Folk Medicine
According to WHO, traditional medicine is the sum total of knowledge, skills and practices based on theories, beliefs and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not, and used in the maintenance of health as well as in the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of physical or mental illness. Learn here some of the most popular techniques of folk medicine.
Meditation
Most meditation techniques are from religious or spiritual traditions. Meditation is used to treat various health problems such as anxiety, depression, stress and others.
Acupuncture
This practice China, stimulates various points on the body, either to restore or maintain health. A new study has shown that it is as effective as using medications to combat the ‘flushing’ and other symptoms of menopause.
Herbal Supplements
The teas and other remedies are used to improve the health of people. Although herbs can act as drugs, experts always recommend that they be used with caution and under the supervision of a health expert.
Magnets
Are traded for pain control, particularly in products that help ease the feet, wrists and back.
Massages
This therapy goes back a thousand years ago and aims to relax the body and stress reduction. You can block pain signals sent to the brain and stimulate the production of certain chemicals in the body.
Tai Chi
This practice, also from China, involves the slow movement of the body, while breathing deeply and meditating. Those who practice it believe it helps them improve the functioning of your digestive tract, which relieves pain and improves sleep quality.
High Cholesterol in Children
Concern about high cholesterol at a young age focuses on the possibility of maintaining high throughout adult life and thereby increase cardiovascular risk. Until recently some chronic diseases like diabetes or hypertension were diagnosed only in adults. However, in recent years, doctors have also begun to diagnose in children and adolescents and apparently has become a trend that is increasing.
Similarly the alterations of lipids, mainly cholesterol, is not something only adults, because the cases are increasing among children and adolescents.
How cholesterol affects children?
Although children do not suffer heart attacks, concerns about high cholesterol at a young age focuses on the possibility of maintaining high throughout adult life and thereby increase cardiovascular risk, but there is no evidence in this regard so far.
Experts say there is no justification for indiscriminately to children with high cholesterol, and less to treat them as this would only cause anxiety and unnecessary expense. Yes instead recommend, analysis of cholesterol measurement for children with special risk, which includes those who meet at least one of the following conditions: High cholesterol in children
a) Family history of high cholesterol
b) One of the parents have cholesterol above 240 mg/dl
c) If the parents or grandparents had heart infarction, anginpectoris a or obstruction of cerebral vessels before age 55
d) Children with chronic illnesses like diabetes, hypothyroidism, or kidney disease
e) Children who are overweight to obesity
f) Children with multiple risk factors: significant excess weight, lack of exercise and adolescent smokers.
The Benefits Of Vitamin C
It would be a good idea to begin now to prepare for the winter, and vitamin C is the vitamin we take over our bodies, so when the cold begins to take us by surprise no colds.
Vitamin C increases our defenses, it is also necessary to keep our body balanced, so that all vital functions are performed normally, and prevent colds and flu.
The basic functions of Vitamin C are:
1. Benefit the immune system by increasing white blood cells by activating the defenses against viruses, bacteria and germs.
Vitamin B2
Riboflavin deficiency or ariboflavinonis is widespread in India especially in populations where rice is the staple food.
The most common injury associated with riboflavin deficiency is angular stomatitis, which occurs frequently malnourished children and its prevalence is used as an index of nutritional status of groups of children.
Studies at the National Institute of Nutrition of India showed that subclinical riboflavin deficiency (as judged by the activity of glutathione reductase) was present in more than 80 percent of the group of children and adults with low social.
Vitamin A
Vitamin A or Retinol is a fat-soluble vitamin that is soluble in fat. Vitamin A is important for vision and is involved in the formation and maintenance of teeth, skeletal and soft tissue, mucous membranes and skin. Vitamin A can be found in foods of animal origin is called retinol.
Retinol sources are eggs, whole milk, meat, cream, cheese, kidney, liver of some animals and cod liver oil and halibut and some fortified foods. However, all these foods in which you can find vitamin A, except skimmed milk fortified with vitamin A, have high cholesterol and saturated fats. Continue reading
5 foods to get more Vitamin D
Many studies have Found a wide variety of vitamin D benefits, including maintaining healthy bones and heart to reduce the risk of breast cancer and other cancers.
Many experts agree that the daily intake of vitamin D should be between 800 and 1000 IU (One IU, or international unit is the standard used for measuring vitamins like D, A or E).
Some foods with vitamin D are salmon, yogurt, milk, tuna and cereal
Nutrition For Your Child
If you did not know is when you know it, proper nutrition in childhood not only reinforces the early stages of life but also stimulates growth.
It all starts in infancy, it is important to know that the first six months you should only give your baby breast milk, should not he eat other foods or liquids.
After these months you can start giving soft foods like baby food and purees, one at a time so that your metabolism will tolerate and will adapt, however it is important to continue breastfeeding until two years ago.
Also keep in mind that your baby shows signs of hunger and satiety, it is not appropriate to force him to overeat. On the contrary must be patient and encourage him to try new foods, an easy strategy is to use food full of colors, textures and tastes.
Important Nutrients During Lactation
Important nutrients during lactation. This period is very important to feed the mother and the nutrients are indicated for the proper manufacture of milk and the body does not suffer gaps and cover the needs of the baby. Be taken into account:
Foods rich in calcium, necessary for the formation of bones and teeth of the baby and mother, women who breastfeed need to eat about 1,200 milligrams of calcium, about 400 milligrams more, a woman who does not breastfeed.
You should drink milk and dairy products as yogurt and cheese or vegetable protein foods such as soy, such as tofu, is more than five times richer than milk. and even more toasted sesame seeds.
Vitamin supplements do not benefit memory
A vitamin supplement is a kind of preparation that contains various vitamins. They are used by certain people who lack certain vitamins in your body, especially those who can not eat properly for some reason. Vitamin supplements are of various kinds, are those that provide a lot of vitamins and contain only a specific vitamin.
Supplements
While many people argue that they are ideal to benefit the body, and provide other profits in relation to memory and school performance, recent studies have found that these patterns are not true.
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Vitamin D Deficiency in Babies and Mothers
Deficiencies in vitamin D in newborn babies and mothers have been noted in a study of the Breastfeeding Center Boston Medical Center. The study led by Dr Anne Marewood treated 433 women and 376 newborns.
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