Sunday, May 31, 2009

Health Benefits of Yogurt

Eating yogurt everday is very healthy for the body. For those looking to supplement their protein, calcium and dairy, yogart is a healthy choice


Yogurt is full of beneficial active cultures that help prevent bad bacteria from taking up residence in your body. The other benefits of yogurt is that it gives your body valuable nutrients such as calcium, protein, and vitamin B2


Yogurt can boost your health

It improves natural defense, it contains a good amount of phosphorus and water. People with a risk of osteoporosis should eat at least one serving of yogurt per day

Friday, May 29, 2009

Carrot


The carrot is an excellent vegetable 

Carrot is suitable for eating root vegetable. 

Carrots reduce cancer risk, prevent infection, offer good eye health

Carrot contains a very complete nutrition to provide our body the essential enzymes, vitamins and minerals.

The best thing of carrot is that it is easily assimilated by our body. It is good for the health of spleen and stomach. It is also impotence sexual dysfunction, night blindness, long term cough besides strengthening kidney and eliminating excessive wind and cold in our body.

Carrot has proved its outstanding role in anti-cancer effect. 

Carrot contains bulk of folic acid, a group of vitamin B, which has good effect to fight against free radicals in our body. 

Food Therapy by Carrot 

For Hypertension's Patient

Drink 100ml of fresh organic carrot juices everyday and it should be two servings per day. The therapy should proceed constantly for 30 days.

For Those Who Have Constipation

Drink 80ml of Carrot juice daily in morning and in night but Dip a drop of olive oil into the glass, mix suitable amount of royal jelly honey. 

For Those Who Have Night Blindness or Dry Dull Eyes

Take 250gram of fresh organic carrots. Put two tablespoons of olive oil in the pan. Fry with slow fire till it is thoroughly cooked. It should be one serving for a day. The therapy should proceed constantly for 7 days.

Black Beans


Health Benefits

Black beans are a very good source of cholesterol-lowering fiber, as are most other seeds. In addition to lowering cholesterol, black beans high fiber content prevents blood sugar levels from rising too rapidly after a meal making these beans an especially good choice for individuals with diabetes. Black beans provide virtually fat-free high quality protein
 
Black beans are an excellent source of the trace mineral, molybdenum, an integral component of the enzyme sulfite oxidase, which is responsible for detoxifying sulfites. 

  • Black beans may help protect against cancer
  • Lower Your Heart Attack Risk
  • Eating high fiber foods, such as black beans, helps prevent heart disease
  • Black Beans Give You Energy to Burn While Stabilizing Blood Sugar
  • Black beans soluble fiber helps stabilize blood sugar levels. Black beans can really help you balance blood sugar levels while providing steady slow-burning energy
  • Black beans can increase your energy by helping to reload your iron stores


Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Health Tip (Water)

How much water?

You should drink at least 8 glasses of water a day. You should drink a half ounce of water for every pound of body weight, unless you're very active, in which case you should increase your water intake to two thirds an ounce per pound of body weight daily 

If you weigh 120 lbs. you need to take 60 oz. of water or a little less than 2 quarts or 8 glasses of water

If you are 210 lbs you need to take 105 oz of water or about 7 quarts or 13 glasses of water 

8 oz = 1 regular glass of water
32 oz = one quart (4 glasses of water)
128 oz = one gallon (16 glasses of water)


Dehydration:

We have to be careful of this in a lot of circumstances. When flying in an airplane your body can become dehydrated. Make sure you drink a glass of water for each hour you spend in the air.

Sports & Exercise: 

Hyper hydration is the process of drinking plenty of water for two to three days before an athletic event. The body is about 60 percent water and it needs to be fully hydrated to perform optimally. When the outside temperature or humidity is especially high the body requires even more water because it must work harder to cool itself.

Water retention:

Fluid retention can be caused by excess salt intake. Drink plenty of water to help flush out the salt. You also need potassium to balance out the salt and potassium ratio.

Bad Breath:

Drinking lots of water and peppermint tea with a pinch of anise, caraway or cinnamon.

Gallstones:

Water is needed to flush the liver and dilute the bile. Without enough water the bile secretions can turn into gallstones.

Kidney stones: 

Water helps decrease the concentration of the stone-forming elements in the urine.

