Archive for January, 2010
Does Bad habits?
January 21st, 2010 | 
Author: Memory ancestors
"Habits are recorded in our memory", – says physiologist Cindy Dastig University of Michigan. The habit of running to the store before the holidays, pushing, experience stress – it is in the blood, more precisely, in the brain. In the memory of ancestors lived experiments, when the holiday was preceded by the natural constraints: the battle for the harvest, unsafe for travel goods and gifts. Even overeating on holidays – also an ancient custom.
In Finland, during the excavation of the village of the Stone Age were found stocks gum millennia ago – chunks of sulfur. Archaeologists believe that 6 thousand years ago, people were munching on it for fun and good for the teeth. Sometimes used as an adhesive. It is surprising that it is in Finland, where was found the oldest chewing gum in the world, was invented and the most recent. Scientists at the University of Helsinki Mikko Salaspuro and Martti Marvola created a chewing gum that contains cysteine. He slowly released during chewing and neutralize substances that cause cancer of the oral cavity, esophagus and stomach. The inventors recognized that the taste of chewing gum still have to work, only if the product will be complete. So while you chew, that is.
Harm or benefit?
Thoughtful picking nose and eating the contents is considered obscene, indecent occupation. Lung specialists, Professor Frederick Bishinger from Innsbruck (Austria) with this completely disagree. I asked the society to reconsider its attitude to the habit, which is dictated, in his view, the need of the organism. First, using the finger nose can clean much better than using a handkerchief. Secondly, eating extracted – an intuitive way to strengthen the immune system. Fore accumulates a large number of bacteria that get into the intestine, begin to act as natural adjuvants. An Austrian doctor believes that parents not only have to scold children for such a habit, but encourage it. Moreover, as observations show, many fans picking his nose is a high buoyancy. Yielding to modern conventions, the doctor advises: as long as society is not accustomed to, do it alone.
Spitting over my shoulder, poplevyvanie fingers when counting money, the usual spitting – all this does not please the eye. Only in the movie "Titanic" when the hero DiCaprio teaches English lady spit on a man, was an attempt made poetry spit. But some doctors believe that spitting in angina relieves pain. But there is another view that spit out – a wasteful: contains a lot of useful substances saliva – our wealth, we must keep it to yourself.
The attitude of society to the habits of its citizens depends on the culture and ancient ideas. In China, spitting over the centuries it was considered a healthy exercise. But for two years prior to the Olympics for this event, the Government has decided to wean the population from the national habit. The streets went patrols caught and fined plevalschikov. But, they say, is little help: the Olympics took place, and the belief that we should spit out the bad, which would have remained.
I'll be back in fashion sneeze?
Sometimes the habit arises as a fashion, it is common for many, and then suddenly become obsolete and disappear. But back, as soon as it will be called back.
In Europe and the U.S. youth remembered a forgotten old – took to chew and snuff. American doctors strongly believe: chewing tobacco is not useful to smoking, and fight it as vigorously. But in Sweden, those who quit, prescribe chewing tobacco and insist on a temporary benefit of such habits.
Sniffing tobacco, which 300 years ago was considered a worthy occupation, even for young girls, medicine assesses how harmless to prochihatsya. Sneezing, incidentally, belongs to the category of classical bodily pleasures. Moreover, it clears the nose, improves blood circulation, refreshes the mind and invigorates no worse than a cup of coffee. Wonder if this slough again take root. But for this to tobacco should be "sniffed" beau monde: actors, politicians, bombshells. And put this thing in fashion.
Under the yoke of the Chief
If you are at work sometimes in the shower shouting at colleagues and cursing the boss the most recent words – this is normal. But the best word to say out loud, even though the walls, and even better, according to specialists, to write. And not in a handwritten diary, which, according to the law of genre, will fall in the eyes of an outsider, but in electronic, pre-thought up a name for himself and by providing record passwords and locks. Abusive, launched on the Internet, provides an opportunity to let off steam, and many people do so without offending others' ears and eyes. Anger, who found out, much healthier than suppressed internal dissent. However, doctors noticed that the angry and write bad words for a long time yet it is not necessary – it increases blood pressure.
