8/31/2009

Stress and hair loss


Too much responsibility has often been implicated in the onset of hair loss, but has not yet been confirmed by scientific studies.

However, we are all victims of stress induced by the events of everyday life, we must consider the role of stress in hair loss.

If it occurs in the weeks after a moment of emotional intensity can give abnormally high almost for granted that this is the cause and the best you can do is some kind of relaxing therapy such as yoga and watch regain your hair and brake hair loss.

Localized Hair Loss


Localized hair loss: androgenetic alopecia, alopecia areata, scarring alopecia.

Localized hair loss occurs in male androgenetic alopecia (gulfs, tonsure), fungal infections (ringworm) of alopecia areata in plaques, alopecia induced by pulling (trichotillomania, braids and hair straightening) or scarring alopecia (lupus erythematosus lichens, folliculitis decalvans, central centrifugal scarring alopecia, frontal fibrosing alopecia ...).

Tumors and skin growths are also accompanied by a localized hair loss (nevus sebaceous, basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma).

Diffuse hair loss


Diffuse hair loss: androgenetic alopecia, telogen effluvium, anagen effluvium, alopecia areata.

Among diffuse hair loss the most common are the common hair loss (androgenetic alopecia male and female) and telogen effluvium (after a high fever, pregnancy, drugs or a strict diet).

The anagen effluvium in turn leads to a loss of hair after chemotherapy or during the brutal alopecia. Genetic hair loss occurs at birth or during childhood rather (moniletrix anagen hair syndrome, ectodermal dysplasia).

Symptoms of hair loss


Hair loss can affect each other as various genres can also take many different forms:

"Hair loss can affect the child, adult, male or female.

-Cover all or part of the scalp.

Hair loss can be isolated or accompanied by many signs:

-fatigue
-oily hair
"brittle hair
-fine hair
-films or crusts
-itch

These signs are important in determining the cause of hair loss and the factors that contribute to hair loss.

Conduct in hair loss cases:
Hair loss requires a doctor to determine the cause, you sometimes need a blood test to develop a treatment for hair loss.

Normal hair loss and abnormal


Baldness "normal"

The hair is like a forest: the hair grows, lives and dies. Hair loss is usually dead replaced by new hair. Note that hair loss of less than 50-100 hairs per day can be normal.

The abnormal hair loss

In some cases, hair loss exceeds 50 to 100 hairs a day and consider it a disease of hair loss (alopecia for example).

Growth cycle and hair loss


The normal cycle of hair growth varies from 2 to 6 years. Each hair grows approximately 1 centimeter per month during this phase. About 90% of scalp hairs are in growth phase (anagen). Approximately 10% of scalp hair, at some point, are in a resting phase (catagen). After 2 to 3 months, the hair falling at rest (telogen) is again replaced by new growth.

It is normal to lose some hair (less than 60 hair) every day as part of this cycle. However, some people may experience excessive hair loss (more than usual, can affect men, women and children).

8/29/2009

How to improve complexion and keep it radiant


Women have a great opportunity to take advantage of the benefits that add beauty and youthfulness to the skin. According to recent studies, watermelon and cantaloupe can help preserve the beauty of your skin.

It turned out that in melon and watermelon large amounts of B vitamins, which together have a tonic effect and improve the structure of the dermis. Vitamins C and E fight against early signs of aging, preventing the appearance of wrinkles.

Everyone knows that the watermelon and cantaloupe have a diuretic effect. Regular consumption of these foods help to address the inflammation and cause a healthy complexion. Furthermore, melons and watermelons can be made to remove face masks, pigment spots and acne-fighting.

With the melon for 15-20 minutes on the face, then rinse and moisturize the skin with cream. This procedure is repeated two days during the month.

Top 5 causes of cellulite


1. Hormones.
Modernity and intensive agricultural technologies, penetrating even cow's milk, infant formulas based on cow's milk, meat or poultry, containing hormonal supplements (growth). These are products of wide circulation because they are considered vital to children's development and are full of hormones. These products consumed by children if taken in abuse have a great future of getting the necessary conditions for the appearance of cellulite.

Think about your diet not only children, also adults. More and more people in Western countries prefer natural products, grown by farmers, eliminating the use of stimulants. In some countries, open special stores for organic food. In supermarkets there are stands with food labeled as organic - organic food grown on natural fertilizers and without the use of genetic engineering technologies.

Another source of stress hormone - oral contraceptives, which are beginning to adopt many of today's young women to avoid unwanted pregnancy. However, many of them are not always aware of the fact that they are paving the way for cellulite: Hormones actively interfere with the metabolism, especially in fat and water that gives elasticity to the skin. In addition, a charge of sex hormones stimulate the accumulation of fat.

2. Artificial stimulants.
These include coffee, soft drinks with artificial additives - colors, flavors and taste imitators. All this is not natural, are toxic and are perceived by the body as foreign substances that accumulate in the deposits of cellulite.

Furthermore, the alcohol prevents the absorption of B vitamins, and detoxification.

