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The apple, available throughout the year is traditionally known as the fruit of health. And as the saying goes … Where there’s smoke … water takes, and it is. This fruit provides pectrina human body, amino acids, sugars, and fiber. Therefore it is said that an apple a day is able to reduce cholesterol and protect against diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Why are so good apples? There are 10 reasons to eat an apple a day:

1. The block is packed with fiber, more than 5 gr. by piece. The fiber intestinal brings stability to the human body and prevents diverticulitis, hemorrhoids and probably some forms of cancer. Take an apple a day, helps to clean and “detox”, free sugar, which helps keep insulin levels recommended by the medicine, it also removes heavy metals like mercury and lead. Read the rest of this entry »

The bile produced in the liver is a body fluid. She is stored in the gallbladder and secreted by the body always in digestion in the duodenum, where it is assigned the task of fat decomposition. The bile is composed of several ingredients which are in a sensitive and accurate mixing ratio to each other. If this mixing ratio messed with, then the cholesterol in the body can not be processed correctly and begins to clump together and to be deposited, resulting in gallstones can. Depending on the composition differs between the medicine:

* Cholesterol stones make up a majority of gallstones and there and made ​​more than 70% cholesterol lumps. The majority of gallstones in Western industrialized countries are assigned to this genus.
* Bilirubin pigment stones, which consist mostly of bilirubin, a bile pigment in the conversion of hemoglobin in red blood cells occurs and is usually discarded. They account for approximately 12.5% ​​compared to the other types of gallstones.
* Mixed stones, which represent a mixture of the two other species.

The results usually appear 30 minutes after the start of the session. There are still some days to the beginning of winter, which arrives in earnest on June 21, but the effects of season are already being felt by patients with respiratory allergies. This is due to dry air caused by cold fronts which favors the accumulation of pollutants in the air. At such times a good solution is to resort to acupuncture, which promotes the immediate relief of symptoms due to its anti-inflammatory and promotes the adaptation of the body before the allergens.

The acupuncturist, Dr. Marcio De Luna, president of the Brazilian Association of Acupuncture in Rio de Janeiro (RJ-ABA) and overall coordinator of the Graduate Program in Acupuncture from the Brazilian Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine (IBMTC) explains that the therapy regulates body’s immune response. “Acupuncture modulates the body’s immune response and when the immune response is exaggerated, often attacking the body itself as in the case of autoimmune diseases, acupuncture works by decreasing the same immune response and thus restoring homeostasis, or balance functions organic, “he explains.

According to the acupuncturist, the relief generally comes half an hour after the start of the session. “If acupuncture does not achieve the expected results in 30 minutes, conventional medicine medication should be used immediately. Although acupuncture is, in fact, better suited to address cases that are chronic rather than acute, it can be used alone or in conjunction with allopathic medication or even homeopathic, which is a great adjunct therapy to acupuncture in cases of respiratory allergies, both in acute and in chronic, “explains Dr. Marcio De Luna.

Allergy is a disorder related to immune system that has a hereditary component. If one parent is allergic, the chance to be the child is 25%. If both parents are, the odds drop to 50%. Factors such as environment and the region where one lives, lifestyle and psycho-emotional aspect may trigger or inhibit this component. The most common are respiratory allergies: rhinitis, bronchitis and asthma.

To collaborate with the well-being of people who suffer from allergies and respiratory problems, Dr. Marcio De Luna performs promotional visits on Mondays, from 9am. The discount offered is 43%, already including the needles. This way you can make an acupuncture session to $ 85.00. 10 tickets are distributed in order of arrival.

Being an anti-inflammatory therapy, scientifically proven, acupuncture is an effective treatment option for the problem. The computer has become indispensable in everyday life, whether at work or carrying out personal activities. But the practicality of this tool comes at a price: each day increases the amount of people who suffer from RSI (repetitive strain injuries and work-related musculoskeletal disorders) due to excessive computer use. Among the diseases that comprise the RSI, tendonitis is the one that affects the population, experts say.

One treatment option for those suffering with the problem is acupuncture. Being an anti-inflammatory therapy, scientifically proven, the method treats tendonitis very efficiently. “Acupuncture, in fact, has a local anti-inflammatory action by releasing active organic substances, eg, adenosine, which is released at the site of the acupuncture point. And there is also a systemic action at a distance, which is mediated by the release of the central nervous system neurotransmitters and / or opioid peptides such as serotonin and endorphins, respectively, among other substances and growth factors that act by inhibiting or exciting the neurons and relieving pain and inflammation fighting, “says acupuncturist Marcio De Luna, president of the Brazilian Association of Acupuncture in Rio de Janeiro (RJ-ABA) and coordinator of the Graduate Program in Acupuncture from the Brazilian Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine (IBMTC ).

The effectiveness of the method in the treatment of tendinitis has been recognized and endorsed in Congress for Consensus of Acupuncture, which occurred in 1997 held by the National Institutes of Health U.S. in the city of Bethesda, Maryland.  The points worked during the sessions of acupuncture are those located near the site of pain and also the angles of the nail tip of the fingers, wrists, ankles and ears.

Check out some tips from Dr. Luna to prevent or alleviate symptoms of tendinitis:

- Avoid locations vicious to work or play on the computer;
- Try not to repeat the same movement several times;
- Avoid drinking alcoholic beverages or foods that may harm your liver;
- Do not worry;
- No abuse of fatty foods or fried foods;
- Use ice to the affected region, with the exception of abdomen and lumbar spine.

Obesity has become a major problem in the world. At this point, it is taught in schools from an early age and that many school canteens are now calling for nutritionists to develop their menus. More than 300,000 people worldwide die each year from complications related to obesity clinics.

Unfortunately, some forms of obesity seem intractable to date. Related to genetics or heredity, these forms have not yet found a cure, even though medicine and science treat the subject as a pandemic (although it is not contagious or infectious) since 1997 date at which obesity has finally been recognized as a disease by the World Health Organization.
A big reason for this explosion of obesity (other than hereditary and genetic) is related to our increasing sedentary lifestyle.

We move less and have less desire to move. Our children are the first line of sight of the emerging obesity. Before, no TV (or almost) without game consoles, it was almost difficult to keep a child home. He needed to go out to play with his friends. Football and other ball games and racket were common activities. Nightlife in cycling, as well. Today, bikes rusting in the basement and balloons are only decorate the room. It may be time to take certain things before we see our children ride rather than walk. See a child weighing twice its normal weight is always very disturbing, indeed frightening, because some fail to even see their feet when they have only 5 years.

It is the responsibility of parents, be responsible, start to discover how the body works and how it is supposed to manage the calories we ingest or engulf your children. Metabolism too slow, lack of physical activity, may be causing the weight gain of your child. And of course, eating too many calories and unbalanced will only increase the risk of obesity in your children. Explore the metabolism, this process is magical when the control because it lets us feel better physically, filled with energy and most importantly, if we adapt our food well, we will keep a dream figure