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Andalusia publishes a guide healthy food to improve nutrition

November 23rd, 2011 Bianca Bannerman

Full course dinner

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The Ministry of Health has published, for the third consecutive year, the guide ‘Mealtime’ in order to promote healthy eating among the Andalusians. This document is presented as a useful tool to facilitate the programming menu for healthy, balanced population. This is one of the actions to be carried out within the Plan for the Promotion of Physical Activity and Balanced Diet launched by the Government of Andalusia in 2004.
These diets are designed to be made by any person, except those who have any medical contraindications, which in this case, you should discuss it with your family doctor. This guide has been developed for people who do not want simply to eat a diet basics, although it requires an effort because it is based on the principle ‘that something wants something hard but the good thing is that it costs as little as possible ‘.

The menus, which have different options for lunch and dinner Monday to Sunday for eight consecutive weeks, are calculated to make them who consume about 1,500 calories a day, spread throughout the day. This includes a wide variety of foods cooked in different ways. Artichokes with anchovies, beets and mint salad and fish soup are among the first courses outlined in the guide, which advises the back as second to the Spanish, the chicken tortilla stew or cauliflower, among others many.  (more…)

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2010 Mercedes-Benz C300 Sport & Luxury Boast New Features

October 31st, 2011 Bianca Bannerman
Mercedes-Benz C-Class (W204)

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Featuring four models, the 2010 Mercedes-Benz C300 brings sportiness and luxury to executive fleets.

Boasting an available Dynamic Handling Package, Agility Control, and a Sport/Comfort button, the Mercedes-Benz C300 Sport and Luxury models offer executive vehicles with comfort and control.

The C-Class features four models – the 451-hp C63 AMG, 268-hp C350 Sport, and the 228-hp C300 Luxury and C300 Sport.

While luxury models wear the “iconic three-pointed star” on top of the front hood, the C-Class Sport is identified by a bold star in the front grille – a position typically reserved for coupes and convertibles. C-Class Sport models also come with AMG design cues – deeper front and rear aprons, as well as sculpted rocker panels. (more…)

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Recognize the symptoms of lupus

October 11th, 2011 Bianca Bannerman

Skin rashes, painful joints, swollen legs or sensitivity to the sun? This may be a lupus. This autoimmune disease primarily affects young women. Learn to recognize the lupus symptoms for early treatment and effective.

In fact, there is no one but lupus. This generic term refers to a group of chronic autoimmune diseases. As in all autoimmune diseases, the immune system, meant to protect the organism is disturbed and begins to attack healthy tissue. This triggers inflammatory responses in one or more organs: kidneys, joints, skin, heart, brain.

Theoretically, any organ can be affected, but in most cases, violations are mono-organic. Rarely fatal, the disease can still cause damage of varying severity depending on the organs affected.

However, most lupus are mild and most often characterized by skin lesions or joint pain that can be treated very well today. Kidney damage, blood, heart and brain are much less common, and fortunately because they are also more severe. (more…)

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Uses of Kombucha

October 9th, 2011 Bianca Bannerman
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The kombucha is eaten fresh and regularly, preferably in the morning on an empty stomach or one hour before or after meals, or pleasure at any time of day. The consumption of kombucha does not exempt any drinking water as well.

The taste naturally delicious, fruity and sparkling with a properly prepared kombucha makes it efficient and cut thirst with a refreshing drink.

Other recipe ideas:

Kombucha drink can enter the preparation of cocktails, mixed with ice and a little alcohol to your preference: rum, gin, brandy etc …

The naturopath Tyrolean Ferdinand Stock prepared by replacing the tea with a tea of herbs.

Serge adds Quedeville tails cherries mixed black tea, green tea and flavor the drink with a few drops of essential oils of lemon and a quarter of water.

The site offers grainsdekéfir after fermentation to add a few fragrant plants (elderflower or anise) or make a drink by mixing the drink kombucha to drink herbal or fruit syrup (raspberry, peach, lemon etc. ).

The site advises kombucha.paraguay adding medicinal herbs to prepare: raspberry leaves, nettle leaves and cassis.

Still others, prepare the Kombucha-based “fruit tea” (a try, especially if the tea give you palpitations … but this is not the recipe for the most common).

My first strain having many offspring, I make attempts to vary the taste of the healthy drinks obtained by “sacrificing” a few strains used for non-classical

This gives a pleasant and refreshing drink by fermenting green tea with mint (Gunpowder), or a green tea with lemon, same recipe as for the normal green tea. (more…)

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Rosacea – a skin problem

October 9th, 2011 Bianca Bannerman
Rasacee couperose zones

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The term rosacea comes from the Latin-speaking world and finds himself (rose colored =) under the term rosaceus. Rosacea is primarily known as copper rose, copper fin or Rotfinne.

Often it is also with the “well-known acne confused. ” Therefore, it is important always to a trained dermatologist to go, resulting in later diagnosis so no misunderstandings in the form of therapy.

The onset of skin lesions may be about before and 18.Lebensjahr occur at any age. The peak incidence is between the 30th and 50 Age. In childhood, this facial disease occurs only rarely

Rosacea has a variety of guises.

What is the second to recognize rosacea?

  • Affected parts: the central third of the face so face , cheeks , nose , chin
  • Expansion of blood vessels with redness for hours, then permanently ( telangiectasia )
  • In the further course of papules and pustules
  • Décolleté and lateral neck areas are affected less frequently
  • The lesions expand with time, more and more, they are constant and knotted, forming more tissue , so that the affected skin areas are thicker. This can lead, especially in men in a massive thickening and redness of the nose ( rhinophyma )
  • In up to 60 to 75 percent of cases are eye is also involved, what shows or dry eye, the vision may be compromised. Therefore, it is also important to eye doctor to consult at regular intervals.

Third causes of rosacea

As the main cause is largely still not completely known, it is currently (2006) stated that it is a combination of genetic factors and external triggers. It can, for example by certain trigger factors to a neurovegetative dysregulation of blood vessel walls come in the facial area.

Certain endogenous triggers (also called triggers) to solve an indeterminate place in the nervous system from Störmechanismus one that sets the disease in motion. Triggers can be chemical or psychological origin, for example:

  • emotional conflicts
  • negative stress (dis-stress)
  • Excitement
  • physical effort
  • hot baths with and without additives (fragrance oils)
  • Skin Care Products
  • Sunlight
  • Hot temperatures (summer, climate change when traveling)
  • Hot drinks
  • Cool temperatures (air, water, wind)
  • Temperature change (hot-cold)
  • Alcoholic beverages
  • Hot Spices
  • too much sugar

Behind so ask where you can discover for themselves the culprits. (more…)

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