Couver Health Journal

Archive for May, 2011

At the time to lose weight, many people often proposed unrealistic goals, such as download 20 kilos in a month, or 3 or 4 in a week. Well, that is, in addition to unreal, harmful, because the frustration can asthma many problems and to reduce your optimism to zero, by leaving your program of thinning.
This is the conclusion of a group of Japanese researchers who have published their study in the magazine Schwartz Medicine, who have observed in patients the fact that the time to start a diet the most optimistic were the first to leave.
In fact, the very optimistic that did not leave the program were that the dessert lost less kilos. In addition, patients who managed improve their confidence in a gradual and along the study were managed to exceed its original objectives. Read the rest of this entry »

The term Spa applies to a place devoted to health, not taking origin the root of this word, many the relate to a village in Belgium with that name, which in the seniority was very famous among the Romans, by their bathrooms therapeutic, these sites are an integral character focused at all levels of health, covering not only the physical appearance, but also the psychic, to provide its visitors an attention clearly holistically.
Currently have been transformed into companies very successful, by which offers the potential to rebalance the health, diluting the stress so characteristic of modern life, through the various techniques naturist as and aesthetic of last generation, which aim at the relax general through which, it gets back to the natural harmony of health.
The Spanish most of the find away in natural places which will facilitate the task of restoring healthy, but now it has been developed chains of the same in the most important cities, receiving the name of “Spas Urban” already in that form offer more widespread and the scope of the majority, without the need for access to them only when they are available a holiday period, making it easier to any person able to enjoy their services at any time, something very necessary in these times dizzy, charged with nervousness and stress. Read the rest of this entry »

In the conference of the days of health, coexistence and culture organized by the area of Social Services of the Municipality of San Martin (Spain), the doctor Jose Antonio Noya Mejuto is focused on the prevention of diabetes. He pointed to two elements that can help significantly to avoid the appearance of the disease: the food and the exercise.
Diabetes is a very common disease, characterized by the excess of expulsion of liquids and high levels of blood sugar. Known two types of diabetes: the type 1 diabetes and the type 2 diabetes. The two are eleven levels of blood sugar, but both have different effects.
Particularly the type 2 diabetes is the generated with the increase in the age. It takes place with the inability of the glucose to manage energy to our agency, and becomes the pancreas which is responsible for producing insulin.
This disease is highly serious, and those who suffer many ills, not counting that have a diet very strict and limited. That is why Noya pointed to the diabetes prevention through activities that are beyond the reach of the entire population. Read the rest of this entry »

During pregnancy are many changes it passed the body and mind of women. Not only physical changes visible, but hormonal changes and changes also occur psychic, all of this affects the hours of sleep of pregnant women.
Some of the hormones cause sleep and other generates little capacity to sleep. The pregnant also may have symptoms such as: fatigue, snoring, back pain, discomfort, reflux, nausea, and vomiting, nasal congestion, constant need to move the legs, concern and anxiety about the health of the baby. These are all factors that affect the quality of rest of the future mom.
The symptoms vary according pass the quarters of pregnancy. During the first quarter women say that the sense of fatigue and the changes during sleep are more often.
During the second quarter (the months 4 to 6) women reported improvements in the dream and less nausea. In the last quarter (months 7 to 9) the symptoms reappear and loses ability to reconcile the dream, which generates irritability and mood swings.
Some of the tips that can follow the pregnant women who have sleep problems are:
*Each time they have the opportunity to take a nap should do to recover the hours of sleep lost during the night. Read the rest of this entry »

If you see someone near yawns, usually below feels a sense of urgency to do the same and this occurs between the 40-60% of people.
So the scientists when they tried to explain why it happened contagion, responded that, “We do not know, but we have some theories”.
An investigation conducted by scientists fins, however, can give preliminary indications in this regard after finding some reasons for which the yawning contagious.
When one is witness to someone who yawns, unconsciously feels the desire to do so, now scientists suggest that this represents a longing collapsed, which means that the signal of yawning must avoid a response so-called “the mirror of the system of neurons”, which would be responsible for the response collapsed in another person to the imitation.
The scientists often, in the past, suggested that the system mirror neurons caused the yawning, now in place of this, the researchers found that witnesses of other people yawn seem to be inactive a section of the brain called “periamigdala”, which is a small part of the brain on both sides of the head, which helps to interpret things like facial expressions, for example. Read the rest of this entry »