February 6th, 2010
If food additives are not inherently dangerous when consumed in small doses, chronic overdose but can cause health problems more or less disturbing.
Who are food additives?
Food additives are added to food products in very low dose.
These composite products in most cases of simple molecules used to fulfill many objectives:
- Emulsifier;
- Color;
- Conservative;
- Flavor
The use and labeling of all food additives are regulated by an EU directive from 1989 (89/107/EEC). This directive makes clear what a food additive, “any substance not normally consumed as a food in itself and not used as a characteristic ingredient of food, it has nutritional value or not, whose ‘deliberate addition to food for a technological purpose in the manufacture, processing, preparation, packaging, transport or storage of, or may reasonably expect to be him or a derivative thereof, directly or indirectly a component of that food. ”
In the vast majority of cases, food additives are naturally occurring.
A specific coding
For more transparency to the consumer, each food additive is classified in one of 23 categories that comprise the Codex Alimentarius whose common encodings are:
- E1xx: colors;
- E2xx: the Conservatives (the vast majority of food additives);
- E3xx: antioxidants;
- E4xx: agents including textures are found but also emulsifiers thickeners (modified starch mainly), gelling agents and stabilizers;
- E5xx and superiors flavor enhancers, sweeteners and acidifying.
In these conventional additives used to preserve food longer and keep them appetizing added more recently of nutritional additives such as Omega 3.
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February 4th, 2010
Transient and chronic insomnia are often related to a great nervousness due to stress but may also result from physical problems . To return to sleep, a healthy lifestyle and natural remedies are usually enough.
What is insomnia?
Insomnia is a sleeping disorder fairly common. It translates into:
- Difficulty in falling asleep;
- Frequent awakenings during the night;
- And bursts of impatience;
- A feeling of fatigue associated with daytime sleepiness, impaired attention and irritability.
Insomnia can be transient or chronic.
Insomnia
Sleep difficulties are often caused by stress. This stress may be punctual at the onset of a major event such as death, or more tenacious as hyperactivity during the work, psychological pressure due to a continual state of depression.
Insomnia may also have physical causes, particularly in cases of overweight. Breathing is difficult, it leads to snoring and sleep apnea. The sleeper hit of insomnia shows have had a bad night.
Natural remedies promoting sleep
Depending on the cause and chronicity of insomnia, natural remedies available are obviously different.
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February 3rd, 2010
Homeopathy is a treatment method that is based on the principle of similarity: similarity between the toxicological power of a substance and its healing power.
Substances that are used in large doses cause illness, while if used in very small doses (infinitesimal) cure symptoms similar to those they have caused.
Homeopathy is also characterized by the individualization of treatment. Homeopathy For no diseases but sick, so treatment is always dependent on how the patient reacts.
“Homeopathy does not override conventional medicine (allopathy).
- The Homeopathy Allopathy does not cancel. The treating physician determines that your patient need when acute or chronic.
THE MANUFACTURING:
- Homeopathic medicines are manufactured from substances of vegetable, mineral or animal.
The basic substance undergoes a number of dilutions-dynamic. The dilutions are then impregnated on granules or globules, most characteristic forms of homeopathic medicines. They can be prepared as well, as drops, tablets, ointments, etc.. Read the rest of this entry »
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February 2nd, 2010
The phrase “this does not save or Chinese doctor” is the result of the successes in the performance of traditional herbal medicine made by Dr Cham Bom Bian of the city of Cardenas, Matanzas province, in the nineteenth century.
Herbal medicine or phytotherapy is a therapeutic practice that different preparations of plants used to treat diseases. It is considered one of the first systems of healing and continuing today.
In Egypt since the 1300s B.C. and cultivated plants collected for medicinal purposes by the papyri of the time. A builder of temples and pyramids were given garlic to keep them healthy. Some papyri, such as Smith, account for more than 400 raw materials, both animal and plant for the treatment of disease.
In Babylon the king Mardukapaolidine II (772-710 BC) built a garden for growing medicinal plants for which he became famous. Read the rest of this entry »
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February 1st, 2010
Based on their level of dependence
Hard Drugs
The “hard” drugs are those that cause physical and psychological dependence, is altering the psychic and social behavior of addicts, as opium and its derivatives, alcohol, amphetamines and barbiturates.
Soft drugs
That create only a psychological dependence, among which are the derivatives of hemp, such as hashish or marijuana, cocaine, lysergic acid, better known as LSD, as well as the snuff.
This division into “soft” and “hard” is questioned by many scholars of the subject and consider that it might be suggested to her that the “hard” are bad and therefore “soft” are good or less bad and is not well as from certain doses and in the form to be administered, the “soft” drugs can have harmful effects such as “hard”.
