And 'recently released on the Republic of Federico Rampini an article about the possible harmful effects of this ancient discipline. The article in question emphasizes the development of a growing and alarming so-called "syndrome of yoga accidents" that I would call malpractice syndrome yoga and Rampini himself acknowledges that even as such in the development of his article.

The topic is interesting and in fact becomes more than legitimate deal with seriousness and competence not feel it a taboo, but trying to clarify some important aspects of this question: Can yoga hurt?

Practice yoga for over 30 years and in that time I never ever had physical problems related to my practice, if anything, I can honestly say that yoga has enabled me to maintain focus and body awareness on other sports such as running, horseback riding, hiking and skiing accidents leading to numerous mechanical and physical ailments by ipersollecitazione. When I'm not well I know exactly what exercises to do and what not to do and this is absolutely true.

Certainly a case like mine is not any impact, let alone can make the text to the fact that I have knowledge of anatomy, physiology, motor recovery, achieved with my studies in medicine and rehabilitation, and with my work. It 'also true that the numbers reported in the article by Rampini really do not give the size of the problem as they are not associated with the total number of its practitioners' to the number of practitioners who are not only well but who have benefited from the practice.

That does not show a percentage of damage, much less compared with other sports or disciplines, and this does not have a complete but only partial, and dare I say "directional" and impressionable. The statement that "many people are not suited to the practice of yoga and they had better stop," and concluding that "yoga should be in good health" seems a bit excessive and biased.

Yoga is primarily a way, not just a sport, or a chance to develop something unique and useful to the individual at different levels of the individual. A good practice you can get to silence and the possibility of creating a void within themselves. The mechanical thoughts have the ability to break down freeing our minds to a much more expanded world where thought can develop, rise and travel much more freely, such as tapping into something higher.

These experiences can enrich the yoga practitioner that in this era suffer more than any other time in the sense of lack of freedom. The modern individual of today as never feels to be a prisoner of his own thoughts of many mechanical and external conditions.

Yoga is seen in this respect inside and internalized can be considered as an ointment, a medicine for many diseases including depression of the soul and the anxiety of so much talked about. And 'to consider that many sports can turn into a street. Mountaineering Messner, for example, is not only a sport but it gets in the way he practices it, a genuine way, a way to evolve, to go beyond your limits and your way of thinking creating something new as he has produced.

But as he himself says, what is good is not good for me, and indeed may be harmful and dangerous

In my experience there is nothing that is a medicine the same for everyone and everything. As if a Chinese herbal medicine herbal remedy is effective for a specific disease, the same remedy can, if taken incorrectly, to be harmful to other individuals. Being natural does not make it less harmful, is childish and puerile to think in this way.

As always it is about knowing the material in depth, not only studying but also practicing. Each posture has physical and mechanical effects which, if performed on patients with specific physical problems may be in need of fixes and customizations are not always already encoded on the individual books.

In addition, many disciplines such as yoga and Eastern religions, as many tend to remain constrained by tradition, "it was so and so do we." Teaching in danger of becoming something dead, whose value today is not the same value and as effective as one that could have at that time. Recall that the practitioner of yoga was originally selected as a child and grew up devoting a lifetime to yoga. Today it is no longer the case; also translate the ancient texts, trying to apply them and understand their meaning is not without risk to interpret.

But still not all. From experience I can say that the practice of yoga is that if you do not get to a certain kind of intensity. And 'the intensity of practice to make it effective. It is, as for many drugs and physiotherapy, a "delta effective action" sometimes very small and sometimes near the edge of potentially harmful. This makes it necessary to the prescribing medications, physical therapy practice but also to help those who practice yoga and those who do a remarkable ability to listen carefully and not to risk moving from practice to that of rose water foolish and harmful.

We enter into a dimension that it can become dangerous when the person who teaches yoga or who enters into a state of fanaticism and inability to be balanced. But let's not fool us by this new way of thinking of our modern society that wants to label everything as safe as the meat they buy at the supermarket is not so simple.

Whose responsibility if, during a lesson, the yoga practitioner who works at the supermarket lifting weights has warned all week sciatic pain worsening, and during the lesson insisted postures doing all the while feeling bad until you hear a clear sharp pain in the position of the clamp (pascimottasana), getting worse or a lumbar disc disease: the teacher or pupil?

When I was a student say, is lack of awareness of the student, as a runner who gets a knee tendon meniscopatia or because he did not stop in time. Not one has heard, has passed for ego or for distracting her physical limit and pays the consequences.

