When gripping power of the hand starts diminishing or there is feeling of muscle weakness then it is important that you ensure your intakes of healthy fats, vitamin D and vitamin B12.

Besides, you may revive your childhood exercise of ‘Writing few pages in good hand-writing’ for 25 minutes daily.

Neatly written words will need your brain’s concentration in coordinating all major components of conscious motor and sensory pathways, sensory receptors and peripheral nerves within the spinal chord and nerve tissues throughout the brain. This complete exercise needs lot of energy.

Optimal nutritional support for the nervous system and the habit of writing on paper on a regular basis - both of these actions can go a long way toward keeping your nervous system healthy in the years ahead.

Article adopted from: http://drbenkim.com/nervous-system-healthy.html

“The veins in the anal region get swollen and start to bleed” – we call it PILES.
The patient will suffer silently but will try to hide his/her problem. That results into further complications.

Normally, following factors give rise to PILES:
a) Consumption of fast food, no vegetarian food and sodas.
b) Sedentary routines and negligible exercises.
c) Alcoholics and persons having liver problems.
d) Chronic patients of constipation, consuming less water and avoiding going to toilet, as per their lazy nature. This practice makes the stool harder. And give rise to piles at a later date.

Constipation and abrasions give rise to internal piles. When the internal piles are forced out of the anus, it is considered as external piles. Internal piles rarely bleed but the external piles cause anguish and sufferings.

Irrespective of the situation, the patient is advised to take the following steps:

1. Increase intake of fruits and vegetables and consume lots of water. Go for easily digestible food. Avoid spices and chilies. Green vegetable, ginger, onion, garlic, radish, bitter gourd, papaya, apple, lime, cherry and figs should be preferred. It will help in reducing the constipation and make the stool soft.
2. The urge to go to toilet should never be suppressed. It will, help in easy defecation. Care should be taken that NO pressure is applied.
3. Once a day, Sitz bath should be undertaken. The patient sits in a warm water tub for 15 minutes. It will relax all anal spasms and pains.
4. Indian type toilets should be preferred. It helps to pass the stool easily. Full pressure could be exerted on the abdomen area.

The conventional solution for Piles is considered to be Surgery. Since the patient is scared of getting cancer, so he does not think of any other alternative except opting for surgery. Advanced Laser surgery is preferred as the duration of hospital stay and blood loss is reduced. Still the surgery does not stop the piles to re-appear.

It is very important to note that the piles are the result of internal circulatory system. It is certainly not a localized problem where its removal by surgery could offer a permanent solution.

It has been found that Homeopathy does not consider piles – a surgical disease.

The piles are considered as the outburst of an internal problem which has to be treated ONLY Internally. The blood vessels are strengthened and its resistance power is improved. Homeopathy medicines do not offer any side effects. Besides it ensures to erase the piles problem.

Article adopted with inputs from:http://archives.chennaionline.com/health/Homoeopathy/2005/08homoeo52.asp

The Chinese have been practicing simple healing techniques that have been passed down for generations. In this article you will learn 5 secret techniques that will help you keep focus and regulate the temperature of your body.

Ancient Chinese Healing Secret #1

Place your palm on your stomach. You will notice that after leaving your hand on your stomach for even less than a minute, you will feel the warmth of your hand radiating throughout your body to help keep you warm. What do I do in the summer to keep cool then? Ironically, the answer is the same, keeping your palm over your stomach tends to regulate the temperature of your body to the ideal temperature and keep you cool. Chinese people know that even if you are sleeping in the middle of summer heat, you still cover your stomach, or you might catch a cold. Interesting isn’t it?

Ancient Chinese Healing Secret #2

Drink plenty of hot liquids. Americans live a lifestyle of drinking water or juices as cold as they come, this quickly lowers your body’s core temperature. While it feels cool and refreshing, it is also making it easier to get sick. Chinese people have been drinking hot tea since Ancient Chinese Civilization. This has a double bonus, you get the vitamins from the tea, and you kill any bacteria inside your throat while keeping your body nice and warm. What is one the first signs of a cold, is it not the itchy feeling in your throat that makes you want to cough?

Ancient Chinese Healing Secret #3

Your body will heal itself, or you won’t get well. Think about it, unless you require surgery or have a broken limb, pretty much the main factor in how fast your body recovers from any sickness is how strong your immunity is. So what do you do if you get sick then? Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables to boost your immunity and get plenty of rest, apply the first technique to make sure your body temperature is regulated, also practice the second technique, but you already know this one right.

Ancient Chinese Healing Secret #4

Take long deep breaths while practicing the first technique. Yoga shows the benefits of deep breathing to help you stay focused and helps to align your body physically and mentally. The technique of covering the stomach and deep breathing really helps you relax, which makes it easier to fall asleep. The technique is to breath in slowly and deeply and breath out from the mouth, notice all the heat coming from your breath, a few breaths, and you will feel more relaxed.

Ancient Chinese Healing Secret #5

Don’t rely heavily on drugs. I am talking about OTC or prescription drugs. In general, relying heavily on any outside source from your body is only allowing your body’s natural resistance to use the boost as a crutch and will lower your body’s natural ability to fight off the sickness. Building a high immunity requires your body to fight off the sickness by itself, so that it gets stronger. If you keep assisting it along, it will have no need to generate the resistance needed, weakening your body’s defenses. Instead, try the above methods and get plenty of rest.

What does this all mean?

This means that unless you have some sort of cancer or require some kind of surgery, it is in your best interest to practice these techniques to help boost your body’s immunity naturally. With proper application of the techniques, it becomes easier to prevent yourself from getting sick in the first place. The best thing about these techniques is that you can use it on infants to adults with the same results.

Want to learn more?

To learn more secrets and logical reasons as to why it works, I highly suggest you check out the book Pei: Thermal Zone System It covers all these, as well as other techniques in detail, and is written in easy to understand language. I hope you all enjoyed this article, and I wish you all good health.

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Fruits are the easiest source for improving our body from inside and outside.

Well, everybody talks very high of eating fruits. Let us talk a little about unique qualities of fruits as Face-packs.

Apples: The Doctors can be kept at a distance if you consume ‘Apple a day’. You know why? Well it has minerals, vitamins, pectin and tannin. It all helps in improving blood circulation. It is equally effective in toning and tightening the skin.

Put apple in mixie and add a teaspoon of glycerin. Apply the mix on your face for 15 minutes. Wash it with cold water and gain relief from sun burnt skin.

Add two teaspoons of grated apple with two pieces of mashed papaya, one teaspoon of fresh cream and a spoon of china clay. Mix it properly and apply on the face. Wash it off after 15 minutes and relish healthy looking skin.

Bananas: Revitalize dry skin, tighten and clean the pores of your face by adding a teaspoon of honey into two ripe mashed bananas. Apply the mix on your face. Wash it with clean water after 15 minutes. It will reveal soft, supple and hydrated skin.

Oranges: Indian Beauty expert Shahnaz Husain recommends rubbing fresh orange peels on the skin to tighten it. It will also lighten the color of the skin. The citrus family is best known for its astringent properties.

Papayas: Papaya is an excellent cleanser. It has enzyme papain. It revives blemished and undernourished and oily skin. Mix papaya pulp with oatmeal and honey/curd and apply on face. Wash it after 15 minutes. Papaya pulp mixed with cucumber pulp and applied below eyes will help in minimizing the dark circles.

Pomegranates: Face scrubs of pomegranates remove excess oil from your face and make the skin look fresh. Pomegranates juice acts as an astringent and it is a natural toner.
Massage your face with pomegranate juice with a cotton wool. Leave it for 15 minutes and then wash it for an instant glow.

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The fashionable layered haircut called the shag hair style has been embraced by many stars and people have followed by the masses. The shag takes many forms and is basically a messy layered cut. Layers are more prominent towards and around the face with hair length ranging from short, medium and long. Shags can be curly, wavy or straight. The look is crisp, carefree yet still professional.

This hairstyle is so versatile that and potentially looks fantastic on anyone regardless of their age, hair length, texture or color. The short style gives elder women more flamboyancy and youthfulness in their appearance. Doesn’t Lisa Rinna always look exceptional? Her short multi layered cut gives her a sophisticated yet I’m ready to play persona. The chocolate brown with blond highlights admiringly complements her facial features and is suitable for any occasion.

Paula Deen’s Layered Shag

What about the beloved restauranteur Paula Deen? Paula’s layered shag haircut speaks for itself - she doesn’t even need to color her hair! Paula Deen has adopted a medium shag varying her layers from softly angled, straight and to beautiful waves always giving her that graceful radiant quality.

And of course who could forget the classic blond Meg Ryan shag, giving her that irresistible innocent charm. Other celebs with shags include Jodie Foster, Kate Micucci, Sharon Stone, Reese Witherspoon, HalleBerry, Jessica Biel and Sharon Osbourne.

Male celebrities

Famous men have also jumped on board the shag craze. Brad Pitt’s just got out of bed look makes any woman go wild. Other shagsters include chef Gordon Ramsay, David Duchovny and Owen Wilson.

Stars with a shag radiate youth and trendiness. But what more do these styles say about the celebrities or more importantly what are they trying to convey?

No matter whether she’s in the kitchen or the garden, Paula Deen always looks presentable. Being in an advisory position, if you will, Paula has gained our trust and our love for her. How did she do it? Not only through her priceless knowledge and charisma, but also with a hairstyle that says “with age comes wisdom and I still know how to be hip".

We know sadly David Duchovny has been trounced by his sex addiction but to his credit has sought rehabilitation assistance. His ever sexy shag haircut gives him a boyish innocent charm. Who would have guessed that such a stylish and poised Fox Moulder would encounter any such dilemma?

Ashlee Simpson-Wentz’s long burgundy cut with shaggy side bang has given her a boost of freshness, perhaps a Bittersweet edge.

Owen Wilson’s medium wavy layered cut is rather unique. It’s still suitable for professional outings and for his age yet no woman can resist the young blond surfy guy look he presents. He says he’s a trouble maker and his rugged sexy cut confirms that.

A celebrity that just exudes fun and enthusiasm, Lisa Rina’s multi layered cut says I’m wild and ready for action, quite appropriate for her Chicago musical.

As you can see, the shag hairstyle is so versatile in terms of both the look and the persona that it can portray. Stylists of the above celebrities are miracle makers, capturing each of their personalities and presenting them in sophisticated fun loving shag styles.

Hopefully we’ll see more and more celebrities take our breath away with their gorgeous shags.

Click below for some examples of shag hairstyles

Various Shag Layered Haircuts http://www.haircontent.com/shag-hair-style/

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Acupressure is a healing art that involves applying pressure to specific points on your body to produce health-promoting effects.
How can applying pressure to different areas of your body help your health? The answer lies in understanding your nervous system.
Having a healthy nervous system is an absolute must if you want to have a healthy body, as the activities of every cell in your body are governed by your nervous system.

An essential requirement for maintaining a healthy nervous system is to provide your largest nerves with optimal blood flow and stimulation, which promote optimal nerve tone - this is akin to regular resistance work and stretching promoting optimal muscle tone.
Applying direct pressure to specific nerves throughout your body on a regular basis is a simple and powerfully effective way to stimulate your nerves and bring them optimal blood flow. Put another way, applying pressure to specific nerves can promote healthy nerve tone, which in turn, promotes good overall health.

One of the best features of acupressure is that you don’t need to spend thousands of dollars and many months or years to learn how to use it to help your health.

During a 300-hour postgraduate medical acupuncture program I took several years ago, after spending a number of days reviewing dozens of key nerve and blood vessel points throughout the body and face, I distinctly remember the lead professor saying that even if we treated the same five most powerful points on every patient, irrespective of the health conditions being treated, we would likely get excellent results.

Over time, through my own experiences with providing acupuncture and acupressure treatments, I have found that most people can experience significant health benefits by regularly stimulating just three specific points on a regular basis. For specific health concerns, it’s best to have a clinician consider other points as well. But for the vast majority of people, applying pressure to just three points several times a week can provide a real boost to nervous system tone and overall health.

What follows are descriptions and links to pictures of the three acupressure points that I recommend most people stimulate on themselves to promote and maintain good overall health:

1. Large Intestine 4 (LI-4): located in the soft, fleshy web that sits between your thumb and forefinger.

LI-4 at Acuxo.com

Anatomy: this point corresponds with a muscular branch of the median nerve, the deep branch of the ulnar nerve, proper palmer digital nerves from the first common palmar digital nerve, and the superficial branch of the radial nerve. Tributary branches of the cephalic vein, the radial artery, and the first dorsal metacarpal artery and companion veins can also be found in this region.

2. Liver 3 (LR-3): located in the soft flesh that sits between your big and 2nd toes, the equivalent of LI-4 on your foot.

LR-3 at Acuxo.com

Anatomy: this point corresponds with the medial dorsal cutaneous nerve, the medial branch of the deep peroneal nerve, and a muscular branch from the deep branch of the lateral plantar nerve. The dorsal venous network of the foot , the first dorsal metatarsal artery, and a companion vein are also found in this region.

3. Spleen 6 (SP-6): located approximately three finger widths above the inner ankle bone, in a tender region of the lower calf muscle.

SP-6 at Acuxo.com

Anatomy: this point is found in between the medial margin of the tibia and the soleus muscle. As you go deeper, this point corresponds with the flexor digitorum longus and flexor hallucis longus muscles. This point also corresponds with a cutaneous branch of the saphenous nerve, motor branches of the tibial nerve, and the deeper trunk of the tibial nerve. A superficial branch of the great saphenous vein, the posterior tibial artery, and a companion vein to the posterior tibial artery are also in this region.

Use your fingers and/or thumbs to massage these points on one or both sides of your body for a few minutes, up to two times a day. For optimal results, massage these points on both sides of your body during each session.

When you correctly locate these points, you should feel some tenderness upon applying pressure to them. Apply enough pressure/massage to create a mild, dull, and possibly achy sensation.

Article by By Dr Ben Kim
http://drbenkim.com/acupressure-points.html

Stress is a part of the present life. There could be many reasons for the stress– Financial problems, family problems, and sickness of somebody in the house or your own temperament.

Stress can increase our energy and alertness, if it is in smaller doses. If STRESS exceeds our ability to cope with it then very slowly it starts affecting our complete body systems.

Initial symptoms could be reflected in the form of anxiousness, nervousness, distraction, excess worry or internal pressure. If these problems are not attended properly, it may soon turn into severe headache, depression, loose motions, High Blood pressure or Hypertension.

How about understanding the affects of Stress on our body?

We have certain established beliefs in our subconscious mind. Anything different may convince us to believe the circumstances as stressful. Such situation causes the movement of our body cells into protection mode. The result is ¡V increase in heart rate, blood getting diverted to muscles. The cells are unable to accept the supply of oxygen., The cells do not absorb nutrients, do not properly eliminate waste products, and do not function the way it normally should. They start getting weaker and open to disease. The immune power of the body also gets weaker.

Similar situation arises when we are shocked, worried or excessive anxiety is caused due to angry Boss or a shouting spouse. Stressful life could be another reason for such situation.

It is very important that we must try to come out of such situation. Stressful condition for a smaller period does not harm the body but if the situation persists for a longer period. Then it may cause a bigger harm which could not be avoided.

Way to avoid Stress:

# Try to identify the reason of stress
# Seek advice & help from your family and friends, to find a solution
# Maintain a positive outlook
# Go for regular exercises
# Spare time for events which you enjoy, on regular basis.
# Regular rest and sleep is very important for the body relaxation.

Meditation could be one of the dependable ways of achieving relaxation of complete body. Easier way could be: Select a peaceful place. Think of anything which you find interesting. It could be your girlfriend/boyfriend, your children or anything which you love to think about. Close your eyes and start thinking about it. Idea is to limit your thoughts within a smaller circuit. You may sit in that position for 15-25 minutes. When you get up, you will find it very relaxing.

Corpse posture is also very relaxing. You lie down on your back, on a mattress. Feel that toes of your feet are completely relaxed. Think of lower legs being relaxed. Think of your both legs which are completely relaxed. Think you body is completely relaxed. Think your both arms are relaxed. Finally let your head stay in complete relaxed posture. Lie in that position for 20 minutes. When you get up, you will find your body filled with new energies.

We understand the world around us through our EYES. Fraction of a second is enough for our eyes to make out all about the things going around us and accordingly we take the action which moves our life.

Both eyes work together. With the help of Muscles, nerves and brain, our eyes help us to gain a full and clear view, inspite of change in climate, intensity of light
Synchronized working of eyes, muscles, nerves and brain adapt to the changing climate and intensity of light so as to offer us correct information.

Weakness of the muscles and nerves around the eyes may give rise to different problems of sight. Problems could be temporary or it may take longer to overcome them.

Irritation in eyes, red eyes or swollen eyes may improve with first aid like splashing fresh and cold water in them but sight problems (near-sightedness or far-sightedness or other refractive problems), dry eye problems or ageing problems may take longer time to improve, even after proper medical treatment.

Simple eye exercises have been found very effective in improving the Eye Health.

1. First thing in the morning, take water in the mouth, Splash clean water on the eyes and then throw out the water with a pressure from the mouth. Repeat this exercise 3-5 times.
2. Place thumb and index finger on both eye-brows and give light massage, 45 times
3. Place thumb and index finger on the cheek bone, just below the eyes and give light massage 45 times.
4. Shift the thumb and index finger on the end-point of the eyes (on the edge of eye-bone), give 45 light pressures.
5. Place thumb and index finger on the either side of the nose bridge, by the side of the eye and give 45 light pressures.
6. Place a black object (size of a golf ball), at a distance of 3 meters. Stare it without blinking eyes for 2-3 minutes. If the water starts coming out the eyes, let it come but do not blink. It will help in improving your eye sight.
7. Rub both palms 5-7 times. Place both palms on the eyes.
8. Blink the eyelids continuously for 60 seconds.

Blood circulation in the muscles and nerves of the eye are properly activated which takes care of the eye health. ‘Pranayam exercise’ (Breathing exercise) will further improve the health of the eyes.

The above exercise, if performed regularly, has been found very effective in improving the short-sightedness of the eye sight. There has been improvement in the problem of Dry eyes.

There are some other exercises for improving your eyes.
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Yoga has been very effective in improving the working of pancreas. 5-minutes devoted to each of the following exercises will reflect its results within 30 days.

1. Stand with your legs apart. Interlock your fingers and raise both hands up so that the palms are facing the sky. Now start bending on your waist to the left side, hold in that posture for 40 seconds. Repeat the same exercise while bending on your waist to your right side for 40 seconds. Come back to original position by bringing your arms down and freeing your fingers from the interlocking. Repeat this exercise for 5 times. This exercise will improve your digestive system, working of lever and intestines and tone up spine and kidney.

2. Lie on your stomach and extend your arms with the both palms closed, in Namaste position. Start raising your legs and arms, so that your complete weight of the body rests on your belly. Maintain that posture as long as you can (preferably 40 seconds). Come to the resting position. Repeat this exercise for 5 times. This exercise will massage your digestive system. It will improve the working of your pancreas.

3. Put a mattress on the floor and sit on it. Extend your both legs and then bring it back so that both soles are facing each other. While holding both feet together, raise both knees and bring it back to the ground. Perform this exercise in succession like a butterfly, for at least 40 times. This exercise will reduce stiffness in the knee and hip joints.

4. Lie down on your back with legs folded on knees. The arms must be outstretched on both sides.. Now bend your both legs on your left side and count 30 in your mind. Come back to the original position. Then bend both legs on your right side and again count up to 30 and come back to original position. Repeat this exercise for 5 times. This exercise will improve the digestive system, and the functioning of lever and spleen.

5. Kneel down and then sit on your feet. Close fingers of the both hands such that the thumb is taken into the fist grip. Put both fist on the either side of your navel and breathe out completely. Bend forward so that the body is almost parallel to the floor. Do not close the eyes. Stay in the posture for 30 seconds and come back to original position. Repeat the exercise for 5 times. This exercise will activate the pancreas to improve its working.

Add few drops of lemon in 50 ml bitter guard juice. Take it empty stomach in the morning. It will start regulating the sugar levels.

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The glow on face is gained naturally through Yoga. The glow is the reflection of the energy produced by the interactions of yogic kriyas in the body. Much stress is being put on the purification of the body.

Collection or stagnation of any kind in the body gives rise to body waste accumulation. Purest water, if left to collect at any point will start rotting while the dirtiest water gets pure if it is allowed to flow.

Clean Colon is the most effective way of keeping diseases at a distance from you.

Yogi Ashwani suggests a completely natural preparation for squeaky-clean colon and small intestine. He advises drinking 2 glasses of hot water with a few drops of lemon juice and old honey, daily for 3 months at a stretch. This will cleanse intestines of waste that gets accumulated in the body.

Same preparation—if had after the meals—will reduce FAT. Old Honey also helps in removing non essential fats.

“Beauty expert states: I run a salon, but I have never been able to give any girl the beauty Yoga gives”

TIPS for Glowing Skin

Soak 4-5 almonds in 2 tablespoons of raw milk overnight. In the morning, peel the almonds, add 3-4 strands of saffron and grind the mix in the same milk. Apply this paste on your face and leave it for 30 minutes. Wash off with warm water. A week of application should get you the GLOW( Take care: Do not use it if there are acne)

Treat Acne Apply 2 tablespoon of Tulsi juice on the affected area for 30 minutes. Then wash it with warm water. Try it for a week and see the improvement.

Remove polish from nails

Remove the old polish from your nails. Use a lint-free cotton pad. Don’t use cotton balls
Saturate the cotton pad with acetone remover & rub off the old polish. If the color isn’t coming off easily, press the saturated cotton on the nail & let it soak in first. Rubbing Whitening toothpaste helps in removing stains from your nails. You can also rub a drop of lemon or lavender oil on each toe & rub a buffer back & forth over the nail. This will remove the yellowed outer layer.

Cut & File Nails

It’s best to use high quality clippers made for clipping toenails. To avoid ingrown nails, cut nail straight across to just above the skin. Make sure your nail doesn’t extend over the tip of your toe.

To get a soft square shape, file nails in one direction until they are even & slightly rounded at the corners. (Hint: Don’t use metal files, they’ll rip your nails). Basic emory boards work great. Don’t clip the sides of nails, that can cause ingrown.

Emory board tip: The fine-grade surface is for smoothing the nail edge, while the coarser surface is for shortening & shaping nails.

Soak Your Feet

Fill a large flat-bottom bowl with warm water. Throw in bath salts, your favorite aromatherapy oils or Epson Salt & let your feet soak 10 minutes. The more cracked & calloused your feet, the longer they need to stay in.

Tip: Add a quarter cup of milk to your bath along with the essential oils & salts. The lactic acid in the milk loosens dead skin.

Trim Cuticles

Apply cuticle remover to the base of each nail & rub it in. Leave on for a minute, then use an orangewood stick to gently push with a circular motion everywhere where skin meets the nail (including the sides). Be careful to remove skin only on top of the nail, don’t touch the toe flesh.

Use cuticle nippers to trim any loose skin. Be careful not to nip your toe flesh.

Scrub Your Feet

Apply an exfoliating body to slough away the dead skin on the balls & heels of your feet. You’ll want to scrub the balls, bottoms & sides of your heels & around the toes. To get the most leverage, sit on the side of a bathtub, facing inward. Remember the pedicure motto we read about once, “smooth, don’t remove.” You’ll want to stop if your foot turns bright red (this means you’ve scrubbed too hard). Remember, that tough skin is there for a reason.

Moisturize

Dry feet thoroughly including between the toes & rub in a thick foot cream like Rub the feet & the calves. Rehydrate cuticles by rubbing in a dab of cuticle oil.

Polish Your Toes

Use acetone remover to get rid of any excess oils on the nails (including the cuticle oil you just applied). Apply a thin base coat using 3 strokes, one down the middle, then one on each side. Don’t paint the cuticle. Wait a minute before adding two coats of your favorite polish, then finish with a thin top coat. Clean up any errors with an orangewood stick wrapped in cotton & dipped in acetone remover.

Let nails dry for at least 40 minutes.

Tip: It’s good to paint any polish remaining on the brush over the front nail edge. This prevents chipping.

After nails have dried, spritz with moisturizing oil. This sets your polish & moisturizes your cuticles.

Courtesy: http://beauty.about.com/od/perfectnails/ss/pedicure101_8.htm

Stay healthy with Cashews. Cashews are extremely dense in health-promoting nutrients, and their natural creaminess and sweetness make them an excellent substitute for many dairy-based foods and snacks.

Handful of raw and organic cashews, eaten regularly may have the following physiological effects:

1. Keep your heart and blood vessels healthy by providing your cardiovascular system with a steady stream of healthy, monounsaturated fatty acids.

2. Build and maintain strong bones and teeth by supplying your body with a rich supply of magnesium, which is just as important to the physical structure of your bones and teeth as calcium.

3. Promote healthy blood pressure - magnesium-rich cashews can help keep your blood vessels relaxed, combating the negative effects of poor dietary choices and stress than can cause high blood pressure.

4. Keep your nerves relaxed - this is also accomplished by magnesium, which promotes a healthy, relaxed tone in your nerves and muscles by acting as a natural calcium channel blocker.

5. Decrease muscle cramps and soreness - also due to the high magnesium content of high quality cashews.

6. Promote deep, restful sleep through the relaxation effect that magnesium has on your nervous system and muscles.

7. Keep your joints, bones, and blood vessels flexible by supplying your body with significant amounts of copper.

8. Prevent premature aging and disease by supporting the antioxidant activity of a powerful enzyme called superoxide dismutase.

Unsalted raw, organic cashews are naturally rich in fiber and healthy monounsaturated fats therefore it does not promote overeating. In fact when people include cashews in their diets, they tend to eat less unhealthy snacks. It normalizes the body weight.

Adopted from http://www.drbenkim.com

How do you feel when you inform your friend about your toothache? After giving a very patient hearing your friend coolly holds your hand and presses one of the fingers. You will surely loose patience and give a dirty look but soon you will realize that the pain in your tooth has reduced.

A worker in printing press was very slow in his work. He could pay attention to his work since he was suffering from toothache for 2-3 days. Neither he could go to a Dentist not he could anything. The reason was that the Dentist could be consulted after going to a nearby town while the person could not arrange for sufficient money. Result was—he was not able to eat anything since he was not able to chew with his paining teeth.

A knowledgeable person happened to visit his press. Seeing him working half-heartedly, he could learn from the worker about his toothache. Very coolly he confirmed about the location of painful tooth. Very confidently he pressed a particular finger for 45 seconds . After another one minute he enquired from the worker about the toothache. The worker could not believe the relief since he slowly tried to press his both jaws together and then pressing the jaws little harder. He could feel bearable pain. The person suggested him to eat something and then lend him money for consulting a Dentist in nearby town.

There is no miracle. It is Acupressure Therapy. By putting both hands on the face, fingers can be identified with the corresponding tooth. Right hand fingers will relieve the pain in the teeth on the right side of the face. Each finger will comfort two upper teeth and two lower teeth. The index finger will take care of last four teeth on the right side of the face while the last finger will comfort the front four teeth. Like wise left hand fingers will relieve the pain in the teeth on the left side of the face.

This exercise will be helpful to reduce pain for 8-10 hours. One time pressure will be effective for 2-hours. Procedure of giving pressure will be—identify the finger corresponding to the paining tooth, press it hard on nail by holding it between finger and thumb of the other hand for 30 seconds, continuously.

If there is any confusion in identifying the correct finger then there is no harm in pressing all the fingers, one by one. The exercise will be rewarded by immediate relief in the paining tooth.

It is advisable to clean your fingers and massage your gums with your finger for 30 times, in the morning and evening. It will improve blood circulation in the gums and keep your teeth – STRONG.

Health Fairs are normally organized in India. The idea is to seek relief from any chronic problem from practitioners of different therapies.

Scores of shops are being put up by various dealers of herbal medicines. They claim to help in gaining relief from problems related to stomach and digestive systems, asthma, Diabetes, heart problems, joint pains, back problems, paralysis, Sciatica and problems related to nervous system.

You can find different massagers and gadgets for comforting muscular problems and they claim to suggest easier ways to reduce weight without strenuous exercises

There are experienced practitioners of different therapies, such as: Acupressure therapy, Reflexology therapy, Aroma therapy, Colour therapy, Ayurveda, Yoga, and Tibetan treatments.

A practitioner of Acupressure therapy was drawing lot of patients. His way of treatment was very different. For most of the problems he used to request one of the visitors to apply pressure by his /fingers on the patient at some designated points for 3-4 minutes and the patient could gain relief from his problem.

His novel way of treatment could help in building confidence in the mind of patient and the other person who gave the pressure. Both could learn that particular simpler way of giving relief to anybody.

A person with neck problem approached the healer. The patient was not able to move his neck in any direction. It was a stiff neck.