From minus to plus
Bad habits – often just a signal that the person lacks confidence in himself that his self-esteem is understated, and place in life yet been found. Even smoking and drinking from a psychological point of view – an unsuccessful attempt to socialize people to become his in a given society, to find friends.
For example, biting nails. It is no accident more often than others to bite one's fingernails walk teenagers living under the stress of self-determination, finding one's place in life. Usually thirty and the habit is by itself, without treatment. If not, then you are "teenager" and stress of adult life is too strong for you. Take myself as is, or fight. Mazhte nails something bitter to educate the conditioned reflex. Or, on the advice of the American psychologist Dr. Phil, wear gloves or rubber bracelet – as punishment for the "pokey" to draw back and release it to hit you on the painful wrist. And you can buy a tennis ball, keep it in your hand and squeeze whenever teeth irresistibly to the nails.
One of the most fashionable habits of our time – to fight with him and make themselves anew. Perfectionism, the desire to do what is right and beautiful, stronger tobacco is addictive. This makes fat people become well-proportioned and inflated, smokers – forget about cigarettes and drinking – "tie" forever. However, after that, people get another life-long and not always pleasant habit – be proud of themselves.
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What is the whole point
Element life
It turns out that in the body of 70-pound man hiding 140 grams of salt. And this is not the notorious "deposition of salts. These stocks are a man every day and every thousandths of a milligram. For example, parts of table salt – sodium and chlorine – quite tangible nutrients that help maintain balance of fluids in the body.
Chloride ions are necessary for the formation of hydrochloric acid in gastric juice. A sodium ions – an indispensable component for the maintenance of acid-alkaline balance. They contribute to the appearance and conduct electrical impulses in nerve cells, with their help in blood and tissues received glucose and amino acids, because they operate intracellular enzymes.
So, without salt man can not do. In one form or another, he should consume in a day, 2.5 g of salt – this is about a third of a teaspoon (no slides). But the diet of modern man sometimes it almost contains several times more. Some fans pickles manage to stuff up to 15 grams of salt.
Risk group
It is believed that oversalting most dangerous high blood pressure. Medics have revealed that there are people who can be called "highly sensitive to salt." This feature seems to be caused genetically and expressed in the fact that these patients blood pressure is really very responsive to changes in the amount of salt in the diet.
It is bad for the excess salt and in heart failure, when the heart muscle is unable to cope with the provision of blood flow: from excess salt in the body as having "heart" edema.
A "kidney" appear in nephrosis and nephritis, when the kidneys are unable to remove excess salt from the body, causing it delayed it. Therefore, when these sores salt-free diet is mandatory medical prescription, a kind of medicine. And count the salt will still have that to be easy.
Считаем соль
100 г различных продуктов содержат соли (т):
колбасы салями – до 2,5
сыра пармезан – 1,1
сыра тельзиттер – 0,82
консервированного супа – до 0,8
белого хлеба – до 0,15
молока или кефира – 0,05
творога – 0,41
трески-0,1
камбалы – 0,2
говядины – 0,055
шпината – 0,062
яблок – 0,026
бананов – 0,031
1 яйцо куриное – 0,134
1 стебелек сельдерея – 0,035
1 запеченная картофелина – 0,015
1 стручок сладкого перца – 0,02
Что в вашей солонке?
The most useful is sea salt. It contains 90-95% sodium chloride and 2% other minerals. The composition of such a crystal of salt is so complicated that no laboratory can not repeat it artificially. In countries where the food that is salted with salt, less often a heart ailments and arthritis. In addition, the taste of salt more tender and flavorful than ordinary cooking. Some cooks find that the fragrance of her like a faint smell of sea spray, while others remember the violets.
The most expensive salt – gerandskaya. It is extracted from the salt ponds, located in Brittany. Usually it is used for cooking delights – foie gras pate and veal. Even a simple bread with olive oil and salt gerandskoy becomes a delicacy.
