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Natural Anti Depressants

“The natural antidepressants” are foods that improve your mood thanks to the substances they contain. Foods to improve mood are a natural choice, safe and nutritious to recharge our body energy.El such accelerated pace of life, stress makes it sometimes lack the encouragement, it is in a worse mood. In Living healthy natural antidepressants we will improve welfare.
Ham: A protein-rich food source of vitamin B12. Low levels of vitamin B12 are associated with depression. Other foods rich in vitamin B12, liver, red meat, milk and dairy products, fish, clams, oysters. As with folic acid, decreased levels of B12 have been linked to depression.
Omega-3. The Omega-3 fatty acids present in foods like tuna, sardines, mackerel, salmon, soybeans are ideal to lift the spirits. It has shown a clear relationship of low levels of Omega-3 and depression.
Dairy products in general and dairy type probiotics (as Actimell). Dairy products contain whey protein which is beneficial to improve mood and enhances memory. The milk prebiotics has live bacteria that are very important to maintain our defenses.
Dance Therapy

In dance therapy, the body becomes the instrument from which one learns to be comfortable in his skin, leaving his head to find the energy of the child. Dance therapy is the awareness of self and the release of tension and dispute named in memory of the body. Physically, it improves circulation, coordination and muscle tone. Mentally and emotionally, it strengthens assertiveness, revives the intellectual capacity and creativity, and can meet emotions sometimes difficult to verbally express anger, frustration, feelings of isolation, etc..
A dynamic therapy
A session of dance therapy is conducted individually or in groups in a place that resembles a dance studio to a therapist’s office. At the first meeting, the therapist seeks to establish the motives and objectives of the process, then it continues with dance and movement. The movements can be improvised or not, and vary the style of the therapist. The music is not always present in groups, it can be a unifying element, but the silence encourages the pace of research in itself.
Californian massage

Californian massage is a holistic approach that focuses as much relaxation as the awakening of a psycho-consciousness. This massage uses long, slow and fluid movements that allow a deep physical and mental relaxation.
Starting with gentle stroking, enveloping and relaxing, laborers are linked and improved to ease tensions deeper. This can raise and release hidden emotions, embodied in the bodily memory. Over the massed person surrenders to the experience, the more it appears that the Californian massage called touching the heart.
Californian massage appeared in the early 1970s, at the time of the emergence of therapy groups which had precedence over development of human potential, the expression of feelings and mind-body connection. The Institute Esalen1 a growth center located in Big Sur in California, then brought together many researchers who contributed greatly to this current of thought. Various forms of therapy and several physical techniques are born.
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Meditation antidote to aging

How aging slower? The systemic aging.
Reflections on Aging and its antidote meditation. Aging in the jargon of systems is the “entropy”.
Everything is deteriorating, the fire goes out, rust corrodes, time flies, old age we win!
The entropy is: – everything has an end – time is irreversible. Degradation, loss of material and information becomes irreversible and death is certain!
But the systems approach also recognizes that life resists entropy, through the uptake of circulating information (negentropy). Capturing the energy circulating, this is done by meditating on the present moment. Through meditation, we can give a positive dynamic in our lives, to resist …
Meditation, improve the quality of self

In life, everything goes back to the outside world: our senses, the others work, romance and nothing brings us back inside ourselves. Understanding this means understanding the value of meditation.
It is us and only us, we can find peace, deep relaxation, peace and true love.
These qualities can not come from money, social recognition or love partner.
Basically, we all know, but we forget so often!
Please understand that meditation has nothing to do with the life of a monk or ascetic who seeks to cut the world as is too often perceived. This is not a creed or religion. You do not need to change your life for you to open meditation. Meditation is a quality in you that is simply a party or otherwise stated an internal vigilance and mindfulness in the present moment.
The Secondhand Smoke