On the Practitioner’s instruction one of the visitors volunteered to give the intermittent pressure on each of patient’s palm (at the inner base of the thumb). by his thumb– 20 times, Then he was asked to revolve each thumb- 20 times, in any direction. It took him 3 minutes.

The patient could move his neck without any problem.

Parting instructions were given to the patient that he has to repeat that exercise, 4-5 times each day. He was further asked to identify a bone at the back of the neck and give 20 rubbing pressures by his three fingers, three times a day.

Your busy schedules may not allow you to pay any attention to your daily routines, number of sleep hours and your favorite food but your body system is maintaining a regular account. It is adding on to the quantum of inflammation.

Do you know that chronic inflammation in the body may give rise to problems like diabetes, heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer disease? It may give rise to painful and swollen joints which may affect your mobility

Our body has inbuilt system to control inflammation and even repair every part provided it gets some opportunity (rest) for maintenance. Alternatively the inflammation keeps on adding up. The built up inflammation may strike as shooting pain, Cervical or back pain or some other problem which may need a regular treatment.

Traditional treatment would be anti-inflammatory drugs whereas natural ways to fight inflammation avoid undesirable side-effects
Our regular food makes a big difference. We usually prefer to enjoy fatty and non-vegetarian food or even processed food. All this food gives rise to inflammation and obesity.

Fresh whole foods, such as lean proteins, fruits, and vegetables are considered anti-inflammatory. Healthy whole foods can decrease inflammation and ease the pain and discomfort associated with it.

Use this handy list of the best and worst foods for controlling inflammation:

Anti-inflammatory foods: Atlantic Salmon (wild), Fresh whole, fruits, vegetables, Bright multi-colored vegetables, Green tea, Water
Olive oil, Lean poultry, Nuts, legumes and seeds, Dark green leafy vegetables, Old fashioned oatmeal, Spices, especially Turmeric and Ginger

Inflammatory foods: Sugar, from any source, Processed foods, French Fries, Fast Foods, White bread, Pasta, Ice Cream, Cheddar Cheeses, Snack Foods, Vegetable and corn oil, Soda, caffeine and alcohol

Beside dietary changes, regular exercise, 7-9 hours of sleep, and maintaining a healthy weight, will help in reducing inflammation.

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Large number of women suffers from breast cancer. Usually mammograms are considered as an ideal screening tool to give you a warning stage before the cancer becomes far more difficult to treat.

Are you aware that Mammograms can actually increase your risk of Breast Cancer?

Mammograms expose your body to radiation that can be 1,000 times greater than that from a chest x-ray – this makes you vulnerable unnecessarily to further risks of radiation-induced cancer.
Fortunately, now you have some very effective options based on finding inflammation – the precursor to many of these types of cancers.
For a long time, it wasn’t well-known that inflammation was the culprit responsible for many chronic diseases. However, many physicians now recognize that inflammation is a precursor to many diseases, such as cancer, arthritis, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and high blood pressure.

Early detection of inflammation may help you prevent many negative health conditions from developing. You can reduce inflammation with dietary changes, nutritional supplements, antioxidants, detoxification, stress reduction, and more…

Thermal imaging or thermography is a tool that creates a digital map of your body which illustrates heat patterns. Those patterns help in detecting abnormality. It uses a scanning-type infrared camera that measures your body surface temperature, presenting the information as a digitized image.

Thermography can detect irregular patterns in the breast, conditions that occur before a noticeable lump is formed.

Thermography will help you better understand your body. But it specializes in:
# Breast Imaging
# Pain Diagnostics
# Early-Stage Disease Detection

In some cases, such as inflammatory cancer, there are no lumps to be detected by self-exam or mammogram. That’s why adding thermography to your annual routine can help with early detection.
Thermography increases your chances of detecting breast cancer in its earliest stages.

Thermography screenings can assess heart function and detect inflammation in the carotid arteries. It can help in improved diagnosis of Arthritis, Neck & Back pain, Dental issues, Sinus & Headache problems, Immune dysfunction, Fibromyalgia,, Chronic fatigue, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS), : Digestive Disorders, and other type of cancer.

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Tom Venuto, in my opinion, is the leading, VERY BEST fitness expert and author of our time and much of my and our client’s success are due to his teachings. He and his fat loss system are on the cutting edge of science and don’t miss a nutritional tip, trick, secret, or strategy in achieving amazing results. What’s more, they are offered in an easy-to-understand and easy-to-follow format.His new hard copy book has shot to No#1 on Amazon.com in the weight maintenance category

We all know that we gain fat when we take in more calories than we burn. But we’re not always rational creatures when it comes to food
and exercise.

Recognizing the emotional and psychological factors that sabotage
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In The Body Fat Solution, Venuto outlines the five principles that will retrain your mind and body for automatic success. Determined to help you keep the fat off for good, Tom shows you how to:

- End emotional eating and stop diet self sabotage
- Re-program your mind for “auto-pilot” success
- Go beyond goal setting by crafting a powerful “vision” that motivates you for life
- Eat healthy, delicious food almost unconsciously and shed the pounds almost effortlessly
- Reshape your body through lean muscle training for a strong core and lean, toned frame
- Invite a supportive social network of friends, family, and mentors to help you achieve your dream body

Venuto reminds us that calories do count! But The Body Fat Solution is
neither super low carb nor super low fat, and he steers clear of
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Most important, he helps you plan and organize your life so that you
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Craig’s fat loss and workout tips are featured every month in Men’s Fitness and his sports training articles and workouts can be found on a number of websites and in many other magazines such as Men’s Health, Oxygen, Maximum Fitness, and Muscle & Fitness Hers.

Craig’s areas of expertise include helping busy men and women lose fat, gain muscle, and get lean in as little time as possible. Craig also has an extensive research background and keeps up to date on the latest scientific findings that will help improve your health and wellness and your physical and mental performance.

You should be able to lose one pound of body fat each week. At the same time, you should expect to gain or maintain muscle.

Turbulence Training for Fat Loss gives you at least 16 weeks of fat-blasting workouts, so expect a two-digit fat loss by the time you get through the program.

Women don’t have to worry about “bulking up”. Unless they are over-eating, it is hard for women to gain muscle. So by using the Turbulence Training for Nutrition guidelines, along with the interval training to burn fat, they will not bulk up when they do the strength training exercises (which are essential for boosting their metabolism – to burn even more fat).

With Turbulence Training for Fat Loss, there are a lot of workouts
to choose from.

So why did I create so Many fat burning programs have been created to have variety in your workouts to keep on boosting your metabolism, and burning fat month after month.

If you did the same workout program for 3 months straight, your results would screech to a halt after 5 or 6 weeks.

With the Turbulence Training fat loss program, you will be able to change your workouts every 4 weeks. Each time you do that, you’ll
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You must change your workout every 3-4 weeks.

Unfortunately, with so many Turbulence Training workouts, people often ask, “Which program should I start with?". So here are the fat burning guidelines you need to get the most out of Turbulence Training no matter what your fitness level…

1) The Best Program for a Total BEGINNER

Overweight, sedentary beginners should start with the Introductory
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If you haven’t been doing any exercise, you must start there. No
exceptions.

The bodyweight exercises will prepare your muscles for all future
workouts, and will prevent the overuse injuries people usually get
when they start a high-volume cardio program (which is the worst
thing an overweight person can do for weight loss).

2) The Best Program for an Experienced Lifter Who Has NOT Exercised
in the Last 4 Weeks

Please start with the Intermediate Workout from the main Turbulence
Training for Fat Loss program.

BUT NOTE: Do only ONE SET per exercise in each workout in the first week.

This will prevent you from being excessively sore from the exercises, which can occur when you have been away from exercise for so long.

A) If you are a woman who wants to put the final touches on a female physique, use the Turbulence Training for Women workout.

If you are a man that wants to build muscle, use the TT for Muscle program.

C) If you want to keep burning fat, move to the DB-BW Fusion Workout.

D) Follow that with the 30-Day Advanced Fat Loss program.

E) And finally, finish with the Advanced Fusion Fat Loss 4-Week Program.

At any time you are traveling or want a break from the Dumbbell
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TULSI, a herb, is available in most of Indian houses. It is widely known for its health-promoting properties – for body, mind, and spirit for over 5000 years.

Its Indian Grandma’s favourite treatment for coughs, colds and fl u, head and ear aches. Tulsi is often enjoyed as a simple herbal tea and is frequently blended with other herbs and spices for various medicinal purposes.

TULSI is considered sacred by Christians also. They call it ‘Holy Basil’. The name basil is derived from Greek words referring to “royalty” or “king.” European herbalists and physicians call it “The King of Herbs”

The Tulsi herb contains hundreds of beneficial compounds known as phytochemicals. Phytochemicals are non-nutritive plant compounds containing protective and health promoting properties.

These compounds possess potential antioxidant, adaptogenic, and immune-enhancing properties that can help promote your general health.

The essential oils in Tulsi leaves are a particularly rich source of these phytochemicals.

Benefits of Tulsi can be summarized as:

1. It improves your vision
2. It improves your respiratory system
3. It improves your digestive system
4. It helps you to maintain your blood sugar levels
5. It helps you to support normal cholesterol levels
6. It improves your immune system
7. It offers you stress relief and a calming effect
8. It provides antioxidants protection
9. It alleviates you from minor discomfort and irritation
10. It promotes healthy metabolism
11. It supports your skeletal and joint support

Tulsi is known as a general vitalizer and increases physical endurance, it contains no caffeine or other stimulants. It has a very high safety margin with exceptionally low toxicity, providing general beneficial effects at doses without adverse reactions or other
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With the same available 24 hours, the monthly earnings could vary between few dollars to millions of Dollars. What is your choice?

Your background, family and education will surely help you but remember – it is your common sense, strong will power, hard work and commitment to your job, which help you in improving your value.

Have you learnt to quote your price?

Opt for a profession of your choice, you will fall in love with it and learn much faster than choosing a field out of any compulsion.

Guru or master has always been highly regarded. Every Guru has a rich experience in a specific field. Once you have made up your mind to pursue a particular profession, look for the Guru of the same profession so that you can learn the valuable secrets and make a mark in that field.

Have you ever thought about the large number of failures who could not earn enough to make both ends meet? If you go into details, you can classify them in one of the following areas:

1. Under qualified for the profession.
2. Weak will power.
3. Do not wish to work– harder.
4. Lack of self confidence
5. Too lazy to fight for what you deserve rightfully.

There have been hundreds of cases where the persons were in debts, and after some time, their time changed and they started enjoying all pleasures of the life.

It’s a matter of mindset. Once your mind is set rightfully you will feel the changes take place very fast. Its like seeing a glass half-full in place of glass half-empty.

Everybody wishes to achieve all the luxuries of the world. You can achieve the luxuries when you wish and try for it. Your concentrated efforts will take you near your accomplishments. Merely wishing will never serve your purpose.

There are many golden tips and secrets of practical life which help you in being successful in life. It can be learnt from experienced and very successful people.

Mr Bob Proctor is one of the most successful person who has changed the life of many people.

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Do you wish to reverse OSTEOPOROSIS? Yes I am talking about that dreaded problem which makes a person immobile. Whether you move or stay in bed, pricking pain keeps you crying.

Do you wish to know the basic reason for this problem? Well it is pH value of your body.

Ph value of the body as 7 is considered to be safe. It gets better if it increases above 7 since it shows that the body is getting Alkaline but anything less than 7 is harmful for the body since it indicates that the body is getting Acidic.

People eat plenty of acid-yielding animal protein, dairy products, and grains. Alkaline yielding Fruits and vegetables are consumed in lesser proportions. We rarely stick to five recommended daily servings of fruits and vegetables.

.After digestion, all foods report to the kidneys as being either acidic or alkaline. The kidneys are responsible for fluid balance and maintaining a relatively neutral pH in the body.

When acid-yielding foods lower the body’s pH, the kidneys coordinate efforts to buffer that acidity. Bones release calcium and magnesium to reestablish alkalinity, and muscles are broken down to produce ammonia, which is strongly alkaline. By the time the response is all over, your bone minerals and broken down muscle get excreted in urine.

Susan Brown, Ph.D., who heads the nonprofit Osteoporosis Education Project in East Syracuse, N.Y., described a client named Janet whose doctor diagnosed her at age 52 with osteopenia, a demineralizing of bone that often foreshadows osteoporosis. At 55, Janet began following Brown’s recommendations for eating more fruits and vegetables, taking supplements, and exercising. Three years later, Janet was clearly building bone mass in her spine and hip, even while going through menopause.

Long term, excess acidity leads to thinner bones and lower muscle mass, points out Anthony Sebastian, M.D., of the University of California, San Francisco. These problems are compounded by normal aging, which increases acidosis, bone loss, and muscle wasting. Along the way, calcium and magnesium losses can equate to deficiencies, with many ramifications. Both minerals play essential roles in bone formation and normal heart rhythm. Low magnesium levels can cause muscle cramps, arrhythmias, and anxiety.

Adopted from article by Dr. Jack Challem, www.foodmoodsolution.com

All the body systems are controlled by the brain. So keep it active.

You might have to pay a mobile bill in time. If you miss the payment due date, the penalty charged during next bill will make you keep track of the payment due dates for all other bills, as well.

You must have read about a philosopher who returned from a walk, went to his room kept the stick on the chair and stood in the corner.

After enjoying a movie, you got up with a smile on your face and reached your home without your wife since you just forgot that she was accompanying you to the movie hall.

A man was cursing the Electricity Services for not maintaining regular supplies since he was without electricity for two hours on a warm day. The fact is the power was there but he did not remember to put on the switch.

There could be many examples which may bring smiles to our face. But the persons with initial stages of Alzheimer problem do face such problems.

We need to pay little attention to the exercises which keep our mind and body active. Following actions will surely make us more active:

1. The brain should be regularly stimulated by solving different puzzles.
2. Counting backwards from 100 to 0 does need concentration of mind. Even walking backwards for few minutes within the house will make us more active.
3. Regular exercises including Yoga and skipping will help to improve blood circulation and improved growth of brain cells.
4. Keep yourself active in social functions.
5. Eat colourful fruits and vegetables, fish and nuts.

There are surely some points on the back of palm and inner side of the wrist which help in regaining activeness of mind and reduce depression.

You may go for the Brain puzzles to activate your brain:

When James Duke, Ph.D., an economic botanist and former U.S. Department of Agriculture researcher, tosses red clover sprouts into salads, he isn’t seeking simply flavor or crunch. Red clover (Trifolium pratense) contains genistein, an anticancer compound that prevents new blood vessels from forming with in a tumor. (Genistein can also be found in soy, black beans and peanuts.) Since tumors rely on new blood vessels to grow, genistein effectively starves the cancer.

Red clover is one of the world’s oldest and most common natural cancer remedies. In fact, one study found that 33 cultures use the herb against the disease. However, it may create problems for certain cancer patients. For example, says Labriola, women being treated for breast cancer with the drug tamoxifen should avoid red clover because tamoxifen prevents estrogen from reaching a tumor, and phytoestrogenic compounds in red clover could undermine that action. In this case, it’s possible red clover could feed, not starve, an estrogen-dependent breast tumor, Labriola warns. (Editor’s Note: These same phytoestrogenic compounds can be helpful with menopausal symptoms in women who wish to naturally increase their estrogen levels.)

The scientific study of red clover is still new. Although its anticancer compounds make it an effective cancer-fighting food for some people, only further research will clarify red clover’s future cancer treatment role (Cancer Research, vol. 48, no. 22).

An Extract from “In Concert Against Cancer”,
October, 1998
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Your bones hang out in a lot of joints. Knee joints. Hip joints. The joints in your fingers and the joints in your toes.

Wherever bones meet, there is also cartilage, a rubbery, protective layer that ensures your joints bend smoothly and painlessly. But even cartilage cannot do this tremendous job alone. A thin membrane called the “synovium” provides fluid that lubricates the moving parts of the joint. When the cartilage wears out of the synovium becomes inflamed, the result is generally a case of “osteoarthritis” or “rheumatoid arthritis.”

In osteoarthritis, the cartilage can be eroded so much that bone does rub on bone. Thos type of arthritis develops gradually over a lifetime as a simple result of the wear and tear placed on your joints over the years. Very few people escape some degree of osteoarthritis, though the severity varies a great deal.

As a matter of fact, if you are over the age of 50, you are likely to have at least one joint affected by osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis affects men and women equally and is by far the most common type of arthritis, with almost 16 million Americans in the list.

In rheumatoid arthritis, damage to the synovium is at the source of trouble. Doctors and researchers are not absolutely sure what causes it, but most think that rheumatoid arthritis is a disease in which the immune system actually attacks certain tissues in the body, including those that connect the joints and the synovium.

Rheumatoid arthritis begins with swollen, red, stiff, and painful joints, but it may progress until scar tissue forms in the joint or, in extreme cases, until the bones actually fuse together. Almost 75% of the 2 million people with rheumatoid arthritis in the United States are women. The disease can hit as early as teen years.

Exercising Your Prevention Options

Investing a little time in developing a good weight-bearing low-impact exercise and stretching plan can add up to great results when it comes to staving off arthritis pain. Strong muscles help protect the joints from wear and tear, and the movement keeps joints flexible.

That is why the quest for fitness is at hand, even if you are 50 years and over. However, most Americans over 50 are still right where they always were sitting back and watching others jog by. Most of them contend that that is just for people who have been athletic all their life, or some say exercise is for young people and engaging into exercise will do them more harm than good.

There are still some that insist on excusing their selves in exercise routines because they do not just have time or they have less energy than ever before. These are all lame excuses. Hence, it is time to start to get rid of those pains. Start exercising.

Consequently, preventing arthritis is not an exact science, but physicians have discovered a few ways to lower your risk. Here is how:

1. Do not weight around

The single most important measure anyone can take to prevent osteoarthritis of the knee is to lose weight if they are overweight. Extra weight puts extra stress on your knees. If you are 10 pounds overweight, for example, you put 60 pounds per square inch of extra pressure on your knees every time you take a step. That extra pressure can slowly but surely erode the cartilage in your knees, leading to arthritis.

A study has clearly supported the theory that weight loss weighs in on the side of prevention. In the study, overweight women who lost 11 pounds or more over a 10-year period decreased their risk of developing osteoarthritis of the knee by 50%.

2. Stretch those muscles

Any kind of stretching is good as long as you do not bounce, which can lead to a muscle pull. This is according to some of the professors of clinical medicine in New York City.

Try to hold a slow, steady stretch for 15 to 20 seconds, then relax and repeat. It is best to flex up by stretching before any exercise, especially running and walking. But it is also a good idea to stretch each day. Ask your doctor to teach you stretches that focus on potential arthritis trouble spots, such as the knees or the lower back.

3. Walking is always the best exercise

Take a good long walk at least three times a week or participate in a step-aerobics or low-impact exercise routine maximum results. There is no proof that running is bad for the joints, but remember, it may aggravate an injury if you already have one. Just remember to check with your doctor before starting a new exercise program.

The bottom line is that of all the healthful habits, exercise is the most important. This is because people are designed to be active. Hence, it is really important for people to exercise in order to stay healthy and keep those joints free from wear and tear.

Just keep in mind that the unexercised body, even if free from the symptoms of illness or problems like arthritis, is not at its full potential. Hence, start exercising right now!

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Here is a fact that you should take note of. What do you look at first when you meet somebody? You look at their face first right? For example you meet up with old friends, colleagues, your neighbor or new friends, most of the time you will focus your attention on their faces first.

The point is that the face is very important and that is also why so many people are looking for ways to lose face fat. Any weight loss will show on the face first and when people look at your face, they will straight away notice changes. Plus, influences from the media and the entertaining world also create an impact on how a pretty or sexy face should look like. If you just would flip through the magazines, the faces of the models are all very slim and well defined with high cheekbones, sharp nose and a lean face.

Well, since so many people are looking for the answer to lose fat in their faces, here are some tips on how to lose face fat. Please be informed that if you are looking at a miracle pill or gadget that can get your cheeks fat down within few days, you will be disappointed.

If you want to lose face fat, you have to begin with losing body weight. This means losing excess water retention and also losing body fat. Usually, when a person loses weight, it is immediately noticeable on his face, it gets sharper and leaner. Usually the face will slim don first because excess water is gone. Follow these simple steps to lose weight and you will get a lean, healthy and toned face.

Step 1: Drink lots of water

You have to drink lots of water to stay hydrated. Drink at least nine 8-ounce glasses of water a day. Drink more than that if you are an active person and always exposed to the sun. Our body has a natural protective system. When you do not drink enough water, the body will naturally think that you are stranded in a dessert and do not have enough water. As a result, it will store as much water as it can to keep you living and there is when you will get bloated. Vice versa, if you drink enough water, the body will flush out all the unnecessary water because it knows that the system has enough water. Stick to plain water. Sodas and sugared drink would not help because they contain sugar and will lead to bloating too.

Step 2: Do not forget your fruits and vegetables

Stay natural and eat at least three servings of fruits and three servings of vegetables every day. This will not only fill you up with less calories and help you stay way from junk food, fruits and vegetables also contains water that can help you stay hydrated. Plus, they are filled with fiber that gives many health benefits. Make your self a healthy fruit salad for snack instead of a chocolate bar. Choose your fruits carefully though; control the amount of bananas, grapes and pineapples because they are high in fructose. Go for apples, oranges, all sorts of berries and grapefruit because they are low GI crabs and they are packed full with anti oxidants.

Step 3: Reduce the alcohol

It does not matter what alcohol you drink. Wine, brandy or beer, alcohol is still alcohol. Alcohol can cause a good amount of bloating in the body because it really dehydrates the body. It can also add inches in you belly and under your chin because one gram of alcohol contains seven calories! That is almost like drinking fat! A five ounce glass of wine has 100 calories that means a little drinking, can add inches in your waist.

Step 4: Bump up the calcium

Lot of studies have proved that taking at least 1200 milligrams of calcium from dairy, if possible daily, can help in fat loss. There is also a study that showed that half of the females in that study experienced reduced symptoms of PMS including water retention after consuming 1200 milligrams of calcium. So, do not eliminate dairy in your diet, have some in moderation.

Step 5: Calories out more than calories in

This is the golden rule of fat loss. In order to lose weight, you have burn more calories than you consume. So, the easy and healthy way to do this is to burn 250 calories and reduce 250 calories from your food intake. The reason to reduce 500 calories a day is because we need to hit a reduction of 3500 calories a week and that will result to healthy recommended weight loss of one pound of body fat per week.
To burn 250 calories, just go for a simple walk or jog for 30 to 40 minutes. To reduce 250 calories, just eliminate all the junk food and excess fatty foods from your diet right now and I am sure you can reduce 250 calories. Eat healthy and eat with a mind to feed your muscles and body with good fuel!

Step 6: Control Your Salt Intake

Salt is another culprit of water retention. That is why when you snack with junk food that is high in sodium, you will feel thirsty and your face will bloat up the next day. Avoid foods like pizza, burgers, junk food, chips and other similar foods because they are loaded with salt! When eating out, be careful of the gravy, some gravy use a lot of salt. Eat home and prepare your own food when ever possible! Sprinkle your salt, do not use your spoon, that way you can really control the amount of salt that goes into your food!

Step 7: Go For Weight Training

You have to weight train to maintain and increase lean muscle tissue. With more muscles packed in your body, your metabolism will increase and you can burn more calories and fat! Plus, with more muscles in your body, you can burn more calories while you do your cardio and even while rest because muscles are living tissues and require calories to function and survive! For optimum fat loss results and to lose fat on your face, you have to diet, do your cardio and also weight train.

So, if you want to lose fat on your face, the main objective is to lose weight. By losing body fat, you will look much leaner and have a much more cut features because fat and water under the skin is reduced.

Follow these simple steps and get on a fat loss program now. If you manage to lose body fat, your face will look much leaner and thinner. Even your nose will look sharper!

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Take your eye makeup off properly every night without fail. Do not rub at ‘hard to get off’ mascara as it could cause your lashes to fall out. If you wake up in the morning with telltale black smudges under each eye you will know you need to rethink your makeup removal procedure.

Use an eye moisturizing cream every night.

This delicate skin area needs extra nourishment, as it is one of the first places to spot the signs of aging. Choose from creams, gels or fluids and pat it into the skin – NEVER DRAG.

Good quality sleep is the best beauty tip in the world.
If you have trouble dropping of or keep waking up in the small hours you should make efforts to relax before bedtime.

It’s not always easy, I know, but try reading a book, having a warm bath filled with scented oils. If I go through troubled times I take an over the counter sleeping pill to get me out of the rut.
I am sure that many people will object to this advice, but it works for me and I make sure I only take non addictive pills and even then for a very short period of time.

Too much alcohol will definitely leave you with black rings under your eyes. Not nice to hear but try to restrict your intake to the correct guidelines. You will sleep better and wake up feeling better as well as having fresher looking eyes. The medically approved guide to drinking levels is

1. Women - 14 units per week
2. Men – 21 units per week

Wear good quality sunglasses in bright light. This will stop you squinting and help keep fine lines at bay. Your eyesight will be protected from harmful UVA rays as well.

Try not to spend too long staring at your computer. If your work involves sitting in front of your PC for long periods, make sure you look away at least every 15 minutes.

Taking regular exercise will not only help keep you fit but will increase blood circulation resulting in a glow to the skin.
This, in turn, will reflect in your eyes.

Your diet should include the correct vitamins and minerals to aid your vision and keep your eyes in optimum health. Use subtle eye makeup especially during daylight hours when the light can be so cruel.

Too much will only emphasize any dry skin and/or lines. Definitely don’t smoke. Need I go on about the effect smoking will have on your eyes. Lines and wrinkles will be with you always.

Last of all try to relax and stop frowning so much. This adds years to you and can be stopped by just not doing it. Make an effort to control your facial muscles. If you have worries this can be difficult. But remember that worrying doesn’t actually help the problem. Another thing that makes us frown is anger. Well again this can be controlled.

Look around you at the world and realize that for most of us anger in simply a negative attitude that is destructive leaving you drained and looking inevitably older.

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The first health care claim of deer velvet antler to be substantiated by scientific evidence, in compliance with US Food and Drug Administration dietary supplement regulations, was announced by the North American Elk Breeders Association (NAEBA) recently. Executive Director Ben Coplan said the determination, made by two consulting firms hired by NAEBA, Nutrinfo of Watertown, Massachusetts and Trade works Group, Inc. of Brattleboro, Vermont, is a significant breakthrough for the nation’s 1,400 breeders of farm-raised elk.

According to Coplan, the Nutrinfo report states there is a reasonable basis to claim that velvet antler helps relieve the symptoms of arthritis. However, a disease claim may not be used for a dietary supplement in the US; therefore, the acceptable statement for product labels and advertisements of a dietary supplement would be “provides nutritional support for joint structure and function.”

“This determination, by two of the leading dietary supplement firms in the world, is “just what the doctor ordered” for the members of our growing agricultural industry,” Coplan said.

Many studies have shown most of the carbohydrate in antler is proteoglycan, which is a combination of protein and carbohydrate. The carbohydrate portion is primarily glycosaminoglycan, of which chondroitin sulfate is by far the predominant constituent. One study cited by the Nutrinfo report evaluated the clinical efficacy of chondroitin sulfate in knee osteoarthritis. Treatment with 3 X 400 mg doses per day for 90 days provided significant relief from symptoms as reported by patients. “We intend to research and substantiate other health benefit claims for velvet antler,” Coplan said.

“We want to carefully research the potential benefits of velvet antler supplements for supporting the immune system, anti-aging, muscle strength and endurance, and sexual vitality.”

Deer velvet antler has been highly regarded in traditional oriental medicine for two thousand years. It is consumed regularly by people of Japan, Taiwan, Korea and Hong Kong as a highly prized medicinal drug to treat blood loss, weakness, and chronic joint pain. Scientific studies in Canada and New Zealand are now verifying the health benefits of this important supplement.

“The scientific-backed health benefit claim will greatly expand marketing opportunities for velvet antler dietary supplements in the United States,” Coplan stated.

The FDA in the United States regulates claims for dietary supplements through a process, which is different than for medicinal drugs; it does not “approve” dietary supplements, but allows producers to substantiate structure/function claims through critical review of scientific studies.

In North America, farmers and ranchers raise approximately 110,000 elk, the largest of the deer family. Historically, the velvet antler harvested by North American farmers has been exported to Asian countries. As the natural foods and dietary supplement market has expanded in the U.S., farmers have turned their attention to the domestic market. Association headquarters is in Platte City, Mo. Copies of the scientific report on velvet antler are available from the NAEBA office. From: North American Elk Breeders Association

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Edelweiss extract comes from Edelweiss flowers, which are short lived perennials. Edelweiss is a German word which means noble and white. The Edelweiss flower is found at altitudes which range from 1,700 meters to 2,700 meters, general in areas with light soil, good drainage and southern exposure.