For artificial stimulants, smoking, contributing to the rapid destruction of vitamin C, but depends on the condition of the skin and connective tissue. Vitamin C is necessary for collagen formation, because our skin needs a certain elasticity. In addition, nicotine reduces 20% of the intensity of blood circulation, which affects the metabolism at the cellular level.

3. Dehydration.
The modern woman fight against overweight, often come into the diets of "expel" the water from the body, reducing excess weight. The price of this diet is too high: the lack of water violates the welfare of the skin. Advised to drink 8-10 glasses per day of mineral water, fruit juices and vegetables - that help maintain a good balance of moisture and elasticity of the skin.

4. Ultraviolet rays.
The direct sunlight - the worst enemy of the skin, where it has already begun the process of cellulite. Creams protection filters do not help, protect only the surface of the skin but the subcutaneous tissue suffers from overheating. Ultraviolet radiation reduces the elasticity and firmness of the skin, removing moisture.

The tanning beds are worse, there's ultraviolet rays penetrate deeper than the sun. That affect average skin layers, contributing to further development of cellulite.

5. Stress.
Stress affects the formation of cellulite is not directly associated but through the production of unhealthy habits, "borrowing" the tension with something sweet. According to research from the American Institute of Aesthetic Medicine, women who do not have cellulite but rarely eat sweets. The leaders of this indicator, Japanese women, who had practically no cellulite "orange peel". Meals of seafood, vegetables, seaweed and rice, in which almost no desserts, is considered the best prevention. Another anti-cellulite can be considered Mediterranean cuisine, in which there is a lot of vegetables, fruits, vegetable oils, fish but little meat and sweets.

Tips to prevent cellulite


Modern medicine and cosmetology offers many tools for the treatment of cellulite: liposuction massage, special diets. However, different results can be achieved not all be identical in each case.

The WHO says: Cellulite is easier to prevent than cure.

According to WHO, in today's world there are 250 million people suffering from obesity, which paves the way for cellulite. Every 10 years the number of future victims of cellulite is growing by 10%. American experts have concluded that, from prevention "education" of the "orange peel" of the body from childhood are more likely to avoid it. Because fat cells grow and divide, from the fourth month of fetal life and up to five years, and only increase in size thereafter so that the structure of skin and subcutaneous tissue is laid down in this time.

It can also happen the appearance of cellulite at puberty and pregnancy so beware doing light exercise at these stages to prevent its development.

8/20/2009

Treatment of osteoarthritis


When possible, always try to correct the triggers or aggravating obesity is corrects the difference in leg length and protected if there are joints. Exercising with diseased joints is essential. It must maintain joint movement and strengthen muscles to prevent the joint becomes flaccid and reduce rigidities.

Exercise should be gentle and not cause pain. Swimming and gentle walks are highly recommended. Osteoarthritis can medicate. Medications are used to relieve pain and reduce stiffness duration. There are many different types of drugs such as anti-inflammatory, taken as the degree of pain.

They have now developed a set of drugs and therapies designed to eliminate pain and improve function and joint mobility. These drugs stimulate the natural repair process of articular cartilage by relieving the pain by stopping the destruction of cartilage.

These drugs increase the synthesis of glycosaminoglycans, chondroitin sulfate and collagen, essential to repair damaged cartilage in osteoarthritis.

The causes of osteoarthritis


The causes can be manifold:
- Aging.
- Inheritance.
- Obesity.
- Overload disorders.
- Local lesions: fractures, injuries, sprains, inflammations.
- Excessive use: professional work.

Local symptoms include pain, stiffness, limited mobility and loss of function. The pain is usually the first manifestation. It gets worse when we move or do some activity and improves with rest. Is morning stiffness lasts half an hour, and gave to walking, to reappear after a period of inactivity.

Subsequently becomes more severe arthritis and pain is more continuous. Appears atrophy and muscle spasm. The alteration of the muscles causes more pain, altered joint mobility.

As late complications may occur deformities in flexion contracture and instability of the joint.

Self-healing using the mind


What distinguishes Western allopathic medicine based on treatment with different medicines diagnoses of all other healing disciplines, is a key concept: the separation of mind and body. However, the "malaise" is not limited to the physical body, the thoughts and emotions are causative factors. Healing needs to refer to these elements. Getting better is not just to fix the physical body.

Just as thoughts are powerful vibrations that can keep us healthy, negative thoughts can make us sick and keep us sick. There is
large amount of scientific research that can support these principles. For 25 years, scientists at the Laboratory of Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) at Princeton University, have shown significant correlations between human intention and behavior of the machines.
Western allopathic medicine usually ignores these concepts.

Most doctors only if you study physics in medical schools. Homeopathic medicine, traditional Western medicine with ancient roots, based on the law of similars, treating patients according to their mental symptoms, emotional and physical. The ancient Chinese medicine and Ayurveda (traditional Indian medicine) establish relationships between physical symptoms and emotions.

Dangers of dehydration in infants


Some 1.8 million children under five die each year from diarrhea in the countries of middle and low income, according to estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO). Almost half of these deaths are due to dehydration. A recent research I discovered that oral hydration is as effective as intravenously, so it should be chosen as the first therapeutic option.