The yoga teacher becomes responsible for the consequences when his student warns him of his pain and he does not hear him or tells him to go without fear of pain and without a real awareness of the true limits of the practitioner: this becomes a failure of responsibility. It 'true that many doctors without knowledge of yoga may tell you to stop this practice as a cause of pain, without paying much attention to the subtle and perhaps destroying years of work positive. But it is equally true that the yoga teacher may not be able to understand that some of the exercises in that particular case and the situation can become dangerous inflammation: a lumbar anterolistesi for example, can worsen with extension exercises, and a lumbar or cervical rettilinizzazione disc protrusions may worsen with flexion exercises especially if maintained for a long time and these cases are very frequent and almost always produced by a sedentary lifestyle or other working conditions.

A good teacher or yoga teacher you must have studied yoga and the human body but also and above all, have long practiced and taught for too long. And him as the pupil and how many doctors should not fall into the delusion of omnipotence conferred by its role and try to keep an opinion as objective as possible.

Federico Rampini is surprised that many teachers suffer from physical ailments, why not? I say, the fact of teaching yoga for this reason does not make them invulnerable. Tensions visceral and emotional moments of unconsciousness motor can also affect them. Have achieved an awareness of an individual in a specific field does not mean it to 360 degrees and maintained on an ongoing basis.

Many pains are expressions of internal stresses and the deep and visceral reflex disorders can emerge during the practice. Discern which cases there is not easy. Running the first small and temporary orthopedic shoulder pain without waiting to see what happens, or persevere with months or years without lumbosciatica contact a specialist in the field, preferably with medical expertise, they are both errors, the first from excess of fear and the second failure of responsibility.

The balance, the right to act and speak, have the goal to be achieved; someone is still very far away, someone is already close, to err is more than understandable for both.

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Another serious problem is often not considered when it comes to posture is the view.

The presence of a severe vision impairment, especially up close, the body produces viziatissima a posture that could be called secondary. That is not itself an attitude due to the character of the person but the answer to a difficulty in reading than usually.

The patient usually does not close the newspaper or the PC to the eyes but approaches the face! In this way, the cervical spine is in kyphosis anteroposizione with a tendency to stretch the lower and upper reaches of rettilinizzazione.

In addition, the axis of alignment of the head is totally lost and the weight of the skull rests entirely on the scalene muscles, cervical, trapezius muscles, and sometimes even on strenocleidomastoidei inevitably contract abnormally.

As a result, at best, a muscolotensiva neck pain and at worst a picture of cervical disk disease is severe with the possibility of multiple protrusions, herniations or extruded fragments which may be accompanied by hernia pain brachialgia called, not only cervical but irradiated in the arms and hands and these symptoms are often very painful and annoying, since they correspond to real neuralgia.

The most logical conclusion is certainly correct the visual defect with a complete ophthalmologic evaluation, but not enough, the attitude remains that in this case is a body memory or psychomotor or even if there are more suitable corrective glasses reminiscent of the body scheme motion an attitude that has become automatic.

The person tends to repeat those patterns so physical, visual disorder resulting from the first, and remain in place even after the visual defect has been corrected, continue to exacerbate the cervical muscles and bones and joints.

The only way to act on them is primarily awareness raising and observe the postural defect acquired, then fix it up constantly to reprogram the body scheme.

And 'wrong to say "I am so" thinking they can not change the situation or even worse offended if someone points out our incorrect position: well there is someone who makes her look; aware of their posture is not in fact, in most of cases, something you're born, but it should be built day by day.

As with everything necessary to engage and work on it maybe using assistance with energy specialists and postural re-education.

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typical posture

The poses are all the positions that our body takes to look or feel a certain way. In fact many of the poses and positions are also many poses you take out of habit. It is therefore difficult to discern how a pose then is constituted and maintained beyond the look or want to perceive themselves in one way rather than another.

You will not believe but the poses are a number of enemies of a healthy posture.

Seated cross-legged for example is a typical gesture value both male and female, definitely detrimental to the lumbar spine when prolonged and repeated. This is because the crossing easily yields in the lumbar kyphosis. This pose is really hard to believe me off because the cross-legged position is sexy for women and also transmits in a workplace with a sense of ease and friendship sometimes indispensable.

In patients with lumbar or cervical disk disease known and recurrent pains, in addition to performing acupuncture that have a great chance to remove the inflammation without having to resort to corstisonico, great emphasis on postural correction, especially when I recognize the repetition of some poses harmful to the spine .

The recommendations are well known to insiders and outsiders: Do not lift weights, stooping bending your legs, sit with your feet flat on the floor and lower back supported. Therefore, the correction of cross-legged is often the most difficult and escapes to systematically control even the most careful of patients. And 'frequent than in a single session, my correction of this pose is repeated over and over again pecking the patient "knowing" as with the fingers in the cookie jar!