Keep in mind that as the dose of certain drugs called “soft” can have harmful effects such as those considered “hard”.
Dependency is the state of the individual through which constantly creates and maintains a desire to ingest any substance. Please keep this wish by metabolic mechanisms and lack creates a withdrawal syndrome is called physical dependence.
If the dependency is maintained by psychosocial mechanisms, often defined as mental or psychological dependence.
From a pharmacological standpoint, drugs are divided into narcotics Read the rest of this entry »
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January 30th, 2010
How do you know if you have bird flu?
In the HongKong outbreak in 1997, patients had symptoms of fever, sore throat, cough and, in some fatal cases, severe respiratory distress secondary to viral pneumonia. Were affected previously healthy adults and children, and some people with chronic medical conditions.
Since then, the tests for all strains of flu virus that affects animals and humans are rapid and reliable. Many laboratories worldwide network of WHO flu have high security facilities and reagents as well as considerable experience, to carry out these tests.
It also offers Rapid bedside tests for the diagnosis of human influenza, although such tests lack the precision of the most comprehensive analysis currently required to understand the most recent cases and determine whether human infection is spreading, either directly from birds or from humans. Read the rest of this entry »
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January 29th, 2010
What is healthy lifestyle?
Healthy lifestyles are a global strategy, which is part of a modern trend in health is basically framed in disease prevention and health promotion perhaps the key moment of this trend or the beginning of this trend was 2004 and were generated by a declaration by the world health organization, to improve risk factors such as unhealthy diet and sedentary lifestyle, healthy lifestyles are related to eating and physical activity to prevent such diseases metabolic, cardiovascular, today we are facing an epidemic quoted or unquoted, an epidemic of these diseases and in whom obesity is perhaps more relevant is that since late figures of overweight and obesity in different countries the world both developed and developing towards increasing dangerously.
Recommendations of a balanced diet to maintain a healthy lifestyle:
There are several recommendations, but perhaps there are two points that are key to three points are key, the first is that in all societies there is a deficit in current consumption of fruits and vegetables Read the rest of this entry »
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January 28th, 2010
The widespread emphasis on wellness and a more holistic approach to healthcare have risen popularity for herbs. People are increasingly using herbs for natural treatment and prevention, effective to a variety of ailments.
Herbs play a significant role, especially in modern times, when the harmful effects of processing and over-medication of food have assumed alarming proportions. Now they are increasingly used in cosmetics, foods and teas, as well as alternative medicines.
The growing interest in herbs is a part of the movement towards change in lifestyle. This move is based on the belief that plants have a vast potential for use as a curative medicine.
What is grass?
Botanist, an herb is a plant with a non-woody stem to wither and die down after flowering. In common usage, however, the term applies to all plants leaves, stems, roots, flowers, fruits, or seeds have culinary or medicinal use. This approach forms the basis of the herbs included in this site. Read the rest of this entry »
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January 27th, 2010
The main features of good health are: cheerful, slim waist, straight teeth, strong body, clean and white, sharp appetite: the good digestive system, the ability to do hard work without exhaustion, a mood for work , the stamina to cope with hot weather and cold, the healthy parts of the body, soft skin, no dry face, no cracking of the lips, eyes bright, sharp sight, clean pink tongue, his broad chest, no stomach pumped, soft hair, deep breathing freely foul odor, dreamless sleep, sweating toilet, mouth restored, no spitting or coughing frequently, regular stool, sensation of morning freshness, speed, hot stomach, head cool, pink nails, health and so on.
good essential to life because only a healthy person can enjoy the blessings of life. Read the rest of this entry »
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January 26th, 2010
What is avian influenza and how people can protect against this disease?
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) the UN or avian influenza is an infectious disease that affects birds and is caused by type A strains of influenza virus. This disease, which was first identified in Italy more than 100 years ago, occurs worldwide.
It is believed that all birds are susceptible to such infection, although certain species are more resistant than others. Infected birds may show different symptoms, from mild flu to a highly contagious disease and fulminant course resulting in severe epidemics.
The latter is known as “highly pathogenic avian influenza. This form is characterized by sudden onset, severe illness and rapid death, with a mortality that can approach 100%.
Migratory waterfowl – especially wild ducks – are the natural reservoir of avian influenza viruses, also being the most resistant to infection. The domestic poultry, including chickens and turkeys, are particularly vulnerable to epidemics of rapidly fatal influenza.
The direct or indirect contact of domestic flocks with wild migratory waterfowl has been mentioned as a frequent cause of such epidemics. Live bird markets have also played an important role in the spread of epidemics.
Why is the avian flu virus H5N1 is so dangerous? Read the rest of this entry »
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