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National Moldy Cheese Day- 9 October

October 9 is the day of the blue cheese- molded cheese.

When we hear about eating mold, we are usually scared and afraid that it is dangerous, but if you do not know, mold cheeses have many health benefits.

Cheese with mold are cheeses with blue and green spots. Among the types of cheeses are: Roquefort, Gorgonzola, Steelton, Durbello, Cambazzola, Danbello, Camelost and more.

The origin of the mold is not spoilage of the cheese, but cultures of funcillium species, the type of fungi discovered by Alexander Fleming in the 1940s that can inhibit bacterial growth.

Just as penicillin-containing drugs are used to treat infections, molded cheeses have the ability to fight infections.

The taste of the blue cheeses is sharp and salty and has a strong and unpleasant smell (because of the bacterial cultures). They add good taste to salads, bread, pasta and many other dishes.

  As we have said before, the health benefits of blue cheeses are many, among which you can find the anti-inflammatory properties they have, which can help them in inflammatory situations such as arthritis and other infections.

Other benefits include heart protection, diet help, their contribution to satiety, fighting bacteria, relieving irritable bowel syndrome, preventing bone loss by containing vitamin K2, which maintains bone density, and enhancing the effectiveness of vaccines because they contain catabacillus bacteria.

In conclusion, in honor of Blue Cheese Day, go to the supermarket near you, buy moldy cheese and add it to your daily menu to gain good health and longevity!

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Banana Lovers Day- August 27

Banana is undoubtedly one of the most popular fruits in the world. Who doesn't like a banana in any way? You can eat it with fresh fruit, mashed, smoothies, ice cream, dry fruit, some dessert (like fruit salad, banana split) and more. Sure everyone will find the way he likes a banana.

Most Americans love bananas and have declared August 27 as a banana-lovers holiday.

Banana is a very healthy fruit: it contains a significant amount of protein, vitamin A, vitamin B and vitamin C, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron and fiber.

If you eat one banana every day, it will certainly contribute to your health to a great extent.

To celebrate banana lovers' day, get some interesting and surprising facts about bananas:

Bananas, like apples and watermelons, can float on water.  

Bananas do not grow on trees. The banana plant is actually the largest grass in the world. The banana has no stem with a regular tree, but a thick stem composed of layers (similar to onions) called a stem.

The scientific name of the banana is Musa sapientum, which means "fruit of the sages."

The source of the cultural banana, the edible variety, is in Southeast Asia. They started eating it already in the prehistoric period.

The banana arrived in America in the 16th century, by the Spanish who came to the mainland.

The only place in the US where bananas are commercially grown is Hawaii, with most bananas coming from Latin America and South America, including Costa Rica, Ecuador, Colombia, Honduras, Panama, Guatemala.

The type of banana that is sold in the supermarket is called Cavendish banana.

In the past there was a popular variety of Banana in America called Gross Michel, which was extinct in the 1940s, because of a mushroom that spread and attacked the crop and caused the "Panama disease".

A cluster of bananas is called a hand, and one banana is called a finger. Each banana hand has about 10 to 20 fingers.  

About 75% of the weight of the banana is water.

Japan uses bananas to make fabrics and paper.

Other interesting uses for banana:

Bananas help to reduce depression. Studies have found that people who have suffered from depression and ate bananas have significantly improved their mood. This is because the banana contains tryptophan - a substance that the body turns into serotonin, which raises mood.

Rubbing the inside of the skin of the banana on the skin in case of a mosquito bite (or other insect) helps to prevent the itching and the development of inflammation.

If you have a wart rubbing the inside of the shell every night, it can cause the wart to disappear within a week or two, because of the potassium in the cortex.

Banana is good for athletes - Banana has three types of natural sugars, which together with the nutritional fibers they provide instant energy and quality. The low-fat banana is easy to digest and has essential carbohydrates to supply energy before, during, and after exercise.

The banana has a lot of iron and is therefore good against anemia.

The banana is good for relieving stress and tension. The bananas have high levels of vitamin B, which helps calm the nervous system. When we are under stress, the metabolic rate accelerates and the level of potassium in the body decreases. Potassium is a mineral that helps maintain heart rate, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates fluid levels in the body. Therefore eating banana increases the level of potassium in the body and calms the stress.

