Influenza: 3 foods to eat to combat flu

Posted by iqko | March 10th, 2010 in Healthy Tips | No Comments »

Influenza (also called influenza) is an infectious disease. Influenza is common (seasonally) and contagious. The disease strikes mostly in fall and winter.

This is the list 3 foods to eat to combat the flu, because they provide vitamins and nutrients needed:

Food to eat to combat bird No. 1) Vegetable Juice
Prepare a salad and eating it is probably one of the last things you’d want to do to fight the flu. Drink a glass of vegetable juice low sodium instead. You get a lot of antioxidants to strengthen the immune system and vegetable juice will keep you hydrated. If you want to drink something sweet, drink fruit juice 100% natural.

Food to eat to combat bird No. 2) Chicken soup
Not only does this soup is nourishing and moisturizing, but studies have also shown that chicken soup has healing effects and slightly anti-inflammatory. Studies have found that hot chicken soup can improve the ability of olfactory cilia (tiny eyelash-like hairs that are found in the nasal passages) to protect the body from bacteria and viruses.

Food to eat to combat bird No. 3) Garlic
If you feel an attack to eat garlic can be a good choice to meet food (like soup for example) and fight the flu. Garlic has antimicrobial properties and can strengthen the immune system. The garlic can slightly relieve congestion (sudden increase in the amount of blood contained in vessels of an organ or body part).

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Where to find calcium?

Posted by iqko | March 8th, 2010 in Alternative Medicine | No Comments »

Some deprive themselves of cheese because of diet. Others overlook the milk because they have trouble digesting. Result, many adults have trouble meeting the recommended daily intake of calcium.
Many virtues

Contrary to popular belief, calcium not only prevents osteoporosis. An estimated increase its consumption would also reduce the frequency of hypertension, colon cancer, premenstrual syndrome, baby blues and spasmophilia.
Which calcium intake?

7.5milkDifferent ages, contributions are different:

- For children: Dietary advice is about 800 mg of calcium per day.
- To an adolescent: the A.N.C. are from 1200 to 1500 mg per day.
- For adults, the recommended amount varies between 1000 and 1500 mg per day.
Facilitate its absorption

Consuming enough calcium is one thing. But it is still necessary to help him, once in the body, set out on the bones. For this, it is essential to have good vitamin D, which we will return in the liver, eggs, tuna, sardines, salmon. Regular physical activity and sunlight also contribute to a better absorption of calcium.
Making milk more digestible

It is quite normal for most adults have trouble digesting milk as infants. It is not in itself an intolerance to milk, but its sugar: lactose. The latter, to be digested, requires the presence of an intestinal enzyme, lactase, whose activity decreases in all mammals after weaning. If sensitive people do not want to give as much milk, they simply do not drink on an empty stomach but with a solid meal to delay its passage through the stomach. Better to choose a qu’écrémé whole milk, the presence of lipids favoring digestion of lactose. Or buy the trade a specific depleted milk lactose.
There are not that in milk

Dairy products are of course the champions of calcium with lead, the hard cheeses, followed by spreading cheese, yogurt, milk, ice cream. But calcium is also present in quantities in shellfish, egg yolk, nuts, soybeans, dry beans, watercress, parsley, cabbage. The mineral waters with a calcium content between 100 mg and 500 mg per liter (Hépar, Contrex, Salvetat, Quézac …) associated with dairy products, are also an interesting alternative for those watching their waistlines.
Examples of equivalences

300 mg calcium equivalent:

- Bread: 500g wholemeal bread, 2 kg of white bread
- Dairy: ¼ liter of milk (one cup) 300 g cottage cheese, 2 yogurts, 80 to 150 g gromage soft (pie …), 50 g of pressed cheese cooked (Emmental …)
- Fruits and vegetables: 500 g of vegetables, 500 g of dried fruit, 1 kg oranges 1 kg of fresh fruit
- Meat and fish: 3 kg of meat, 1 kg of fish
- Drink one liter of water Wattwiller

