Fit maker Fruit and Vegetables

Fit maker Fruit and Vegetables:

Five servings a day - so you go!
The more fruits and vegetables, the better for your health. Experts recommend at least five servings daily. How does it work in everyday life? Tips and recipes can be found here

Studies have shown who regularly greater quantities of fruit and vegetables eaten, reduces risk for cancer, diabetes, obesity or heart disease. Fruit and vegetables are rich in so-called secondary plant substances. The highly helpers to health in many ways. Known representatives are, for example, carotenoids in carrots, polyphenols in grapes, Sulfides in garlic, glucosinolates in cabbage or terpenes in citrus fruits.

To the best possible health effects, we should at least five daily servings of fruit and vegetables to eat. The nutrition experts recommend and leading health organizations like the American Society for Nutrition and the American Cancer Society. These are also members of the health campaign "5 a day", which is for a higher fruit and vegetable consumption committed.

It is also important for the varieties from to change. The more different secondary plant substances we take with us, the better the protective effect. But secondary plant substances are not the only maker Fit: Fruit and vegetables also provide valuable vitamins, minerals and fibre.

How much is a serving?

Five servings a day - that sounds complicated, but it is quite simple. Adults should daily total of about 600 grams of fruit and vegetables to eat, ideally to 3 servings of vegetables and 2 servings of fruit. That does not mean that the amount to five servings split. The decisive factors are the total of 600 grams. The practical measure of a serving is one's own hand: 5 servings = 5 times a "handful". Thus, each of the quantities it needs.

1 portion of fruit or vegetables is, for example:
-- 1 apple, 1 orange or 1 banana (1 handful of large, whole fruit)
-- 2 small hands full fruits such as berries, grapes
-- 1 handful of an crushed vegetables as 1 kohlrabi or fennel bulb, 1 large tomato
-- 2 hands full salad or crushed vegetables (Broccoli sprouts, Brussels sprouts)
-- 1 handful of dried legumes (lentils, beans)

A portion of fresh fruit, you can also times against 1 / 2 handful of (25 g) dried fruit exchange. In addition, a glass of fruit or vegetable juice - preferably freshly squeezed - one of the 5 servings replace. Also nuts in small quantities (1 / 2 handful of equivalent to about 25 g) may occasionally 1 portion cover.

Tips for every day

The first portion, you can easily with breakfast. Do you eat a cereal with 1 apple, 1 orange or 1 banana. Muesli muffel can also her favorite sandwich and enjoy a glass of orange juice supplement or 1 handful of fresh fruit to eat. Morning session covers a sandwich with 1 handful of Nibblers vegetables (carrot, cucumber slices, tomato) the second portion. You can lunch with crispy vegetables or salad again one to two servings. Simply doubling the portion of vegetables that you eat anyway. After lunch provides a further portion of fruit. Are you pure too boring, mix it with yogurt or curd. At night you have a salad, vegetable soup or a fresh Nibblers vegetables reached your target - without weighing and measuring. Do it simply, as much as possible to eat vegetables, as a supplement or main dish, but also as Nibblers raw vegetables or salad.

Make sure you have colorful variety. In winter, frozen vegetables also a valuable alternative to fresh vegetables. It is fine for quick vegetable dishes, soups, sauces and on raunds. Desserts such as milk or rice pancakes are great with fresh or frozen fruit operation.

Do something very quickly, are also ready meals. A lush occupied vegetable pizza or a vegetable dish from the freezer can also contributed to the daily ration vegetables.

Facial masks for skin care for every skin

Facial masks for skin care for every skin
Facial masks for skin care, always at night about 20 minutes down so the skin after treatment recovery in sleep. Before you start, you should use the facial skin and to return the neck, with hot compresses 5-10 minutes to prepare something. The application of face mask for skin care is done with a wide, flat and soft brush. During the duration of your face mask should be relaxed sleep. Subsequently, the face mask carefully with lukewarm water spotted, washed and the skin with a mild skin spoils.

Cucumber mask for your skin care as a facial mask
Simply cucumber slices on the face lay because of the many vitamins and minerals particularly good at pick liger and oily skin. Allow about 20 minutes with action, the cucumber slices only decrease, not wash. This face mask, you can repeat as often as you like.




Carrots mask for your skin care as a facial mask
Rubbing two carrots and mix it with a egg EL and a potato flour. Fill in the pack immediately. This mask does any good skin. Then, only then warm and cold wash. This face mask, you can repeat as often as you like.

Wholly mask for your skin care as a facial mask
Suitable for all skin types (except for very dry skin) is a face mask from a well-ver quirlten whole.

Quark parsley pack for your skin care as facial mask
In fleckiger, geroteter, easily infected skin or pimples. Three EL curd cream (or thick natural yoghurt or milk) with a half cup of finely chopped parsley and stir 20 minutes to take effect.

Healing earth mask for your skin care
A facial mask from healing earth is suitable for oily, large poor owned skin and for women over 40 very good. EL a healing earth with a teaspoon honey and a little juice from fresh cucumbers and carrots (or with hot water) to a spread capable mash. For washing enter the water a little lemon juice to do so.