Urinary tract infections:

People who get infections usually don't get enough water. The urine sits in the bladder too long and bacteria can build up. Drinking lots of water will flush out the bacteria.

Monday, May 11, 2009

Superfoods Kefir


Kefir

This cultured milk drink stacks up in calcium one 8-ounce serving contains 30 percent of the recommended daily intake.

Reduce food allergies

Battle breast cancer
Women age 50 and older who consumed fermented milk products had a lower risk than those who ate little or none.

Avoid triggering lactose intolerance
Kefir contains lactase, the enzyme that people with lactose intolerance are missing.

Superfoods Broccoli


Broccoli Sprouts

Broccoli sprouts are even better

Kill Tumors
The chemical triggers enzymes in the body that either kill cancer cells or keep them from growing. Just 1 ounce of sprouts has as much SGS as 1 1/4 pounds of broccoli.

Protect your heart
People who ate about a half cup a day of sprouts lowered their total cholesterol by an average of 15 points.

Superfoods Cranberries


Cranberries

It helps prevent urinary tract infection, and it prevents gum disease too. 

Eradicate E. coli
Compounds in the juice can actually alter antibiotic-resistant strains, making it impossible for the harmful bacteria to trigger an infection.

Superfoods Barley


Barley

When some whole grains, such as wheat and oats, are processed, they lose their fiber content. Not so with barley, which is full of soluble beta-glucan fiber in its whole kernel or refined flour form. 

Decrease blood sugar and insulin levels 
Barley a better choice for people with type 2 diabetes.

Superfoods Kiwifruit


Kiwifruit

Protect against free radical damage.
Kiwifruit is the most nutritionally dense. Plus it makes the short list of fruits with substantial amounts of vitamin-E and contains more vision saving lutein than any other fruit or vegetable except for corn.

Lower blood-clot risk

Participants who ate two or three kiwis for 28 days significantly reduced their potential to form a clot. They also got a bonus benefit. Their triglycerides a blood fat linked to heart attack dropped by 15 percent.

Superfoods Pomegranate


Pomegranate
This fall fruit has higher antioxidant activity than red wine and green tea, it may prevent skin cancer and kill breast and prostate cancer cells.

Guard your arteries 
A group of diabetics who drank about 2 ounces of pomegranate juice a day for three months kept their bodies from absorbing bad cholesterol into their immune system cells.

Healthy Food

  1. possessing or enjoying good health and vigorous mentality
  2. Healthy appearance healthy attitudes
  3. conducive to good health, healthful: healthy recreations
  4. prosperous : a healthy business
  5. Informal fairly large: I bought a healthy number of books


Good eating habits are conducive to good health.  

Our bodies are made up of things that need vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats, and carbohydrates it seems like making a list of foods that are healthy isn’t really that much of a challenge.

The reverse unhealthy would mean a detriment to good health. Bad eating habits are detrimental to good health.

Common sense would tell us that unhealthy foods are foods that provide little to no nutrients, vitamins, or minerals.

  • Sugar Free Jello Pudding
  • Low Carb ice cream
  • 100 calories snack packs

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Food and your health

What is functional nutrition?

Functional nutrition is nutrition with a goal or a function. That goal is the promotion of your health and productivity.

But it’s not easy to set a border between industrial food products with all kinds of additions and food that’s made to promote and preserve our health.

Functional food products can be categorized according to the effects it has on certain organs and systems.

Most people are willing to drop their old eating habits to preserve their health and that faced the food industry with a new and difficult challenge.

And that challenge is all about finding a balance between an attractive taste, health functionality of the food product and the prices.

Nutritionist however, got another task, to explain what does it mean to find a balance between taste an the health value of those ‘new’ food products.

This is very important if we consider that the majority of non-violent deaths can be in some way or another linked with bad nutrition.

Heart diseases, diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure and many other diseases can be successfully prevented with proper functional nutrition and minor changes in life style.

Smoking

How bad smoking is for our health.

Almost everyone knows that smoking causes cancer, emphysema, and heart disease that it can shorten your life by 10 years or more and that the habit can cost a smoker thousands of dollars a year.

Once You Start, It's Hard to Stop

Smoking is a hard habit to break because tobacco contains nicotine which is highly addictive. Like heroin or other addictive drugs, the body and mind quickly become so used to the nicotine in cigarettes that a person needs to have it just to feel normal.