In ancient times the Edelweiss flower was sought after by men who wished to prove their bravery. Because the flower grew at such heights and was often on cliff sides and in dangerous areas many people were known to have been injured, or even killed in pursuit of this flower, which led many men to wear it in the lapel as sort of a badge of honor. Of course, the fact that the Edelweiss flower was the favorite of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph and his wife, the Empress Elizabeth also gave it prestige. The flower became so popular among hikers that the governments of Austria, Germany and Switzerland took steps to protect it in certain parts of the Alps. Today Edelweiss is grown on many continents and is no longer in the danger it once was. It became even more popular however the 1960’s when a song called Edelweiss in the popular stage play and film The Sound of Music sang its virtues and beauty.

For centuries Edelweiss extract has been believed to have positive health effects. Edelweiss teas have been popular as well as use of Edelweiss extract in hot milk, often sweetened with honey. Diarrhea and dysentery were two ailments that it was believed Edelweiss extract could cure. People also believed that it could help fight ailments such as diphtheria and tuberculosis. Today research by the pharmaceutical industry indicates that there was something to these ancient beliefs. Used in high quality anti aging and anti wrinkle cosmetics.

Edelweiss extract is an ancient folk lore remedy that modern science is making popular once again. They have also discovered that the ultra violet light absorbing chemicals this plant has developed from high altitude growth makes it a good additive to sun blocks. Pharmaceutical researchers also are interested in the way some chemicals in the plant prevent amplification of oxides, which are tied to the aging process.

The future of research into Edelweiss extract looks as bright as the high Alpine sun, and the popularity of Edelweiss extract as an ingredient in high quality cosmetics means the plant will remain popular for many years to come.

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What does Suzanne Somers, Julie Christie and Barbra Streisand all have in common? They are all over 60 and sexy. Tina Turner is ageless and gorgeous. Over sixty is the new sexy. Women are wearing soft beautiful hair and it makes them look younger.

The old wives tale of cutting your hair short over forty has finally seen its day. Gone are the old ideas of short hair lifting the face. A new age of beauties are emerging. They have longer, updated hair that shines and moves. Longer hair gives the face a youthful appearance. It softens lines while lending a shadow to the neck. Longer layers give the hair height and movement. Hair cut to the shoulder or just above is a versatile length.

It is important to have a good cut. Find a hairdresser who knows how to cut hair and give you a look. A good hairdresser can take the looks of today and adapt them to suit your hair, face and body type. Make your hair look and feel thicker with a volumizing haircut. Keep your hair well groomed. Have it shaped regularly.

Color your hair if it is grey. Grey hair can be a double negative. It can make your skin look tired and sallow. It can be coarse and unruly. Hair color makes grey hair more manageable. Studies have shown women and men who color their hair feel better about their self and have less depression. Keep your roots touched up. If you cannot go to the hairdresser in between appointments there are excellent hair color products on the market so you can do it yourself.

Learn to blow dry and style your hair. Nothing is more ageing than an out of date hairstyle. Learn the new ways to style and the tools to make it happen. Once you learn the basics it only takes minutes to look good. Look to the ageless beauties for inspiration. They know their hair and how to style it. They do not rely on hairdressers every single day to look good. They can style their hair.

Experiment with new products. There are products to thicken thin hair made with natural ingredients. Some of the new shaping hair sprays are the work horses of products. They set, lift and hold your hair keeping it soft and shiny. Stiff hair is not in vogue right now and it is very ageing.

Judaysia has been helping women have thicker, fuller ageless hair. She is the author of How To Style Your Hair and Hairstyles To Make You Look Younger and Thinner. Her signature line of products are used by stylists and celebrities world wide.

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Celebrities are some of the most pampered people in the world. Beautiful celebrities and super slim models are everywhere we look, on billboards, TV shows and a catwalk, promoting the idea that beautiful is best. They have access to the best products and services, including stylists and make-up artists, which make it easy for them to look absolutely amazing on a daily basis. Models and celebrities struggle just as much as anyone with their weight and skin, but their jobs require them to become very skilled at things like make-up and hair. Many Celebrities have shared their beauty secrets sometime.

Cindy Crawford keeps her skin moisturized with sprites of equal parts of milk and water that she refreshes with throughout the day. Michelle Yeoh keeps her face appearing fresh with a home-made astringent containing lemon juice and water. Jennifer Love Hewitt heals defects by applying a dab of toothpaste to the pimple overnight. Daisy Fuentes has a fast weight lose tips of drinking chamomile tea and one liter of water daily. Teri Hatcher bathes in red wine to keep her skin pretty. It also restores the skin and keeps it looking young by provoking cell multiplication.

Kelly Clarkson, Grammy award winning singer, drinks lots of water daily. Julia Roberts keeps her nails in top condition by soaking them in olive oil. Michelle Yeoh cleanses her face with lemon juice and water lemon juice apparently removes dirt and makes skin less oily. Donna Karan does a fast slim down by mixing cabbage, apple, parsley, carrots, and celery in a juicer and drinking it for a day or two. Celebrity Nicole Kidman wash her hair lightly water with cranberry juice. Typra Banks fight cellulite with a ground-up-coffee-bean scrub. Angelina Jolie pretty celebrity in Hollywood.

Angelina Jolie’s hair seems great because she add volume to her hair by applying baby powder. Julia Roberts, America’s actress is popular for her perfect smile, but her favorite celebrity beauty tips apply her nails. She soaks them in olive oil for a few minutes every week. Olive oil moisturizes your nails without weakening them, and soothe your epidermis too. It also cures “hang nails” that are result by dry skin. Gwyneth Paltrow drinks fresh organic food to keep her skin tone glowing. She also drinks lots of water and daily wears sunscreen outside to shield her skin.

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Have you ever thought of the reason for regular Hair loss?

You return from your shower after loosing considerable amount of hair. You must have tried many medicinal oils and different herbs but the condition remains the same-scary. One would fear to imagine the condition when the scalp would be left with just a sample of hair which once you crowned.

The head has about 100,000 hair follicles. Each follicle can grow about 20 individual hairs in the lifetime. Hair grows at an average rate of half an inch per month and falls off at around 100 strands per day.

It must be understood that the condition of hair is dependent on the overall health. The hair follicles are trapped and blocked off from vital blood supplies that are required to nourish the development of hair.

No shampoo, conditioner, lotion, cream, spray, foam or whatever, can single-handedly give enduring healthy hair. The positive effects derived from each of these methods are extremely temporary or short-term at best.

True healthy hair begins at underneath the surface of the scalp. The living part of the hair is in the hair follicle. Blood carries nutrients through arteries connected to hair follicles. Poor eating habits and stress to name a couple can deprive hair of sufficient nourishment making it dry and dull.

The main component of hair fiber is keratin. Keratins are fibrous protein molecules that serve as structural units for various living tissues. Ordinary shampoo formulations result in high protein loss during washing.

External use of good oil for hair is certainly important. But good diet and protein has larger role to play in the total fitness of the body. It will help in the better growth of hair. We should not forget its effect on Genes, stress, illness, malnutrition, medication, hormonal imbalance, etc. all have something to say about the hair’s well-being.

For the better health of hair, one can always depend upon the age-old trusted Aloe Vera and Henna.

Aloe Vera balances pH of the scalp and helps in healing it from within. It helps in cleaning the pores and stopping further hair loss. It has been widely used by Indians to promote healthy hair.

Henna is a good natural conditioner and helps in controlling hair loss. It stops the hair breakage and restores a better look to the hair.

You may try another exercise to stop hair loss and prepare ground for breaking up those hardened layers of excess sebum on your scalp and eliminate bacteria. It will help in growing new hair. You have to rub Olive oil on your head before you go to bed. Sleep with it and shampoo it out in the morning. You do not have to use olive oil after eight days, any more. You may switch over to virgin coconut oil.

For best results, I suggest that you apply or massage Virgin Coconut Oil directly on your hair and into your scalp. The reward is virtually instantaneous and it’s such a fantastic conditioner. Do this religiously and it’s going to be hard not to have beautiful hair. Give it a fair try. What’s there to lose?

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Q. If the blood sugar levels are very high when you wake up in the
morning (Dawn phenomenon). Should you skip breakfast to bring your blood sugar down?

A. Absolutely NO. Reason is – as morning approaches your body starts releasing energizing hormones to rev you up for the day. These antagonize the action of insulin and stimulate the liver to produce more glucose, even if the glucose level in the blood is already abnormally high.

Will eating make it rise even higher? The answer is probably, but
because breakfast is the most important meal of the day for weight
loss and nutritional benefits we must find alternative measures to
fight against this phenomenon known as the Dawn phenomenon.

Here are a few tips you can try:

1. Start checking you blood sugar levels earlier in the morning 6:30
-7:00

2.Trying controlling the morning spikes by being proactive and
trying different things the night before. Try eating a little less
food in the evening or maybe even try a little exercise before you
go to bed.

3.If you are currently taking insulin you may need an early morning
dose with food to keep your rising blood sugar levels under control

Remember if you are currently taking insulin, you need to make sure
that your doctor monitors your changes - at least until you have
your eating, exercise and stress management on the right path.

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• To make your skin soft and smooth dip a piece of cotton wool in milk and pat all over your face. Leave on for half an hour and wash off with water.

• Mix two tablespoons of milk in one teaspoon of salt and apply on the face at bedtime. This makes the skin petal soft and silken smooth.

• To lighten your complexion grind a couple of almonds in milk and apply on the face at bedtime.

• To brighten a dull complexion mix two tablespoons of milk powder with enough hydrogen peroxide to a thick paste. Mix in a few drops of liquid ammonia. Leave on for 15 minutes.

• To improve a dark and dull complexion soak bengal gram pulse (chick-pea) in milk overnight. Next morning, grind to a paste and mix in a pinch of turmeric powder and a few drops of lime juice and leave on for half an hour.

• To lighten and brighten your complexion take a tablespoon of milk and mix in one teaspoon each of carrot, orange juice and melted honey. Leave it on for 15 minutes.

• An excellent mask for a dry and blemished skin is made by taking a tablespoon of gram flour and mixing in a big pinch of turmeric powder, one-fourth teaspoon of orange peel powder, a teaspoon of beaten curd and a teaspoon of milk. Apply on the face and neck. When the skin starts feeling taut, rub it with your hands until it glows. Then, wash with tap water.

• To make the skin soft and smooth grind one fourth tea spoon of chironji to a paste and mix with one fourth teaspoon each of milk and curd. Leave on for 20 minutes.

• Another mask for making the skin soft and smooth is prepared by taking one fourth teaspoon each of watermelon, cucumber and gourd seeds and grinding them to a paste in milk. Mix in half teaspoon of cream or top of milk and a few drops of rose water. Leave on for 20 minutes.

• To lighten and brighten the skin and improve blood circulation fry a teaspoon of green gram in a teaspoon of olive oil to a red color, grind to a paste in milk. Apply on face and leave on till the skin feels taut. Then, rub the skin till it glows and wash off.

• For making the skin fair, grind as small piece of sandalwood in milk to a paste. Mix in one fourth teaspoon of turmeric powder and leave on for 20 minutes.

• To remove itching and other blemishes from the skin grind one teaspoon of yellow mustard to a paste and mix with a tablespoon of cream of milk and leave on for 20 minutes.

• To improve a dry and rough skin take two tablespoon cream of milk and add a teaspoon of almond oil and a few drops of essence of rose. Leave on for half an hour before removing with water. Besides using milk external¬ly, drink a glass every day in order to keep your teeth, hair, nails and eyes in good condition and to put a glow into your face.

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Your eyebrows add strength and definition to your face. Well groomed eyebrows enhance your beauty
You should pluck eyebrows before bedtime so that any redness will disappear overnight. In shaping your eyebrows use your facial features.

Six Steps To Perfect Eyebrows

1. Brush brows upward. Carefully trim any excess hair above the top of your natural arch. Be careful not to take off too much at the ends or you’ll have brow “bald” spots.

2. Look closely at the shape. Your brow should begin at your tear duct, peak at the outer edge of your iris and end at the outer corner of your eye. “Many women make the mistake of taking off too much at the outer corners,” says Weston. “This slants the brows upward and makes the person look perpetually angry.”

3. Prep your skin: Soak a cotton ball in astringent and wipe the brow area.

4. Hold a pencil in line with the outer side of your iris and note where the peak of your arch naturally occurs. From the arch to the outer corner of the eye, your brow should fall in a straight or slightly curved line, depending on the look you’re trying to achieve.

5. Hold the tweezers at a 45 degree angle and pluck the stray hairs below the brow line. “Pull in the direction of the hair growth, or you may end up breaking the hair mid-shaft,” says Engle. Follow your natural brow shape, not the trends. “It’s very difficult to let your brows grow back into their natural shape after you’ve plucked them to death trying to achieve a particular look,” she says.

6. Fill in sparse areas with a freshly sharpened brow pencil, use light, quick strokes to draw in hair. Brow powder will give thin brows overall definition, and is great for a more natural look. Using the brow brush, sweep powder up and outward over brows. If you’re a brow novice, a tinted brow gel is a foolproof way to keep brows in place. Lightly coat brows using upward and outward strokes. Wipe off any excess and allow it to set. Get Glowing!

Waxing is a quick and relatively easy alternative to plucking your eyebrows unless you have very sensitive skin. Here are some simple steps for you to try at home…

Buy a professional waxing kit - basically a jar or tub of wax which can be warmed up in boiling water and applied with a small applicator or spatula, and (usually muslin) removal strips. Each product varies slightly, so be sure to read the manufacturers directions carefully.
Warm up the wax to optimum temperature and use the small spatula to apply a thin layer of wax to the growth. Make sure that you only use a small amount of wax on the spatula to avoid the wax dripping when it is applied. Apply wax with the hair growth under the eyebrow, (i.e. in the same direction that the hair grows in). You don’t need to use much, and you should not let the wax dry.

Never wax above the eyebrow, only ever shape from below. Waxing from under the brow will widen your eyes and help to get the line even. This will make you look younger and much more glamorous if done correctly! As soon as it is applied remove the wax against the hair growth, (i.e. in the opposite direction that the hair grows in). This is done by gently smoothing a piece of cotton muslin over the waxed area, pulling the skin taut with one hand, and pulling the muslin off with the other.

It is a good idea to take a little hair off at a time, especially if you have fairly this growth. You will be surprised how much difference a little hair removal will make to your appearance.
Any straggly hairs left over after waxing can be easily plucked out using a set of good tweezers. Apply a soothing balm like tea tree oil onto the area afterwards. You should avoid direct sunlight, acid based facial treatments, and liquid makeup for several hours.

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Do you wish to reverse the aging process? Do you believe that aging process can be reversed? Will you follow the exercises-religiously, if you are explained?

Don’t be mistaken that you will reduce your age by 20-30 years. Yes, the exercises will help you to regain the energies which you used to have some 10 years before. Your friends will comment that you look more energetic. This fact has been proved by thousands of sincere persons who followed these exercises, sincerely.

FIVE TIBETAN RITES hold the keys to lasting youth, health and vitality. If the exercises are performed daily, the results can be noticed by the end of fourth week. You will be thrilled to the comments of your friend who would confirm that you look younger and stronger.

There have been exercises and weight losing tips which people follow but no body could claim such results as you get from Tibetans rites.

Eastern mystiques have been maintaining that our body has seven energy centers. Each energy center controls one endocrine gland.

The body’s seven endocrine glands are;
(1) Reproductive glands,
(2) Pancreas,
(3) Adrenal gland,
(4) Thymus gland.
(5) Thyroid gland.
(6) Pineal gland,
(7) Pituitary gland.

As we grow older, our eating habits and pollution in climate, water and food affects the working of our glands. That results into detoriation of cells and organs, under the control of a particular endocrine gland. Result is, we are diagnosed with the ailments like: heart problem, Diabetes, Asthma, kidney problems and many other ailments.

If any exercise could improve the working of any or all of the seven glands, the imbalance in the working of these glands would be improved. The cells and corresponding organs will start improving, and the hormones produced by these glands will regulate our body functions.

We shall start feeling younger and stronger.

Let’s hear from Colonel Bradford, the Englishman who was taught the Five Rites by the Tibetan monks:

“For the first two weeks after I arrived at the Tibetan monastery,” said the Colonel, “I was like a fish out of water. I marveled at everything I saw, and at times could hardly believe what my eyes beheld. I soon felt much better, was sleeping like a top every night, and only used my cane when hiking in the mountains.

“A month after I arrived I received the biggest surprise of my life. In fact, I was quite startled. It was the day I entered for the first time, a large, well-ordered room which was used as a kind of library for ancient manuscripts. At one end of the room was a full-length mirror. It had been over two years since I had last seen my reflection so with great curiosity I stepped in front of the glass.
“I stared in amazement, so changed was my appearance. It seemed that I had dropped 15 years from my age. It was my first intimation that I was growing younger; but from then on I changed so rapidly that it was apparent to all who knew me. Soon the honorary title of The Ancient One was heard no more.”

Practicing the Five Tibetan Rejuvenation Rites isn’t the same thing as jogging five miles every morning – no question about that.

You see, unlike jogging, when you do the rites,

• You don’t have to set aside 30-60 minutes every day;
• You don’t have to suffer with sore muscles;
• You don’t have to purchase expensive equipment;
• You don’t even have to work up a drippy sweat!

Instead, you work at a gentle pace that fits your current shape and gradually build up to doing 21 repetitions of each of the five simple exercises every day.

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The most attractive part of the lady is full grown breasts. Every confident girl would wish to have a nice breast, so that she looks sexier and attractive. Therefore, any lady in doubts, will look for better ways to improve the size of her breast.

Breast Surgery is the fastest way for Breast Enlargement. But the lady has to live with scars for whole of her life. She might have to live with pain in shoulders, neck and back. since the nerves and tissues are damaged during surgery. There could be swelling in the arms. She would not gain any relief even if she decides to get the implants removed at a later stage. There have been reports that after the Breast Surgery sometimes the nipples are not centered correctly. BUT the Breast is surely enlarged.

Breast Surgery is very expensive, only rich people could afford it. No body ever wished to look into the side effects of the surgical implantations. The cost could be anything around $10,000, for the Breast Surgery with implants.

Exercise is a better option for improving any part of the body. The breasts can also be easily enlarged by performing specific exercises.

Basically, breast exercise is aimed at firming up the pectoral muscles below the breasts. Once the pectoral muscles become firmer, the breast tissues follow suit, which make the breast tissues stronger and suppler. Breast enlargement exercises are chest expansion exercises.

Following yoga exercises have been found very effective:

• Sitting pose – sit on a yoga mat in with your legs crossed and hands folded in such a way that you are ready to pray. Touch both the palms together. Now press the base of your palm hard and hold it for 10 seconds. Repeat this for 10 times at a time. You can do this 2-3 times a day, as this is a simple exercise and can be done easily.
• Cobra pose – lie on the floor flat on your stomach. Stretch the top of the toes on the floor and hands under your shoulders on the floor. Raise your body from the waist and hug the elbows back in to your body. Press the rest of the body that is the thighs, pelvis and feet firmly in the ground. Inhale and start to straighten the arms to lift the chest off the floor. Only go to a height which is comfortable and you can maintain. Lift the pubis towards the navel and press the tailbone towards the pubis. Keep your buttocks firm. Hold in this pose for 15 seconds while breathing easily. Exhale and release back to the floor slowly.

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Standard companies will ensure the quality of herbal pills. Selection of pure and right herbs, added in right proportions will make the herbal pills effective. It must accompany right directions for its usage, proper diet and exercises. The pills can be easily bought on net. The cost would vary around $30 to $50 per month.

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Have you ever wished to loose weight without any hassles of heavy exercises and dieting?

Well it is very simple and it is possible.

You don’t believe it?

There have been lots of examples where our friends reported of weight loss and lasting freedom from their ailments.

When some thing is required to be burnt, it needs heat, fuel and oxygen. We have heat in the body; the fat can be burnt if we increase the amount of oxygen in the body.

The oxygen we breathe in metabolizes with body fat to form adenosine triphosphate (ATP), our primary source of energy.

Basically, the more oxygen we take in, the more fat we burn.
Virtually all weight loss programs focus on reducing body fat by dieting or sticking to low-fat meal plans, or increasing body heat by working out.

There aren’t any programs that advocate weight loss through increased oxygen intake.

It’s a scientific fact that only 10% of our energy actually comes from food and water—the remaining 90% comes from oxygen.
What’s more, our bodies get rid of 80% of the toxic materials in the cells through breathing.

We thoroughly clean our bodies by breathing more efficiently and taking in more oxygen, allowing us to lose weight more easily.
A revolutionary discovery, Unique Exercises elevate the role of oxygen intake in weight loss to a whole new level.

It lets overweight individuals shed as many as 40 pounds in a week, all without the stress of dieting or working out. Instead, it involves exercises that:

1. Open up the breathing passages
2. Free the lungs to take in more oxygen
3. Spread oxygen more efficiently to the different parts of the body
4. Relieve stress
5. Cleanse your system thoroughly, allowing your body to burn fat even while resting.

Unique exercises—most lasting no more than a few minutes each day—have been found very helpful losing weight rapidly.

They have also opened the doors to the following benefits:

• More efficient breathing
• Reduced stress (which, in turn, reduces obesity, hypertension, headaches…)

• A cleaner body that burns fat even while you sleep
Unique exercises will fit easily into whatever diet or exercise regimen you might be on right now.

In fact, these incredibly simple exercises will make your body run as efficiently as it possibly can, multiplying the results of your other weight-loss efforts. You will not have any stress of any additional workout.

The exercises are so easy and simple that you can do them anytime during the day. You don’t need to go to a gym or schedule a specific time into your daily schedule for them.

You can do them while driving to work, during your coffee break, or while watching TV.

But that’s not the best part…

The exercises are designed to release the muscles that control the breathing process, allowing you to breathe more efficiently round-the-clock, in turn letting you lose weight 24/7.

And the results are permanent—you’ll still be shedding those excess pounds long after you stop doing these exercises!

I’m sure you’ve never heard about permanent results when it comes to losing weight. But in this case it’s reality.

The exercises focus on releasing the muscles that control the breathing process, so you’ll basically be breathing more efficiently for the rest of your life.

You’ll even be losing all that extra weight long after you’ve stopped doing the exercises. Your body will have been retrained to breathe effectively and oxygenate every cell in the body for the most effective burning process, so you can just lie back and enjoy the show.

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If a lady starts feeling dull pains even before the expected date of periods which slowly extends to her right side, lower back and thighs, then she is not supposed to overlook as menstrual cramps. If the pains get repeated few days prior to periods or get worse, then pain relievers might not solve the problem; one must consult the Doctor and go for an ultrasound.

Doctor may diagnose an Ovarian Cyst and prescribe regular medicines.

There have been number of cases where the prescribed medicines, including birth control pills, do not help in providing any relief to the patient and the Cyst keeps on getting larger.

The patient gets stressed and scared, thoughts of cancer run through her head. Every night she has to face unbearable pain and worry about the cyst growing on her ovary.

Prescription drugs and pain relievers may temporarily mask the symptoms, but the ovarian cyst will still be there and will most likely grow faster. It is a well know fact that some ovarian cysts become problematic if not treated.

Conventional treatment of ovarian cysts almost always leads to surgery. These surgeries are risky and unnecessary and sometime your doctor may decide to remove your ovary or your entire uterus, leaving you unable to bare children ever.

Your body has a built in system to warn you something is wrong. Ovarian cysts and the pain they cause is a desperate alarm from your body telling you something is wrong inside.

Conventional treatments are designed to shut off your bodies warning alarm, the most dangerous part of muffling your natural alarm system is that what’s wrong is almost always getting worse. It’s as if your house is on fire and you are awakened by the fire alarm, but instead of calling the fire department, you just shut off the alarm and go back to sleep.

Your body is, in effect, telling you, “Hey! Wake Up! You have a problem!” By using drugs to muffle your body’s alarm system, you are replying, “Shut up! Don’t bother me!” The only way to cure your Ovarian Cysts is by working with your body.

There is an natural way of eliminating Ovarian Cyst and achieve permanent relief. Users have reported to gain the following results:

• Their ovarian cysts shrunk rapidly
• The unbearable pain was gone within a few short days
• None of them had to go through the frightening surgery that was so easy for their doctors to recommend
• No one who followed the program ever experience a single cyst again

Other unexpected benefits also occurred:

• Everyone started losing weight almost effortlessly
• Their menstrual cycles become more consistent
• Their emotions become more balanced, and they felt happier and calmer
• Their sex life improved
• Other, unrelated illnesses started to reverse

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Once, we were advised to cut out caffeine. But the latest research shows a daily cup could be a lifesaver.

Long-term studies have finally showed the health benefits of the roasted bean. So here are some reasons why drinking coffee early and often is good for you:

1. Coffee is as hydrating as plain water.
It’s a complete myth that a normal cup of coffee is a diuretic. So you can count your morning cup of coffee as part of your daily water requirement. It’s only when your drink contains more than 550mg of caffeine that you’ll start to produce dehydrating levels of urine, according to the review

2. It probably cuts your risk of heart disease, and certainly doesn’t raise the chances of a heart attack
People with high blood pressure commonly avoid coffee as a stimulant that might make their condition worse. Yet a series of large clinical trials show that the opposite is true. University of California cardiologists studied the 10 biggest trials of heart disease and recently concluded there was no evidence that coffee increases the risk of heart attack, sudden death or abnormal heart rhythms.

3. It cuts the risk of some cancers and has no adverse effect on others
There’s even a suggestion that coffee-drinking can prevent cancer. Japanese researchers have reported in 2005, in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, that regular consumers of two cups of coffee a day had half the risk of developing liver cancer compared with those who never drank it.

4. The cream in your coffee more than offsets the slight reduction in calcium-absorption that caffeine appears to cause
Caffeine does bring about a slight reduction in the absorption of calcium in the bones, and some scientists have claimed that people who drink coffee regularly have a higher risk of bone loss and fractures. This is probably because coffee drinkers are less likely to have milky drinks, according to bone biologist Dr Robert Heaney of Creighton University, Omaha. He says that the small caffeine-related increased risk of osteoporosis is easily offset by adding a couple of tablespoons of milk per cup.

5. It makes you feel good
It’s not imaginary: a decent cup of coffee improves your sense of well-being, happiness, energy, alertness and sociability, according to research at John Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore. You have to drink the stuff regularly, however. Having the odd cup is likely to cause anxiety and a feeling of being unwell.
Those with a coffee habit, however, may even be better protected from potentially lethal depression.

6. It helps sports men and women recover from extreme exercise
New research has shown that adding a few cups of coffee to the carbohydrates eaten by athletes following exercise boosts muscle recovery by up to 60 per cent – apparently solving a problem that has foxed sports physiologists until now. The study, published in the Journal of Applied Physiology in July, has found a solution to a problem that has resulted in increasingly complex dietary schemes designed to help athletes recover faster.

7. It appears to offer protection from diseases
There are suggestions that a couple of cups of coffee daily reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s as well as Parkinson’s disease, and possibly diabetes. Caffeine appears to protect the brain from the harmful effects of cholesterol, which is involved in the destruction of the brain cells that leads to Alzheimer’s. Other research has shown that people who drink four or more cups of coffee a day are less likely to develop Parkinson’s disease, and that coffee intake appears to be linked to a lower risk of Type 2 diabetes.

But don’t overdo it…

*Coffee is no ‘cure’ for a hangover

The water in coffee will help to rehydrate you, and the caffeine will give your brain a jolt, but the overall effect is likely to make you feel worse. A strong coffee will irritate further your already delicate stomach, and the increased blood flow to the brain can increase the pounding in your head. The favourite hangover remedy of a cocktail of black coffee and paracetamol is potentially toxic, scientists reported in the journal Chemical Research in Toxicology last year. Caffeine triples the amount of a toxic by-product of paracetamol being broken down, increasing the risk of potentially fatal liver damage.

How much caffeine?
*Cup of tea 47mg
*Cup of filter coffee 95mg
*Can of cola 35mg
*Diet Coke 47mg

Adopted from an article By Jane Feinmann, www.dailymail.co.uk

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Baking soda can cut seconds off speed.

Scientists have proven what athletes have been claiming for years - that Granny’s old cure-all, bicarbonate of soda, can enhance performance.

‘Soda-doping’, as it is known amongst professional sportsmen, can have a significant effect on endurance and speed.

Baking soda appears to work best to enhance speed. A study at Loughborough University found that of nine swimmers who took baking soda before an event, eight reduced their times, the Times reports.
Jonathan Folland, who led the study, said: ‘Essentially, sodium bicarbonate is an alkali substance that increases the pH of the blood.
‘This seems to reduce and offset the acidity produced in the muscles during intense, anaerobic exercise that produces lactic acid most quickly, such as fast running or swimming.’