However, although the oral method is effective and cheaper, their use is less widespread than intravenous therapy. The researchers explain that oral hydration (with dropper, for example) is not as popular because it is believed that his administration needs more time and effort, when the reverse. "The review has shown that oral therapy is less expensive than intravenous and is associated with fewer days in hospital the baby," she indicated.

When given by mouth, is a less traumatic for the baby and may ask questions at different locations, even at home. Dehydration occurs when the amount of water that has the body to function is reduced either by vomiting, diarrhea or excessive sweating, which causes dry skin, headaches, eye sink, dizziness and confusion.

Exercises for Seniors


Maturity is such a good time to take care ta shape as any other, perhaps better. Active Aging helps improve muscle tone and diseases such as osteoporosis or heart failure. Simply walking for 30 minutes, up and down the stairs at home or avoid going by car whenever possible to walk.

Regular exercise is good for anyone and, in the case of the elderly, is of particular importance because it helps improve the functioning of virtually every system and organ systems. It also reduces cholesterol levels, controlling body weight and exerts a positive effect on the cardiovascular system. But the benefits continue, increases muscle function, prevent problems such as falls, instability or situations of lack of autonomy, improving certain tumors, like colon cancer, and has been shown that regular activity can help treatments calcium fixation in bones of a very remarkable.

It's simple: if a car is not moving, it starts to go wrong and if a body does not move, it atrophies. Sport is necessary not only to maintain good health, but it also helps to decouple the terms aging and dependence because the person practicing sport feel more active and able to live free of dependence until near the end of his life.

In older people, physical activity is also a good drug against psychological problems, because it improves self-esteem and decrease the tendency to anxiety. What are the most recommended exercises in over 65 years? Note:

• Walk whenever you can.
• Assist in the cleanup of the house.
• Assist in gardening.
• Go to shop on foot.
• Up and down stairs.

The standard model is walking. That is fundamental and must always be done. From there, you can do continuous running, cycling or swimming.
Beware, however, with the possible contraindications to physical activity: those with hypertension, for example should not do strength exercises, like weightlifting. Obese people should not run too much if you have more than sixty years, it is evident that with each stride will bear a great weight on the knees.

One aspect to consider is that the gym exercise program should be made, whenever possible, in groups of two to three people. In addition, care should be especially warm, since the sessions last between 50 and 60 minutes and should start practicing stretches tailored to the elderly, working joint mobility. Do not expect results the first week, since you need to go to the gym two or three times a week. Results will begin to appreciate after three months.

There is no age for the exercise!


Any physical activity is good. According to the results of a study, people 70 and older who exercise have a lower risk of death than those who prefer to stay at home watching television. Much has been said about the benefits of physical activity, but most studies focus on young people and are less research evaluating its effect on the elderly.

The study looked at 302 men and women ranging in age from 70 to 82 years. We calculated the amount of calories burned each subject because of their physical activity level, by subtracting the commonly consumed due to metabolism of the body at rest after six years of follow up, the mortality rate was 12.1% for the group of most active subjects compared with 24.7% for the idler. "For every 287 kcal / day expended, there is a 30% lower risk of death," say the authors of the study.

How to prevent nail biting


Nail biting is a problem more common than believed. Still, the problem is usually common during adolescence and disappears when the woman realizes that her hands are also part of its appeal. Anxiety is a major cause of this psychological disorder known as Onychophagia, though some experts also say that is placed in a situation of lack of affection, which causes a reaction similar to that of children who suck their thumb.

There are natural solutions against this bad habit. One is to spread a little garlic oil on the nails. If you do not mind the smell, has the advantage that garlic also strengthens nails. Other variants of the same system is impregnated fingernails with pepper or onion juice. A single caution if you decide to adopt this system: keep your fingers away from the eyes to prevent irritations.

• When talking about a habit, as is the Onychophagia. refers to a repetitive act that it becomes automatic. However, it remains a manifestation of a deeper position. in the case of Onychophagia. generally is in anguish.

• Experts agree that it is essential to have absolute knowledge that you have a habit-especially when it begin installing "comfortably" in the everyday individual, so you can change this behavior.

• It is essential to clarify why when it comes to Onychophagia not correct to define it as a hobby but as a compulsion. This is because there is a clear distinction between these two terms: while the former has to do with a psychopathic disorder. the second is the appropriate word to mean what people generally want to express when it comes to a hobby.

• But the mania is a psychological disorder (manic-depressive bipolar disorder, such is his name), which may lead the patient in a phase, the depressive, to its opposite state, the euphoria. As shown, the actual concept is very different mania that people get to use it as synonymous with compulsion.

• It is also important to make a clarification between the words obsession and compulsion, since they are not synonymous. An obsession is an idea, a thought, an image that appears repeatedly. For example, suffer the exaggerated fear that someone close will die and be convinced that this will happen. These are concepts that in: a controlled but without any sense. These feelings are disruptive to the person who does, who can not ignore them voluntarily.

