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We know that all fruits have beneficial properties for our body, and in the case of peach, being rich in carotene, vitamin C and selenium, is considered one of the best antioxidant fruits.

Peaches come from trees that grow in warm regions around the world, but come from China, where they were prized for its rejuvenating properties, to the point they were considered as the symbol of immortality.

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The sun, air pollution … There are so many factors that affect our skin and our hair, it is sometimes difficult to keep these focal points of our beauty in the best condition.

There are some basic tips that we must respect and try to follow to achieve improvements in our overall appearance. The face and hair are two of the most important aspects of ourselves healthy and beautiful.

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It is said that female menopause is a disorder that occurs after age 45, but the truth is that it is a natural development of women which can vary between 43 and 55.

This is characterized by the suspension of the menstrual period, resulting in the interruption of substances important for hormonal balance.

As a result, women suffer from sudden temperature changes, which has become the descalsificación the long bone.

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When we think of detox or eliminate toxins comes to mind a rigorous program in a spa, but it has to be. Continue below.

To remove toxins does not require much effort because our bodies just need a little help. You can follow the following tips for a week or a couple of days:

Drink water
Eliminate caffeine and alcohol. These foods cause the kidneys and liver work harder.

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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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Adult Vaccines

Interview with dr. Juan Manuel Gomez. Institutional infectious diseases physician Funding Santa Fe de Bogota, who will talk about Vaccines in Adults.

1. It is generally believed that vaccines are for children in this sense, adults should be vaccinated and from what age?
Adults know and particularly doctors that adults need certain vaccines in particular some more than others will talk about that later, not only because we have lost some kind of defenses or immunity against many childhood vaccines, but also because we have a birthday put at risk of other diseases and particularly if you also suffer from some other disease because we are more susceptible to pneumonia or influenza-etc.

2. Against what should be vaccinated?

There are two vaccines that are put together that influenza and pneumococcal pneumonia is Streptococcus pneumonia, a bacterium, it is obviously an influenza virus, and it is worth mentioning that the flu is not flu, people have a bit that misconception, the flu is an ordinary cold and the flu is far more serious illness, you’ve heard of pandemic avian influenza virus are much more serious and these two diseases combined Read the rest of this entry »