Laughing is good for your health

I have never met a person that hasn’t laugh at least, the thing that even if something isn’t funny, just seeing another person laughing makes you want to laugh also, but haven’t you wonder, why is this?, Why are laughter so contagious as a virus? English scientist have found new evidence about the contagious power of a laugh: our brain is particularly social, because every time it perceives a laugh it responds the same way, seems true that “if you smile, the world will smile back to you” said Sophie Scott from the University of London and author of a study published in the magazine Journal of Neuroscience.

The new study replaced the visual study for an auditory one. Researchers selected vocalizations that respond to positive emotions (fun, success) and negative (dislike, fear) and through studies of magnetic resonance, the monitored the brain reaction to certain voluntary groups. Mirror neurons got activated as a response of all sounds, preparing facial muscles to take action. But the response was more intense in the case of laughter and winning voices. The fact that positive emotions active mirror neurons in major quantities helps us understand how positive emotions promote social interaction.

But this is not a new therapy in the 70’s Patch Adams, developed a new therapy to treat patients in a Hospital of Virginia, this is the beginning of laugh therapy, with this therapy was proved that laughing helps the organism physically and mentally. Norman Cousin experimented with the laugh therapy and overcome the pains caused by rheumatoid arthritis. He proved that if before he went to bed he watched a movie that made him laugh, he would sleep the whole night without pains. Laughing was his pain reliever.

From this moment before and after was marked in the application of laughing as therapy. Laughing as a therapy is a group discipline that exposes people physically and emotional to laugh. It a method that helps people to live their lives better, changing their perspective of life from negative to positive. Emotional state and perception get transform by developing happiness, optimism and humor.

Laugh thing by itself, is not a cure, but is a complement to traditional medicine. Between the reasons we could mention:

*When we laugh we exercise by moving around 400 muscles, including some stomach muscles that are only exercised when laughing.

*It helps us relax: bones of the vertebral column, where we tend to accumulate tensions stretch.

*It cleans our eyes, laughter clears nose and ear and active our lacrimal glands.

*We oxygenate our lungs and skin while we laugh.

*It helps us stay happy, stimulates the nervous system and makes the immune system stronger.

*It stimulates the cardiovascular system: lowers arterial tension, decreases the
cardiac rhythm.

*Helps against constipation by giving a massage to the digestive tube, increasing intestinal traffic.

There are a million reasons to laught so stop what you are doing and laugh out loud.

Olives, Low In Calories And Great for your Health.

Olives, very popular around the world, olive oil is extracted from them and is considered a basic aliment in the Mediterranean diet, it should never be out of our diet.

Table olives have a high nutritional value. Its fat is very healthy, because it has unsaturated fatty acids in higher quantities than saturated ones, and specially monounsaturated oleic acid.

It is a good source of diet fiber, easily digested and with a high mineral content, mainly sodium and in minor proportions potassium, magnesium, iron phosphorus and iodine.

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Fibers are great to maintain a good figure, health and nutrition. It’s a basic function is to eliminate waste; they possess a low calorie contents and produce a fullness sensation due to the high water absorption that fibers have.

If you are interested in eating fibers you should know that there are two types, and you can find them in food like oat and legumes (soluble fibers) or in cereals, whole grain bread, fruits and vegetables (insoluble fibers).

Fiber Diet:

Breakfast: Coffee with skimmed milk, a toast of whole grain bread with a spoon of cream cheese.

Lunch: A homemade soup of grated vegetables, grilled chicken breast and a yogurt.

Afternoon Snack: whole grain cereal bar and a cappuccino.

Dinner: Grapefruit juice, a salad of orange and kiwi with a spoon of cream cheese, instead you can eat a ¼ grilled chicken.

Benefits of Ginger

Ginger has been used to treat intestinal affections, because it stimulates the pancreas, increasing the production of enzymes that benefit digestion and avoid the apparition of series of secondary effects that are related to the bad absorption of enzymes.

It possesses an anti-bacterial power that is useful against a variety of intestinal problems, which are produced by alterations of the gut flora. It has been proved that ginger is one of the best remedies for nausea. For example, consuming it 2 or 3 hours before starting a trip, it will prevent us from feeling sick. At the same time

It can be useful against vomiting produced by chemotherapy, being useful for patients that have cancer. If this is the case you should always consult your doctor, and never eat it with and empty stomach.
In can be useful in pregnancy, specifically when vomiting and nausea appear during the first months. Ginger can be useful preventing the apparition of ulcers, like gastritis or peptic being capable of eliminating the Helicobacter pylori bacteria.

Other Benefits

It is capable of reduce and neutralize the excess of gastric acid that is one of the causes of getting ulcers. It is also capable of eliminating harmful microorganisms like Escherichia Coli, responsible of the majority of diarrheas.
Ginger roots.

