August 7th, 2010 by Stand Team

According to a study presented Wednesday in the United States, the middle-aged men who consume more than seven eggs per week are at greater risk of early death than those who maintain a healthier diet.

Whereas more than 20 years of studies, the report published by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition also indicates that the men with diabetes that consumed eggs also increased their chances of dying considerably.

According to the doctors Luc Djousse and J. Michael Gaziano, of the school of medicine at Harvard, the man without diabetes can consume up to six eggs per week without involving any extra risk their health.

Being more specific, doctors said that consume less than six eggs per week does not affect the health, while a consumption of more than seven eggs weekly was associated with an increase of 23 per cent in the risk of death. Read the rest of this entry »

June 12th, 2010 by Stand Team

The tradition of the Easter Eggs is very old, as it is celebrating the Passover, which dates back to the biblical origins, in which have been used eggs colored like a traditional symbol, which was related to the arrival of spring in the Northern Hemisphere.

Its partnership on the part of the old was very simple because at this time of renaissance natural, where life is returning to flourish, eggs symbolically represent the same, the birth of a new being or fertility, a new life.

There was a belief Medieval European, in which to these dates the people were seeking eggs of different colors, who took to the nests belonging to different birds, with the aim of use by way of talismans, assigning the power to scare away evil and attract the prosperity, at the time where recommenced the year of work and which depended your life, which were the future harvests, in order to pass the terrible winters, depending on this nothing less than life.

As regards the decorated or painted eggs, began to make for avoided the work of them in nature, as it was pretty difficult find different species of birds, to obtain the different colors, for that reason to simplify began to paint.

And continuing with the ritual or tradition, these eggs should be concealed a small, so that the seek to play mode, for which painted colors very live, so facilitated the task and enjoy happiness of their findings