Strawberry

This is finally the beginning of strawberry season! Because even if you’re not pregnant, we had a good mind. Looking for lightness and freshness, the strawberry is the perfect fruit to start the spring and is one of the pleasures p’tits allowed!

With 35 small calories per 100g, the strawberry is the fruit slimming par excellence! In addition, it is sip of water and vitamins. It can take the place of the orange, because its content of vitamin C is high enough. Just so eat some strawberries a day to meet its daily requirement of vitamin C.

Its richness in vitamins can stimulate our immune system and after the winter is in great need! In addition to their vitamin intake, they are rich in citric acid, formic acid, malice acid, oxalic acid, but also rich in minerals, including calcium, magnesium. So very good for teeth and bones!

One can also use it for external use, to restore radiance to the face and prevent the appearance of first wrinkles (the Romans applied the ointments strawberry to beautify their skin. And at the court of Napoleon, the celebrated Madame Talien took twice weekly bath strawberry juice).

The strawberry is not a real fruit , in fact they are only the small seeds that are scattered, the strawberry is an outgrowth of the strawberry flower. The strawberry is a part of the flower, curious, right?

The strawberry variety grown in there since the 16th century. In France, it was in Britain in the region Plougastel which was first cultivated strawberries. The Georgette is the most variety of strawberry produced in France, it represents one fifth of global production. There are also other varieties such as Elsanta, the Mara.

Please note, strawberries are consumed once they are bought because they keep very badly. Strawberries are eaten raw, natural, with sugar, drizzled with lemon , the wine or balsamic vinegar. She is perfect in pastries, frozen desserts, grouts, compotes and jams, but resents the cooking too long.

If it is served warm, quickly evolved into a pan or on the grill, its flavor becomes more intense. The cutter goes well with cream, spices (ginger , mint, etc.), exotic fruits, rhubarb and citrus.

Here’s a little recipe that blends wonderfully tangy acidity and!

Crumble with strawberry and rhubarb:

Ingredients:

500g rhubarb tender, peeled and cut into chunks

500g strawberries, well scented

2 bananas, ripe

40g caster sugar

For the crumbs crumble:

120g flour

100g butter

100 g of sugar

80g of grated coconut

A pinch of salt

Preparation:

Mix the pieces of rhubarb, strawberries into pieces, sliced ??bananas and sugar, then arrange all the fruit in a baking dish

Mix together flour, butter, sugar, coconut and salt to get the crumbs of dough

Spread the crumbs over the fruit pulp

Then cook your crumble, 30 to 40 min at 180 ° C

Oats

Oats are an annual plant belonging to the grass family. There are many species, including cultivated oats and wild oats that grow wild in fields of wheat or barley as ‘weed’. This cereal is easily identifiable; its grain is not placed on the ears, but on the panicles.

It seems that oats appeared to be later than the wheat in human food, probably around 4500 years before Christ and that its use was originally primarily medical. Thus Hippocrates prescribed it in the fifth century BC. AD of oatmeal in case of complaints of the stomach and intestines as food and nutrition for children and invalids. Subsequently, herbalists oats employed to treat fatigue states, depression and skin disorders.

Originally from Asia, Ethiopia and northern Europe, oats are now grown in all temperate regions of the world, mainly in Russia, Canada, the United States and the European Union (Finland , Sweden and Germany). Long oats were the food of choice for animals, especially horses, but today they are fed with corn or barley, which explains the decline in global production. However, since the 1970s, the trend is reversed, because we are rediscovering the benefits of eating oatmeal on human health.

It is true that this cereal is valuable for several reasons. Firstly, oats are rich in soluble fiber, which normalizes blood glucose and insulin levels and helps to treat cardiovascular disease. Moreover, this high fiber provides a feeling of fullness quickly and normalizes intestinal transit, thereby preventing colon cancer and may help them lose weight.

Other components of oats as its lipid compounds of unsaturated fatty acids play a beneficial role on the nervous system and trace elements – such as phosphorus, manganese, magnesium, iron, selenium, copper, zinc and vitamin B1 – have an antioxidant role in the body. That is why we should not hesitate to eat oats that can be bought in the form of bran, flour, whole grain flakes or ground, like the famous Quaker Oats.

