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What is quercetin?

It is a bioflavonoid with anti-inflammatory found naturally in fruits and vegetables, particularly apples and red onions. It is also a water-soluble natural pigment with high antioxidant properties.
What food we can find that quercetin?

Where some of the foods we can find quercetin include apples, onions, especially red, blueberries, currants, kale, green tea and black, also in red wine, broccoli, cauliflower, peas, etc..
Ginkgo biloba, the herb St. John and the American Sabugo also are rich in this nutrient.
Properties of quercetin

* Used for several years to help combat food allergies and respiratory diseases.
* A high intake of quercetin reduces cardiovascular risk.
* Protects the kidneys from the toxicity of some drugs.
* Can eliminate the pain in cases of prostatitis. Read the rest of this entry »

Female smokers wishing to quit have to face different challenges in relation to men, but with proper care can be successful, experts say.

“The problem is that there are specialists or interventions that deal with all cases in the same way,” Dr. T. Ivana Croghan, coordinator of the research program at the clinic of the Center for Nicotine Dependence.

While research suggests that women may be more likely than men to relapse after quitting, Croghan added his own analysis of 3,000 people treated at the heart of the Mayo Clinic found no gender differences the ability of remaining free of the habit, six months later.

The reports of women were most troublesome symptoms of withdrawal such as depression, irritability, anxiety and lethargy, more than men, says Patrick Draper, a clinical social worker and specialist in the treatment of snuff in the clinic.

Additionally, smoking may represent a reaction to negative emotions for women than for men, according to Croghan, while women may also have less faith in their capacity to quit. Read the rest of this entry »

Isoflavones: They play a role by which estrogen is used to attenuate the hormonal changes in women’s stage of menopause, is found in vegetables and nuts in larger quantities to be the soybeans and soy products like tempeh (soya beans to adding a specific fungus fermentation).

Some scientific studies have shown that Asian women who eat soy have a lower incidence of breast cancer and the Western matrix.

Flavonoids: Family consists of the flavonols, the antocianidoles and flavones are antioxidant natural dyes that are the most important family of polyphenols, very present in the plant world.

Protect the cardiovascular system and are activators of enzymes, “glutathione peroxidase and catalase, which are natural antioxidants in our body.

The family found in sprouts, green leafy vegetables, red and purple fruits and citrus. Read the rest of this entry »

Broccoli is a vegetable that we include in our food purchases. This green vegetable called broccoli, but is also known as broccoli, Brassica oleracea italica broccoli or is an excellent food to include as part of our intake of five servings of fruits and vegetables a day.

Top 10 reasons for consumption are:
1. Broccoli is a good source of vitamin A (beta carotene), especially the leaves.
2. Broccoli also contains calcium and high fiber.
3. Eating large quantities of this vegetable can help prevent colon cancer and prostate cancer.
4. It can also help breast cancer and belonging to the cruciferous family.
5. Broccoli can be used as a remedy for blood pressure due to its high content of vitamin C (even more than oranges).
6. It is rich in antioxidants such as indoles, isothiocyanates and folic acid.
7. Because it contains chromium, helps control blood sugar levels and insulin.
8. You can help reduce cholesterol.
9. It’s low in calories. Read the rest of this entry »

5 a day is the minimum number of servings of fruits and vegetables we eat every day if we want to maintain a healthy and balanced diet.

For five servings of fruits and vegetables a day we provide:
- Large amount of water (between 75% and 95% of its weight is water)
- Vitamins, water soluble like vitamin C, folic acid and small amounts of other B group vitamins (B1, B2, B3 and B6) and fat-soluble compounds such as carotenoids (mainly beta-carotene) with pro-vitamin activity and vitamins A and E. K
- Mineral among which potassium, magnesium and small amounts of calcium, iron and phosphorus.
- Phytochemicals (volatile organic compounds present in foods of plant origin that, in general, there are nutrients that exert beneficial effects on health) among which we can highlight the carotenoid compounds, phenolic compounds, glucosinolates and phytosterols, and fiber. Read the rest of this entry »

This article is a continuation of “healing energy Acupuncture (III).”

Studies have also shown that acupuncture may alter brain chemistry by changing the release of neuro-transmitters and neuro-hormones, which affect parts of the central nervous system related to sensation and involuntary body functions that regulate a person blood pressure, blood flow and body temperature.

Clinical trials have shown that acupuncture can be very effective in relieving pain, such as back pain, dental pain, arthritis, fibromyalgia and carpal tunnel syndrome.

