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Why do I feel so tired?
More and more women ask that question every day and even seek medical care because you do not find a solution to your fatigue. If you also feel tired, not sleeping well, and it’s hard to go out and have fun, do not miss this article where I talk about the possible causes of your fatigue.
While the pace of life today leaves many people with little time for relaxation, usually with some extra hours of sleep or a good rest over the weekend or holidays, can be used to stop to recover. But if you still take action, you’re still tired, maybe there is something in your body to stop you feeling fresh and energetic. The following may be some of the causes of your fatigue: Read the rest of this entry »
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Nuts and Allergy
The nuts are relatively high in fat, so we tend to exclude them from the diet when what is intended is to lose weight.
However, it is scientifically proven that, despite the high fat they possess, their are monounsaturated fatty acids. It was shown that by replacing saturated fatty acids with monounsaturated or polyunsaturated acids may decrease blood levels of LDL, the famous “bad” cholesterol.
But nuts also have other qualities: almost all of them – almonds, cashews, peanuts and walnuts – are an excellent source of antioxidants like vitamin E and selenium. Nuts and nut oils are also good sources of omega-3 acid, associated with reducing heart disease. Finally, these small delights have the power to give us a feeling of satiety that could prevent chewing anxious and weight gain.
One against the nuts – apart from its high calorie content, as we have seen – is that they can cause allergies. An estimated 1 in 200 people is affected, even slightly, this allergy.
For all this it is important that you consult your doctor nuts, what amounts to include in your diet and if there is possibility that you are allergic to them.
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Hypertension
High blood pressure or hypertension is a risk factor in the development of coronary heart disease. In most cases it is genetic, but can be prevented by leading a healthy life and taking the right medicine.
Angina pectoris, is chemic heart disease, stroke or sudden death myocarditis, among others, are some of the diseases caused by this disease.
These diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for more than 7 million deaths per year, and hypertension affects about one billion people worldwide, representing 20% of the adult population .
Prevention:
Years ago it was believed that appeared only in adults, but this disease can affect all ages. It is important to diagnose early and maintain a controlled hypertensive patients through regular blood pressure.
Then, when diagnosed hypertension is essential to reorient their continued lifestyle in a more healthy as quitting smoking, losing weight, exercise, good diet, eating less salt and fat, reduce alcohol consumption and follow a suitable mediation as prescribed by your doctor.
Treatment:
It is important to treat hypertension with drugs as a cornerstone in cardiovascular protection through monotherapies or combination therapies. Traditional medicines have side effects such as diabetes, elevated triglycerides and cholesterol. In contrast, the new drugs are almost neutral, ie they have fewer side effects.
Remember to check with your doctor and always follow the advice given.
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Weight loss supplements can affect your heart
A study conducted by Dr. Mehdi Razavi, the Texas Heart Institute, concludes that three quarters of weight-loss supplements bought over the Internet proved to contain ingredients that could cause lethal arrhythmias.
The experts involved in the study evaluated 12 dietary supplements and found that eight had at least one ingredient linked to dangerous heart complications such as ventricular arrhythmia, stroke and sudden death.
While all products included a list of its components, none had a warning about the potential adverse cardiac effects, thus obscuring customers the dangers of these pills to lose weight.
“Consumers have a false sense of security when they use them,” said Dr. Mehdi Razavi, the Texas Heart Institute, who presented the findings at a meeting of the Heart Rhythm Society in San Francisco.
Many heart attack people assume that the FDA supports the safety and efficacy of supplements but supplements, including many weight loss products are not subject to the same security controls that the drugs by the Food and Drug United States (FDA).
Razavi not provide the names of the pills tested, but offered a list of hazardous ingredients found in such supplements.
The team even found a compound, a type of ephedra known as Ma Huang root, which is banned by the FDA since 2004. Potentially risky ingredients are the result of Ma Huang, a type of ephedra banned by the FDA since 2004, the bitter orange, also known as Synephrine HCl and Citrus aurantium, green tea, also known as Camellia sinensis and black wheat, buckwheat or Korean ginseng, among others.
Some of the chemicals found can cause problems by reducing the levels of potassium, which could alter the heart’s electrical system. Others, such as green tea, are harmless when consumed in normal amounts, but can amplify the effects of other ingredients.
So when you decide to take a product or thermogenic fat burner is best to check with your doctor to evaluate possible consequences of its use against the benefits you could achieve.