• It is these ideas, obsessions, occur on a mental level, are generated by compulsions, which are given in terms of behavior. An example of the latter derived from the first: if a subject is obsessed with the idea that going to die, suffocated by a gas leak. review the cock again and again in exaggerated form.

Tips for ageless skin


In the summer.
• Reapply sunscreen every 2 hours: although new products are water resistant, it is appropriate after a few hours to re-apply. So get a healthy tan. Your first application should be made half an hour before sun exposure to the skin to absorb the whole product.

In the winter.
• Get a peeling: those considering starting treatment with acids to improve skin texture, can opt for this time of year. This treatment, which must be performed exclusively by a dermatologist, allows a deeper peel, and helps remove scars and acne marks. Winter is ideal, because we have to avoid sun exposure because the skin is very sensitive and could stain.

From age 15.
• Begin to prevent cellulite: During adolescence, sex hormones are more active, favoring the appearance of "orange peel". If this condition is compounded by genetic predisposition, is almost certain to suffer from cellulite. As a preventive plan must contemplate a healthy diet, the practice of physical exercises and the use of cosmetics that improve skin texture.

From 25 years.
• Start using anti-aging products: the process of skin aging is more evident after this age, because the activity of the cells begins to be slower. To slow the signs of time, we must care for the skin. Cream eye area and those based substances "rejuvenating" as glycolic acid, are ideal. Apply at night, because that is when cells are rapidly renewed and everything is going to make more use effect. It's also good to use a dermatologist to get a peel, which helps reduce fine wrinkles and expression lines. Another option that also requires medical supervision is retinoic acid, a substance that exfoliates the skin by improving its texture.

From ios 40.
• You can get a facelift: from this age, the skin of women is often present in skin areas can be removed without compromising the course of surgery, which can be done with an optimal cosmetic result.

How to shave and skin care


Waxing every 30 days
During this period, the hair reaches a length which facilitates its removal with wax, creams or depilatories. In the case of using razor, surely you must repeat the process every 4 to 7 days.

• 1 day before: stop drinking coffee, tea, colas and those containing caffeine, because they increase sensitivity and make people feel more pain, and predispose to skin irritation.

• 5 minutes before: Wash the area to be shaved with water and soap. This step is almost mandatory to eliminate waste of sweat and moisturisers which do not favor the work of the wax, razor or electric epilation.

• 2 hours later: Use a moisturizer. The pores takes about that long to return to its normal size. If you do this before you run the risk of clogged with cream and that will cause it to embody some hair.

• 2 days later: hair removal sensitive skin and leaves the sun can irritate more. So wait before being exposed to the rays. And when you do not forget to use a good sunscreen.

When cutting hair?


Every 1 month.
• Trim the hair from this period begin to notice it brittle, as well tips begin to flower-doubles. Those who have given notice that a court loses its way and must appeal to a specialist to recover it. To renew your hair faster, it can be cut-points-every 45/60 days.

Every 3 months.
• If you are letting your hair grow, is the latest to cut it: there are people who have short hair and severely damaged, and the growing desire to quit delaying a visit to a hairdresser. In such cases, not exceeding 3 months, thus avoiding peak bloom, and allow a healthy growth.

Tips for skin care


Is recommended once a month.
• If your skin is dry, use an exfoliating if frequency increases can dry skin even more, because exfoliating removes excess oiliness.

• Perform a clean skin with a cosmetologist normally dermatologists often recommend this for those with oily skin. In this way the pores are kept clean and free of oiliness. If your skin is dry, do the same thing every two months.

As far as possible, always opt to make the turn with a specialist that afternoon. Because the work of the professional will encourage cell renewal that occurs during the night, the elimination of toxins. Furthermore, the skin will recover any more scars.

How to have smooth and beautiful skin


Frequency: 1 day per week
• If you have oily skin, make an exfoliation: the exfoliating helps remove dead cells from the surface of the skin and remove excess fat. Distribute the product soft and circular movements to not irritate the face. In cases of skin with acne should consult a specialist before making an exfoliation because too much can irritate the skin.

• Wear a mask: a soothing, exfoliating, moisturizing ... According to skin type and the recommendations given by the specialist, chooses the ideal. First clean the skin thoroughly, then apply the mask on the face and let it act for 15 minutes. After rinsing, dry with a towel and apply a moisturizer.

How to achieve a silky hair


Frequency: 1 day per week
• Have a bath of cream: If you have dry hair, this is the ideal frequency. In some cases of greasy hair, it is recommended to make the bathroom only once a month. Remember that the product should be used after the shampoo and applied throughout the hair, in greater quantity in the points.

Then wrap the hair with a towel, who wishes can do with sticky paper, which is used in the kitchen and let the product act for 15 minutes. Then rinse, and if the hair is very dry, use a cream rinse.

How to prevent black spots on the skin


Apply 2 times a week.
• Use a sponge to exfoliate the plant body: the everyday use of "conventional sponge" makes a natural exfoliation of the skin, making the cells are released more quickly and easily. The purpose of the use of vegetable sponge is to obtain a more thorough cleaning, avoiding the appearance of black spots that are installed on the back and neck. In the case of very dry skin should use a moisturizing soap.

