Anti-Oxidant and Multivitaminic Treatments

If you look at this photo, you will surely notice the young and beautiful body of the woman. If we think about the age, we will suppose that the model of the sculpture was not older than 20 years since women made early their first children and hardly is possible that the model gave birth to one.

It is surely an ideal of youth and, with it, of the best period in the life of every woman when she still has not particular worries and responsibilities.

In fact, the body of this sculpture is a Roman copy of a Greek original. But this copy was made to remain in eternity the presumed beauty and youth of a rich woman who ordered this ideal image of herself (marble was very expensive, and she had to pay a fortune for this statue).

If you look at her face, you will notice that it's the face of much more older person.

Well, as you see, nothing changed in the mentality of humans with the time that passes. Two thousand years after the death of that woman, we think so much what we have to do to remain as young as possible as long as possible. We do not order marble statues to "live" for eternity, we want to be young today. And the passwords are "Anti-Oxidants" and "Vitamins".

Do you take them for different reasons? I answer Yes. I can't live without my Multi- because I begin to "tremble" without Magnesium and Potassium first of all. Even if my diet is rich of vegetables: I like to eat salads with olive oil and balsamic vinegar of Modena. And, then, I try to buy aliments of good quality.

Here I want to publish some interesting facts I recently found in internet. Maybe, if you did not read it before, they will change something in your thoughts about the health, too.

Two large trials of antioxidants were set up...One was in Finland, where 30,000 participants at high risk of lung cancer were recruited, and randomized to receive beta-carotene, vitamin E, or both or neither. Not only were there more lung cancers among the people receiving the supposedly protective beta-carotene supplements, compared with placebo, but this vitamin group also had more deaths overall, from both lung cancer and heart disease.

 The results of the other trial were almost worse...Two groups of people at high risk of lung cancer were studied. Half were given beta-carotene and vitamin A, while the other half got placebo. 18000 participants were due to be recruited throughout its course, and the intention was that they would be followed up for an average of six years; but in fact, the trial was terminated early, because it was considered unethical to continue it. Why? The people having the antioxidant tablets were 46% more likely to die from lung cancer, and 17% more likely to die of any cause, than the people taking the placebo pills.

 Since then the placebo-controlled trial data on antioxidant vitamin supplements has continued to give negative results, The most up-to-date Cochrane reviews of the literature pool...show that antioxidant supplements are either ineffective or perhaps even actively harmful.

Most recently, a Cochrane review looked at the number of deaths, from any cause, in all the placebo-controlled randomized trials on antioxidants that have ever been performed, describing the experiences of 230,000 people in total. This showed overall that, antioxidant vitamin pills do not reduce deaths, and in fact they may increase your chance of dying.

vitamin D level: normal range is between 30 and 100 nmol/L (though readings below 50 are still not optimal for bone and overall health). (Source) 

Defend Against Complainers

Complainers are very popular. Many of us practice it from time to time. Others do not understand that they complain all their life unceasingly. I do not blame this behavior because it's difficult to avoid it when one feels bad. Even if little by little complaining becomes the way to live.


This is and was the theme of different researches. Complainers not only damage their own brain with continuous complains, they damage all those who lives and happens near them even if for a short time. Everybody knows the bad feeling we have near such persons. We can't help often. And they don't want to receive help. Their brain is just in that terrible state.


Once I wanted to help one girl who complained the betrayal of her husband. I felt sorry and thought, I had to listen to her. A kind of psychoanalyst gratis. Imagine, I listened to her for different months hours and hours every day from the morning - every time she could find me by phone. After it I could not continue this way and told her she had not to phone me more. Well, some days after it, one friend told me, that girl speaks everywhere bad about me...


So, I turn back to the researches. They proved that the negative thinking of other persons and continuous complaints create negative thinking and behavior in our own brains. And this is the reason why we have to avoid complainers as much as possible. 


As I wrote in my previous posts about the stress remedies, we have to avoid negativities as much as possible, first. 
Then, we have to control our reactions when something happens in our lives.
Finally, we have to create positive exposure for our brains as frequently as possible.




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How to Reduce Sterss 2

Reducing stress is not the easiest task in our lives. We use different remedies most of them are not healthy. The most popular are drinking, smocking and eating. And, since we are stressed practically every day, this behaviour becomes habit, a kind of addiction, and we have to use bigger and bigger quantities of our "medicine".

1 - I used to avoid everything that provoked states of anxiety: I did not watch TV notices and films that were full of bad notices, crys and yells, killings and horrors (and I don't do it till today before I have to go sleep).

In Italy, TV became a kind of a tool of "natural selection": there are too many persons with not stable mind -they repeat  desperate gestures they see on the screen. We had epidemic of mothers that killed their children, for example. 


2 - Very often is enough to avoid a person or an environment where you feel bad, nervous. If it's possible. And... this analysis of your life, when you are able to detect the "bad" person, will do so that other similar persons will not be attracted by you more. Because if you attract ONE of such persons, you probably attract other similar persons, too. So, it's something inside you that attracts this kind of persons.


3 - Other reason of stress are too many tasks. It's enough sometimes to make a list and to cancel some of them. Or to find your personal way to solve the problem. What do you do when you have too many plates to wash? Or too many things to iron? What is your personal way to manage this situation?