There are as many poses less common but harmful, perhaps even more dangerous among them include that of keeping the head slightly tilted to one side as a sign of listening or sharing, typical of the character of the television series CSI: Miami Horatio just to make a concrete example. This simple and seemingly innocuous installation, when prolonged and repeated systematically over time, can generate a functional scoliosis able to stabilize. It may follow cervical and cervicobrachial pains, sometimes supported by clusters of cervical disk disease more or less marked.

Correct this type of installation is more difficult and you need to activate a system of continuous surveillance and postural awareness to capture the pose and correct it in the bud. To make matters worse happens that the patient does not notice her pose if not through a mirror or a photo. The only way is to take mental pictures and meticulously observed.

Similarly, it is useful to observe what emotion is connected to the installation to locate it more easily. A very complex, often poorly accepted by the patient but in some cases necessary to obtain complete resolution of pain.

Beware then when you see the birth of a pose, then remember that it is not easy to undo the damage that can cause the spine, at least not with the same ease with which you can remove a wrinkle-faced!

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We open a chapter of great interest in medical science as well as informative: for dyslipidemia is defined as an increase in plasma concentration of blood lipids, mostly cholesterol and triglycerides, or both.

Nowadays, with the improvement of biochemical, attention is focused not only on the increase in cholesterol and triglycerides individually as they did once, but the r intake present among the different types of cholesterol and triglycerides.

Patients know that the latest must have a good relationship between total cholesterol and HDL cholesterol between 4 and 5 to be in good health. According to biochemist Barry Sears, the relationship between triglycerides and HDL cholesterol is essential and must be less than 4.

But let's go back a little back What are triglycerides and cholesterol in the human body?

Firstly, I am fat and not argue about this, so they are insoluble in water, this feature makes the fats in the body can not be absorbed without esterification process mediated by bile salts produced by the liver and gallbladder and not in storage at in the blood can travel freely without being tied to the low or high density lipoproteins (see LDL, VLDL, HDL)

The second important thing is to know so that we can produce endogenous lipids from carbohydrates, which is starting protein, a major source of production certainly comes from carbohydrates.

It is believed that as many as 80% of cholesterol is dependent on the domestic production and not by the amount of cholesterol introduced with food. They are the excess sugars that increase their production and in particular how to say his lectures are Dr Berry Sears carbohydrate and low-cost trans fats or hydrogenated to increase, through the power, the ability to produce endogenous cholesterol or harmful cholesterol.

Another aspect that is appropriate to reflect cholesterol is considered as an element of vital importance, not only a danger, because it enters the formation of complex substances such as steroid hormones, including testosterone, cortisol, estrogen, progesterone and many other highly specialized molecules such as Vitamin D for an example.

The level of cholesterol in the elderly is also seen as an important indicator of health. In fact, eighty patients have a low cholesterol is closely linked with increased morbidity (rates of sickness) and mortality (chance of dying) and is regarded as a sign of weakness.

Another factor on which it is useful to consider is that the alarm value of cholesterol seems to fall more and more with over the years as well as the values ​​of arterial hypertension. Once the critical value was 260 mg and 200 mg is now at risk seems to decrease further.

It 'very interesting debate about the real risks and the most effective class of drugs used to lower cholesterol: statins. Statins induce a reduction of endogenous production of cholesterol by direct action on the' enzyme that generates it, a ' parallel action would, however, also present on the muscle tissue of a molecule by analogy.

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Everyone knows the reputation of cholesterol, fat seen as dangerous to the circulatory system and then as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease in general.

Maybe people are less able to know that there are other extremely dangerous with a reduced fat famous people, are trans fats, also called hydrogenated fats.

In America, particularly in New York, there is a battle to eliminate the drive for the restaurants and the food industry these harmful ingredients and new. In simple terms, fatty acids are mainly of plant origin that by cooking at high temperatures or by chemical processing systems are treated by the hydrogenation, thereby altering their chemical structure from the natural "cis" to the artificially produced in the "trans ".

Thanks to the method by which the beginning of the twentieth century, many margarines are made of plant origin, have been created in this way fat at low cost that have invaded the food industry like wildfire. Biscuits, cakes, pies, pizzas, and almost all packaged products may contain them, and all fried foods are very rich. Do you think that the beloved french fries will contain a quantity equal to 45% of their weight. There are, for example, trans fats naturally present in cow's milk and some vegetables but their harmful biochemical effect is not even remotely comparable to that of the trans forms obtained chemically.

Do you think that the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences (IOM) has proposed for the trans fat zero tolerance.

