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Color Therapy: Intelligent Nutrition II

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Color Therapy

TRANQUILIZERS COLORS AND REFRESHING

Blue
The blues have antiseptic properties, invite calm and help sleep. They reduce stress and fight the pain.
The prized blueberry, lower anxiety and reassure.

Green
Psychologically means harmony and balance.
Foods that color, cover almost all vegetables such as lettuce, zucchini, green peppers, peas, beets … and some fruits like grapes and pears.
Since ancient times this key is attributed to nature.
Eliminate toxins and produce feelings of wellbeing and serenity.

Purple
It is the spiritual color.
Included in this group of plum, eggplant, cabbage and beets.
Improve the function of the spleen and are particularly beneficial at menopause and osteoporosis.

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Color Therapy: Intelligent Nutrition

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Color Therapy

No doubt, between health and the colors there is a very close relationship, especially in psychology, because of how much influence the various shades in the mood.

Red is associated with vigor, energy and fire. Yellow is the color of light, awake and stimulated. The color orange is a liberating, optimistic and vital. The green, the color of nature and freshness, hope and youth, invites serenity and balance.
White is the symbol of positivity and peace.

FOOD COLORTHERAPY
The combination of colors in a harmonious manner to achieve mental and physical balance is the definition of color therapy, a technique that until recently was used only in home decoration in order to alleviate many ailments such as stress, anxiety, nervousness or depression.
Today, the colors come to nutrition, getting physical and mental well as food color, as each one of them, nature reflects the properties and nutrients they contain. A good choice in the color of the food you eat every day, be one of the best complements to traditional medicine.

ENERGIZING COLORS

Yellow
It’s the perfect color for the day, awake and stimulated, to be very beneficial for learning and attention.
This group includes cereals, bananas, grapefruit, pineapple, plus all the foods.

Orange
At dawn symbolizes emotional, liberating and joyful, relieved depressive states and encourages creativity.
Oranges, tangerines, carrots and pumpkins, help people become happier.

Red
The foods are red, according to experts, who bring more energy.
Uplifting and invigorating, while improving dermatological problems such.
Strawberries, cherries, peppers and tomatoes, are part of this group.

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Ebriorexia

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Ebriorexia
A anorexia and bulimia, two eating behavior disorders known, add the ebriorexia, manifested in the will of the sufferer to replace the lack of food with alcohol intake.

Anorexia and bulimia are two of the feeding behavior disorders known and disseminated by the media. While in the first case, the victim refuses food to limits of mortal danger to the health body for cosmetic reasons essentially alternate bulimics binge eating large with vomiting, laxatives and prolonged fasting, leading to dangerous swings weight.

According to the Ministry of Health and Consumption in Spain are diagnosed each year 80,000 cases of anorexia, a disease that mainly affects women and usually presents with the first warm spring when springs the desire to show off the type and they opt for these so unhealthy practices.

Erroneous Assumption
In these two disorders as well known around the world have to add a related pathology, the acronym ebriorexia-drunk and anorexia, also known as “drunkorexia” according to the Anglo-Saxon terminology.

Ebrioréxico replaced the lack of food in the stomach with calories that contributes to the organism’s rampant alcohol consumption, based on the assumption that the diet is well balanced.

In many cases, according to the few clinical descriptions of the syndrome, the disorder ebrioréxico passes through three stages.
In the first, concerned only drink alcohol to compensate for the calories that would provide the food. In the second, to hold food abstinence is using alcohol, or combined with methamphetamine to suppress hunger. And third there is a binge eating that can be followed by vomiting to empty the stomach.

Subject to this description, is a mixture of ebriorexia alcoholism, anorexia and bulimia.

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Benefits of Fish Oil

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Fish Oil

* Fish oil contains fatty acids that are essential for healthy cells
* The body produces its own essential fatty acids – you must get them food and supplements
* Fish Oil promotes better blood flow for a healthy cardiovascular system
* Contribute to a healthy immune system
* Nourishes the joints for comfortable movement

The average modern diet has been called many things, but “heart healthy” is not usually one of them. The sad fact is that most people do not eat enough fish, and is the essential oils in fish that provide the body with omega-3 is necessary to promote balanced cardiovascular health. The body can not produce these “good fats” on their own – which can only be provided by food or dietary supplements such as fish oil. (more…)

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