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The benefits of swimming
Swimming is the sport most recommended for its many benefits: it keeps the heart in good condition, tones muscles, improves breathing and also helps eliminate the extra kilos. It is proven that when you swim for an hour can burn 500 calories hsta.
In the practice of swimming coordinated move all major muscle groups, exercise without impact and improve endurance. Also, being an excellent aerobic sport is beneficial for the heart. And if it is to lose weight, there is no sport that exceed, without the need for extreme dieting, you can burn fat if you follow a moderate diet and physical activity is, in this case swimming. In exercising all the muscles also tone up your body.
We know that, for long-term benefits, it takes perseverance and control in the food, it is stored contrary much body fat. Swimming is considered the most complete sport and becomes an excellent option that should be practiced throughout the year and for that there are places that offer indoor pools with heated water (from 20 ° to 34 °) in winter. The weather that occurs in these areas is similar to their summer and no air currents that affect the immune system.
Other reasons to opt for the practice of swimming is the sport reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, improves posture, enhances circulation, strengthens the joint tissues, develops flexibility, facilitates the removal of bronchial secretions and helps to improve the state of anxiety and depression generating positive moods.
It is also recommended swimming to treat various conditions both neurological and physical, including asthma, joint and muscle discomfort, stress, back pain and herniated disc, motor and physical disabilities.
If we think in our family, we encourage the practice of swimming in the little ones, and also has multiple benefits for their physical, social and psychological, stimulates appetite and makes her sleep better, improves balance, coordination and knowledge of space, strengthening the sense of independence and self-confidence, eases the process of sociability, playful spirit is encouraged and shared games, among others.
The Pritikin Diet

The Pritikin diet is named after its creator Dr. Nathan Pritikin that created in the 80′s.
Initially used to treat heart disease, but as he was allowing weight loss began to be used also as a weight loss regimen.
Dr. Pritikin is the author of “The Pritikin Principle, the calorie density solution (Pritikin Principle: the solution of the density of calories). It discusses the importance of basing food in natural products, which have lower caloric density. Read the rest of this entry »