Oat consumption is widespread in the UK, where the “porridge” made from rolled oats cooked in water or milk is the traditional breakfast, and where we develop a type of beer “oatmeal stout.” One can also eat this cereal, replacing wheat flour with flour or oatmeal in many recipes for bread, pastry, pizza or cake or thicken a vegetable soup by increasing its protein value.

Finally, oats have many industrial uses: in the food industry first, which is extracted a gum used as a thickener and stabilizer in cheese spreads, but also in pharmacy, whether for the manufacture of drugs that exploit the digestive oat bran with or drugstore cosmetics or skin care such as soaps sugars oat milk.

Indeed, external use, preparations made from oats treat dry skin, skin inflammations, acne and itching in a bath comprising mixing an infusion made from straw or rolled oats provides a real relaxation for the whole body. Oats are still used for the manufacture of adhesives and abrasives.

Skin Treat

Here are 5 natural solutions to help solve skin problems:

•    correct the errors of the modern diet ,
•    make use of herbal medicine including aromatherapy,
•    use some remedies of grandmothers,
•    resolve the emotional shocks of the past,
•    do not hesitate to consult, including a homeopath, naturopath, herbalist.

Skin problems are aggravated by food
Diet as you probably know has a huge influence on our health, but also on our skin and our stress. A modern diet has the gift of incredibly worse almost all skin problems. It is often experienced as a mode of bringing little toxic food improves skin problems to disappear sometimes.

The regime is Signaled food hypotonic par excellence. Other regimes like blood group, the Cretan diet , the lactose-free diet or gluten-free may also have results as appropriate. Being advised by a therapist is recommended.

Simple remedies that improve skin problems
Multiple products such as nigari , cider vinegar and baking soda can help relieve many skin problems. Do you know that a simple ice melted on the facial skin once or twice daily for one week can remove acne? The disadvantage is that acne returns when you stop the treatment. Magnesium chloride or nigari is as effective in acne cases being internally but also externally on most skin problems. The baking soda is effective against fungal infections , the cider vinegar against oily skin .

Herbal medicine and essential oils to relieve skin problems
Although dangerous if improperly used, essential oils are very effective in relieving skin problems. As there are many formulas for different diseases,

As the formulas are not easy to find directly on the site of aromatic area, for example you can put “itching” in the search field instead of a product name. Then click the first result and then go to the details of the product that came out first. On this page as it is much information, do a search on the web page using the “Control + F” or “Apple + F” and re-enter “itching” as in our example. This solution is not appropriate for beginners; be very careful with essential oils, these are not harmless products. Read the precautions.

The emotional distress experienced in solitude can cause many problems including skin problems
It is sometimes said bluntly that a patient’s skin problem is psychological. But saying this does not solve the skin problem. By cons it has been tested many times by people who change lives disappearance of skin problem at the same time. Other people who solve an old problem experienced in solitude too! No need to be psychic to know that undigested emotions can really ruin our lives and our health. Solutions exist, the first being to speak, the second and not least of course are to consult a therapist.

See a therapist for your skin problems is the most important advice
Even if you have been disappointments with a little medical listening and offering only some of the solution, there are many other doctors or therapists that you do not know. Sometimes a homeopathic doctor, even if prescribed “placebos”, will make a difference where everybody had failed. Improve his lifestyle by consulting a naturopath can help. There are many other specialties equally valid, up to you with which you feel draw sheet.

What cause skin problems?

One of the causes of skin problems is according to some fouling of the body can not eliminate toxins in harmony. As a result, the skin becomes an exit door that is usually not used. This output toxin exceptional manifested by a skin problem. Toxins lipid give an oily skin, others are acids and give a dry and irritated skin. Although this is simplistic, this would explain why a mode with little food toxins decreases skin problems over time.

Make treatment long enough to see results
An aggravation is sometimes observed at the beginning of treatment or a change in eating habits. This has a name, it is a crisis of elimination, that accomplished by following an improvement. It is sad that people give up by saying that “it was worse than before” and condemn the method of healing after two days. This is almost always insufficient for the first beneficial results. When choosing a treatment, unless you realize that it is dangerous, we must persevere often a week, a month or more if the problem has tenure of ten years.