Research has also shown that acupuncture can improve the prospects of people with severe heart failure, and the elimination or treatment of nausea and vomiting associated with radiation therapy for cancer patients.

Acupuncture is used for the physical and mental well as depression, anxiety, insomnia, and stress. It has also shown great promise for the treatment of various symptoms associated with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). Read the rest of this entry »

Regular exercise can reduce a woman’s breast cancer risk, but the benefits may be lost if sleep deprivation, according to U.S. researchers.

The 5968 study of women in Maryland confirms previous findings that people who exercise regularly are less likely to develop cancer.

But when the researchers looked at women aged 18-65 years, who were in the top half in terms of the amount of exercise per week, they found that sleep seems to play an important role in cancer risk

Those who slept less than seven hours each night were 47 percent higher cancer risk than those who slept more physically active women, researchers reported at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.

“We believe it is very interesting and intriguing, although not something that has been widely studied,” James McClain of the National Cancer Institute, part of the U.S. government’s National Institutes of Health, said.

McClain, who led the study, says it is not clear exactly how little sleep can make one more susceptible to cancer, “Although the sufficient sleep has always been associated with health,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »

Auriculotherapy is a technique reflexological that we can assess and treat many ailments, from simple to complex in a wide range of imbalances.

Its origin is very remote, was born in ancient China for being there the earliest records of this therapy, but there are also data from your utilazación in Middle Eastern culture.

Today was a French physician, Dr Nogier, who elaborated on their effectiveness through increased knowledge of the application of scientific method, discovering or adding more points of stimulation and its application in many diseases.

When discussing technical reflexologists, we refer to those which apply in certain body parts, in this particular case, “the ear”, but there are many areas in body reflexological, feet, hands, skull, all comply with the principle of the hologram, where a part is equal to the whole process, which is applicable to the functioning of the brain as well.

The popularity of ear has increased its use as adjunctive therapy and often only in the treatment of addictions, obesity, smoking, drugs, etc..

Its application to the approach of traditional Chinese medicine and its theory of five elements, multiply their effectiveness. Used in Chinese hospitals as anesthesia, the method of Ear or the use of special needles to the pinna, as there are various methods of stimulation.

Some of the ailments treated by auriculoterapia are:

Distress, anxiety, depression, addictions, stress, back pain, eye problems, constipation, toothache, joint pains, rheumatism, sciatica, ear infections, allergies, etc.

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Both cholesterol and Triglycerides are fatty substances, which fulfill certain functions in the body and are therefore critical, as they collaborate inter alia in the manufacture of cell membranes of bile acids and certain hormones. Also accumulated fat in the body can be used as an energy source. Another function of fat bodies is to serve as insulation against cold and heat storage.

It should also be noted that the body requires a certain amount of fat daily. These can be supplied by food or autofabricados by the body.
When there is excess fat, the body has the capacity to eliminate, through the bile and stool after the excess fat.

What we really mean when the doctor tells us that we Cholesterol, if ultimately what has been said here shows that fats are good?

The problem with fats to health, is when its levels in the body beyond the limits of normal. How does this happen? There are certain substances called lipoproteins that are primarily responsible for carrying cholesterol to body cells (LDL = low density lipoproteins) and carried the excess cholesterol from cells to the liver for the body to expel him by the bile into the stool (HDL = high density lipoproteins). Any time you are most abundant HDL prevents the accumulation in our body the excess fat. Read the rest of this entry »

The root of “Kudzu” to quit
Kudzu is used in traditional Chinese medicine for high blood pressure and alcohol abuse, including the treatment of angina pectoris.

Its chemical constituents include p-coumerico acid, quercetin, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, Starch, Vitamin B-2, puerina, genistein, daidzin and daidzein.
It has been applied for a long time for treatment of alcohol abuse in the East.

Researchers at Indiana University discovered two compounds on the Kudzu, which alter the enzymes that break down alcohol in the liver and as a result, a byproduct of alcohol-acetaldehyde, which causes nausea, flushing, and malaise in the topic

Chemicals daidzin and daidzein in the roots and the flowers appear to suppress appetite by alcohol.

In a paper published Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, a team of researchers affiliated with Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, reported that there was moderately supplied to a group, the extract of the herb in capsule form for a week before to take part in an experiment that positively Alcohol was consumed significantly less than those who received placebo. Read the rest of this entry »