Exercise after heart attack
A study by the Center for Cardiac Rehabilitation Clinic Valmont-Genolier in Glion (Switzerland) has concluded that physical exercise in a planned way can improve the flow of blood after a heart attack.
The study found that any kind of exercise was very useful in correcting vascular dysfunction in patients who had suffered a heart attack, no difference was found between resistance training, aerobics or in combination.
But the improvement in blood flow observed in the 209 survivors who participated in the study, was lost after four weeks of the cessation of exercise. This proves that this kind of patients should be kept in a constant training program to maintain vascular benefits.
Exercises for the heart of the test participants were randomly assigned to aerobic exercises, resistance exercises and a combination of aerobic and resistance training.
Those who did aerobic exercise had four sessions a week, which included a ten-minute warm-up, forty minutes of cycling, which increased the heart rate to 75 percent of the maximum and ten minutes of cooling.
Resistance exercises included four sessions a week to ten exercises with weights and rubber bands, which lasted from 45 to 60 seconds with rest intervals of 15 to 30 seconds.
According to Dr. Johnny Lee, an assistant clinical professor of medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, “If this applies to the sickest patients, that if you lose the benefit for shows that continue to exercise can only a positive effect if you are a normal subject without heart disease. ”
Reason enough to consider seriously and responsibly the start a fitness program that includes at least 2 to 3 sessions per week.
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Prevent Cancer Do not Just Rely Fruits and Vegetables
Eating fruits and vegetables are highly recommended for health, but do not expect that eating habits are two types of these foods will provide more protection against cancer.
The experts in the newest research says fruits and vegetables are nutritious prevent cancer. However, the effect is not too large.
Foods from plants containing more than 100 vitamins, minerals, fiber, and other useful materials. Foods that contain fiber, such as fruits, vegetables and grains known to reduce colorectal cancer risk.
Eating fruits and vegetables in a number of really good enough for a number of reasons, such as reduce the risk of heart disease and blood vessel (cardiovascular). Not even impossible, some specific types of fruits and vegetables with the substances contained therein can provide greater protection against cancer.
Research results show a weak link between the food derived from plants and lower risk of cancer.
Grass jelly, Cool Heat In
Behind the black color, grass jelly save a lot of benefits, including ease heartburn. Content of carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, vitamins (A, B1, C), water, enough to make Grass jelly is believed to be an alternative to relieve heartburn.
Stomach pains, nausea, and indigestion can be eased thanks to Grass jelly. Food relief refreshing thirst- is also beneficial for health because there is a water-soluble fiber (soluble dietary fiber).
In the body, water soluble fibers can bind to sugar and fat, so useful to prevent diseases such as diabetes mellitus, heart disease, and stroke.
Grass jelly gelatin derived from the leaves grass jelly crumpled and mixed boiled water. Water mixture turns green. After filtered and allowed to settle, there will be a layer of gelatinous green.
In addition to leaves, roots of plants can also be utilized Grass jelly. The fresh leaves can be used to treat stomach ulcers, typhoid and intestinal diseases.
The leaves are washed and crushed to pulp, then mixed with boiled water. The mixture was filtered and aged until thickened. Add sugar and drink three times a day.
Meanwhile, the usefulness of these plants can be overcome grass jelly fever. Sliced boiled with water, then squeezed. Besides boiling, can be brewed with hot water and then filtered and drunk.
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Vitamins B and Heart Attack
One study suggests that taking vitamins B did not prevent heart attack and stroke (CVA) in people with heart disease or risk factors.
The results, according to eight clinical trials on more than 24,000 people, support the recommendations against the use of vitamins B to prevent heart disease.
The idea that the B vitamins, like folic acid, B-6 and B-12, help prevent cardiac complications from the fact that lower blood levels of an amino acid called homocysteine.
Homocysteine levels increase in people with atherosclerosis, which is the buildup of plaque in the arteries that cause heart attacks and strokes.
But researchers do not know whether high homocysteine levels promote the progression of atherosclerosis or are only an indicator of cardiac risk. No clinical trial showed that vitamin B supplements prevent heart attack and stroke.
To strengthen the evidence, the new review collected data from eight clinical trials on the effects of folic acid, vitamins B-6 and B-12 or combinations thereof.
The trials included 24,210 people with established cardiovascular disease (atherosclerosis or previous stroke or other cardiac complications) or their risk factors, such as diabetes, hypertension or high cholesterol.