Sugars

Sugar, glucose is necessary for our cells need to replenish energy. In fact, in terms of impact on our body, sugar is a killer, a killer cold, slow, slowly poisons its prey! This sugar which I will denounce the dangers, the white sugar, refined cane sugar or beet.

Part of an extremely lucrative trade, it is subject to no limitations, no labeling of alarming consumers. But be warned, it acts like a drug: the more one consumes, the more our body requires and the signal directly from the brain.
On grocery store shelves, we are presented with strings of miraculous fat free products, while sugar, which will cleverly turn into fat in our body, is ubiquitous and inescapable.

Sugar addiction is a disease prevalent and deadly
Sugar contains a complete set of trace elements very interesting for the organization. So do not dismiss it in this form. What is regrettable is that the vast majority of the public is not aware that the sugar industry (such as flour, oil and other refined products) is as dangerous to health than alcohol, tobacco and hard drugs: they create an addictive as morphine or cocaine.

Although it is difficult to completely eliminate its power these harmful products, everyone can protect themselves by consuming as much as possible complete natural food, so that the body receives the vitamins and enzymes necessary to metabolize and eliminate undesirable substances. Because, fortunately, our body is equipped with powerful cleanup mechanisms that work best as long as we bring them substances and nutrients they need.
Studies have shown the decrease in aggression in prisons where they had removed the white sugar…

How do I install the dependency?

In fact, you should know that glucose (sugar and not as such) is the fuel that allows our cells produce energy. The muscles and brain, in particular, consume a lot of glucose. Without its dose of glucose, the brain is in mortal danger!
Where does the glucose? Carbohydrates we eat. These carbohydrates, which should form part of our daily diet, are the main constituents of foods:
•    vegetables,
•    algae (marine and freshwater),
•    fruit,
•    Whole grains (unpolished rice, whole wheat, etc..)
•    and legumes (lentils, beans, chickpeas, beans …).
Our organization does not need more carbohydrates or other “sugars” than these. Well retain this element: we do not need more sugar than those!
Glucose is the energy source immediately available to the brain and central nervous system. The brain has a constant need for glucose. If his reserve decreases, it sends a message to the adrenal glands to secrete adrenaline. They “intimately” to the liver to convert carbohydrates into glucose to release into the bloodstream. If this mechanism malfunctions, the brain is no longer able to walk normally.

In the absence of an appropriate signal from the adrenal gland, the liver can not release enough glucose when the level of it in the blood is low. So, hypoglycemia can occur because the liver can only store carbohydrates properly or because he can convert them into glucose.

What are the symptoms of hypoglycemia?
Episodes of hypoglycemia can mimic almost any neurological or psychiatric disorder:
•    convulsions,
•    visual disturbances,
•    sleep,
•    negativism,
•    personality change,
•    irritability,
•    manic behavior.

If you experience either of these symptoms, do not call right away your psychiatrist or therapist. This is perhaps simply a hypoglycemic episode!
Hypoglycemia affects all body functions and these effects can be felt at relatively modest levels of hypoglycemia. The solution? Glycerin control of our food.

Diseases to be linked directly to sugar.
Excessive consumption or unconscious (consumption of products containing it without us knowing) sugar can lead to over-weight or obesity. There is also agreement that it also increases the risk of diabetes. What is less known is that diabetes is increasing in turn the risk of mental illnesses like depression and schizophrenia?

Sugar consumption leads to deficiencies in essential nutrients: vitamins, minerals or fiber. Metabolism is then weaker, more vulnerable to infections, especially respiratory. And that’s without counting the acidity that causes the sugar level of the stomach acid that irritates the lining of the throat and digestive system, which can cause tonsillitis (tonsillitis) chronic.

Some studies have even made a connection between the increase in cancers of the diaphragm and the appearance of liqueurs (or lemonade) in the market for soft drinks…

A look at the glycerin index?
Insulin (hypoglycemic hormone) and glucagons’ (hyperglycemic hormone) is secreted by the pancreas and involved in the regulation of blood sugar. If either is malfunctioning, it is in poor glycerin control.
In the body, the rate of blood sugar, or glucose, is a controlled parameter continuously. Schematically, this quantity is controlled by these two hormones are insulin and glucagons’. When we come to eat, the sugar from food into the blood. The blood sugar rises. The pancreas then secretes insulin, a hormone that will cause the passage of excess sugar into the cells, including liver, where it will be stored as glycogen. Without it, sugar would remain in the blood and destroy the vessels and nerves.

