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Archive for November, 2009

Garlic (Allium sativum) has properties that promote the proper functioning of the heart, reduces blood cholesterol, dilates the arteries and prevents thrombus formation in them. This helps reduce hypertension.

It is a diuretic, expectorant, stimulant and has been used throughout history as an antiseptic. Increases the body’s defenses, improving our response to viruses and bacteria, is anti-inflammatory, anticoagulant, vasodilator and debugger. It is a natural antibiotic. It is considered a natural remedy for asthma, cough, breathing difficulties, bronchitis, and tuberculosis and so on.

It was recently discovered that helps reduce the risk of cancer by their antioxidant content as Allicin, the quercetin, and so on.

We recommend eating raw or take garlic capsules. But it is also good for cooking or preparing meals.

We say that a daily garlic over a period of time helps to lower blood pressure. So eat garlic!

According to several studies of older people with sleep problems 35% experienced improvement in their sleep after 45 minutes start listening to soft music and relaxing just before bedtime. Sometimes in the daily rhythm costs we sleep. Hui-Ling Lai and Marion Good sleep patterns studied 60 people aged between 60 and 83 years. They were divided randomly into two groups of 30 subjects each. A group therapy was applied, and the other does not. In the results of their studies was that the music I had heard they were sleeping better sleep, improved heart rate and breathing less hectic. Not only older people benefit at any age. Babies sleeping music, soft helps them sleep. A good rest is important for the proper development of babies; by this soft music can be an ally for your baby to sleep. You relax and listen to music like we bring a gift, click on the image, you can access its free to listen beautiful sounds designed to relax and ease your break. You sound of ocean waves, birds singing, rain, crickets, sounds of flute, wind. You can combine with each other, close your eyes and you seem to be elsewhere.

U.S. scientists devised a new way to provide drugs for pain relief
the technique, which requires no needles, could improve the lives of millions of people suffering from chronic pain or disorders that require powerful painkillers to be injected for long periods.

The strategy, designed by researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston, magnetism combines with nanotechnology.

This requires a small device that is implanted in the patient of just over 1 inch in diameter, says research published in the journal Nano Letters.
Smart Nanoparticles

“The device is specially created a membrane on which they are embedded nanoparticles (structures of the one hundred thousandth of the thickness of a human hair) in a gel composed of magnetite, an iron ore with natural magnetic properties,” he told the BBC: Dr. Daniel Kohane, who led the research.

“When outside the body turns on a magnetic field near the device, the nanoparticles are heated causing it to shrink and this in turn causes the opening of small spaces, neck, and allowing movement of nanogel from one side to another” says the scientist. Read the rest of this entry »

The headache is one of the most common ailments and over has increased over the last decade, by the demands of modern life, which inexorably leads to stress and this is often a factor in the condition of this common condition that can reach serious nature take time, when it becomes chronic.

Here are three tips Preventive consider:

Reduce consumption of estrogen
Estrogen is the main female hormone and a powerful trigger for migraines, if you are taking supplements of estrogen or estrogen with medication (such as oral contraceptive pills), to discuss reducing the dose or replace the medicine with your doctor.

Stop smoking
Nicotine and other chemicals in cigarette smoke can cause and aggravate the symptoms of headache, so if you are a smoker, explore options for smoking cessation as this will not only reduce the likelihood of developing pain head, but also improve other areas of health, much more important, like preventing cancer, for example. Read the rest of this entry »