It’s utilized, as a condiment, and for its therapeutic properties. It its composition stands out an essential oil and its bitter principals that have stimulant, aromatic and stomachic properties.

How to increase iron?

Foods that help cure Iron deficiency anemia or sideropenic anemia.

If first place you must know the principal cause of the iron deficiency that you have. Experts insist in the diet and daily alimentation as a form to increase, in a progressive way iron levels in the blood.

Opting for other foods, like meat, legumes, or mollusk can be useful, also black chocolate can help. You should avoid foods that stop the absorption of vitamin C (which helps the absorption of iron), like food rich in oxalates (vegetables of green leafs), fiber supplements (coffee, tea or red wine), rich in tannins.

Cure hirsutism with mint tea.

Women with excessive corporal hair (hirsutism), that drank two cups daily of green mint tea lasted 5 days constantly decreasing free testosterone level, informed a team directed by Dr. Mehmet Numan Tamer from the University of Suleyman Demirel, in Sparta. Convencional treatments against hirsutism point to high levels of the masculine hormone and include taking oral contraceptive pills, to prevent the production of this hormone, or other medicaments to block the way organism reacts to them.

Green mint can be an alternative option to the anti-androgen treatment for moderate hirsutism.

Chocolate: The sweetest therapy for heart.

Some foods, not just benefit us inside, they also help us the outside. This is the case of chocolate.

The Choco –therapy, an esthetic treatment that utilizes cacao with esthetic and therapeutic purposes.

The skin absorbs chocolate with the use of baths, massages, and cacao oil. One of its benefits is that it has an antioxidant effect that helps against the premature ageing of the skin.

Also it provides energy, the consumption of chocolate increases the plasmatic level of antioxidants; this protects us against cardiovascular diseases. The massage, with a deep skin exfoliation of the skin, removes dead cells.

After this, hot wet towels are used to relax muscles and power the effect of the face pack and the corporal hydration; with the last one the treatment is finished.

So from now on be sure do drink chocolate at least once a week to have a better heart and skin.

Burn fat with low carb diets.

One of the benefits that we get with these types of diets is that we accelerate weight loss, controlling appetite and reducing the risk of cardiovascular problems.

You can use this diet for the most part of the week, but not in a constant way, because we should never eliminate one food group from our diet and carbs constitute the principal energy source for our body.

This diet works because, limiting carb consume helps to maintain low glucose and insulin levels burning fat constantly. Glycogens are the carbs store in your muscles. Different from our fat reserves that can be expanded in high levels, Glycogen has a limited capacity. It’s like a car if you put too much fuel in the tank it will spill all over the floor. The same thing happens with carbs and your glycogen tank, when it is full, the carbs left go to your blood and then to your liber and will be converted into fat. Also eating carbs increases insulin levels.

When your glycogen reserves are full, insulin puts your muscular cells and fat cells in “grow mode”. This is good for your biceps but not for your abs.

Now the positive part: low levels of glycogen that you can reach with a right diet and exercise, changes your body response to insulin. It orders your body to build muscle and not fat, because your body is refilling its glycogen tank in case it need and extra energy, so its stores glycogens in muscle for later use.

As a result your body uses fat as your main energy source; burning it in large quantities will you lose weight.

How to make it work: for this or other diets to work, you must eat until you feel satisfied not full. During your diet time low your carb consumption , do not eat products with more than 10 gr of carbs.

Benefits of Tangerine.

Tangerine is important for the conservation of a good health. Its pulp contains Vitamin C, Vitamin B, citric acid, reducing sugar, and carotene. Its peel contains volatile oil, glycoside and its seeds fatty oils, proteins and sour substances. It has bronchodilator proprieties and anti-inflammatory for the treatment of ulcer, intestines and digestion.

Tangerine has anti-infectious properties, stimulating the formation of antibodies and Phagocytes are the white blood cells that protect the body by ingesting (phagocytosing) harmful foreign particles, bacteria, and dead or dying cells.

It is great for people with aids and other infectious and inflammatory illness, like rheumatism, that decreases the concentration of vitamin in plasma.

Other situations that require the use of tangerine are:
Tobacco smoking, alcoholism, uses of certain medicaments, pregnancy, emotional stress, and the practice of high intensity sports.

Benefits of vitamin C.

Is a vitamin that can be found in a large variety of plants, in vegetables, lemon, orange, strawberries, cabbage, cherry, papaya, pear, grapefruit, pineapple, melon, peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, etc. Vitamin C can be destroy easily in the presence of air (oxygen), by heat or dissolved in liquids. It’s a vitamin that mankind can't synthesize, so it needs to be eaten daily.

