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It is an “invisible injury” but no less painful. Besides the loss of one of our five senses, lack of hearing also involves serious difficulties to interact and make us understand other people.

This condition in our listening capacity increases with age and can become irreversible. But with the noise pollution from today’s youth also have high risks: the loud music to your ears is exhibiting one of the reasons why your hearing is increasingly damaged.

To protect the health of your ears, heed the following advice.

Avoid loud noises. Whenever you can, tries to get away from them. Close the windows of your car when you drive, do not stand next to the speakers at a concert or in the clubs and go out to eat at those restaurants where you can talk without raising his voice.

Limit your exposure. If it is unavoidable to be near loud noises, try to limit the amount of time that your ears are exposed to them. The higher the decibels of sound, the less time we have to be exposed to the same so that our hearing is not damaged.

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Many people love to eat foods high in fat and low in fiber, away from the habits that help maintain a good nutritional state and treasury. Therefore, a daily balanced diet that includes several food groups is crucial to our health.

Eat balanced, healthy food is a habit that can be purchased easily, gradually including more servings of these food groups. Keep in mind that a balanced diet is achieved by consuming a little of all and not focusing on one or two:

Bread, potatoes, pasta, rice and cereals contain starch and should be the largest portion of the plates that make up the daily diet. It is advisable to choose those which are high in fiber. Provide vitamin B.

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The veins protruding in an exaggerated way (mainly in the legs of women) are called varices, and among the causes of varicose veins is the main bad circulation. Natural remedies for varicose veins can prevent future, while heal existing ones.

There are many natural remedies for varicose veins usually using herbs and vegetables, which, combined properly, can help to eliminate varicose veins.

One of these remedies combines garlic and lemon, and can act as a treatment for varicose veins. Following are the preparation of this remedy, and as a cause of varicose veins most important is poor circulation, also indicate another type of home remedy.

Preparation of garlic and lemon :

What is with these two foods is a kind of cream that will help us to spread on the varices. They should be small circular massage and direction of these veins. To make this home remedy for varicose need six cloves of garlic, all the juice they give us a lemon, two teaspoons of good quality oil and a jar that has a wide mouth.

A chop the garlic so we leave them in the form of sheets. After that add to the trash all the lemon juice with two teaspoons of oil. To all this I covered it and let it marinate for about 12 hours. After that time the jar and shake vigorously with our index and middle fingers take the mixture to apply way to massage the veins.

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Conventional wisdom says that apples are a healthy snack. A recent study supports it, finding that a component of the fruit, called pectin, increases levels of friendly bacteria in the digestive system.

Microbiologists from the National Food Institute of the University of Denmark evaluated the effect of apple consumption by feeding rats a diet of whole blocks in addition to products derived from fruit, as juice and applesauce.

The researchers then reviewed the bacteria in the intestines of rats to determine whether eating apples affected the levels of “friendly” bacteria, which are bacteria that are beneficial for digestive health and may reduce the risk of certain diseases.

The study findings appear online on January 20 in the journal BMC Microbiology.

“In our study, we found that rats who ate a diet rich in pectin, a component of dietary fiber in apples, had higher amounts of certain bacteria that could improve intestinal health” they said in a news release Editor magazine study co-researcher Andrea Wilcks.

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