Healthy gifts for the gift table
It’s almost that time again, Christmas is coming. By the beginning of Advent weeks is as every year, the question of a suitable gift for family, friends, parents … Why do not give well-being? Here are some tips for healthy gifts for Christmas. After her greatest wish interviewed, there are no cars, watches and other luxury goods, according to which the Americans most crave: More than three quarters of all respondents say they are lucky you did when you stay physically and mentally healthy. Against this background it is not surprising that presents the topics of well-being and fitness are becoming increasingly popular. Among the classic gifts include vouchers for visits to leisure pool or sauna, but also for massage or Shiatsu treatments. A tip is floating, which is available in major cities: this is a relaxation process in...
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Pain in the cold: Raynaud’s Syndrome
Cold, wet or psychological stress – these are not good conditions for people who suffer from Raynaud’s syndrome. Typical of the disease: Within a short time become discolored fingers; there is severe pain and numbness. Women are much more likely affected than men. When Raynaud’s syndrome is a circulatory disorder, which was named after the French physician Maurice Raynaud (1834-1881). It is also among the popular terms “body finger”, “white finger” or “syndrome of cold finger” known. Between 4 and 17 percent of the US population suffering from the disease, women are about five times more often affected than men. We distinguish primary from secondary Raynaud’s phenomenon: In the former, seizures occur outside any existing ground fault on both sides and are usually triggered by cold or stress. In contrast, in the second, rarer variant: Here, the symptoms usually...
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Preventive measures with tea
Tea is not only a popular drink, and health can benefit from the special characteristics of the different types of tea, as numerous scientific studies show. In addition to positive effects in terms of the development of cancer or cardiovascular disease should also be tea-regulating effect on blood sugar levels. Basically, must in diabetes, commonly referred to as diabetes, to distinguish between diabetes type I and type II diabetes. While type I diabetics it is a lack of insulin, the antagonist of glucose, or sugar, suffer, will indeed produce enough insulin in type II diabetics, but on the other hand, the cells are resistant, making it to transport his task glucose into the cells, cannot fulfill. The reason for this insulin resistance, almost 90% of all diabetics suffer, is primarily the current lifestyle with unhealthy, sugar-rich diet and lack...
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Christmas baking: Healthy ingredients for cookies and Co.
Gingerbread, Cinnamon, Vanilla: Just the names bring back memories of the Christmases of childhood – full of excitement, serenity and enjoyment. Today we are aware of the fact that this kind of goodies usually high in fat, sugar and calories contained and health thus not exactly conducive. But there is another way. Christmas baking advent and Cookies are inseparable: Christmas smells flow through the house and wake up the anticipation for the celebration. Even at Christmas markets can be found next to mulled wine and Co. all sorts of sweet delights. After snacking but plagues us promptly guilty conscience, finally, an excess of small calorie bombs quickly translates on the display of the scale. Butter, sugar and “empty” carbohydrates in the form of white flour are the main ingredients in biscuits and fruit cake – and not conducive for...
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Homeopathy for Pets
More and more people prefer so-called gentle healing methods offered by the nature with its incredibly wide variety of medicinal plants, minerals and other substances for the treatment of disorders and mood disorders. This healing methods such as classical homeopathy but today successfully used not only in humans but also common in pets. Classical homeopathy is a healing method that is based not only on the symptoms, but rather looks at the patient as a whole. The main objective here is to find out possible causes of the imbalance in the body that triggers the symptoms and to activate through the gift of similarly-acting agent’s self-healing powers of the body. This method can therefore be applied to both humans and animals, with the history of animals made much more difficult because the verbal level is missing and can be...
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