It plays a big role in the absorption of iron and anemia, helps the bones and makes the connective tissue stronger, helps against allergies and infections of any kind, and helps the hormone production.

Cinnamon, great for diabetics.

When the glucose levels are high, cinnamon can help us. Recent studies done by the Department of Human Nutrition, in the Agriculture University NWFP in Pakistan, prove that Cinnamon is very efficient lowering (between 15 and 25%) high glucose levels, at the same time cholesterol levels (between 10 and 25%) and triglycerides (between 20 and 30%).

Good news for people with diabetes (Type II) and/or patients with cardiovascular risk (excessive cholesterol and triglycerides). In most diabetes cases after finishing treatment (20 days in the case of high glucose levels and 40 days in cholesterol and triglycerides levels) and stopping the use of cinnamon, patients maintain more equilibrate than before using cinnamon.

This is an interesting fact, because the goal is to try to regulate the organisms without the use of medicine, that in most cases only works will you use them and if you stop you will start to feel bad again.

Note: Cinnamon, according to recent studies, it’s efficient natural remedy against diabetes, because it helps to decrease glucose levels. It has been proved that cinnamon also works for cholesterol and triglycerides.

Benefits of Sardines

Sardines, or pilchards, are several types of small, oily fish called this way because they contain almost 10 gr of fat per 100gr of edible portion, it’s a good source of fatty acids Omega 3, that help to lower the cholesterol and Triglyceride levels present in the blood, which makes the blood more fluid, decreasing the risk of arteriosclerosis and thrombosis.

Sardines and other oily fishes are recommended to people suffering from cardiovascular problems. It contains a high level of protein, about 17 %. Also contains some vitamins and minerals, like vitamin B12, B1, Niacin which helps in the absorption of energetic nutrients (carbon hydrates, fats and proteins), and also is present in the formation of red blood cells and the production of sexual hormones.

Low Fat Diet = Better Heart.

To prevent some cardiovascular problems is necessary to have a good fat free diet. These fats are found in animal products like: cheese, milk and butter. Also in food elaborated with Trans-fat. Other element that increases heart problems is salt, if we use less sodium is possible to lower blood pressure in some people, reducing the risk of getting a heart attack. Sodium most be included in our diet but in low amounts, thing that most of us avoid. Do not add salt to your food in the table and consume fewer calories for a better and healthy heart.

Outdoor sports Great for summer

To maintain active in this hot season I’m presenting you several exercises that you can perform this summer.

Walking: It is recommended for people that did not have and physically active year, it’s a low impact activity so it can be performed be people of all ages. It must be done with a moderated intensity and with a constant walk for at least 30 minutes. It improves aerobic capacity, tones the legs, and helps to relieve contractions and eliminates tensions. Use confortable sneakers to perform this activity.

Swimming: ideal for people with problems in the articulations and bones, that cannot perform high impact activities. It has no limit age and utilizes all of the muscular groups, because of this; it is one of the most complete sports. It is ideal to maintain a good physic condition.

Running: Uses all the muscular groups and is a high impact activity, you must first check the condition of the ankles, knees and hip (this step is crucial if you are overweight). In the first three minutes you lose water and then after half an hour you start to burn fat.

Tennis: fun and helps fat burning, needs a good physical condition because it is an anaerobic activity. Results are better if done in a regular basis.

Strawberries

Most people like strawberries, its sweat flavor and is red color, transforming it into a beautiful fruit. It contains various vitamins like vitamin C and also phytonutrients and antioxidants that help against various types of cancer. “It is a versatile fruit”. People don’t know much about its properties, and don’t usually buy it mostly because its prize is a little bit higher than other fruits.

Some benefits of strawberries are:

1. Highly rated as skin cleansing food, even though the skin eruptions may appear at first in some cases.

2.It is also known to clean or rid the blood of harmful toxins.

3.It has been reported to help cases of syphilis.

4.The strawberry, when cut in half and rubbed on the teeth and gums, removes tartar from the teeth and strengthens and heals the gums. The juice should be allowed to remain on the teeth as long as possible in order to dissolve the tartar. The mouth may then be rinsed with warm water.

Pears : Great for your health!!

Pears contain fiber that helps us against constipation and controls cholesterol level, eating pears can benefit you in different ways.

When eating it with the skin, you will get obtain more fiber, because the chlorogenic acid is accumulated in its skin.

Nutritional Values:

Calories ……. 59

Fiber………... 2.2g

Potassium and Vitamin C…………..6 (per 100 g)

Pears are the fruits with the highest level of pectin, because of this pears are great to prevent constipation, helping glucose intolerance and have hypocholesterolemic effects.

Without a doubt, we can consider pectin as a substance ideal for desintoxicating the organism and stimulating the intestines. Pear juice can helps us prevent cardiovascular affections.