Almond bran mask for your skin care
For oily skin with pimples inclination stir two EL Almon Bran with chamomile tea from a tough paste and warm to wear.

Herbal mask for your skin care as a facial mask
In impure skin with clogged pores of pouring two EL chamomile blossom and with Hay Flowers quarter liter boiling water and leave 20 minutes. The herbs you as hot as it tolerated in the face and covered his face with a linen cloth that you previously dipped in the South.

Yeast mask for your skin care as a facial mask
30 g fresh yeast with lukewarm milk into a thick mass stirred, applied and solidify. Then rub in small circles the floor again and massage gently to the facial skin. Wash hot and cold. In impure skin can be applied several times a week.

Banana quark-pack for your skin care
Especially for dry skin, and spans. Three EL curd cream with half a crushed banana mix, if necessary, a yolk about 20 minutes to take effect.

Yolk mask for your skin care as a facial mask
Lack of sensitivity value for dry skin is a face mask from an egg yolk, with a teaspoon cooking oil and 5 drops of lemon juice stirred.

Linseed mask for your skin care as a facial mask
A cup of linseed speed with water to mash stirred sources and 10 minutes left. Then a little water until the Shortlist well paste. This mask is good for dry and aging skin.

Sunflower mask for your skin care as a facial mask
In fine, dry skin with wrinkles inclination shape of one large cotton swab a face mask from which you openings for the mouth, nose and eyes cut. The sun warmed in a water bath, soak the cotton and put it firmly on the face and leave half an hour there. Cotton remains dab, face not wash.

Camomile bran mask for your skin care as a facial mask
Is suitable for every skin type, gives the skin a fresh complexion. Two EL chamomile blossoms are in 50 ml of hot milk quarter hour left draw. Then From sifted and expressed the flowers. Now the Camomile heats and a half teaspoon of honey is dissolved. Enter a EL Oat Bran about everything and stir to a smooth mash. Enter the pulp in the cleaned facial skin and make a quarter of an hour there.

Yogurt mask for your skin care
A mask made from natural yoghurt makes your tired skin and rosy tightens them. Twice a week you can face mask.

Medicines Check: Detailed information on bills and side effects of medicinal 100,000 packs

Medicines Check:
Detailed information on bills and side effects of medicinal 100,000 packs
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Reflex Therapy: Full pressure relax

Reflex Therapy:
Full pressure relax
A targeted massage between toe and heel, Spann and sole can alleviate complaints
Foot reflexology


Monika B. Wies bathe suffered from constantly under school. Therefore, the doctor rubbed her physiotherapy applications. "How is that for?" Asked the 53-year-old office clerk. Finally, did their every touch in the area very hurt. The physician knew Council and gave her the address of a foot reflexology hera peutin.

In fact devoted to the physiotherapist Sigrid Klotzbach not the same Monika B's shoulders, but, after a detailed discussion of their patient's feet in their hands.
"A patient with shoulder problems no direct movement or touch, I first foot reflexology treatments to the acute something to alleviate pain," says Klotzbach doing so. In 70 to 80 percent of such cases, it has a success and can then proceed with the actual treatment.

Millennia old therapy

In many ancient cultures recorded on stone tablets about the Maya and in records of traditional Chinese medicine, found the first traces of this therapy. The American physician Dr. William Fitzgerald (1872 to 1942), the method at the beginning of the 20th Century in the western world. Today, especially the foot reflexology treatments, such as the nurse and masseuse Hanne Marquardt developed 50 years ago, supporters in physiotherapy and natural healing practices and clinics.

In this method, users will assume that our entire body with all its internal organs, tissues and regulatory processes reflected in our feet. For example, the toes to the head area assigned spaces between the toes correspond to the upper Lymphwegen of the head and neck. About the big toe bales therapists encourage the trachea and oesophagus. And where the little toe in the mid-foot bones transferred, there is contact with the shoulder area.

Different attacks

From heel to toe, from sole to Spann assessed and handled the foot reflexology therapists also with different grips and more or less strong pressure to the individual body regions. "In an initial investigation, we first determine how the tissue and skin at the foot feel, and the patient tells us when and where the pressure he experienced as painful," says therapist Klotz bach.

Following a detailed "walk diagnosis of" trying to professionals in the subsequent therapy hours, the prominent institutions and sectors within the assigned areas on foot to stimulate or calm. Frequently This way you can disturbances favors able influence, sometimes even disappear. Above all, doctors want the self-healing powers of their patients. Physiotherapists as Sigrid Klotzbach, however, also pointed out that this work at the foot often a useful and complementary measure, but no diagnosis from a doctor.

The application range of supportive therapy is wide. This allows them to problems during the menstrual help, such as painful or heavy bleeding and relieve headaches. About feet trying to therapists, the endocrine system disorders as well cycle to fix. "Foot reflexology treatments can also facilitate the birth," notes Klotzbach. Not least because she spasmolytic and relaxing. Digestive complaints and mild disorders of the urinary bladder emptying are other areas where this method has proved its worth.

