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Archive for May, 2010

To many people have difficulty falling asleep, regardless of how tired they are after a hard day at work or study. The worst of all is that much faster want sleep, unless they succeed…

Did you know that one of the causes of insomnia is related to the eating habits? Perhaps you cost sleep at night because abuses food that keep you in suspense, such as coffee or meals with high load of sugars.

And as well as there are food that hinder your sweet dreams, are also those who are very well to nighters who suffer from insomnia. Aware of the list of foods that will help you to sleep better.

Turkey
Owns the amino acid tryptophan, which helps foster a good rest and deep sleep. This amino acid helps the brain produce serotonin, a neurotransmitter necessary for the dream and relaxation, and the melatonin, a neurohormonal that tells the body that is the time of rest. Read the rest of this entry »

In full euphoria over the premiere of Alice in Wonderland of Tim Burton, are increasingly the people who are elated to the cinema in search of the modern films in third dimension. But, according to specialists, a habit so common and naive as placed the special glasses and see a film under the 3D technology may cause health problems.

It is not a critical to the movies but fact: viewers are likely to return to their homes with headache, dizziness and blurred vision. Even more if they suffer from any problem in their eyes, as myopias, farsightedness or the lazy eye.

The cause is that the technology 3D alters our perception of the depth and produces a phenomenon known as the fatigue of vision. While the humans naturally we see in third dimension, the images exaggerated of films could cause tension; therefore we must make a continuing effort to adjust the hearing in images that are near and far at the same time. Read the rest of this entry »

We have a fear collapsed to gain weight, while men do not, according to a recent research carried out in the United States. Apparently when we see a woman who are overweight our brain reacts negatively and increases our feelings of insecurity and disagreement with our body.

This is common in the girls who suffer from eating disorders like anorexia, but the researchers found that this fear also appears in those healthy women who, at first sight, do not present concerns for his body image.

The study suggests that the social pressure in relation to the body type that is expected to have a woman is so strong that achieves affect those who are happy with his body. In the case of men are not gives this phenomenon.

The investigation was to show the voluntary, women of different personalities and bodies, pictures of other women different. When they saw photos of women who are overweight, your brain reacted undergoing a process of “identification and auto reflection”. This study is part of an investigation greater to develop methods to cooperate in the treatment of eating disorders. Read the rest of this entry »

A group of local researchers designed and developed a gel of implementation dental that has as active principle to enzyme obtained latex of the papaya (“Carica papaya”), better known as papaya. The result? A new important tool against the decay.

He explained that the papaya is proteolytic enzyme obtained latex of the green papaya. “You cannot believe that by the simple fact eat this fruit be free of cavities. It is a misconception, because the papain, mainly, it is latex is obtained from a fruit that is green and unfit for consumption,” he warned.

The study pointed out that this enzyme possesses bactericidal (kills bacteria) and bacteriostatic (prevents their reproduction), as well as anti-inflammatory acting exclusively on the tissue necrotic dental or dead.

DENTAL GEL
Once he joined the papaya in the gel made additional studies as, for example, stability of the formulation. “We wanted to understand if the properties of this product are disturbed or not when it was subjected to long periods of storage [six months], as well as conditions of temperature and humidity extreme. Finally, the product kept all their properties,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »

You agree with me that it would be ideal that one day had more than 24 hours in order to sleep more. Many people are lifted very early in the morning to begin with their daily activities, returning to their home late and not sleep through the number of hours that are needed (the recommended are 7 hours a day).

And if it added that in some cases cutest sleep, we find ourselves in a complicated area. Sleep little not only generates fatigue and lack of energies but also to long-term can lead to serious problems in our health.

An investigation of the University of Pennsylvania has shown that even a minimum deprivation in the hours of dreams is associated with inflammation in our body, which adversely affects the cardiovascular health.

To check, the researchers made that a group of men and women sleep only two hours during a period of six weeks. As a result of the lack of sleep, noted that increased its concentration of cytokines, which are molecules of the immune system that normally secrete during the infection and inflammation. Read the rest of this entry »