How to look beautiful skin


Repeat daily.
• Hydrate the body: it also needs the active ingredients that contain the specific products to be hydrated. For better results, use a product after bathing on damp skin. This helps improve the absorption of active ingredients of the product.

• Wash the hair does not take into account the theory that holds that it is not good to wash your hair every day because the roots are damaged. The hair should be washed as often as it considers necessary, and even more if fatty. Remember that, unlike what is commonly believed, which makes it really bad hair is the lack of hygiene and oil excess.

How to have a perfect skin


Frequency 2 times per day.
• Clean thoroughly the face at night to remove dirt that has adhered to the skin throughout the day, such as soot and sweat, and to encourage cell renewal. And in the morning, to eliminate the toxins released during his skin renovation work. According to skin type should use creams or emulsions.

• Tone and hydrate the face: do both the morning and at night. At the time bedtime moisturizer can replace a nutritious or trafficker.

Skin care and skin on hands


Repeat 3 times a day:
• Apply a moisturizer on your hands: the ideal is to apply a moisturizer as many times as they washed their hands because soap helps dry the skin.

• Wash your face: this advice applies mainly to people who have oily skin. Because while the "deep cleaning" should be done morning and night, during the evening the skin reaches the peak of oiliness, you should remove it.

8/06/2009

Tips against envy


Popular beliefs have imposed thousands of ways to curb the negative action of the envious. The completeness and remedies against the "vibe" or the "evil eye" are clear examples. But psychology is also recommended to remain alert and not get carried away by the negative feelings of others.

The recommendation is to stay away from the envious, and, where possible, try not to surround yourself with those who can not resist the urge to compare with others and what they want from the outside. Not worth losing energy explaining to others what it has cost to acquire what it has achieved. Therefore, it is best to make your circle of friends with people who want the best for a happy and that is good news to each.

The world's happiest


The University of Leicester in England, has conducted the first global map of "happiness", which the Danes and Swiss are the happiest while those Burundians and Zimbabwe the least. The map was assembled by an expert in social psychology Adrian White, who based his analysis on life expectancy, economic welfare and access to education. The specialist used data published by UNESCO and the World Health Organization (WHO), to illustrate international differences on level of happiness.
The map includes 177 countries and is based on responses on the subject of some 80,000 people.

After Switzerland and Denmark, the happiest people are citizens of Austria, Iceland, Bahamas, Finland and Sweden, whereas among the top 20 are also Costa Rica (13), Netherlands (15), Malaysia (17) and Norway (19 ), while the United Kingdom remains at the forty-first and twenty-third in the U.S..
Among Latin American countries, Argentina are on the list (56), Bolivia (117), Brazil (81), Chile (71), Colombia (34), Cuba (83), Dominican Republic (42), Ecuador (111 ) El Salvador (61), Guatemala (43), Honduras (37), Mexico (51), Nicaragua (85), Panama (39), Paraguay (75), Peru (115), Uruguay (87), Venezuela ( 25).

Risk of depression


To investigate whether depressive symptoms are associated with risky sexual behaviors, a U.S. team conducted a large study that included questions to 4152 boys and girls who had been interviewed in 1995 on the matter and also a year later. The level of depression of the participants was evaluated through a questionnaire of 19 questions.

The guys that scored the first interview are those who recognized a year after failing to use protection or birth control methods in their last sexual encounter. Also showed a greater tendency to consume drugs or alcohol before their last intercourse. The girls had a higher score less used condoms and other methods to prevent an unwanted pregnancy and those that were had three or more sexual partners in the past year.

Other studies have suggested a link between depression and sexual risk, but this analysis is unique because the sample is large, representative and has been observed for a year. "Young people are more anxious and isolated tendency to yield to the time of sexual intimacy to share," the report said. They can also use sex to cope with their symptoms of depression.

Pain in the birth


A review published recently returned to sow the controversy surrounding the ability of the fetus to feel pain. Although towards the end of pregnancy and neural networks are trained to perceive unpleasant feelings, the study shows that the fetus can not feel this complex experience.

The topic under discussion because in some countries where abortion is legal, he begins to speak of the need to anesthetize the fetus during surgery. This is a practice with certain risks for pregnant women, "Although the system is clearly immature and still has much development to occur, there is good evidence that the biological system necessary for pain is intact and functional just after week 26 of pregnancy, "conclude the authors of the research.

Cold Healing


The old cold remedy is effective in relieving pain from sprains, but we must know how to apply. According to one study, apply ice on the ankle so it is more effective than intermittent cold to maintain for an extended period.
Although it is often used for cold soft tissue injuries (contusions, sprains, relaxation), there is no evidence to indicate what is the mode, duration and optimal frequency of application.

Patients during the 72 hours after applying ice sprained ankle in the intermittent mode (10 minutes cold, 10 "rest" and ice every 10 hours, at least) experience less pain that conventional treatment ( apply ice for 20 minutes followed, with minimum intervals of two hours).

"The intermittent application of cryotherapy in a mild ankle sprain or moderate significantly reduces the level of pain during motion one week after the injury," summarizes the authors.
By contrast, the work has not seen the ice at more advantageous for long-term effects of the injury.

