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Health, Also On Our Feet


The shoes must not only choose the color, shape how we combine. We must find that its shape to suit our feet and not vice versa, since it can adversely affect our welfare.

Wear uncomfortable shoes is bad for our health resulting from sore knees to muscle tension, callus or bone deformities. Also, it can have serious circulation problems, triggering fluid retention, swelling, varicose veins, stretch marks and cellulite. Use a shoe ‘beautiful’ is not ‘comfortable’ impact on our health back pain or arthritis problems.

A study by the Spanish Association of Medicine and Foot Surgery revealed that up to 70% of the population suffers from a disease in Spain. Remember, the feet, are responsible for holding all our body and we can not neglect them.

To avoid health problems, we must evaluate a number of details in the shoes you like us as the material, the heel, if we squeeze or if our foot is firmly secured.

The heels are recommended to have a measure between 4 and 6 inches high. In this type of footwear all our weight rests on the heel of the foot and that it should not exceed 8 inches. For more welfare is recommended to wear rubber or gel insoles, foot resting more. They also bring very narrow toe shoe press with fingers to create risk felons.

Frequently use the ‘dancers’ can take its toll. This is a very small shoe soles where you can stick any object you see and not cause injury.

Slippers and sandals, so comfortable during the summer months, they risk having little holding the foot and cause sprains, abrasions, blisters or sores on the fingers to go unprotected.

Take too long each day the sport can create problems of excessive sweating and fungal infections. For this type of footwear, we recommend using natural fiber socks.

It is good to abuse any type of shoe and must alter the different for each function. The materials themselves, like using good socks to help use improve our health.

7 How to Fight Aging

fight aging

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…)

Microdermabrasion Stimulates Skin Regeneration

MicrodermabrasionFor mature skin and acne. Along with the peel and laser, microdermabrasion is one of the techniques defendants in such cases. Now, a new study, published in Archives of Dermatology ‘, confirms that this procedure is effective because of its ability to stimulate cell regeneration.

A team of scientists from the University of Michigan (USA) has observed that not only increases microdermabrasion precursors of collagen, other components associated with cell renewal. For example, cytokeratin 16 (with an important role in the wounds of the upper layers of the skin), antimicrobial peptides (which fight infection) and matrix metalloproteinases (inactivate enzymes that damage the skin).

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