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Archive for June, 2010

Be sure to inform your doctor on all supplements herbs that are taking, and the blood test called the prothrombin time and coefficients international standard (PT / INR) can be used to assess the blood clotting.

Kick the habit of coffee or her soda in favor of the lots of yerba mate and energy drinks:

The Yerba mate is widely consumed in Central America and South, often promoted as a healthy alternative to coffee, as if it were an herbal tea that energizes without causing nervousness.

However, the mate has been associated with disease, esophageal oral, lung and bladder in several research studies.

Although studies have found that these health problems are really a risk only for people who drink large amounts of tea (more than 1 liter per day) or tea very warm, for which must be avoided until it is more evidence.

The so-called “energy drinks”, containing caffeine and a lot of vitamins and herbs, remains one of the greatest concerns simply do not know enough about the combined effects of these ingredients.

Many ingredients, it is believed to work synergistically with caffeine to increase its power stimulating and most of them contain loads of sugar, which must be caution on this type of beverages composed chemically and not as natural.

For years the coffee is one of the great questioned, what is good or bad? that is the question that have tried to respond hundreds of research dedicated to the study of coffee and caffeine.

The United States is one of the major consumers of coffee in the world, the 54 percent of the people Americans are habitual drinkers of coffee. More than 140 billion of cups of coffee consumed annually in that country, and I am sure that in other than in other countries the figures also are very high.

For years have questioned the benefits of this drink and linked to problems such as insomnia and gastrointestinal difficulties. The caffeine is in your body by more than 12 hours, which makes it difficult for you can sleep and also affects the quality of your rest. On the other hand caffeine also functions as a diuretic and in the case of the drinking coffee with very often this can lead to the dehydration. Read the rest of this entry »

Blue is related to the chakra of throat or laryngeal and is said to be connected with the lungs, with a direct relationship toward the communication, whose stimulation depends on improvement of the verbal expression, communication, artistic expression and willpower.

It is a color reassuring and is believed to have therefore has effects on the insomnia, anxiety, throat, high blood pressure, headache and skin irritation.

Indigo
The color Indigo is associated with the chakra third eye, located between, taking a direct relationship with the eyes and at the bottom of the head.

Attributed the ability to increase intuition and strengthen the lymphatic system, immune system, as well as help purify and clean the organism.

Violet
The color purple or violet, is associated with the chakra coronary, which is at the top of the head, taking a relationship with the spirituality, intuition, wisdom, the domain, mental strength and concentration, an excess toward the dark purple says have the ability to promote the pride and arrogance. Read the rest of this entry »

Doing various relations could say that as well as a slice of cheese would have an impact defenders on cancer, for its rich in calcium and it has been found the effectiveness of the same as regards to the risk reduction to suffer from this disease.

These foods seem to be particularly effective against other types of intestinal cancer and digestive system, according to a study of U.S. almost half a million volunteers.

The researchers tracked the health and eating habits of more than 490,000 people up to eight years, and women who take mostly calcium, a mineral that normally associated with the health of the bones, took 23 percent less likely to have developed the disease at the level of the intestine, stomach and other types of cancer digestive, that those who ate less.

For men, high levels of calcium reduce the risk of these cancers by 16 percent, according to the report of the journal Archives of Internal Medicine. Read the rest of this entry »

Currently one of every three children Americans is obese or overweight. While they are data of a country in particular, is a reality that childhood obesity is increasingly common in any part of the globe.

It as so many other situations could be avoided with a bit of information, because few people who know that obesity if it can prevent. In fact it is much easier to prevent treat it.

The risk of a child to become obese begins even before birth, establishing some parameters that are going to repeat during childhood and would likely lead to overweight.

Almost half of American women who are living a pregnancy are overweight or obese, this increases the chances of your baby is born or very small or large, which has influence in the development of obesity of the child. Read the rest of this entry »