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Archive for March, 2010

Do you feel you do not have enough momentum to lose weight? Well, perhaps the fact that has obesity harm your quality of life is not sufficient reason to eliminate your kilos of more, and perhaps need greater impetus, such as that remain obese damage to our planet.

This is the conclusion of a study conducted in Britain, which has shown that the eat more that people flake, obese people contribute negatively to counteract the effects of climate change taking a trail of carbon greater than that of a person flake.

Is that the production of food generates carbon emissions, and only by the fact eat more, the footprint of carbon of an obese person is greater than that of a person flake, because the body fat makes this increase to occur in the agency increased emissions of carbon dioxide.

This is not all. To be obese, a person tends to handle instead of walking, which contributes directly to the carbon emissions increase.

Now is not a reason staff that has to serve to lose those kilos you have more, but that one solidarity. Think about it and think of all; the strength of will is key to lose weight. Perhaps you only need a bit of momentum.

The lemon is a fruit that has therapeutic properties that have been passed from generation to generation, in addition to be an important ingredient in the preparation of many home remedies, and is often used to alleviate upset stomach, due to its special effects in the cleaning of the agency.

Among the benefits of lemon for the health is the strengthening of the immune system. If you have flu or a cold you can drink lemon juice to soften the symptoms and shorten by half the recovery process, caused by infection, because the lemon has antibacterial and antiviral drugs.

Are varied the benefits of lemon, as its action in purifying blood, which helps the body to get rid of toxins, as well as their properties as repellent and insecticide, which is achieved cutting a lemon in Cruz and leaving the site that use the insects to enter.

Some people love the antiseptics, so that they pleased to know that the lemon is a great antiseptic natural. If you have a court you can use a few drops of lemon in the wound, not only will help you to keep it clean, in addition the blood cease to leave so quickly. It is advisable to have the caution not to expose the sol skin covered with lemon juice, could stained and that effect is difficult to control. Read the rest of this entry »

If you are those who a doctor has suggested follow a diet low in sodium, the following list of food with sodium you come in handy. It is said that the normal diet includes between 1100 and 3300 milligrams of salt a day. Doctors initially recommended reducing it to a range between 1000 and 2000 milligrams to test whether symptoms with the change.

Keep a daily consumption of sodium below the 2000 milligrams requires considerable effort. Eat outside the home makes it more difficult because the dishes often prepared with normal levels or high salt, being more advisable that prepares your food and review carefully the tables nutritional information that appear in packaging of products, focusing especially on the sodium and its relationship with the amount of food to eat. Read the rest of this entry »

What is the kitchen healthier of the world? This was the question that responded to the Forbes magazine when a few days ago published which is the traditional cuisine healthier of the world.

The study was conducted by Harley Pasternak nutritionist that was based on their own research carried out during their trips around the world and in some statistical data as life expectancy, index of obesity and eating habits, to answer the question.

The specialist arrived in interesting conclusions; the subsistence healthier of the world is:

1. Japan: the rate of obesity in Japan is extremely low. The Japanese based its food to consume small portions of food, and the products they use are the healthiest, as the fish and the green vegetables.

2. Singaporean: life expectancy in Singapore is 82 years, and obesity 1.8%. This kitchen is based on consume small amounts of meat and tropical fruit for dessert. Read the rest of this entry »

I have heard in more than one occasion that famous statistical output do not know where it says that each cigarette represents three minutes less than life. Despite the fact that it is clear that smoking reduces life expectancy, I find it hard to see this in a different way more than a mere popular belief.

In this statistical line fits a study conducted by the Clinical Trial Service of the United Kingdom, which publishes in The Lancet a study that took account of the data of more than one million people to throughout the world, which concludes that the obesity can steal 10 years of life.

For that have been based on a famous index, the Body Mass Index (BMI), which was obtained by dividing the weight in kilograms of a person by the square of your height in meters. This gives a number that reaches its optimum levels between 20 and 25. The researchers argue that each increment in the BMI of more to the area healthy 20-25 entails a risk of premature death increased for the individual. Read the rest of this entry »