Apply nutritional therapies for any health problem and should be an integral part of all we decide to start treatment. The foods we eat greatly influence our health and each food has unique qualities that can be of great help to heal a disease or to stay healthy.
Each person is an individual with unique nutritional and dietary needs depending on their activities, the leading lifestyle or metabolic characteristics that are not equal in all people.
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What is healthy eating?
The health and proper functioning of our body depends on food and nutrition that we have in life.
Food and Nutrition even seem to mean the same, are different concepts.
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TransgenicosLa risk of consuming vast majority of experts in the field agree that it is still TOO ensure early to assess the risks to human health is the consumption of GMOs.
On the other hand, and contradicting what is stated in the preceding paragraph, the main danger of transgenic crops is the increased use of toxic substances in agriculture, genetic pollution, soil pollution, biodiversity loss. I think another simple example will clarify the why, now we are a chemical industry, which funds genetic research on food and we have two options: to investigate pest-resistant food or we can fund research on pesticide-resistant food. Obviously from a business point of view will investigate the option to create pesticide-resistant food and can spray the fields killing all pests and threats in the food spoil.
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Today functional foods, we want to grow old with good health and prevent disease. Furthermore we do for our media and most natural way possible. Over time, functional foods have found their way into our refrigerators and a priori answer to these needs.
Functional foods are defined multiple times, but in which all agree is that this is a conventional food that part of their basic nutritional functions, has a beneficial effect on one or more specific functions in the body, thereby improving health and wellness and reducing disease risk.
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The stevia leaf Stevia is a genus of plants in the Asteraceae family, of which over 150 are known for their sweetening power. They originated in South America, where they are using this compound as sugar and also for medicinal purposes.
The Stevia is characterized by having a sweetening power 100 to 300 times greater than sugar without any calories. In addition to this incredible sweetness, differs from other sweeteners to have therapeutic properties in the control of blood glucose and hypertension.
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If something is revealed when we are pregnant is to know how is our baby, who will again in our belly, if you hear, if you see, if yawning. All the information you seek on fetal development, bring us closer to our son.
To see how it grows, we must first find out how many weeks have our pregnancy. To check out a pregnancy calculator for weeks. You should put here the date of your last period and tell you how many weeks and days have you been to this day.
There are many of these calculators on the Internet, but the best are undoubtedly those that include information on fetal development. The first few weeks will tell you only hands and feet that appear, but as you get excited. After 4 months, when the general structure of the fetus is complete, start to tell their new skills. (more…)
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