In Brittany, from the waters of the Atlantic extract and other famous salt – Celtic. Collect it, like a jewel, manually, using a wooden device – from the iron taste worse. Cooks say that it gives a particular piquancy numerous mineral components.
So-called black salt is actually a reddish-brown color. And all because it contains iron. The black salt of a strong sulfur smell, and it is not as salty as the other varieties. She added to Indian cuisine.
Rock salt is mined from the bowels of the earth mine or open pit. Evaporated is obtained by evaporating extracted from the bowels of the earth brines. Salt-saturated raised from the bottom of salt lakes. Trap receive, when evaporated ocean, sea or lake water. Salt is not only white, but gray-green or blue tint. Iodized salt smell of iodine.
Train memory
The main thing – peace of
Reasons that can impair the functioning of our memory, enough. Basically it is a head injury, prolonged use of hypnotics and tranquilizers, alcohol, cigarettes, strong tea. Affect and depression, fatigue, chronic sleep deprivation, and even the overabundance of information, which creates television and newspapers.
The easiest way to cope with such a cause of weakening of memory, as lack of vitamins, trace elements and water. Eat certain foods: carrots stimulates the metabolism, the pineapple is required to retain in memory a large amount of information, fish rich in essential fatty acids, strengthens the mind, onions rid of fatigue, nuts give the energy of the brain, lemon freshness to ideas. But the most powerful means of reinforcing the work of memory, are ginseng and glucose.
Brain Training is as important for the organism, as well as training the body. In the process of memory involves the entire brain, but the main burden falls on the hippocampus, which decreases with age in size, and a man thus loses the ability to clearly remember the information. So in addition to sports and regular physical activities that enhance the blood supply to the brain, it is important to engage and "mental exercises", dedicating them to at least 20 minutes a day. The simplest exercise of memory is solving a crossword puzzle and learning languages.
Another enemy of memory – stress. A quiet man is able to remember and recall two times more information than a person in the state of stress. Get your answer from memory can be, if relax, switch to another theme or give a call to the other party's initiative. Brain to find the necessary information we need time.
With age
Often, memory impairment associated with caring person to retire: changing lifestyles and rhythm, reduced mental and physical stress, it becomes less communication. Memory depends on the vitality, so it is very important, despite the age, to continue to live a full life: communicating with people interested in new things, to love the world and themselves.
Absent – a scourge not only the elderly, it is associated with inattention. Speaking the language of science, with the process of recording information. Many things we do automatically, and with the age of such action becomes more and more. Therefore, trying to scroll through this step back, many face the fact that nothing can not remember: "Where do I put my passport?", "Ambassador I soup?", "Closure of the door?". The first means of automatic action – to pause and switch the brain to the conscious work. And in his spare time you can do this exercise: mentally, with eyes closed, commit your habitual action: making tea, people travel to work or remove the apartment.
Being in a situation where it is particularly important to remember something, concentrate, you can use so-called "memory switch". Use any gesture or movement, for instance, lift up a finger. Whatever sign you choose, it will help you be more attentive.
Tactics store
Large amount of information easier to remember if you build a connection between the events and details. There are a number of techniques. For example, you need to remember 15-20 random words. Between them in mind to build the associative array and stick to it, no matter how ridiculous it may seem. Take, for memorizing words: mouse, plate, stone, water, sand, flowers, sky, leaf, little girl, an apple. To facilitate the task, are building a chain of associations: the mouse sits on the plate, the plate is on a stone, a stone sticking out of the water, the water goes into the sand, sand covered the flowers, the flowers are looking at the sky, the sky is falling leaf, the leaf turns over a little girl, little girl eating an apple . Version of this exercise – mentally think of a scenario with the specified objects in the lead roles. Classes should begin with more simple words that denote objects, and gradually move to the words denoting concepts. If you get a rhyme memorize something, he will be remembered much easier and faster.