When too much fast sugar enters the blood, the pancreas works at full capacity and, eventually, the cells no longer take seriously overactive insulin. The pancreas him, always trying to produce more insulin to lower blood sugar levels.

In short, when you eat simple sugars, blood sugar rises, the pancreas panics and makes insulin. Sugar eventually runs out and it is imperative to eat sweet. And when the blood contains too much insulin, fats are no longer degraded.

The index or glycerin index (GI) is the result of a calculation that determines the speed of assimilation of sugar, in whatever form, by the body. More food is consumed high-glycerin (ie by raising our rapidly glucose in the blood), the more you tend to gain weight because excess glucose is quickly converted into fat by the body. By cons, foods with low glycerin index do not cause this rapid rise in blood sugar and does not lead to the production of fats “reserve”. In addition, more a food has a low glycerin index, the less it will raise blood sugar and it will cause less insulin secretion.

The base index to calculate the glycerin index is 100. Reasonably, it should consume foods in moderation with an index above 70. By cons, the foods below 50 fits into the healthy weight you wish to obtain or maintain!
You should also know that foods with the highest glycerin index are not only richer in glucose, but also the poorest in fibers. But the fibers also wish us well.

How to reduce the glycerin index of a food at a meal?
Recent research and confirmed, it is known that acidic foods, especially vinegar (but also some fruits such as grapefruit and lemon), avoid rapid increases in glucose in the blood, especially when eaten within minutes before the meal.

Eat protein or healthy fats (rich in Omega-3 and other essential fatty) before the meal, will also help lower the overall GI of a meal.

Warning: if the rate of glucose in the blood depends on the glycerin index of a food, it must also take into account how much carbohydrate the food. It is better to eat a small amount of food that a lot of hyperglycemic foods low in carbohydrates.

It is very easy to meet carbohydrate needs, because they are present in many foods, mainly vegetables, legumes, roots and fruits, that is to say in all plant foods. They are much less present in animal products. The meat contains very little. Only the egg yolks and milk (milk sugar is lactose) are an animal source rich in carbohydrates.
What really counts in a meal, it’s not that he has a low glycerin load because it is low in carbohydrates, but it is rich in carbohydrate foods with low glycerin index.

Conclude on the dangers of refined sugar
Sugar consumption has become, over time, over-consumption and worse, an uncontrolled consumption.

In North America, as I said before, the shelves are piled high with food “o trans fat” statement displayed in relief, but the word “sugar” is cleverly hidden in discreet labeling of ingredients or nutritional values, labels that few people check!

Simply because they are unaware that their body will transform the sugars they consume excess fat carefully … This fortress built by the lobbying industry is a reflection of poor eating habits that urgently need to be free!

In a healthy balanced diet, varied and largely made of fruits and vegetables, we do not need to add sugar and all refined sugar especially given the devastation it causes to our health.

If we need gentleness, sweetness, rather than have recourse to different products and just as “sweeteners” to get us: agave nectar (GI 16), coconut sugar (GI 35), dried fruit (apricots, figs). Dates to avoid GI of 95 and cooked carrots, very fashionable in muffins, 85 to IG! May prefer raisins GI of 65.

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Green Salad

To green salad with rhymes only decorative element or presentation, to a charming composition of your food input? It is time to change your prior on the champion slimming vegetables, and you make an active consumer, if you want to stay fit or get back in shape.

The composition of lettuce
The salad , in addition to being delicious, has many benefits that will bring you health and lightness. Rich in vitamins and trace elements, this vegetable also contains original high dose of omega 3, very useful in preventing certain cardiovascular diseases. Even the fat it contains is good for your health, it definitely has all the advantages. In addition to all the benefits of green salad for health , she quickly hold the stomach, while providing a light and healthy meals. With the summer heat, the salad is definitely a dish best served without hunger.
Lettuce accompanied eggs for vegetarians will find a balanced intake of protein.

