intake during the seven days a week have a 50 percent more possibilities to maintain its figure that those who continue subsistence strict only Monday to Friday.
With regard to diets, the week does not account only working days, but that every day you must exert to win the figure you need. Once the landscape changes and you can give you some flavor without switch of the line. But remember, everything is wins with effort, even a good figure.

The Nintendo Wii is a console of interactive games truly revolutionary. Indeed, this aspect revolutionary has to do with that interactivity of this console assumes that the players participate on foot, in movement, and not lying on the sofa as a TV sedentary.
Does this mean that someone can lose weight while you play to the Nintendo Wii? Yes, you can. But as with any exercise program, now devote time and something of sweat (if it is much sweat better).
To begin with the program you need have some things. This is a list of what you need exactly to work with diet:
- A Wii (preferably with a copy of Wii Sports).
- A TV (if you can be larger much better).
- A room, as big as possible.
Keeps a record of when you carry out this new routine and performed a mark when consider made the goal. Also, you can take note of how long you want to last each meeting.
Step 1
Now some games for Nintendo Wii you like. Many people choose the game Sports because it includes tennis, baseball, bowling (not served to burn many calories but can be a good preheating), and boxing. Plays a while to games for familiar and learn the basic movements.
Step 2
Establishes a route to help you respect. Decides how often and how long you are going to play these games. Writes with pencil and paper your itinerary and performed a mark each time you turn with a day. You may initially want to record weekly of your weight to see if you download something with the program established.
Step 3
Sets a player in the Wii that, from now, it will be who exercised with you on the screen. Simply follow the instructions on the screen or in the box. It is easy to do.
Step 4
Begins each session (each game) doing something stretch normal.
Step 5

Begins with the simpler games Wii. In this way, your muscles will have the opportunity to get used to the movements of the game. Read the rest of this entry »