Couver Health Journal

Archive for April, 2011

From a time for this part has been giving a debate that has as main opponents to the organic foods and to the transgenic, stressing, most of the times, the potential risks of the latter. Organic foods are free of agrochemicals. Usually they are called to the fruits and vegetables that have been produced without the intervention of fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides, neither in the soil where they have been cultivated.
A past study of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition stated that organic foods do not contain more vitamins and minerals that conventional foods. However, these results have been strongly debated: the study pays no attention to the potential risks of fertilizers, pesticides, hormones or antibiotics that are often found in the transgenic products.
In fact, as Steven Pratt, a nutritionist author of several books on the subject, chooses organic foods frees us from the pesticides and its possible risks. In the case of that buy transgenic food make sure to wash the food they buy to take away the chemicals. Fregalos under water with your hands or with a brush. Read the rest of this entry »

Exercise is important, but most of us do not have enough time to go to the gym, so the best solution is to have the gymnasium at home. There will be few opportunities for you lose your exercise routine if you have the gymnasium at home, in addition can adjust your schedule and use all the elements very easily.
When people decide to have a gymnasium at home should think creatively. Your gym home does not have to be an imitation of one professional. First select a room to put your team. Some households broad include a bathroom and cupboards with storage space for the machines. No topics be little traditional, the important thing is to find functional spaces to take your gym at home.
Some people prefer exercised in his garage, but that is not the ideal space for those who enjoy surrounding of spaces pleasant when they develop their routine. If you decide to exercise in the garage, be sure to have the proper ventilation while maintaining the door open.
Recalls that the area of your house you choose to organize your gym must have windows, and the air circulate with ease, because it is always better natural ventilation. If you have to use air conditioning, this should be a filter system, which is responsible for cleaning the air. Another advantage of the air is natural that you can create cross-currents to open several windows at the time, even in other parts of your house. Make this will avoid unpleasant odors are left in your gym home.
Another element that can be used in your gym at home are candles flavored, in addition to the verities incense, this will help to have a pleasant fragrance in your area of exercises. When decide use enciéndelos at the end your routine you won’t have health problems by aspire much smoke. The aromas depend on the effect that you want to, if you relax lavender and vanilla are those, but if you want feel energy, test with the citrus as the lemon and orange.
Another important point, at the time to have a gymnasium at home, is to buy the necessary equipment. Need apparatus for your cardiovascular system, weights or a machine of resistance, balls for practicing your stability and rugs/mats for yoga and other exercises in the ground. If you want to locate a television in your gym home, so you can follow the classes of aerobics, plates and other exercises, which have recorded or transmitting.
When choosing colors to decorate recalls that must be some you encourage exercise, and that avoids the tones very clear or that predominate in your bedroom. If you wish you can also put a sound system, which will help you to accompany with music your exercise routines. Have a refrigerator can also be a good idea, and you will have very close soft drinks and moisturizing for during and after your exercise.
In addition to these ideas test with other that you occur in the process, but recalls that the most important is the motivation to stay in the form, so do not need to do a great investment, and not all at once to achieve your goal of having your gym at home.

If you think you have bad memory, you may be the result of habits unsuitable for processing information, so some simple tips will help you improve your school performance or labor.
The memory, as the strength of the muscles, improving if it is often used, so the exposure of your mind to novel stimuli and are high sensory as odors, bright colors and textures different, will produce memories more alive than left a footprint more deep in your memory.
In addition to change your routines, for example use your right hand to brush your teeth, if you are left-handed, or the left if you are right handed (there are several exercises to improve your memory), there are several habits that you can grow daily to have better results. Read the rest of this entry »

You are placidly in your computer surfing the Internet surely reading healthy life…and suddenly sounds the phone… is a cousin who don’t see for a long time and want visit!!! You say: “Of course, that taste…are jest’s then remember that your dear cousin is a gourmet…and you for anything you leave home and go to a restaurant and don’t know that prepare!!! With that dish could please something quick, nutritional quality. Because you suggest a delicious vegetarian sandwich.
For a person need: 3 Loaves of mold integral, 2 sheets of spinach, ½ avocado slices (avocado), 2 slices of tomato, slices of gherkins pickles, sliced mushrooms lata (optional), balsamic vinegar, mustard Dijon and olive oil.
It is super easy, all the secretion this in the dressing, board two tablespoons balsamic vinegar, with 1 teaspoon of Dijon mustard and a squirt of olive oil, league these ingredients with a fork. Then virtues this sauce on the leaves of spinach, avocado and tomatoes. Read the rest of this entry »