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If you are pregnant and have cellulite, surely begin with a treatment to combat it. One of the contraindications in pregnancy is that creams, lotions or patches Cellulite is prohibited both in pregnancy and during lactation.

The reason for this prohibition is because these creams contain caffeine (active principle fundamental to combating cellulite). The caffeine is absorbed by the body, moving quickly into the bloodstream and reaching our baby through the placenta (during pregnancy) or breast milk (during lactation).

Also to look out for anti-cellulite cream if you want to start using contains the active ingredient, as there are many who do not and you could use it during this time.

It is best to start using it before you consult with your gynecologist and he will help you choose the right treatment and also whether it ideal cellulite treatment begins at this stage or do when the baby is weaned.

If you want to make a more natural treatment during pregnancy to combat cellulite is to eat a healthy diet, exercise, comfortable shoes, cold showers give leg massage and accomplishment (especially reducers).
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Anyone can boost their IQ—by as much as 14 points, research shows—just by following a few rules.


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Getting a Rapunzel-like mane takes time, but you can speed things up with these valuable tips.

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Experts advise that two hours a day watching television or playing video games should be the limit to ensure that kids can be more healthy, strong and creative.

Here is a list exercise or fun and easy ideas to help kids be active (even without realizing it, many times, that they're exercising!)

1. Walking the dog

2. Walking the dog next door (with the permission of parents and the neighbor, of course)
3. Tracing a kite

4. Throwing a Frisbee

5. Ask your parents or grandparents to take you to a park or other area where you can make contact with nature

6. Bicycling

7. Riding a skateboard

8. If you have a yard, pick up litter or leaves in autumn

9. Weeding or weed

10. Rake the garden

11. Playing the leads

12. Hopscotch

13. Playing with a hula hoop and see who can hold for longer

14. Learn juggling

15. Jump rope

16. Visit the zoo, amusement park or museum (lots of walking)

17. Washing the car

18. Have each family member wear a pedometer and make a daily competition to see who gives more steps. The losers are the tasks of winning the next day.

19. Play basketball

20. Playing football

21. Playing softball or baseball

22. Playing Tennis

23. Have a water fight with bulbs

24. Wear your bathing suit and run around the shower.

25. Go swimming (never without an adult to supervise!)

26. Give the dog a bath. The bigger the dog, you do more exercises

27. Accompany to walk more (a grandparent, for example)
28. Prance.

29. Make pectoral

30. Make an exercise video and do a good workout

31. Tripping

32. Learning to play golf, or be otherwise caddy

33. Playing tennis

34. Playing mini-golf

35. Go bowling

36. Learn to spin a stick

37. Take a martial arts class and learn self-defense

38. Build a fort and play cowboys and Indians

39. If you have a two-story home or basement, move objects up and down, one at a time.

40. Playing career

41. Wash the windows

42. Clean Room

43. Learn yoga, whether in a class or a video

44. Brisk walk

45. Learn to dance


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Grandparents are an important support for parents as for children. They routinely provide care to children, financial assistance and emotional support. Sometimes they claim to provide much more, including the temporary or full time care and responsibility of their grandchildren ...

A growing number of children living in grandparent-headed households. This trend is due to:

* Increases in the number of families with one parent
* The high divorce rate
* Teenage pregnancies
* AIDS
* The jailing of parents
* Substance abuse by parents
* Death or incapacity of the parents
* Abuse and parental neglect.

In many of these homes, none of the biological parent is present. In most cases, children are cared for by grandparents are going to live with them as infants or pre-school and stay with them for five years or more.

These grandparents are a diverse group ranging in age from thirty to seventy. Many grandparents are ready to simplify their lives and take everything slow. Let that go and assume the responsibilities of being the primary parent again can incite many emotions, including sadness, anger, loss, resentment and possibly guilt.

This transition can cause stress and emotional and can involve a significant financial burden. The culture shock of dealing with children and adolescents of different generations can be enormous. The grandparent-headed households have a significantly high poverty rate when compared with other types of households.