What is asthma?


At present, asthma is responsible for one of every 250 deaths worldwide, despite the fact that the treatments are effective in most patients. In the early twentieth century began to use bronchodilators, but was not recognized until 1960 when the inflammation of the airways as a precipitator of symptoms.

The "hygiene hypothesis" argues that children living in an extremely clean environment do not develop properly because defenses do not normally come into contact with stimuli or infections. Therefore when exposed to an irritating, over-react.

Thanks to some research, is beginning to consider asthma as a symptom of different disorders and not a disease itself. While it may seem a step backwards instead of progress, in reality it is an evidence provided by a more scientific knowledge on the subject.

Sounds for relaxation


If a sound similar to the "hiss" from the wind or the waves, but constant and repeated is the white noise or white noise is achieved by combining all the sounds of the environment from 0 to 22,000 Hz The uses that have given this mix of sounds, is therapy for some common ailments in humans. Although it is used to soothe discomfort, is not a medical therapy.

White Noise is only an aid to control symptoms, naturally, in some cases doctors. For example, it has been recommended in patients who suffer from tinnitus (ringing, whistle or noise that a person feels constantly in the ear). White noise to help mask the buzzing and reduces the discomfort. Because of its relaxing effects, it is also used to control insomnia. In the case of babies with colic or worried, this reassures the therapy helping to reduce crying.

It is also used to mask other noises, that is, makes you miss the intensity of that sound by the action of others. For example, if a group of people holding a conversation and have white noise in your environment, no strangers to the meeting may hear it. The white noise is traded on electronic equipment developed by high technology companies, some at high cost. Also on compact discs at affordable prices.

How to prevent bone pain


It is often confuse osteoporosis with arthritis. So often those affected expect a joint pain and numbness, but those are symptoms of arthritis. Osteoporosis is asymptomatic and does not cause pain until a fracture appears. For this reason experts advise not to wait any symptoms and consult with your doctor to know your risk factor by age and nutrition.

• If your bones do not move, do not receive any messages that warn them to be kept strong.

• Although you can not see the answer to the exercise of their bones, they are always in development.

• Your diet should be rich in calcium and vitamin D (as this determines the nutrient calcium)

• Even if you have always had a sedentary occupation, you can now begin to make different types of exercises to prevent osteoporosis.

Prevent Osteoporosis


Approximately 5% of the body is composed of minerals. Among them is vital calcium, located primarily in bone and teeth, and the remainder used for nerve conduction, allowing the muscles receive the signal to contract and relax.

Finally, it helps the blood to clot. When the body does not get enough of this mineral for a balanced diet, you need a supplement for extra balance. This equilibrium is jeopardized by certain factors that affect its absorption and retention. These are:

• Excess alcohol alters the absorption of calcium.

• Regular consumption of large doses of aspirin and anti-inflammatory drugs reduce the levels of calcium

• Oral contraceptives tend to deplete the body reserves of calcium among other minerals.

• Smoking increases the needs for calcium and vitamin C.

Again demonstrates that the health and movement go hand in hand, in this case to keep bones strong and to secure a solid foundation for any life plan.

Top 5 exercises to mark abdominal


Back.
And lying face up, knees bent, hands interlaced behind head, slightly separated from the soil. Covering the abdomen and bring the knees towards the trunk to remove the coccyx soil.

Extended knees.
Lying face up, hands interlaced behind your head, spread your legs and bend your knees, forming a 90 degree angle with the thighs. Tighten your abdomen and lift either the body to remove the shoulders from the ground. Return slowly to starting position.

Puente.
Lying face up, knees bent, feet supported and arms at the sides of the body. Raise your thighs and back, keeping shoulder blades on the ground and entered the abdomen. The body should form a straight line from shoulders to knees. Stay in position for 30 seconds. Extend the right leg. Lower the foot and repeat with the other leg, keeping the legs elevated. Continue alternating legs.

Table.
Support the knees and elbows on the floor and take their hands intertwined fingers (keeping in line shoulders and elbows). Stretch your thighs and abdomen to the maximum contraction to stabilize the body's weight. Spread your legs so that it is supported on the tips of the feet and arms. The body must be straight as a board. Stay in position for 20 seconds. Grow up a little to get a minute.

Cylinder
Lying down with legs straight and ankles together. With palms down, stretch your arms straight ahead. Inspire and start raising the top of the column, concentrating the force in the abdomen. Go up to sit in a right angle. Important: if you practice up to a maximum 45 degrees to form (separating the shoulder from the ground) and in 20 seconds, to avoid back injury. Return to starting position slowly.

Exercise to tighten abs and mark


This exercise is a favorite of all time. This classic is known as the scorpion or crunch. The work is primarily the muscles of the abdomen or stomach.

Start position: Lie on your back with your legs bent and slightly away from your body. Place hands behind your head, but only as a position. This is not a support.

Movement: Lift the body, focusing on the abs, not the neck or legs. This should do with your stomach down, and trying not to arch the back. Think of it as if to hit the navel to the floor. After returning to the starting position without losing the position, all you have to do is breathe.

