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Most useful fruit for pregnant women

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The most useful fruit for pregnant women has been recognized apricot. Particularly important for women, this fruit. who suffer from anemia , or are at risk for its development. Furthermore, apricots and juice are rich in vitamins, improves digestion, metabolism and circulation. But even this fact does not allow experts to declare that the use of apricots eliminates the need for traditional prenatal vitamins. Only a combination of well-formed properly selected diet with vitamin-mineral complexes will make pregnancy comfort, and its result - healthy!

Calculated safe amount of coffee per day

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How much coffee you can drink in a day without any risk to your health? The answer to this question is given by Health Canada. The average person can consume up to 400 mg of caffeine per day, while not causing harm to their health. In terms of the cup - it's only 2 medium cup of coffee. In a large cup of coffee contains the same 3/4 safe daily dose of caffeine. However, the scientists explained that such statistical averages may vary depending on gender and human genetics. Is also important and is what drugs a person takes. For example, in women taking birth control, caffeine is absorbed more slowly. But pregnant women can consume in a day 2 times less caffeine than nonpregnant - only 200 mg (1 medium cup of coffee). Take a more than 10 grams of caffeine (75 cups of coffee) per day deadly.

The human nose can smell fatty foods

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American researchers have found that each person has a nose specific detector fat. With it, we can determine the level of this substance in different products. Scientists at the California Science Center have found another way to avoid overeating, which can be used along with counting calories and a careful selection of products. It turns out that the person in the nose has its own excellent for detection of fat smell given to us by nature. Researchers believe that people can easily incorporate this detector for the regulation of its power. Scientists believed that the smell of food is almost always determined by the man before he eats anything. It turned out that one of the first components of this odor is received by us olfactory information about whether the food contains fat. And if using innovative technologies, food producers will smell of fat in food more perceptible for the health of society, it will lead to a significant roll in the general trend of development of a worl...

7 facts about teeth that need to know

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We all know that we should brush your teeth twice a day, floss daily and go to the dentist every six months. What else you need to know about the teeth to protect them from tooth decay? 1. Dry mouth can cause holes in the teeth. Saliva helps to chew and swallow food, and protects teeth from oral diseases (caries, gingivitis). Furthermore, saliva helps keep intact enamel neutralizing acid (as ingested with the food, and generated by the bacteria of the oral cavity). Remember that 8-10 glasses of water a day will not only save from dehydration , but also help to avoid dry mouth. 2. Brushing your teeth after eating. You can not brush your teeth immediately after eating, especially if it contains a high amount of acid. In this case, the toothbrush of the assistant becomes it helps to rub acid softened enamel areas, which increases of caries. To save enamel, teeth should be brushed at least half an hour after meals. If you just drank a liquid with high acidity, it should drink wa...

Named 7 Foods for healthy skin

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Clean skin - this is one of the essential criteria of beauty. It is like a mirror, reflects the state of health, and if you do not eat a lot of nervous and hardly your skin will shine. If you are seriously thinking about her condition and decided to say goodbye to acne , enlarged pores, and a grayish tinge, will have to change much, and why not start with the food? Here are 7 foods that will help your skin to adopt a more healthy appearance. 1. Fatty fish (salmon or tuna). Including fish in your diet, you provide the body with biotin, vitamin B, which, among other functions, involved in the production of fatty acids and helps the absorption of amino acids. Lack of biotin facing deteriorating skin - it gets dry, "scaly", with an unhealthy shade. 2. Flax seeds . Omega-3 fatty acids help maintain cell membranes, protect the skin and maintain the humidity at the right level. If you are a vegetarian source of fatty acids can be milled flax seed and linseed oil or waln...

Balloon in the stomach help to lose weight

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In the UK allowed to treat obesity using the gastric balloon Obalon, inflating like balloons, reports Medical Daily. Instead of operations required for the installation of standard cylinders, the patient is offered to swallow the capsule size of a large pill. To one end of the capsule is connected medical thin tube (catheter) through which the balloon is inflated like a balloon. Thereafter, the catheter is removed, the capsule is not required to extract - it dissolves in 10 minutes after exposure to the stomach. Balloon to the size of a large sprawling apple support feeling of fullness and thus helps the patient to eat less. A month after the installation of the first balloon, you can enter the second, and a month later - the third. After three months, all the "balloons" are removed from the patient's stomach. During this time Obalon helps to lose an average of 7.7 pounds. The cost of two capsules of nearly five thousand dollars. Installing the gastric balloon...

Healthy sleep reduces the risk of prostate cancer

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High levels of the hormone that regulates sleep-wake cycles - melatonin - reduces the risk of developing aggressive prostate cancer at 75%, has established a group of researchers of the department of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health (Boston). The results of the scientists were presented at the conference of cancer, according to Medical Xpress . Melatonin is produced exclusively in the dark and is an important regulatory component of human circadian rhythms. "Insomnia and other sleep disorders can affect the amount of melatonin or completely stop its production in the body," - explained Sara Markt (Sarah Markt), one of the co-operation. The study, which lasted for seven years, attended 928 Icelandic men. Volunteers were asked to answer questions related to the regime of sleep and wakefulness, as well as urine test, in which scientists determined the level of one of the decay products of melatonin. It turned out that every eight volunteers had troub...