VITAMINS REDUCE RISK OF HEART ATTACK !

Vitamins reduce risk of heart attack
Vitamins protect the heart. Anyone who regularly or occasionally to vitamins to take, reduced risk of a heart attack to get. This is the positive result of a study of Swedish scientists.

They regularly take multi-vitamins? Good thing, because according to a recent study, people rarely get a heart attack, which regularly or occasionally even the daily dose necessary to take vitamins. This effect seems even independent of other lifestyle habits proceedings: Neither the rich consumption of fruit and vegetables still sporting activities or the smoking habits played a major role.


This was a study of Swedish researchers with about 3,000 participants. Of these, suffered a total of 1,296 (386 women and 910 men) first time a heart attack, but they survived. 42 percent of women and only 27 percent of men had regularly or occasionally used vitamins. In the comparison group with 1,685 participants who had no heart attack, attacked more volunteers to food supplements. 57 percent of women and 35 percent of men said they at least occasionally to take vitamins. Eight out of ten study participants took on multi-vitamins.

Here again shows that women tend to greater health awareness than men.

With one stroke, everything is different

With one stroke, everything is different

Risk factors for stroke: alcohol, smoking, excess weight The Stroke is the third leading cause of death. Alcohol, smoking and greasy food in excess favour the disease. The proper recognition of symptoms can be decisive.

That Helfried S. chosen this morning had a massage appointment, was his luck: While the 65-year-old from Ginsheim-Gustavsburg waited, he suddenly felt his left arm and leg no longer. He was very bad and dizzy and his left side was completely deaf. At rising almost umgefallen he would be and could only call for help. The physiotherapist thought immediately to a stroke and called the ambulances and rescue vehicles, so that Helfried p. 20 minutes later already on the way to the clinic. The ambulances had by telephone the hospital informed, a neurologist team waited already on the 67-year-olds.

Upon arrival in the clinic was his left side still completely paralyzed - a life-threatening situation! Now had everything very quickly. Even during the X-ray examination of the head doctors decide on the further therapy. Because the stroke has been confirmed, a small blood clot has a closed artery in the brain. A part of the brain was no longer flow, which had caused the paralysis. With a special drug, the clot dissolved. Helfried S. was on the Stroke Unit brought a special station for stroke patients. His heart rate and blood pressure were continuously monitored, the drug (lysis) drips slowly into his vein. He was afraid his arm and his leg never be able to move, but after two hours returned slowly the feeling back and a few hours later, he was able to actually move everything back to normal and was overjoyed.

He has really lucky, so fast in the clinic came to be. It remained only a small movement disorder in her left hand. Intensive researched the doctors to the cause of the stroke, including an ultrasound examination of the neck vessels. The right main artery to the brain showed a significant calcification of the vessel einengte. A small clot occurred since the closure and as a result of the stroke. As could happen at any time, has p. Helfried a few days later undergo an operation in which a vessel to fix the artery has been extended. Also which he has recovered well and must now return home.

BEATIFUL : NATURAL COSMETICS

beautiful: Natural Cosmetics


Back to nature! Here you will find everything you always on natural cosmetics wanted to know. Plus: creams and masks to do the best products for the summer and a natural beauty quiz!


What it may be, what is not?
Natural beauty is just what okos? From reason! Organic beauty products are cool, modern and yet at the same time protect the environment and animals! But not everything was "natural" schimpft, is also of course! A single legal definition of what falls under natural cosmetics, and what not, there are still not. Grob is but natural cosmetics should be completely synthetic fragrance, color and preservatives renounce and gentle to man and environment. Animal experiments are absolutely taboo!

Controls and found
Beautiful skin and a clear conscience! All those who really want to go safe, according to the BDIH seal-quality look. This is supported by the Federal Association of German industrial and trading companies for medicines, health products, dietary supplements and personal care products (short BDIH) award and writes standards for the collection and production of Naturkosmeitk raw materials and their processing. Products with the BDIH seal, for example, by Alverde, Weleda, Schaebens and Avalon.

Do it yourself!
Even natural is really no longer: Make sure their natural beauty! Especially for women, who tend to allergies, very good. Because as you yourself determine what ingredients their creams, shampoos and shower gels, and combine only those substances which are tolerated for their skin.

Who do your own cosmetics in major producing style will be a very precise measuring scales, measuring spoons, measuring cups, glass cups and spatula as basic equipment growth. Recipes and literature on the topic can be found in any bookstore. (such as "cosmetic macherei: In an eye to its own cream" by Petra Doleschalek, Books on Demand or "natural cosmetics to feel good. The principles of natural personal care" by Maria Pieper, Brandstätter). The necessary ingredients and fragrances are available in drugstores, health stores or via the Internet
Curious? On the next page you'll find some recipes for a simpler explanation face water and caregivers face masks that you easily can produce. Just the refrigerator raid and the next pharmacy or reform the house to visit…