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Brain and Nervous System
The nervous system includes the brain, spinal cord and the set of all body nerves, and is considered divided into two parts: the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system. The center would consist of the brain and spinal cord and peripheral nerve network would be to liaise between the brain and spinal cord and the rest of the body.
The brain is a kind of central computer that controls all body functions, and the rest of the nervous system would be a network that sends messages back and forth between the brain and body parts. It does this through the spinal cord, which, from the brain, goes down the back and inside contains nerves, which branch throughout the body. Read the rest of this entry »
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Diet Safely By Eating Slowly
If the first obesity or overweight is considered as a symbol of prosperity, is now regarded as the scourge of obesity instead of scary, this is associated with increased morbidity and mortality of various diseases.
Many ways to avoid this situation, for example, by dieting, whether it be traditional or modern manner. Even to get their ideal body, often the ‘torture’ ourselves and the fear that is not the ideal body shape has conquered everything.
A diet is actually not much help, because after a successful diet, your body will re-stretched if the old habits still can not be avoided.
To obtain the ideal body shape, there are actually more simple way, without strict dieting or tortured bodies follow certain dietary rules, that is how we behave when eating.
For some people who because of habit or because of hastily pursued the time, eating tends to be perfunctory. But what happens when you eat with full awareness? You will definitely enjoy eating slowly and paying attention to each of what you eat. Read the rest of this entry »
Apples against Alzheimer’s
A recent study by the Research Center of Cellular Neurobiology and Neurodegeneration at the University of Massachusetts, found that drinking apple juice could reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
The study is published in this month’s issue of the Journal of Alzheimer’s disease, is being hailed as a medical breakthrough by experts.
The researchers gave mice the equivalent of two cups of apple juice daily for one month and discovered that, those who drank apple juice produced less beta-amyloid, a small protein that damages normal cells in the brain and form plaques that found in the brains of people affected by Alzheimer’s disease.
Study author Thomas B. Shea says in its conclusions that, “we recommend regular consumption of apple juice, since not only can help keep the mind in its best performance, but may also be able to delay the key aspects of the disease Alzheimer’s and improve therapeutic approaches.
The researchers did not identify the specific component that is contained in the apple juice, as head of the curative effect.
“These findings provide new evidence linking nutrition and genetics as risk factors for age-related neuro-degeneration,” the researchers say.
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Shoes Leave Their Mark on Our Health
The footwear should be comfortable, functional and a heel of no more than four centimeters. Walk with comfort and care for the spine, preventing back pain and spinal arthritis.
Neither the heart nor the brain as to mechanics, the most complex element of the human body is the foot. Or what is the same, a sublime piece of engineering consists of 26 bones, 33 joints, 19 muscles and tendons over 100 making it an SUV that can adapt to any surface you step and walk thousands of kilometers along of our lives.
At the end of the day, a person gives on average between 8,000 and 10,000 steps, which in one year is more than 3 million steps. Well, the way they give these steps is of importance to health. Because beyond serving for us to move from one place to another, the feet bear the weight of the body and make it so that is the primary point of support. No one could argue, arrived here, your feet deserve a little more attention than they receive, not only in summer, to wear sandals or flip-flops, but all year round.
High Heels and unhealthy
The Spanish Association of Physicians and Surgeons Foot says that 70% of the population suffers from some illness in our country pedis, forecast extending Cinfa laboratories, which estimate that 85% of the Spanish experience at least once in their life problems feet. A proper footwear is the first step to avoid them.
We sometimes the mere aesthetics, tracking patterns of fashion and competitive price too heavy to buy shoes, and cornered two essential aspects very obvious: functionality, that is, serve the purpose intended, because a shoe is the same one for rainy weather and comfort, which are easy to carry and do no harm.
Abrasions, ingrown toenails, bunions and calluses are the most common and visible impact of improper shoe wear. But not only are the feet, spine, hips, knees and joints that have both feet or more the consequences of using tight shoes, small, high heels or of poor quality.
It is advisable to devote sufficient time to purchase shoes, think about the role it was going to assign (sport, leisure, business, city life, holiday, summer) and not simply buy the one that attracts us at first.
Keep in mind, at least, these four factual issues: quality of materials, forefoot flexibility, ease of use and heel height, if any. ‘I love heels, I feel safer and more attractive to them. ” Yes, the shoe in addition to their primary function performs other functions, aesthetic and symbolic, while almost the same is true of much of consumer goods.
No high heels that will not endanger the health of the person who often wears
He preaches the high heels that stylize the figure and convey sensuality also is not that always end up coming back into fashion, but never fail to be. The problem is that whatever may have of him are of initially pretty uncomfortable and unhealthy. A master, and even take them with style, you learn with the insistence and over the years.
But no high heels that will not endanger the health of the person who wears it frequently. Here is why. The forefoot and, above all, the heel support the weight of the body, and the use of high-heeled heel height, which changes the weight distribution: the higher the heel, the more you charge the frontal area. So heels of ten or more inches, almost the entire body weight is exerted on the toes, which ultimately causing problems to users.
It is also common for the high-heeled shoe instep is open and low, which means that many women choose a smaller size than usual so that ‘no dancing’ foot. The shoe is fixed better, no doubt, but to be so tight that they receive increasing pressure feet. This uneven distribution of the efforts of the walk also cause excessive strain on the forefoot, to which we must add ingrown toenails, bunions and pain in the foot.
But anyway, the most serious damage caused by long-heeled shoes is that your hips and knees are articulated semi-flexed and static when trying to keep the column there is a strong lordosis (excessive curvature of the body) that will result over from time to back pain and spinal arthritis. Nor at the other end, completely flat shoes, is the solution.