3 natural smoothies

By: Cristian Mendoza

(Otra Medicina)

SMOOTHIE FOR DIGESTION

With papaya smoothie you can greatly improve your digestion. This natural smoothie contributes to prevent digestive problems such as fluid retention, bloating, constipation, among others. The papaya smoothie has different compounds (such as papain and potassium) that will help your digestive system work well. Similarly, its ingredients make it perfect for action against nausea, flatulence and gases. 

Ingredients: 
1 cup of papaya, peeled, seeded and diced
1 cup of sliced ​​peaches
1 cup of pear, peeled and cut into small cubes
1 teaspoon of ground flax seeds
1 teaspoon of ginger
1/2 cup of Greek yogurt
6 leaves of mint
6 ice cubes

ANTIWRINKLES SMOOTHIE

This sensational Natural smoothie is perfect to combat aging, as it is a pump of antioxidants. It has vitamin E and vitamin C, which is essential for the production of collagen, a protein that contributes greatly to the production of skin and bones, preventing the appearance of fine lines. 

Ingredients: 

1 cup of blueberries
1 cup of cherries
1/2 cup of strawberries
1/4 avocado peeled and chopped
2 tablespoons of wheat germ
2 tablespoons of ground flax seeds
1/2 cup of plain yogurt
1 cup of ice

SMOOTHIE FOR THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

The mango smoothie is a perfect generator of immunity. This smoothie is loaded with beta carotene and vitamin C, ideal compounds to strengthen the body's defenses. Experts argue that this vitamin increases the production of white blood cells that protect us from viruses and other malicious agents presented in the body. 

Ingredients: 

1 cup of mango, peeled and diced
1 cup of chopped melon
1/2 cup of diced pineapple
1/3 ground of almonds
1/2 cup of almond milk
ice

Anatomy of artists

 Salvador Dalí

 Vincent Van Gogh

Pablo Picasso

Disected artists

Photo series created by DDB Brazil for the Art Museum of Sao Paulo. An excellent campaign showing Dali, Picasso and Van Gogh reflecting their internal organs dissected according to the artistic style that corresponds to each.

(Revista ZIPPER)

Acid and alkaline foods

Vía Creaciones Orgánicas

Forest year

"This time-lapse film was distilled from 40,000 still photographs taken over 16 months, from the front window of my home in an Indiana (USA) forest. A camera on a fixed tripod looked out a window towards the northeast, and during key times of the year (snow, ice, wind, springtime, autumn) it automatically took a photo once a minute. I added the natural sounds (many recorded in the same woods) as a way to further the experience of being in the forest."

(Motionkicker)

7 worst weight loss myths

By: Ashley Evans
(All women stalk)

1. Eliminate Carbohydrates

What most people don't know is that the human brain relies entirely on carbohydrates for energy. While carbohydrates are also the body's main fuel source, you can survive on protein and fat alone but not for long! Instead of eliminating carbohydrates, choose healthy ones like whole grains, fruits and vegetables!

2. Cut out fat

There is a difference between healthy fat and unhealthy fat. Healthy fat found in foods like nuts, nut butters, seeds, avocados, olive oil and olives are actually very beneficial to your health and can actually help you lose weight.

3. "Free" foods don't have calories

You might have been told that there are particular foods, like celery or cucumbers, that are "free foods" because your body burns more calories digesting them than they actually contain; unfortunately, this simply isn't true. While these foods are very low in calories, their calories still contribute to your daily total.

4. Fruit has too much sugar and will make you gain weight

Fruit should be included in a healthy diet. While there is natural sugar found in fruit, there is also fiber which slows down the digestion of the fruit, unlike the sugar found in candy, cakes, soda and juice. Fruit is high in vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and phytonutrients, all of which your body needs to get or stay healthy. 

5. Milk will help you lose weight

You might be shocked to read this one, but there is no true evidence to suggest that milk or milk products will help you lose weight. 

6. Don't eat after 8pm

If you wake up everyday at noon, eat breakfast at 1 pm, lunch at 5 pm, a snack at 9 pm and dinner at 1 am, that is no different than if you woke up at 6 am, ate breakfast at 7 am, lunch at 11 am, a snack at 3 pm and dinner at 7 pm. What does matter is that you are eating consistently and not eating all of your calories at one meal.

7. Eliminate Gluten

For those with Celiac disease, a gluten intolerance, a gluten allergy or a gluten sensitivity, the removal of gluten from the diet is necessary. However, for those without any of those conditions, going "gluten-free" isn't necessary when it comes to weight loss. Gluten, the protein found in wheat, barley and rye, is found in many processed foods. Many people lose weight on a gluten-free diet because this causes them to eliminate these types of foods, not just the gluten.

Should we use the snooze button?

