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Browsing Posts published in January, 2010

According to Argentine President Cristina Kirchner, the theory of further increasing libido or sexual urge, lies on eating pork so as to speak. “Pork consumption improves sexual activity,” according to Kirchner in a meeting with influential businessmen at the presidential palace in Argentina.

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Controlling appetite is the best way to avoid being obese. Eating regularly about five small meals per day is one of the key in controlling you appetite. Starving proves to be ineffective for you will tend to eat more through bingeing.

Here are some tips to manage and control your appetite:

  • A fiber supplement and drinking a couple of glass of water 30 minutes before each meal. Phenylalamine (amino acid) supplements, 250 to 500 mg can be employed for appetite control.
  • Know when to say no.
  • Study your body well, burping for the first time is an indication to stop from eating, in other words, you’re full already.
  • If hungry, try eating healthy foods like apple, banana, turnips and nuts (walnuts and almonds).

 

The neurotransmitter which is dubbed as serotonin causes messages between the brain and the body’s mechanism of sleep. Vitamins and nutrients like tryptophase (an amino acid) and Vitamin B6, niacin, and magnesium worked together to help you to sleep. Natural sources for these includes: cottage chess, milk, turkey, bananas, dried dates, peanuts and protein.

Here are ways to get ample amount of sleep.

  • Light exercise two hours before getting sleep.
  • One hour before sleeping you may take two capsules of melatonin.
  • A natural tranquilizer like taking five hydroxytrytophan.
  • Yoga exercise.
  • Meditation two times a day, and one of them 30 minutes before bedtime
  • Manage stress levels Enjoy life, laugh more and control anxieties.
Cholesterol is always associated with fats, but in contrary, not all fats are bad indeed, cholesterol can be essential to one’s health. Whilst, a lo of individuals are scared of the risk arteriosclerosis (hardening of arteries) and heart attacks due to a very high cholesterol, it is always never to late neutralize it. For your information cholesterol present in the skin is transformed to Vitamin D when it is exposed to sunlight.

Here are the importance of cholestrol in our body.

  • Helps in metabolism of carbohydrates. The more carbs consumed, the more cholesterol is yielded.
  • It is the main sourse of adrenal steroid hormones like cortisone.
  • Important in the generation of male and female sex hormones. Bear in mind that LDL (low density lipoproteins) have 65% of blood cholesterol, which are harmful to our body. HDL (High density lipoprotiens) have 20% of blood cholesterol which is good for the body.
  • VLDL (Very low density lipoproteins) have 15% of blood cholesterol that is necessary in producing the LDL.

How to Control Cholesterol Profile

  • Raise your HDL and reduce triglycerides (fats that differ from cholesterol, but are connected to one another).
  • Make your fats intake not exceeding 20 to 20% of total calories, but more than 10% should be saturated fats.
  • Eat more vegetables and fruits like apples, carrots, red pepper, broccoli, cauliflower, fiber, eggplant, psyllium husk, bailey, lentils and onions. You may also have fish, fish oils (omega-3 fatty acids, 1,000 mg a day) and yogurt.
  • Garlic and ginger (fresh or available in capsules)
  • Lemon grass oil
  • You may opt to consider methionine, choline, inositol and betaine-lipotropics whose role is to ward off abnormal acquisition of fats in the liver while cleansing the organ’s harmful toxins. This helps the liver generate more lecithin.
  • Use safe oils while cooking like olive and peanut.
  • You may have supplement with chromium picolinate and primrose oil
  • Eat foods that are abundant in Vitamin E and C.

 

Schizophrenia is more ubiquitous in wealthy nations worldwide. to reside in a developing nation maybe favorable after all. New discoveries coming from a report released online by the University of Queensland states that schizophrenia is more common in developed countries than in poorer countries and that the condition is less widespread than what was thought previously, getting rid of the common belief that the disease affects 10 in every 1,000 regardless of location.

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 Bad news for the smokers and the people experiencing obesity. Obesity and smoking speed up the aging process, according to a study published online by the Lancenet. Thhe study included 1,122 women – 1119 obese (with a body mass index or BMI greater than 30), 85 non-obese (BMI under 20), 531 nonsmokers, 369 ex-smokers, and 203 current smokers. Ages of the participants spans from 18 to 76…

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