Saturday, June 11th, 2011
Even if you don’t consider yourself a total tree hugger, there are lots of good reasons to go organic. Your own health is one of them. And even if you don’t believe in global warming or whatever, there’s abundant evidence that the chemicals we use on plants during the farming process directly affect the environment and everything in it, including us!
When you go organic, you can start small. Not everyone has the budget or inclination to buy everything organic all the time, and that’s okay. Despite what you may think about this huge world, your individual choices as a consumer to make a difference! Every dollar you choose to spend on organic produce is a dollar that goes toward bettering organic farms and not towards traditional agricultural practices.
Okay, so you may not be convinced yet. If not, here are just five reasons to go organic.
1. Organic Has More Nutrition
Organic produce, according to a 2009 presentation at Ecofarm, has more nutrition than food that produced using manmade chemicals. In fact, www.organic-center.org notes that over 75 studies have shown that organics have superior nutritional content when compared with conventionally-grown produce. An article published in Organic Processing Magazine says that scientists speculate soil is the answer behind this interesting phenomenon. Organic farming doesn’t deplete the soil of nutrients, so more nutrition gets into your food!
If you really want the best vitamin boost from your foods, though, you should go organic and local at the same time. Locally produced foods that aren’t trucked in from across the country are fresh from the farm to your table. Since the fruits and veggies haven’t been off the vine or out of the ground for very long, they’ve lost less of their vitamin content. Vitamins and minerals are very fragile and can deteriorate quickly, so organic, locally grown food will pack more nutritional punch than their conventionally grown counterparts. (more…)
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
i got this healthy way fat lose weight on self growth and found that it would be useful for you readers, so read this articles :
Many women want to be slim. Maybe you’re one of them. Perhaps you’re getting married soon and you want to fit intoyour wedding gown comfortably. Or perhaps you simply want to look (and feel) great in a swimsuit or bikini. Maybe you’ve just had a baby and want to get your pre-pregnancy figure back. Whatever your reason for wanting to be slim, there are some things you can do to become slim while staying healthy. If you are reading this article, chances are you want to know what those things are. Read on then, to find out. First thing is to assess your current eating habits. This is
important because you need to know what’s not working. If your current eating habits are keeping you overweight, and you want to be slim, it figures that you need to change those eating habits. If something is not working, change it.
Assessing your current eating habits.
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Keep a record of your eating habits for a week. The record should contain the following information:
. What you are eating
. How much you’re eating
. When you eat (note the times) – you want to know
how far apart your meals and snacks are.
. Why you’re eating at those times – is it because
you’re hungry, or are you ‘comfort eating’?
. How you feel after eating – pleasantly satisfied
or bloated and stuffed.
. How many glasses of water you drink each day
When you find out your current eating habits, you’ll need to determine which habits are sabotaging your efforts to lose weight. Those are the ones you want to change. More on that later.
Goal Setting
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Determine what your weight goal is. Or you may prefer to monitor your progress in terms of your waistline or hip measurements. Whichever one suits you is best. Form a mental picture of yourself looking the way you want to look. Goals are more powerful and empowering when we visualize them. Hold that mental picture in your mind at all times.
NOTE: Eating healthily is not all there is to getting slim. You must become more physically active (read ‘exercise’) in
addition to eating properly if you’re to lose weight permanently. This article deals with the healthy eating part of that equation.
Action Plan
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Now that you know what your ideal size is, you have a goal that you’re working towards. You need to then determine a plan of action to help you achieve that goal.
To help you decide on the right plan, bear in mind that eating should be a pleasure. Ask yourself the following questions:
. Which nutritious foods do I enjoy eating ?
. How soon after eating do I get hungry again? Most adults
get hungry about 3 to 4 hours after eating a meal.
. Do I eat only when I’m hungry? Hint: You should.
. How can I stay full? Drink lots of water. Scientists
recommend between 6 and 8 glasses of water daily.