How Smoking Affects Your Health

There are no physical reasons to start smoking. The body doesn't need tobacco the way it needs food, water, sleep, and exercise.

The body is smart. First-time smokers often feel pain or burning in the throat and lungs, and some people feel sick or even throw up the first few times they try tobacco.

Over the long term smoking leads people to develop health problems like heart disease, stroke, emphysema and many types of cancer including lung, throat, stomach, and bladder cancer.  

Each time a smoker lights up, that single cigarette takes about 5 to 20 minutes off the person's life.


Smoking can also cause fertility problems and can impact sexual health in both men and women.

Teen smokers experience many of these problems:

  • Bad skin
  • Bad breath
  • Bad-smelling clothes and hair
  • Reduced athletic performance
  • Greater risk of injury and slower healing time
  • Increased risk of illness

Secondhand Smoke OR Passive Smoker


Everyone knows smoking is a bad habit, but secondhand or passive smoker breath is hazardous to your health.

What Is Passive Smokers?

Passive smoker comes from both the smoke that smokers exhale and the smoke floating from the end of the cigarette, cigar, or pipe.

Passive smokers significantly increases a person's risk for:

  • respiratory infections
  • asthma
  • coughing, sore throats, sniffling, and sneezing
  • cancer
  • heart disease

What Can You Do?

If you smoke try to quit. Quitting is not easy because smoking is highly addictive. But plenty of programs and people can help you make the brave effort to becoming smoke free.

Benefits You will look feel and smell better

If a smoker is puffing away anywhere inside, other people are inhaling that smoke too. Because smoke sticks to people and their clothing, when smokers come back inside, they should wash their hands and change their clothing, especially before holding or hugging children.

Never smoke in a car with other people

Secondhand smoker is dangerous.

Taking a stand on secondhand smoke will keep you much healthier and possibly even help someone you love think twice about their own unhealthy habit too.

Reduce Weight By Natural Ways


The high cause of overweight is often overeating, irregular eating habits.

Extra fat puts a strain on the heart, kidneys, liver and the joints such as the hips, knees and ankles and thus, overweight people are susceptible to several diseases like coronary thrombosis, high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis, gout, liver and gall bladder disorders. High cause of obesity is overeating, irregular eating habits and not following the rules of eating or mixing non compatible food items in one meal.

To decrease weight and get rid of obesity three things must be kept in mind:  
  • Controlling eating habits.
  • Regular exercise.
  • Avoiding the causes of weight gain
Diet recommended to lose weight  
Early morning 
Juice of half a lemon mixed in a glass of warm water and a teaspoon of honey.
Breakfast 
Wheat or Mung bean sprouts and a cup of skimmed milk.
Midmorning 
A glass of orange, pineapple or carrot juice.
Lunch
Salad of raw vegetables such as carrot, beet, cucumber, cabbage, tomatoes. Steamed or boiled vegetables
Whole grain bread and a glass of buttermilk.
Mid-afternoon
Coconut water
Dry fruits
Lemon tea
Fresh vegetable soup
Dinner
Whole grain bread or chapatis
Steamed vegetables
Seasonal fruits except banana and apple.

Amazing Vegetable Facts

 

Carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

Tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food

Grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

Walnuts help develop more than three dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function.

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb are useful for bones These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don’t have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female. When a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers.

Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

Potatoes actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries

Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

Onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. 

Dengue Fever Remedy using Papaya Fruit

Dengue Mosquitos


Procedure

Accordingly it is raw papaya leaves, 2pcs just cleaned and pound and squeeze with filter cloth. You will only get one tablespoon per leaf. So two tablespoon per serving once a day. Do not boil or cook or rinse with hot water, it will loose its strength. Only the leafy part and no stem or sap. You have to swallow.

Papaya Juice - Cure for Dengue

papaya juice is a natural cure for dengue fever. As dengue fever is rampant now.

Dangerous Chicken Wings


Avoid eating chicken wings

The truth is in this modern day and age; chickens are injected with steroids to accelerate their growth.

Chickens that are injected with steroids are usually given the shot at the neck or the wings.  These steroids have terrifying effects on the body as it accelerates growth.

It has an even more dangerous effect in the presence of female hormones, this leads to women being more prone to the growth of a cyst in the womb.

