Fit in the spring

Eat fit! Not only the first warm rays of sunshine and a bit of movement, also food and drink significantly contribute to our well-being. Healthy food must by no means mean that it may not taste one! Provide variety! Variety is the key: nutrient-rich and best food in adequate quantities combine with each other. Grain products such as bread, pasta, rice, cereals, ...

Blood pressure (after Riva-Rocci)

The measurement of blood pressure after Riva-Rocci is a simple, fast and painless method, which you can use to measure how much is the pressure in the blood vessels. The result of the measurement of blood pressure is evidence about the doctor, how work the heart and circulation in the patients. Blood pressure is the pressure emanating from the heart, produced ...

Sylvothérapie

The sylvothérapie is a mode of care which is to install some convalescent or sick (victims of lung disease in General) in forests to provide cleaner air. Sylvatiques cures have long been developed in some countries, particularly in the 19th and early 20th century for TB patients in temperate and northern forests. A sanatorium (and their solarium) and various ...

Eye mirroring (ophthalmoscopy)

The eye shadowing (ophthalmoscopy) is a method to investigate the background of eye, so the inner surface of the eyeball. This area is usually not visible from the outside. The eye background is illuminated eye mirroring, so that the various structures such as retina, Choroid and Fundoscopy, yellow spot, serving blood vessels to see. A doctor can detect ...

Plants can help the skin

Some medicinal plants improve wound healing, relieve skin inflammations, or have swelling down. It only plants should be used, the effects of which is scientifically proven. An expert explains what herbs are and how they work. “The classic herbal medicine – in nature itself collect plants and a tea from it such as the Cook-, has the disadvantage that ...

Plague of Marseille (1720)

The plague of Marseille from 1720 is a historical episode marking, always present in the collective memory of the Marseillais. It is the last outbreak of plague registered in France. The Grand-Saint-Antoine, a boat from the Levant (the Syria region), docking in Marseilles on 25 may 1720 is the source of the epidemic. Indeed, its cargo consisting of fabrics ...

With magnetic resonance microscopy

Microscopy with magnetic resonance (in English, magnetic resonance force microscopy) is a nano-MRI process developed since the beginning of the 1990s. Principle The process relies firstly on the phenomenon of resonance magnetic, already implemented by MRI: a field magnetic radiofrequency switches out of balance spin if it is the Larmor frequency. A magnetic ...

Mézières method

The Mézières method is a rehabilitation system designed by a French physiotherapist, Françoise Mézières (1909-1991). In the eyes of many professionals [who?], this method has revolutionized the re-education and brought a new vision of human mechanics. Decades after his appearance, she still debate and many critics. The historical context (adsbygoogle ...

Regulation of blood sugar

The regulation of blood sugar involves the hormone system, and several organs (pancreas, liver and kidney mainly). This regulation is part of the process of maintaining homeostasis within the body. Normal fasting blood glucose in human is statistically between 0.80-1.10 g/L. Glucose plays a vital role in the body: it is a catabolic substrate used (among ...

Blue potatoes lower blood pressure

Blue potatoes can help overweight people to lower their blood pressure. This shows a study by researchers from the University of Scranton (U.S. State of Pennsylvania) to Joe Vinson. The test proves: overweight people who for one month regularly ate the blue tubers, have proven slightly reduced their blood pressure. The results were presented at a Congress ...