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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 »

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 fish oil supplements (omega-3) had no effect on mental abilities in a vast British study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, comparing their effects on mental functions with those of a placebo (inactive product) for 2 years.

Alan Dangour the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and colleagues conducted the study with nearly 900 health seventies. It is the longest study to date with placebo.

The participants took a combination of 200 mg of omega-3 type eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and 500 mg of type docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) daily or placebo (olive oil).

After two years, participants taking the supplements actually had blood levels of omega-3 higher but no difference was found between the two groups on cognitive decline, different types of memory, concentration, speed of thought, reaction times, …

But, says the researcher, cognitive decline occurs over several years and, although it is the longest study of its kind, it is possible that it was not long enough for beneficial have been detected.

Omega-3 have been linked to cognitive benefits in observational studies that do not compare their effectiveness to that of placebo. A recent study of six months with placebo did not show any positive effects.

The chamomile, lemon balm, hops, the flower of the Passion, etc.. are all presented as herbal infusions and having sleep-promoting properties. You will find them often in blends of tea “to find sleep. Be sure to prepare your own herbal teas or infusions for at least 20 minutes to get all benefits as simply soak a bag of chamomile in hot water for 5 minutes (for example) does not remove enough of herbal extract to obtain a advantage to the organism.

Although their effectiveness has not yet been proven by large studies, many experts do not doubt that drinking herbal teas or infusions may make some people sleep better. Drinking a hot liquid as a tea or infusion (as well as hot milk, see No. 1 above) before going to bed can produce numbness in the generation of body heat.

Note, however, if you drink too much fluid in the moments before the hour of bedtime, you may make round trips to the bathroom at night. A cup of tea or hot tea at bedtime might be worth it … if you have a bladder that can hold (you can not have you awake at night).

There are numerous counter supplements designed to facilitate sleep. According to a 2006 study, more than 500 000 French have tried complementary or alternative therapies such as these, and more than half reported that their insomnia has greatly diminished.

However, no rigorous scientific study has proven that these supplements work better sleep. There are some exceptions however, as the root of valerian root or turnip or the burdock that seem to help improve sleep quality with rare and mild side effects (such as stomach problems). Do not waste your money on any natural supplement for better sleep, do not take the supplements valerian root or burdock (or the beet root) first.

Whether you are anxious, depressed, irritable or just irritable, chances for a food product can lend a hand quite useful for your state of mind and cheer you up.

4 foods to eat to be cheerful:

1) Salmon
A selenium deficiency can cause anxiety and irritability. A serving of salmon will give you about 75% of your daily requirement of selenium. Salmon is also loaded with essential fatty acids omega-3, which play an important role in brain function and is supposed to regulate mood and relieve depression. Eating salmon can definitely help you maintain a good mood.

Other fish and seafood can provide omega-3 herring, sardines, tuna, shrimp, catfish farming, haddock, blue crab of the Atlantic, etc..

2) Chocolate
Chocolate contains phenylethylamine, the neurotransmitters that release endorphins in the brain and make you dizzy. Recall that the endorphins are compounds that have an opioid analgesic and ability to provide a feeling of well-being. Chocolate helps many people to find good humor in a bad way psychologically.

The reason why people love all the chocolate is not that chemical. The sweet taste of chocolate stimulates the pleasure centers of the brain. Eat preferably dark chocolate (with the highest percentage of cocoa available) to derive the benefits without feeling guilty afterwards.

3) Turkey
Although most do naps during the holidays are caused by too much greed and not by tryptophan (precursor of the sleep hormone, melatonin), this nutrient has comforting properties, it helps you relax and you calm. Indeed, tryptophan is an amino acid that is converted by the body into serotonin. But the levels of serotonin affect mood.

Eating the tryptophans is essential to produce serotonin, which in turn puts you in good mood. You do not need a special occasion to eat turkey and find the right mood, however. Chicken, tuna and even soybeans also bring tryptophans.

4) Lobster
Lobster is one food that most improves the mood because it contains a lot of tryptophan, as the turkey that we have seen above, but the lobster contains even more tryptophan than turkey. To avoid spoiling anything, the lobster was very tasty.

But the lobster is a delicacy available and cheap. Do not worry, other affordable foods also contain tryptophan: sunflower seeds, egg whites, cottage cheese, pineapple, tofu, spinach, bananas, soybeans, chicken fillet, turkey. Read also: Foods rich in protein food rich in protein.

There are several concepts for the definition of health, the first that addresses health is a concept that refers to an unstable equilibrium of the human being, its biological organism and its body (understood as representations of the same), in conjunction with biological, environmental, cultural and symbolic, allowing each addition to growing human being, enhance their potential in terms of their own interests and those of society in which it is immersed.

When any of these items are changed every other altered for a new balance of human beings. Such change may be transient, and process restarts intermittently before or fleeting casualty occurred in any of the above factors. The responses selected by the human face of these external or internal stimuli are many and varied according to their skills.

Health is therefore more than a state, an ongoing process of restoration of balance, a process that when some of the factors involved change and that change is maintained over time, the human being takes a fixed answer, which was sometime prior adequate to restore balance, but at the turn, leads to an inflexible catastrophic state that may be incompatible with life (Canguilheim 1982). This view implies that to maintain this balance requires a range of socioeconomic, environmental, biological, and health care that are brought together to sustain this equilibrium, which translates into the ability to live as an individual, to produce, reproduce and recreate the culture, understood as the sum of production, and institutions that human life away from the animal.

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