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The progress of science in relation to the food and the quality of life originate new disciplines permanently, one of the most recent is the Nutrigenomics. The Commission examines the interaction of the nutrients and other assets of the food with genes. In other words, through it, with a simple sample of saliva could discover what the best diet is for you.
We now know that there are more than 250 genes related to obesity. If in each individual is detected the genes linked to the disease could be modified various factors to cancel the risk of being obese and arrive in this way to a healthy aging.
By studying genes could identify a “nutritional profile” that will include all the food and nutrients that are best for you. According to the genetic predisposition of individuals are going to determine what are the best foods for some and for others. For example, the consumption of fish oils do not have the same effect on all people, by means of the Nutrigenomics may make dietary recommendations.
The new knowledge based on the human genome sequencing and associated technology make it possible integration into the nutrition music, generating the emergence of this new discipline, the nutritional genomics, which will promote a customizing the allowance, the greater prevention and a nutritional therapy more effective. Read the rest of this entry »
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Within the range of products intended for the weight reduction, the Obegrass is a product that according to its manufacturer aims to balance the agency by way of functional activator regulating the absorption of dietary fat.
Its ingredients to achieve this effect are the Chitosan or the fructo-oligosaccharides, the first is attributed to him the ability to act at the level of absorption of fat, the second act as satiating appetite and regulators of bowel, is to take into account that are still under investigation the active principles of both.
Do not indicate side effects, but people with health problems or who are carrying out some kind of treatment specific, must be carefully read the leaflet of the product and to consult a professional before incorporating any supplement to your diet being this very important for their health and something that constantly recommend from living healthy.
According to their manufacturers this product acts in the following levels: Read the rest of this entry »
Obesity represents several risks to health, but without a doubt that none of the complications that brings the obesity is compared with the risk of death that this disease implies. Risk increases or decreases as the place to gain the fat.
A new British study found that the accumulation of fat in the waist doubles the risk of premature death. The novelty is that this risk also increases in those people who are not considered obese.
The study involved more than 350 thousand people from nine European countries. One of the conclusions reached is that the BMI (body mass index), which is the extent to which determines whether a person is obese or not, it is not the correct parameter.
Measure waist is better to control the IMC to determine the risk of death of a person. That is, many times doctors may be lost data vital because they are looking indicators wrong.
Every inch that joins the waistline increases the chances of dying (before time) of the people. It is considered that the men have accumulated more fat than due when your waist exceeds 120 centimeters, and in the women when more than 90. While a small waist is considered to be in the 82 centimeters and in the 66 centimeters respectively. Read the rest of this entry »
We know that the passage of time cannot be stopped, but it may be slowing. If we take an active life, healthy and without defects, we will much younger than what we are. There are also a lot of formulas home not to be noticed the traces that age leaves in our body as, for example, the masks for wrinkles.
Look after your skin of the passage of time is not complicated. Test with these easy masks anti age to do in your home and take years to your face.
Mask with peach: You need only a peach (ripe, peeled and seeded) and egg white. Then, let until the mixture is foamy. Applies the mixture in all your face and leave for 30 minutes. Remove it with cold water.
Mask with yogurt and vitamins: You need two teaspoons of plain yoghurt, half teaspoon of honey, half teaspoon lemon juice and three capsules of vitamin E (approximately 300 units). First, mixing the yogurt with honey and lemon. Then, it opens the capsules and pours on the mixture. Applies the mixture in your face during 15 minutes and rinsed with water.
Mask of palm hearts: You Need half a cup of palm heart chopped, a quarter of a cup of milk powder and wheat germ, medium cucumber unpeeled, two bay leaves, two egg white, a stalk of celery, a teaspoon of mint, a vanilla extract and another of coconut extract. Mix all these ingredients with a blender for 1 minute and pour in your face from 15 to 25 minutes. Rinsed and saves the mixture for a few days to continue using that. Read the rest of this entry »
Not content with the offer of the calls, the texts and the Internet access, the industry is convinced that the mobile phone can help save lives and to provide health services to millions around the world.
The idea of a telephone that acts as a “doctor in the pocket” has gained ground in the greater part of the industry in the Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona.
Among a lot of possible applications in poor countries, the people indicate the potential for mobile phone, as regards remind people get vaccines, taking the medicine or undergo HIV testing.
Doctors and nurses working far from hospitals or mobile clinics can also use the connections to transmit information on patients or report on disease outbreaks.
“When you consider that there are 2.2 million mobile phones in the developing world, 305 million computers, but only 11 million beds in hospitals, can instantly see how the mobile can create effective solutions to cope with challenges of health,” said Terry Kramer, director of strategy of British operator Vodafone. Read the rest of this entry »