Sodium bicarbonate, as anyone whose taken it for indigestion knows, reduces acids - helping the body to deal with the acidic waste products produced during exercise, that tire us more quickly.
But the substance isn’t a miracle-worker - shaving seconds, not minutes, off performance time - so that only the most proficient athletes will notice a difference.

The swimmers in the Loughborough study cut 1.5 seconds from their 200m time. Which is hardly significant for most of us who take a leisurely few laps up and down the pool.

A study at the American College of Sports Medicine found that runners could also improve performance with baking soda.

But the substance - used before modern times as a household cleaning agent - can cause upset stomachs, and tastes foul. ‘It is not dangerous, but it tastes appalling,’ warns Dr Folland.
He says that only those who are very serious about sport should try the white powder, which may cause diarrhea.

Article by Daily Mail Reporter
16th August 2008

The government has suggested that more and more people are turning to meditation, herbs, yoga and other forms of alternative medicine because of lack of results with conventional care. One of the largest U.S. studies conducted on alternative medicine found that over one-third of American adults practiced some type of non-conventional medicine in 2002.

The report was based on information from 31,044 interviews with adults aged 18 and older.

Researchers believed the results of the study pointed to the fact that more people are using alternative medicine. Also, it was apparent that an increasing number of people have turned to natural products like herbs or enzymes to help with chronic or recurring pain.

Experts suggested that people should not neglect conventional medicine in those instances where it has been proven to help certain conditions and also recommended consulting a doctor before practicing alternative medicine. Experts were concerned about the number of people turning to alternative medicine because they felt they were no longer able to afford the costs of conventional care.

Experts cautioned people who assumed that just because a product was natural that it was automatically safe to use. An example they cited was the 6.6 percent of people in the study found to use the supplement kava, which has been linked to liver disease.

Significant findings from the study include:

• 62 percent of the participants used some form complementary and alternative medicine over the past year for a specific medical condition, broken down as follows:

# Prayer for own health, 43 percent
# Prayer by others for the respondent’s health, 24 percent
# Natural products (such as herbs, other botanicals, and enzymes), 19 percent
# Deep breathing exercises, 12 percent
# Participation in prayer group for own health, 10 percent
# Meditation, 8 percent
# Chiropractic care, 8 percent
# Yoga, 5 percent
# Massage, 5 percent
# Diet-based therapies, 4 percent

• 45 percent turned to some kind of prayer to help them heal in the past 12 months
• There was a higher tendency for women to use complementary and alternative medicine than men
• 28 percent of the participants felt that conventional treatment would not help them

Reference: Center for Disease Control National Center for Health Statistics May 27, 2004 (20-page Full-Text PDF Report)

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There are many ways to lose weight. Some of them are deadly, dangerous and stupid.

It’s unfortunate how many lies and misinformation there are out there on websites and in the guruish diet books. But it’s this kind of mind crap that keeps people in the failure mode.

Human physiology is that meat eating is not in any way natural or healthy for humans. Sure eating meat may not be the worst thing you can do, but its miles from ideal.

What about the bad breath and all of the supplements you have to take on this diet.

Have you ever thought about the fact that there’s no fiber in meat? Will cause some heavy duty constipation compared to eating your natural diet of fresh, ripe and raw fruits and vegetables.
Anyone who’s been eating cooked food for years is much sicker than he or she can imagine. And it takes time for your body to adapt to eating raw fruits and vegetables.

There’s a transition and a heavy detox period and so it can take you some time to adapt to the new fuels and fibers that are in raw foods but not cooked foods. Or for all I know you have problems with apples. Many people do. It’s not a fruit native to our natural habitat of the tropics.

There’s no problem in eating fruit but just that your body is not yet adjusted to eating fruit. If your body had to make adaptations to eat the cooked matter that goes into your body it will take some time to adjust back to a more natural diet as well.

I don’t get tired when I eat fruit unless I didn’t sleep enough the night before. Then I’d be tired no matter what I ate because eating requires a lot of energy and if you haven’t slept enough, eating fruit or anything for that matter can make you tired.

There are billions of people eating fruit and I doubt they’re all getting tired after eating them. Why would they continue if eating fruit if it was always making them tired?

This again, is something that you’re body will adapt to over time. After all the most prominent and first human taste bud to develop is the taste for sweet. We are born with a sweet tooth. It’s natural for us to eat fruit but far from it to eat meat.

Well this is just one perspective. We all have to eat. Some of us just eat lower on the food chain. But eventually, we’ll be eaten by the bacteria, fungi, worms and plants after we’re dead. Most of us eat vegetables and we have to kill the plant in order to do that as well.

If I believed eating meat was my natural diet, I’d have no problem doing so. I eat this way for health reasons. And I don’t like or enjoy harming animals, but that was not my primary motivation.

I just want to experience peak happiness, peak performance and peak living in Superbeing style. Eating 100% raw is the fast track to a super-powerful, Superhero living.

So get your mind straight. Either you believe we should eat meat and that it’s natural and healthy for you, or you don’t.

Sure if you eat too many calories of fruit or meat or anything else you’ll put on weight. But it’s so hard to overeat most fruits and much easier to overeat on the dense calories of cooked food.

In truth for every 100 calories of fat eaten only 3 calories are burned in converting it to body fat. Yet for every 100 calories of fruit eaten it takes about 27 calories or so to turn it into body fat.

Therefore even if you manage to overeat calories from fruit — which is very hard to do by the way — your body will rather burn the excess calories than going through the extra effort of converting it into fat.
I’ve Never Seen An Obese Fruit Eater

Just realize I’ve never seen an exclusive raw fruit and vegetable eating obese person. When you eat 100% raw and eat lots of fruits and vegetables you’ll simply have to lose weight. It’s actually hard to put on fat.

Fruits and vegetables are the ideal dieting foods. They are the highest nutrients per calorie and they are the lowest calorie foods per weight or volume. So you get to eat way more food on a raw food diet as well.

For some people it takes a bit of time because their body is putting healing as a higher priority than weight loss. But over time you’ll start to see the amazing effects of what can happen to your health and in that same regard weight loss.

Spreading honey on a diabetic ulcer could prevent the need to amputate an infected foot, researchers say.

A doctor at the University of Wisconsin who helped about half a dozen of her diabetic patients avoid amputation has launched a controlled trial to promote the widespread use of honey therapy.

The therapy involves squeezing a thick layer of honey onto the wound after dead skin and bacteria have been removed.

The honey kills bacteria because it is acidic and avoids the complication of bacterial resistance found with standard antibiotics, Jennifer Eddy, a professor at the University’s School of Medicine and Public Health, told AFP.

“This is a tremendously important issue for world health,” Eddy said.

Diabetics typically have poor circulation and decreased ability to fight infection and ulcers can be hard to treat. An amputation is performed every 30 seconds somewhere in the world, Eddy said.

“If we can prove that honey promotes healing in diabetic ulcers, we can offer new hopes for many patients, not to mention the cost benefit, and the issue of bacterial resistance. The possibilities are tremendous.”

Honey therapy is already used to treat bed sores in New Zealand and as an alternative form of medicine in Europe, but has largely been relegated to history books in the United States.

Eddy first heard of it in medical school when a professor commented that of all the ancient remedies, honey actually seemed to work when he tried it out in the laboratory.

She tried honey therapy as a last resort six years ago with a 79-year-old diabetic patient who had developed foot wounds resistant to standard treatments.

“I tried it only after everything else had failed and… we had essentially sent him home to die,” she said. “All antibiotics were stopped when we started honey, and his wounds rapidly healed.”

Eddy hopes to have the trial completed and the results published by 2008 or 2009.

Finally a simple solution for curing this dreaded disease.
Stop Cancer with Baking Soda - Sodium Bicarbonate,
Baking Soda is cheap, easy to come by, and very effective in restoring the body to good health.This goes beyond food and nutrition
- stop cancer with baking soda -latest research discovery.

Most of us are going to be surprised to find out that there is an oncologist in Rome Italy, Dr. Tullio Simoncini, destroying cancer tumors with sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) [1]. Sodium bicarbonate is safe, extremely inexpensive and unstoppably effective when it comes to cancer tissues. It’s an irresistible chemical, cyanide to cancer cells for it hits the cancer cells with a shock wave of alkalinity, which allows much more oxygen into the cancer cells than they can tolerate. Cancer cells cannot survive in the presence of high levels of oxygen. Sodium bicarbonate is, for all intent and purposes, an instant killer of tumors. Full treatment takes only days, as does another cancer treatment that heats the cancer cells with laser generated heat. (At bottom see combining ph shift with heat.)

The extracellular (interstitial) pH (pHe) of solid tumours is significantly more acidic compared to normal tissues [2].

Case one: A patient diagnosed with pulmonary neoplasm of the lung, underwent treatment with sodium bicarbonate, before submitting to surgery to remove part of the lung. Treatment consisted of sodium bicarbonate administered orally, by aerosol, and IV. After first treatment reduction of nodules and absorption was evident, and after 8 months was no longer visible at all. Treatments also reduced size of the liver and results were confirmed by both X-ray and CAT scan.
The IMVA recommends alkaline foods and sodium bicarbonate so that the pH of the blood remains high, which in turn means that the blood is capable of carrying more oxygen. This in turn keeps every cell in the body at peak efficiency and helps the cell eliminate waste products. Detoxification and chelation will proceed more easily and safely under slightly alkaline conditions. Increased urinary pH reduces oxidative injury in the kidney so it behooves us to work clinically with bicarbonate.

Case two: A nine-year-old child is hospitalized and diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma on the right humerus. Despite several chemotherapy cycles’s surgery removed the humeral bone. Growth of three tumor masses continued despite continued efforts to stop progression. Sodium bicarbonate salts treatment was then started administered by catheter into the right sub-clavian artery in order to administer the salts (phleboclysis of 500 cc at five per cent) directly on the tumoral masses.

Of the 3 masses shown by the scographic scan of May 7, 2001, whose size is respectively:
a. 6.5 cm
b. 4.4 cm
c. 2.4 cm

After the sodium bicarbonate salts treatment only one tumor was left, with a size of only 1.5 cm, which is most likely residual scarring, as shown by the echography of September 10, 2001.

Case three: A 62-year-old patient undergoes surgery in December 1998 for endometrial adenocarcinoma, followed by successive cycles of radiotherapy and anti-hormone therapy. Following the thickening of the peritoneum and the growth of several lymph nodes due to carcinosis; from the clinical point of view, the patient’s condition decayed with the presence of exhaustion, general swelling, intestinal meteorism, irregularity of evacuation, steady feeling of heaviness and blood pressure instability. Treatment with a 5% sodium bicarbonate solution administered alternately thru an endoperitoneal catheter and via IV showed rapid improvement to a normal condition of health. A final CAT scan confirms the regression of the peritoneal carcinosis and a stabilization of the size of the lymph nodes when compared to the preceding year.

Sodium bicarbonate is the chemical compound with the formula NaHCO3. Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) is commonly used as an antacid for short-term relief of stomach upset, to correct acidosis in kidney disorders, to make the urine alkaline during bladder infections and to minimize uric acid crystallization during gout treatment. Prescription sodium bicarbonate products are given by injection to treat metabolic acidosis and some drug intoxications. Sodium bicarbonate is available as a nonprescription medical as well as a general house hold item. It is also used with other non-prescription drugs for short-term treatment of various conditions to treat anything from fever to moderate pain.

Distilled water is not safe, it lacks bicarbonates and minerals and yes, it is acid forming to the body. Yet it is an excellent aid in detoxification and chelation for its purity pulls on toxicities in the body. Part of the reason why our body is acid is that it lacks enough bicarbonate necessary to neutralize the acid. Whenever the water lacks the proper bicarbonates to neutralize the water in distilled water your body basically becomes a little more acid. But we can easily treat distilled or reverse osmosis water by adding bicarbonate and magnesium and perhaps even some sodium thiosulfate. The conscious use of water favorably increases medical outcomes; often it even determines the prognosis. You cannot separate out hydration from pH. Dehydration would certainly push the body toward acidity.)

pH of the blood is the most important factor to determine the state of the microorganisms in the blood.

The closer the pH is to 7.35 - 7.45, the higher our level of health and well being and our ability to resist states of disease.

Fever is one of the body’s own defensive and healing forces, created and sustained for the deliberate purpose of restoring health. The high temperature speeds up metabolism, inhibits the growth of the invading virus or bacteria, and literally burns the enemy with heat. Fever is an effective protective and healing measure not only against colds and simple infections, but against such serious diseases as polio and cancer.

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After going 10 - 12 hours overnight without food, energy reserves are low and your body and brain need fuel. What you choose to eat at breakfast can affect your mood, physical and mental performance, weight and your general and long term health.

Most nutritionists consider breakfast to be the most important meal of the day.

Researchers in Nottingham investigated the effects of skipping breakfast on energy metabolism and found that skipping breakfast led to higher cholesterol levels and lower insulin sensitivity both risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

Breakfast can help weight control
If you miss breakfast you are much more likely to get hungry mid morning and end up grabbing a snack that is high in calories and fat but low in nutrients and fiber. Studies show that children who regularly eat a cereal based breakfast are healthier and less likely to be overweight. In fact teenagers who ate breakfast cereals more than five times a week weighed less, had a smaller waist size and lower blood sugar levels than those who rarely ate cereal. Research among adults shows that people who eat breakfast are more likely to be within the ideal weight range than people who skip breakfast.

Breakfast can boost brain power
Several studies have shown that children who skip breakfast in the morning perform less well in problem solving tasks. Verbal fluency, creativity and the ability to recall newly acquired facts are similarly affected.

More than 1,300 children took part in an online study conducted by leading cognitive research unit, Cognitive Drug Research Ltd, as part of Farmhouse Breakfast Week 2004. The results clearly showed that children who eat breakfast have superior cognitive function and therefore pay more attention and respond more quickly to given tasks. Teachers in Scotland reported that concentration in class improved as a result of introducing breakfast clubs while the children said that it helped them enjoy school more.

But it is not just children that perform less well if they miss breakfast, other studies show that adults who ate breakfast tended to work faster, made fewer mistakes in logic tests and had better memory recall compared with breakfast skippers.

A healthy, balanced breakfast provides vital nutrients
Breakfast provides an important boost to our intake of vitamins, minerals and fiber, and studies show it can be difficult to make up on these nutrients if you miss the opportunity at breakfast. People who eat breakfast are more likely to meet the recommended intake for iron, calcium and B group vitamins than those who skip breakfast.

Breakfast helps keep us happy and healthy
A study carried out at the University of Cardiff suggests that breakfast eaters are less likely to suffer from colds and ‘flu.

Studies carried out at the University of Bristol examined the breakfast habits of 126 volunteers between the ages of 20 and 79 and assessed their mental health. The results revealed that, even taking into account that fact that breakfast eaters tended to have healthier lifestyles, those who ate breakfast everyday were less depressed less emotionally distressed and had lower perceived levels of stress compared with those who skipped the first meal of the day.

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Diabetes can affect the eye in a number of ways. These usually
involve the fine network of blood vessels in the retina - the most
sever condition that can occur is Diabetic Retinopathy.

It involves the retina. This condition is very common in
people who have had diabetes for a long time. The doctor may be
able to see abnormalities in the eyes, but there is no threat to
the sight.

There are two types of diabetic retinopathy which can damage the
sight. Both involve the fine network of blood vessels in the
retina. They are described below.

Type 1 - Maculopathy

This happens when the blood vessels in the retina start to leak. If
the macula is affected, you will find that your central vision
gradually gets worse. You may find it difficult to recognize
people’s faces in the distance or to see details like small print.
The amount of central vision that is lost varies from person to
person. However everyday sight for getting around the house and
outside (navigation vision) will be preserved. It is quite rare for
someone with maculopathy to lose all their sight.

Type 2 - Proliferative diabetic retinopathy

Sometimes diabetes can cause the blood vessels in the retina to
become blocked. If this happens then new blood vessels form in the
eye. This is nature’s way of trying to repair the damage so that
the retina has a new blood supply.

Unfortunately these new blood vessels are weak. They are also in
the wrong place - growing on the surface of the retina and into the
vitreous jelly. As a result these blood vessels can bleed very
easily and cause scar tissue to form in the eye. The scarring pulls
and distorts the retina. When the retina is pulled out of position
this is called retinal detachment. This condition is rare than
background retinopathy and is more often found in people who have
been insulin dependent for many years. The new blood vessels will
rarely affect your vision, but their consequences, such as bleeding
or retinal detachment can cause your vision to get worse suddenly.
Your eyesight may become blurred and patchy as the bleeding
obscures part of your vision. Without treatment, total loss of
vision can happen in proliferative retinopathy.

*** With treatment most sight-threatening diabetic problems
can be revented if caught early enough.***

Although your vision may be good, changes can be taking place to
your retina that needs treatment. Most sight loss in diabetes is
preventable.:Early diagnosis is vital. You may have an eye examination every year. Do not wait until your vision has deteriorated to have an eye test.

Your family doctor or optometrist can examine for Diabetic Retinopathy.

Remember, however, that if your vision is getting worse, this does
not necessarily mean you have diabetic retinopathy. It may simply
be a problem that can be corrected by glasses.

You can Normalize your blood sugar level and prevent retinopathy
by taking Melabic

Warren Buffett never flies in a private jet – even though he owns the largest private jet company. He also lives in a small three-bedroom house he bought 50 years ago, and keeps himself occupied by playing online bridge.

It is refreshing, and inspiring, to hear of a man with all the wealth in the world who still believes that happiness lies not with riches but within yourself.

You, too, may become immensely happier by integrating some of the following wisdom into your own life.

Secret #1: Happiness comes from within.
“In my adult business life I have never had to make a choice of trading between professional and personal. I tap-dance to work, and when I get there it’s tremendous fun.” – Warren Buffett

If you do what you love and love what you do, you’ll naturally be productive.

Secret #2: Find happiness in simple pleasures.“I have simple pleasures. I play bridge online for 12 hours a week.” – Warren Buffett

You can also learn to be happy with the simple pleasures of playing cards with friends, playing with your children or taking a walk in the wilderness.

Secret #3: Live a simple life.“I just naturally want to do things that make sense. In my personal life too, I don’t care what other rich people are doing. I don’t want a 405 foot boat just because someone else has a 400 foot boat.” – Warren Buffett

Keeping up with the Joneses is the worst epidemic among those who should never contemplate that notion in the first place. Less is more.

Secret #4: Think Simply.“I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand.” – Warren Buffett

If you apply this rule in your life, you can develop clarity and sanity in your thoughts. Life is about simple yet profound choices.

Secret #5: Invest Simply.“The best way to own common stocks is through an index fund.” – Warren Buffett

Often, the simplest route will bring you the most riches, and the most happiness.

Secret #6: Have a mentor in life.
“I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit-forming.” – Warren Buffett

Having a mentor is as important as having a purpose in your life, but having a wrong mentor is as devastating as having a wrong purpose in your life. The mentor has to be someone you can trust. You’ll find that person in your inner circle if you think hard enough.

Secret #7: Making money isn’t the backbone of your guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of your guiding purpose.
“If you’re doing something you love, you’re more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money.” – Warren Buffett

Money should never become the object and end all of your motivation.

Back pain does not happen overnight. It is a postural dysfunction. It simply means that there is an abnormal curvature of the spine or abnormal positioning of the pelvis.

Everyone has varying degrees of postural imbalances as different muscles grow weaker or stronger, and more flexible or tight in relation to each other. Postural dysfunctions cause increased wear and tear on the joints, muscles, ligaments, and discs in your back. Over time your back weakens until it can no longer properly support itself and nerves in your spinal column are suddenly and painfully pressured or pinched.

There are different types of surgical procedures for back pain. They try to: remove the pressure on the nerve or stabilize the spine.

In case of a herniated disc, the pain is caused since the disc is pressing on a nerve. Your doctor may suggest for a minor surgery to remove the part of the disc that’s pressing on the nerve.

At first thought, this might sound like good news. Take the pressure off the nerve and it’s goodbye pain! Unfortunately it’s not quite that simple. Think of it like the wheels on a car. When your car gets out of alignment, your tires wear unevenly. The areas on the tire receiving extra pressure due to the imbalance wear away much faster than normal. Left unchecked, a sudden catastrophic blowout may be in your future.

If you replace the tires, but leave the alignment uncorrected, it won’t be long until you have the same problem with the new tires. Until you fix the cause of the problem, the symptoms will keep recurring.

The same thing applies to your spine. No matter how many surgeries you have, until you correct the underlying cause of the imbalances weakening your back, you will continue experiencing spinal degeneration — and as time goes on, more pain.

This is why the back surgery will be an extreme approach in dealing with non-trauma related back pain. Besides the fact that spinal surgery alone will not correct muscle imbalances, there are other issues to contend with during recovery that can be counterproductive to your pain reduction goals.
Post-surgical recovery is an area too frequently glossed over during the decision making process leading to an operation. You will want to consider the risks and difficulties of recovery as part of an informed decision.

Following back surgery, your body will go through a normal recovery process including significant pain and awkward movement for even simple daily tasks. Because your body is contorting itself to avoid pain during this recovery phase, additional stress is placed on other areas of your body — particular above and below the site of surgery and in other joints such as the hips or sacroiliac (SI).

All surgeries produce scar tissue. As your body heals there is a real possibility that the scar tissue itself can build up to the point that it makes contact with the nerve, causing as much pain as if the disc itself were still putting pressure on the nerve.

Fortunately most back pain sufferers can get relief without resorting to surgery. By identifying and addressing the underlying muscle imbalances and postural dysfunctions behind their back pain, many back pain sufferers can get better results without surgery and avoid the inherent risks.

In fact, if you’re still considering surgery, I’d recommend finding a qualified therapist first and ask the same five questions above. Using this information, give yourself 60 days to work on stretching and strengthening before making a final decision on surgery. You stand a strong chance of eliminating your back pain altogether — with no surgery and much lower medical bills!

One final word on surgical outcomes. Back pain surgery is the only category of surgery that actually has a clinical term for failure — Failed Back Surgery Syndrome. Unless the underlying causes of your back pain such as muscle imbalances are addressed, chances are high that you won’t experience long-term pain relief (I define long-term as more than five years).

Adopted from an article by
By Steven Hefferon, CMT, PTA, CPRS http://www.losethebackpain.com

Magnetic products have been regularly being claimed that they could help people suffering from fibromyalgia, lupus, sciatica, herniated discs, asthma, bronchitis, cataracts, chronic fatigue syndrome, colitis, diverticulitis, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, and more than 50 other health conditions.

Leading producers of Magnetic products in USA have claimed that its magnetic sleep pads or other products: (a) are effective against cancers, diabetic ulcers, arthritis, degenerative joint conditions, or high blood pressure; (b) could stabilize or increase the T-cell count of HIV patients; © could reduce muscle spasms in persons with multiple sclerosis; (d) could reduce nerve spasms associated with diabetic neuropathy; (e) could increase bone density, immunity, or circulation; or (f) are comparable or superior to prescription pain medicineThe “magnetized water” or other products have been claimed to be useful against cancer, diseases of the liver or other internal organs, gallstones, kidney stones, urinary infection, gastric ulcers, dysentery, diarrhea, skin ulcers, bed sores, arthritis, bursitis, tendinitis, sprains, strains, sciatica, heart disease, circulatory disease, arthritis, auto-immune illness, neuro-degenerative disease and allergies.

Researches have been conducted at different Medical Colleges in USA. The results (Claims) have been found to hold no ground:

• Researchers at the New York College of Podiatric Medicine have reported negative results in a study of patients with heel pain. Over a 4-week period, 19 patients wore a molded insole containing a magnetic foil, while 15 patients wore the same type of insole with no magnetic foil. In both groups, 60% reported improvement, which suggested that the magnetic foil conveyed no benefit.

• Researchers at the VA Medical Center in Prescott, Arizona conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study involving 20 patients with chronic back pain. Each patient was exposed to real and sham bipolar permanent magnets during alternate weeks, for 6 hours per day, 3 days per week for a week, with a 1-week period between the treatment weeks. No difference in pain or mobility was found between the treatment and sham-treatment periods.

• Researchers at the Mayo Clinic compared the effects of wearing magnetic or sham-magnetic cushioned insoles over an 8-week period by 101 people with heel pain and found no difference between the treatment and control groups.

Magnets have also been claimed to increase circulation. This claim is false. If it were true, placing a magnet on the skin would make the area under the magnet become red, which it does not. Moreover, a well-designed study that actually measured blood flow has found no increase. The study involved 12 healthy volunteers who were exposed to either a 1000-gauss magnetic disk or an identically appearing disk that was not magnetic. No change in the amount or speed of blood flow was observed when either disk was applied to their arm.

The magnets were manufactured by Magnetherapy, Inc, of Riviera Beach, Florida, a company that has been subjected to regulatory actions.

There is no scientific basis to conclude that small, static magnets can relieve pain or influence the course of any disease. In fact, many of today’s products produce no significant magnetic field at or beneath the skin’s surface.

Adopted from an article by Stephen Barret, M.D.
http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/QA/magnet.html

What if the fastest, most direct route to healing existed right under our noses–literally? It does; it’s our breath, bringer of oxygen, channel of life energy and source of true miracles. Your breath is so powerful that it can, in fact, send your body humming like a car engine. Besides delivering oxygen, the breath channels a powerful force in the body, an energy called Qi. This Qi energy causes the body to “vibrate,” increasing organ function, balancing metabolism and promoting healing.

Your physical body is overlapped by a spiritual energy body and this is the one that vibrates and it is also the body we are seeking to ‘activate’ in Qigong. Everyone has Qi; however some people can hold 10-1000 times the amount of a normal person. The term ‘activate’ refers to the Qigong principle of filling up the storage center (Dan Tien) with Yang Qi thereby increasing the flow of Qi to such a degree that ones Qi can be seen as cobalt blue vapors rising from the skin. This cobalt blue substance is the universal color of Yang Qi and its cultivation leads to higher levels of body function.

But, is this the limit of Qigong? I once heard a man say Qigong was metaphysical, but not spiritual. Is cultivating the living energy of God not a spiritual practice? And how does any of this relate to creating miracles?

What is a True Miracle?

A miracle can be defined as any event that is so statistically unlikely, it cannot be explained by natural laws, or even attributed to random chance. For example, say John Smith, a soccer superstar, tears a tendon during a big game. Physical law dictates that a torn tendon takes considerable time to heal, perhaps several months. Even if one had profound levels of Qi, this kind of injury would require many concurrent sessions and considerable time to heal. Now, if the torn tendon healed instantly during halftime while John was on the sidelines, this would be a miracle. The statistical probability of instantaneous healing is so remote; it appears to defy the natural laws. However, after years of clinical work with nearly a dozen renowned Qigong masters, shamans and healers of many faiths,
I have personally witnessed two different types of energy healing:
1) Qi Healing 2) Miraculous Healing.

Qi healing is an ancient practice based on Qigong breathing disciplines. It can be used to treat almost any illness, physical or emotional, from asthma and migraines to depression and anxiety. It is based on the Qigong theory that all around us there is living “Qi Plasma” that permeates every square inch of the universe and throughout all of existence. During Qi healing, the practitioner uses specialized breathing techniques to first absorb Qi and then “pressurize” Qi in his or her Dan Tien, the body’s storage area for Qi, located behind the belly button. Qigong breathing practices create tremendous heat in the body, which builds up in the hands. The practitioner then places his or her hands on or near the person being treated, transmitting the Qi. People who receive this intense dose of energy usually have some immediate response. They may gently sway or undulate as the Qi energy enters their cores; some people will laugh, cry or have what they later call a “spiritual experience.”

As powerful as the Qi Healing experience is, it’s a process; several sessions are usually required to completely heal a serious problem. Instantaneous healing is extremely rare. Even so, it sometimes happens, especially with particularly powerful healers and between people who share an especially strong connection–say, a husband and wife, or a parent and child. These kinds of healings, which defy even the laws of Qi, are what I call miraculous healing.

Miraculous Healing Example
High-level Qigong can manifest true miracles from God or the ultimate energy. Using Qi to perform healing is not the same as harnessing this ultimate energy. Miraculous healing describes an instantaneous healing of body, mind or spirit; in miraculous healing, a deep and lasting cure is affected. The healing is complete and immediate, and never returns. Miraculous healing begins with the same breathing mechanics and energy flow principles, but it also requires the mental assent by the patient. When one is willing to heal, when one has faith, miraculous healing can begin.

Here’s a true story to illustrate. A few years ago, my wife injured her knee in a ski accident. The ski patrol carried her on a snow mobile down the mountain; when I met her at the bottom, she looked up in agony and said, “I need to go to the hospital!” Her knee was swollen with visible internal bruising.