Rubbing a banana peel on the teeth for about two minutes each night will whiten your teeth naturally. The results come in about two weeks. This works because of the effect of potassium, magnesium and manganese in banana peel.  

Bananas are also a great hair conditioner that helps to restore dry and damaged hair. Cook a banana and add a tablespoon of cream and a tablespoon of honey to the mixture. When it cools, place on dry hair, cover with a bathing cap and then wrap in a warm towel. Leave everything on the hair for an hour and then rinse thoroughly with warm water. Then overlap the head with shampoo.  

Rubbing a banana peel on the forehead can help cure a headache.

Bananas and banana peel become excellent fertilizer for the soil because they contain phosphorus and potassium. The roses especially love them.  

Rubbing the inside of a banana peel on leaves of potted plants will make them shiny.

You can use the banana peel to clean and polish leather shoes.

With banana peel you can make excellent polish for silver. Rub the dishes with the inside and then move with a cloth and the dishes are polished and sparkling.

No Diet Day- May 6

May 6 is a day devoted to raising awareness of the dangers of unbalanced diet.
An unbalanced diet designed to lose weight quickly, or a diet based on too few calories, or the failure to eat some essential nutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins and fats, can cause the body irreversible damage.

The No Diet Day was initiated by Mary Evans Young from England, a woman who recovered from anorexia, and has been celebrated since 1992. This day is actually designed to encourage us to accept our body as it is, without making harmful diets, even if we have a few extra pounds. On this day we should stop and think if the low calorie diets we do do not harm us or endanger us, and whether we get all the food, minerals and vitamins we need on our daily menu.

The No Diet day is marked by feminist groups in several countries around the world, including the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Israel, Denmark and Brazil.

The goals of the No Diet Day are:  

To stimulate the discussion of whether there is only one "correct" body shape.  

Raise awareness of discrimination against high-weight people, and fat phobia.  

Declare a free day from diets and obsessions related to body weight.  

Present the facts about the diet industry, emphasizing the inefficiency of commercial diets.  

Respect the victims of eating disorders and weight loss analyzes.  

How will we celebrate this day?

First of all, we will celebrate and love our body as it is.

We will listen to our body and eat according to the signs of hunger and satiety it sends us.

We will do a soul-searching about what we do to our bodies when we do diets as a meal.

We'll think about the future, how we want our body to be in a few years. Do we want to be healthy as adults or sick and weak?

We'll learn a little about why diets do not work.

We will eat tasty and nutritious food that we love and will not regret it.

While eating, we will chew well and concentrate on the taste of the food.

While eating, we will do nothing else.

Avoid talking about diets, weight and fat.

We'll do something physical that we really like.

Start loving your body on May 6th, say good-bye to the harmful diets and you know what, go on like this all your life, because your body is beautiful how it is!

World Pneumonia Day- November 12

World Pneumonia Day is a day to raise awareness of pneumonia and demand the fight against it.
Pneumonia is the most common cause of death in children under 5 years of age. 155 million children under the age of five are diagnosed with the disease each year, of which 1.6 die.
The day of the war against pneumonia was established in 2009 in order to mobilize the public to fight and prevent the disease.

Pneumonia is a fatal and difficult disease, but its treatment and prevention are effective and easy. There are effective vaccines against the two most common causes: B Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Orthomyxoviridae.

Antibiotics can cure the disease if you start taking it early enough.

The lives of a million children could have been saved each year if the treatment and prevention of pneumonia were being used in the poorest countries in the world.

Among the artists who have joined the fight against pneumonia are Gwyneth Paltrow and Hugh Laurie.

Read more: The official website of the World Pneumonia Struggle Organization

  Symptoms of pneumonia: fever and shortness of breath. If you have any of these symptoms, you should go to the doctor immediately. Untreated pneumonia can get complicated and cause more signs such as chest pain, chills, headaches, and muscles. Failure to treat the disease can be fatal.