Many grandparents in the role of child caregivers underestimate or are unaware of additional charges that his new role as' parents imposed on them''. Grandparents often assume that their role will be to nurture and reward the kids without having to set limits. When grandparents serving as parents, however, they must learn to set limits and controls as they did with their own children.

Many children living with grandparents arrive with preexisting problems or risk factors that include abuse, neglect, prenatal exposure to drugs and alcohol and parental loss (through death, abandonment and incarceration).

This situation can create risks for both parties, children and grandparents. Caring for grandchildren can also be very positive and valuable. Grandparents bring the benefit of experience and perspective. They may also provide important stability and predictability and be a role model for his grandchildren.

It is very important for grandparents to receive support and assistance. Reaching out to other family members, clergy, support groups and social agencies can be helpful. Professionals recognize the important role that grandparents are raising grandchildren. While most grandparents are able to meet their own needs, can better meet the demands of parenthood.
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Depression is a disease of adults, and in fact, the changes that our teens go through during this stage of life puts them in a very vulnerable situation. In this note, the key to successfully confront and overcome this disease.

As we know, all people, including children, suffer from occasional periods of sadness or unhappiness. However, if these experiences are sufficiently severe or long lasting enough to cause problems in normal activities, one could consider that the problem is more than just a period of nostalgia or confused feelings, and that could be going through a clinical depression.

Depression has no cure, but can have severe consequences if not treated properly and on time. In the case of children or adolescents, a major impact on their performance in school, participation in activities they previously enjoyed, and time spent with friends and family. And the more they are removed and absent from social activities, their teachers, friends, or family itself may begin to tell you that something is wrong with them, who are lazy or even crazy. As a result of these comments, self-esteem of adolescents may decrease further, which forms a vicious circle from which it is very difficult to escape. In more severe cases of depression, young people can start thinking about suicide.

Knowing whether your teenager is depressed

If your teen is depressed, probably exhibit two or more of the following symptoms for two consecutive weeks. These should be exhibited behavior not normally observed is due to a change in behavior:

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Has shown changes in their performance in school
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Have difficulty concentrating
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Easily irritated or angry easily
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Showing persistently sad or unhappy
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Has shown changes in their eating and sleeping habits
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Was withdrawn and absent from activities and people that previously used to enjoy
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It displays a guilt or anxiety
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He complains of pain and physical discomfort
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They have aggressive behavior, impulsive or high-risk
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Talk of death or suicide

Causes of teen depression

The medical community still is not sure what are the factors causing depression, since the reasons that cause this disease are varied, and may be different for each person. In adolescents, it could be caused by stress at school or relationships with peers. Some teenagers get depressed when they enter puberty, because of its difficulty to assimilate change their bodies. One thing to note is that nearly 14 years, adolescent girls are twice as likely as adolescent boys to experience depression.
Taking measures against the presumption of a depressed teenager

If your child exhibits symptoms of depression for more than two weeks, you should seek therapy. Your pediatrician may be a good person to start with consultations. Probably will do some assessments to confirm that symptoms are not caused by organic disease or infection. If your doctor thinks that the symptoms are quite significant, could lead to his teenage son to a psychiatric or psychoanalytic therapy.

If you have never been involved with medical or mental health therapies, possibly may be somewhat apprehensive towards them. However, you should know that times have changed, and now, seek help from a psychologist, psychoanalyst or psychiatrist, does not mean that your teen is crazy or you're a bad parent. Nor does it mean that your child must go through years in therapy. The earlier depression is diagnosed and begins to be treated, the simpler of healing and recovery time will be shorter.

Treating and curing depression

Each individual responds differently to the variety of treatments that exist today. There are many ways to cure depression, and treatment of your child depends on the severity of their depression and the methods that you and the doctors feel they will be most effective for her son.

Some of these treatments include: individual therapy sessions with analysts, where the patient expresses their problems face to face sitting or reclining on a divan group therapy coordinated by psychologists, where several patients suffering from similar problems confidentially talk about their difficulties helping each on others, family therapy, where the entire family attends meeting with psychologists or psychoanalysts therapies psychiatric medications, prescribed by psychiatrists and, in the vast minority of cases, temporary admissions in psychiatric clinics.