Refined flour vs. wholemeal flour

By: Yamila Papa

(iMujer Otra Medicina)

Why is believed that white flour is better?

From advertising, we have believed that white flour is better than other flours, but it is time to break down that myth. The refined or white flour is more likely to cause heart diseases and overweight. Since there is not much information about wholemeal and, in many cases, is more expensive, it is preferred white, further its consider more tasty. Refined flour has no nutritional value adequate for feeding people, plus the fact that the process they use to make it white is not among the canons of health. It only provides carbohydrates that help store fat.

What happens when you eat white flour?

Medical studies say that the more refined flour you eat, your body will produce more insulin, which promotes fat storage. That is why you increase weight fast and not only that, but also triglyceride levels, leading to heart diseases. In the mean time, the pancreas has to work harder for insulin to form. When it fails in its function, the person begins to suffer from type 2 diabetes.

What does whole grain flour offers?

Wheat flour or whole grain wheat flour has a different but more concentrated and natural flavor. It provides vitamins, proteins and minerals. It is more nutritious than refined flour because it has no chemical bleaching process, which is why its color is brownish, like the cereals that are contained in it. By consuming whole grain your body receive selenium, iron and calcium, and all the protein and fiber from wheat germ.

The benefits of Yoga

By: Lucía Vázquez

(iMujer Otra Medicina)

Yoga is not a sport. It involves much more than physical exercise: also a mental and spiritual wellbeing. Practicing yoga allows us to be healthier in every way, avoiding many problems and diseases from the first moment we took a class.

After a class

After your first yoga class you will improve your brain function: Just 20 minutes can increase your cognitive ability, concentration and memory. Decreases stress in the body, which also generates a smaller building proteins responsible for inflammation. And last but not least, a Norwegian study says yoga can alter gene expression in immune cells, allowing us to be more protected against diseases.

After a few months

After a few months of practicing yoga regularly, we note that our blood pressure is lower, especially if you suffer from moderate hypertension. The difference is also seen with other sports such as walking.

Research has found that, after practicing yoga for 15 weeks, it significantly improves lung capacity allowing to reach the maximum amount of air in the lungs after inhalation.

Yoga may also be good for your sexual health: increases arousal, desire, orgasm and sexual satisfaction. In women, yoga helps us to rediscover our sexuality.

Reduces chronic neck pain and back with just a month of practice.

 After a few years

If you have spent years practicing yoga, the body changes are large and very beneficial: you will reach old age with strong bones, as it prevents the loss of bone density. Not only avoids losing bone minerals, but we gain more by practicing yoga for at least two years. Besides, it helps us along life when we need to lose weight and stay in appropriate levels of body mass, regardless of how old we are. And yoga is part of a healthy life, reduces the risk of cardiovascular diseases, keeping the heart healthy by lowering cholesterol, blood pressure and controlling blood sugar levels.

5 ways to listen better

Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better

In our louder and louder world, says sound expert Julian Treasure, "We are losing our listening." In this short, fascinating talk, Treasure shares five ways to re-tune your ears for conscious listening — to other people and the world around you.

The Massage as Somatic Experience

Por: Denisse Cárdenas Landeros
(Práctica Somática. Masaje y Conciencia Corporal)
Video: Gabriela Domínguez Ruvalcaba
(Bosque Negro)

"Somatic comes from the word somma which means alive body, that is constructed from the perception of itself.

The aim of Massage as Somatic Experience consists in contacting the person with his own inner wealth, to enable him to build new ways of learning through the art of touch, visualization and motion, allowing him to expand its possibilities of action and relationship between different strata of his being: physical, mental, emotional, energetic, spiritual, and be able to dance life in all its expressions."

How to cure uric acid

Vía Alimentación Sana

What is uric acid ?

These are substances mainly formed in the liver from animal cell nuclei as meat or fish, and which are eliminated through the urine.

What happens is that if the consumption of meat is excessive, then it is not completely removed and gets accumulated in the cartilage, producing annoying and painful diseases such as gout.

What's most important is what we eat.

Preferably consuming:

• Vegetables: carrots, squash, beets, celery, onion, garlic, potato, sweet potato, turnip, watercress, cucumber; it's better if it's all raw.
• Fruits: peaches, bananas, grapes, raisins, fig, dried fig, orange, grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, watermelon, cantaloupe.
• Water / liquid: - about 3 liters a day - We recommend drinking mineral and alkalizing waters. Purpose: To dilute the urine, reduce infections and treat obstructive lesions.

Recommended Infusions: artichoke, fennel roots and roots abrupt. Sweeten with honey.

Lemon Cure

In addition to undergo a strict vegetarian diet until the condition disappears, you will need to drink plenty of fruit juices and vegetables during the day.

Lemon juice helps to significantly eliminate uric acid.

