I garden without pesticides

Posted on 29 Dec 2012 In: Osteoporosis

Pesticides are toxic chemicals widely used to protect crops from insects, fungi and other weeds. Farmers flow into the fields, but we also, in our own garden. How to replace household pesticides and the natural gardening? A beautiful lawn without pesticides, without foam herb garden follesMon bioUne beautiful lawn without pesticides, without foam weeds-Promote manual weeding (hoe, weeding knife.).-Against the foam, use a scarifier.-Do not disseminez undesirable plant seeds: mowing annuals before the appearance of flowers when they bloom.-When seeding your lawn, choose a grass appropriate to the situation (soil type, moisture conditions.) And its use (playground, lawn agrement.-Use of cover crops on surfaces in the shade and covered with moss. -Aerate the soil to improve water retention and air circulation (asphyxia favors the proliferation of mosses).-When mowing (at a height of about 5-10 cm), leave the clippings on the floor.-Take a soil test in the fall. A liming (chaux.) may be necessary to restore the pH and thereby limit the development of mosses and weeds. My vegetable garden Organic mulches (organic and plastic) are required to:-avoid undesirable grasses and thus compete with your plants, -keep the moisture (1 = 2 waterings mulching)-maintain a bit of matter, which favors biological life of soil compaction and limit. As for the lawn, use of cover crops on surfaces in the shade and covered with moss. Plant varieties known for better than others to resist the most common diseases: mildew, rust, blister. Use of green manure for the garden reserved. These are plants which, after harvest, quickly occupy the land still bare, maintain it and protect it.


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Until now, targeted therapies against metastatic kidney cancer should be administered continuously. Even when no tumor cell was not detectable, the patient should continue treatment to prevent recurrences. The deal may be, is changing. A team from the Institut Gustave Roussy (IGR) in Villejuif, has evaluated the interest to discontinue treatment in patients in remission total. .
Drs Laurence Bernard Escudier Albiges and were interested in the case of complete remission in patients with metastatic kidney cancer. All were receiving treatment was based on inhibitors of tyrosine kinase, which interrupt the blood supply of the tumor. These anti-angiogenic drugs inhibit the formation of neo-vessels essential to tumor proliferation. They starve, in a sense, the cancer cells.
Among the patients followed by the team of the TMF, 28 were treated with targeted therapies alone, while 25 others have benefited more, a local treatment. All being in total remission, their treatments were interrupted. After a median duration of 255 days (nearly 9 months), 61 % of patients in the first group were still in remission total. This means that the tumor had completely disappeared without recurrence, said Dr. Escudier. In the second group, only 48 % of patients were in this case. Read the rest of this entry »

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Against cholesterol: eat well, move

Posted on 22 Nov 2012 In: Edema

You Do not Mess with cholesterol because, in excess, it is a major cardiovascular risk factors. But cardiovascular disease in our country represent the first cause of death. Only solution, taking his cholesterol in hand: eat well and move! Cholesterol: diet or medication? Lifestyle and dietetics: the recommandationsSuivi and monitoring: determination of LDL-cholesterol cholesterolContre: diet alone or diet + drugs! Cholesterol: diet or medication? Certainly, there are very effective drugs against the excess of cholesterol or hypercholesterolemia: statins. But a number of people presenting high cholesterol, can avoid taking such drugs. How? By changing some parameters of their lifestyle and eating habits. The recommendations are very clear about this. Lifestyle and dietetics: the recommandationsPratiquer regular physical activity such as brisk walking, has for 30 minutes every jours.Eliminer risk factors: diabetes, hypertension and smoking. . Read the rest of this entry »

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In the United States and Europe, call centers for smoking cessation are increasing. But was sorely lacking in these processes, can be more intuitive than scientific, rigorous evaluation of their effectiveness. This is now done: telephone assistance doubles the chances of success! Services telephone Service assistance to the stop tobacco are animated by tele-operators answering calls free of smokers motivated or finding motivation to break away from tobacco. Remained to prove their effectiveness. In carrying out this work, 3,282 participants were recruited during an initial and a period of 16 months. Randomly assigned into two groups, some were immediately directed to a counselor (group A), while others had to recall a few days after receiving information materials and cessation assistance to be directed to a counselor (group B). subjects in group B were therefore failing to remind the control group (group B2). . Read the rest of this entry »

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When a squirrel us that dreaming is vital

