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Archive for February, 2010

The routine we consumed during the week and many times this leads us to acquire bad habits as far as food. However, that is not the only problem. Beyond the need to carry a proper diet if we want to achieve good results is essential care of our digestion. There are certain activities that it is not recommended perform after having eaten. Know what they are.

Smoking: Smoking after lunch or dinner is a habit rather than rooted among smokers. While this habit always harmful worse if it is done after eating. Some research shows that smoking a cigarette after a meal is equivalent to having smoked 10 and therefore, the risk of cancer is even greater.

Eat fruit: In another opportunity knew the grounds on which eat fruit after the food is not the best option. If you want find out why don’t let entering here. Consumes your fruit preferred one or two hours after meals or on the contrary, one hour before.

Take tea: The tea leaves contain a high acid content and this will make the protein content in the foods we consume becomes difficult to digest.

Walking: Walking is one of the activities more beneficial to our health. However, it is not recommended do just after eating. This will prevent that we make a good digestion.

Take a bath: The bathroom increases the flow of blood in certain parts of your body as the hands and feet. Therefore, take a bath or shower reduced the amount of blood in your stomach and weakens your digestive system.

Sleep immediately: If we lazed immediately after eating food we eat may not be treated properly.

When we talk about a healthy diet, not only want to say that is healthy for the body, but that a healthy diet will have an impact in other parts of your body.

The healthy food can also be good for such an important part as your brain. That is why we are going to see a list of those meals that are good for your body but even better for your brain.

We started the listing with the oysters. They are rich in iron and zinc, eat oysters will do well to your memory. Many times the lack of memory and the little capacity to keep the concentration is directly linked to the lack of iron and zinc, eating oysters can avoid these problems.

The grains are useful not only to lose weight, but also are good for your brain. This type of meals you help increase blood flow to the brain, which will give you a better quality of operation to your gray matter.

Drink tea is another of the options for improving the functions of the brain through the food; the tea is good for combating the mental fatigue. Read the rest of this entry »

As well as adults cost them face the mirror and check that a pair of trousers has left them to enter, in children this reality is equally real. The child obesity has become a major problem that we must all face, and not only by issues aesthetic and physical health.

The obesity entails certain “condemns” social movement, which affects very negatively on the person obese. In cases of obese children, the psychological effects of this take consistency strong, which, together with the teasing and bullying by his companions can seriously damage the self-esteem of the child.

Unfortunately, the children can become much crueler than adults, and this is recorded to fire on the minds and memories of obese children, who is very difficult in subsequent years getting rid of them. Read the rest of this entry »

How to deny that a trademark of average man of middle-aged is the friendly tummy? This may not mean obesity! You may be the beginning of the same, and that is why it should be attentive to not leave developed too.

The reasons are obvious, and a recent study carried out in Finland has added arguments to prevent the obesity in middle age to check that it not only can hurt in the short and medium-term, but it has discovered a interesting paradox to develop in old age that is precisely we are talking about below.

Studying more than 1,000 men, the scientists led by Dr Timo Strandberg and that published his study in theEuropean Heart Journal have discovered that in those cases of men obese than in old age lost their weight could suffer more health problems that those who continued to be obese.

For example, take the case of a person who at age 40 is obese and that as they pass the years is losing weight. Scientists identified the fact that these people became more vulnerable to the elderly, taking more risks of fractures or injuries that those who had retained its overweight. Read the rest of this entry »

It is common to hear the Body Mass Index (BMI), and even us we refer often to him. This measure, a product of the calculation between the height and weight of the individual, which result in a figure that enters within certain ratings that serve to measure their health.

Thus, lower levels to 19 are catalog as thin, while levels between 19 and 25 are taken as normal weight. The higher levels to 25 are considered overweight, and the increased to 30 already are regarded as obesity.

These ratings are very hard, and often allege that are not sufficiently contemplative as to have a complete picture of the health of an individual, based on a hard data that serves more than to categorize the reality. Others, however, are a useful tool to understand the health of an individual. What point of view is the correct?

I think that neither one nor the other have every reason to his side. Take the IMC as a measure canonical peace to be a reductionist view and simplistic, while out would deprive us of having a good approximation strategy primary to hear the levels of health of an individual.

Then, in terms taxonomic BMI is an advantage, but loses utility if you handle as the sole criterion for evaluation. The word of the doctor is, once again, the more worthy of being heard. By your party, or trust too much or decrease IMC, again the terms means are the most suitable.