Your body needs it, and it helps you stay full.
With the answers to those questions in mind, form an action plan, and start a new daily record to help you keep track of your progress. This new record should contain the same columns as your initial current habits record. This way you can monitor each improvement and celebrate accordingly.
When deciding on which actions to take, you need to refer back to your initial assessment of your current eating habits. Decide which habits are preventing you from losing weight. Write down alternative habits that you want to cultivate, which will help you get slim.
These new habits you want to form are now your ‘targets’ – milestones on your way to your ideal body shape and size.
Taking Action
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To form healthy eating habits, start with small changes.
Don’t make too many changes at once. Set yourself main targets, such as ‘I will drink 8 glasses of water each day’, then set smaller targets to help you reach each main target. Using the example above, a small target could be ‘I will drink an extra glass of water after each meal’. When you break down your targets, they don’t seem so daunting. They seem easily achievable, so you feel encouraged to stick to them.
Decide on the foods you will be eating regularly. Make sure they’re foods you enjoy.
Eat small portions, about 5 or 6 times each day, instead of three large meals. This helps keep your metabolic rate high, and helps you lose weight naturally.
How to stay motivated to continue eating healthily
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1. Believe that you can do it, and accept responsibility for your health and for the way your body looks.
2. Reward yourself each time you successfully complete a small target. Celebrate each small success – don’t wait until you’ve lost tons of weight before you reward yourself. Make the journey enjoyable by treating yourself each time you make progress.
3. Keep in mind what you hope to achieve – remind yourself of how lovely and healthy your body is becoming each day as a result of your new eating habits. Remember, each small step in the right direction is bringing you closer to your main target.
With a clear goal in mind, a feasible action plan and tips to help you stay motivated, you should find it easy to form habits that keep you slim and healthy at the same time.
Here’s to your new healthy eating habits!
source : http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Hinson1.html
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Saturday, February 26th, 2011
Senior citizens are living longer than ever before but unfortunately a longer life doesn’t mean a happier one. Because of the advances of medical science our bodies are living longer than ever before in the history of the world but our brains are not keeping up. More and more senior citizens are becoming victims of dementia.
Alzheimer’s disease, just one form of dementia, robs the victim of their independence, memories and eventually themselves. The good news is that there are many ways that you can prevent or delay the onset of dementia. The most reliable is also the most affordable; physical activity.
By engaging in regular physical activity you can improve your balance. Good balance is critical if you want to avoid fall related accidents which can cause brain damage, leading to cognitive impairment. Many falls come from weakened muscles and bones, two things that exercise can help strengthen. When you engage in rigorous exercise you build muscle mass, improve your stamina and energy level and increase your bone density.
The biggest contribution that exercise makes brain health isn’t improve cardiovascular system. When your heart is more efficient in your lungs work better they can feed your brain better. Just 30 minutes of rigorous walking every other day can have a tremendous impact on your long term health.
Now, before you start any kind of physical fitness program you should always check with your doctor. This is especially true for senior citizens or any individual who has been inactive over a long period of time. Assuming that you get the go-ahead from your physician, here’s how you can start getting physical;
Walk. Lace up those sneakers and hit the streets. Find a buddy to walk with you to keep your interest up and to make it safer. You should never walk at night when the chances of being hit by a car we’re getting mugged increase.
Stretch. Sign-up for a yoga class or by a stretching video that you can follow along with at home. Stretching is fantastic. It will help you improve your flexibility and reduce the chances of serious injury should you fall.
Get physical. Sitting around watching TV and reading may be entertaining but they do very little for your long-term health. Take up some fun and exciting activities that will get you out of the house and introduce you to new people and experiences while giving you some physical benefits as well. Gardening, dancing, golf, hiking and bicycling are great ways for you to have more fun and get healthier too.
To find out more about safety for seniors visit the elder care experts at ElderKind.com.