If you suspect your teenager is depressed, seek treatment as soon as possible to help them overcome their disease. The longer you wait, the more severe could become depression. Contact your pediatrician or mental health counselor at your hospital for more information about depression.
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A disease of our parents can become a major source of demand for us, generating crises and conflicts which if not understood and handled in time, they end up aggravating the situation. Learn how to avoid it.

As the disease progresses, children or relatives are suffering watching your loved one is deteriorating day by day and as it grows the need for extra care.

Given the lack of training and lack of guidance and preparation for living this stage, many feel anger, guilt, shame or confusion, so it is necessary to understand the pressure of caring for our parents are sick with chronic diseases.

Many studies show that carries the emotional care of elderly parents with such conditions: they produce feelings of depression, anxiety or guilt, as well as, perceptions of inadequacy in relation to what is done and not compatible with self-imposed reality .

It is often necessary to adjust the role of each member, as this type of situation can jeopardize their emotional well being.

While the ideal would be for both sons and daughters were shared equally the care of their parents, research shows that this type of task usually falls on a daughter or more rarely on the daughter. In many cases, middle-aged daughters can already predict who will have to assume this task, which could take years.

It is therefore advisable to know the obligations and rights of each member of the family, relatives or friends. Also, the investment of time, care and protection that will be needed. In this context it is important to identify relatives who will be in the forefront of care and who could replace the periods of exhaustion.

Many times we do not know how to deal with an ailing parent. It is best to be natural, be the same, letting intuition guide us. The disease strikes only the sick, but so does the whole family.

The family and disease

The family remains the core institution in support of the major social problems: housing, financial aid, affective-emotional containment and care against diseases. It is estimated that 85% of the attention and care they receive depend on the actions of their children, immediate relatives, friends or neighbors.

With the illness of older children in the family also suffer the consequences: the routine is broken and in need of emotional affective containment, extra guidance or discipline. It is important to make some chores in addition to those already met and not hinder access to sick grandmother or grandfather, allowing them to share time reading, talking or doing any other activity that the situation permits.

All dependent care of as you have had in his childhood a good relationship with their parents, and contributed to the care of his grandparents, has more ability to develop situations of disability, old age and understanding of the phenomena of decay, their own or their loved ones

It is important that children and family care providers are aware of the changes of the patient that the disease could potentially produce and be informed about changes in personality and emotional problems that may arise. Otherwise, you can generate acute tensions that hinder the recovery and severely alter the relationship.

What can we do when we feel overwhelmed by the situation?

Both patients and family members tend not to confront their own fears and afflictions. It is often not talk about it, leaving both parties denied the opportunity to express their feelings.

If the situation is experienced as very critical, you should seek referral to a psychiatrist or psychology team to guide the patient and the family group and to report on existing support groups for family members.

Usually the family caregiver is subject to be the target of annoyance and frustration felt by the patient and some members of the family. It is important to know that this happens, to understand what causes the hostility and respond with patience and compassion.

The children, friends, caregivers and neighbors must understand that in certain diseases, for example, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, dementia and certain tumors, presenting behaviors are involuntary patients.

The negative attitude, memory loss, passivity, behavioral disorders, are only symptoms of the disease. Understanding and accepting this can reduce anger, anxiety, feelings of guilt and, above all, avoid conflicts among family members.

Through sharing, we can generate links containment, support and mutual understanding to sustain us through the period that lies ahead. We feel free to share anxieties and sadness but also joy and our love in ways that usually we found difficulty or defense.
The false joy

Sometimes, instead of the hostility that produces the situation appears a false delight. In most cases, the motive is to deceive the patient about the diagnosis or prognosis.

Perhaps it is important to lift the mood of the patient, but this does not mean we have to hide the truth.

Some people come out with statements such as "everything will be okay," but in reality is not "all right." If we insist on this, we deny the reality of the world's sick.

In response, the patient may depart, feeling abandoned and facing an uncertain world alone. Unwittingly, we risk "psychologically abandon" the person we want.

In these cases, we propose to handle the "truth appropriate" ie that the patient is willing and prepared to listen.
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