Healthy Life-style Japanese Women

Japan has made great strides in treatment of various diseases, such as cancer, stroke, and heart, but their longevity are mostly connected with diet, obesity is low, and the ability to control stress. During the 25th consecutive year the Japanese women's life expectancy is highest in the world, precisely at the age of 86. Following a healthy lifestyle Japanese women that we can steal his knowledge, as quoted from Self magazine:

Consuming seaweed
Actually is a multivitamin, which Containing potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron Zar, iodine, vitamin C, fiber and beta-carotene, and others. Their diet consists mainly of foods derived from plants such as fruits, vegetables, and soy.

Eat fish
Japanese people like tuna, mackerel and salmon, contain omega-3 fatty acids high level. Research has shown omega-3 can reduce the risk of heart disease and breast cancer.

Drinking green tea
Based on recent research, those who consumed six cups of tea per day had a 36 percent risk of heart disease were lower than those who drank less than that. Green tea is full of antioxidants, which reduce the effect on bone cancer which resulted in osteoporosis.

Eat more slowly
Japanese people are taught to enjoy every bite of their food (eat using chopsticks also help slow speed). The reason for eating more slowly is the key because the brain takes over 20 minutes to feel full. So, if you utilize your time, you may eat until you are satisfied rather than to the full.

Use a small plate
When you use a small plate or bowl instead of using a large plate, you are more easy to control your eating.

Zen
Try the Japanese physical exercise (such as martial arts) and mental fitness. Activities such as yoga and meditation has been proven to not only reduce stress, but also ward off dementia and keep the brain areas associated with concentration and memory.

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Careful in Selecting an Insurance

Choosing the best insurance for yourself is actually easy. Maybe you have some considerations for choosing insurance, for example, large insurance premiums are paid every month, coverage, greater compensation, investments, etc. But actually there are two main things that must you consider in choosing insurance:
1. Insurance policy
2. Insurance claims

Insurance policy is a "contract" between the parties with your insurance company. All provisions are written here and legally binding nature. So look carefully, what the risk is borne, refunds, etc.

You should also know how to make an insurance claim. If you have a reliable insurance agent, even better. Agents act as your intermediary with the insurance company. So do not choose an insurance agent who only interested in commissions and then leave you, when required.

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15 Diet Most Unique In History

Currently developing various types of diets, ranging from high-protein diets, baby food diet, carbohydrate diet, to diet blood type. Actually, the diet has been around since the 1700s. Performed a variety of ways to get the ideal body weight, including extreme ways.

The following fifteen types of diets throughout history, as quoted from Womans Day:

1. 1727: Avoiding live around the swamp
In 1727, Thomas Short wrote a treatise entitled 'The Causes and Effects of Corpulence'. To make a short post of observation and conclusion, people who live around the swamp, tend to overweight. He recommends people have to choose and move to a dry place to avoid the side effects of the swamp.

2. In the 1800s: Hysteria hunger
During the second half of the 19th century, a kind of "Anorexia Victoria" is done in the middle class and aristocracy in Western Europe. People are hungry himself intentionally made to live in accordance with the Victorian idea, which is associated with spiritual purity and femininity.

3. In 1820: Diet vinegar
A poet Bulimia and anokreksia , Lord Byron vinegar diet popularized in the 1820s. The intention was to clean the toxins in your body by drinking vinegar and water every day. But, what happens is he vomiting and diarrhea, and no wonder if the weight decreases.

4. In 1903: Chewing without swallowing
An art curator of the origin of San Francisco, Horace Fletcher known as 'The Great Masticator', after he lost 40 pounds of weight. That's because he does not chew and swallow food. Fletcher diet, he chewed the food as much as 32 times each (one for each tooth), then spat it out. He did it with logic, the body would absorb the nutrients needed without increasing weight weight.

5. In 1925: Cigarette Diet
It is difficult indeed to imagine cigarette advertisements promoting healthy life. However, in 1920s, several tobacco companies in the United States, to promote tobacco products by emphasizing the advantages 'can eliminate your appetite'.

6. In 1928: A diet of raw meat
An Arctic continental wanderers, Vilhjalmur Stefánsson, promoting that diet extreme version performed quite effectively Atkin tribe. After living in the northern tundra, Stefánsson amazed at how healthy the Inuit, who live in the Arctic, although eating raw fish and whale blubber, without eating fruit or vegetables.

Stefánsson so interested in the diet and claimed she had to do it yourself and prove its effectiveness. He then went to New York's Bellevue Hospital, where doctors monitored his health for several months. After observation, he was declared healthy.

7. Early 1930s: slimming soap
Wash and remove fat in the bathroom? Although it sounds impossible, slimming soap is quite popular in the 1930s, in the United States. Soap products labeled 'Fatoff', 'Fat-O-NO' and 'La-Mar Reducing Shop', managed to fool the ladies to buy. Although the soap company claims can reduce fat, but the products were actually like regular soap.

8. In 1954: Diet of worms
When people know that parasitic worms that live in the intestines, sucking nutrients and causing weight loss, there are some people who actually use them. Some people began to swallow the tapeworm cysts (baby tapeworm) to be able to eat much without having a headache thinking about weight loss. However, this diet could reap the controversy, because there are creepy facts about these worms. Worms that can grow up to 25 feet, so that it can cause seizures, meningitis or dementia.

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