To do this we must squeeze a lemon and drink it every morning during 21 days straight. You should not drink all at once like a glass of water is taken, but it must be drunk slowly, mixing it with saliva before swallowing, so it reaches the stomach being wrapped in saliva and it's easier to assimilate.

Consume with moderation:

• Roasts: fish, poultry, rabbit asparagus , peanuts, legumes, mushrooms, spinach .

Contra Indicated:

• Coffee and tea
• Alcoholic beverages
• Cola drinks and carbonated beverages
• Food meats: sausages, mortadella, salami, ham.
• Seafood: flounder, sardines, shellfish, anchovies, herring.
• Mackerel Meat: beef and pork, goat, lamb, bacon, extracts or meat sauces, diced beef broth.
• Other: mayonnaise, soups industrialized.

Gout  Natural Medicine Treatment:

Geoterapia - . During the crisis, taking clay foot baths incorporating a decoction of 200 gr. flower hay in a liter of water and other decoction of 200 gr. oat straw in another liter of water. Hot foot bath at 42 ° C. for 15 to 30 minutes.

Green juicing

Drinking green juices is really good for our body because of all the vitamins, minerals and nutrients that the raw fruits and vegetables have. It gives us energy, helps us detox, makes our body more alcaline. Since everything is completely natural, it helps our organs to stay healthy, to avoid diseases and strenghten our cells. Many health coaches recommend that we should drink at least one green juice a day to gain all these benefits. It's worth to try it.

In this video you can see how to make a green juice.

Lemon and sugar: natural exfoliation

By: Adriana Alcol

(El Blog de Aromas y Sueños)

BENEFITS OF LEMON:

Helps unify skin tone, clarifying sunspots

Works against acne

It is antibacterial and astringent

Helps soften the signs of expression and the first wrinkles

Perfect for oily skins

BENEFITS OF SUGAR :

It acts as a natural exfoliant

Helps remove dead cells from the face, neck and chest

INSTRUCTIONS:

After washing the face perfectly, take a cotton pad and dip it in water. Then apply a few drops of lemon -6 to 8- and cover it up with sugar, just a thin layer, and spread it evenly over the face using small circular motions, gently but letting sugar work as an exfoliant on the forehead, nose, cheeks and chin, never in the eye area. If you feel your skin reacts well, you can do it again the same way a second time.

Leave on the mixture for 20 minutes and then with the wet sponge begins to remove the mask until your face is completely clean. To end this routine, clear your face with cold water to help further minimize your pores. Dry carefully your face with a towel.

Your face will feel much smoother and clean. As a final recommendation, try to make this mask twice a week and at night, to avoid makeup after this homemade exfoliating mask. 

Allergies: an inmmunological tantrum

By: Dr. Gabriel Óscar Bertona
"The Symptom and its Function", December 2011

What are allergies?

Specialists refer there are several reasons that favor the increase of allergic diseases in our time, first the urbanization and environmental pollution, changes in pollination (global warming), the largest number of cesareans and colonization ( by normal bacterial flora) conditioning the inmune response, the absence or reduced breastfeeding (ideally exclusively until 6 months to one and a half year) Also affecting the amount of antibodies, and / or early weaning (the passage of food based on milk solids) before 6 months, increasing the passage of allergens (substances that cause an exaggerated response of the immune system).

All this should make us think about our society and what we build every day, and the importance of consciousness from conception and at every stage of the first year of life, which is so important for the maturation of the immune system.

Like all diseases, allergy reflects an aspect of personality, an attitude towards life, where we do not recognize, we deny ourselves, and get sick because of that, we restricte our freedom and creative expression in life. Reflects different degrees of intolerance, scandal, immunological and psychological tantrums, irritability, perfectionism, pride, denial of one's mistakes, and, as in other cases, the higher is the intensity of the resistance to change, the higher is the symptom intensity.

What heals allergies?

If the problem is things I perceive as terrible, that enervate me, I can not stand, unthinkable, me or others, and over time I become intolerant and arrogant then, the kit against allergies must contain acceptance, openness, toleration, respect to diversity, noting the contributions of all to unity, humility, compassion, soften, permission to err , warn mistakes as sacred evolutionary possibilities, stop competing or perceiving myself as superior from the others, stop pretending "to change" the world and instead take care of improving myself, get out of the solitude of " my truth " and open up to the diversity of particular truths, etc.

Let's not resign ourselves to be "allergic", as this can be fraught with stigma and grave. Allergy is an attitude and, as everything in life, is susceptible to change and a process of transformation as profound as we encourage and commit with ourselves.

