Her slender body with Yoga

February 1st, 2010

yoga

Perhaps you are one of the many people who feel frustrated by the difficulty of losing weight. That’s not surprising. The reason, weight gain is a very complex problem. There are the influence of genetic factors, lifestyle, diet, and others.
The benefits of yoga exercises that directly felt physically it is loosening muscles stiff because of lack of motion, tension, and stress. Yoga movements also increase joint range of motion, increase flexibility, and help correct the wrong posture because of weight gain.
Yoga exercises to help strengthen and lengthen muscles so that the body was more slender and shapely after practice. However, the shaped body is not always followed by weight loss. Remember, muscle is more dense and heavier than the volume of fat tissue.
Potential to burn calories
In yoga there is also practice pranayama. These breathing exercises to make the vital energy or prana in the body move. This can help overcome the problem when you gain weight, but rather sluggish due to the body’s energy level decreased.
Another benefit of yoga is the psychological aspect. The weight gain often makes self-giving negative comments. Through yoga we try to prevent this by creating a safe environment and positive to reconnect the body and eliminate the negative messages that often arise in the mind. Read the rest of this entry »

How to act

January 31st, 2010

Whatever the injury, apply a series of general rules. Always avoid panic and haste. Unless the victim placing expose it to further injury, to avoid changes in position until they determine the nature of the process. A trained lifeguard is to examine the casualty to assess wounds, burns and fractures. It should reassure the victim, explaining that it has already requested medical help. The head should remain at the same level as the trunk except where there is difficulty breathing. In the absence of head or neck injuries can lead to somewhat higher shoulders and head for comfort. If you experience nausea or vomiting should turn his head to one side to prevent aspiration. Should never be given food or drink, much less in the unconscious patient. The first performance, the more immediate aim must be acceptable to the patient breathing: getting the unblocking of the airway to prevent suffocation, extracting foreign bodies, solid or liquid, and withdrawing the tongue falling back. If the patient is not breathing by itself will have to vent from the outside by mouth to mouth to have a mechanical device.

What is First Aid ?

January 25th, 2010

What is first aid?
First aid, emergency treatment measures are applied to victims of accidents or sudden illnesses until there are specialized treatment. The purpose of first aid is to relieve pain and anxiety of the injured or ill to prevent the worsening of his condition. In extreme cases are necessary to prevent death until you get medical care.

First aid varies depending on the needs of the victim and the rescuer as knowledge. Knowing what not to do is as important as knowing what to do because a therapeutic measure misapplied can cause serious complications. For example, acute appendicitis a mild laxative may endanger the patient’s life.

Water and Weight Loss

January 23rd, 2010

drinking water

In the past years, much has been said about the properties of water as slimming and cleansing factor. What is not entirely true, is that water itself does not lose weight. The truth is that water has some minerals beficiosos health and beauty, drinking water that makes us fat and eliminate toxins, and that when he follows a diet helps tremendously.

But like all things in life, you need a degree to be beneficial and not harmful. What is clear is that drinking water is very good, but without going over. The amount is in proportion to body mass: 50 Kg someone. weight, with 1.5-liter has enough on the contrary, other people can drink up to 3 liters per day, there are people who drink up to 4 or 5 liters per day and that is not advisable, because the urine was removed minerals also essential for health and the body, such as potassium, sodium, .. And that is very bad.

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Healthy Tips

January 22nd, 2010

healthy tips

BREAKFAST
Making a strong and varied breakfast is essential to our health and our physical and intellectual performance throughout the morning. After the fast of the night, many hours without eating, you have to eat varied and plentiful. Many people have no appetite to hours so early. In this case, mid-morning must take some essential way.

We eat breakfast at our pleasure: from the typical Anglo-Saxon breakfast (eggs, beans, bacon, butter, milk or tea, juice) but the bacon would be better without it, the most common in Spain and also very full (juice, milk, toast , olive oil, cereals).

The important thing is to eat breakfast in a large amount of carbohydrates that give us energy. It is also very healthy addition to breakfast 7 to 8 almonds, excellent for skin, eyes and cardiovascular system or a pair of nuts, and good for the heart also.
Finally, add that with plenty of breakfast food will get to the less hungry, so we also help prevent weight gain.