Foods That Fight Cancer

People who regularly consume cruciferous vegetables have lower rates of many cancers, including breast and prostate cancer

Common Nutrients in Vegetables

Beta-carotene: Vitamin A found in yellow, red, orange and dark green vegetables and fruit such as pumpkin, carrots, yellow beans, beetroot, blue berries, raspberries, spinach, kale, broccoli

Calcium: Found in green vegetables such as broccoli, spinach, kale and plain yoghurt.  

Chlorophyll: Found in all the green vegetables and their leaves, such as spinach, beetroot, kale, cauliflower, cabbage, salad leaves, etc

Folic acid: Found in beetroot, citrus fruit, green leafy vegetables and salad leaves

Iron: Very important for well functioning red blood cells. Found in dark green leafy vegetables and beetroot

Magnesium: For growth and repair of the body. Found in peas, nuts and sesame seeds

Phosphorus: Found in cabbage, potatoes, oranges, cherries and currants

Potassium: Found in many vegetables and fruit, particularly bananas

Protein: Found in beans, peas, lentils, nuts and seeds

Swine Influenza (Flu)


Swine Flu is a group of influenza viruses that regularly cause influenza in pigs. Usually infections in humans are uncommon. However, this present series of outbreaks of human cases of of swine flu has been linked to a new, previously unknown strain of H1N1 virus that seems to be able to spread from human-to-human. Hence, this sudden and fast spread around the world.

The symptoms of swine flu in humans include
high fever, tiredness, sore throat , coughing nausea and vomiting and even diarrhoea.

Human-to-human transmission of flu viruses can occur by “droplet” spread - when an infectious individual coughs, sneezes, talks or has hand-to-hand contact with an infected person (e.g. handshake).

It can also spread if individuals touch surfaces that are contaminated with the flu virus and then touch their nose or mouth.

Swine flu viruses cannot be transmitted by food.

The virus does respond to the newer antiviral medications oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza).

The seasonal influenza vaccination does not provide protection against the swine flu.

What is swine flu?
Swine flu is a group of influenza viruses that causes flu in pigs. Usually infections in humans are uncommon.

What are the symptoms?
Early symptoms are similar to seasonal flu - cough, sore throat, high fever, headache, runny nose, general fatigue, and muscle pains. Vomiting and diarrhea have also been noted..

How is this swine flu spreading?
It is most likely spreading from person to person through infectious respiratory droplets (droplets generated when a person coughs, sneezes or talks) and hand-to-hand contact.

How can I prevent getting it?
1. Personal hygiene is critical. Wash your hands frequently, especially after using the bathroom and before eating or drinking.
2. Avoid touching your nose, mouth and eyes.
3. Avoid coming in close contact with persons who have flu symptoms.

How can I prevent its spread?
Respiratory etiquette is important. If you need to cough or sneeze, cover your mouth with a tissue, mask, or hand.
Avoid public areas such as markets or theaters if you have respiratory symptoms and fever.
If you have a fever (greater than 100°F or 37.8°C) with symptoms as above it is advisable that you consult your physician.

What is the infectious period?
The infectious period for this strain is not confirmed. According to the US CDC, infected people should be considered potentially contagious:
· One day before their symptoms start
· Seven days after their symptoms start OR as long as they are still showing symptoms (whichever is longer)
Children, especially younger children, might potentially be contagious for longer periods.

Is there a vaccine to prevent swine flu?
There is no specific vaccine against this swine flu.

Can swine flu be treated with antiviral medications?
Preliminary information indicates that the virus is sensitive to the newer antiviral medications oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza). It is resistant to the older medications amantadine and rimantidine.

Can I catch swine flu from eating pork or pork products?
No.

Can I travel to Mexico?
There are travel restrictions in place. Check GE’s travel intranet site for updates. If you are required to undertake business critical travel, please consult your manager and follow the procedure laid down for such travel.
As for non-essential travel, it might be prudent to put it off for the time being.

What You Can Do to Stay Healthy
Influenza is thought to spread mainly person-to-person through coughing or sneezing of infected people.
Take everyday actions to stay healthy.
Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hands cleaners are also effective.
Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread that way.
Stay home if you get sick. CDC recommends that you stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.
Follow public health advice regarding school closures, avoiding crowds and other social distancing measures.
Develop a family emergency plan as a precaution. This should include storing a supply of food, medicines, facemasks, alcohol-based hand rubs and other essential supplies.