National Day Without Bra- 13 October

A day without a bra is a day that began in 2011.
The purpose of the day is to raise awareness of the importance of screening tests for breast cancer by encouraging women to go out without a bra.
The entire month of October is the Breast Cancer Awareness Month, with its peak on Oct. 21, a pink dress-up day where pink events are organized and money is raised to improve breast cancer treatment and raise awareness of the disease.
Every year about 4,500 women are diagnosed with breast cancer. In the Western world, this is the most common malignant disease. Early diagnosis of breast cancer increases the chances of cure to about 90%. Therefore, the more women who know the symptoms of the disease and check with the doctor, the greater the chance of saving their lives.
The origin of the day without a bra is not clear, but if you search the web for # nbraday # you will get many photos and results related to this day, of women who participated on this day and removed the bra especially for him.
For the 13th of October, leave the bras at home and tell everyone why you did it, and raise awareness of the early detection of the disease, which can save lives.

Sunscreen Day- 27th May

Today, May 27, is the day that reminds us of how important it is to put on sunscreen, as the song by Buzz Luhrmann says "Wear Sunscreen." 

Ultraviolet radiation can cause sunburn, skin cancer, sunspots and premature aging. The sunscreen should also be used on cloudy days, because UV rays penetrate through the clouds.

If you live in the northern hemisphere (like about 88% of the world population), then you are entering into summer. If you live in the tropics of the earth (like about 40% of the world's population), you are always in an area with direct sunlight. So, now is the time to purchase a new sunscreen.   

If you already have sunscreen, check the expiry date. Most modern fluorescence filters work up to three years. So if you want the cream you put to work (that's the whole idea, isn't it?), You need to replace the protective cream that you have expired. 

Another last thing, sunscreen is not only when you go to the sea. Our skin is exposed to the sun even when we are in the car, walking, running, etc., so as the song says: 

Wear sunscreen. 

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.

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Fresh Vegetables Day- 16 June

Fresh vegetables are an important component of our diet, and studies show that to maintain a healthy and long-lasting lifestyle, eat at least 5 servings of fresh vegetables a day in five colors: green, red, orange, white and purple.

The vegetables are rich in vitamins, minerals and fiber and therefore protect our bodies from disease. June 16 is the day of fresh vegetables, the day when we recommend a change and start enriching our meals with fresh vegetables around the clock. 

The fresh vegetable day is celebrated at the beginning of the summer, when the vegetables are the most delicious and abundant. No matter how, in salad, whole, chic or whatever way you like, be sure to eat plenty of fresh vegetables to keep you healthy.

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Is there one right way to success on a diet?

Drink only water that are good for diet and clean the body. Diet drinks are delicious and low in calories. Don't drink diet drinks because the sweeteners they contain are toxic. Don't drink juice because of the calories. Drink juices for health. Not to put sugar. Put a teaspoon of sugar. Drink a tablespoon of olive oil. Do not touch oil in general. Avoid white flour products. Eat white flour products, in moderation. Eat a cube of chocolate a day. Abstain chocolate. Eat only bread. Eat only whole wheat bread. Eat lots of vegetables. Limit the amount of vegetables. Eat lots of cheese products. Abstain cheese products that are not healthy. Eat 0% fat. Do not touch if it below 3% fat. Do sport 3 times a week. Do sports every day. Combine strength training. Don't combine strength training. Run. Don't run. Avoid carbohydrates. Eat lots of carbohydrates. Avoid red meat. Eat red meat. Avoid artificial sweeteners. Consume artificial sweeteners. Eat until 6:00 pm. Eat until an hour before bed ...............

You can go on like this all day. U.S. diet industry alone, rolling 40 billion $ a year . many many companies and entrepreneurs see the potential in the field, and new diets popping up like mushrooms after rain. Who has not heard of the Atkins Diet, South Beach diet, diet of bread, cabbage diet, Weight Watchers, OA, dietitian health funds, private dieticians, sports dietitian, books about diets, body shaping diets DVD, "miracle" diet pills. We are inundated from all sides regarding the food industry , nutrition and diets. You can not open the TV without seeing a program without commercials about food (and diet products). 

All this can be very confusing, especially for those who are not experienced with diets. How to navigate Who's right? Is there one right way?

