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The Best Mask For Skin
* Clean your face so that the action of the mask is effective. Use soaps and facial scrubs to remove dirt, excess fat and other impurities. Remember that hot water helps to unclog pores.
* Gather the following ingredients: milk, honey, oatmeal and plain yogurt. Make a mixture with them to form a creamy substance. Apply evenly to your face and neck with clean hands or a spoon. Let stand for at least 10 minutes.
* When you feel that the mask is dry it will be time to remove it. Take a cloth soaked in warm water and gently remove the mask from your face.
* Now, enjoy a cleaner skin, soft and renewed.
Clarification. Before spreading the mixture on the face and neck, try it in your hand and leave it for a few minutes. If your skin reacts with sprouts, red or itchy, waiver of that mask and test one for sensitive skin.
Ultimately, the best mask for the skin will give us what our skin needs.
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Tips To Reduce Fat Intake
There are two types of fats. On the one hand, there are good fats that are essential for our body because we provide energy, regulate metabolic activity and absorption of vitamins, among other body processes. On the other hand, are the bad fats, which are called trans fats or saturated fats.
If we consume too much saturated fat, have a higher chance of obesity, high cholesterol, diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. It is important to reduce the consumption of trans fats for healthy, although not easy, as are usually present in delicious foods, like potato chips, burgers, sweets, cakes, donuts, among other delicacies.
Do you think that reducing trans fat consumption is impossible? No, it is not. We bring you some tips to consider when preparing your meals.
* Eat more lean meat, poultry, chicken, fish or shellfish because they have less fat than beef, lamb or pork.
* Cut away visible fat. If you do not remove fat from the meat you serve is your plate, surely finish eating. When eating chicken, remove skin.
* Increase consumption of plant foods. Trans fats are much more prevalent in animal products, so if you increase the amount of vegetables in your daily diet, you will reduce your fat intake well.
* Avoid fried foods. It’s much better to cook in the oven, steamed or roasted. These are healthier ways to cook our food without using too much fat.
As Nourish the Skin
Continuing the theme of the wrinkles, the asparagus is relevant to the skin due to its high content of glutathione and CoQ10 also found in the fish, shellfish, spinach and nuts.
Other essential antioxidants to fight wrinkles are rich in prunes, plums, peppers, beets, parsley, figs, grapes and legumes such as kidney beans.
Herbs and spices play an important antioxidant role and not taken into serious consideration, being the richest, turmeric, ginger, cayenne, cinnamon, cumin, coriander, pepper, rosemary, sage, thyme, curry, etc..
These natural herbs and spices contain phenolic acids and several water-soluble flavonoids that protect the body against oxidative stress and inflammation as part of drugs of oriental medicines, such as China and Ayurveda.
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Healthier Drinks
Healthier drinks – food and nutrition
The University of California (USA) has released a study detailing the health drinks, of which most are fruit. This is a list of healthier drinks, according to specialists in the U.S. house of higher learning:
- Apple juice
-Tea
- Orange juice
- Cranberry Juice
- Cherryjuice
- Red Wine
- Pomegranate juice
Summer Tips: Orange Juice Preparations
Summer Tip: Prepare your orange juice just before consumption
On these hot days, nothing more tasty and nutritious food to cool a glass of fresh orange juice. In this sense, we share some advice: to keep vitamin C and nutrients from these fruits for the most part you have to do is squeeze the oranges just minute before drinking the juice.
If, otherwise, we prepare in advance, for instance, drink some juice for breakfast and retain the rest to take after, during those hours will be lost through a lot of nutrients, and vitamin C, the effect of air and light, factors that promote oxidation.
So now you know: preparing only the amount you go to eat at the moment and savoring a nutritious and refreshing orange juice without delay.
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Oily Skin Care
The skin cells naturally produce sebum to protect and keep it moist and hydrated. When this production is over we are dealing with oily skin, which is the type of acne-prone skin. For that reason, we must pay close attention to the care of oily skin to keep it clean, attractive and healthy.
While those with oily skin see it as a problem, you should also know that in the future will be those who have less wrinkles, as this type of skin is more resistant to aging. Anyway, it is important that you take care throughout life to make it look splendid.
