The autumnal equinox of September 23 when day and night are of equal length is long gone, since our days are inexorably day becomes shorter and colder.

The sun then this is not only less number of hours as well as its tilt makes the beams less hot.

The land, however, still has some of the heat accumulated in summer and slowly surrenders, and the result is that one perceives a gradual increase in the cold, it will have its climax with the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year but which may go forward even to the gates of the spring just because it is the land that will become progressively colder.

Part of October and November are again a transition period or are part of the season that even half of the fifth season. According to the Chinese calendar after the second week of November can be considered the start of the first part of winter or his birth.

What is important for health is not just to change the way we dress, but also our eating habits, relaxation and leisure and also care of themselves. We must harmonize with the current season.

I got this, and conviction through my work as acupuncturists. For some years I use the seasonal method, or edit and choose for each channel to deal with specific points depending on the season. This old system runs in the study of the hexagrams of Ba and Ba Gua zhi and allows you to re-harmonize the body and especially the organ and the channel, seen as a microcosm with the macrocosm, bringing the results to be surprisingly more effective on pain disorders and visceral organ. The next step was to bring together all those notions we already know and are part of folk wisdom, but taken together they help us greatly to keep in better health.

First, the light is useful, as far as possible, move to fresh air even in winter, all mothers know, you come out with the wheelchair during the hottest hours of the day and gets a ride in the park, is not so ?

Physical activity should be done better with the light and fresh air if possible, of course, morning and evening are excluded, my advice is: if you can out before lunch for a walk, you can do it later but you will be more weighed down by the food and you risk if the climate is hard to digest hard.

If your lunch break allows this may be the best time to go in the gym. But back in the open reserve at least Saturday or Sunday, a time for us to put on motor activity during the hottest hours or from 10 to 14.

After a physical activity, especially if done outdoors, where an anorak clothing is de rigueur, it is useful as a warm Nordic teach us with a nice sauna: estremanete activity is useful as it not only helps eliminate toxins through sweating, but allows the body to fight the cold and especially against moisture that tries to invade the body.

No contraindication to the pool, turkish bath and fitness in general, but beware: If you can not take a sauna, dry hair thoroughly before going outdoors, wear a rather Capellini and a wool scarf.

We get to the food, this season it is normal to be attracted to heavy and rich foods and let us say more pigs! But we try to use your head, above all to the period must be eaten hot food. I am therefore banned salads, sandwiches and cold dishes salad bar where you can find almost exclusively now frozen cooked or raw vegetables. Bands as well as water, wine and soft drinks from the fridge or worse kept outside, and then frozen.

E 'allowed a glass of red wine, more meat, more fatty foods but be careful not to exaggerate with meats and cheeses that are extremely rich in cholesterol.

And 'allowed the dried fruit, nuts, almonds, apricots, dried cherries and berries, pumpkin seeds, sesame, sunflower, preferable in the morning because of their high caloric intake. Do not forget the valuable then cooked vegetables to diversify: pumpkin, fennel, asparagus, green beans, cabbage, spinach, carrots, zucchini and cook with imagination boundary as the main course at lunch and especially in the evening.

To avoid drinking something hot to drink coffee in ten days and even let us make a tea, a tea or a tea-tasting warm welcome to us and maybe useful to our constitution, is a cuddle, a break and also a way to stay hydrated because heaters on all day can dry the airways.

And always, how little attention this time, we put a few drops of essential oil of thyme or lemon on a radiator. In addition to making the environment more pleasant smell spoiled and often closed, will disinfect the air from the dreaded seasonal pathogens including those of swine!

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Tags: Food , Physical Activity , pathogens , winter

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