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Sunday, February 6th, 2011
Sometimes it can be difficult watching your active and cherished dog suffer from fever and there is no better thing to do than to take quick steps to help it overcome its sickness.
Another thing you should beware of is that giving your dog fever treatment when you “suspect” it has fever can be really dangerous. Don’t do anything based on what you think or suspect but try to make sure you’re so certain that your dog is actually suffering from fever before you treat it. Below are some tips to help treat your dog’s fever.
Give Your Dog a Warm Bath
The first thing to do when your dog is having fever is to bath it with moderately warm water. You should make sure the water is not too warm so that it doesn’t make your dog too hot and that the water is not too cold so that it doesn’t make your dog shiver.
After giving your dog a warm bath you should take him/her out of the bath tube and place him/her on a towel and dry its body completely. This will avoid the dog suffering from cold while the remaining water droplets on the dog’s fur will do the job of cooling its temperature.
Once you’ve done the above you should take your wash rag and deep it into cool water; squeeze the water from the rag and place it on the tummy of your dog in order to maintain its calmness, keep doing this anytime the rag becomes warm till you can get a vet for it.
Avoid Giving Your Dog Human Medications
You surely love your dog but giving it human medications won’t reduce but rather complicate its problems. The drugs we humans use can be very dangerous to dogs so make sure you don’t give it any drugs but rather take it to a vet.
You’re not a vet or someone who studies anything related to animal health and don’t think that because something worked for you when you were sick it will also work for your dog – dogs are not human and some of the things that helps humans the best can be very dangerous to them.
Call a Vet
This is probably the best thing you can do for your dog if it has a fever so instead of trying to give it different sets of medications you might want to call a vet whose work it is to take care of situations like this. By so doing your dog will be in great hands and will experience a quick recovery than it can get by you treating it.
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Saturday, January 15th, 2011
A tough but pioneering treatment is showing promising results for patients with advanced kidney cancer, staff at Christie Hospital Manchester have said.
The hospital is spearheading a specialist immunotherapy treatment which uses the body’s immune system to fight cancer cells. Latest research shows that 25% of patients treated with high doses of Interleukin-2 are now in remission. Professor Robert Hawkins said patients were carefully selected. One of the patients on the seven year trial, Heidi Morter, 40, was planning her funeral after the cancer spread to her lungs and liver from her kidneys, before being offered the drug.
read more at : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-12195940
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Thursday, December 16th, 2010
A little over a month into 2010 many of the resolutions that you made in January probably has fallen by the wayside. When the ball dropped on New Years Eve you might have resolved to go to the gym more often or to eat less fast food on, now, in February those promises seem as stale as the fruit cake in the back of your refrigerator. You might be feeling that you still want to change a few things this year but your earlier resolutions didn’t work out; below you will find 10 tips to bring a positive change to your life in 2010:
1.) Make room for mini meditations through out your day, close the door at your office, hold your calls, and just relax for five minutes. Hubert Benson, the co-founder of Harvard’s Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine, recommends doing this a few times throughout the day. It allows you to turn everything off and recharge. (more…)
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Thursday, September 30th, 2010
Despite all the fad diets and the strange theories about eating one type of food until you turn into it, there is some actual science behind diets. Protein and vitamins are well known. Much less known are vital trace elements, the body’s equivalent of the pool pump, which provides the resources to maintain the body and replenishes the nerves and organs. These elements
Trace elements basics
Trace elements are mineral compounds. In the early 1800s Dr. Schuessler coined the word “biochemistry”, and developed a therapeutic system of treatment based on “biochemical salts”.
There are 12 naturally occurring body salts which have multiple functions in the body. These salts are a good illustration of the role of mineral trace elements.
