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Reasons Body Needs Nutrition Supplements
Food, water and oxygen are the basic substances that make life on this planet. Food gives us energy and nutrients needed to build, maintain and repair all the cells of our bodies. Nutrition research is the study of food and nutrition, including the sources of nutrients, how the human body to digest, absorb and utilize nutrients and what they do to support life and health.
Lifestyle and diet are very significant effect on the type of food that the body needs. People who consume alcohol, drink tea, coffee, exposed to smoke, consume a variety of drugs (prescription etc.) or sports athletes have specific nutritional needs are greater than others. For example, people who drink alcohol requires large amounts of vitamin B, zinc and magnesium for metabolism, because there are nutrients in alcohol-soluble in water so that the substances will be excreted more rapidly with a diuretic effect of alcohol.
Many people believe that eating fresh food and balanced diet can provide all the needs of vitamins and minerals essential for health. For normal circumstances this may happen. However, there are many reasons why vitamins and mineral supplements is needed to maintain body condition. Read the rest of this entry »
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What is a Depression?
Depression (from Latin depressus, which means ‘killed’, ‘down’) is a mood disorder that occurs in colloquial terms as a state of depression and unhappiness that can be transient or permanent. The medical term refers to a syndrome or cluster of symptoms that affect mainly the emotional sphere: sadness pathological decay, irritability or mood disorder that can decrease performance at work or limit the normal life activity, regardless that their cause is known or unknown. Although this is the core of symptoms, depression can also be expressed through conditions of the cognitive, volitional or somatic. In most cases, the diagnosis is clinical, but must be differentiated from similar expression boxes, such as anxiety disorders. The person suffering from depression may not experiencing sadness, but loss of interest and inability to enjoy normal play activities, and a little experience motivating and slower over time. Its origin is multifactorial, although it is noted triggers such as stress and feelings (derived from a disappointment in love, contemplation or experience of an accident, murder or tragedy, the bad news disorder, grief, and having gone through an experience near-death). There are other sources, such as inadequate elaboration of mourning (for the death of a loved one) or even the consumption of certain substances (alcohol or other toxic substances) and predisposing factors such as genetics or educational status.
Depression can have important social and personal consequences, from incapacity to suicide. The different schools of psychiatry have proposed various treatments for depression: Biopsychiatry, through a pharmacological approach, endorsed by the success of recent generations of antidepressants (fluoxetine flagged by the “happy pill” of the twentieth century), school through procedures psychoanalytic or cognitive-behavioral therapy, through behavioral and cognitive proposals. Read the rest of this entry »
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Causes and Impact of Depression During Pregnancy
Pregnancy should be the happiest moment for a woman, but there are women who see pregnancy as a time of confusion, misery, pain, stress and depression. Some attempts from 10 to 20% of women to combat symptoms of depression and a quarter to half of exposed deep depression. In a study of 360 pregnant women, then 10% of them were during pregnancy and only 6.8% of the fall of depression after pregnancy.
Depression is a mood disorder, found in 1 in 4 women who are pregnant and this is something special. The disease continues to be the victims of those who are pregnant, but her depression often do not know this because they think it is normal for them, but if not treated properly can affect the baby.
Causes and symptoms of depression during pregnancy
Depression during pregnancy is the same mood disorders like depression, which occurred in the laity in general, where the incidence of depression occurs in the chemical modification of the brain. In this case, affects the hormonal changes during pregnancy, the chemistry of the brain itself, which is closely associated with the onset of depression and anxiety during pregnancy. Of those who may have a history of depression, returned to the difficulties of life, thank exploration during and after pregnancy, symptoms of depression during pregnancy.
Women who are depressed, some of the following experience about 2 weeks:
* The feeling of sadness
* Difficulty concentrating
* Sleeping too much or too little
* Loss of interest in an activity that is generally preferred
* Despair, sometimes, some people feel fear,
* Provides a feeling of guilt and worthlessness
* The change in eating habits
* Even fewer of them have no sense that I want to kill.
However, the incidence of depression is not simple – Incident eye at this time. In some cases, has led to depression during pregnancy, such factors as the sender is a problem with their husbands or mothers had a history of depression in your family. Some publications mention a story of many failures in pregnancy can also trigger the development of depression during pregnancy. Besides the heavy live event, the presence of complications during pregnancy, a trigger for depression during pregnancy.
Impact of depression during pregnancy
Depression is not treated, will have negative consequences for mother and baby. There are 2 important things the child is able to affect:
* The first is the interference with the fetus is still in the womb
* The emergence of mental health in the child’s future
Depression is known, if not detected and treated – the will to transfer the mother’s behavior – the negative things, like drinking, smoking, and it is not uncommon to attempt suicide. This solves the incidence of premature births, babies born with low birth weight and fetal development. Mothers who have depression do not intend to reflect on the development of fetuses and even their own health.
As an example of a case study of more than 300 pregnant women who are victims of 11 September (WTC), where all the research sample was near the body are carried out of the tragedy. From the results of research on children – the children she gave birth, the birth of his son, much less weight than those far from the scene of the tragedy. In addition to events more often prematurity among those who were near the scene of the tragedy that those who are far from the scene of the tragedy. This demonstrates the impact of depression in women have great influence on the future development of their fetuses.
Besides a study of women who are depressed during pregnancy performed with emotional disorders and children at age 4 years later. This shows that in the last weeks of pregnancy play an important role in brain development and maturity of the child if the mother’s depression can increase the incidence of premature and ultimately affect the baby’s brain development. In another study found that mothers in the UK, followed by those who suffer from depression during pregnancy, and then to their children until the age of 16 years that children are capable children – suffer from depression than those whose mothers did not suffer from depression during pregnancy.
Essential oils are effective in countering stress and anxiety
Aromatherapy can also be very useful to fight against the states of stress and anxiety.
As opposed to synthetic perfumes, essential oils, hand-volatile molecules and their dynamic reach our morale and our emotions. through smell an essential oil emerges, it draws our mind subsides and physiological action is taking place in our body. It is also advisable to choose essential oils based scents that please us, because their consequences will be far more beneficial! Have you ever experienced a kind of inner joy “smelling a rose? At about the same!
The essential oils useful against anxiety:
Essential oil of geranium essential RoseHuile
Oil of Neroli
Oil of Bergamot
Oil of Sandalwood
Oil of German Chamomile or Roman
Essential oil of mandarin Orangeou
The essential oils useful against stress:
Oil of Lavender
Chamomile essential oil of Neroli essential romaineHuile
Essential oil of Ylang-ylang
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The singing and massage: good for your immunity!
Want to boost your immunity? Do you massage and sing!
The singing and massage: good for your immunity!
Influenza A vaccine and are a major issue of this academic year, but that you be vaccinated or not, one thing is for sure is that everything goes better with a good immunity.
Good nutrition is beneficial to the immune system, the immune system consists of tonsils thymus spleen, bone marrow and lymph nodes that produce and store immune cells.
To help work properly, you need a diet sufficient caloric intake, protein (meat, fish, eggs, milk), vitamins (vitamins A, E, C, B6, B9, folic acid) and minerals (selenium, zinc , iron, copper, calcium …), and a sufficient sleep and too much stress.
In short, when one is happy and healthy everything is always better. And precisely on the immune system, can also help with pleasant two methods, drainage and singing … Read the rest of this entry »
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