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Maternity and Paternity → The Ten Commandments of expectant mother

If you follow these 10 commandments future mother will become a real mother of a healthy baby. Do everything possible to ensure that your child is fully developed over 9 months!
Commandment number 1. Fresh air
A pregnant woman should walking a lot. Every day, no less than one hour. It is better to walk in the wood, park or garden. First, the norms of motor activity respect, and second, the fresh air increases blood circulation, which is useful for mother and her baby.
Commandment number 2. Vitamins
At a time when most people have hypovitaminosis and lower immunity, modern women during pregnancy need to take special vitamin and mineral preparations. These vitamins assist to the normal state of health of pregnant woman, enhance the immune system, protecting woman, and the fetus colds colds. The best thing to start taking vitamins for three months before conception, to advance to prepare the body for the forthcoming pregnancy.


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Beauty and Style → Damaged moles

The causes of degeneration of moles and Oncology
To provoke a mole to the degeneration, of course, need a push, a stimulus. The strongest of all possible — excessive sun exposure. Ultraviolet radiation in large doses causes irreversible changes in the skin, repeatedly increasing the risk of degeneration. For every person critical insolation purely is individual. Determine that line is not easy, so it is easy to remember that prolonged exposure under the sun is going to harm the body. The skin has to defend itself from ultraviolet radiation. Excessive sunburn — it is unavoidable due to burning, which «beat» on the immunity of the skin. And skin, having an unusual, only to its «memory» does not condone unbearable sunstroke. The result — malignancy of moles and pigmented spots, the appearance of various tumors.


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Beauty and Style → What kind of moles are dangerous

Birthmarks, moles — different types of congenital skin changes in a limited area of skin. There are no vascular moles — in the form of light or dark skin pigmentation, or in the form of warty or pedicellate elevations of the skin, and vascular, so-called Angiomas.
Birthmark, nevus (naevus maternus), congenital malformation of the skin, in which individual parts differ in colour and / or a special kind of warty surface. Moles do not have a definite location. They can be visible at birth in the first years of life or later.



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Dieting and Calories → 7 products for slim Waist

The main thing — is eating the right products. Recently, nutritionists said that every extra inch around the waist makes our lives shorter. If your waist size below 65 cm (women) or 80 cm (men), the risk of premature death for you is minimal. But if this figure exceeds 100 cm (women) or 120 cm (men) — wait for trouble. In terms of interest, every 5 cm above normal increases the risk of death by 13% -17%. If you do not want to risk and just dream of aspen waist, here is a list of products that do not hurt, but only help in the struggle for slenderness.


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Beauty and Style → Most contagious Places and Objects

There is nothing surprising in the fact that we «collect» a lot of germs on the elevator buttons, door handles, railings, escalator, the counter in a cafe or office upstairs. But do you know that some of the particularly dangerous germs can stay on your credit card?

Its so many times is inserted into the ATM, and there are a lot of bacteria. Finally, the cashiers in various stores carry this card on the reader, through which one day are tens and hundreds of other cards. Do not forget to wipe your cards (and wallets, if possible) every day. And always wash your hands after each use of credit cards.

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Maternity and Paternity → Smog Terminates Pregnancy

Scientists from the University of Brazil in Sao Paulo came to the conclusion that could increase the risk of early pregnancy termination. Fertilized egg specialists have been exposed to emissions from the use of diesel fuel. In the experiment, the egg has lost a certain number of cells in one part of the embryo.

And although this did not prevent embryos successfully settle down in the womb, the unborn child immediately started having problems with the development. The threat of miscarriage increased, on average, two and a half times.

«We strongly recommend that women who live in areas with high air pollution, choosing a clean place for the conception of the child, — said Dr. Paulo Marcelo Perin. — Even a small amount of harmful emissions into the air can fatally affect your pregnancy.»
Dr. Perrin pointed out that the main supplier of pollutants are emissions from diesel engines. The study examined 1,200 women. Only in the UK every ten pregnancies ends in miscarriage. In megapolis areas with high level air pollution, such as London, Tokyo, Beijing and Sao Paulo, the figure is even higher.

Another study confirmed that air pollution also reduce women's chances of success of the procedure of in vitro fertilization. Such conclusion was made by experts from Penn State College of Medicine in Pennsylvania.

Chiropractic → Back Pain grows in Winter

Many people who suffer from chronic back pain feel worse in the autumn and winter months. This is due to a seasonal shortage of vitamin D. Vitamin of sun, as it is called, is formed in the skin by ultraviolet rays. However, even in the sunniest parts of the world, this vitamin is necessary for maintaining healthy bones, not enough in the winter months.

8 out of 10 people regularly suffer from back pain. The reason may be not only injuries or diseases of the spine and bones, such as herniation of intervertebral disk or osteochondrosis, but the lack of vitamins.

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Relations → Wedding Rings damage Men's Sexuality

Today scientists get into an argument concerning the influence of jewellery in general and wedding ring in particular on our health. The fact that certain influence takes place is unquestionable now.

Some time ago specialists declared, that golden wedding ring is harmful to be carried constantly, and it concerns only men. The matter is that in course of time a precious metal begins to oxidize and excretes the products of chemical reaction. And these products have influence on masculine sexual glands and can even cause the disorders in sexual sphere. Even one shares of a milligram of gold oxides can damage the normal functioning of glands. However, specialists notice, that the negative effect can be neutralized by washing hands and cleaning jewellery more often. It's interesting, that gold doesn't have any negative influence on women health. Scientists explain, that the hormonal and sexual systems of woman's organism are better protected from external influences, and that is why an oxidable metal does not harm them.

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Maternity and Paternity → Parents' Divorce for Children

Divorce of parents involves major changes in the small world of the child. This is a traumatic process, in which children experience a range of negative emotions: anger, anxiety, fear, sadness, etc. The age of the child significantly influences his perception of divorce and an understanding of family structure.

From birth to 18 months
Children of this age feel the tension in the relations of parents, but cannot understand the cause of the conflict. If quarrels between parents have the permanent nature, children become irritable and nervous, they had frequent bouts of ill temper, especially in the presence of strangers. Such kind of children inclined to lag behind in development.

How to mitigate the negative effects: the children need stability and closeness with family.Try to keep a regime that was before the divorce, especially for food and sleep. Provide a child with favorite toys, spend time with him longer than usual, often hold him on hands, thus providing physical comfort. Get help from friends and relatives to be able to relax and be cheerful when it is necessary to communicate with the child.

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Maternity and Paternity → Oral Contraceptives for Obese Women

Slender, graceful, athletic and active women — a sign of our times. Fashion for mobile and miniature ladies appeared about 100 years ago, and with the involvement of women in the work process, has become paramount. Women starved themselves with the diets, starving, just to be in line with fashion.

And our whole life is focused on such women. For them usually release new models of clothes and shoes, the diets are designed for them, they served as a sexy model for men. Meanwhile, women with large weight, are inclined to obesity or with I-II degree obesity, meet the needs of nature more, mostly fertility. The supplies of fat help for pregnancy, prevents woman from excessive agitation, make it calm and sexually responsive.

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