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Brain Fitness
It is a system of mental and physical exercises, very simple, whose primary objective is to improve the different thought processes. The gym is based on the principle that there is no learning without movement, because it generates or develops neural networks or connections.
It is part of what Aristotle said: There is nothing in the intellect that has not gone through the senses. Thus, the higher sensory experience, more learning. The exercises seek to stimulate the flow of new or existing to work with maximum efficiency.
The brain fitness can be practiced by children, adolescents or adults, and is highly recommended for those seniors. The diseases of memory does not come with aging, would normally get lucid until the last minute. This therapy developed a taste for effort, and therefore eventually managed to lower their stress levels and prevent certain diseases. And we did this exercise based fun, we even use names like Elephant, Peter Pan, Pinocchio or knots.
We work on several specific areas of the individual as the intellectual, interpersonal, creative and athletic. In fact, the gym is ideal for the most dedicated athletes, who helps achieve excellence. The therapy, developed by the American Paul Dennim in 1970, is based on the Kinaesthesis, or the study of movement, and the psychology of learning. Read the rest of this entry »
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Cinnamon to Control Blood Sugar
A new study by the Department of Agriculture of the United States found that cinnamon can reduce the risk of diabetes and heart disease. This study consisted of 22 obese people with irregular glucose levels, making them candidates for developing diabetes.
When blood sugar is too high, the body produces a large amount of insulin, which is also called the hunger hormone. The excess cells resist insulin and the person ends with a high blood sugar and insulin, a condition known as insulin resistance.
This condition can affect people with normal weight, but is very rare, mostly suffer from those who are overweight. According to the National Repository of Diabetes, people who suffer from insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes developed in 10 years but lost in 5 to 7% by weight. People with this condition are also at increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
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Healthy Meals at Dinner New Year
When the holidays arrive this year, the excesses are just around the corner. Therefore, we must be vigilant to avoid gaining weight and therefore lose the figure.
In general, no one can deny that the atmosphere of joy that lives in those days, encourages people to eat and drink more, forgetting the diet led to that point.
Given this situation, we will give you a few tips for you to enjoy the New Year without having to suffer the ravages of abundant and well-served dinner.
* No biting.
While you’re cooking dinner New Year’s Eve, watch itch. It is usually tempted to try a little of the ready for guests and family. For those who can not control this impulse, the ideal is to prepare a small little tray with light snacks, thus avoiding eating a bit of everything.
* Always choose turkey.
Other advice we can give is that you opt for the turkey instead of beef dishes. Currently, there are a variety of dishes that appear in the cookbooks that recommend making dinner with lamb or pork.
However, the best alternative you can choose is the turkey, because it is healthier for the body to have less fat and fewer calories. Similarly, you can also make ostrich or rabbit, which are light and tasty to the palate.
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Burns and his Treatment
Burns are a specific type of soft tissue injury. Occurs when the body receives more energy (heat, chemical or electrical) than it can absorb without injury.
A severe burn can be life threatening and requires immediate medical attention. The severity of the burn depends on the temperature of the medium that caused and duration of exposure. They are primarily skin lesions, but sometimes affects other organs like lungs, heart, kidneys, etc.
The severity of burns is determined by five factors:
Depth of burn: 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade.
Extent of burn: Percentage of body area affected.
Condition critical regions: Hands, feet, face and genitals.
Patient age: Under 2 years old or very old.
Overall health of the individual.
Causes. What causes it and how is it produced?
Physical agents
Burns and his Treatment
Solid hot irons, stoves.
Boiling liquids: water, oil, coffee, etc..
Cold: Exposure to extremely low temperatures, local ice unprotected intermediate cooling sprays misused.
Fire, flames directly or solid waste.
Chemical
Gasoline and oil in general.
Acids: hydrochloric, sulfuric etc.
Alkali: Caustic soda, lime or carbide.
Electrical Agents
Electric shocks at different voltages: Cables, electrical appliances, plugs without protection, lightning.
Radioactive agents: solar rays, X rays, infrared radiation.
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Stress and hair loss
This points out the head of communications Mayquel Hair Creations, Marisa Oliver who says the mood and stress processes may produce fumes or temporary hair loss and hormonal reactions that result from these situations result in a higher concentration of certain hormones such as testosterone and hidrocortisol, affecting the hair roots.
It is also common to stress that there is a scaly process, something that, in both cases, “ends when we eliminate that stress,” hence it happens that while recommending “care for the scalp as possible,” said Oliver .
Therefore, and given that we live in a time of stress and “concern for fear of losing their jobs, being unable to pay the mortgage, to be left without a home,” said this expert in the field has been observed in capillary recent months an increase in inquiries related to this issue in order to find a solution.
Alopecia areata stress
Psychosomatic disorders are physical illnesses caused, exacerbated or reactivated by psychological factors.
José Luis González de Rivera, head of the Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine of the Fundación Jiménez Díaz, says passengers are usually disorders as resulting from stress “situation”, transitory, the result of the requirement of a particular time .
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Advances in vaccine cocaine addiction
The study results were published in Archives of General Psychiatry (Archives of General Psychiatry.) The scientists found that 38% of participants failed to reach adequate levels of antibodies to stop experiencing the feeling of euphoria that produces the drug.
The vaccine works by “wrapping” to cocaine so that it has no effects on the brain, heart or other organ, “” this is the first successful controlled trial for a vaccine against cocaine, say scientists.
According to previous studies conducted with animals and humans, high levels of anti-cocaine antibodies in the blood can prevent addicts experience that feeling.
However, the researchers stressed that the vaccine who managed the high level of antibodies, only maintained it for two months, so it would need repeat injections.
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