Posted on 18 Oct 2012 In: Eczema

Even if we do not know what are all functions of the dream, the squirrel-sik sik we show that this must be essential. PourquoiA? Because they make pauses in hibernation for power will dream. Only warm-blooded higher vertebrates, mammals and birds, dreaming. This is linked to their brain that is larger and has larger circuits memorization. Indeed, one of the functions of dreams is to allow the acquisition of learning. In the absence of said paradoxical sleep (sleep waves that characterizes the dream), it has been shown that our skills acquisition were decreased. But the dream has other functions, we do not know encorea € | That’s what we learn from such a funny big squirrel, the sik-sik, who does not hesitate to interrupt regularly for sleep and hibernation dreaming. It cost him 80 % of its reserves! It should not do this for rien.Que happens it being hibernationA? yet) and regularly, it goes back to sleep its temperature for good and dreaming his fill..


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A few days ago, a British forties who was accused of rape, was acquitted unanimously by a court in Wales. The man has not been convicted of his actions because he was unconscious at the time. He suffers because of sexsomnie. .
The sexsomnie remember sleepwalking. The sufferers seem to be awakened, and undertake a sexual act while they are still asleep.
Sharon Chung, a researcher at the Laboratory for Sleep Research at the University Health Network Toronto, Canada, explained the science website LiveScience no previous study has looked at the frequency with which the sexsomnie occurs. Read the rest of this entry »

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In 2011, he died a diabetic every 7 seconds in the world. Totaling 4.6 million in one year. And there are now no fewer than 366 million patients. These figures are even more frightening than the pandemic of diabetes in the words of the WHO, does not seem close to stop. On the occasion of the 47th Congress of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Lisbon (Portugal), the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) is calling on world leaders. To reverse the trend, they must focus on research. .
The clock is ticking for world leaders. Their meeting next week at the United Nations, we expect effective action to put an end to the upward trend of diabetes, a wish Jean-Claude Mbanya, president of the IDF. Many heads of state will gather in effect on 19 and 20 September in New York for UN Summit on NCDs. Diabetes should hold an important place in the same way as cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. It is urgent to invest in research to have better treatments and prevention models (more) effective, in fact believes Mbanya. Read the rest of this entry »

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Far too few pregnant women are vaccinated against influenza. Why? For fear of a possible toxicity. But the vaccine against influenza is safe during pregnancy. But also by lack of information on its profits. A new study shows that vaccination of the mother in the third quarter has protected both the child and Merea. The flu virus, tousQuelles are potentially dangerous for those most at risk against the flu virus? Double advantage with vaccination List of diseases eligible for the rebate to 100 % of the vaccine against the flu virus grippeLe, potentially dangerous for tousLes government and begin their campaign of incitement to vaccination against influenza: many French underestimate the confused with the flu or other illnesses. Influenza is much more painful than a cold. It attacks the nose, throat, bronchi and lungs. . Read the rest of this entry »

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American experts come to speak out against the commercialization of rimonaban, a drug sold in UK since April 2007 under the name Acomplia , and reserved to people obese and diabetic. Why and what lessons learned? The hopes of the anti-pill obesiteCoup thunder around the rimonabanPrudence first! The hopes of the anti-pill of obesiteL’autorisation on the marketing of this drug lab French Sanofi-Aventis was expected long time. It must be said that the progress of clinical trials has been followed closely by the scientific community, and parallel relayed by the media, sometimes under the name of exaggerated anti-obesity pill. It must be said that in response to the alarming rise of obesity and the difficulties to handle the disease, the idea of having an effective drug treatment was particularly attractive. But according to experimentations, people taking this molecule lose an average of 6.4 against 1.8 pounds with a placebo.. Read the rest of this entry »

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Dark clouds or filaments are constantly shifting in your visual field. The specialists speak of floaters, floaters or even myodesopsie. If they can cause anxiety, these flies are most often without gravity..
The myodesopsies are relatively common, particularly in myopes. In the vast majority of cases, they are more a source of discomfort than real trouble. These spots are actually a form of window condensation, viscous, transparent substance located between the lens and retina. It represents all the same, the 4/5 of the eye.
This phenomenon is often a sign of age, said Dr. Jean-Luc Seegmuller, ophthalmologist Strasbourg. In many cases it also occurs more readily in myopes. Read the rest of this entry »

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