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What points should be considered?

1. Drink plenty of water: Make sure to get enough water, cleanses the skin, eliminates toxins and keeps you skin hydrated from within. If you have trouble drinking water and like the tea or fresh juice is another option.
2. Taking lots of fiber: Constipation is caused by skin on skin problems, we must avoid constipation by taking plenty of vegetables, fruit and grain products.
3. Do not abuse fat: It is important that you include fat in your diet but not enough to abuse them, making olive oil, corn or sunflower oil contains vitamin E also very beneficial for the skin.
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In fruits and vegetables, the most common colors are red, white, yellow / orange, blue or purple and green. Researchers tell us that these colors contained in fruits and vegetables are sources of vitamins, essential minerals, dietary fiber and phytochemicals or phytonutrients that your body needs to promote health, and people feel good. But have you ever asked: How do fruits and vegetables their colors and health?, What are the colors of health, What fruits and vegetables are included in each color? And what could you eat fruits and vegetables to complete your healthy rainbow?

1. Red
The red color is very common in nature and full of optimism and vitality of our food. If we think for a moment about the different colors that fruits and vegetables may have, if you look you can get to make a rainbow with them.

Like all warm colors, red is very common among our kitchen, is often preferred by people. This is because the power of this color excites the taste and appetite. The usually red foods are those that bring more energy.

2. What are red foods?
We will find the color red:

- Vegetables such as bell peppers, radishes and tomatoes.
- Fruits such as cherries, watermelon, red apple, strawberry, pomegranate, raspberry.
- Other red foods. In our markets and our table we find this color among other foods in:

• The rich salmon omega-3 fatty acids, which reduce levels of triglycerides in the blood, protecting against cardiovascular disease.
• Beef (sections lean) and pork are both excellent sources of protein and iron.
• We can not ignore red wine, which contains flavonoids, which act to protect our circulatory system, thus preventing blood clots that are causing cardiovascular accidents. It was also found that wine has resveratrol, which protects us from cancer.

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Adequate food and proper food choices in everyday play an important role in the prevention of influenza A and any seasonal flu. Moreover, in case of contracting, helps to improve their symptoms and recover quickly.

A good diet can help prevent flu-like feeling. What is a good diet? You should consider the needs of the body, protein and caloric needs should strengthen some minerals commonly found away from what we consume daily. This power must be sufficiently harmonious and appropriate to the time course of the member of the family and provide all the nutrients for our immune system is protected against the threat of the virus.

We can find certain foods that help strengthen the immune system. They are those that contain vitamins and minerals, calcium-in all forms of consumption milk, yoghurt, desserts, seeds) daily intake should exceed 800 mg, and vitamin B complex and folic acid.

Has also been shown that foods such as garlic and onions contain allicin, an efficient antiviral, antibacterial and antioxidant that stimulates the immune system.

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In some brands of bread you eat every morning may have traces of ammonium sulfate, chemical used in fertilizers in the soil. This product provides nitrogen to yeast, achieving a more consistent product and a more spongy bread.
te of sodium for potassium. Xcese may increase the risk of diseases such as obesity and diabetes.

- Artificial sweeteners (aspartame, sucralose, saccharin, etc.).

These are sugar substitutes that provide sweetness without contributing or contributing a minimum of calories. Currently most artificial sweeteners are approved by the Ministry of Health.

The food “light” (amended in its composition with the objective of reducing calorie intake) are an alternative use for those seeking to limit consumption of calories without sacrificing taste. However, when confronted with one of these products is necessary to ask what has been changed, and so make the best choice for every individual and family.

It is important to note that though being low-calorie food “light” are far and should not be consumed indiscriminately. One of the secrets of proper nutrition are balance and moderation.

Can you imagine chewing wool? Well this is almost what you do in your mouth when you chew gum, since oil is inside of this nice animal wool is used to create the substance called lanolin, which then becomes the basis for making rubber chewing.

Benzoyl peroxide bleaching flour
If you’ve ever used anti-acne cream, surely recognize the benzoyl peroxide as one of the main ingredients of this product. It turns out that this substance is also used as a bleaching agent in cheese, flour and buttermilk. While this product is considered benign to health, are opposed to its use and prefer to eat wholemeal bread instead of white.

Modified food in fat or lipid
At present, we can find plenty of fat-modified products, such is the case of milk, yogurt and mayonnaise dressing, to name a few. In these products, only have reduced the fat and therefore calories, conserving their property, so it can be consumed by the whole family.

It is important to note that fats are essential for the proper functioning of the body, good choice of certain types of fat can help prevent the risk of certain diseases. It is recommended to consume plant fats like soybean oil, olive, avocado and oilseeds (walnuts, almonds, pistachios, etc.)..

Sugar modified food
Sugar-modified foods are those that changed the sugar content by one or more comminuted sweetening Insects red dyes for meals. Boiled and then be passed through a variety of treatments, insects can become a dye in yogurt lactic Paace. The head of bittersweet both enjoy your yogurt is lactic acid, which arises naturally in sour milk is added to foods syrupy liquid produced by fermenting milk or corn.

This acid remains controlled microorganisms and bacteria in some foods and is used as a preservative or to add flavor baby food, candy, frozen desserts beetle juice in candy Methylparaben Sodium nitrate in sausages.