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The Benign Breast And Ionizing Radiation

Posted by Adin | February 27th, 2010 in Breast Cancer, Cancer | No Comments »

breast cancerMany studies show that the risk of a woman suffering from breast cancer increases with the number of affected relatives. Between 10% and 20% of women with breast cancer have a relative in the first or second degree affected by this cancer and 50% claim to have at least one parent at any grade. Approximately 5% of women with breast cancer have a family history that points to the mutation of a gene confers a predisposition to high risk, have isolated two of these genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, but these genes only account for between 30 and 40% of familial breast cancers that appear as an automatic dominant, so do not justify the etiology in a significant number of high-risk families.

There are other genetic mutations that are associated with an increased breast cancer risk, but are much less widespread than BRCA1 and BRCA2, are p53 and PTEN, each associated with less than 1% of cases. Read the rest of this entry »

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Breast Cancer

Posted by Adin | February 25th, 2010 in Breast Cancer, Cancer | No Comments »

breast cancerBreast cancer is a major public health problem for women worldwide. In the United States, breast cancer remains the most common cancer in women and the second most common cause of cancer death. In 2007 it is estimated that breast cancer represents 26% of cancer cases and 15% of cancer deaths, which translates into 176,296 new cases and 40,515 deaths. Breast cancer was also the most common form of cancer in Europe in 2006, with 429,900 new cases, representing 13.5% of all new cancer cases.

Since 1990, the mortality rate from breast cancer has declined in the United States by 24% and similar reductions have been observed in other countries. Mathematical models suggest that both the use of mammography and the availability of adjuvant chemotherapy and tamoxifen as well as contributing to this improvement. Although breast cancer has traditionally been less common in non-industrialized countries, its incidence in these areas is increasing. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Male Breast Cancer

Posted by Adin | February 23rd, 2010 in Cancer, The Male Breast Cancer | No Comments »

BREAST CANCER ON MALEMale breast cancer is rare compared with female breast cancer, but if available, about 1% of breast cancers that are diagnosed are male.

Because this is usually paid little attention and diagnosed late, leading to treatment possibilities are less successful.

It takes the form later than in women, age is around 70 years. In the same way that women have breast tissue man and one of the high risk factors is having a relative with breast cancer.

But also consider factors such as, aging, a diseased liver, testicular atrophy, an imbalance between estrogen and androgen, high radiation exposure, obesity, influence to develop the disease.

Symptoms are the same as in women, nipple discharge, hard nodules and chest pain. Read the rest of this entry »

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Daily Diet In Children

Posted by Adin | February 21st, 2010 in Weight Loss | No Comments »

child-obesityParents should be provided with basic daily diet for the child, from which they can prepare the family menu. The daily selection of each of the food groups (cereals, fruit, vegetables, dairy and meats) provide a balanced diet with sufficient macro and micro-nutrients.

The amount ingested, once insured the basic requirements can be determined by the child usually healthy growth. The agenda for child feeding is essential to assess their nutrient supply, but unless a daily supplement thoroughly for several days, will be unreliable. If a newspaper will be easier to correct the diet.
Older children should know as a basic diet is balanced and what is its importance in the growth and good health.

However, this information should never inspire fear in order to create strict eating habits.
For example, during the second year and over several years, you can give the child a cookie with orange juice or other fruit or a piece between meals. In kindergartens, is a good place to implement these measures.