The authors found that adding supplements to conventional medical therapy did not lower the risk of heart attack, stroke or death of participants in the seven years of monitoring.
The results appear in the Cochrane Library, a publication of the Cochrane Collaboration, which is an international organization that evaluates medical research.
The review provides “solid evidence” that these B vitamins do not prevent heart problems and stroke, told Reuters Health Dr. Arthur J. Marti-Carvajal, Iberoamerican Cochrane Network, in Valencia, Venezuela.
The recommendation for people who want to take care of your heart health is to drop the B vitamins and either: not smoking, exercising, controlling blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar regularly and eat a balanced diet and a rich in fruits and vegetables and low in fast food and other unhealthy products.
When Vitamins Turn Against Himself
If you do not possess the minimum knowledge about the properties of the vitamins and the risk they represent, or if taken in excess, health may be at serious risk.
Taking vitamins is not an issue as simple as that. It is not close to the drugstore and buy a dozen bottles with labels indicating the benefits of vitamins A, B, C, D, E, and so on. and hundreds of combinations of these with minerals. Before embarking on this crusade, which can be a lot of damage to the body, it is best to consult a specialist and follow his instructions.
Multiplicity of values
Let’s talk about multivitamins: in principle, and before thinking about getting dependent jars of colors, people should be aware that as healthy for your body is eating a balanced diet with all the energy requirements demanded daily activity. But if the idea is to choose a multivitamin, research has determined that, in the case of pregnant women, folic acid prevents birth defects. Consumed by anyone else, helps to maintain low levels of amino acids (often associated to heart disease) in the body. If someone wants to take a daily multivitamin, it is best to choose one that provides 100 to 150% of the values required vitamin A to E, including, of course, folic acid.
Do you hate milk?
To prevent diseases like osteoporosis in adulthood (especially women), people should consume calcium from children. The problem is that not everyone likes milk, and there are those who reject derivatives such as cheese, yogurt or butter, for example. These are cases that is necessary to consume vitamin D which helps maintain calcium levels that demand for fortified skeleton.
Over the years, the human body loses its ability to create vitamin D, a process that is declining and reaches a critical point, upon reaching the fifth decade. The best way to supplement the deficiency is to consume a calcium supplement daily with an addition of 200 IU of vitamin D.
Cold all the time
Those who live sneezing and a handkerchief in her hand because of frequent colds, are likely to have deficiencies in vitamin E. Those whose families have a history of heart disease, should be alert and guide its sails toward the consumption of this vitamin. But what is the correct way to take it? The expert answers: “The recommendation is to consume daily 30 IU. A multivitamin usually does not give anyone that amount, so we must take an extra vitamin E pill to achieve a higher percentage to set. Recent studies show that doses of 300 to 600 IU per day, greatly reducing the chance of heart attacks. ”
Do not overreach
Citrus fruits like oranges, are carriers of vitamin C but if it is one of those people who stay away from fruits (mistake), then you should consider taking a daily tablet containing vitamin. “The recommended daily intake is 60 mg but now, after findings from recent studies, it was determined that the body needs more than that so you can reduce the risk of developing lung cancer, stomach or colon. It is best to consume 250 mg vitamin C per day, not worth taking more because the rest will be evacuated by the body. Moreover, it is known that higher doses harm the DNA. ”
What about minerals?
Vitamins and minerals go hand in hand. So it is worth a brush of information. According to the consulting nutritionist, minerals such as selenium, iron and potassium, are needed to prevent some diseases.
“The risk of lung cancer, colon and prostate, is reduced significantly if the person consumes per day at least 200 mg of selenium. Several multivitamin supplement a small amount of this mineral, but for good measure, it is good to acquire an additional cost without being overstated because more than 800 mg daily can cause nausea, vomiting, fatigue and hair loss. As for iron, multivitamins typically provide 18 mg (good) but, for example, pregnant or lactating require more. If we speak of potassium in people with high blood pressure need more potassium than a multivitamin provides. In this case, it is ideal to take two additional 500-mg pills a day. ”
Before you head to consume a multivitamin or vitamins alone it is best to consult a doctor or nutritionist for mixtures of supplements taken daily that add up to more than 600 IU can cause headaches, kidney stones, calcification of heart valves and fatigue. The best in any case is not self-medicate.
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