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Until recently, there was no scientific evidence to determine that consume large amounts of vitamin E and other antioxidants reduce the risk of diseases such as Alzheimer’s. However, recent studies published in the United States say that it might link the consumption of these nutrients and reducing the risk of contracting the disease.

Current research interest in putting the results of clinical trials that test the effectiveness of vitamin E and other antioxidants in the prevention of cognitive decline that comes with age and is accentuated in patients with dementia.
It has also been found that supplements of vitamins E and D have shown a significant protective effect against memory problems and loss of mental capacity and the loss of cognitive function deteriorated from atherosclerosis or clogged arteries.

The study shows that antioxidants are one of the ten best ways to preserve the memory, and that protect brain cells from free radicals, toxic resulting from oxidation.

The other way to prevent memory loss are:

1. follow a diet low in fat;

2. physical activity;

3. maintaining mental stimulation;

4. reduce stress;

5. eat foods with vitamin B complex;

6. eat fish and olive oil;

7. use the therapeutic powers of ginkgo biloba;

8. treatments with estrogen;

9. have? healthy relationships? with people

Lowering cholesterol and blood pressure

Research conducted by Dr. Hugh Hendrie, professor in the School of Medicine, Indiana University, also suggests that other factors besides genetics, such as high blood pressure, excess fat and high cholesterol levels, increase the risk of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease two to two and a half.

It is known that low cholesterol and low pressure prevents the onset of heart disease but not know that high cholesterol could mean a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease. This should, according to studies, the destruction of nerve cells in the brain.

You may then conclude that what is bad for the heart is for the brain. We must pay attention to risk factors associated with heart disease to also prevent Alzheimer’s disease. And Prevention use the same: consumption of antioxidants such as vitamins A, C and E, anti-inflammatory drugs and exercise, experts say.

Also noteworthy is that hormone replacement therapy in postmenopausal women apply are not yet a factor in delaying the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, but estrogen is good for controlling cholesterol, which ends up being beneficial for the brain.

During pregnancy there are many things you can sleep disturbance: excessive urination, nausea, heartburn, dreams, fears, stress, calf cramps and so on. Many of these complaints are inevitable. Yet there are enough things you can try to improve your sleep. Below are some tips:

Limit drinking in the evening and late afternoon: While it is important that you have at least 2 liters of fluid a day receives, it is wise to especially at night not much to drink.

Watch your diet: sharp spicy food and tomato can cause heartburn symptoms. Caffeine, you may already too much during pregnancy, can you awake. Drink in the late afternoon and evening not caffeinated coffee or tea and avoid chocolate too.

Do not eat heavy meals before going to bed: Make sure your body at least 3 hours of time to process the food before going to bed.
If you frequently at night may help nausea before going to bed a few cakes or crackers to eat. A full stomach indicates fewer complaints of nausea. Read the rest of this entry »

More vitamin B6 from diet or supplements may reduce the risk of colon cancer by about 20%, according to a new study. The study involved nearly 5,000 people and showed a dose-dependent with more vitamin B6 reduced the risk. Several previous studies have shown that low intake of B vitamins can increase the risk of colon cancer as well as several other diseases.

More vitamin B6 reduces the risk of colon cancer

After correcting for other factors that are important: age, sex, status of folate, genetic factors and the tumor was there, it was concluded that there was a dose-dependent between intake of dietary and total intake of vitamin B6 and reduced risk of colon cancer . The researchers also did a meta-analysis of previously published studies. The results from this supports their results. Read the rest of this entry »

Symptoms of Anorexia

He refuses to eat and suffers from insomnia
People suffering from anorexia may refuse to eat and suffer from insomnia. In the course of time, becomes severe squalor

Causes of Anorexia

Failed diet and don’t exercise
People suffering from anorexia when normally have a faulty diet and hardly do physical exercise.
Stress and strain
It may also be a result of stress and tension as a domestic concern, emotional disturbances, difficult working conditions, and nervous disorders. Disorders and diseases of the general body also lead to this condition. Read the rest of this entry »

Can I trust nutrition information I get from newspapers and magazines?
Nutrition tips from different sources can sometimes conflict with each other. You should always check with your doctor first.

Also, keep in mind this advice:

* Comes to nutrition there is no “magic wand“. Short-term diets may help you lose weight but are difficult to follow and may even be unhealthy in the long term.
* Good nutrition does not come in a vitamin pill. You can take a vitamin pill to make sure you are getting enough vitamins and minerals, but your body benefits the most from eating healthy foods.
* Eat a variety of foods is best for your body. Learn to try new foods.
* The stories that people have used a diet program or product, especially in television commercials and news programs-which are really long-commercial are advertisements. Remember that the weight re-gain and other problems that occur after someone has completed a program is something he never talked about in those ads.

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Nutrition experts suggest that the formula for this diet is basically a diuretic and can have a “yo-yo”. That is, it is clear that water is lost muscle mass but not fat, so they quickly recover lost kilos as leaves are followed.

In recent years numerous diets have sprouted considered absurd or magic and disseminated by some famous person or by some charlatans in different media. These include recommending that eating before eight in the morning because the calories consumed before that time does not count and the post itself. There is also who maintains the belief that eating only once a day thins. Of course, if you eat like a bird, you lose weight, even if it carries side effects that can be dangerous, but if this one is hearty meal not only decrease the kilos, but on the contrary increase.

Finally, the belief that raw foods provide less calories than the spicy has no scientific basis and practice can be dangerous to health. For example, if you eat raw meat, the risk of contracting any illness is high.

