Healthy legs: Some of the most interesting facts
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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To the legs were healthy and beautiful, it is not enough to just pedicure or reduce loads. It is important to look after the feet in a complex way. How to do it?
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Where do calluses come from?
Physicians identify several causes of calluses and corns. When we suddenly find out on these legs these unpleasant defects, we immediately begin to worry about the question of where the corns and corns come from. So: small scratches, injuries from uncomfortable shoes can provoke the appearance of calluses on the legs.
Are there any other causes of corns and corns?
Of course, and they are very unexpected. At least, for people who did not study medicine thoroughly. It turns out that the lack of certain vitamins in the body can provoke calluses and unpleasant growths on the legs.
This, in particular, vitamins A, E and B, which are desirable to drink in the complex. If these vitamins are not enough, the skin metabolism is broken. From this, the skin becomes coarse and corns and corns appear. To this can sometimes be added and cramps in the calves of the legs.
And they appear so dramatically that a person can not even sleep. It is important for you to know that when the skin of the legs is rough, accompanied by cramps, you have a clear lack of calcium in your body. It is also necessary to include this microelement in the vitamin menu.
What else contributes to the appearance of corns?
Strangely enough, bad habits can also be considered as the causes of the appearance of corns and calluses. If you drink too much coffee, smoke cigarettes one by one, walk or stand a lot, calluses of the type of varicose veins can also be mixed with calluses.
The first symptom by which you can determine that the legs are not all right and the varices are suspiciously close are the blue stars on their legs. Added to this is the heaviness in the calves, the pain in the muscles, the feeling of fatigue in the legs. As a rule, these symptoms are more felt in the evening, by the end of the day.
There is also a downside to the medal: varicose veins can also take in those who sit a lot. At the same time, blood vessels are clamped, blood flow is disturbed, blood stagnates, and foot disease is inevitable. To reduce the load on the joints and blood vessels, it is important to unload the legs, changing the position of the legs, alternating the sitting with the standing position, walk more and jog.
Products for the prevention of varicose veins
In addition to physical activity in combination with a gentle attitude towards the legs, you need to introduce in the diet also foods that will help keep your legs healthy and beautiful. This is, first of all, garlic. It has a useful property to strengthen the walls of blood vessels. From this, the vessels become more elastic, strong, not so fragile, the risk of thrombosis decreases.
Wheat (germinated). This unpretentious, but very useful product, very well helps to fight with leg diseases. It helps reduce the intensity of pain in the knee joints, it helps even those who because of stresses are many and often nervous.
Terrific, but it turns out that this fact is directly related to joint health. Because the person is nervous, the health of the joints is also significantly deteriorating. They become more brittle, more often they ache. Therefore, the health of the feet also depends on whether there are products in your menu that play a soothing role for you.
Fact from alternative medicine
Strangely, but according to statistics, joints can be more frequent in those patients who wear a lot of jewelry on their hands, legs and neck. Especially if it's heavy jewelry.
Doctors say that it is only necessary to give up jewelry for a short time, and the condition of the joints can quickly stabilize.
B1 or thiamine
According to historical data, it was vitamin B1 that was discovered by the very first of all vitamins back in 1911. Thiamine helps the body to remove harmful substances, which means, to clean the same vessels, to activate the joints of the legs. Lack of vitamin B1 can lead to the fact that the body accumulates toxins, it affects the nervous system and all other body systems badly.
The work of the heart and blood vessels, as well as digestion, depends on whether there is enough vitamin B1 in the body. And legs, of course, will be healthy only when the remaining organs are normal, since there are no unrelated organs and systems in the body. Vitamin B1 also affects the metabolism of fats and carbohydrates, so it must be included in the diet to eliminate metabolic problems.
When thiamine may not act
If you drink alcohol, smoke a lot, be prepared for the fact that even the full norm of vitamin B1 can not act on your body. Pay attention to the symptoms that indicate the destruction of vitamin B1.
This is a violation of the pulse rate, it becomes too strong or too weak.
The pressure can be much higher than normal - that is, the lower pressure can exceed the figure of 90.
Impossibility to concentrate, bad memory, sharp weight loss, swelling of the legs (any part of them), no appetite - all these are signs that the body lacks thiamine
If the vitamin B1 in the body is not enough, a person can develop leg diseases. In particular, muscles ache, there may be tension in the joints, muscles can cramp. In this case, the patient may have insomnia, irritability, pain in different parts of the body, as well as constipation and intestinal problems. Children with a lack of vitamin B1 can grow much more slowly than their peers.
How much vitamin B1 should be consumed for health
If you managed to use vitamin B1 more than normal, there may be an allergic reaction in the form of a rash, difficulty breathing. Overdose can occur after injections of vitamin B1, prescribed in large quantities than necessary.
For the health of vitamin B1, from 200 to 300 mg per day, and for children the dose is much less - up to 100 mg per day.
Vitamin B1 will act much faster and more actively if it is taken in combination with other vitamins of group B. It can be a vitamin supplement or products with vitamin B1 content.
Vitamin B1 can be taken in sufficient doses in plant foods: wheat grains, buckwheat, oats, broccoli, peas, strawberries, strawberries, potatoes.
As for animal products, vitamin B1 is abundant in eggs and liver, as well as in kidneys and yeast.