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postheadericon Salt Myths

Salt

Can you live without salt?

• No. An adult should consume a minimum of 2 g of salt per day (ideally about 6-8 g), otherwise, your health may be at risk.
• The sodium and chlorine to form salt are essential for many body functions such as regulating blood pressure.
• But keep in mind that many foods and salt are incorporated, so you should not overdo the salt shaker.

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postheadericon Cold and Health: Enemies?

Cold

Cold and health are not always a perfect pair conjugate, especially when temperatures are low. Because when the thermometer drops below zero lower our defenses and are more prone to diseases such as influenza, bronchitis or pneumonia.

To make matters worse, the flu virus more resistant in a dry and cold as the symptoms can range in time attacking a greater number of people.

During the winter, people who already suffer from disease, especially respiratory, should take special care as they tend to increase the cough, shortness of breath and asthma attacks.

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postheadericon Urinary Incontinence in Women

Urinary Incontinence
Although urinary incontinence is not a major health problem, whether it is a difficulty in daily life. The term urinary incontinence refers to the inability to stem the outflow of urine or loss of bladder control.

Often these problems occur when the muscles that keep the bladder closed are weak or too active.

It is claimed that urinary incontinence affects 19% of women aged 19 to 44 years but the number increases to 30% when over 65 years. In fact, urinary incontinence is more common in women who are twice as likely to suffer in comparison with men.

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postheadericon Anti-hypertensive Dietary Advice

After checking what foods contraindicated for hypertension, is now up to reverse the tables and look what are those products that can combat high blood pressure levels. From this health blog you count some anti-hypertensive dietary advice.

Undoubtedly, one of the first aspects to consider is to limit consumption of salt in foods. That is, the importance of a low sodium diet is key to combating hypertension. For example, foods that are canned or packaged often abuse the salt, so you should moderate their intake. Excess salt increases water retention, so that the less salt in your diet, the easier it will remove excess urine and help normalize blood pressure levels.

Other foods that are rich in salt can be cured or semi-hard cheeses. You can replace them with fresh cheeses.

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postheadericon Napping Improves Memory

Napping

“A nap enhances the performance of various tasks, especially in people who learned something well before sleep,” said Dr. Matthew Tucker. “In contrast, a nap does not have the same boosting effect on people who learned something without much interest before sleep,” said Tucker, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

Tucker led the team studied how a 45-minute siesta influenced the memorization of factual information and space. The study involved 11 men and 22 women, all university students. The students, who had not consumed caffeine, alcohol or drugs, were about 23 when he attended the sleep laboratory at the University of New York, for the study.

According to article published in the journal Sleep, participants made three memory tasks: a link had 60 pairs of words such as tree-nose, while in another they had to navigate a maze on a computer screen and the last, had to copy a complex figure in 5 minutes.

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postheadericon Natural Treatments for Skin Burns

Skin burns

If you suffer from sunburns’re realize how complicated they are. If this is an important any clothes rubbing the affected area can be very painful, and treatment for sunburn must consider this. Therefore should not be invasive or aggressive, and it is best to be a natural treatment.

Natural Treatment for skin burns is a series of careful measurements of skin, which gradually help reduce burns and rebuild devastated areas.

First of all, it is important to stay hydrated, because the body is dehydrated when your skin in this state. It is also important to take a cold shower, which will reduce body heat and therefore ill. Perhaps a better idea to take a cold shower and bath, so that contact with the skin is not too sudden.

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postheadericon Benefits of Lentils

Benefits of Lentils

Lentil is an annual herb, which contains a high concentration of nutrients. The most widely is mainly composed of carbohydrates and starches. He also has protein and fiber, zinc, selenium (an antioxidant, protecting cells from oxidation in the human body), but mostly iron. When they are rich in vitamins B1, B3 and B6.

This is the ideal food for children and athletes to high amounts of iron and protein possessed. iron makes it highly recommended for those with anemia or a decrease, and many have fiber to facilitate intestinal transit. For the iron is properly absorbed by the intestinal tract is desirable that the lentils along with meat eaten.

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postheadericon Alleviate Headaches

Headaches

Everyone knows what a headache and all we’ve ever had because of some problems, disease, or may suffer from headaches or migraines.

There are many things we can do to alleviate headaches, but ideal would be to find the source of headaches to make it go away permanently, unfortunately, is not always possible.

Food

Headaches that are targeted to specific places may be due to lack of vitamins or nutrients in food. Frequent headache is caused by the foods we feel bad, or bad eating habits which lead us to repeat the same meal and forget about vegetables, fruits and all the healthy foods we consume.

Water

Drink lots of water. Often, headaches appear as symptoms of dehydration or poor hydration. Often, with just drinking a few sips of water headache is lost, so simple and stunning. Very cold water can aggravate the pain, suggested drinks hot or room temperature.

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postheadericon Alternative Therapy

Fortunately for patients, the number of options to choose from in terms of alternative therapies and each of several types of health problems can find what you believe. However, there are skeptics, and it is understood that for the pagan practice of medicine that deviate from the conventional case of health.

We encourage this alternative medical practices, the reality is that some alternative therapies more support and credibility than others, because there is more research on them.

One of the most popular is aromatherapy, which runs through inhaling the aroma of essential oils combined with massage practice. It has been proven to combat stress, anxiety, respiratory problems and high blood pressure Aromatherapy is a very strong choice.

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postheadericon Thalassotherapy Spa

Thalassotheraphy spa

Thalassotherapy is a treatment based on the use of elements from sea water, seaweed, mud, weather, etc.. All items collected in their natural range, that is exactly at sea, the water collected within one km to try and extract more pure and free from contaminants, such as other materials, although the ways of collecting items tight All through the process of sterilization and debugging for ensure hygiene in use.

Benefits of thalassotherapy is directed to ensuring a smooth operation on the organic level, and is provided at the spa thalassotherapy.

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