So, we discover that it's often our perception and not external conditions that provoke stress in our life. And analysis is often just enough to show to our brain the way to turn calm and happy.

What Actually Works if We Want to Reduce Stress?

Do you have your favorite remedy to reduce stress? I'll try to guess... Ice-cream or a bag of potato chips? And, since we feel or are stressed every day, we abuse them so that it's possible to define this excessive use sugar and fat addiction and put them in the same row with drug and alcohol addictions (I wrote about it in my previous post sugar addiction).

 

Unfortunately, it's not the best way to treat the stress.

Here is the approximate list of the more healthy solutions:

It's difficult to sleep when we are stressed but if you sleep 7-8 hours per night you become more happy person. At place of the classic sheeps, create a mala for you and count your breath or mantras concentrating your attention on the beads of your mala. This behaviour can become "addiction" but it really works perfectly to calm your mind and to have more calm sleep.



Next is clearly a healthy diet. It's not so bad to eat only salads every day in summer, you know...

 

And, finally, cultivate your favorite active hobbies. Something you do with great pleasure.

 

Winter-Inspired Depression

Depression is a really bad beast. Something that destroys personality. Seasonal or not, it's always terrible.

But, as in any other popular human problem, there are vendors grasping every possibility to sell.



Those send me infinite mails to pubblish here and in my other blogs. This way I knew so much about winter-inspired depression. Oh no, don't worry, I will not fill this post with the quotations. I wanted only to think a little about it.

What do you know about winter-inspired depression? You would never think about it if the vendors did not persist with the descriptions how bad you feel in winter and what medicines you have to assume, I think. Some of them have other ideas -they advise to color your desk or to change your furniture. Еo change your husband or friend, maybe. Something like this.

I feel sad in winter, too. I need much sun, light. But I noticed that complexes of vitamins help me. And some time passed under the rays of the sun, too. So, I try to take advantage of every sunny moment. I go out and open my face, my hair, skin of the hands and arms. And try to inspire sunshine, as well.

And you?

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Depression -Strange Causes

Depression is a bad beast. There are many causes of this terrible emotional state: from genetic problems to the deficiency of the vitamins (and this last is very common). But there are different modern causes of depression, too. Here are some of them.

First of the modern causes -and it's possible that you will not believe me but it's the fact proved by many researches taken in different countries. This cause is the dipendence from the social networks. Specially hard is the situation for the children that have nervous breakdown because they have to maintain their "status" not only in the school but online, too.

Second modern cause is Internet generally. Too many hours passed for the computer provokes the depression. Specially, if the person tryes to escape the problems of the real life there.

Next cause is the personal need of sleep hours. Everybody has own internal clock, and if you have to sleep 7 hours but you sleep effectively 6 hours, it will cause the depression.

Procrastination puts you in a bad situation. You have to solve the problem but are not sure how to do it, you accumulate the tasks and feel bad that provokes depression. That provokes procrastination. Etc without stop.

Did you know that the life in a city is the cause of depression? Yes, you do. But you do not know the reason, maybe. It's the solitude in the crowd of the persons.


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Depression and the Lack of the Essentials

Depression is a very hard desease. I think, you will agree with this definition. Therer is not a reason to feel bad but the life becomes impossible. You can't do anything, you don't find a place where you can forget about this state, you "sleep" all the day and don't sleep in the night. Your body shows the signs of the bad state, too. Your hairs fall like the leaves in autumn, your nails go to pieces...

Some researches proved that all this depend from the ...lack of the Vitamin D.

The problem is that it's not enough to assume vitamins in tabs. We need half an hour (at least) of exposure to the sun every day. The right form of Vit.D can be created only by sun in our bodies. We can eat handfuls of tabs every day but they don't work without sun. Unfortunatelly. 

A study of 1282 elderly residents in the Netherlands found increased depression among people whose serum levels of vitamin D were below 25 (OH), with severity of depression dramatically increased as D levels decreased.

According to the Vitamin D Council several factors impact how much D is produced: 

• Angle of sun’s rays.  If your shadow is longer than you are tall, little vitamin D is being made.
• Skin color.  People with fair skin have less melanin to protect against sun damage and need only 15 minutes of exposure, while those with dark skin need up to six times longer.
• Amount of skin exposed.  Forty percent of a body’s surface should be exposed.  Torso exposure produces the most D; legs and arms a little; hands and face almost none.
• Age slows production, taking four times longer for people over 60 and under 20.
• Sunscreens as low as 8 block up to 95% of vitamin D production.
• Cloud cover and air pollution can reflect or absorb UVB.
• Glass blocks all UVB.

The way to combine sun and an other remedy to cure depression, physical exercises, is to walk at least 30 minutes every day. Specially, it's valid for aged and obese persons.

Than. There are Omega 3 fats. Those are essential for our brains, too. I don't want to repeat the things you know just. I want only to tell you about the new researches' results.

Magnetic resonance imaging has shown depressed people have stiffer cell membranes

And this essential substance we can find in natural products like Fish Oils. These do not work without sun exposion, too.
(quotes are from the books of Gracelyn Guyol  sent me in a mail by her promoter probably)