Depression, evil dark, quiet in Italy is struggling to find the proper recognition as a disease and is often underestimated, with consequences that we know well and read in the sidebars of crime news, could be fought at the table. Alternatively, at least that’s what says a new study by a team of Japanese researchers at the National Center for Global Health and Medicine in Tokyo.

The researchers, led by Dr. Akiko Nanri, say food, preferably exclusively, of plants helps to combat the onset of depression. The vegetarian diet also plays a preventive role, alleviate depressive symptoms in those who already suffers. Space thus soy, mushrooms, fruits and vegetables on our tables.

What’s more, namely there are almost all foods that make the Japanese diet, tested on a sample of 500 people just to highlight the potential antidepressant?: Read the rest of this entry »

Although the holiday fully diluted basis, all year round, it is also true that the record of traveling abroad or holiday destinations in Italy remains there during the summer months, especially in August, in the middle of these two weeks, if you cannot find anything to open in the city.
The idea is a way they get health passports, speak many languages of the world’s most important, special needs, allergies, blood type, medications, take you intolerant and so on.

Health card will be available to whoever wants it.

This is a convenient travel document clear and simple end, where seven languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese), the main news of the traveler’s health. Read the rest of this entry »

Trigeminal neuralgia is a very painful swelling (inflammation) of the trigeminal nerve, the sensitivity of the superficial facial and eye.

Causes: Trigeminal neuralgia causes severe, but short duration (few seconds) facial pain on the affected nerve. The disease usually affects older people, and is more common after the age of 40 years. Often no cause is found. However, swell the blood vessels of the brain prematurely areas (arteriovenous malformations), and this can cause the disorder. The painful attacks of trigeminal neuralgia can occur with a light touch on the areas of the face is located in the fifth cranial nerve. It is estimated that this condition affects a person to all 15 000.

Symptoms are: The most common: Read the rest of this entry »

It’s hot and no wonder. We are indeed in summer and sultry waves traversing the Italian peninsula from North to South are the usual ones we are used each year, although we often forget to be already past and renew our awe for the hot climate. Now we know, let’s not caught unprepared.

Until now, experts had warned us about the health risks affecting especially the chronically ill, elderly and children, groups most exposed to moisture damage and excessive heat. This does not mean that everyone else can rest easy (and who can sleep with these temperatures on the other side?). Although young and healthy is good, without unnecessary alarm, guard and protect themselves during the hottest hours, avoiding going out to play sports, standing in the shade when we are forced to stay outside, drinking a lot and protecting your head with a hat or umbrella. Read the rest of this entry »

After a winter spent always with high heels, when this stylish shoe is replaced by a more “modest” flip-flops, or beach strip, the pains began. If this happens, it means that you become addicted to heel.

To test their theory, the two scholars have recruited about 80 women among those who wore heels every day for at least two years occasionally or not brought at all, and have undergone a resonance and ultrasound. While the initial examination showed no abnormality, the second has instead highlighted how, in women who are habitual use of high-heeled, there is a reduction of 13% of the length of the muscle fibers and a stiffer Achilles tendon thin. This means that the capacity of contraction is diminished, and this explains why, by switching to flat shoes, small foot pain arises. Read the rest of this entry »