National Nursing Review : Nursing Study Resources & Health Tips

We all know the beneficial effects it brings to our bodies and drinking water. Experts recommend at least two liters a day. Well now also take advantage of its benefits as sewage, as it draws the toxins and as essential hydrating the body, a group of U.S. researchers have discovered that it is a perfect recipe for losing weight.

Brenda Davy, a researcher at the Department of Human Nutrition, Nutrition and Exercise at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg (Virginia) announced the results of a specialist who graduated as a very important finding, since she and her team managed show that drinking two glasses of water before meals to lose weight makes it easier for the elderly and middle aged. (more…)

It is common to hear that someone has a problem with his knee, familiar with terms such as sprains, cruciate ligament tears, meniscal injuries or osteoarthritis, but not always know which anatomical structure referred to the injury.

Here in general such as the knee joint, the largest of all the joints of the body. It connects the thigh and leg can be divided into two halves, an upper half, or femoral meniscal proximal and lower distal or meniscotibial.

They are part of this joint the distal femur, proximal tibia and patella. These bones are associated in close contact with each other. To ensure that contact between the surfaces produces a subtle movement and pain in the knee joint, like all the joint surfaces in the body, they use a very soft, whitish hyaline cartilage layer. (more…)

“Junk food” is something that young people love and can eat every day with no idea of the harm that this practice together with other bad habits can bring to your health.

Abuse of junk food and lack of physical activity, cause every day is more often the problem of high cholesterol in an age group that until very recently was not affected.

U.S. experts, after an investigation, say the health risks that can yield this behavior in youth aged 20 years who are faced with an elevated cholesterol level well above normal. (more…)

The regular intake of omega 3 promotes cell metabolism, reduce cholesterol, prevent clotting and the risk of cardiovascular disease. Studies show that consuming Omega 3 able to stabilize the heart muscle contraction and consequently decrease the mortality from cardiovascular problems and serious arrhythmias, which often have people with this type of ailment.

Are excellent for optimizing visual cognition and children as their mental and physical development. There are studies that have tested the effect of these fatty acids in areas such as vision, strength, intelligence and brain development.

The food should be not only balanced but also varied including all food groups that can provide the body essential nutrients like carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, fats, minerals and water. For athletes this food must meet certain deficiencies that result from the sport. (more…)

There are many people who have a life with little or no physical activity, staying most of the day sitting, this is called a sedentary lifestyle.

Most of them do not do physical activity because of time and that their work consuming much of the day and at night they are exhausted enough to want to at least do a walk of half hour.

There are people who dislike exercise directly, or go to the gym or practice any type of sport they prefer in their hours of rest, rest do just that, installed in front of the TV or computer and those who work through the Internet and who spend most of their time in front of the screen, say no strength left for another type of activity. (more…)

Brewer’s yeast is a natural product obtained from the dehydration of a fungus that bears the name of saccharomyces cerevisiae which lies at the bottom of the tanks that are used for ripening and storage of beer.

In addition to serving for the process of brewing is used in many other foods and beverages has an important nutritional value.

In general, the yeast is done in laboratories on the basis of yeast cultivation, thus achieving a pure state, so we should not be confused with the dried powder is used to ferment carbohydrates.

Although the basis of the yeast is beer, it contains no alcohol and no fat, has no starch, sugar, dyes, gluten or lactose, so it is advisable for them to consume people who have problems with lactose intolerance and celiac. (more…)

We’ve all heard of beta-carotene as a substance that helps get a great tan. However, this fat-soluble substance of the carotenoid family has other benefits for our health.

Beta carotene is a precursor of vitamin A and is characterized by a plant pigment yellow or orange tone that when ingested are converted into vitamin A in the liver and small intestine.

Foods rich in beta carotene have antioxidant properties that reduce the likelihood of developing cancer of the lung, mouth and stomach. Also, it has been shown that its active ingredients inhibit the growth of cancer cells and including the prostate. (more…)

A little less famous than vitamin A, B and C, vitamin K performs a limited task to work on our body’s blood clotting. Vitamin K is not known worldwide, but the lack of it can lead to serious consequences such as their presence helps prevent some types of tumors.

Known as menadione, was one of the vitamins that later was discovered by Heinrik Dam in 1929, when there was a hemorrhagic disease in chickens that were fed fat-free, being that they found a substance essential to regulate coagulation blood, which the scientist called Koagulation. This was the first time appeared vitamin K.

Today, there are three types of vitamin K: K1 the more effective find in abundance in vegetables, K2 is of animal origin and synthesize our body from bacteria found in the intestine. Finally, the K3, which is a variety developed in laboratory, or synthetic is used under prescription. (more…)

We all like chocolate, may be the black semi-sweet, milk or white is always welcome. Well, now there is one more reason to eat it by consciousness. Recent research, published in the journal BMC Medicine, have concluded that eating black chocolate helps reduce blood pressure in people with hypertension.

In reaching this conclusion, the researchers conducted a combination of the result obtained in 15 studies on the effects caused by the flavonoids on blood pressure and is the dilatation of blood vessels.

It should be noted that the study refers to the dark chocolate, one that has a high cocoa content and has a bitter taste. Therefore they should not be confused with those who are high in additives, milk and sugar, as these do not cause the same effect. (more…)

Heat stroke can cause death. As simple and clear cut it should be when talking about heat stroke, and it appears that we are not aware of all the dangers of sudden temperature changes in our body, specifically, rising temperatures may be real headaches and highly dangerous.

Moreover, one of its dangers is that we can be confused with heat stroke, and although they have similar effects, we must go much account, because it is much more dangerous than heat stroke, in fact, it is even possible to suffer a soon after suffering heat stroke, or push too hard the machine. (more…)