Endocrinologists and nutritionists agree that framing comegrasa soup diet among those considered low-calorie. Some go further and specify that the stock is not itself responsible for the diuresis of the patient but that accompany liquids and low caloric value of the products that are included in the menus of the seven days of the plan. Other experts say this diet as “very aggressive and very dangerous” because it causes a huge loss of minerals and ions. These statements are based on the fact that the diet in question provides carbohydrates from fruits and vegetables but little protein, so necessary for the body is not affected.

The final no choice but to go to the specialist for dieting that the doctor monitored and periodically monitor the person’s entry into kilos. Apart from reducing the intake, the specialist will recommend the obese, among other things, physical exercise moderately, eat breakfast and supper strong enough, take satiating foods between meals and eat dessert plates and chew slowly.

If you exercise and try a healthy eating but do not notice your body weight reduction is quite likely that your lifestyle is the culprit.

The stresses of everyday life may be one reason why many people can not keep the weight I wanted. Nerves and anxiety permanently undermine the normal weight.

If you’re looking to lose weight, will be totally counter overwhelming pace of work, situations of tension or nerves.

Apparently, there are two explanations: The first is the most visible and has to do with the need to calm the critical moments with meals. Many seek in fatty foods or large amounts of sweets to calm tension-laden problems. Being anxious is contrary to maintaining a moderate and healthy eating behavior.

The other cause is hormonal. Stress causes a lot secrete hormones adrenaline and cortisol, as a regulatory measure to balance the body. Cortisol is a hormone that inhibits lipolysis, ie violates the processes in which the body burns fat.

Stress produces a waste of energy that the body tries to recover from muscle tissue. Thus, although calories are spent, they will be recovered without removing muscle and lose fat.

Exercise and nutrition are the cornerstones to achieve desired body composition. However, it is clear that the quiet life will be a great help to maintain the desired weight.

Do not enter the vicious cycle of eating because you’re nervous. Learn to control your diet and stress.

If you are on a diet to lose some weight, keep in mind that stress is an important factor in the way that will lead to success or failure of the diet.

Diet and stress

Stress accompanies the changes in routine, whether good or bad. Our body and mind become accustomed to a state and get them out of that state causes internal stresses that result in stress.

When we begin a diet, we changed our way of life: food, exercise, mindset meals. These changes, though beneficial to their health and quality of life can lead to stress.

And the stress of every day

The stress of starting a diet adds to the stress that we have everyday in our work and home, which leads to the so common “and anxiety”.

What results in a vicious circle in which increased stress involves an increase in the food we eat, so we must work harder to follow the diet and this causes more stress.

And people under stress are likely to take a defeatist attitude and self-pity: eating without hunger, drinking, smoking, etc..

Added to this are studies indicating that people under stress gain weight faster. When a person is stressed, the ¨ ¨ stress hormone (cortisol) is secreted in greater quantity and causes the sensation of hunger.

Cortisol Control

The stress management techniques can lower levels of cortisol, a key to a diet to succeed.

Physical exercise, in addition to burning calories, raising the level of functioning of our metabolism and help keep our figure, also reduce the level of cortisol in the blood.

Relaxation techniques and meditation help to reduce levels of cortisol and stress.

It is essential to be surrounded by people who provide emotional support and where you can download anxieties.

If you’re making a diet to lose weight, you’re probably doing a physical exercise routine to lose the pounds hard, and complement. If not, cheer up, do not stop and start already!

When we are in full weight-loss diet, at first, weight go down faster, this is because there is a greater increase fluid loss, then comes what is called “plateau”, ie a period which costs begin to decrease weight, and feel that we stagnate. This is the time to start exercise to lose weight.

Ideally, start walking and go on a daily basis increased progressively over time, to increase our endurance and to burn fat more easily. But what to do with those extra pounds that were lodged in the abdomen or legs, these are the hardest to get off because they are located.

To do this, nothing is better than starting with a workout routine located, as an example of gymnastics localized abdominal exercises are recommended, which can start the day with 2 sets of 10, and build up gradually. Remember that for this exercise in the correct manner should put his arms behind his head, and stick his chin to his chest, to avoid injury to the cervical area. These abdominal toning help us both the rectus abdominis, the Crusaders, the top and bottom.

Other exercises suited to this objective are the squat, which at first advised to do so without additional weight of our body, and as you move through the classes may be added, according to the advice of your teacher. Besides these, it is advisable to do exercises on the legs, working adductors, abductors and gluteal respectively. In these exercises, you can also start following the same routine with the abdominals.

In short, it is best to start with an aerobic workout for the first 15 minutes, and then localized exercises the rest of the class. These exercises not only help you lose those extra pounds hard, but also to tone the muscles.

This way you’ll get the expected result.

Obesity is a chronic disease recently described by the World Health Organization as an epidemic of this century.

The increased availability of food, more energy and nutrient content of the body can burn or absorb and sedentary lifestyle are the main causes that have led to increased disease.

Other factors that help this condition are the heritage, the presence of certain disorders or ingestion of certain drugs. There are also some afectana diseases of the thyroid gland or adrenal glands.

Obesity is a disease risk, which can lead to the subject suffering eating disorders such as bulimia medicamentosy taking substances that are harmful to health, as are some anorectics, amphetamines, cocaine and ephedrine .

The main factors that influence obesity are:

* Eating too: In the majority of people who are overweight, this is because they eat too much, either in quantity or variety of food, so they can not spend all the calories they consume the which leads to overweight.

* Lack of exercise: Lack of physical activity and sedentary leisure too, and customs as a general guideline, are those that produce patterns that do not consider exercise. One factor causing this is that the jobs generally require fewer physical activities, and as for leisure, sports and games that require exercise have been replaced by television and video games.