It was a reasonable request. Even so, spirit moved me to insist she sleep first, before going to the hospital. The next morning, she woke up and sat up on the edge of the bed. When she tried to stand up, she winced horribly in pain. I asked her if she was willing to let me try Qi healing on her knee. She agreed, both reluctant and hopeful.
I practiced Qigong for an hour and returned to the room when my hands were fully charged with energy. But instead of using my usual approach, I was guided to try something different. I stood beside the bed and asked her, “Do you believe you can be healed, totally and completely, on this very day?” She looked doubtful, but said “Yes.” I placed my hands over her knee and began practicing my usual method of focused Qigong breathing. The pulsation between my hands and her knee became very intense; after about 20 minutes, she said, “I can feel a strong current flowing from your palms.” Sensing the opportunity I asked her again: “Do you think it is possible to heal completely and totally on this very day?” She smiled and her eyes filled with tears. “Yes,” she said. “I do believe it is possible.”

You probably know how the story ends. For 30 minutes I held my hands over her knee while doing concentrated breathing reciting a silent prayer. Suddenly, she heard a clicking sound and exclaimed, “I just heard my knee click!” I slowly pulled my hands away and asked her to try walking. She did, without pain. I then asked her to jump up and down! Tearful, she jumped repeatedly without pain. In that moment I realized that something different had happened. Her knee looked normal without even so much as a bruise. She was totally healed.
Summary on True Healing Miracles

Since this first miraculous healing experience, I have seen many other cases. The process is always the same; the patient doesn’t believe at first that total and instant healing is possible. But when he or she feels the strength of the Qi, a mental door opens up. Disbelief is suspended, faith enters and healing begins. If the words of Jesus are true, “Your faith alone has healed you,” then we can see why Qi healing is so important. The powerful energy sensations the patient feels at the first contact of Qi energy provide the foundation for faith! Qigong brings in the energy, but the mind of the patient brings in the miracle.

And spontaneous or miraculous healing isn’t limited to physical ailments. It’s equally, if not more, powerful in addressing many mental and emotional ailments, including depression, anxiety, insomnia and addictions. Because it works with energy and operates in the spiritual realm, Qi healing can quickly and completely heal people with these and other disturbances. Even when years of psychotherapy or behavior modification have failed, Qi healing can effect lasting change.

Perhaps not surprisingly, there appears to be power in numbers; miraculous healing tends to occur more frequently in group setting, probably because of the sheer amount of energy available. In China, people frequently gather in groups of tens of thousands inside stadiums to practice qigong. These events are known for miraculous healings–the kind where paralyzed people get up out of wheel chairs and walk. I believe it is the sheer size of the group energy field that allows this to take place; when many people are gathered together in faith, with the intention of healing, it’s impossible not to create dramatic change. The greatest miracles occur when our focus is united in faith, and Qi energy exponentially enhances this process. God breathes life into every particle of the universe; the miracle truly is right under your nose.

About the Author“By Jeff Primack”
Jeff Primack is the founder of the Supreme Science Qigong Center and has taught his unique Qigong and Food-Based Healing system to thousands of people. He has led numerous Qigong workshops and developed DVDs and books to help educate people on the benefits of Qigong

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The push up exercise has been a favorite of the military, police, football and fitness crowd pretty much since time began. Most often when push ups are called for, someone did something wrong and push ups for some reason seem to be the answer. While it is quite fun as an instructor to dish out the push up like candies to a fat kid, push ups should also be used in your body conditioning workout because they flat out work wonders.

Used correctly the push up is an awesome exercise for conditioning as well as strength gains. The reason for this is the scalability of the exercise and the lack of equipment needed to get great results.
When we talk about scalability of the push ups exercise, we are talking about how to start of with an easy version and escalate into a more advanced version, as the body is able to cope. This is the basis of all training for results. Continually imposed increasing demands on the body.

On the easy end of the spectrum of push up exercises we have the standard military pushup. If this is not attainable, you can always do them on your knees first. Once the standard push up exercise can be performed easily, it is only a matter of elevating the feet bit by bit to increase the resistance.

Before you move on to the more advanced versions, make sure that your standard push ups are perfect. This means touching the floor with the body as a solid straight line. Full depth and full extension in a controlled manner. No chopped reps here!

The biggest mistakes made when doing the push up exercise are:

Reaching for the floor with the head before body.

Letting the belly hit first.

Having the elbows out very wide and high by the head.

Jacking the bum up like in the yoga downward dog at the top.

Not touching at the bottom.

Chopping your reps short from full extension.

Dive bombing - Coming down and forward on an angle.
Once you can do 50 honest, strict and controlled push ups, it’s time to move on.

On the other end of difficulty scale there is the handstand push up. This particular version of the push up has varying degrees of difficulty also. The holy grail of push up exercises is the handstand push up unsupported. No wall, no spotter, just you, the air and a whole lot of athletic ability.

For those that state a lack of equipment as a barrier to getting stronger, bigger and more athletic, the handstand push up exercise is a clean crisp slap in the back of the head. It’s gymnastics answer to the expensive, less functional and less effective midnight infomercials about the “wonder-whatever".

Here is a simple workout that will get you puffing and pumping based around the standard push up exercise.

Do eight sets of as many push ups as you can in 20 seconds. Rest only 10 seconds between each of the eight sets. Keep it strict and enjoy!

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This exercise of qi gong focuses on exercising the lower body, particularly the legs. The bouncing motion used will greatly strengthen the thighs and calves as the body weight is lifted up and down. The up and down motion also requires the hips, abdomen and lower back to exert effort. Over time, performing this exercise will greatly strengthen and tone the calf muscles, giving them excellent definition.

Plus, the Achilles tendon is stretched out, helping to improve flexibility and mobility in the feet and ankle, which are also put to work in performing this exercise. If you feel that you need additional resistance, you can add ankle weights to the legs. The exercise will also stretch and lengthen the spine, helping to tone and relax the back muscles. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, this exercise is believed to activate the body’s natural immune system defenses so that many diseases are removed from the body.

From the starting position, called ‘wu ji,’ lift and move the right foot forward so that it rests about one foot ahead of the left foot. Do not put the right foot flat upon the floor – instead, put the toes on the floor, the heel lifted up off of the floor. However, don’t put all of your body weight on the right foot, but keep it on the left foot. Make sure that your left knee remains bent. At this point, the arms should be placed next to the hips and the hands should be flexed at the wrist so that the palms are facing down.

Gently bend both of your knees, moving your body down. Don’t bend at the waist, but simply bend the knees so that the entire body is shifted downwards. Press the palms down as if you are trying to push them to the floor. The key to the exercise is that as the body moves down, centered over the left leg, the heel of the right foot lifts up off of the ground. Then, as you slowly straighten back up, the heel of the right foot moves back to the ground. The left foot should be kept flat on the floor during this motion.

You will feel a great deal of stretching in your front calf muscle and thigh muscle, and your back leg will be working in its entirety in order to hold your balance during the exercise. Control your breathing so that you are inhaling as you move the body up and exhaling as you move the body down.

This position can be rather strenuous, so if you can’t do the up and down movement at first, start by simply keep your weight on your back leg and flex the forward heel upwards and downwards. You will still feel a significant stretch in your calf. As you grow stronger, you may then try to add the up and down movement.

The movement will deepen as you improve, but be sure that you don’t bend your back leg too far. Your left knee should not be bent so that it extends past your toes. After eight repetitions of the stretch, return to the starting position. Then start on the left side by extending your left foot forwards and repeating the series of stretches.

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Stem cells have the remarkable potential to develop into many different cell types in your body.

The product is a natural stem cell enhancer. It is derived from a plant. It stimulates stem cells in your bone marrow to travel throughout your body to support optimal organ and tissue function.

It means, the herbal based natural product urges stem cells to go where they are needed most in your body and repair any damage.

I had heard about the controversy over embryonic stem cells, but this product has nothing to do with that. This is all about stimulating the natural release of *your own* adult stem cells.

This was getting interesting.

Dr Joe Vitale tried this product - not for a day or a week, but for a month. It worked.

The company suggests you take two capsules in the morning. But
Dr Vitale wanted speedier results, so he took two in the AM and two in the PM.

Nothing happened the first two weeks, but he took it as an experiment, to see what would happen, if anything, and of course hope for the best.

He got better than the best.

At the two week mark he woke up one day and virtually all his health concerns were gone.

His asthma, allergies, anxiety attacks and aches from weight lifting had gone. Even his food sensitivies began to disappear.

He was still skeptical, but he wanted to investigate the product even deeper. So he got in touch with the scientist who had co-discovered the product. He’s a brilliant man from France, and was very generous with his time. He pointed out most of what he wanted to know was on the company’s website,

http://mrfire.stemtechbiz.com

He went and looked. He saw the information, digested it, did a little more research on stem cell enhancers, and decided this was the health product for him to endorse. It’s called the SQOLA and its freeee.

So if you’re skeptical, but still hoping something will help you with your health, use the SQOLA to document your progress over four to twelve weeks. It’s explained at -

http://mrfire.stemtechhealth.com/sqola/answer.aspx

Finally, after researching the company and all the quack alert sites that blow the whistle on dubious claims, Dr. Vitale joined the company as a distributor. (For only $25.)

He thinks the marketing approach of having people who believe in the product actually profit from telling others about it is wise. It’s a win-win. You can join, too, under him, by going to –

http://mrfire.stemtechbiz.com/bus_opp_sub.aspx

Dr Vitale is not a medical doctor or scientist. He does not believe this is a magic pill that will cure everything, including emotional problems. But he has shared his story with you because he knows how important your health is. Without it, you can’t enjoy life or accomplish much.

Dr. Joe Vitale
“Aude aliquid dignum” *
Author of way too many books to mention, including the bestsellers “The Attractor Factor,” “Life’s Missing Instruction Manual” and ooohhh so many more, including the head spinner, “Zero Limits” and the mega-hit, “The Key.” Seen in the movies “The Secret,” “The Opus,” and “Try It On Everything.”

By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
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Okay, that’s it, all done with the holidays, so lets get going on weight loss. No more bad nutrition, get back to your regular calorie intake and 6 small meals per day. You are eating 5-6 mini-meals per day, right? If not, get started, and here are some more weight loss tips.

1. Eat more fruits and vegetables.
Get your carbohydrates from fruits and vegetables first, before using breads and pastas. You’ll get far more nutrients and fiber, and fewer calories.

2. Eat fiber
The average American falls far short of the fiber recommendations (of 25+ grams of fiber per day). Add an ounce of raw nuts to your daily food plan to get more fiber and to satisfy your appetite.

3. Eat more protein
Protein fills you up and doesn’t mess with your blood sugar, so you’ll have more mental energy.

4. Have something for breakfast.
While the exact reason isn’t clear, breakfast eaters tend to be slimmer than non-breakfast eaters. Start your day with a whey protein shake and an apple if you are in a rush.

5. Drink water
At least 8 cups per day. This will help fill you up and helps you avoid constipation.

6. Exercise less, but harder.
Forget about long, slow cardio. Learn how to do interval training instead. This will boost your metabolism all day long.

7. Use your bodyweight
There are hundreds of bodyweight exercises you can do at home, from beginner to advance.

And those are your 7 tips to help you lose weight, burn fat, control your appetite, boost your metabolism and get the body you want.

Sincerely,
Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Author, Turbulence Training

P.S. Is a lack of time stressing you out?

“No time to exercise” is the #1 reason most people don’t exercise consistently. In fact, a lack of time stresses most people out for many reasons - whether it’s a lack of time to prepare good food, exercise, or be with your family.That’s why I created Turbulence Training to be the most efficient and effective fat loss program out there. The warm-up is applicable to your workout, not some 5-minute waste of time on the treadmill. The strength training supersets shave minutes off your wait time.And the intervals cut your cardio in half, or more.

“I think TT is awesome. I have seen a serious change in my overall body composition. In 12 weeks I’ve gained a lot of muscle and have lost about 10 lbs, but inches are flying off.”
Gordon M.

“The TT workouts are excellent! You have literally changed my life! I got completely burned out on single body part training and long periods of cardio. It just isn’t conducive to my life given that I work full time and have a spouse. I’m already lean but I want to maintain a high level of health and have a fit, athletic look. I have to admit that I was skeptical because the workouts were so short, but even after the first workout my skepticism disappeared in a hurry. The time flies by at the gym and the workouts have eliminated a lot of stress because if I got stuck at work and couldn’t get to the gym for “leg day” it would mess up my training schedule for the rest of the week. I also like having the option to do some body weight circuits plus I have a full range of dumbells and a ball at home so I can get my workouts in at home.”
Janet M

About the Author

Craig Ballantyne is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and writes for Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Muscle and Fitness Hers, and Oxygen magazines. His trademarked Turbulence Training fat loss workouts have been featured multiple times in Men’s Fitness and Maximum Fitness magazines, and have helped thousands of men and women around the world lose fat, gain muscle, and get lean in less than 45 minutes three times per week. For more information on the Turbulence Training workouts that will help you burn fat without long, slow cardio sessions or fancy equipment.

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Roberta Temes has designed a practical approach for reducing weight.

She says that Obesity is neither a psychological disorder nor an eating disorder. Fat people have a genetic predisposition to gain weight. If they wish to conform to today’s ideal of slimness and maintain good health, they must counteract their inborn biological impulses through behavioral changes.

Accomplishing permanent weight loss is easier to achieve when you simply follow a series of small steps and don’t think about the big picture.
Adding Some new habits added to your daily routine facilitate
Weight Loss and help you reach your goal quickly and easily.

20 steps will positively help you in making you Slimmer

1: What You See Is What You Eat: If it’s on your plate, you will eat it. So take small portions.

2: Don’t Trust Your Stomach : Choose your portion size by measuring it or weighing it. Don’t wait until you feel full to stop eating.

3: Taste May Not Matter: You will eat whatever is in front of you. Don’t tempt yourself.

4: Restaurant Portions Are Gargantuan: In restaurants, ask for half the food to be wrapped to take home before it is served to you.

5: Writing Can Help You Eat Less: Walk around with pencil, paper, and a calorie book. Record whatever you eat and tally your calories before you go to bed each night.

6: Losing a Little Makes a Big Difference: Break up your weight-loss goals into small manageable units of pounds to be lost. Concentrate on losing one unit at a time.

7: Low-Fat Labels Can Be Misleading: The Nutrition Facts panel on your food is important. You should check it before you purchase or eat a particular food.

8: Eating Breakfast Helps You Lose Weight and Keep It Off: Be certain to sit down to a meal every morning.

9: Watching TV Adds to Your Weight: Stay away from the TV.

10: Eating Out May Be Dangerous: Eat at home as often as you can.

11: The Scale Is Your Friend: Buy a scale or a tape measure. Use it every morning.

12: Walk and Walk and Walk Some More: Look for opportunities to add walking to your life.

13: Eating Slowly Makes You Feel Full: Chew your food well and eat slowly.

14: Bore Yourself and Lose Weight: Stick to a boring menu. Eliminate choices, and stay away from buffets.

15: Your Friends Can Make You Fat: Eat alone when possible. Limit your social eating to a few friends. Meet with larger groups of friends while walking, or in a non-food environment.

16: Fool Yourself with Portions: Serve yourself dinner on a salad-sized plate. Use smaller sized spoons, too. Your portions will look larger and you will eat less.

17: Treat Your Kids (and Yourself) to Healthful Foods: If you have kids, limit their fatty foods. Buy food that is good for you – it’ll be good for them, too.

18: Exercising for the Fun of It Will Keep You Active: Come up with another reason to exercise, besides losing weight. Find a sport or activity that you love to do.

19: Forbidden Foods Will Call Out to You: Keep healthy foods accessible and visible. Don’t buy and store unhealthy foods in your home or office, because you may eat more than you intend to.

20: Sleeping More Helps You Eat Less: Get at least seven hours of sleep every night to reduce what you eat. .

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Underarm odour is a problem for everyone at one point or another during their lives. Just about everyone uses deodorants and / or antiperspirants to combat the problem. But safety concerns about several of the ingredients in many of these products have led some people to search for a more natural solution to this odorous problem. Before I show you how to get rid of underarm odour naturally I want to give you a little background into why underarm odour occurs.

We develop underarm odour because of various bacteria that find a welcoming home under our arms. These moisture loving bacteria find a near perfect breeding ground under our arms where it is warm, dark, and moisture has problems evaporating easily. Odour is produced when these bacteria consume organic materials found on your skin, clothing, hair, and in your sweat. These bacteria also are fond of other damp and dark areas of the body such as the pubic and foot regions. Some other reasons for underarm odour include medicines, foods, or illness. The methods I will share with you today probably will not be much help if your underarm odour is caused by these other reasons but if its caused by bacteria you may find relief with these techniques.

The best technique I have discovered for getting rid of underarm odour without using chemical deodorants or antiperspirants is lemon juice. Fresh lemon juice works best but a product such as Real Lemon from the supermarket will work wonders to. In some people lemon juice may irritate the skin so I suggest you try with one arm first to see if it causes you irritation. To get the best effect from using lemon juice to get rid of underarm odour, follow these simple directions: Take a good bath washing your armpits carefully. After getting out of the shower dry your underarms thoroughly. Then take your lemon juice and pour on a paper towel and rub your underarm area gently. The citric acid in lemon juice kills the bacteria that are fond of your underarms and unlike with antibacterial products bacteria do not seem to develop a resistance to citric acid. Others have found relief by using vinegar, or mouthwash the very same way but I was never able to duplicate those results personally.

The second tip I know of that will help you get rid of underarm odour without using chemical deodorants or antiperspirants is a really simple one. Shave your armpits. When you shave your armpits you remove hair that bacteria stick to even after taking a shower. Less bacteria means less odour–a safe and natural way.

There are several products and programs advertised on the internet that claim to help you get rid of underarm odour but I have no experience with them and cannot recommend or condemn them. After using the two above techniques I have not needed to pursue further help in resolving the problem. Many people may choose to use a deodorant even with this natural regimen of personal care and that OK. Just try and find a all natural deodorant where you can pronounce all the ingredients listed on the container.

The human body is more powerful than you ever thought. It has ability to self healing.

Do not accept emotional trauma, phobias, traumatic stress disorder and chronic physical pains.

ALL negative emotions are caused due to disruption in the body’s energy system. The body is composed of energy. Balance of the body’s energy can be restored to mend the negative emotions and symptoms that stem from the energy disruption.

Chinese discovered hundreds of meridian points in the human body. The meridian points can be easily stimulated to improve the blood circulation and the flow of Prana, energy or life force They also discovered that by stimulating these meridian points, they could heal.

The energy circulates through the body along a specific network of channels. Meridians are the energy points which can be tapped to activate the flow of energy throughout the body. You can tap into this energy at any point along the system. It results into faster improvement from the physical discomfort.

Negative emotions disrupt the body’s energy. Physical pain and disease are closely connected to negative emotions. Health problems create feedback – physical symptoms cause emotional distress, and unresolved emotional problems manifest themselves through physical symptoms. So, the body’s health must be approached as a whole. You cannot treat the symptoms without addressing the cause.

Law of Attraction describes what we experience in our lives. It is always “like attracts like” no matter what. If you vibrate in fear, you will be delivered more experiences that cause fear. If you vibrate in a joyful place, you will bump into more experiences that bring you joy. Pretend your thoughts and vibrations are like slow moving boomerangs…they always come back to you. Many people misinterpret the principles behind the Law of Attraction, and think they can “fool” the Universe by pretending that they are joyful. This is not possible, as the Universe reads your vibration, not what you say or do.

EFT is a simple and painless way to dissolve your negative emotions. It can be easily learnt by anyone. You can apply it to yourself, whenever you want, wherever you are. It’s less expensive and less time consuming. It can be used with specific emotional intent towards your own unique life challenges and experiences. Most importantly, it gives you the power to heal yourself, putting control over your destiny back into your own hands.

Think about all the pieces of EFT —
(1) Choosing a specific problem,
(2) Affirming that you deeply and completely love and accept yourself
no matter what, and
(3) Tapping on the points in your energy system and relieving the stress, tension, and conflict that has been stored there.

What a wonderful way to raise your vibration! Reduce negative emotions and feel physical improvement.

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(NaturalNews) Diets high in fast food can be highly toxic to the liver and other internal organs, but that damage can be reversed, says one of the country’s leading experts on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, who offers four steps to undo the effects of a ’super-size me’ diet.

“There’s strong evidence now that a fast-food type of diet –- high in fat and sugar, the kind of diet many Americans subsist on –- can cause significant damage to your liver and have extremely serious consequences for your health,” says Brent Tetri, M.D., professor of internal medicine at the Saint Louis University Liver Center and one of the country’s leading experts on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

“The good news is that most people can undo this damage if they change their diet and they keep physically active,” Tetri says. “If they don’t, however, they are asking for trouble.”

Particularly alarming, says Tetri, is that physicians are starting to see children and teenagers with cirrhosis, a serious liver disease once seen mostly in adults with a history of alcohol abuse or hepatitis C. Tetri suspects this is because many kids today eat far too much fast food or junk food and get far too little exercise –- the kind of behaviors that can lead to liver damage.

“The fact we’re starting to see kids with liver disease should really be a wake-up call for anyone eating a diet high in fat and sugar and who’s not physically active,” Tetri says..

Similarly, in February researchers in Sweden published the results of a study in which 18 healthy and slim adults ate fast food and restricted their physical activity for a month. The result: an average weight gain of 12 pounds and, within as little as a week, a sharp rise in liver enzymes.

Tetri is quick to emphasize that fast food per se doesn’t causes liver damage. Rather, he says, the harm comes from eating too many calories and too much fat and sugar –- which happens with a steady diet of burgers, fries, sodas and most other items on the typical fast-food menu.

“The big issue here is caloric content,” says Tetri. “You can put away 2,000 calories in a single fast-food meal pretty easily. For most people, that’s more calories than they need in an entire day.”

For adults and children who’ve repeatedly indulged in fast food, Tetri urges four key steps to help reverse the damage they’ve done to their liver.

1) Limit yourself to no more than one fast-food meal a week. For some people, that’s going to be a major down shift. But for the sake of your health, a visit to a fast-food restaurant should be considered a treat –- not a regular event.

2) When you do eat fast food, eat as healthfully as possible. Try the burger without mayo and cheese, and avoid fries and sugary soft drinks. Better yet, go for a grilled chicken sandwich, a salad with a lower-fat dressing and bottled water or a diet soft drink.

3) Get active. If you don’t already exercise at least three times a week, start now. Regular exercise helps keep your weight down and helps your body better metabolize and process the food you eat.

4) Ask your doctor to do a blood test to check your level of liver enzymes, a key measure of the health of your liver. Many doctors now order this test routinely when doing blood work on adults, but kids who eat a lot of fast food especially need to have their liver enzymes checked.

“Even for those people with the worst kind of diets, it’s not too late to start exercising and eating right,” Tetri says

Personally, I think it would be best to give up all fast food if you are able. If not, supplement with the herb Milk Thistle as it has recently been proven that it can protect the liver from fatty liver disease as well as cancers.

Source:

Saint Louis University Medical Center
About the author

Leslee Dru Browning is a 6th generation Medical Herbalist & Nutritionist from the ancestral line of Patty Bartlett Sessions; Pioneer Mid-Wife & Herbalist. Leslee practiced Medical Herbalism and Nutritional Healing for over 25 years and specialized in Cancer Wellness along with Chronic Illness. She now devotes her career to teaching people, through her writing, about Natural Healing from An Herbal Perspective.

If you’re thinking about knee replacement, don’t miss Jane Brody’s update on her artificial knees, three years after surgery.

You may remember the first round of columns Jane wrote about her artificial knee surgery, which caused quite a stir among doctors and knee device makers. Jane recounted her pain and difficult recovery, noting that doctors do a poor job preparing patients for the weeks and months after surgery. Not every knee patient has as difficult a recovery as Jane, but many patients I’ve interviewed over the years agree doctors need to do a better job telling patients what to expect.

But today Jane gives us insights into life with new knees. Among her experiences:

# Her new knees have hiked in Tasmania and Sydney, and toured Vietnam by bicycle, all pain-free.
# Kneeling is problematic. It can hurt to put weight on metal knees, even on a cushion, making activities like gardening a challenge.
# Falling on an artificial knee can hurt a lot more and longer than you might expect.
# Steep steps are difficult to navigate.
# Jane still “feels” her knees on every rotation of the bike pedals, although the sensation is not painful or enough to stop riding.
# Artificial knees are metal and set off the security alarm at airports, requiring a personal scan with a wand.

For a change, anybody can try the following exercises and feel the relaxation:
* Sit in a chair and put finger in each depression in the knee.(Each knee has two depressions) Press little and give intermittent pressure for 20 seconds.
* Hold the upper portion of the thigh (near Knee) with your hand and give pulsating pressure for 20 seconds.
* Give pulsating pressures with your index finger, at the back of your knee- in the center, for 20 seconds.

Partially adopted from an article by Tara Parker-Pope on Health

- by Paul Lavakis

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Hydroponics is the system in which plants are grown without soil. Using hydroponics to grow plants can be beneficial for many growers. Hydroponics allows plants to be grown faster and with less of a hassle. In hydroponics plants are grown in a solution consisting of water and nutrients required for a particular plant, or within a system that uses a substrate or growing mix medium. There are several hydroponics techniques and systems that exist for producing plant crops.

Hydroponics systems include the nutrient film technique, aeroponics, and the aeration technique. In the aeroponics method plants are anchored using screens, rigid pipes, or films. The required nutrients are mixed into the plants’ water supply artificially. The plant roots are suspended within the water by various designs and the crop obtains the food nutrients directly from the water, or from an air mist sprayed directly unto the plant roots. Hydroponics also requires the use growing media. Hydroponic systems use various mediums that are composed from relatively inert materials that have the ability to retain the food rich moisture and have the ability to physically support the plant roots. Growing media for hydroponics includes, expanded clay, rockwool, perlite, vermiculite, Styrofoam, sand, pea gravel, and other mediums.

There are many types plants that can be grown in a hydroponics system. Some plants will grow better in hydroponics system than others. Many growers use hydroponics systems to grow tomatoes, lettuce, watercress, cucumbers, herbs, and various other edible plants. Beginning growers will be satisfied with the quality of their crops, and the rates at which they will grow. Flowers and tree seedlings can also be grown using hydroponics. Hydroponic greenhouses produce millions of plant seedlings each year, which are transplanted and grown at other locations where they are later planted into soil.

There are many benefits to growing your own plants in a hydroponics system. Many growers use hydroponic techniques for food and ornamental plant production. Hydroponics doesn’t require a large water supply or fertile farmland for growing crops. You can grow vegetables and plants year round using hydroponic techniques. Hydroponic plants can be grown in basements, on an apartment balcony, or in almost any small space. Of course hydroponics plants can be grown in greenhouses and nurseries as well. The sterile medium used in hydroponics systems give home gardeners the benefit of not having to remove weeds, and minimizes soil-borne pests and diseases. If your plants are grown hydroponically, they will be healthier than plants grown in soil, because all of the growth elements and nutrients are made readily available during growth.

Hydroponically grown plants also grow and mature faster, yielding an earlier harvest of vegetable, herbal and flower crops. The hydroponics systems also require less space, because the plant roots don’t have to spread and search for food and water. The small space requirement makes hydroponics perfect for limited space home gardeners. The greatest benefit to hydroponics is the ability to automate the hydroponics system with timers and remote monitoring equipment. Automation of the system reduces the time it takes to maintain the plants and growing environment. The automation also provides flexibility to the grower, allowing the grower to leave their system for long periods of time without worrying about watering plants. Hydroponics systems can be used in almost any environment, and new growers will find the benefits of the system outweigh the drawbacks of the system. Growing plants hydroponically is not simple, but with time it will become an easy routine. Hydroponics offers the advantage of many techniques that can be beneficial to your plants, and beneficial to the grower, making their job easier and plants healthier.

Paul Lavakis has been an avid gardener
and since discoverring Hydroponics
has been a experimenting and evaluating
the best ways to grow almost any fruit
or vegetable without soil
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There is magic in a garden. It is a thrill to see sunlight and water make a little plant grow and spread its leaves. The beauty of nature rejuvenates and inspires.

The quiet thrill of gardening can be enjoyed by planting fresh herbs in pots in the kitchen, patio or backyard. A kitchen herb garden. I like to plant basil, parsley and cilantro in pots and here’s how I do it. Follow a few simple steps and you will be picking delicious fresh herbs in few days.

First, I pick up some clay pots and saucers, organic potting soil in a bag, and some small starter plants at a garden center. This time of year, they should have a nice selection of starter plants. Fresh herbs are a great choice because you can plant them in fairly small pots and they are easy to grow.

At home, I put a few pebbles into the bottom of the pots for drainage, and place the pots on saucers. I scoop potting soil into the pots, about ¾ full.

Then I carefully remove a little herb plant from its container, transfer it to the pot and place soil all around the plant with my hands. You want to pack down the soil to give the plant a sturdy base. A sprinkle of water, about one cup, and it’s done.

