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The skin, hair and eyes are the most exposed to cold wind and the dryness of the atmosphere in the cold season, although not the only ones suffer, but the whole body, especially the airways, the which must adapt and acclimate to the cold weather to resent not severely. And to keep the body well nourished and with requertimentos needed for the cold season, it is necessary among other things, that our immune system estefuerte and healthy, so you can help the body adapt to the time necessary requerimento .

The winter diet

And the first thing is to start a good diet:

1. FATS: Fats are less dear friends from many diets because they believe they are harmful and only cause weight gain, cellulite and pimples. However, fats are essential for body functions, especially the heart and brain, and the cold season, fat is necessary for the skin and the hair will require more in this kind of weather. So what should you care is included in the diet of vegetable fats (charities) and those containing almonds, walnuts, pine nuts, sunflower seeds, olive oil, etc.. Read the rest of this entry »

Dry skin is a common ailment suffered by many people, which results in several events such as flaky skin, red, wrinkled, irritated, dermatitis, rashes, etc.. Itching, redness and burning of the dry zone are some of the symptoms and emotions presentan.

In the past we have given advice on how to soothe the skin by natural means, and we talked about the importance of certain habits such as eating fresh food and varied, applied natural masks, exfoliate the skin to help cell regeneration and cleaning habits have and the good rest, as the latter area to help the skin to restore and regenerate.

Sometimes proper diet (not eating cow’s milk and refined sugar among the most important tips to heal the skin), combined with healthy habits intelligent are full of patience, are sufficient to largely restore the health of the dermis. However, if set all these efforts with the act of entering ourselves to eradicating the root causes major upset of the dermis, we get a really successful and permanent cure. Read the rest of this entry »

Sunlight produces infrared (heat), visible light (colors), ultraviolet (UVA, UVB) that cause tanning and cellular changes that predispose to cancer. This radiation is greatest between 10 am and 4 pm. At this time the level of UV radiation is larger, more aggressive and carcinogenic.

Taking the Sun

A tan is a defense mechanism of the skin as it acts in a UV filter. Sun exposure in normal skin should be performed 10 minutes of exposure increasing every day since the first one not to exceed 15 minutes, avoiding the midday hours. At 10 days the skin will be ready to withstand the sun without any problems other than accumulation of solar radiation (important for preventing skin cancer). Read the rest of this entry »

Malaria is a disease transmitted by the bite of a mosquito, which affects most countries with tropical climate.

Malaria is a disease caused by the Plasmodium parasite is usually transmitted by the bite of certain mosquitoes infected female.

Half of world population 2500 million people live at risk of contracting the disease.

Between 300 and 500 million people become ill with malaria each year and kills about 3 million each year, every minute, for 3-5 children die of malaria. Read the rest of this entry »

For many men, physical beauty with just about everything under the skin. Of course, having a good muscle mass and little fat is essential to display a harmonious body and in tune. But while paying attention to the skin, is a mistake that could neutralize all these other virtues

The industry has seen these changes, what has tried to intensify the marketing process with a change based on feminine connotations of such products, mainly through the names “macho.” In this way, we can see on the shelves of the supermarket or any perfumery, such as a moisturizer for the face Polo, Safari glycerin soap, or apply for grain cleaning and black spots, “special” skin oils men.

So, thanks for the purpose of marketing and changes of biases in many of the men last year was estimated that in the United States, the market for this type of special products for males moved a total of U $ S 3.3 billion in annual turnover. Read the rest of this entry »

When does the heat is good time to get into action and improve skin texture.

When the heat starts, we begin to take our clothes off, and discovered the problems left by the winter dry skin, cracked hands and feet and calluses, extra kilos, etc. Then it is good time to get into action and improve the texture of the skin preparing it for a tan even and hair care before the sun to reach it. But be careful, because this is not achieved with one day of treatment, but steadily, day by day, we reach the summer in top form.

Body Skin

In winter, the skin becomes thickened, therefore a polish for the summer. This is for a dry massage can be done at home, filling the imitating a steam sauna, and stay there for 15 minutes. After making plant with a glove upward circular motions from the feet to the neck. Read the rest of this entry »

For years and years we rarely think about wrinkles until it is reflected in the mirror and too late to prevent them. The correct obsession with quick action products instant visible results, reveals that prevention has not been part of our culture. Yet prevention is the key to minimizing the signs of aging of the largest organ of our body, the skin.

Although the way in which each age is due in large part to genetic factors, the acceleration of this process also is caused primarily by a few bad habits such as smoking, excessive alcohol consumption and poor nutrition. Also affect us stress, environmental pollution, excessive exposure to the sun without any protection and the lack of moisturizing most important, at least two liters of pure water daily.

Products for skin care can really help, but since there is a wide variety of brands on the market, we must choose what is appropriate for everyone with great care. When buying, mainly we have to consider the degree of sun protection filter that offers the product (in English SPF of 15 or more), the ingredients it contains and the type of skin you have (dry, oily or mixed). Read the rest of this entry »

Unlike the skin on other parts of the body, the lips are uneven skin, as its thickness increases inside the lip to the edge of it. Furthermore, the skin of the lips has no oil glands, sweat glands or hair follicles that are in the rest of the skin.

Why are so susceptible to the lips dry out and crack?
The dryness of the mouth is usually caused by moisture loss, exacerbated by the effects of wind, cold and low humidity. As the skin of the lips is thinner than the rest of the body’s skin, lips react more quickly under the action of the elements. By applying a moisturizer, such as lip balms, retards moisture loss and subsequent irritation. It also increases the resistance against future irritation. Read the rest of this entry »

Necessary for life, too much sun can be profoundly damaging to long-term health. Emilio Carranza dermatologist interviewed on the most important precautions to take during the hot season.

Why is it dangerous to abuse the sun?
Remain long in the sun without any protection can cause erysipelas and even second-degree burns. But the greatest danger is manifested in the long term: premature aging, appearance of dark spots and the worst: melanoma, malignant skin cancer. Read the rest of this entry »

The use of tissue grafts produced from fetal skin cells quickly allowed to treat severely burned children, according to a study by Swiss doctors published online Thursday by the British medical journal The Lancet.

The eight children were treated to the classic candidate skin autografts of extracting small pieces of healthy skin from one point in the patient’s body to graft in injuries to the skin lining can regenerate. The autograft is applied to deep burns, including third-degree (full thickness of the dermis), which do not allow spontaneous scarring.

The team of Professor Patrick Hohlfeld, University Hospital of Lausanne, is interested in obtaining skin thanks to biotechnologies to improve healing of such burns. Read the rest of this entry »