The original biochemical salts were:
- Iron phosphate
- Sodium sulphate
- Sodium phosphate
- Sodium chloride
- Potassium chloride
- Potassium sulphate
- Magnesium phosphate
- Calcium phosphate
- Calcium sulphate
- Potassium phosphate
- Silica
- Calcium Fluoride (more…)
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
Surviving a heart attack can kill your sex life. But it doesn’t have to, and a new study shows doctors play a key role in whether it does. Patients were less likely to resume having sex if their doctors did not talk about when it was safe, the study found. Many heart attack survivors fear that a tryst could land them back in the hospital – or even in the graveyard. But the chance of that is extremely small, doctors say.
“People perceive it might kill them. And it’s not just the person with the heart attack, but also their partner,” said Dr. Stacy Tessler Lindau, a gynecologist and sexuality researcher at the University of Chicago. (more…)
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Friday, May 7th, 2010
The stressful effects of a faltering economy, skyrocketing unemployment and precarious personal finances can be dire. People take up smoking or use alcohol to cope, they become depressed or suicidal, and they develop stress-related illnesses like heart disease. Now researchers report that the harm may be spreading to children too, when parents’ stress leads them to inadvertently injure their children.
Presenting May 1 at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in Vancouver, a team of researchers led by child-abuse expert Dr. Rachel Berger at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh reported a significant increase in cases of shaken-baby syndrome, in which youngsters are shaken violently by an adult, since the start of the current recession. Researchers analyzed data on 512 cases of head trauma in the children’s centers of four hospitals (in Pittsburgh, Pa.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio; and Seattle) and found that the number of cases had increased to 9.3 per month as of Dec. 1, 2007, compared with 6 per month prior to that date — a rate that had held steady since 2004.
The rise in shaken-baby cases correlates with the economic downturn associated with the recession. “This is a perfect storm in a bad way, where we have economic stressors that are causing the removal of social-service resources for preventing and addressing child abuse,” says Berger. Although she says she was not surprised by the association observed in her study, she calls the sheer rise in recent cases of abusive head injuries in children “striking.” (more…)
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Friday, April 16th, 2010
do you ever hear a medicine and suplement tha could heal any type of desease but death? nigella sativa is the answer, this medicine arrecommended by moslem prophet Muhammad SAW 1500 years ago and trugh modern medical test it has many benefit that could improve our body. you should consume it 1-2 capsules per day with very very low cost and you will soon got healthy.
The seeds of Nigella sativa Linn. (Ranunculaceae), commonly known as black seed or black cumin, are used in folk (herbal) medicine all over the world for the treatment and prevention of a number of diseases and conditions that include asthma, diarrhoea and dyslipidaemia. This article reviews the main reports of the pharmacological and toxicological properties of N. sativa and its constituents. The seeds contain both fixed and essential oils, proteins, alkaloids and saponin. Much of the biological activity of the seeds has been shown to be due to thymoquinone, the major component of the essential oil, but which is also present in the fi ed oil. The pharmacological actions of the crude extracts of the seeds (and some of its active constituents, e.g. volatile oil and thymoquinone) that have been reported include protection against nephrotoxicity and hepatotoxicity induced by either disease or chemicals. The seeds/oil have antiinflammatory, analgesic, antipyretic, antimicrobial and antineoplastic activity. The oil decreases blood pressure and increases respiration. Treatment of rats with the seed extract for up to 12 weeks has been reported to induce changes in the haemogram that include an increase in both the packed cell volume (PCV) and haemoglobin (Hb), and a decrease in plasma concentrations of cholesterol, triglycerides and glucose. The seeds are characterized by a very low degree of toxicity. Two cases of contact dermatitis in two individuals have been reported following topical use. Administration of either the seed extract or its oil has been shown not to induce significant adverse effects on liver or kidney functions. It would appear that the beneficial effects of the use of the seeds and thymoquinone might be related to their cytoprotective and antioxidant actions, and to their effect on some mediators of inflammation.
the nigella sativa plant
nigella sativa seeds
packaging of nigella sativa
the conlusion are that this black seeds could heal any type of disease and illness but death
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