Two months ago, I was very confused. I've tried about everything (except Diets illogical as cabbage diets or magic pills that trying to sell a dream but not a reality). I went to dietitians, I tried to diet myself, I tried to delve into sports fitness rather than diet. Every time I tried something else, hoping that once I succeed. " Every time I really believed this time it is, this is different. But could not. I was just confused from all the information accumulated in my head. I did not know what's right. One day I thought it's right to eat healthy food (carbohydrates like brown rice, for example, combined healthy vegetable oils, many vegetables and fruits). But I lost weight and could not be balanced. Another time, I thought I should ever make a lot of sports and just burn everything. Subscription to the gym I trained for months by a program manager in the gym. That did not work. I went mostly muscle mass but did not get off nearly scale.

Finally I realized that to succeed, I have to take a break from everything. I have to analyze myself and understand what works for me and what doesn't. Attempt to sell one diet for everyone is incorrect and misleading experience, while of course will make money at our expense. As we all have different tastes in movies, clothes, as we are of different character - one extreme and one inward, one is humorous and one is heavy, so we are also different in our bodies - both physically and mentally. Everyone responds differently to different food. We have a different physique. We react differently mentally. We have different habits and different agenda.

So the first thing we must accept, first of all - there is no one answer. There is no one diet or one way to correct result!

The next step is to know ourselves. We need to understand ourselves and some important things:

1. How we got to this place? Is it due to habits acquired in childhood? Is it following a trauma or something we've been through? Is it because we neglected ourselves? Is it because of a physical problem, again? How to resolve the problem is to figure out where it started. In my case, for example, a lot of my habits were problematic habits from home, from childhood. For example the need to finish the plate, the need for sweets after dinner and lunch. 
   
2. How we react to changes? Do we need to make changes that are Baby steps, small steps, every time a small change? Or we respond well to extreme changes and the best thing for us will go from black to white?
3. When we eat in the morning. does it opens us to the appetite for the rest of the day, and then we look for food all the time? or when we eat this morning, we shut the appetite and we do not feel the need to eat? Similarly, do we feel better when we eat a big meal at noon or night?
4. How we react to sugar carbohydrates? Do we suffer from light addiction (or solid)? Or we have no problem to eat only two squares of chocolate and stop?
5. Do we have the time and ability to exercise 3-5 times a week? Or our agenda is too busy and we prefer to concentrate on diet?
    
6. Are we physically active during the day (at work, for example), or we tend to sit all day?
   
7. Do we often eat outside? Do we have the ability to cook ourselves and buy fresh produce every few days?
   
8. Are we driven by emotional eating , or we have relatively good control?
   
9. Did our family join the process, or they do not share it? What about our social environment? Is it supportive or makes us difficult life?
   
10. What is our age? what's our metabolic rate? are you a girl that still developing or an older woman in her metabolic rate diminishing with the years?
    
11. What is our purpose? weight loss? Bodybuilding? Be healthy?
    
12. Are our goals coordinated with reality? Do we really have to diet? How long is the diet process we need? Do we need such a significant change to do?
     
13. Do we have physical disabilities?

All these questions and many other questions are the questions that shape our way. 

Me for example, I realized that I wanted quick results because I'm impatient. I need a supportive environment , I need explicit boundaries. I cann't get treats every day because that will make me quickly deviates from the road. Once my husband joined me, all the difficulty disappears if there was, and together we went to sports dietician who fit us each a different diet that suits him.

The message I want to deliver here is plain and simple - we are essentially different one from each other. There is no one answer. There is no one way. There is no one diet. Explore yourself as possible. Experiment as much as possible. Open your horizons, read, learn and understand what are the possible different ways. 

First and foremost is very important to contact your family doctor perform medical exams. see if there are nutritional deficiencies, if there are physical limitations, if normal thyroid and so on.You can also do more extensive testing such as testing BMR (Basic Tabula rate testing, or other words - how many calories you put out an average day, it's really you live and breathe), stress test and so on.

Finally, my two cents regarding choosing a professional - in my opinion, a good professional is one who knows "how to sew a suit" to any person by virtue. Such that not only gives a printed page with a menu of 1200/1500/1800 calories, but one who knows to listen, support and finding creative solutions for everyone. With experience you can give yourself these tips, but until then, worth a try and check all your options and see what suits you.