April 11th, 2011 by Stand Team

It is true that one of the issues that we played with greater frequency is the importance of eating healthy, eating healthy food and avoids junk food. But, when eat only food “pure” becomes an obsession we are talking about an eating disorder.
You may think that in the first place this disorder is linked to the obsession with weight loss, as happens with anorexia and bulimia, but the reality is that the ortorexia or orthorexia is a disorder obsessive compulsive that generates phobia in relation to the consumption of food is not healthy. Read the rest of this entry »

April 8th, 2011 by Stand Team

The importance of care of our legs has been discussed at the previous time, especially in times when the desire to show is more.
But the care of our legs not only is due to aesthetic reasons, but we must also care by health issues.
The legs bear the full weight of our body throughout the day, and if we’re much time unemployed or coming and going permanently, the risk of varicose veins increases.
To loosen and refresh our legs is advisable to use products that have menthol or mint.
The menthol is antibacterial, refreshing and anesthetic, when applied to the skin increases blood flow, which produces a better movement. It also produces a stimulus cold, to which the body responds procrastinating vessels.
You can use these products daily after the workday. The varieties are many: gels aromatic, exfoliating, balsams, creams refreshing; all on the basis of mint. Read the rest of this entry »

April 7th, 2011 by Stand Team

Seemingly there is a big difference in the quality of sexual health service from country to country across Europe.  Most check-ups, for example, for men who have sex with other men, do not carry out physical examinations checking for rectal gonorrhoea, chlamydia or warts. Other startling differences were recorded in a recent survey including 38 countries in Europe, their GUM clinics, general practitioners and private health care services.

Countries boasting networks of sexual health clinics that are specialised and highly experienced get it right every time and there the figures collected from these areas are telling.  Ireland, the UK, Malta and Sweden represented countries harbouring such a service and contrast with rich countries like France and Germany who surprisingly performed poorly. Men in Ireland were eight times more likely to have had an anal swab during a routine check-up and men in the UK were ten times more likely.

HIV testing was most common in Spain, Portugal, Belgium and France.  The local GP and GUM clinic was the most frequented place men went for testing and in Central and Eastern Europe the most common places for men who have sex with men to visit are community services that have been set up by a gay community organisation.

33 of 38 countries were surveyed and out of these less than 40% of check-ups included an examination of the penile or anal areas. In over 50% of the European countries, less than 20% of the check-ups included this type of exam. In 32 of the countries, less than 40% of the check-up sessions included an anal swab.

It really is down to the individual in the end. One must be aware of their individual risk. If you do have anal sex then a swab will be necessary.  If you have put yourself at risk by having unprotected sex, an STD test and HIV test will be necessary. Warts in women are an indication that they have the HPV virus which has a strong association with many types of cancer. Men are prone to some of these cancers also. HPV can be passed on even with barrier contraception and a standard STD test will not detect the virus, a blood sample must be taken in this instance. Where there is such inconsistency, one needs to take control of their sexual health and prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

April 5th, 2011 by Stand Team

In the course of history the ideal body weight has changed. Sometimes the ideal is to have bulging curves and today the ideal is to move away from overweight and their problems. Currently, however, there is a way to establish whether the kilos which have been approaching or are moving away from a physical state healthy.
How to know the ideal weight? You can use the Body Mass Index (BMI), a measure that allows calculation of kilos that must be taken depending on the stature, while giving a range of variations, and it does not set a single figure to which we all should be adjusted.
Although the BMI is useful for most of the people there are exceptions, promptly children and elderly, does not correspond to those who by nature have a body muscular because the mass that consists inflates the index.
The formula for calculating the ideal body weight is: Read the rest of this entry »

April 2nd, 2011 by Stand Team

When he was 17 or 18 years my grandmother Enriqueta gave me a juice exquisite that he could not guess that fruit was, he said to me that it was pineapple juice with eggplant!! It couldn’t believe because my palate of then rejected some vegetables and eggplant was one of them. My grandmother told me that taking that eggplant was going to have always my cholesterol to normal levels and it seems that I was wrong.
The eggplant reduces the bad cholesterol, improves blood circulation, prevents the arteriosclerosis; if you eat foods with fat I recommend that after consume eggplant because it is excellent for wipe that fat.
There are exquisite recipes with eggplant, in an Italian restaurant the tasted in olive oil, very rich; I also have eaten the parmesan, baked, sautéed with other plants. I give the recipe of simple but effective eggplant I prepared my grandmother. Read the rest of this entry »