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First Aid for Burns

January 21st, 2010

first aid for burns

Vary with the severity of the burn, location and source of injury.
* In superficial burns, first and second grades, should be immersed immediately in cold water for 10 minutes (or apply ice as soon as possible)
* You should maintain sterile the burned area
* He carefully removed his clothes, but if they are glued to the area of injury is not taking off and cut around
* Do not ever break the blisters. Ulcer is covered with a gauze bandage is maintained through soft cotton
* Apply topical skin regenerators without touching the ulcer in more than a week, disinfecting and replacing just the pack
* In case of burns affecting 10% or more of the body surface is essential immediate hospitalization.
* In all cases, except for burns caused by electricity, should refrain from taking liquids
* For disposal and transport can be used “mattress burn” or all possible steps to avoid pain (in any case always cover the lesions with fatty dressings sterile) and accompanied with a note stating the circumstances and basic characteristics of the accident and injuries

In the case of chemical burns, the causes of accidents are usually: splashes, spills, leaks, among others. The severity of injuries will depend on the concentration of the product, contact duration, extent and location thereof.

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Burns Degrees

January 20th, 2010

burn degrees

Gravity
The severity depends on the penetration, the size and location. They are classified into four grades.
* First grade: you just have erythema (redness) and inflammation of the affected area
* Second degree: injury is only in the epidermis (outer layer of skin), and present with blisters
* Third grade: We present destruction of the epidermis with necrosis that often require skin grafts
* Fourth grade are those that penetrate deeper areas of muscle, bone or other organs

Extension
The extension value indicates the percentage of injured body surface (eg, each leg is 18%, each of the 9% upper limbs, head, 9%, anterior or posterior chest 18% each, genitalia 1% ).

Burns

January 19th, 2010

burns

Burns are skin lesions, its annexes and to the muscles and tendons in the body. These are produced by physical and chemical agents in various forms. Most can be caused by fire, sunlight, chemicals, liquids or hot objects, steam, electricity and even by other factors. These injuries can cause medical problems ranging from minor to endangering life, according to the breadth and depth of the burn.

Heat burns involve tissue heating occurs on a level where their irreversible damage. The tissue damage is proportional to the heat content of the burning agent, exposure time and heat conductivity of the tissues involved. The skin on our body, has a high specific heat conductivity with low heat radiation, therefore, the skin becomes hot quickly and cools slowly. As a result, thermal injury persists after the agent has lapsed or been removed.

In the case of chemical burns these result from the action of corrosive substances that destroy tissue at the contact point. The body parts most commonly affected are the skin, eyes and digestive tract. The products can be corrosive acids or alkalis.

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Hemorrhage

January 18th, 2010

hemorrhage

The blood represents 7% of body weight of a person. An adult is considered that can have up to five quarts of it. You take the primary role of nutrients (oxygen and sugar) into body cells and in turn removed for disposal of toxic organic result of metabolism. Blood loss is the output or bleeding or leakage of blood outside the blood vessels (veins and arteries) of the organism as a result of accidental or spontaneous rupture.

Depending on the affected blood vessel may be “vein” when there is heavy, blood is dark and low pressure flows, “capillary” blood is limited to very small quantities and “blood” when the blood is red emerges alive and the rhythm of the heartbeat.

Classification

  • External bleeding. They occur when the skin that protects the body breaks down, as in the case when cut. In serious situations, blood loss may endanger the life of the victim.
  • Internal bleeding. When blood comes from blood vessels and remains inside the body, eg, perforated gastric ulcer.

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Anti-cellulite Exercises

January 16th, 2010

water gymnasyic

Water aerobics exercises for cellulite:

As warming:
* Lifting the knees alternately to the hip and the arms are raised forward exchange side legs, ie when the left leg and right arm backward. Repeat this exercise for about 3 minutes.

To remove cellulite of the legs:
* Legs are lifted straight forward (at the level that one can) in an alternating 10 times. Arms extended horizontally.
* It lifts a knee to the hip at the same time, we climb the opposite arm straight up. It makes jumping and switching sides will arm and knee, every jump. It is about 10 times.
* With arms outstretched, stands straight leg sideways at an angle of 90 degrees with the ground, turns to the starting position and do the same with the opposite side. The arm on the same side as the leg is close to the chest with an open palm, while lifting the leg. Repeat each side 10 times.
* Stand with your legs straight, there are jumps where the knees are bent trying to touch the chest. It is about ten times.

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