This means that should be removed from production. According to many researchers trans fats are responsible for a significant alteration in the metabolism of lipid-lowering LDL cholesterol and raise HDL, increase the number of adipocytes or fat cells, the production of free radicals, production of insulin and reduce the metabolism of omega-3. are also many other biochemical interference and the implications on the delicate internal systems, in particular on the hormonal system and the immune system.

In particular, the work conducted by biochemist Barry Sears, shows that trans fats, so the "fans" (NSAIDs) block the production of certain hormones called eicosanoids, deputies to the regeneration of cells, altering the balance between those Members of the pro-inflammatory ones regenerating and cellular destruction. It follows a chronic silent inflammation.

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After the holidays it is common to find him a few extra pounds.

What usually happens is that you start in fourth with extreme diets and record purposes, usually unsuccessful, short-term, stop smoking, stop overeating, go to the gym ... and so on.

Very well: let's start with one thing at a time, one step after another, this is a season still difficult and the body should be adequately stimulated.

We start with simple, or try to remove what is too much, reduce the number of daily cigarettes and coffee, as regards the food while it is essential not make a habit perhaps to finish the dish.

It 'must be careful when you sit at the table and do not do it in a mechanical way, do not start to swallow the bread and breadsticks, this is just a habit.

Been focused, ask for a small portion, or try not to finish everything that's in the pot and leave a few bites, no remorse for the third world! Does not change much if you do not swallow you!

Give up the bread and sweet with firmness and decision, and do not worry, there will your body.

But especially in the evening after the eighteen avoid any calorie food, pasta, cereals, biscuits, wine.

The ideal is nutrisri vegetables cooked in a simple but tasty, the broth, the soup. (more ...)

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This question asked young people not without difficulty and without, unfortunately, not very often strongly influenced by their environment, seems to be a rhetorical question or story. I mean when you say this sentence seems to be an air of irony that surrounds it, as if it were a game, but above all as if dreams are dreams because they irrealizabili.

"I want to pilot airplanes." Why do you smile? because they already consider it feasible? There is an eminently feasible path to become airline pilots, and then that's strange but these requests are almost always considered dreams and dreams remain so for almost everyone! It is we who make them become so, our attitude.

There is nothing that any man is not able to learn and study, is the consistent application and believe that makes the difference.

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It seems obvious but understand this concept is of fundamental importance because everything, absolutely everything on earth, moves in this Law. Tends to fill the void tends to empty and full. Each system, whether living or not depends on this law.

The Chinese speak of yin and yang principles as two closely linked and dependent on each other, configured in a circle indicating its movement inniterrotto from each other.

Each system must necessarily have to live food, so free from outside and fill up or empty out, and when this mechanism is no longer the stagnation and gradual deterioration until death.

Think of the human body must breathe, eat and drink, none of these activities are inseparable from his life but the same is true for the urinary system and intestinal functions, perhaps less noble, but of vital importance for the car body functions.

This input-output mechanism, also occurs in human relations, the father or the mother feeds the child and the child when his father diventarà feed her son, it is natural, and even in the most common relationships there is always one who gives and who receives one, and these Roles can be fixed or interchangeable smoothly.

In psychology, it is said that it is important for those who has a recurring role of support for the next in turn to have a container that can in turn have the support of someone else.

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And 'increasingly popular surgery to correct the signs of aging on the body and face. Although cosmetic surgery is every day that passes more refined and sophisticated, the changes are responsible for a cascade inadequacy of the remaining body parts.

In short, it's like when you buy a new piece of furniture, when we insert it in a harmonious whole of the old until just before, immediately after it happens that you can not do without changing the rest of furniture, because it appears totally inadequate.

With cosmetic surgery, the risk is the same, when you start to modify a part, then the rest seems decadent and no longer acceptable, and so begins an endless series of adjustments to completely disrupt the harmony of our natural appearance.

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The health advertising in Italy really is incredibly limited, for example a doctor can write his name or the name of the surgery with its various specializations only on a limited dimensoni plate next to the door, or in magazines or business cards .

It 'may not for example use the windows to write "doctor", something that any craft or commercial can easily place it in size.

To specify a medical practice is prohibited activities, and how, we can mention only the academic skills or those outside the university without prior approval of the medical room.

It seems to me exaggerated. I understand that you can not write any nonsense, I understand that it must assess the actual achievement of the studies exposed, as it is health that is spoken. But consider it contemptible for a doctor to advertise it seems to me an exaggeration!

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It sounds like a joke but it is not!

Our back, especially the lumbar region, already sorely tested by a sedentary lifestyle, suffers a lot when taking care of a baby or a dog we are continually bent towards him.

Put the small and togliergliere clothes, put the scarf, hold hands, listen and look at his face always require movement of the spine forward.

The same when we want to take care of a dog, pet it, talk to him, put the leash ... maneuvers are equally at risk.

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