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It is related to physical strength and family relations. The latter include blood ties and friendships closer. The basis for a person to develop, grow and evolve is the health and family. Without health you can not do nothing and have no support with whom to share our achievements.

The East is where the sun looming, is associated with health, growth and family. The season is spring, with the green of youth, the silver of all kinds, fresh flowers in beautiful colors, wood that symbolizes everything that grows and the dragon representing the strength and power.

All areas east of the house must be free of clutter and clean especially the living room, dining room and kitchen. These are the areas of family reunification, which produces the exchange of affection and dialogue in the house. This is the place to locate family photos to remind us of happy times and pleasant.

The element of this is wood. The furniture of this material, rectangular in shape is ideal in these rooms. Both the green and blue are associated with the wood element, and spring flowering. They are ideal for paint colors facing rooms to highlight this growth, harmony and health. Placing furniture in a square.

It is conveniently located on the eastern sector of metal elements. The metal cuts wood (the element of this sector) and this could affect family relationships.

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For many years its existence has been denied in childhood. Currently it is considered that the child may also have depression in the psychiatric sense of the word, but should talk about it when it has a certain length and importance. Unlike the adult, the vast majority of children are reactive depressions, i.e., there is a cause in the environment: depressions by excessive demand (school), parental separation, loss of a loved one, etc. Usually manifested by discouragement and loss of pleasure or interest in playing. Also anorexia, weight loss or insomnia is symptoms.

It is also true that young children may have depression, one might speak of two forms: the so-called analytic depression, caused by a “lack of support” of the mother, usually to leave her after 6 months of age, after it had created the link. And the basin called “hospitality” in which the separation occurred before the mother created or strengthened the link (before 6 months of age). The latter form can become very serious if not treated before 5 months of age. It occurs in critically ill children from birth who are hospitalized but exceptionally long today because the current inpatient units allow a stay, however minimal, from mother to child.

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Antioxidants (free radical scavengers) are a group of substances present in certain foods (vitamins, minerals and other natural colorants plant compounds) and enzymes found in our bodies and involved in many metabolic processes (super oxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione, coenzyme Q10, etc.) that neutralize the damage that free radicals can cause in our body.

Antioxidants are found in the foods we eat and the supplements we take. Antioxidants can prevent hundreds of diseases. No two are exactly alike antioxidants, each act specifically in different tissues of the body. Likewise, there are powerful antioxidants, which mean it has an ORAC (Absorption Capacity Oxygen Radical) different.

Free radicals are responsible for the processes of aging, degeneration and cell death. Free radicals are released into natural metabolic processes in our bodies, are molecules that lose an electron to travel through our bodies react with other molecules and “stealing” the electron they lack, thus turning this into another free radical. The ability of free radicals react with any molecule is very high, causing great damage in cell membranes. Read the rest of this entry »

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Treatment for infertility are often lengthy, stressful and too expensive. To overcome these problems and for answers “natural” to the problem, Korean researchers conducted a study in which a group of women with fertility problems have been treated with acupuncture, moxibustion (pictured) and herbs.

The 104 women recruited for the study, before participating in the project were selected based on various evaluation criteria that included the chronological age (the average age was 32 years with a range of between 26 and 41 years), how long he had been diagnosed with infertility and possible treatments for which they had already referred. The treatment with acupuncture, mix and herbs Koreans had to be completed after 6 menstrual cycles and complete between February 2005 and April 2006. The following comments included the proportion of women who were pregnant, any event during pregnancy such as morbidity and mortality of the fetus, spontaneous abortions. Read the rest of this entry »

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