Recommendation: When you breathe and in the contraction (or in raised position) to breathe through the mouth, and when you return to the starting position, breathe through the nostrils.

Exercises to stimulate the heart and caring


Although it is common knowledge that regular exercise helps maintain a healthy heart, a group of scientists believes it has succeeded in showing why. The exercise stimulates the growth of new blood vessels. Contrary to what happens with the anaerobic metabolism that uses sugar as a source of energy, aerobic metabolism breaks down fat for energy.

The team of researchers from Duke University studied what happens in mice when they exercise in a running wheel. The training exercise stimulates the production of a protein called vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF by its acronym in English).

VEGF stimulates the growth of new blood vessels or angiogenesis. The number of capillaries feeding the muscles increased and trained some of the muscle fibers that had been working anaerobically changed to work aerobically.

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Top 3 Essential Oils


The therapeutic effect can be achieved with good soft massage and inhalations. The only requirement is to choose the most appropriate substance to treat the case.

Lavender Oil: It is an excellent painkiller. Can be applied in minor burns. This should allow to cool for 10 minutes. In pure form, is a panacea against the bites of insects. To soothe a headache unbearable, you will need only to apply gentle maneuvers well in the temples.

Sandalwood oil: Massage well into the soft abdominal region with a few drops of this oil will help relieve the pain. Can be used alone or in combination with several drops of lavender.

Ylang-ylang oil or roses: Together or separately, are the aromatic analgesic for excellence. Especially when it comes to muscle or abdominal pain. To defuse these problems, make good soft massage on the affected area.

Top 3 herbal medicines


If you're talking about natural medicine can not be overlooked, even in emergency situations, the benefits of the "weeds" and the various plants. These can be prepared in record time as in the form of infusion or decoction. To do this, boil the hardest parts of the plant for more than 10 minutes.

Manzanilla: They are already proven its sedative and soothing properties, especially to combat insomnia. The recipe is very simple: a cup of tea after a day of those "lets you sleep peacefully and completely forget the problems.

Clove: An intermittent tooth pain can be alleviated by placing a piece of clove on the affected area because it is a powerful antiseptic and anesthetic. The only caution is that it should not swallow.

Ginger: Allows tables to treat colds, flu or cough very persistent. Infusions can be taken in three times a day or in a decoction, which has a much more powerful. In the latter case, it requires two daily doses.

Aloe vera for healing wounds, and burns


The aloe vera is great for healing cuts and scrapes and alleviating allergic reactions or burns from the sun.

You can use a gel or applied directly to the prepared liquid in the interior of each leaf.

Should apply aloe vera on a daily basis in summer especially since it protects the skin from the sun abuse.

Massage therapy for infants and caresses


Indian massage: Shantala.
It is a mixture of ancient discipline and caricias therapy to promote a more intimate contact between mother and child. According to the tradition of India, is so important to give breast feed the baby and massage your skin. For them, as certainly for the rest of humanity, mimes are food. But these are technical and caresses the backing of an ancient wisdom.

• The mother should have her baby in her lap all the time and look to the eyes.

• The room should be at a comfortable temperature in winter should be heated, because the child should never experience a sensation of cold. In summer it is better outdoors, the first sun of the morning or last in the afternoon.

• There may be a massage with warm essential oil previously.

• The massage is slow and soft with the hands, chest first, then arms, legs, and finally the back and feet.

Natural Remedies against insect bites


• Put a piece of aloe vera) opened with the fleshy part in contact with the bite or sting. This will relieve pain, reduce swelling and acts as an antiseptic. It can be left for several hours and if the trouble persists, you can change every certain time.

• Place a slice of raw onion or onion juice on the affected area to relieve pain and reduce the risk of infection.

• Make a poultice of clay (to make a cookies ground water) in the affected area immediately after the bite or sting occurs. This will help relieve pain and reduce swelling.

• Make a poultice of garlic with onions in ant bites.

• Soak a piece of cotton soaked in lemon juice and vinegar and apply it as compress on wasp stings.

• Cover the bite or sting with a banana peel. The wet and fleshy part has to be in contact with the affected area. When dry it should be changed by a new one.

• calendula cream also helps reduce swelling.

Preventing cancer naturally


Undoubtedly cruciferous are great allies of health. To make the most, here are some tips:

• For the salad of cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli should be cooked in advance, but not too much.

• If the heads of cauliflower and broccoli are high, should be divided and cooking.

• These allow the use of vegetable sauces vinaigrettes, mayonnaise sauce, yogurt or combinations between them.

• The leaves of cabbage and cauliflower can be added to the broth.

• When using the cabbage in any form, remove the bottom of the thickened midrib of the leaves.

• Incorporate the cabbage diet, at least three times a week.

The carrot and its many health benefits


The carrot is a vegetable that has many excellent advantages in the food of all people of all ages. Used as food, is both one of the most valuable therapeutic drugs to treat diseases. The most vitaminizante mineralizing and all the roots, is recommended for any class of patients without any contraindication. Can be used raw and pleasant flavor and excellent for strengthening teeth and gums.