One of the basic rules in the care of oily skin is to make a daily skin cleansing to unclog pores and kill bacteria that cause acne. Wash your face with warm water and cleansing lotions for oily skin, never with ordinary soap, because it increases oiliness. You can also use antibacterial lotions.
If you are a woman, pay attention to cosmetic products you use. These should be based on water because they are oil based aggravate the oiliness. Try to use as little makeup as possible to your skin to breathe and never forget to take it off when you get home. Read the rest of this entry »
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Body Care
* Alpha therapy: It uses light and sound waves to relieve stress and increase concentration level.
* Moisturizing treatment: Deep cleansing and exfoliation is followed by a massage and deep moisturizing treatment using marine sediment.
* Mud wrap: Treat arthritis and muscular ache by applying warm mud layer on the body and wrapping in warm blanket.
* Seaweed wrap: Reduce muscular and joint pains and cellulite using seaweed paste with essential oils that is applied on the body to relax and energize the body, nourish the skin and eliminate toxins.
Natural Skin Care
1.Caring Carrot Mask: Take a carrot, grate and mix it well with one spoon of honey. Apply this all over the face and leave it for only 15 minutes. Now wash and feel the difference after regular use.
2.Punch of a Pineapple: After mashing up well a pineapple slice, mix it with the juice of an orange or a lemon and add all these ingredients with wheat flour. Apply this mixture on the face and neck. Scrub it off after some time, to get fresh and smooth skin.
3.Lemon-Egg Protector: Whip an egg white till it gets peak up and store it in the freezer for about 15 minutes. Now add the juice of a lemon and a grated tomato with this. Apply on the skin; practice the same for minimum of a month to get the soft skin.
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The power against ‘bad’ cholesterol
In these cases, once the doctor detects an excess of this substance in the blood, usually puts the patient
a restrictive diet regarding fat intake. Experts recommend not only make life less sedentary, but to improve the diet with increased consumption of fruits and vegetables rich in nutrients, fiber and fat.
ComidaTambién is advisable to eat more foods with unsaturated fats (monounsaturated and polyunsaturated) like fish, chicken and vegetable oils such as olive and seed (corn, sunflower). Should not miss high-fiber whole grains and cereals, rice, beans and pasta. Although not removed from the diet, we recommend moderate consumption of coffee, tea, soft drinks and milk (skim is best to use only).
It usually suppress all foods with saturated fats, red meat, pork, lamb, sausage, cheese and butter fat. Products with excess sugar and calories are also deleted (chocolate, pastries, sauces, pates …), as well as those that are direct sources of cholesterol, egg yolk, some offal and shellfish. Excess salt and spices also be evitarse.Y with him, preserved and prepared to abuse these condiments. Read the rest of this entry »
National Health Strategy For Eye Health
Eye Health in Peru, according to figures reported by the National Eye Institute – INO – there are about 160.000 blind and about 600,000 people with visual disabilities, compromising the quality of life, integral development and good family people .
A level in Latin America is estimated at 3 million the number of blind, 60% due to cataract and refractive services, 20% for glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy of prematurity, of which 70% are in a position to poverty and extreme poverty.
Faced with increasing demand for eye health problem, the Ministry of Health, created by RM No. 712-2007/MINSA, National Health Strategy Eye Health and Blindness Prevention, dated September 6, 2007; which emphasizes the comprehensive care and prevention interventions, care and rehabilitation, optimizing the most human and technological resources that meet sanitary permit to any person about your eye health, as a right to health.
In Peru, the cataract is the leading cause of blindness, 50% of cases according to field studies using a methodology RACSS (rapid Assess-ment of cataract surgical services) – WHO. Most cataracts are a degenerative process of lens opacity associated with aging of individuals, whose initial peak is 50 years old.
Special mention cataracts are affecting the child, that early deprivation of vision can cause amblyopia and decades of disability, by roughly 300 cases of congenital cataract, with the genetic and infectious causes, among others. Another important cause is diabetes mellitus, which causes metabolic disorders in the lens leads to cataract. Less common causes of ocular trauma, intraocular inflammation, etc.
In Peru, the main cause of bilateral cataract blindness with 47% followed by uncorrected refractive errors with 15%, 14% glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy with 5%.
37% of the cataract blind are distributed in highland and jungle regions, with a largely rural population, while 63% is located in marginal areas of the coast, including Lima and Callao. Read the rest of this entry »