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Yacon, through its tea, provides the same benefits as the plant itself. This is another way to get all its virtues and properties to lower cholesterol and treat high cholesterol naturally. In this note I will present how to prepare the recipe yacon tea to complement the high cholesterol treatment.

Yacon is a root used since ancient times by indigenous peoples in South America. This food contains nutrients to treat many different conditions such as diabetes, high cholesterol, overweight, etc.

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Urinary tract infections affect most women at some point in their lives and some small children and the elderly, is characterized by colonization of bacteria in the urinary tract cells, especially by Escherichia coli.
As a result of some research in Phytotherapy Research Center reported that the release properties of the cranberry that prevented bacteria are fixed on the mucosa of the urinary tract and produce infection.

Other investigations confirmed that this fruit is used both for prevention and treatment, along with antibiotics, urinary tract infection symptoms in women, and therefore as a natural resource and benefits of this drug has a cranberry plant, also known as “cranberry” in English, consumption they can significantly prevent the occurrence of symptoms of urinary tract disease in children.
This work is in addition being developed by the Cochrane Foundation stressed that bilberries “reduce by half the number of episodes suffered from cystitis for more than a year.”

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At the physical level of ignorance in terms of health that is reflected in the following ways:

1. Ignorance about the quality and quantity of food that we caution because we have to the things of daily elimination. Here we include all types of substances hazardous to health such as drugs, alcohol and tobacco.

2. He did not provide important because that gives us a breath of energy to live more fully and that it is through inhalation of blood and breath turn purified.

3. Unconsciousness to benefit practicing some form of exercise that causes atrophy of the body too quickly. This exercise can be a sport, athletics or some kind of sport is always trying to moderate exercise.

4. Lack of proper hygiene, an important factor to maintain the organic health, lack of knowledge about the use of water as a purifier and tonic.

5. Abuse of everyday activities without providing the necessary rest to recover energy “spent”, which is important to rest not only on sleep but a few minutes for ourselves through a few practice conscious relaxation.

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Definition of health: the spiritual, physical, mental and social. This is the perfect harmony of all functions and manifestations of human beings.

Definitions of disease: It is the absence of health. This is a natural effort to restore the lost harmony. This is a reaction or adaptation mechanism that aims to compensate for the disturbing effects of the actions that damage or harm.

The Naturist first about health teaches us that there is a good thing in itself in contrast with the opposite disease so that if we eradicate the disease should improve their health. The first agent to improve the overall health of a person would own. If the person who has lost his health does not work for the welfare of your own how can we expect a full recovery?

Some naturopathic principles:

* We are responsible for what happened to us at all levels: physical, mental and spiritual.

* Consciously or unconsciously, willingly or unwillingly, we shape our destiny and our health status.

* If we become ill our selves, we can also reverse the process and regain lost health.

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They say the woman, or at least most, feels fulfilled as such when it becomes a mother. That nothing compares to the positive outcome of a wanted pregnancy tests, the belly and the body to grow and change every month until the ninth. And no emotion bigger, indescribable, to give birth to a son and felt for the first time his head wet and tousled hair pressed against his chest.

Now, sometimes, nature needs help and in these instances, the lack of information plays against. According to the latest survey conducted on this topic and Designing commissioned by the Association, one in four women do not know what factors impair their reproductive capacity and know what questions to directly threaten their fertility.

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In a study with rats, slipped psoriasis as reduced inflammation
According to a study in the U.S., can green tea shows promise as a new treatment for psoriasis and other skin inflammatory conditions such as dandruff and lupus-related lesions.
Researchers at the Medical College of Georgia found that the green tea slowed the growth of skin cells of mice genetically tend to have psoriasis.

The findings appear in the August 18 edition of the journal Experimental Dermatology.
“Psoriasis, an autoimmune disease, causing the skin to become thicker because the growth of skin cells outside the” control, said in a prepared statement Dr. Stephen Hsu, an oral biologists at the MCG School of Dentistry. “In psoriasis, immune cells that normally protect against infection, triggering the release of cytokines that cause inflammation and overproduction of skin cells.”

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To delay aging note the preventive role of certain foods.

1. CHOCOLATE

This sweetness is full of polyphenols (antioxidants) and magnesium antidote to stress. It also stimulates production of endorphins, hormones of well being.

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Menstrual pain is a symptom that afflicts women typically 9 in 10 women of childbearing age. Faced with this discomfort, most opt to take tablets of ibuprofen to alleviate the pain, but an investigation by the University of Tarbiat (Iran) recommends another palliative, including in the diet: vitamin E.

* The consumption of this nutrient, according to the scientists found, was very useful in reducing the intensity and duration of pain.
* He also had a second effect: reducing the volume of blood loss and therefore lead to a shorter period.
* For all these reasons, it is a treatment that requires no prescription, no side effects and avoids the use of analgesics.

Natural sources of vitamin E are vegetable oils, seeds, dried fruits, fish, seafood and avocado.