Vote for Your Health

According to studies by the University of London and the University of Connecticut, carefully brush teeth, floss regularly and have good treatments at the dentist not only will you have a perfect white smile, but also help to health of his blood and heart.

The researchers conducted a test of 120 patients with severe problems of periodontitis (disease caused by bacteria in the gums). These people were recommended to address this problem through an intense treatment that involved removing bacteria, plaque, and the extraction of teeth that could not be saved.

At first, the intensive treatment resulted in an inflammation of blood vessels and arteries, but after 6 months, those receiving the treatment showed improvements in many gums and operation of vessels. In this regard, Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation argued that “it is known that people with heart problems because of malfunctioning valves can worsen their situation if they neglect their dental hygiene.

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Skin as well as other body parts, require thorough attention and care to keep it smooth, fast and healthy. However, unhealthy lifestyle and pollution can be a negative impact on the skin, making it aging, dry, dull. Premature aging that occurred despite a general phenomenon, may actually be no need to perform radical procedures, like surgery or laser treatment. How? Consider just these few tips.

Avoid smoking

Although you are not a smoker, cigarette smoke surrounding can make the skin becomes dry and refine wrinkles. Nicotine and other ingredients contained in cigarettes can also reduce levels of vitamin C in the body, but it is the freshness of vitamins and skin moisture. (more…)

Why strawberries become a symbol of love in ancient Greece? Could it be because of its shape resembling a heart?

it was not, strawberries become a symbol of love by the ancient Greek society because of taste, color and the benefits of these fruits. Plants are classified as herbaceous fruit plant was first discovered in the country of Chile, the United States. One of them is the famous species Fragaria L Chilioensis which spread to various parts of the world such as America, Europe and Asia. There was also the type of F. Vesca. L, and this is kind of the first entry into Indonesia. And now there are more than 700 kinds of strawberries that spread all over the world. The fruit is red this indicates that the fruit is rich in color pigment and antioxidant antosianin very high. Because of the high antioxidant content of strawberries has properties that very much. Besides strawberries were in vitamin C, fiber, low calorie, folate, potassium, and ellagic acid.
So by consuming eight strawberries every day, then the need for vitamin C and fiber, fulfilled adults. Strawberries contain Vitamin C as much as 56.7 mg per 100 grams. Vitamin C is believed to reduce cancer risk of 37% as released by the Women’s Health Study. Strawberries are also believed to be able to prevent breast cancer and cervix.
Benefits Strawberries namely:

*. whiten teeth
*. Anti cancer
*. overcome the heat in
*. forgetful drug
*. increase sexual arousal

Argentine scientists have presented a cow and goat milk that prevents the development of tumors and degenerative diseases, classified as a “super baby” for its beneficial properties.

They got the product – that could be marketed soon – thanks to a special feeding of cattle with oil and derivatives, which are abundant in a country that is one of the world’s largest exporters of food.

“This milk should not be seen as a remedy, but as a preventive measure. It is more a food that can help alleviate the onset of degenerative diseases,” said Gerardo Gagliostro researcher, National Institute of Agricultural Technology ( INTA).

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A new study shows that eating just a little more fiber would have great impact in reducing the waist size of youth in America. Latino adolescents who increased their fiber intake for two years managed to reduce significantly the amount of fat around the waist, while young people who ate less fiber increased abdominal size.

These were the team’s findings Jaimie N. Davis, of the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The team was studying the abdominal fat, which is the most dangerous because it increases the risk of developing diabetes and heart disease.

The authors were asked to 85 men and women between 11 and 17 years are overweight to respond in an initial questionnaire and two years later on eating habits. At that age, “Davis said, the diet of some trends are worsening.

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Eat at least three cups of coffee or tea a day reduced to 42 percent risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood, according to a study conducted with data from 40,011 subjects in the Netherlands and filed Wednesday by the Coffee Information Center and Health (CICASA) on the occasion of the celebration next Saturday’s World Diabetes Day.

The protective effect could be due to other components of coffee other than caffeine as that found a protective effect of decaffeinated coffee, although less intense, in studies that assessed.

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The common cold is a viral disease, deceptively simple, which causes more severe in short days, there may be some symptoms for over a week. However, sometimes there is a serious involvement of the general statement that limits the patient’s physical performance, forcing him to stay in bed, muscle pains, malaise, cough, fever or feverishness, headache, and upset demonstrations and obstructive nasal mucus.

Those who live with suffering from cold should know that such alteration may be able to associate to a trajectory of some complexity. First, it is worth remembering that the elderly and children under one year are more prone to complications, also people with chronic respiratory diseases such as: bronchial asthma, bronchitis, pulmonary emphysema, chronic bronchitis or obstructive lung disease chronic COPD.

In such a cold can cause acute decompensation worsening of their symptoms, the colonization of the virus alone. In fact, before this type of circumstance must redouble observation.

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A significant percent of cancers could be prevented if during the life take a number of precautions that have been proven to reduce the chance of developing various cancers. In this paper we present some recommendations that should become facts of everyday life.

• Change in eating habits: Calorie restriction, varied diet that meets the recommendations of vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats and carbohydrates.
• Avoid obesity from an early age. Obesity in childhood causes a precocious and incomplete development of the reproductive organs, the prelude to cancer of the reproductive organs.
• Reducing animal fat in the diet. Animal fats stimulate the production of bile acids that are mixed with feces and travel to the colon where they are converted into carcinogenic compounds by bacteria in the intestinal flora.
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Junk food causes lots of damage to health. For years, the WHO warning people about the bad habit of habitually eating fast food, but millions across the globe consume hamburgers, hot dogs, carbonated drinks, high-salt potato chips. Thousands of calories and fat saturated producing elevation of what is known as “bad” cholesterol or LDL cholesterol.

WHAT IS “bad” cholesterol?
If there is a “bad” cholesterol LDL – is because there is also a “good” cholesterol HDL -. It is important to understand the differences between them. The why is very well studied: HDL cholesterol helps to drive out of the blood vessels while LDL can be deposited within the walls of arteries. Over the years, end up obstructing the arteries and causing heart attacks, circulatory failure, and other conditions.

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