The DASH diet is specifically designed to prevent and control high blood pressure but may also provide other benefits given the high nutritional quality of it. However, if we want to implement this type of food it is important to know what really is and then we speak.

What you need to know about the DASH diet

The name of this diet is derived from its acronym in English: Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH), there can define this diet as the most recommended when seeking a food strategy to prevent or reduce high blood pressure.

With the beginning of the new course, we usually pose new challenges that will help us overcome the routine and get closer to our goals. One of the challenges that, personally, have always attracted my attention is to get up very early, at 5 o’clock in the morning, to make the most of the day.

This “challenge” or custom has been popularized by great achievers who claim to have found the necessary time to reach all that their busy life demands. Figures such as Tim Cook (the current executive director of Apple) or Richard Branson (creator of the Virgin chain) praise the effects that wake up before dawn can have for your health and business. If I tried, what would happen to my circadian cycles?

Surely you’ve heard of genetically modified foods and know all the controversy that raise them, especially since it is the first genetically modified animal available for human consumption. Today we analyze the available evidence on the GM and tell you what they are and whether they are safe or not for our body.

What is a transgenic food?

A transgenic food is a food handled by genetic engineering with the aim of expressing therein a new feature or changing any previously existing feature.

Feeding infants and young children is key to their development and adequate growth, so when talking about diets without food of animal origin in the smallest there is always controversy and debate, but is it healthy for babies and toddlers to carry a vegetarian diet?

Vegetarian diets for children

We always think that vegetarian diets are advisable for the health of the organism, but when it comes to children the vision is different and several cases of children with health problems and who carried vegan diets have generated controversy on the subject.

The trans fats are a type of fat found naturally in foods but especially widespread in industrial food source because the oils change their structure during processing. We tell you why trans fats are a harmful nutrient and how to avoid them in the daily diet.

The sugar added to food is not the only enemy of our health, but the refined flours, the oil palm and the trans fats can harm and are therefore ingredients and / or nutrients in our diet should control.

In a Yoga session we go through different asanas or postures with different goals and benefits, including investment or semi-investment asanas. Surely you have seen them in different photos or illustrations: the inversion asanas are those in which the feet are above the head (as for example the asana of the candle) while the ones of semi-inversion are those in which the Heart is above the head (as in the case of the dog face down).

One of the issues that generate greater doubt in the weight room any gym, especially among people who start in this world, is not quite sure where to Get Started How volume or definition? We know our purpose, but not the way forward.

It is true that the process to reach a good definition will come marked largely by physical condition we left and the genotype of each own, but what is certain is that in order to define muscle, we must first create it.

Usually often we talk about how important stretching for a perfect state of our muscles and joints. But there part of the body that sometimes is more complicated stretch and keep in perfect condition. So in this post we highlight a simple way to stretch all part of the chest, biceps and outside chain arm, including the muscles that make up the neck.

The pectoral part is one of the areas most often gives us problems as far as discomfort and muscle aches. The problem usually appears because the pectorals are very powerful muscles that we usually work a lot and that at the moment of the truth exert a high tension. This causes an imbalance to develop with the rear, and the shoulder stabilizers allow the shoulder to move slightly forward. This incorrect posture will cause discomfort to the shoulder, chest and even the arm. To do this stretching will help us correct this and eliminate pain.

Some time ago began to emerge the first news about the miraculous pills exercise that were developing in Canadian laboratories, as future substitutes sport. We are facing utopia or reality?

Pills born with the purpose of achieving achieve some of the beneficial effects of exercise, but with the uniqueness of not having to move the couch. Is this possible? Or is it really an unattainable purpose?

We have spoken on more than one occasion the use of kettlebells and kettlebell. For the great majority of us is not an unknown device, rather it is very common because in most of the gyms and we find them as if a more dumbbell. The problem is that it is not a dumbbell any even though it is a weight. Therefore, and to know them better we will stop at the pros and cons of its use.

We all know these weights, and they have a unique way. It is a ball or hemisphere, which is where all the weight is concentrated. To this must be added a kind of handle that surrounds the sphere and that makes the weight is totally concentrated in a single point. We can find them of different sizes depending on the load that they concentrate. Therefore we offer endless possibilities.