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Preparation To Combat Smoking

Posted by Adin | February 19th, 2010 in Quit Smoking | No Comments »

no-smokingThe snuff is highly toxic and causes pathological processes. Its use produces a long list of ailments, including sinusitis, colds, chronic bronchitis, emphysema and stroke and cardiovascular diseases. In addition, the snuff sixteen substances have been identified that increase the likelihood of cancer. The most common is lung cancer, which is often diagnosed when it is too late for treatment. First, to alleviate and combat the effects of snuff on health, It is best to quit. In addition, there are remedies that help alleviate the effects of smoking, as this liquor, which acts as purifier bronchial.
The ingredients are: pine bark, bark of orange peel plum, oak bark, cherry bark, lemon tree bark, oak bark, nettle, rosemary residue and 1.5 liters of half a glass of warm milk. This preparation is consumed as follows; take milk with tbsp of brandy, fasting and bedtime. For the treatment to follow is to be effective for forty consecutive days and in this way is obtained the desired effects. Importantly, there are also group therapy that can complement the process of cessation of snuff.

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Plants And Foods

Posted by Adin | February 18th, 2010 in Alternative Medicine | No Comments »

hipercolesterolemiaPlants and foods that can be found in nature serve to nourish the body, if mixed in a certain way. There are recipes ideal for cleaning, care and moisturizing the skin.

The preparation of honey begins in the same plant. The nectaries, two glands located near the base of the flower, are secreted into the nectar that bees extract with their long mouths. So, helped with his tongue, bees seeking nectar, keeping it in their crops or honey bags to return to the hive below. Incredibly, a bee must visit a million flowers to prepare only one hundred grams of honey.

Over the centuries, honey has been praised for its antibiotic properties and used in many pharmaceutical preparations to treat from rickets, anemia, inflammation of the bowel, constipation and stomach problems. In addition, honey poultices placed on burns and wounds, have served to provide rapid relief of pain, and itching.

In material of beauty, honey has been for centuries an important ingredient in many creams and masks.

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Hypercholesterolemia, Epidemiology

Posted by Adin | February 17th, 2010 in Cholesterol | No Comments »

hipercolesterolemiaThe United States estimates that more than 5% of the adult population has cholesterol levels (TC) above 275 mg / dL, and approximately 25% of the population had values above 240 mg / dL (6, 2 mmol / L). This 25% includes the population most at risk of heart disease (CHD), but, despite the lower relative risk of 75% of the remaining population in the latter group experienced approximately 60% of all CHD deaths.

This reflects both the large number of individuals at risk as adverse effects have only modest elevations in plasma TC, especially if they are associated with other risk factors. In the same country it is estimated that up to 16% of the population has mild elevation of CT (200-240 mg / dL) and two or more risk factors, and that 10% of the population has HDL <35 mg / dL and 5% <30 mg / dL.

In this case, with CHD mortality rates similar to those of other Mediterranean countries and lower than those of northern and central Europe and the United States, the prevalence of HC in the adult population, taking values of CT > 250 mg / dL, according to various studies lies above 20%. According to the study by the Ministry of Health (1994), the average CT men 35 to 44 years is 208 mg / dL, which places Spain, compared with other European countries and the United States in an intermediate position regarding the concentration of CT.

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A Healthy Skin

Posted by Adin | February 16th, 2010 in Skin Care | No Comments »

skinToday we have prepared for you a guide to nutritious food and vitamins that are very healthy for the proper functioning of the body and skin.

To start with a few naturally occurring antioxidants that may help in this task, we found all kinds of citrus fruits. Thus we have strawberries, kiwis and oranges for this purpose as well as vegetables such as cabbage family or parsley, all the aforementioned elements full of vitamin C. Antioxidants are responsible for helping the skin does not easily deteriorate over time as well as to maintain elastic, making no wrinkles over time, and making the healing process of any kind of wound is much faster. Importantly, vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is ideal for the growth and repair of body tissues. In this way is responsible for strengthening the immune system, fighting thus to colds, flu and respiratory diseases in general.

Another product that can also work miracles with our skin is the banana, because it is very rich in zinc is responsible for a rapid turnover of skin cells. Zinc is considered as another element antioxidant.

On the other hand, it is important to note that consumption of nuts is highly recommended for those looking to have a healthy skin, eat something small portions of them could be another good solution to skin problems.

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