This chemical, used to dye fabrics, also has utility as a preservative in certain foods, usually found in processed meats such as sausages, according to a study of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute “people who eat processed meats are continuously 68% higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer, those who eat them in small quantities. Therefore it is advisable not to abuse the consumption of this product type or choose the varieties that are free drinks and salads nitrato.

Methylparaben can be found in lipstick, local anesthesia, salad dressings, dried meats and sweets. This compound is an antifungal and is commonly used as preservatives in food, beverages and cosmetics. Although many studies claim that parabens are not harmful to humans, other research suggests that there may be a possible connection between parabens and breast cancer.

That glow that makes the candy look cute and very provocative secretion comes from female beetles. This substance is also used as a varnish for madera.s, salad dressings, etc.. Anal glands of beaver in raspberry jelly
For more repugnant it may seem, the beaver’s anal glands are a common ingredient in perfumes and colognes, but can also be found in candies and sweet raspberry with a view to improve the taste.

Also used as a softener and exfoliant in skin creams.
Some people worry that the dye, generally called carmine, can be identified as a natural color, disguising the fact that the product contains insects.

Natural sweeteners (sugar, honey, fructose, etc.)
These foods provide calories to food and its consumption in modified sodium. Sodium is a mineral that has important functions in the body as participate in the contraction of muscles, but in excess can contribute to increased blood pressure and promote the accumulation of water in the body. Some of the sodium-modified products have reduced their amount, usually by reducing the salt content of the product.

The role of diet as a cause of many chronic diseases has been studied over the years and through that found food and nutrients beneficial or adverse health effects.

According to Dr. Antonia Trichopoulou, Mediterranean diet helps prevent diseases and reduce mortality. However, the intake of olive oil, fish, vegetables and fruit become null and void unless it is combined with exercise, a variable often overlooked but essential to prevent obesity and related problems.

Currently there are two totally opposite alarming situations: diseases of malnutrition faced by developing countries and the tendency of developed countries to cause disease due to poor eating habits. “In addition to feeding the children, we tend to eat well, because the underlying problem is not money but their habits,” said Lluis Serra, President of the First World Congress of Nutrition.

Your first step should be that you make sure you’re eating enough to supply your energy expenditure. If you’re hungry, your body is going to sue food, so make sure you’re well fed every day. If you’re trying to do a diet, do not exaggerate: low a couple of hundred calories per day, not thousands.

It is impossible to know exactly how many calories you’re eating or saving every day, but you can make calculations to obtain an estimate and maintain it. Following a diet, you can find the obvious causes, like those days you do not have time for lunch and then not eat until 2 pm, and then end up eating more for the rest of the day. Or those days when you do a lot of exercises (the usual plus a large walk plus extra, for example), still restricts much of what you eat. If you feel compelled to eat twice the next day, simply because you should be private on the previous day.

Or you could find a seemingly innocent snack that adds a lot of calories to what otherwise was a “good” day (a pint of ice cream can be eaten in 10 or 15 minutes, but it adds 1,000 to 1,200 calories, the equivalent perhaps half the calories of the day, often taking a candy dish coworker can add hundreds of calories). If you care to include many details in your daily diet, such as the amount of times you eat per day, and what you are doing and how you feel when you eat, you will be able to find the keys that make you eat more. One lesson of the CBT is to learn to avoid those keys or teach-yourself-new behaviors in response to certain triggers.

Use the following tools to help you monitor your intake of energy, your energy expenditure and your needs.

Know the different stages that an overweight person goes through to reach its recovery

Obesity is a psychosomatic illness with food addictive behaviors, characterized by greed, lawlessness and in some cases, a persecutory guilt. This condition sets a degree of conflict and dependence on certain foods, especially the hydrocarbon.

This is a “compulsive overeating“, which in a first stage appears as an irresistible impulse, no infighting, no blame, at least during the intake. Therefore at this stage there is no awareness of illness.

In a second stage, uncontrollable impulses combined with guilt before, during and after the intake, producing an experience of emptiness and psychic pain. Here begin the familiar excuses obese. There is but little situational awareness of disease.

In case there is an appropriate treatment the patient enters a third stage (abstinent behavior) that involve learning, and help control search. It strives to achieve another kind of relationship with food, obtaining partial successes in this process.

At first the relationship with food can cause you fear and control is exercised from outside. Only in the fourth stage we can speak of “recovery” as it is internalized control and prevent food by choice, not by imposition, which accounts for the creation of new habits.

Proper treatment should aim to replace the dependency object (food), by other more rewarding things, analyzing the root causes of this pathology in the context of a therapeutic situation permitting both learning techniques to develop healthier behaviors, as we are in the field of addictions.

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.

Nutrients are substances, usually provided by food, necessary for carrying out the functions that lead to the development of life ultimately cell life, which provide the energy requirements and provide materials for building structures biological. Molecules are involved in chemical reactions that sustain life, constituting the basic elements for conducting metabolic exchange processes necessary for life. Build, therefore, the biology and it provides energy.

Nutrition

Balanced supply of nutrient requirements and micronutrients and their effective use by the agency, will depend on the possibility for natural systems and defense development and adaptation to maintain the organic equilibrium in each of energy functions, regulatory and plastic and in maintaining a balanced metabolism adapted to the circumstances, in short, for the maintenance and development of life on health.

The nutrients are water, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, minerals, vitamins. Besides involving the catalysts are substances that act in chemical reactions but after the reaction are unchanged. Its action is to initiate, stimulate, or enhance the reaction. To highlight the enzymes and some micronutrients (certain trace elements …)

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