A danger to your health and your family
In the early twentieth century, the popularity took snuff being strongly promoted by the big tobacco companies offering free cigarettes to soldiers, achieving great popularity among the soldiers of World War II. But it was Second hand smoke and your familyhasta 1950 that became known the negative effects that smoking causes health of people. What is alarming is that smoking not only harms the person smoking, causing lung cancer, emphysema and heart failure, among other chronic diseases, but also causes irreversible damage to the people around who are passive smokers, those who know as secondhand smoke. It is estimated that in 2000 there were 4.9 million deaths caused by secondhand smoke, so it is important to know the problems it caused to our families.
Passive smoking are the people who breathe in the smoke from a burning cigarette or the smoke from the smoker. This smoke is dangerous because it contains over 4,000 chemicals, of which most are toxic substances that can cause different types of cancer. The secondhand smoke not only causes problems for adults, harms children and during pregnancy affects the mother and baby.
Neo-Reichian Massage
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The neo-Reichian massage is a holistic approach that allows to recognize the link between physical sensations and emotional experience. It aims to release muscle tension recorded in the memory of the body and refine the consciousness of “self.”
The interaction with the therapist and integrating body / emotions are paramount in this approach. It is through this experience that the subject can reactivate or verbalize his emotions or repressed unconscious. The therapist and the person being massaged therefore working together in order to resolve the tension and release the emotional charge, among others, by working on breathing. The technique is derived from the work of Dr. Wilhelm Reich1 (1897-1957), Austrian physician and psychoanalyst, considered one of the pioneers of psycho-therapy.
Therapeutic applications of neo-Reichian massage
According to the Quebec Federation of massage therapist, the neo-Reichian massage is indicated for people who suffer from back pain or headaches, insomnia, anxiety, digestive problems, symptoms of sciatica, burnout or simply feel the need to be affected. In addition, as part of a psycho-exploration, this type of massage can cause the person to realize the links that exist between muscle tension and emotional or psychological problems.
Regarding evidence, it appears that no clinical trials have been conducted to assess the specific effects of neo-Reichian massage. By cons, many studies confirm the effectiveness of massage in general to relieve many ailments.
Effects of caffeine

Caffeine is a substance found naturally in various foods such as coffee beans, tea leaves and cocoa. It is also incorporated into various foods such as soft drinks, energy drinks, sweets, as well as several drugs, including those intended to relieve symptoms of colds and flu.
Caffeine has properties of stimulating the central nervous system and cardiovascular system. It spreads rapidly in all body tissues including the brain.
Determination
Alertness, cognitive performance and fatigue
* It usually takes a dose of at least 60 mg of caffeine to get a significant effect that may last for several hours, but the major consumers of caffeine may need larger doses (200 mg or more) due to the phenomenon ‘addiction.
Prevention of Parkinson’s disease
* The consumption of about 100 mg to 200 mg of caffeine per day or more could help reduce the risk of being afflicted with this disease.
Trans fat in yogurt

Dairy products such as yogurt naturally contain small amounts of trans fat, about 2% to 5% of their total fat content. The digestive systems of ruminant animals have bacteria capable of producing this type of fat.
Yogurts found in grocery stores typically contain from 0% to 4% fat. This means that yogurt 100 g (equivalent of a small individual container) contains at most 0.2 grams of trans fat, compared to a donut, which contains up to 6 grams of trans fat . In Canada, we estimate the average intake of trans fat in adults, approximately 8 g jour27. Should consume daily the equivalent of 40 small yogurt with 4% fat to achieve that quantity. Yogurt contributes little to the total intake of trans fats in food.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the total amount of trans fat consumed each day should be less than 1% of daily calories. Thus, a person consumes about 2 000 calories a day should limit consumption of trans fats to 2 g.
Yoga

When we think of yoga, we all think this image of a concentrated, sitting against a wall in the lotus position and meditating deeply for hours. But yoga is not just a meditation practice during which performs physical contortions and figures imaginable. It is first and foremost a philosophy, a teaching that leads the individual to a healthy lifestyle and peaceful. Therefore it was exercised by the Indian yogis and Tibetan monks from more than 500 years BC. BC, before being transmitted from one generation to the common people through the sage. But it believes its origins over 5000 years.
The most important writings found reports of yogic precepts are the Bhagavad Gita, which means Song of God. It identified the different types of yoga and their individual philosophy. Even then, yoga was practiced according to the needs of various castes. Indulge in yogic thinking, meditation, yoga was available to the practitioner the means to achieve self-realization and absolute escape the cycle of reincarnation. It was a ticket to eternal rest in some way.