You can also use cooked, is also healthy, even for medicinal purposes when cooked carrots lose their effectiveness. Due to the aromatic substances which are held, is good for stimulating appetite and very commonly used by people suffering from anemia or depression, so eating foods that the body needs to succeed. Eliminates sharp flank pain, also called "colic" and dissipates the gases emitted by the body, so it is advisable after ingesting a meal.

It also helps people suffering from constipation and intestinal disorders caused by a poisoning. In this case, required half a dozen eating raw carrots, grated, rations throughout the day. It is diuretic (speeds up the process of urination), emenagoga (faster menstruation in women) and facilitate the disintegration and expulsion of kidney stones. The richness in phosphorus, this plant is excellent as invigorating for tired minds and as a restorer of nerves. It is common knowledge that carrots have natural properties to improve the view.

The importance of breakfast


Breakfast is one meal that breaks the fast during the body has had hours of sleep. Breakfast is the fuel that the body needs to start the work day, from exercise, going to school or going to work.

Therefore, according to their nutritional value and will be our performance and our health. Because of their fundamental work, the breakfast should be a habit that each of us when a child acquires. But it is also important to keep for a lifetime and pass on to our children, because it must be a habit of a lifetime regardless of age, sex, or activities that are taken.

While the breakfast is absolutely necessary, must be balanced and not abundant, as well as their total absence is very negative, excess weight or breakfast generates a feeling of satiety, uncomfortable, can cause overweight and therefore not recommended. For breakfast can fulfill its function, must be completely balanced and include foods that belong to all groups.

Thus, a good breakfast will consist of fruit, a cereal which can be the bread and dairy products should not miss. For example, eating a banana or orange, a cup of coffee with milk and a cheese sandwich made with wholemeal bread for breakfast is complete, moderate, and especially healthy.

Diets of young


One in four French teenagers do or have tried diet on occasion, mostly for reasons that go beyond health reasons, according to a study by a research group in Paris.

The study found significant food shortages, dome more than 25% of respondents never says not to eat fish and 40% less than once a week. In addition, over 20% never eats vegetables, a percentage slightly lower in the case of fruit consumption.

Despite these data, the study stresses that adolescents who participated in the sample, aged between 11 and 18 years, still do not have the habits to "junk food" to show their age peers in North America or United Kingdom.

Alcoholism and depression


A group of scientists says it found a gene linked to both alcoholism and depression, could improve the detection of people at risk or designing new treatments.

A psychiatrist and geneticist from the Institute of Psychiatry, University of King's College London, explained that if genetic discoveries are confirmed case a new route for the development of drugs used to treat depression and alcoholism. Previous studies conducted with twins and adopted siblings revealed the possibility of common genes among people with depression or abuse alcohol.

These disorders appear to be hereditary. According to the psychiatrist, is the first time is a specific gene (CHRM2) increases the risk of contracting these diseases.

Pathology of dyslexia: Brain Disorders


Brain disorders that cause dyslexia in Chinese people, which use a logographic language, are different from those experienced by people who use an alphabetic system. Until now, the left temporoparietal brain region was suggested as biological root of dyslexia. Moreover, it was assumed that the disease was a common biological origin for all languages, although work in this area were based solely on alphabetic languages.

The left temporoparietal region of the brain is responsible for the analysis of phonemes and converting units of writing (graphemes) in other phonological (phonemes) in short, two of the fundamental cognitive processes for reading. In one study, a team from the National Institute of Mental Health, part of the U.S. Institutes of Health in Bethesda (Maryland), has used magnetic resonance imaging in Chinese children with reading problems to show that the failure lies in the Gyrus mediofrontal left.

The problems of reading Chinese is manifested by two deficits: one associated with the conversion of the graphics in another syllable, with the transfer of the semantic graph.

Disease of hypochondria


The term hypochondria comes from the Greek hypocondros It means that "under the ribs" and actually refers to the lateral regions of the upper abdomen. In such reglones are the lower rib cage.

Hipocondral largest organ is the liver, and curiously the syndrome of hypochondria takes this name because the Greeks believed that the disease originated in the malfunction of the liver to secrete bile. The disease is that the hypochondriac feel sick and stressed, even if the doctor says no, and in fact, is not wrong, only that their illness is emotional. The hardest thing to deal with these healthy patients is that they need their illnesses because they are symptoms of other problems that simply refuse to face.

It can be a kind of defense or can function as a way to draw attention, but regardless, diseases are perceived to know that the key person is not calm in emotional level. Removed to prevent their disease, will refuse to attend a psychologist and looking to live up to the doctor who tells you it is sick, or even look at other options such as traditional healers or medicine that is not traditional, to follow sending medicines and who not to deny their illness.

The problem is that at very advanced levels, the patient is imagining your symptoms, just imagine the disease, but pain, fever, vomiting, heartburn, or any other sign of the disease is real, as he himself the causes from his unconscious. One of the main problems is that these patients are taking medications for many diseases that do not exist, they cause damage to your body that can become really sick.