Recipes with green salad or lettuce
Eat green vegetables is essential for your physical balance, so why not combining health and pleasure? That should convince you to use a little more often the whole family!
If it is advisable to eat a salad in the evening, however, it is best to start a recipe for salad for lunch, to take all the forces necessary to keep your hard afternoon of work! Green Salad with lawyer , chicken, fresh salmon or smoked salmon, are a few recipe ideas to tickle your taste buds salivating already. Note that in Asia there is also the regular baked, boiled in a soup, a new original idea that will please all your guests at your next dinner.

Precautions and dangers of lettuce or green salad, a myth?
Remember to eat your lettuce, however, soon after buying it. She quickly loses its bounty. It would be a shame to waste such delicious dishes, for the simple reason that you have forgotten at the bottom of the refrigerator between cheese and yogurt! Wash well also, so as not to eat dirt or other pesticides, green salad is primarily a vegetable loaded with benefits, and not a poison.

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Find A Doctor

The importance of receiving good medical care
It is important for your health, you find a family doctor and a dentist. Your doctor and your dentist will work with you to manage health care of your family and give you good advice on health.

Find a doctor and a dentist
Start looking for a doctor and dentist when you arrive. Depending on where you live, it is possible that you had to take several weeks or months to find a doctor or dentist for you and your family.
The health professionals are in the yellow pages of your telephone book under “Physicians and surgeons” or “Dentists” as appropriate. If they can not accept new patients, ask them if they can tell you a doctor or dentist in your area who takes new patients.

After finding a doctor
Doctors resort to medical observation (examination) to study your health information to help your wellbeing. The medical examination allows the physician to detect early signs of disease, such as heart problems or certain types of cancer, in order to treat diseases before they escalate. The medical examination can also detect infectious diseases that others might incur.

Ask your doctor about your medical care and that of your family.

If you can not find a doctor
If no doctor is available or you can wait for an appointment, you can go to a clinic appointment. Some of these clinics are open evenings and weekends, while other doctors’ offices are closed.
You can go to these clinics to take advantage of many health services without an appointment and for small minor emergencies. To find a clinic, see the “Clinics” or “Clinics” in the yellow pages of your telephone directory.

Use the services of hospitals
If there is no walk-in clinic in your locality, you can go to the outpatient clinic of the hospital for minor emergencies. The outpatient clinic of the hospital, not to be confused with the emergency room, is very similar to a clinic.

Eating right and exercising regularly are two important factors in maintaining your health. It is essential that your family and yourself were holding account these two aspects.

Follow these tips healthy food:

eat a variety of foods;
eat plenty of cereals, breads, other grain products, vegetables and fruits;
choose low-fat dairy products, leaner meats and foods prepared with fat-free or a minimal amount of fat;
limit your intake of salt, alcohol and caffeine.
Canada’s Food Guide can help you make good food choices.

Follow these tips to keep in shape:

take the stairs instead of the elevator;
Limit the time you spend watching television or computer;
Play actively with your children;
when you have only short distance to travel, go to your destination on foot, rollerblades, or bicycles;
find hiking trails and bike paths near you and take them.
Exercise regularly by integrating physical activity into your daily life, at home, at school or work. For example, some people go for a walk at lunchtime. Others are part of a fitness center. The objective is to maintain your muscular capacity, reduce stress and increase your energy level.

Like adults of all ages, seniors should accumulate 150 minutes of aerobic physical activity of moderate to vigorous activities include a week of moderate intensity, there is brisk walking and cycling. Vigorous-intensity activities may be cross-country skiing and swimming. This can be achieved by performing 10-minute segments that accumulate to reach 150 minutes or more during the week. In addition, seniors should add strength training and development of bone mass using large muscle groups at least two days a week.

The disabled 65 and older should participate in physical activities designed to improve balance and prevent falls.

By choosing activities you enjoy, you will increase your chances to persevere in their practice. If the fitness center does not interest you, take the footpath, gardening, playing a round of golf or take a yoga class. If the weather prevents you from being active outside, climb the stairs at home, join the walking club in your local mall or stroll through the halls of your building or shelter. Get active your way: at home, near you, with your friends, by going and returning on foot or bike to your activities such as meetings, religious activities and social events in your neighborhood.