Herbs are great to grow in or near the kitchen, so you can pick a few leaves while you are cooking. Herbs seem to like a mixture of direct sun and some shade. Give them a little water each day to keep the soil moist, and move them into a shady spot if the leaves get burned by the sun.

I use herbs in many of our recipes in The Fat Resistance Diet. I recommend having herbs often, for their wonderful flavor and ability to reduce inflammation. Nourished by your attention and care, your kitchen garden will be good to grow!

Wishing You Best Health!
Jonathan and The Fat Resistance Diet Team

By now, most people know they should be eating more vegetables. But are there ways to get more from the vegetables you already eat?

A growing body of research shows that when it comes to vegetables, it’s not only how much we eat, but how we prepare them, that influences the amount of phytochemicals, vitamins and other nutrients that enter our body.

The benefits are significant. Numerous studies show that people who consume lots of vegetables have lower rates of heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, eye problems and even cancer. But how should they be served?

Surprisingly, raw and plain vegetables are not always best. In The British Journal of Nutrition next month, researchers will report a study involving 198 Germans who strictly adhered to a raw food diet, meaning that 95 percent of their total food intake came from raw food. They had normal levels of vitamin A and relatively high levels of beta carotene.

But they fell short when it came to lycopene, a carotenoid found in tomatoes and other red-pigmented vegetables that is one of the most potent antioxidants. Nearly 80 percent of them had plasma lycopene levels below average.

“There is a misperception that raw foods are always going to be better,” says Steven K. Clinton, a nutrition researcher and professor of internal medicine in the medical oncology division at Ohio State University. “For fruits and vegetables, a lot of times a little bit of cooking and a little bit of processing actually can be helpful.”

The amount and type of nutrients that eventually end up in the vegetables are affected by a number of factors before they reach the plate, including where and how they were grown, processed and stored before being bought. Then, it’s up to you. No single cooking or preparation method is best. Water-soluble nutrients like vitamins C and B and a group of nutrients called polyphenolics are often lost in processing. For instance, studies show that after six months, frozen cherries have lost as much as 50 percent of anthocyanins, the healthful compounds found in the pigment of red and blue fruits and vegetables. Fresh spinach loses 64 percent of its vitamin C after cooking. Canned peas and carrots lose 85 percent to 95 percent of their vitamin C, according to data compiled by the University of California, Davis.

Fat-soluble compounds like vitamins A, D, E and K and the antioxidant compounds called carotenoids are less likely to leach out in water. Cooking also breaks down the thick cell walls of plants, releasing the contents for the body to use. That is why processed tomato products have higher lycopene content than fresh tomatoes.

In January, a report in The Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry concluded that over all, boiling was better for carrots, zucchini and broccoli than steaming, frying or serving them raw. Frying was by far the worst.

Still, there were tradeoffs. Boiling carrots, for instance, significantly increased measurable carotenoid levels, but resulted in the complete loss of polyphenols compared with raw carrots.

That report did not look at the effects of microwaving, but a March 2007 study in The Journal of Food Science looked at the effects of boiling, steaming, microwaving and pressure cooking on the nutrients in broccoli. Steaming and boiling caused a 22 percent to 34 percent loss of vitamin C. Microwaved and pressure-cooked vegetables retained 90 percent of their vitamin C.

What accompanies the vegetables can also be important. Studies at Ohio State measured blood levels of subjects who ate servings of salsa and salads. When the salsa or salad was served with fat-rich avocados or full-fat salad dressing, the diners absorbed as much as 4 times more lycopene, 7 times more lutein and 18 times the beta carotene than those who had their vegetables plain or with low-fat dressing.

Young adults will eat vegetables if they like the taste. “Putting on things that make it taste better — spices, a little salt — can enhance your eating experience and make the food taste better, so you’re more likely to eat vegetables more often,” Dr. Clinton said.

Because nutrient content and taste can vary so widely depending on the cooking method and how a vegetable is prepared, the main lesson is to eat a variety of vegetables prepared in a variety of ways.

As Susan B. Roberts, director of the energy metabolism laboratory at the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition put it, “Eating a variety of veggies is especially important so you like them enough to eat more.”

Adopted from an article by TARA PARKER-POPE
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EDITORIAL, NY TIMES,
Published: May 22, 2008

The willingness of doctors at several major medical centers to apologize to patients for harmful errors is a promising step toward improving the quality of a medical system that kills tens of thousands of patients a year inadvertently.

For years, experts have lamented that medical malpractice litigation is an inefficient way to deter lethal or damaging medical errors. Most victims of malpractice never sue, and there is some evidence that many patients who do sue were not harmed by a physician’s error but instead suffered an adverse medical outcome that could not have been prevented. The details of what went wrong are often kept secret as part of a settlement agreement.

What is needed, many specialists agree, is a system that quickly brings an error to light so that further errors can be headed off and that compensates victims promptly and fairly. Many doctors, unfortunately, have been afraid that admitting and describing their errors would only invite a costly lawsuit.

Now, as described by Kevin Sack in The Times, a handful of prominent academic medical centers have adopted a new policy of promptly disclosing errors, offering earnest apologies and providing fair compensation. It appears to satisfy many patients, reduce legal costs and the litigation burden and, in some instances, helps reduce malpractice premiums.

At the University of Illinois, for example, of 37 cases where the hospital acknowledged a preventable error and apologized, only one patient filed suit. At the University of Michigan Health System, existing claims and lawsuits dropped from 262 in August 2001 to 83 in August 2007, and legal costs fell by two-thirds.

To encourage greater candor, more than 30 states have enacted laws making apologies for medical errors inadmissible in court. That sounds like a sensible step that should be adopted by other states or become federal law. Such laws could help bring more errors to light. Patients who have been harmed by negligent doctors can still sue for malpractice, using other evidence to make their case.

Admitting errors is only the first step toward reforming the health care system so that far fewer mistakes are made. But reforms can be more effective if doctors are candid about how they went astray. Patients seem far less angry when they receive an honest explanation, an apology and prompt, fair compensation for the harm they have suffered

What are our priorities? Food, shelter and clean water are what aid agencies emphasize. But human excrement is a weapon of mass destruction. A gram of human feces can contain up to 10 million viruses. At least 50 communicable diseases — including cholera, meningitis and typhoid — travel from host to host in human excrement. It doesn’t take much: a small child, maybe, who plays in soil where people have been defecating, then dips his fingers in the family rice pot. The aftermath of a disaster like Cyclone Nargis — with masses of weakened people on the move — is a communicable disease paradise.
A substance common to all of us, and as vital to life as breathing, has become unspeakable, and particularly in the polite and powerful circles that could do something about its deadly effects.

Celebrities like Matt Damon and Jay-Z line up to talk about water. Shiny taps and clean water make good pictures. Have you ever seen a movie star pictured in front of a new latrine? It can double its user’s life span.

Of course food and water are crucial. But feces can undermine both. If people are eating fecal particles, no amount of high-energy biscuits will make them well. In poor countries, diarrhea is the reason you find malnourished children in well-fed families. It’s why millions of girls drop out of school, and why millions of dollars’ worth of productivity is lost from workers sick with this week’s bout of dysentery.

Good disposal of human excreta can reduce diarrhea by 40 percent. Washing hands reduces it still further. Health economists reckon that every dollar invested in sanitation can save $7 on health costs and lost productivity. No wonder the readers of The British Medical Journal last year voted sanitation the greatest medical milestone ever, over penicillin and anesthesia.

Adopted from ‘Send in the Latrines’ By ROSE GEORGE

Published in New York Times

Laughter reduces muscle tension, distracts attention from the pain, has a positive effect on a person’s attitude and can actually stimulate the release of endorphins, the body’s natural painkillers. In addition, laughter stimulates the cardiovascular system thereby increasing oxygenation of the blood which further promotes healing.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. In responding to the initial phase of a typical joke, comedy routine or story, muscle tension increases in anticipation of the climax of the story or punch line. Immediately following the story climax, the thorax (chest), abdomen and face get a vigorous workout. In convulsive laughter, where the individual really breaks up, even the legs and arms are involved. During this phase, heart rate, breathing and circulation are speeded up. When the spasm of laughter subsides, the pulse rate drops below normal and the skeletal muscles become deeply relaxed. During the laughter response, the body is revitalized by what sometimes is called internal massage.

Humor can be a powerful tool to moderately treat depression, physical illness and reduce tension.

Many companies are beginning to see the wisdom in fostering a certain amount of measured fun in the workplace to boost loyalty, enthusiasm, and productivity in the employees. These tactics can range from familiar activities like company picnics, Christmas parties, athletic events, and casual dress days to the more outlandish “costume” days.

A company in Redmond, Washington, that makes heart monitors and defibrillators lightened up their dull workplace by having an employee dress up like a clown and pedal a tricycle towing a little red wagon that carried a siren and a banner announcing production of $500,000 worth of goods every time they reached this mark in production. While this created a temporary disruption of work, sometimes as often as three times a day, overall production soared.

Adopted from Feebee A. Clown - RN, Laughter Is The Best Medicine

Stress affects us physically, mentally, emotionally, and influences all our behaviors. Stress may be defined as a demand for adaptation. It has been shown, however, that we humans respond to demands not as they actually are, but as we perceive them to be. A stress may be real or imagined.

There are many types of stress we constantly face. These stress factors may be physical (exposure to the extremes of temperature, injuries, or accidents), chemical (exposure to pollutants, allergens, poisons, toxins, and drugs), microbiological (germs, bacteria, viruses, fungus, and other microorganisms), psychological or extreme emotional states (fear, anger, sadness, or a sense of loss), mental functioning (suppression or repression), as well as inborn drives to hurry, to succeed, to compete, as well as sociocultural (work pressures, crime, IRS, regulations, financial crisis and peer and parental pressure). Stress affects practically every organ in the body and if not controlled can certainly aggravate and complicate most any known disease or illness. You can better cope with stress and relieve stress in your life. Following methods help you reduce stress, relax better, and enjoy life more.

• Develop a positive attitude about everything you do.
• Tell yourself to relax totally.
• Practice breathing exercises to relax.
• Cultivate a good sense of humor.
• Listening to relaxing music will dissolve your tension.
• Call a relative or friend.
• Exercise or take a brisk walk to lift your spirit.
• Stretch or yawn for better relaxation
• Take a nature break.
• Take a vacation or a weekender.
• Get proper rest.
• Prayer will break the anxiety cycle.

Of course, there are other stress-relieving techniques such as getting a pet ( Excellent for Many ), but the important thing is to Do Something To Relieve the Existing Situation !

Adopted from Mental Attitude and Self Image
By Gus J. Prosch, Jr., M.D.

How would you react if you are informed of the following deals?
A Bentley Continental GT for $85,000 against its actual price $1,59,000
Or
A Lamborghini Gallardo Spider $144,000 against $230,000
If you are planning to buy a car, why not use what’s inside NEW “Top Secret Car Secret?”
The secret works just the same as when you buy a car like everybody else - only you do a couple of things a little differently.
And when you do it “my way” you save as much as 30%, 50% and even often as much as 90% OFF what you’d paid otherwise.

You can concoct your own beauty products in the convenience of your home by mixing a few ingredients from your kitchen shelves. This statement might seem so oft-repeated and cliché, but surely we all have no second thoughts about the veracity of this claim. While olive oil olive oil is one such versatile product with a number of beauty uses, baking soda baking soda is another. Though it’s a known fact that baking soda is widely used in baking, deodorizing refrigerators, microwaves and in household cleaning, let’s look into some common as well as uncommon health and beauty uses of this household ingredient.

#1 Revitalize and smooth skin with baking soda
Deep clean and refresh rough skin on your hands, elbows and knees with a gentle, invigorating scrub. Mix 3 parts baking soda with one part water to form a thick paste; apply in a gentle circular motion with your hands.

# 2 Foot care with baking soda
To pamper your feet mix 2 tbsp of baking soda and 1 tbsp table salt in a tub of bearably hot water. Soak your feet for 15-20 minutes. This removes all the embedded dirt and grime from your feet. You can then gently scrub your feet with the non-gritty blend mentioned in #1. This works as a great smoother for skin on feet and heels.

# 3 Baking soda in a bath
Add ½ cup baking soda to warm bath water. Baking soda naturally cleanses your skin while leaving you feeling silky smooth all over. Its white crystals are often a key ingredient in commercial bath salts. (If you have a very dry skin, be sure to rinse well; as alkaline residue may irritate skin.)

# 4 Baking soda as face wash
Washing your face with dilute baking soda solution is a great way to remove old make-up and slough off the dead skin cells for a fresher look.

# 5 Baking soda to clean your hair
Remove residue that styling products and shampoo may leave behind: Add a½ a tsp of baking soda to your shampoo. Rinse and condition as usual.

# 6 Baking soda as dry shampoo
If your hair has become too oily and limp and you don’t have the time for a wash, just sprinkle baking soda, a bit of talcum powder on your hairbrush and comb through your hair. This will absorb excess oils and freshen up your hair instantly.

# 7 Baking soda to ease heat rashes
Take a lukewarm bath without using harsh soaps. Pat dry with a towel and apply a paste of baking soda on any area that has prickly heat rash. Leave the paste on for an hour or two.

# 8 Baking soda to relieve sunburn pain
To relieve that sunburn ouch, apply a paste of baking soda and water to soothe and cool the affected area.

# 9 Baking soda to freshen combs and brushes
To clean these without leaving a soapy film, fill a small basin with 1 liter water and dissolve 4 tbsps baking soda in the water. Soak combs and hairbrushes for a few minutes, then swish, rinse, and air-dry. This removes the hair spray and oil buildup from them. Similarly you can soak toothbrushes also in a baking-soda solution overnight to clean them.

# 10 Baking soda for teeth whitening
For dazzling white teeth, brush your teeth with a pinch of baking soda and table salt. Rinse out your mouth with water when finished. This even acts a mouthwash and helps with bad breath. Gargling with baking soda water also heals mouth sores.

# 11 Baking soda for nail care
To clean your finger and toe nails, apply baking soda to your nail brush. Now, scrub your nails and cuticles with these to soften the cuticles and for great looking nails.

# 12 Baking soda as an antidote for insect bites
For any kind of insect (mosquitoes, ants etc.) bites apply a little baking soda over the area for a quick heal.

So for an easy, inexpensive beauty treatment, look no further than your refrigerator or kitchen cupboard. Make that little box of baking soda to work for you in the above mentioned time-and money-saving ways. Who knows, you might never need to buy another beauty product again! While this statement is certainly an exaggeration, do not forget to give some of these a try and see what you think.

Learning how to read food labels is like looking at a prescription for your health and your life. Dr. Oz says to look for red-flag ingredients—if they’re listed among the top five ingredients overall, steer clear!

Sugar

When you eat or drink sugar, Dr. Oz says the sudden energy surge your body experiences is followed by an insulin surge that rapidly drops the blood sugar level—so two hours later, you feel famished and tired. To keep an even keel, Dr. Oz says to replace simple carbohydrates with complex ones so the absorption is more controlled and you experience long-term satiety. “Sugar is supposed to be eaten, of course,” says Dr. Oz, “but it should come together with fat or some element like fiber—as you would find in fruit—so you can absorb it a bit more slowly.”

High fructose corn syrup

Although they taste sweet, Dr. Oz says food products that contain high fructose corn syrup should be avoided. Dr. Oz says the body processes the sugar in high-fructose corn syrup differently than it does old-fashioned cane or beet sugar, which in turn alters your body’s natural ability to regulate appetite. “It blocks the ability of a chemical called leptin, which is the way your fat tells your brain it’s there,” says Dr. Oz. “It’s not so much the 150 calories in the soda pop—it’s the fact at that same meal you will normally consume an extra hundred calories of food than you would have.”

Enriched wheat flour (white flour)

Contrary to what its name suggests, Dr. Oz says enriched flour is actually poor in nutrition because most of the grain’s nutrients are destroyed in the refining process. “The reason they enrich it is because they already stripped out anything that was worth a darn in it, and they add a little bit back so it doesn’t look so bad,” says Dr. Oz.

Instead, he says to look for labels that say “100 percent” whole grains and whole grain flours. “It has its kernels, it has its B vitamins—all the things you want to be in there,” says Dr. Oz.

Saturated fat

Found mainly in animal products, Dr. Oz says to avoid saturated fats that are solid at room temperature, like lard. “You can actually use this kind of material for furniture polish—lots of fun things—but don’t put it in you,” he says.

Hydrogenated oil

To increase their shelf life, Dr. Oz says certain oils are hydrogenated. This process turns the oil into a solid at room temperature, but it also makes the oil unhealthy. “This stuff is great because it doesn’t go bad, but it’s very bad for you,” says Dr. Oz. Avoid food products that contain hydrogenated oil, often labeled as “trans fats.”

Healthy oils

Dr. Oz says there are many healthy oils, such as olive oil, sesame seed oil, flaxseed oil, grape seed oil and canola oil. To maximize their health benefits, Dr. Oz says good oils need to be used properly. “Keep it in a dark bottle or in your refrigerator—that’s how to keep it healthy so it doesn’t go rancid,” says Dr. Oz. “Healthy oils are delicate, you have to treat them delicately.”

Dr. Oz also says overheating good oils during cooking can damage them. “Don’t cook the oil, cook the food,” says Dr. Oz, “which means put a tiny bit of oil in the pan, put the food in the oil and then put the food with the oil on it in the pan—that way the oil is preserved. It doesn’t heat up and it doesn’t get damaged by the heat.”

Garlic

Dr. Oz says garlic is great for our bodies. “It actually helps the bacteria in your intestines and it also relaxes the arteries and it has a benefit with cancer,” says Dr. Oz. “It’s a great thing to add to your diet. It’s present in a lot of cultures—we’ve forgotten it in America.”

Salad dressing made with fresh garlic, lemon and olive oil is one of Oprah’s favorites. “It’s a perfect dressing,” says Dr. Oz. “It’s the best way to have olive oil because you haven’t heated it and you haven’t damaged it.”

Tomato sauce

Dr. Oz recommends eating 10 tablespoons of tomato sauce per week. “Inside the tomato is a chemical called lycopene,” says Dr. Oz. “This chemical has a wonderful effect—it’s an antioxidant.”

Dr. Oz says there are added benefits from eating tomato sauce or paste as opposed to plain tomatoes. “A raw tomato is fine, too, but if you get a little fat with it—either with some nuts or a little olive oil and dressing—then it’s perfect,” says Dr. Oz. “It helps you absorb it better into your intestinal system.”

Spinach

Jam-packed with nutrients, Dr. Oz says spinach is out-of-sight. “This is the best thing for your eyes,” he says. “It’s better than carrots, and a lot of macular degeneration—which is a tragic ailment that affects vision—can actually be avoided by eating these kinds of foods that are rich in carotenoids and also have folic acids and a lot of other benefits.” Sauté spinach with a little garlic and olive oil for a perfect side dish.

Raw nuts

To maximize the benefits of the healthy oils found in nuts such as almonds, hazelnuts or walnuts, Dr. Oz says they should be eaten raw and stored in the refrigerator. “When you roast a nut, the healthy oils that are in there become damaged,” Dr. Oz says. “The oils aren’t supposed to be heated and damaged—they’re supposed to be taken in their natural form.”

Pomegranates

Dr. Oz says research on the health benefits of pomegranates has shown promising results. “We’ve done studies on them showing how they actually can change the way your arteries age—it’s a very potent antioxidant,” says Dr. Oz. “It also probably affects cancer rates, especially prostate cancer, but those studies haven’t been finished yet.”

Not only do pomegranates have extraordinary health benefits—they taste good, too. “It’s a little sweet for me so I mix it with water, but pomegranates or their juice are worth trying out,” Dr. Oz says.

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Looking good costs money, right… Or does it?

If you are feeling too broke to splurge on a facial at the salon, let Mother Nature come to the rescue. All you need is to do is invest some time and effort once a week, and use the ingredients available in your kitchen to concoct your own facial at home.

You can decide which facial to opt for, depending on your skin type and on the availability of the ingredients. These facials can be done once a week, or before going for a party or for an occasion.

Note of caution: If your skin is sensitive to any natural product, it is advisable to consult a dermatologist before using any of the given remedies. Also, please wash your face before using any of these face packs.

Normal skin

~ Extract the juice of half an orange or tomato, mix with two teaspoons of curd. Lightly massage onto your face in an upward direction. Let it dry. Then, wash your face with cold water and wipe dry. This will give your skin a nice glow.

~ Rub the inner part of the skin of a papaya on your face. Let it dry. Then, wash your face with cold water and wipe dry. This will give your skin a nice glow.
Whenever you cut a papaya to eat, save a small portion of the peel for this purpose. You can store the peel in an airtight container for about two days in the fridge; however, it is preferable to use it fresh.

~ Grind 50 grams (around half a cup) of cabbage and extract the juice. Apply this on your face. After it dries, wash with cool water and wipe dry. This helps tighten your skin and prevents wrinkles.

~ Grind one small carrot and squeeze the pulp to remove the juice. Apply the juice on your face and let it dry. Then, wash with cold water and wipe your face dry. This helps to rejuvenate your skin.

~ Whenever eating an apple, do not discard the skin. Use it as a skin cleanser.Just rub the inner side of the peel in an upward direction and let your face dry. Then, wash with cool water and pat dry. This helps tighten your skin.

~ Take an ice cube and rub on your face. Then, pat dry. This helps to improve blood circulation and keeps your skin healthy.

Variation: Boil some lemon grass in a small container of water and cool. Pour it in the ice tray and freeze. Later, rub the ice cube on your face.

~ Beat the white of one egg and apply on your face in an upward direction. Once it dries, wash with cold water. It helps tighten your skin and delays wrinkles.

Oily skin

~ Make a paste of 2 tbsp of wheat flour using as much water as needed. Apply on your face in an upward motion. Leave to dry. Then, wash with cool water and pat dry. This helps remove excess oil from your skin.

~ Mix two teaspoons of raw milk, around the same quantity of cucumber juice and few drops of lemon. With a cotton ball, apply the solution on your face and leave to dry. Then, wash with water and pat dry.

~Soak two to three teaspoons of methi (fenugreek) seeds overnight. Grind into a paste, then rub on your face. Once it dries, wash with cool water.

The granular effect helps remove blackheads. Methi also helps remove excess oil from your skin.The excess paste can be stored in the refrigerator but should be used within a week.

~ Soak two to three teaspoons of whole masoor dal (red gram) overnight. Grind into a paste and apply on your face. Once it dries, wash your face with cold water and pat dry. It gives the same effect as methi. The excess paste can be stored in the refrigerator but should be used within two days.

~ Grind half a cucumber and squeeze to remove the juice. Apply the juice on your face and leave to dry. Then wash with water and pat dry. It helps refresh and tighten your skin.

For dry skin

~ Mash half a ripe banana, add a teaspoon of honey and make a paste. Apply on your face. Once it dries, wash with cold water and pat dry.
This acts as a moisturiser and helps in tighten your skin.

~ Soak khus khas (poppy seeds) overnight. Grind it with just enough milk to make a paste. Apply on your face. Once it dries, wash with cold water. The natural oil present in khus khas helps to moisturise your skin.

~ Just before boiling milk, remove two tablespoons. Massage it lightly on your face in an upward motion. Leave to dry, then wash with water and pat dry.

This helps to keep your skin supple.

Variation: Add a pinch of salt to the raw milk and follow the same process. However, avoid doing this if you have pimples on your face.

~ Make a paste of 2-5 tablespoons of raw peanuts with milk. Add very small quantity of honey to it. Apply on your face. Leave to dry. Then wash with cold water and pat dry. The natural oils present in the peanuts help moisturise your skin.

~ Make a paste of one teaspoon of malai, a pinch of turmeric and four to five drops of olive oil. Apply on your face, leave to dry. Wash with cold water and pat dry.

Malai(milk cream) acts as a natural moisturiser and turmeric and olive oil helps rejuvenate your skin.

Combination skin

~ Mix 3-4 tablespoons of Multani mitti (Fuller’s Earth) with 8-10 ground pudina (mint) leaves. Freeze the pack overnight. Keep outside for 10-15 minutes and then apply on your face. After 10-15 minutes, wash off and pat dry. It helps in cooling and cleansing your skin.

~ Boil a handful of lemon grass leaves in one litre of water, until you get the aroma. Then, place in an ice tray and freeze. After returning home from work or an outing, rub a lemon grass ice cube all over your face. It cleanses the dirt and grime accumulated in your skin’s pores and shuts them.

Whisk away black spots and pimples

~ Make a paste of either half a piece of nutmeg/ six to eight jamun seeds with water/ rose water. Apply on your face. Leave to dry. Then, wash with cold water and pat dry.

~ Squeeze half a fresh lemon into one glass of freshly boiled milk. Leave for half and hour, then apply on your face before retiring to bed.

~ Take 125 ml of tomato juice and squeeze in half a lemon. Add five to seven mashed mint leaves and black salt to taste. Drink this every morning and evening for at least one week. It will help detoxify the body.It also helps to relieve constipation and worm infestation.

For blemishes

~ Rub a slice of lemon or the remains a squeezed lemon on your face. Allow it to remain overnight, then wash with cold water, in the morning. It will restore your skin’s softness and lend your complexion a glow.

~ Squeeze the juice of one lemon into one ripe tomato (in which a hole has been made). Rub the tomato on your face. Leave to dry. Then, wash with water and pat dry.

Diet tips

Diet can play a major role in imparting glow and freshness to your skin, some of the tips that can help are:

~ Drink 12 to14 glasses of water everyday.

~ Avoid eating too much of fried foods . Stick to fresh vegetable salads or fruit salads.

Depending on the seasonal availability, eat all types of fresh, green vegetables and all types of fresh juicy fruits (except for strawberries and mangoes. Its excessive consumption can lead to acne).

~ Avoid consuming too much of food like chillies, garlic, non-vegetarian items or dried fruits like dates.

~ Detoxify once a month by consuming fresh vegetables, fruits and liquids all day.

Seemaa Tarneja and Priya Khanna are consulting nutritionists. They are based in Mumbai.

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Radiant, glowing skin is the first step to looking great.

And that skin can be yours for the asking, sans expensive skin treatments, high-end skin products or layers of makeup.

The secrets to good skin are much more basic; they have to do with a well-balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle, the two most important factors that influence the condition of your skin.

Practice these diet dos and lifestyles tips and get that glowing skin the natural way.

Vitamin power: Revitalise your skin with a regular intake of vitamins.

i. Vitamin A helps repair body tissue, prevents skin dryness and postpones ageing. Make sure you get lots of Vitamin A by supplementing your diet with milk, cheese, eggs, butter, spinach, broccoli, carrot and fish oils.

Vitamin A is fat soluble. This kind of fat gets stored in the liver, so make sure you do not have it in excess.

ii. Vitamin B improves circulation and skin colour. It is found in yoghurt, brown bread, wheat germ, yeast, cereal and green leafy vegetables. Vitamin B is water soluble, which means it can be taken daily.

iii. Vitamin C helps maintain levels of collagen, a protein constituent of skin that is essential for healing the skin as well as keeping it smooth, firm and healthy-looking.
Eat lots of citrus fruits, strawberries, blackcurrants, potatoes, cabbage, broccoli and sprouts. Vitamin C is also water soluble and can be taken on a daily basis.

Water, water everywhere

Water flushes out the toxins, so drink plenty of water. Consciously make an effort to have at least eight to 12 glasses daily.

Sleeping beauty

Your skin, which is prone to damage during the day, is repaired as you sleep. Some people require as much as eight to nine hours of sleep every night; others can make do with just five.
Remember, there is so substitute for sleep if you want great skin.
Say good-bye to stress

Stress and tension accelerate the formation of lines around your eyes and can even produce abnormal skin conditions like eczema (where the skin gets dry and itchy; it can even result in broken skin and bleeding).
So try to keep a tab on your stress levels.

• Practise power yoga, reduce stress

The environment and your skin

Pollution and exposure to ultraviolet rays can harm your skin.
It’s important that you use a good sunblock cream or lotion to protect your skin.
Read the instructions on your sunblock and choose one with a Sun Protection Factor (it will be given as SPF) suited for your lifestyle. If you spend very little time outdoors, then a sunblock with SPF 15 will do.
If you spend between one to two hours continuously, then a sunblock with SPF 30 is what you need.
If your outdoor activity exceeds two hours a day, go for a sunblock with SPF 50 or more.
Pack those vices

Needless to say, alcohol, smoking and drugs are not really the way to having great skin. If you are fond of any or all of these, you know why your skin looks so unhealthy.

Dr Rohini Wadhwani, is a cosmotologist and medical director of the skin clinic, Bare Necessities based in Mumbai.

