Sommerfit: Which diet gives us momentum?
Summer, sun, summer season to enjoy this time properly, you need to be fit and healthy. In addition to plenty of sleep and physical exercise that includes the right summer diet, because especially in eating and drinking lurking in the summer some dangers that can take your swing. At last summer, but the initial joy lasts usually only briefly, because many people makes the heat to create fast. During the day they feel tired and exhausted, at night you can find the other hand, no sleep. But the heat is not only uncomfortable, it can also bring health risks. Because too much heat can dry out the body and can cause headaches, sweating, sunstroke or circulatory disorders. The best medicine is here is adapted to the summer diet consisting of mainly drinking plays a crucial role. Right drinking in...
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Organ Donation
Organ donation can save lives. At the same time, the decision usually comes at the worst possible time: Namely, when an organ in the first place out of the question – after a serious, fatal accident. Often members have to make a tough decision for those concerned: both for their own relatives as well as for the eventual recipients. This decision will only be precipitated by the relatives, if one has not been set as far back as to whether and how you want to make a donation. On June 7 of this year’s Day of Organ Donation was held. The day is for information and want to cheer for a decision for or against organ donation, in order not to put in an emergency the affected families before the crucial question. If this has not been established during...
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Barefoot in the swimming pool – Attention athlete’s foot!
Take time to burn or itch barefoot from a swimming pool to the other and a little later start to the feet. Almost one in three Americans has ever suffered annoying and stubborn athlete’s foot. It can be an infection almost always be avoided by simple means. Athlete’s foot loves moist and warm, exactly the conditions that prevail in the swimming pool, sauna and also in communal showers. No wonder that many people are afraid of infection. Besides, a lot more than just a short contact with the belonging to the filamentous fungi dermatophytes, the technical term is necessary for infection. For human skin is protected by its acid mantle and skin flora, a natural protective layer of bacteria from attack. If the skin is damaged or attacked, however, for example by injuries, a weakened immune system or after...
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Fragrances weapons against mosquitoes
Summer, sun and mosquito bites – a combination that seems inevitable, because the female mosquitoes are dependent on foreign blood to the summer breeding season. They find their prey using a specialized sense of smell, and that is what can make human use of the fact to keep the annoying and sometimes even dangerous pests at bay. What can protect you against mosquitoes? Especially in regions where mosquitoes can transmit serious diseases such as malaria and yellow fever, timely prophylaxis is essential. But even in this country spreading the insect viruses and bacteria, while triggered by the mosquito’s saliva itch to scratch first orgies and eventually can lead to inflammation. Acting directly on the skin called repellents conceal either the groundbreaking fragrances, or contain odors, mosquitoes naturally can not stand. These funds are available as lotions, sprays or sticks...
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Removal of the ovaries as a preventive measure
The American actress Angelina Jolie made public that they could be removed ovaries and fallopian tubes surgically because with it greatly increased risk of cancer has been found. Already in 2013 she decided for the same reason, to let remove her breasts. Is it to make sense remove the ovaries, if an increased risk to develop ovarian cancer? 10-15% of ovarian cancers are hereditary. Often, a mutation of the genetic substance (BRCA1 or BRCA2) is responsible. This is not the only genetic defect may cause, but the most common. The mutation involves a 60-80% risk of breast cancer and a 20-40% risk of ovarian cancer. Whether such a mutation is present and could be determined by a molecular genetic analysis. But only high-risk patients should be carried out such an investigation. Among the criteria heard about that two women...
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In the summer hair care to remember
In the summer belongs to most people now a special skin care daily routine. The skin is not only regularly supplied with grease and moisture but also protected against harmful UV radiation. In this case, however, the hair is often forget that also require intensive care in the summer. Summer, sun and water provide a holiday mood and relaxation. For skin and hair but the summer is a real ordeal. In particular, the combination of sun and sea or chlorine water attacks the hair, because it harms their natural protective film, so that they become dry and straw-like. In addition, the scalp produced by the summer loads more sebum and hair appear dull and dry quickly on approach greasy and toppings. Optimal summer care for hair. So that the hair does not look dull and neglected in the summer,...
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