Activities that provide benefits in terms of endurance, strength, flexibility that are most advantageous.

a. Endurance activities include walking, hiking, swimming, dancing, cycling and skating. They are especially recommended for the heart, lungs and circulatory system.

b. Flexibility activities include stretching, yoga, tai chi, gardening and vacuuming. These activities maintain joint mobility. Increased flexibility will allow you to continue to tie your own shoes, to reach the top shelf in the kitchen and you trim the toenails.

c. Strength activities include weight training with dumbbells or cans, climbing stairs, the pressure standing against a wall, sit-ups and rapid and repeated standing. These activities will strengthen your muscles and improve your balance, helping to prevent falls, is the leading cause of accidental death in people over 65 years. Nobody is too old to develop his strength: studies have shown that strength training can reverse muscle weakness after the age of 90.

Almost everyone can derive benefits of active living. If you have arthritis or osteoporosis, physical activity is extremely important to maintain your mobility. If you have already suffered a heart attack, physical activity can prevent a recurrence.

NOTE: Always consult a health professional before starting any exercise program.

Why some children start to smoke?

We know that children who start smoking do not trust them. Some teenagers are easily influenced by pressure from their friends and family members. Other teens believe that smoking gives an air of “cool” and mature. In addition, several teenage girls smoke because they believe it will help them stay thin.

How to prevent my child from smoking?

1. Although it sometimes seems that children do not listen to their parents, your opinion is really very important. Tell your children that you do not want them to smoke. End of story.

2. Prohibit smoking in your home. Not only will you protect your children from dangerous secondhand smoke, but you will give them a positive role model.

3. Discuss the costs of smoking, not only in terms of health, but also financial. Smoking is expensive. Do not they would rather spend their money on clothes or out?

4. Remind your children often that they are great, you love them and that you respect them. Help them feel good about themselves.

5. If you or your partner smoke, the chances that your child smoking also are 50% higher. Even if you smoke, you can still talk to your kids about smoking and its risks to health.

Some facts about smoking

a. Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 toxic chemicals that can damage your heart, lungs and other organs.

b. The carbon monoxide contained in cigarette smoke reduces the ability of your blood to carry oxygen. Therefore, your heart must work harder to provide enough oxygen to your body.

c. The nicotine in cigarettes makes your heart beat faster. It also increases your pressure pressure and promotes the deposition of plaque in the arteries. When plaque breaks, it triggers the formation of blood clots, one of the main causes of heart attacks and strokes (CVA).

If your child already smokes, you may want to discuss with your health care professional for ways to help them quit. You may want to also encourage your son or daughter to visit Health Canada for youth, smoking Life 100 .

Diabetes and your heart

Diabetes increases the risk of high blood pressure, atherosclerosis (narrowing of the arteries), coronary heart disease and stroke, especially if your blood sugar (glucose) are poorly controlled. Diabetes can cause circulatory problems by damaging blood vessels.

Women with diabetes are more likely to suffer heart attacks, angina (chest pain) or have heart surgery than men with diabetes. Although the causes are not yet fully known, it would appear to be due to the interaction between female hormones, the blood sugar and insulin.

There are three types of diabetes:
Type 1 diabetes – usually develops in children, adolescents, young adults and even people in their thirties. The pancreas stops producing insulin which the body needs to convert sugar into energy. This type of diabetes is treated with insulin (10% of diabetics are type 1).
Type 2 diabetes – occurs when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or the body does not effectively use the insulin produced. This type of diabetes usually appears in adults who are overweight (90% of diabetics are type 2).
Gestational diabetes – occurs in 2-4% of women during pregnancy and

Diabetes

Disappears after the baby is born. This type of diabetes can increase the risks of develop diabetes later in the mother and child.
How to reduce your risk

If you have diabetes, the best way to reduce the impact on your health is to control your other risk factors.Here’s how:
If you are age 40 or older and have a family history of diabetes, overweight, hypertension or high cholesterol, ask your doctor check your blood sugar levels.
Achieve and maintain a healthy weight.
Ask your doctor to refer you to a professional dietician to eat a healthy diet. Follow the Food Guide to Healthy Eating.
Work closely with your health care team to define your goals and know your blood glucose target levels.
Learn to monitor your blood sugar and talk to your doctor if you can not control it.
Become physically active. With your doctor, prepare a program for you.