In The Science of Orgasm (Johns Hopkins University Press), neuroscientist Barry R. Komisaruk, endocrinologist Carlos Beyer-Flores, and sex researcher Beverly Whipple share some secrets of the female variety. Lauren Dzubow reports on the five things you should know about the female orgasm.

Most women need about 20 minutes of clitoral or G-spot stimulation to hit the jackpot. But an estimated 24 to 37 percent of women can’t climax (and smoking, drinking, emotional disorders, medications, and menopause can make things worse).

There’s hope for the orgasmically challenged. Cognitive behavioral therapy, testosterone treatments, the herb ginkgo biloba, and the nutritional supplement ArginMax (which includes Korean ginseng, ginkgo biloba, vitamins, minerals, and an amino acid) have been shown to improve sexual satisfaction.

Some researchers believe that having an orgasm during sex increases the chance of conception. The theory: Oxytocin, a hormone released in peak levels during orgasm, causes uterine contractions that coax sperm toward the egg.

Besides its obvious perks, masturbating is good for your health. Studies show that orgasm can reduce sensitivity to pain, relieve menstrual cramps, and alleviate stress—possibly due to a surge in oxytocin and dopamine.

From ancient Greece to Freud’s time, doctors stimulated orgasms in women via “medical massage” to treat the catchall female ailment known as hysteria. In the late 1800s, the vibrator was designed for the same purpose.

From Five Facts on Female Orgasm in the December 2006 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine.

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The way your office is set up, where you place your desk, the colors you use, and even the lighting all have an effect on how you do business.

Authentic Feng Shui can help you clear away negative energies — and energy blockages — that can sabotage efficiency, productivity and profitability. Advanced Classical Feng Shui formulas can even forecast where and when risks and opportunities might arise and what you can do to assure the greatest possible benefit. While these calculations and even basic furniture placement are tied to the unique energy makeup of you and your office, these three general principles can help you create a supportive work environment.

1. Clear away objects that sabotage energy flow. Clutter isn’t just messy; it’s a magnet for attracting negative energy.

If your desk and floor are scattered with unfinished projects, papers, files and mail, energy can’t flow freely. Trapped energy either goes stagnant or builds up into a force that can make you feel jittery, overwhelmed, irritable, fatigued or depressed. In such an environment, you’ll find it’s hard to concentrate and complete tasks. Problems build up, creativity suffers and conflicts arise. Every item should have a designated home where you can find and easily access it. Take time to organize your files and use them so you don’t have to keep pieces of paper “in sight” just so you’ll know where they are. Clear the jumble from your desktop so that your eye — and the energy in your space — have calm places to rest. And don’t forget the jumble on your computer: regularly clear away unnecessary email and files.

2. Reposition your desk.

A sizable and neatly arranged desk attracts power and confidence. As a general rule, the best position for a desk is in the far right corner diagonally opposite from the door with your back to the wall or catty corner to the wall. In addition, try to avoid these three situations:

Don’t put your desk in a direct line with the door.

The energy coming from another office or hallway can cause discomfort. You may find yourself unable to concentrate and want to leave your desk.

Don’t sit with your back to the door.

You should have a clear view of the room and office door. This gives you energetic control over the space which, in turn, attracts energies that support you in feeling capable, relaxed, and confident.

Don’t sit at a desk that places you directly under an exposed overhead beam.

That beam can concentrate energies in the area right over your head. If you spend eight or ten hours at your desk, you could find you suffer from headaches and you could literally feel you are “under too much pressure.”

3. Balance your office lighting.

Lighting doesn’t just affect your eyes or even your mood. It also affects the energy in your office. Light – even sunlight – that is too bright creates an excessively “yang” energy that can cause agitation, conflict, and difficulty concentrating. By the same token, light that’s too dim creates an excessively “yin” energy that can produce fatigue and make it difficult to project a confident, capable presence. Feng Shui principles help balance your office’s lighting so that it’s bright enough to energize the space without disrupting harmony and concentration. Consider using natural spectrum light bulbs — they provide a more balanced light than traditional bulbs. Outfit windows with blinds that can filter and direct sunlight to prevent harsh shadows and glare. Consider desk lamps — they give you more flexibility in adjusting your overall lighting and then help balance the glare your computer screen can produce.

Looking for more tips on using Feng Shui and Vaastu to create a more productive and profitable office, check out past issues of “The Prosperity Report.”

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Richard Gordon, Founder of Quantum-Touch, best selling author and impassioned promoter of Life-Force Science is dedicated to showing us all – believers and skeptics alike - not only how powerful energy healing can be, but how easy it is to learn, regardless of your age, culture, religion or belief system.

The body has an extraordinary ability to heal itself and Quantum-Touch helps to activate this process. People have reported a wide range of organic conditions that have been helped through Quantum-Touch. To give some sense of the spectrum of things we have encountered, practitioners have reported varying degrees of success with cancer, reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome, reducing liver enzyme levels, infections, hydrocephalus, improved eyesight, and much, much more. However, Quantum-Touch does not claim to treat or heal specific conditions. Ultimately if the body can, it will heal itself and Quantum-Touch may accelerate that process.

Healing is a fascinating process which is generally very poorly understood. While many people think they can heal other people, it is of utmost importance to realize that all healing is self-healing. Ultimately, cells heal themselves. Cells desire to be well, and given the right energetic, emotional and nutritional environments, they will do just that. The body has an extraordinary intelligence and ability to heal itself. My favorite definition of a healer is someone who was sick and got well; a great healer is someone who was very sick and got well quickly.

By doing the breathing and body awareness exercises, the practitioner lifts his or her vibration to a very high pitch. Then by holding their hand over the affected area, the body responds by doing its own healing. But you don’t really heal other people. All you do is hold the space, hold the resonance for them to heal themselves.

We see the bone move and we go, “Uh … the bone moved.” But we’re actually affecting all the levels of your body healing itself. The bones will spontaneously glide into adjustment. But they’re the very last thing that’s changed. Everything else has been affected before that.

An 88 year old woman was in a great deal of pain suffering from osteoporosis. One of her hips was massively higher than the other, and she could barely walk. I asked the elderly woman to stand up and I gently placed my hands on her hips with absolutely no pressure, and started to run the energy. Running energy involves the use of specific breathing and body awareness exercises to raise one’s vibration. This energy has been described by numerous cultures for thousands of years – it is most commonly called prana, chi or ki. In about 10 minutes the woman’s hips had completely evened out and she could now walk without pain.

I explained that when the body receives a high vibration, it responds in whatever way it chooses in order to accelerate the healing process. Quantum biologist, Glen Rein, Ph.D. from NY has found that healers were capable of affecting the very winding of DNA. In order to accomplish this, healing must first begin on a quantum or subatomic level and work its way though the rest of the body.

Have you ever watched children play? They seem to always say, “Watch me!” So whether you are from the child’s culture or any other culture, whether you speak the language or not, if you sit there simply watching that child, he or she will feel loved. Simply giving your attention to a child is automatically experienced as an act of loving.

Intent is something that happens so automatically, most people just miss it. When you simply walk across the room, you already generated the intention to do so. You see, love and intention are among the most natural qualities we have. If you are learning to do healing, you already have sufficient love and intention to do a wonderful job.

New Remedies for an Everyday Complaint
By PETER JARET

Dr. Robert Kunkel has been a headache specialist at the Cleveland Clinic for more than 35 years. He is past president of the American Headache Society and the National Headache Foundation.

Q. How common are headaches?
A. Headaches are one of the most common of all medical complaints. And by far the most common are tension-type headaches. Seventy-eight percent of adults experience at least one tension-type headache during their lifetimes. The symptom is typically a band of painful pressure all around the head.
Migraines are the second most common. An estimated 20 percent of adults suffer from migraines. Migraines are associated with moderate to severe throbbing pain, which is usually accompanied by nausea and sensitivity to light or odors. Migraines tend to get worse with physical activity.
Cluster headaches are relatively rare. These are more painful and debilitating than migraines. They come on suddenly and are located usually behind one eye. Each one may last only an hour, but they occur in clusters, sometimes several in one day. The clusters may occur over a week or two, and then go away for weeks or months. Nobody knows why this cycle occurs. The pain is so intense that people sometimes have to pace the floor or bang their heads.

Q. Are headaches often a symptom of serious medical problems?
A. Sometimes, but much less often than people think. The headaches I’ve been describing are called primary headache syndromes, because they are not associated with other diseases or conditions. Ninety-five percent of all headaches are primary headaches. Headaches caused by an underlying condition, such as a brain tumor or problems with the circulatory system, are called secondary headaches. Although they are rare, it is important for doctors to exclude possible underlying causes when diagnosing a recurring headache.

Q. Are tension-type headaches, migraines and cluster headaches related?
A. That’s controversial. Obviously, all of them involve pain in the head. Some researchers think they may have some other features in common. Tension-type headaches are associated with muscle tension in the neck and head. Migraines and cluster headaches are vascular, meaning they are linked to abnormalities of blood flow in certain parts of the brain. But studies show that migraine and cluster headaches seem to be happening in different parts of the brain, so they are quite distinct.

Q. Do some people experience more than one kind of headache?
A. Absolutely. We see many patients in the headache clinic with mixed headaches. In other words, they may suffer from tension-type headaches and then from time to time also experience a migraine on top of the usual chronic tension-type headaches. We used to call these combination headaches, but now we usually say a patient suffers from tension-type headache and migraine. A typical pattern is for someone who had migraines when they were younger, in their 20s, who then develop tension-type headaches when they are in their 40s or 50s.

Q. Are men or women more at risk of suffering headaches?
A. Migraine headaches are three times more common in women than men. Cluster headaches are five times more common in men than women. Beyond those gender differences, there is strong evidence that migraine headaches are inherited. Abnormalities on three chromosomes have been linked to inherited risk. Cluster headaches may also run in families, but there’s less evidence for that.
Tension-type headaches seem to affect men and women equally, and there’s no evidence that they are inherited. We used to think tension-type headaches were triggered by stress, and that may still be true for some. More generally, they are associated with muscle tension in the neck or face. But even that isn’t always true. Some people who suffer from chronic tension-type headaches do not show signs of increased muscle contractions or spasms. And there are people who have muscle spasms who don’t get headaches as a result.

Q. Let’s focus on tension-type headaches, which are the most common. What’s the most effective treatment?
A. Some people get relief simply by resting and relaxing. Others feel better if they massage the muscles of their temples or neck. Of course many people turn to over-the-counter pain pills, such as aspirin, Advil or Tylenol. These can be very effective in relieving episodic tension-type headaches. People with stubborn tension-type headaches can benefit from prescription muscle relaxants.
Unfortunately, pain medications can cause rebound effect if they are overused: when people stop taking them, their headaches return and may be even more painful. In fact, overuse of over-the-counter pain pills is a common cause of chronic headache pain. Over-the-counter pain medications with caffeine are a particular problem. The caffeine helps speed relief, but it is also more likely to cause rebound.
A good rule of thumb is not to take medication to treat headache pain more than twice in a week. If you find yourself taking an over-the-counter pain reliever most days, you could be suffering from a medication-overuse headache. Then it’s a good idea to talk to your doctor.

Q. Can tension-type headaches be prevented?
A. Yes. Some patients experience fewer and less severe tension-type headaches if they use relaxation techniques such as meditation or deep breathing exercises. Exercise also helps some people avoid headaches. Exercises that improve posture, such as yoga, may be especially helpful, since they reduce muscle tension in the neck and shoulders.
Following a healthy diet probably helps, especially eating on a regular schedule and not skipping meals. We know that skipping meals can trigger migraines, and it may also trigger tension-type headaches. A healthy diet and regular exercise help people maintain a healthy weight, of course, which may help prevent headaches, too. A recent study done by Richard Lipton at Albert Einstein College of Medicine showed that obesity is a risk factor in chronic headache.
Another way to prevent headaches is to identify and then avoid the triggers that cause them. Tension-type headaches can occur when people skip a meal, for instance, or if they are anxious and tend to clench their jaws.
We often recommend that patients keep a diary of when and where headaches occur. Keeping a diary can also help when you sit down with your doctor. The more you know about when headaches occur, what seems to trigger them and what they feel like, the easier it is to diagnose and treat.

Q. Are medications available to prevent tension-type headaches?
A. Yes. Doctors sometimes prescribe muscle relaxants such as Flexeril, taken once a day at night. Low doses of tricyclic antidepressants, such as Elavil, have also been shown to be effective in preventing chronic headache. The problem with these drugs is that they can cause sedation and increase appetite, which is something we don’t want to do.
There’s also interest in botulinum toxin, which is injected at sites around the neck and scalp to reduce muscle tension. The toxin blocks nerve impulses to these muscles, and for some patients can offer two to three months of relief. Our interest is the fact that botulinum toxin seems to work better in the treatment of chronic migraine than it does in tension-type headaches. Botulinum toxin, which most people know as Botox, also seems to inhibit the release of other chemicals from the nerve endings that may cause inflammation around the blood vessels, that in turn may be involved in migraine as well as causing muscle spasms. Although it’s not approved specifically for headaches, many doctors are using Botox. Most of us have some patients who are doing well. But like most treatments, it doesn’t work for everyone.

Q. What do you do to treat your own headaches?
A. I have to admit, I’ve never had a headache, not even a tension-type headache. A lot of my colleagues are surprised at that. Most doctors who specialize in this field became interested because they suffer migraines or cluster headaches. I’ve always been interested in headaches, but not for personal reasons. Even though I’ve never experienced a headache, I like to think that I’m sympathetic to the pain that my patients are suffering.

Ajit Kumar, Natural Healer says:
Simple light Intermittent pressures on different points of scalp can be given, once a day. Relief has been experienced by considerable number of patients.

By JANE E. BRODY
Published: April 29, 2008

Randi considers the Y.M.C.A. her lifeline, especially the pool. Randi weighs more than 300 pounds and has borderline diabetes, but she controls her blood sugar and keeps her bright outlook on life by swimming every day for about 45 minutes.

Randi overcame any self-consciousness about her weight for the sake of her health, and those who swim with her and share the open locker room are proud of her. If only the millions of others beset with chronic health problems recognized the inestimable value to their physical and emotional well-being of regular physical exercise.
“The single thing that comes close to a magic bullet, in terms of its strong and universal benefits, is exercise,” Frank Hu, epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health, said in the Harvard Magazine.
I have written often about the protective roles of exercise. It can lower the risk of heart attack, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, depression, dementia, osteoporosis, gallstones, diverticulitis, falls, erectile dysfunction, peripheral vascular disease and 12 kinds of cancer.

But what if you already have one of these conditions? Or an ailment like rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, congestive heart failure or osteoarthritis? How can you exercise if you’re always tired or in pain or have trouble breathing? Can exercise really help?

You bet it can. Marilyn Moffat, a professor of physical therapy at New York University and co-author with Carole B. Lewis of “Age-Defying Fitness” (Peachtree, 2006), conducts workshops for physical therapists around the country and abroad, demonstrating how people with chronic health problems can improve their health and quality of life by learning how to exercise safely.

Up and Moving

“The data show that regular moderate exercise increases your ability to battle the effects of disease,” Dr. Moffat said in an interview. “It has a positive effect on both physical and mental well-being. The goal is to do as much physical activity as your body lets you do, and rest when you need to rest.”

In years past, doctors were afraid to let heart patients exercise. When my father had a heart attack in 1968, he was kept sedentary for six weeks. Now, heart attack patients are in bed barely half a day before they are up and moving, Dr. Moffat said.

The core of cardiac rehab is a progressive exercise program to increase the ability of the heart to pump oxygen- and nutrient-rich blood more effectively throughout the body. The outcome is better endurance, greater ability to enjoy life and decreased mortality.
The same goes for patients with congestive heart failure. “Heart failure patients as old as 91 can increase their oxygen consumption significantly,” Dr. Moffat said.

Aerobic exercise lowers blood pressure in people with hypertension, and it improves peripheral circulation in people who develop cramping leg pains when they walk — a condition called intermittent claudication. The treatment for it, in fact, is to walk a little farther each day.

In people who have had transient ischemic attacks, or ministrokes, “gradually increasing exercise improves blood flow to the brain and may diminish the risk of a full-blown stroke,” Dr. Moffat said. And aerobic and strength exercises have been shown to improve endurance, walking speed and the ability to perform tasks of daily living up to six years after a stroke.

As Randi knows, moderate exercise cuts the risk of developing diabetes. And for those with diabetes, exercise improves glucose tolerance — less medication is needed to control blood sugar — and reduces the risk of life-threatening complications.

Perhaps the most immediate benefits are reaped by people with joint and neuromuscular disorders. Without exercise, those at risk of osteoarthritis become crippled by stiff, deteriorated joints. But exercise that increases strength and aerobic capacity can reduce pain, depression and anxiety and improve function, balance and quality of life.

Likewise for people with rheumatoid arthritis. “The less they do, the worse things get,” Dr. Moffat said. “The more their joints move, the better.”

Exercise that builds gradually and protects inflamed joints can diminish pain, fatigue, morning stiffness, depression and anxiety, she said, and improve strength, walking speed and activity.
Exercise is crucial to improving function of total hip or knee replacements. But “most patients with knee replacements don’t get intensive enough activity,” Dr. Moffat said.

Water exercises are particularly helpful for people with multiple sclerosis, who must avoid overheating. And for those with Parkinson’s, resistance training and aerobic exercise can increase their ability to function independently and improve their balance, stride length, walking speed and mood.

Resistance training, along with aerobic exercise, is especially helpful for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; it helps counter the loss of muscle mass and strength from lack of oxygen.

In the February/March issue of ACE Certified News, Natalie Digate Muth, a registered dietitian and personal trainer, emphasized the value of a good workout for people suffering from depression. Mastering a new skill increases their sense of worth, social contact improves mood, and the endorphins released during exercise improve well-being.

“Exercise is an important adjunct to pharmacological therapy, and it does not matter how severe the depression — exercise works equally well for people with moderate or severe depression,” wrote Ms. Muth, who is pursuing a medical degree at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Feel-Good Hormones

Healthy people may have difficulty appreciating the burdens faced by those with chronic ailments, Dr. Nancey Trevanian Tsai noted in the same issue of ACE Certified News. “Oftentimes, disease-ridden statements — like ‘I’m a diabetic’ — become barricades that keep clients from seeing themselves getting better,” she said, and many feel “enslaved by their diseases and treatments.”
But the feel-good hormones released through exercise can help sustain activity.

“With regular exercise, the body seeks to continue staying active,” wrote Dr. Tsai, an assistant professor of neurosciences at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. She recommended an exercise program tailored to the person’s current abilities, daily needs, medication schedule, side effects and response to treatment.
She urged trainers who work with people with chronic ailments to start slowly with easily achievable goals, build gradually on each accomplishment and focus on functional gains. Over time, a sense of accomplishment, better sleep, less pain and enhanced satisfaction with life can become further reasons to pursue physical activity.
“Even if exercise is tough to schedule,” Dr. Moffat said, “you feel so much better, it’s crazy not to do it.”

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April 28th, 2008

“What the hell are you swallowing?”

“Amino acids,” I answered, while choking down a handful of “horse pills.”

“Amino acids?” My father stared at my skinny 14-year-old body, slack-jawed.

“Yeah, amino acids. These are the building blocks of life. I’ve been reading about it,” I said, pointing to my pile of muscle magazines on the floor. “This is how I’m going to get buff and smart.”

“Oh.” My dad was visibly dumbfounded. I could tell he was wondering how it was that the family doctor had never mentioned any of this.

Twenty years later, many people are still clueless about the importance of consuming enough amino acids. This simple dietary addition can boost lean body mass. And having increased muscle has all sorts of benefits.

It can:
• ward off diabetes
• boost immunity
• maximize energy
• accelerate metabolism (saving you from developing unsightly belly fat)
• prevent osteoporosis

The absolute best source of amino acids is whey isolate. As long as it doesn’t contain adulterants like sugar and artificial flavors, anyone at any age can benefit from its muscle-building effects.

Researchers from the School of Biomedical Sciences reviewed all previous studies done with elderly people who suffered from the muscle-wasting disease sarcopenia and then supplemented with whey isolate. By taking about 45 grams of whey isolate per day, these people were able to drastically increase their muscle mass and strength and reverse the disease.

To get your hands on muscle-building amino acids, purchase Whey Advanced. It contains vitamin C, micellar caseine, and is flavored with stevia. It has zero sugars or artificial flavors. You can mix it in a shake or simply stir it into water.

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Infants of every culture instinctively adopt this posture of squatting to relieve themselves. Although it may look strange to someone who has spent his entire life deprived of the experience, this is the way the human body was designed to function.

Chair-like toilets had only been used by royalty and the disabled till middle of 19th century. Western Europe, as well as Australia and North America, did not want to appear less civilized than Great Britain, whose vast empire at the time made it the most powerful country on Earth. So, within a few decades, most of the industrialized world had adopted “The Emperor’s New Throne.”

Nobody realized that the sitting position makes elimination difficult and incomplete, and forces one to strain.

Today, many physicians blame the modern toilet for the high incidence of a number of serious ailments. The prevalences of bowel diseases (hemorrhoids, appendicitis, polyps, ulcerative colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, diverticular disease, and colon cancer) are similar in South African whites and in populations of prosperous western countries.

Seven Advantages of Squatting
1.Makes elimination faster, easier and more complete. This helps prevent “fecal stagnation,” a prime factor in colon cancer, appendicitis and inflammatory bowel disease.
2.Protects the nerves that control the prostrate, bladder and uterus from becoming stretched and damaged.
3.Securely seals the ileocecal valve, between the colon and the small intestine. In the conventional sitting position, this valve is unsupported and often leaks during evacuation, contaminating the small intestine.
4.Relaxes the puborectalis muscle which normally chokes the rectum in order to maintain continence.
5.Uses the thighs to support the colon and prevent straining. Chronic straining on the toilet can cause hernia and pelvic organ prolapse.
6.A highly effective, non-invasive treatment for hemorrhoids, as shown by published clinical research.
7.For pregnant women, squatting avoids pressure on the uterus when using the toilet. Daily squatting helps prepare one for a more natural delivery.

The Indian type of toilet is more conducive to complete evacuation than the Western toilet. With the western style closets becoming popular in India, there is a risk of increased incidence of appendicitis.

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Stay Active as Long as You Want
– By Holly Little, Certified Personal Trainer

It’s a common problem for many who exercise, a problem that hurts during everyday activity and scares a lot of people away from any physical activity. It’s lower back pain. For those of you who suffer from this problem, here are some ways to stay active and help relieve this pain.

There are a number of recent studies showing that most people with lower back pain need to improve lower back strength with a good lower back muscle workout. This might cause a little more pain in the beginning, but in the long run, it will ease the muscles of any pain they are currently having. Basically, the long-term solution for back pain lies in exercise.

Some pain felt in your lower back might be the result of weak abdominal muscles. When you have a weak core, you are more likely to have poor posture and your muscles may be strained in a way that is uncomfortable or causes pain. You can minimize back pain by doing exercises that make the muscles in your back, stomach, hips and thighs -your core- strong and flexible. Even if you are currently participating in cardiovascular exercises like running or swimming, you should still add some of the following exercises, specifically designed to strengthen your core.

Leg Raises to strengthen stomach and hip muscles
How to: Lie on your back with your arms at your sides. Lift one leg off the floor to about a 45° angle. Hold your leg up for a count of 10 and return it to the floor. Do the same with the other leg. Repeat 5 times with each leg. If that is too difficult, keep one knee bent and the foot flat on the ground while raising the opposite leg.

Leg Raises to strengthen back and hip muscles
How to: Lie on your stomach. Tighten the muscles in one leg and raise it from the floor. Raise it as high as you can (approximately 30°) without causing any discomfort to your lover back or lifting your hip off the floor. Hold your leg up for a count of 10 and return it to the floor. Do the same with the other leg. Repeat 5 times with each leg.

Wall Slides to strengthen your back, hip and leg muscles
How to: Stand with your back against a wall and feet shoulder-width apart. Slide down into a crouch until the knees bend to about 90°. Count to 5 and slide back up the wall. Repeat 5 times.

Partial Sit-Up to strengthen stomach muscles
How to: Lie on your back with knees bent and feet flat on floor. Slowly raise your head and shoulders off the floor and reach with both hands toward your knees. Count to 10. Repeat 5 times.

Back Leg Swing to strengthen hip and back muscles
How to: Stand behind a chair with your hands on the back of the chair. Lift one leg back and up while keeping the knee straight. Return slowly. Raise the other leg and return. Repeat 5 times with each leg.

Exercises to increase flexibility and stretch out the back
How to: Lie on your back with your knees bent and feet flat on your bed or floor. Raise your knees toward your chest. Place both hands under your knees and gently pull your knees as close to your chest as possible. Do not raise your head. Do not straighten your legs as you lower them. Start with 5 repetitions, several times a day.

If you have not done any kind of exercise recently or if you have any type of high-risk health issues, it is recommended that you consult your physician before you do any of the suggested exercises.

WATER—How Much?
We loose water through urine and sweat so we need to drink water regularly. There is no point to quantify it. Our body has 75 percent of its mass due to water. It has a very big role to play in our life.
Water:
• Is essential for digestion, nutrient absorption and elimination
• Aids your circulation
• Helps control your body’s temperature
• Lubricates and cushions your joints
• Keeps your skin healthy
• Helps remove toxins from your body
One can live without food for couple of days but without water, it is difficult to survive for more than two days. Besides it depends upon the climate, atmospheric temperature, health of the person and the daily routine of the person.
Although our body indicates its need in the form of thirst but many times, a busy person forgets to take water. Therefore a broad guideline has been indicated-eight glasses of water.
Best way to access your water requirement could be by judging the color of urine. If the person is not consuming Vitamins then her/his urine color should be pale yellow. Darker yellow color indicates the necessity to increase in the intake of water.
Thirst can be quenched by consuming sodas, coffee and fruit juices but for a short duration. It cannot be as satisfying as water.
PET bottles are considered as unsafe for storing water. . Glass bottles are best, but if you’re traveling and can’t use a glass bottle, the high-density polyethelene (HDPE) Nalgene bottles appear to be a safer choice, so far.

Want Healthy Balance and Energy? Take a Bath..

The emission of EMR (electromagnetic radiation) from cell phones continues to become a growing concern. However, you’ll not hear the large wireless corporations or the federal government publicly talking about cell phone EMR emission issues.

Here are some sound solutions that can help minimize the EMR your phone emits:

1. Use your cell phone on speakerphone. While this is a great solution and I strongly recommend it, it’s simply not practical much of the time. Especially if you are in a public place where rules of discretion and proper etiquette prevail. Another problem is that not all cell phones have speakerphones — and even those that do may have poor sound quality. I do recommend that if you are choosing a new cell phone, make sure it comes with a speakerphone option.

2. Always keep your phone as far away from your body as possible. There’s a dramatic drop-off in radiation exposure for every inch you keep your phone away from your body.

3. Get yourself a Blue Tube Headset with an airtube. This new design is the best headset on the market. Others may actually increase the amount of radiation emitted.

4. Limit your cell phone use to the bare minimum. Your cell phone is constantly searching for signals and emitting EMR while you’re using it.

5. Turn off your cell phone when not needed OR keep it a few feet away from your body. Even when not in use, as long as your phone is turned on, it continually emits EMR as it connects to its base station.

Bluetooth wireless headsets are even worse than regular ones. Why? Because the wire is replaced with a transmitter and receiver operating with low power at frequency levels between 900 MHz to 2.4 GHz.

The maximum frequencies for wireless products compliant with Bluetooth specifications are 2.497 GHz. The frequency power of wireless headsets rivals that of microwave ovens, which also operate at 2.4 GHz.

And, while in a few cases emission may be lessened by the use of a cell phone headset or earpiece, it may not reduce radiation enough. This means that even a product that offers up to 70 percent reduction in EMR is not nearly as effective as it seems.

I doubt you’ll find as much radiation reduction in other headsets on the market. The Blue Tube Headset advantage is clearly illustrated below.

Conventional Headsets use wire to deliver sound to the earpiece and may also emit electromagnetic radiation. The Blue Tube advanced acoustic technology delivers the clearest sound achievable through an air-filled wireless tube that reduces the emission of radiation

If you’ve ever felt guilty about reaching for a cold one, I have great news:

That cool, refreshing beer just might save you from heart disease.
Don’t let the puritans make you afraid of casual beer drinking. Consuming a reasonable amount of alcohol is nothing to feel guilty about. In fact, it can be good for your health.

Beer also contains antioxidants like vitamin C, as well as hundreds of flavonoids such as Epicatechin.

Flavonoids are anti-oxidant compounds that provide the dark color in many fruits and vegetables. They stem from the seeds, skin and certain other parts of fermenting plants, and they help prevent hardening of the arteries. Flavonoids also improve blood flow and blood pressure. Dark beer has more of these nutrients than a lighter beer.