Best desserts in the world

Desserts are always a delight for the palate. Without abusing the consumption of sugar and flour, it's always good to give us these little pleasures that stimulate and generate welfare to our body. Here are some of the best desserts in the world:

Apfelstrudel (Austria)

Crema Catalana (Cataluyna)

Gelato (Italy)

Cheesecake (United States)

Baklava (Turkey)

Alfajores (Argentina)

Waffles (Belgium)

Tarte Tatín (France)

Victoria Sponge Cake (England)

Exercise the memory

(IMujer Vivir Salud)

Memory is very important to retain past experiences, so that we remember what we have learned and we can move forward. In fact, memory is essential in our daily life, because it serves to remind issues like: where we put our keys, the appointment of your son, the anniversary date or remembering objects. But how do we help our brain? There are some games that can be very fun and useful for this. 

The link below is a very simple game, but challenging game, try it!

LIGHTS OUT (Memory Game)

Good luck!

Rebuilding tissues

Behold, a "ghost heart!" All of the living cells have been washed off this pig heart, so it can provide a scaffolding for human stem cells to grow a new, working heart. So far, scientists at the Texas Heart Institute have successfully implanted tissue-engineered hearts like this one into rats and pigs, and they hope to someday do the same in humans. Read about this and other bio-engineering experiments in the new TED Book, “Super Cells.” Photo courtesy of RMR Labs, Texas Heart Institute.

Peter Attia: What if we were wrong about diabetes?

Both a surgeon and a self-experimenter, Peter Attia hopes to ease the diabetes epidemic by challenging what we think we know and improving the scientific rigor in nutrition and obesity research.

TED TALKS

Places you should visit before you die

By: Cultura Colectiva

Photos: quora.com

Here are some wonderful places that are worth to visit at least once in life:

Antelope Canyon in Arizona, United States

Mount Roraima in Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana

To Sua Ocean Trench Lotofaga in the village on the south coast of Upolu Samoa

Gansu Zhangye Danxia relief in China

Sea the Stars on the island in the Maldives Vaadhoo

Fields of tulips in Holland

Klevan Tunnel of Love in Ukraine

Parque Hitachi Seaside en Hitachinaka Ibaraki, Japón

Butter vs. margarine

Comparison:

• Both have the same amount of calories.
• Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams for margarine.
• Eating margarine instead of butter can increase by 53 % the risk of coronary heart disease in women, according to a recent medical study at the University of Harvard.
• Eating butter increases the absorption of many nutrients found in other foods.
• Butter has many nutritional benefits while margarine has a few only because they are added.
• Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods. 
• Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has less than 100 years.

More about margarine:

• It is very high in transgenic fatty acids. (Yes, those which scientists discovered recently that are terrible and some governments began banning).
• Triples risk of coronary heart disease.
• Increases total cholesterol and LDL (bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL (good cholesterol).
• Increases fivefold cancer risk.
• Lowers quality of breast milk.
• Decreases immune response of the organism.
• Decreases insulin reaction.

And here's the most disturbing factor: Margarine is just ONE MOLECULE far for being PLASTIC!

This fact alone is sufficient to avoid using margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, which changes the molecular structure of substances).

(www.veinformativo.org)

Listening to color

Artist Neil Harbisson was born completely color blind, but these days a device attached to his head turns color into audible frequencies. Instead of seeing a world in grayscale, Harbisson can hear a symphony of color -- and yes, even listen to faces and paintings.

He is the first cyborg in the world recognized by a goverment.

(www.ted.com)

Before and after drugs consumption

Photographic project: Roman Sakovich

Article: Giancarlo

(www.culturacolectiva.com)

According to photographer Roman Sakovich, based in the UK, the interesting thing about drugs is not only what you experience inside when eating them, but the visible traces they left in the body. It was thus decided to create his Half photographic project, in which the effect of addiction are shown, in particular the effects of methamphetamine or meth.

In the photographic series, half of the body represents a healthy person, and half reveals the physical appearance acquired by individuals who abuse these substances. The effects achieved are not made by editing computer, but by careful and well-managed use of makeup and lighting.

Beyond the obvious deterioration of addicts, this series also creates a reflexion on the radically different way in which society tends to judge a person before and after an addiction. The subject continues to be a person with more aspects in his life that only the physical appearance and habits.

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Foot reflexology

By: Sonia Martínez

(Calma, Equilibrio y Bienestar Terapias)

Foot reflexology is an ancient technique. Over 5,000 years ago was known in places like China or Egypt. This technique consists in pressuring points on the sesnsitive channel (known as Red Zonal by Dr. William Fitzgerald) that connect the foot with each specific organ. Working on these points can help to prevent and improve our overall health.

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The best breakfasts in the world

By: Mónica Careaga

(www.culturacolectiva.com)

There are many benefits associated with taking the most important meal of the day: breakfast. A balanced breakfast is health issue but also a cultural issue that integrates food groups that illustrate the flavors of a country.

Israel

Denmark

Japan

Hawaii

Morocco

India

Malaysia

Italy

Scotland

Portugal

See more: 50 best breakfasts in the world