The Joint it is commonly herb wall because it is often watch it grow subject to the rocks or cracks of the walls. In the Mediterranean region and Central Europe. The use of the Joint goes back to times very ancient, already pharmacopeia called the Joint “also”. The joint is a plant with flowers and leaves small greenish reddish, depending on the region where grow you may have a flowering throughout the year.
Of the Joint what is most takes are the leaves and stems as well as the buds to tier. The outbreaks fresh also can be taken in tisanes have a yellow color and flavor similar to the cucumber.
Uses of the Joint:
* Diuretic Effect: taken as infusion of stems and leaves possesses a diuretic effect.

* Positive Effect on affections of gall bladder and kidney.
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* Purifying effect, the tisanes of joint next to a diet soft fruit, broths, vegetables has a good purifying effect.
* Laxative Effect. The water is already a beneficial to the intestinal transit, any person with problems of constipation will tell you that should take more water. If the water adds the advantages of medicinal plants such as the joint we have good laxative effects taking infusions of plants.
Tisane of joint (purifying, diuretic) Read the rest of this entry »

It is very common, healthy and natural that during pregnancy the body of the mom earns some inevitable kilogram of more due to changes in the agency and the fact that diets are modified during fetal development.
This is not for nothing new, and it is not surprising that the weight of a future mom raise more than determined strictly by the pregnancy. Otherwise occurs with parents, who are surprising that the weight increase during the pregnancy of his companion, something that is not necessarily should happen that way.
This is a conclusion carried out by the company Onepoll in the United Kingdom, where it was found that parents increase an average of 6.35 kilograms during pregnancy from their partners.
The reasons for this are several. A 20 percent said that this was due to their meals were more blunt; a 25 percent said that growth to make you feel good for their partners by the weight cattle; the 41 per cent said they had more snacks in the house; and the remaining 42 per cent said they spent more time eating outside the home to spend more time together before birth.
Unfortunately, the truth is that only a third of the 5,000 respondents joined their partners in a diet post-pregnancy. Read the rest of this entry »

We have seen that several of the disciplines that generally practiced in “earth”, now are taken to the water. The Hidropilates and Hidrogimnasia, also the Water polo, are a clear example of sports or disciplines that have been submerged.
But, for some the idea is to bring everything below the water. It is born Rugby underwater, an activity that is in the competition between two teams, as is as it is on the fields of lawn, but in a pool.
The teams are composed of 11 players, six that are on the water and five in banking. Each team is identified through their caps, and the basic equipment for practicing Rugby Underwater is composed of: fins, mask and snorkel.
The objective is the same: achieve introduce the ball in the porter of the team. But the difficulty for the sport is that the goals are in the bottom of a pool of nailed to a depth average between 3.5 and 5 meters. That is why it is considered as an extreme sport.
The requirement is that the ball buoyancy is negative, that is, it can plunge. Otherwise it could not move below the water, and neither could make passes.
The physical condition that requires the Rugby Underwater is fairly strict, because most of the game is performed below the water, so that players must be all the time retaining the air. And in turn should stay active in the party, rising to the surface to breathe and falling steadily in order to attend their peers.
In relation to sex, this sport makes no distinctions, what can be made both men and women, and even many of the teams are mixed.
Mostly he practiced in Colombia, but is becoming more adherents worldwide. Read the rest of this entry »

It has been revived the controversy around the artificial sweetener Cyclamate “Sodium”, by the decision in Venezuela on prohibit its consumption particularly in the product Coca-Cola Zero, the famous brand of soft drink.
The controversy began in Mexico by the year 2007, based on the fact of its prohibition in the U.S. and Japan, for years by considered carcinogenic.
In contrast this artificial sweetener is used in more than 100 countries, including the Latin Americans, in different foodstuffs and pharmaceuticals, use based on the endorsement of the Joint Committee of Experts in Food Additives of FAO (Organization of Food and Agriculture of the United Nations).
What is the Cyclamate Sodium?
The Cyclamate sodium or “ciclohexilsulfamato,” discovered in 1937, also known as E 952, is a sweetener whose main feature is not contain calories, for which he joined the food industry, according to the concept Light or low-calorie as an ingredient suitable for the diets, because your power sweetener is superior to another in nearly 50 times.
At present the two agencies global health, WHO and FAO endorse its use, considering that does not cause damage to health, reaching this endorsement to more than 100 countries in world, among which is the European Union, China, Australia, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, etc.
But the agency American FDA forbade definitively in the 1980S, which is unleashed the controversy a time and again from those years, renewing today in Venezuela.
For its part, the Company PepsiCo Spain launched a statement with regard to this situation clarifying that none of their products (Pepsi, Pepsi Light, Pepsi Max and Pepsi Twist) containing Cyclamate Sodium, ensuring that they meet the standards of quality, required by the relevant agencies of the European Union. Read the rest of this entry »

If we talk about diets and feeding schemes are many myths that are generated on this subject. Today in VivirSalud have found new myths that we want to share since you may be starting some type of diet to lose weight and would be very good you attentive to some of the myths oldest environment to the allowance.
The first of these myths is: “the drinks diet helps lose weight.” This is not always so, since many drinks diet used artificial sweeteners that generate the need to eat foods rich in calories. What is best for losing weight is to drink water.
*Drink beer makes grow your “tummy”. At the beginning of this year, a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that women who regularly drank beer, wine or liquor were less likely to gain weight than those that did not.
It is important to clarify that the study does not promote the consumption of alcohol and was carried out with women who initially showed a healthy weight. Even so successfully challenged the design of the consumption of alcohol as the main cause of the increase in weight of some women. Read the rest of this entry »