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5 Mistakes to Avoid in Diets

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

There are errors that can be easily avoided when you are on a diet. These can prevent you from achieving your goals, so take care to the municipalities below that will help you avoid mistakes that many people 5 commits when dieting.

1 – Error: Skipping meals.
If the key to losing weight is cutting calories, so why not cut a lot of time skipping a meal? Wrong. If you skip meals when you’re trying to lose weight is to act badly. Skipping meals can uncontrolled metabolism. This will cause your body to burn calories slowly during the day and you feel a voracious appetite later.

2 – Error: The drinks and extra calories.
Many people do not realize, but what you drink can be as important to losing weight as you eat. Some drinks contain as many or more calories than a plate full of food, plus they do not satisfy you as much as solid foods, and often have no nutritional value, just calories. Even if you were to drink 1,500 calories of drinks per day, you still feel hungry and overeat. (more…)

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The Importance of Dietary Magnesium

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Magnesium plays an important role in the modulation of nerve impulse and relaxation and contraction of skeletal muscles. Also, your presence is essential for the proper storage of energy in the body.

Magnesium deficiency may occur as a result of an unbalanced diet, diuretic abuse, prolonged diarrhea, diabetes, intestinal bad absorption, or alcoholism. Also, make great physical effort, whether for sports or work can trigger a deficit of this mineral.

Symptoms and benefits

It is estimated that between 15 and 20% of the population is magnesium deficiency. The symptoms of this deficiency are poor memory and difficulty in retention.

This mineral is essential for the proper performance of children in school, students in general and others in the workplace and everyday. (more…)

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Wisdom Teeth

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Wisdom teeth are four molars, the third lower molar, the upper third molar left and right who are in the rearmost position over all the teeth of a person. Are called wisdom teeth because they are born between 16 and 24 years. There are also cases where the wisdom teeth are born before or after that age, in this case we talk about losers or hypodontia.

Usually when we talk about wisdom teeth tend to be very careful how they can be born, perhaps to a greater extent than other teeth. You may also access a wisdom tooth does not exit out, remaining or included semincluso. The causes leading to the birth of a lack of wisdom teeth may be the fact that the tooth has just enough space to get out or could be due to the shape of the jaw. (more…)

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Obesity Causes Disease

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

When we started to get fat because we ask ourselves this happens, but it never happened to think to where they are located those extra kilos.

One certainty is that abdominal or central obesity is experienced by young men and adults, and attacks in postmenopausal women, to which it is not given much importance.

Instead, it is peripheral obesity which affects women in buttocks, breasts or sides of the hip, and is usually mostly in the fertile period of the same, and consultations are carried only by purely aesthetic issues and health .

For abdominal obesity may have broad waist, abdomen prominent, and these cases are those that generate less specialist visits, unless more severe symptoms, which occur as a consequence of obesity, we must pay attention to both the kilos as where they are located. (more…)

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Homemade Acne Creams

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

What is acne?

Acne is the name used to designate grains: blackheads, whiteheads, and sometimes deeper lumps that form on the skin, especially on the face, neck, chest, back, shoulders and upper arms and legs. Almost all adolescents suffer from acne even minimally, also occurs in some adults. Although acne is not a serious health threat, it does affect the appearance of the person, which may impact on our concept of ourselves. The deep acne can leave permanent scars on the skin.

Who gets acne?

Almost all adolescents have at least some grain occasionally. The problem usually starts between 10 and 13 years of age and usually lasts between 5 and 10 years. Acne usually resolves spontaneously by age 20. However, there are times that can last up to 30 years and more. (more…)

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Acne

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Acne is an inflammatory disease that occurs in the skin that can affect anyone, but commonly occurs in adolescents and young adults.

The same comes from the hormonal changes experienced by adolescents, by the alteration of testosterone, male hormone, because it occurs more in men than in women.

Alteration occurs in the volume of secretions, thus increasing the size of theĀ  sebaceous glands of the skin and begin to produce more oil, that’s when some of the hair follicles connected to one of these glands causing pimples or blackheads cover . (more…)

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Hepatitis C Treatment

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Currently there are several possibilities to treat hepatitis C. The most effective medical treatment is a combination of an antiviral drug called ribavirin (taken orally), pegylated interferon, a drug that is punctured and subcutaneously administered once a week for 24-48 weeks, depending on viral genotype. The number of patients who respond to treatment (the virus disappeared from the blood) is approximately 54%.

When patients do not respond to treatment, if initial therapy was not included pegylated interferon retreatment is indicated using this drug. But if this drug has already been used, today is not indicated a new cycle of treatment and indications must be individualized, considering options such as the inclusion of patients in clinical trials. (more…)

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Hepatitis C

Friday, July 9th, 2010

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What is hepatitis C?

It is an infection caused by a virus called the hepatitis C virus that has high affinity for liver tissue. The virus is found in the blood of people with this disease.

This infection affects over 170 million people worldwide, and some estimates indicate that there may be 800 000 infected patients, although many of them do not know.

What are the symptoms of hepatitis C?

Hepatitis may be overlooked, many patients have no symptoms. Often the infection is diagnosed for other reasons, the laboratory abnormalities found in a routine, for example. (more…)

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Diet of Papaya

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

The basis of this diet is the tropical papaya fruit rich in fiber, vitamins, calcium, iron and phosphorus.

Papaya is a tropical fruit very popular for its good flavor and the amount of health claims it contains.

This tropical fruit helps fight constipation, streamlines internal and external scarring, eliminate intestinal parasites, strengthens immunity due to its high content of Vitamin C, relieves pain and inflammation of the stomach, is helpful in cases of gastroenteritis and helps clean our skin from within.

Its composition is essentially water, although containing a very small percentage as sugar. (more…)

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Gingivitis

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Gingivitis is an inflammation of the gums that causes pain, redness and bleeding of the gums themselves. Gingivitis is caused by a number of bacteria that find their seats inside the deep zones of natural gums themselves, which are usually always full of food residue. Considering that in those areas there is little oxygen, then these bacteria can reproduce and proliferate.

Surely the main cause of gingivitis is poor dental hygiene. The symptoms of gingivitis are red and inflamed gums that bleed easily, even in contact with the bristles of the brush our teeth or when you touch them with dental floss. Surely one of the causes is formed by plaque that causes tooth decay, which irritates the gums. (more…)

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