People who don’t indulge may be denting their bodies of essential nutrients, minerals and vitamins, such as magnesium, calcium and iron. Beer has always added protein, fiber, calcium, iron and potassium to diets around the world.

Almost everybody has heard of the benefits of drinking red wine. But in a recent study I came across beer drinkers had the lowest risk of heart disease.

Like wine, beer has been shown to:
# reduce strokes
# reduce heart disease
# reduce blood pressure
# increase coronary blood flow
# fight Alzheimer’s
# fight diabetes
# fight ulcers
# fight hepatitis A
# fight pancreatic cancer
# fight Parkinson’s disease
# raise good cholesterol
# lower bad cholesterol

Many of us associate drinking beer at social events, like a football game, with friends and family. These events cut back stress and in combination with conservative drinking, the risk of coronary disease is lowered by 32%.

Drinking a beer a day decreases cholesterol levels, increases antioxidants and reduces levels of fibrinogen, a clot-producing protein.

Keep in mind that the carbs in beer can add inches to your waistline. But there are new brews that are lower in carbs. They have the fuller flavor of “real” beer and put their low-calorie cousins to shame.
Since Busch released the first low-carb beer on the market, Michelob Ultra has experienced the best sales of any beer they’ve ever introduced. The good news here is that brewers are looking for their slice of the new market. And each new brew seems to outperform the last, in terms of flavor and fullness. The reigning three kings of low-carb brews are:
# Michelob Ultra by Anheuser Busch with 2.6 g of carbs.
# Aspen Edge by Coors with 2.6 g of carbs.
# Rock Green Light by Rolling Rock with 2.6g of carbs.

Compared to the average count of 11 grams of carbs for domestic beer - and as much as 20-30 g. for European imports, you can dramatically cut your carbs by making the switch to a low-carb variety. These low-carb beers compare well to mixed drinks.

STAY HEALTHY THE STEVIA WAY

Stevia is 300 times sweeter than regular sugar, with minimal aftertaste. Stevia extract has no calories. Stevia extract is suitable for diabetics and those with high blood pressure. Children can use stevia without health concerns. Stevia does not cause tooth cavities. Stevia is heat stable and thus could be used for cooking and baking. Stevia extract is a great alternative to synthetic sweeteners. Can be easily blended with other sweeteners, such as honey. Stevia is already widely and safely consumed in many countries around the world for decades.

This remarkable, no-calorie sweetener called stevia is, unfortunately, not a household name. It should be. I believe that eventually stevia will be one of the most popular and widely used no-calorie sweeteners in the world. With the availability of stevia extract there seems to be little reason to use artificial sweeteners such as aspartame and saccharin.

We all have a craving for a sweet taste and often satisfy this craving with sugar or fat-filled foods. Even “natural” sugar substitutes, such as honey, maple syrup or molasses, can be unhealthy if over-consumed since they can markedly elevate blood sugar levels. Hence, stevia can be advantageous to practically everyone whose diet contains sweeteners. Although stevia can be helpful to anyone, there are certain groups who are more likely to benefit from its remarkable sweetening potential. These include diabetics, those interested in decreasing caloric intake, and children.

Stevia for Diabetes

The availability of artificial sweeteners has been of enormous benefit to those with diabetes. However, there’s always been a concern that over consumption of these synthetic sweeteners may cause some unknown harm to the body. Could stevia substitution be a good alternative for those with diabetes? We believe so. Stevia leaves have been used as herbal teas by diabetic patients in Asian countries. No side effects have been observed in these patients after many years of continued consumption (Suttajit, 1993). Furthermore, studies have shown that stevia extract can actually improve blood sugar levels (Alvarez, 1981, Curi, 1986).

Stevia and Weight Loss
It would seem quite obvious that substituting a no-calorie sweetener to sugar would help reduce caloric intake and thus contribute to weight loss. If you are the type of person who adds sugar to your morning coffee or tea, or to iced tea, lemonade, and a variety of desserts and baked goods, then, over time, the elimination of these refined sugar calories could make a significant difference.

Sweet Teeth with No Cavities
Even a five-year old child knows that sugar causes tooth cavities. There are certain bacteria in our mouths, particularly streptococci mutans, that ferment various sugars to produce acids. These in turn eat through the enamel of the tooth causing pockets or cavities. For a long time, scientists have searched to find alternative sweeteners that are not fermentable by bacteria and hence do not cause cavities. Artificial sweeteners have been helpful in this regard. The chemicals within the stevia plant that impart its sweetness are not fermentable, and thus do not cause tooth cavit

Use in Children
Candies, sodas, ice cream, pies, cakes… it’s disturbing how many sweet products are ingested by children on a daily basis. All that sugar can lead to tooth cavities and obesity. We believe that partially substituting with stevia can help children satisfy their sweet tooth while decreasing the risks from excessive sugar intake.

If you’re a parent, you can take advantage of the many recipes provided in The Stevia Cookbook to provide your children with tasty sweets that will satisfy their sweet teeth but not cause damage to the teeth. Obesity in children is a growing problem in this country and any method we have of helping children reduce their caloric intake will be greatly beneficial.

We also are concerned with children overconsuming excessive amounts of artificial sweeteners. The potential, long-term health consequences of saccharin and aspartame ingestion are currently not fully known, but they do need to be kept in mind. Eliminating all artificial sweeteners will be a frustrating enterprise since they are extremely prevalent. However, by partially substituting stevia in homemade desserts, you can significantly reduce your children’s exposure to these artificial chemicals.

Hopefully, with time, stevia can be added to a variety of sodas, candies, gums, and other foods in the US, just like it currently is in Japan and other countries.

Anti-Aging potential
We know from numerous animal studies that reducing caloric intake leads to life span extension. Since stevia can substitute for sugar, and we know excess amounts of this sweetener can contribute to high blood sugar, obesity, and have other unhealthy effects on the human body, it would seem likely that substituting stevia for sugar could have a positive effect on longevity. This effect would be most apparent in those who normally have a high intake of sugar.

With references from Ray Sahelian, M.D.

Answer the phone by LEFT ear.
Do not drink coffee TWICE a day.
Do not take pills with COOL water.
Do not have HUGE meals after 5pm.
Reduce the amount of OILY food you consume.
Drink more WATER in the morning, less at night.
Keep your distance from hand phone CHARGERS.
Do not use headphones/earphone for LONG period of time.
Best sleeping time is from 10pm at night to 6amin the morning.
Do not lie down immediately after taking medicine before sleeping.
When battery is down to the LAST grid/bar, do not answer the phone as the radiation is 1000 times.

As we grow, getting the right amount of essential minerals becomes more and more important in handling life’s increasing demands… essential minerals such as:

• Calcium – to help promote your bone density and skeletal system
• Magnesium – to support your lungs and pulmonary system
• Potassium – to help regulate your circulatory system and promote your heart health

The best way for us to obtain these and other minerals is by eating wholesome unprocessed foods in our daily diet. If we eat processed foods, we risk losing valuable amounts of these essential minerals before the food ever reaches our table.

It is ideal to receive all our nutrition from whole, unprocessed organic foods but it has been realized over time that a high-quality multivitamin could be a valuable complement to our diet, especially when the situations in our life make it challenging to eat consistently healthy meals.

When it comes to synthetic multivitamins, boatloads of research exist — research that details how our body can only absorb a small percentage of the nutrients (and potentially use even less). It’s very clear that our body will absorb greater amounts of nutrients if the multivitamin comes in a non-synthetic natural whole food form.
Dr Mercola has followed stringent criteria to produce Whole Food +Plus Vital Minerals with:

• Calcium – To provide a high-level of support for your skeletal system, As we age, our need for calcium becomes more and more important to promote healthy bones.
• Magnesium – Scientific studies have reported that magnesium is helpful in supporting our lungs and overall pulmonary system. Magnesium intake promotes bone density health. It also helps maintain our muscular and nervous systems and helps support our healthy heart, and our energy needs.
• Potassium – This important mineral helps regulate our circulatory system and promotes our heart health. .Potassium is another important element in our bone density health. As we age, bone density becomes an important element in our overall health.

Whole Food Multivitamin +Plus Vital Minerals’ formula has natural value built into it.

It provides you with a highly concentrated daily supplement containing more than 50 nutritional ingredients… all in a special herbal food base.

One of the challenges your body faces every day is combating free radicals.

Free radicals are highly reactive molecules and fragments of molecules that may impact your body at your cellular level.

Free radicals constantly attack your body proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and DNA, and can cause potentially serious health concerns unless they are kept in check. Every cell in your body suffers an estimated 10,000 free radical hits each day. Your body does its best to fight back — in what is an actual battlefield at the cellular level.

To help balance the effects of free radicals, Whole Food +Plus Vital Minerals provides you with high-potency amounts of an exclusive antioxidant formula that includes: Natural beta-carotene, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Selenium, L-cysteine, Lutein, Lycopene, Red wine proanthocyanidins, And select extracts and powders from over 25 fruits, vegetables, and herbs.

HOW ABOUT TRYING IT………

Yes, it’s true.

Nature still has a few miracles up her sleeve.

You’ve probably heard that breast milk is jam-packed with nutrients and disease-fighting ingredients that help keep babies healthy.

Well, incredibly, coconut oil contains one of the same compounds—Lauric acid—found in mother’s milk! And Lauric Acid is the predominant type of MCFA (medium-chain fatty acids) found in Coconut oil.

Fortunately for our health, Lauric acid in both breast milk and coconut oil transforms when consumed into a substance called monolaurin, the actual compound responsible for helping to strengthen the immune system.

Skeptical? So were a lot of scientists, who’ve proceeded to test the heck out of this substance.

In fact, a great volume of research has been done establishing the ability of Lauric acid to enhance immunity.

What researchers found was that this medium-chain fatty acid derivative actually disrupts the lipid (or fatty) membranes of the offending organisms.

The Lauric acid in coconut oil is one effortless way to help strengthen your immune system.

And, unlike the usual Lauric acid content of 42-49% in many coconut oil brands, Fresh Shores Extra Virgin Coconut Oil contains a whopping 57% of lauric acid.

Probiotics are defined as live microorganisms that, in sufficient amounts, confer a health benefit on the host. A growing body of research links probiotics to relief of digestive tract complaints such as irritable bowel syndrome, yeast infections, and diarrhea that results from certain illnesses. The idea behind probiotics is to increase the amount of beneficial bacteria in people’s intestinal tracts as a way to aid digestion, boost the body’s natural defenses and fight off harmful bacteria that can cause health problems.

Probiotics may:
• Protect against infection
• Enhance and boost the immune system
• Promote and improve digestive health
• Alleviate diarrhea caused by antibiotic treatments
• Promote urinary and genital health
• Assist in the management of inflammation
• Help alleviate symptoms of lactose intolerance
• Improve some types of eczema in infants and children
• Reduce cholesterol levels
• Decrease the risk of certain cancers

Although the scientific evidence shows that probiotics really can help, questions remain about how well that research translates into the real world, where some marketers may add untested amounts of the bacteria to various foods. While there are thousands of different probiotics, only a handful have been tested in clinical trials and been shown to deliver specific health benefits when eaten regularly. Most probiotic products can be found in the dairy case or as dietary supplements.

Dr Mercola has launched Complete Probiotics. He claims to offer 11 solid reasons why it’s his #1 pick

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# Supports production of B vitamins, especially folic acid and biotin, and vitamin K
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# Supports protein and carbohydrate digestion via probiotic enzymes
# Aids in metabolism and the breakdown of toxins
# Maintains appropriate bowel transit time
# Promotes optimal fungal and viral levels in the body
# Supports immune system function by removing toxins
# Produces lactic acid for support of digestive processes and colonic pH balance
# Sustains suitable serum lipid and blood pressure levels
# Supports normal inflammatory response

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By Astrid Pujari, M.D.
Special to The Seattle Times

It’s been called one of America’s fastest-growing epidemics. In King County, the number of people with diabetes has doubled in the past decade. Nationally, more than 20 million people have developed the disease, an alarming number of them children.

Diabetes is a major risk factor for a whole host of serious diseases, including heart attack, blindness, kidney failure and can lead to limb amputations.

But one positive feature of this potentially deadly disease: Type 2 diabetes can be controlled or even prevented through healthy lifestyle choices.

What is diabetes? It’s a disease in which a person’s blood sugar — glucose — is too high. The hormone insulin helps glucose get into cells to give them energy. When insulin malfunctions, sugar accumulates outside the cells in the blood. This means that cells “starve” because they can’t get energy, and the extra sugar goes to places it shouldn’t — like the kidneys, nerves and eyes, causing damage.

There are two main types of diabetes. In Type 1, the body doesn’t produce insulin. In Type 2, the body’s cells are resistant to the effects of insulin or there isn’t enough to go around. In the United States, 90 percent of diabetics are Type 2.

What can we do to prevent diabetes? The No. 1 thing is to exercise and keep a healthy weight. But even if your weight isn’t ideal, you don’t need to lose a lot to see results. In one well-designed study, people who combined 30 minutes a day of moderate exercise with 5 percent to 10 percent weight loss had 58 percent less chance of developing diabetes.

That means you don’t have to lose a lot of weight or run marathons to drop your risk. Brisk walking, dancing or swimming once a day qualifies as moderate exercise.

Type 1 diabetes isn’t usually considered preventable in the same way as Type 2. However, speaking from a holistic point of view, there are two interesting studies.

One large study from Finland suggests that infants who get enough vitamin D in the first year of life may be less likely to develop Type 1 diabetes. A second, large Australian study suggested that niacinamide, a form of vitamin B3, may be helpful in preventing Type 1 diabetes in high-risk children.

In fact, researchers are so interested in the second one that a large European study is now under way to explore the results.
How can we treat it? Type 1 diabetics require insulin for life, because they don’t make it. That’s why those prevention studies on niacinamide and vitamin D are so compelling.

For Type 2 diabetics, it depends. Some people can control their blood sugar by watching their diet and exercising, though often people need medication as well. Some also require insulin.

Some people ask me which is better for blood-sugar control — weight training or cardiovascular exercise? One well-designed study published in 2007 suggests that doing a combination of both is the best, though you will still see benefit with either one alone.
What about natural supplements to lower blood sugar? One simple thing to do to help lower blood sugar is to eat more soluble fiber. There are lots of sources of soluble fiber, including oats, barley, psyllium husk (Metamucil) and beans. It slows down the absorption of sugar from the intestine, and makes it easier to keep blood sugars under control after meals.

Many supplements are promoted for blood-sugar lowering. Two are bitter melon and chromium.

Two studies which combined chromium with standard medication suggest that it adds an extra boost to blood sugar lowering. This is still controversial, though, and the studies were small. There isn’t much data on bitter melon, though it has been historically used for blood-sugar problems in Asia.

I do not recommend natural supplements as a substitution for conventional medical treatment, and I definitely recommend talking to your doctor about any supplements.

Does emotional stress affect blood sugar? Stress causes our bodies to think we are being attacked. As a result, it releases high amounts of “fight-or-flight” hormones. Their job is to mobilize lots of energy, including glucose, to help our cells respond to danger. In diabetes, though, there is a problem with insulin, so a lot of that glucose ends up accumulating in the blood instead.

It would make sense, then, that chronic stress would not be good for your blood sugar because your fight-or-flight hormones would be high all the time. This could lead to higher average blood sugars, and possibly, more medication.

Although there haven’t been a huge number of human studies on this topic, one well designed study found that stress management dropped hemoglobin A1C (a long-term management of blood sugar) an additional 0.5 percent above the conventional approach. That is a small, but significant, amount.

Dr. Astrid Pujari is a Seattle M.D. with an additional degree as a medical herbalist; she practices at the Pujari Center and teaches as part of the residency programs at Virginia Mason and Swedish/Cherry Hill hospitals. All information is intended for education and not a substitute for medical advice. Consult your doctor before following any suggestions given here.

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Patients’ concerns about drug side effects are often shrugged off by their doctors, according to a survey of 650 patients who were taking cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins.

Statins, such as Lipitor and Zocor, are common drugs with widely known side effects that include liver damage, muscle problems, memory and mood changes, and more. In the case of muscle problems, if the side effect is not recognized it can progress to a potentially fatal condition called rhabdomyolysis.

Nonetheless, patients who responded to the survey said that they had to initiate a discussion about side effects with their doctor, and when they did:

• 47 percent said their doctors dismissed their muscle or cognitive problems, and said they were not statin-related
• 51 percent with a type of nerve pain called peripheral neuropathy said their doctors denied a connection to the drugs
• 32 percent said their doctors denied a connection between their symptoms and statins
• 29 percent said their doctors “neither endorsed nor dismissed the possibility of symptom link to statins”

Rather than attributing the patients complaints to the drugs, many doctors instead blamed the “normal aging process” or denied the symptoms entirely. Aside from not addressing the health concern in the patient, this ignorance toward a potential adverse drug reaction (ADR) means that no “adverse event report” is being given to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Side effects are already underreported by 90 to 99 percent, according to one Harvard Medical School expert, and the FDA relies heavily on such reports to gauge a drug’s safety once it hits the market.

In short, the survey suggests that the FDA is missing out on a wealth of ADRs because doctors are not recognizing them in patients.

The study’s authors believe that statin-related side effects are not the only one’s being missed.

They suggest that many other drug side effects are also being ignored. The researchers speculated that doctors’ tendencies to ignore drug side effects may be due to the powerful ad campaigns touting medications’ benefits and downplaying side effects.

Drug Safety August 2007 30(8):669-675

Dr Mercola Comments: (http://tinyurl.com/6bbcrt)

I strongly agree with many of the posters on this article that doctors should not be made scapegoats to this unfortunate finding. Most physicians are intelligent, well intentioned individuals who truly believe that they are dong the best they possibly can for their patients. They are clueless that they are merely pawns in the system that is spending tens of billions of dollars EVERY year to manipulate and deceive them into believing drugs and surgery are the best solution for chronic degenerative health conditions.

When you think about it for awhile it is not that much of a stretch since it certainly true for acute traumas, all they had to do was extend that view to degenerative diseases and when you have tens of billions to invest in purchasing the best marking minds on the planet, this is a relatively easy change to achieve. The results speak for themsevles, the drug companies have been fabuloulsy successful in capturing the minds of logic of most of the brightest and educated professionals our country has ever seen.

BUT, they have only done this temporarily. The Internet will change all that. This site is helping to educate consumers and health professionals alike about the fraud and deception. So many physicians are deceived that they are not at all motivated to listen to their patients’ concerns about the medications they’re taking. This is particularly tragic when you consider that prescription drugs result in more than 700,000 visits to the emergency room in the United States every year.

It is also a shame that doctors are so quick to interrupt their patients as it may be only have about 23 seconds to state your concerns before your doctor will interrupt you, which may at least partly explain why most patients had to initiate the drug side effects conversation, or not have it at all.

Physicians certainly do have some responsibility here, particularly in being familiar with, and open to, the fact that drugs often cause side effects (and sometimes strange ones at that).

Drug Companies Are Influencing Your Doctor

In the United States an estimated 80,000 drug company representatives, backed by more than $19 billion of industry’s combined annual promotional budgets, are visiting doctors every day.

These visits are influencing your doctor, essentially biasing him or her in favor of drugs.

Drug companies do not stop there. They spend millions each year to influence Congress, and similar amounts to influence YOU (via TV commercials, magazine ads, and the like) to ask your doctor specifically for their drug, the way you might ask for a particular brand of food in the supermarket.

Only a very well-informed, open-minded physician will be able to withstand this brainwashing (that actually starts way back in medical school)!

What can you do?

You are making the first major step already; you’re getting informed about what’s really going on.

YOU now know that if you suspect a drug is causing you a side effect, you must be sure that your doctor does not dismiss it. If he or she refuses to acknowledge it, you must seek out another doctor who will. As many Vital Votes readers have also pointed out, you can make a difference by printing out informative articles from Mercola.com and elsewhere, and giving them to your doctor.

Doctors are only human, and many will be very receptive to the information contained in these pages.

As the Washington Post article points out, you can also report drug side effects to the FDA directly (regardless of whether or not your doctor does), and I urge you to do so if you’ve experienced any.

Finally, my advice for your health and wellness holds true in this circumstance as well; you can reduce your reliance on the fatally flawed medical system (and thereby your risks of drug side effects) by eating the right foods for your nutritional type, exercising, and relieving stress with a tool such as the Emotional Freedom Technique.

We invite your comments….

Article has inputs from: www.mercola.com

The side effects of prescription medication can be horrific. Is it really worth taking medication if the cure is worse than the disease?
Here 26 side effects that come with many prescription drugs currently on the market.

1. Drainage, crusting, or oozing of your eyes or eyelids
2. Swollen, black, or “hairy” tongue
3. Changes in the shape or location of body fat
4. Decrease in testicle size
5. Sores or swelling in your rectal or genital area
6. Blue lips or fingernails
7. Purple spots on your skin
8. White patches or sores inside your mouth or on your lips
9. Irregular back-and- forth movements of your eyes
10. Enlarged breasts in males.
11. Unusual risk-taking behavior, no fear of danger
12. Extreme fear
13. Hallucinations, fainting, coma
14. Fussiness, irritability, crying for an hour or longer
15. Paralysis
16. Thoracic Hematoma (bleeding into your chest)
17. A blood clot in your lung
18. Liver damage
19. Kidney damage
20. A lump in your breast
21. Decreased bone marrow function
22. Congestive heart failure
23. Shingles
24. Nerve pain lasting for several weeks or months
25. Bleeding that will not stop
26. Coughing up blood or vomit that looks like coffee grounds

One drug on the market, EvaMist – a treatment for menopause symptoms such as hot flashes – has possible side effects that include cancer, stroke, heart attack, blood clots, and dementia!
But this is only a partial list of the potential side effects of prescription drugs. There are, unfortunately, many more out there.
Sources:
HealthMad March 20, 2008

Dr Mercola’s comments: (http://tinyurl.com/6bbcrt)

Every year, more than 2 million Americans suffer from serious adverse drug reactions. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), these reactions cause about 100,000 deaths per year, making prescription drugs the fourth-leading cause of death in the country.

Compare this to the death toll from illegal drugs – which is about 10,000 per year – and you begin to see the magnitude of the problem.

However, if you dig a little deeper you find that these reported reactions only skim the surface of what’s really going on. You see, drug side effects are not always recognized as such. Doctors often attribute them to other causes, people downplay them or do not report them altogether. And when you add in other medical errors, unnecessary procedures, and surgery-related mishaps, well the modern health care system actually becomes the LEADING cause of death in the United States. Consider, for instance, that:

• The recorded error rate of ICU’s is like the post office losing more than 16,000 pieces of mail every hour of every day, or banks deducting 32,000 checks from the wrong bank account every hour, 24/7.
• The recorded medical errors and deaths equate to six jumbo jets falling out of the sky each day, 365 days a year.

• Since 2001, a recorded 490,000 people have died from properly prescribed drugs in the United States, while 2,996 people died on U.S. soil from terrorism, all in the 9/11 attacks; prescription drugs are therefore 16,400 percent more dangerous than terrorism. If deaths from over-the-counter drugs are also included, then drug consumption leaps to being 32,000 percent more dangerous than terrorism. And conventional medicine viewed as a whole is 104,700 percent deadlier than terrorism

Your Body is Not a Petri Dish

How can it be that clinically tested, FDA-approved drugs that are supposed to “cure” diseases are ending up hurting, and in some cases killing, so many people?

Because even under the BEST circumstances, such as a drug going through unbiased, stringent, long-term testing, when it is released into an uncontrolled environment (your body), anything can happen.

You may be taking another drug that interacts badly with it. Or perhaps a food you eat causes an unforeseen reaction. There are countless possibilities, and only a tiny fraction has been “tested for” in a lab.

And that is under the best circumstances. Often, studies are biased, results are skewed, and drugs are put on a fast-track to be approved before anyone really knows whether they’re safe. In a sense, it is all a gamble, and there are no 100-percent safe drugs.

This is why just about every time you open a newspaper or skim the news online, there is a new headline about another drug disaster: an unforeseen side effect that has harmed innocent people.

It’s YOUR Body

The take-home message from all of this is to remember that, ultimately, it’s your body, and your decision what to put in it. If your doctor suggests you take a drug, do some research before you take it, because once you do, it could be too late.

Make sure you are aware of the potential side effects of the drug, read the package insert, and remember that even if it lists a side effect as rare, it can still happen to you.

Many, many drugs are vastly over-prescribed and unnecessary. So make sure that you make drugs a last option, not a first choice. For example, all of the following conditions can be treated or prevented with LIFESTYLE CHANGES, yet if you go to a typical doctor, you will likely be prescribed a potentially dangerous drug instead:
• Diabetes
• Heart disease
• High blood pressure
• High cholesterol
• Insomnia
I realize that it takes a massive shift in thinking to realize that your body can heal itself, and that often drugs only hinder the process. But I believe that you, and society as a whole, are ready for it.

But here’s the thing: don’t wait until you’re sick or slowing down to make healthy changes. Do them NOW. Become an active participant in your health, and leave the horrific drug side effects behind for good.

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If you find an 70 years old man on your dinner table who does not need glasses to see the menu. Won’t you envy his ability to read a menu without reading glasses; Well I am sure you will jump to know his secret? You will surely ask him the secret of maintaining the perfect eyesight.

Usually when a person is nearing mid-40s, he starts feeling the need for some help which could improve the quality of his/her vision. Once you visit an eye specialist, you come out with a prescription. Eye Glasses made as per the prescription does improve your eyesight BUT it becomes a permanent part of your life. One has to use it on a regular basis.

Are you aware that there is a simple yet powerful methods of vision re-training that can allow you to see better naturally—with just a few minutes a day of easy practice. This natural eyesight training is called the Secrets of Regaining Your Vision Naturally. It helps you to discover the safe and proven approach to permanently eliminating not only your eyesight problems, but also the high cost and hassles associated with them.

You can…
• Discover how to throw away your glasses for good …
• Get rid of your messy and irritating contact lenses …
• Avoid the risks and cost of LASIK eye surgery …
• Improve your vision in just minutes a day …
• Free yourself from eyestrain and neck strain
• Save thousands of dollars on your lifetime vision care costs..

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Have you ever realized that the glasses/contact lenses serve as only a “crutch” or “band-aid fix", they do absolutely nothing to improve your eyesight. Worse yet, there’s strong medical evidence that glasses and contacts actually make your eyes worse! With them, your vision is likely to continue to deteriorate, making it necessary for you to return for stronger and stronger prescriptions.

So, if you wear contact lenses or glasses, you not only have to contend with the incorrect vision habits which initially led to your visual problems, you also must deal with the fact that your strong corrective lenses actually interfere with your ability to improve your vision.

Natural vision training assists you to transition yourself from glasses by reducing your prescription and removing your glasses or contacts when they are not essential for safety. You will also discover how to work with a supportive eye doctor as you reduce your reliance on corrective lenses.

Contact lenses are basically a foreign object in the eyes. In addition to their interference with vision improvement, they possess their own risks and problems, including:: inconvenient to use, difficult to keep it clean and disinfected, leads to irritation and abrasion of the cornea, deprive the cornea of necessary oxygen, dry out the eyes, may cause eye and eyelid infection, subject to irritation from dust, pollutants and allergens and interfere with normal blinking and tearing.

If some of these side effects sound bad, LASIK is even worse … There is always risk of complications and side effects from botched or problematic LASIK surgery, many of which have been downplayed to the general public.

There are few programs which offer natural vision correction through “eye exercises", but the outcome has not been very encouraging since the eye muscles are already too strained, tight and contracted. They certainly don’t need more exercise.

The eye really needs to re-learn the way to relax and reclaim the perfect unstrained vision which one had as a young child.

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Antioxidants are the body’s best way to neutralize free radicals-who damage cells and tissues throughout the body.

Scientific evidence has repeatedly demonstrated that antioxidants are a cornerstone in the promotion of heart health, immune system support, and memory support. Antioxidants also appear to play a role in helping to slow your signs of aging.

We are eagerly to look for unique combination of antioxidants, omega-3 oils and other ingredients which could offer us:
• A healthy heart
• Support for concentration, memory & learning
• Blood sugar health
• Healthy joints, with an increase in joint comfort
• Fighting your signs of aging
• Healthy brain and nervous system function and development
• Protection for cell membranes
• Cholesterol and other blood lipid health
• Healthy liver function
• Relief of normal PMS symptoms
• Bolstering your immune system
• Healthy mood support
• Optimal skin health
• Improved quality of life when compared with fish oil

A way to enhance your health with a product that really delivers the goods is – New and Improved Krill Oil can help you.

To give you a little idea about KRILLS– Those are small shrimp or prawn-like creatures that feed the world’s most mammoth animals – the great whales. Toothless great whales gulp down huge quantities of krill to provide the energy they need to fuel their massive bulk. A blue whale eats up to 8,000 pounds of krill each day during feeding season.

These highly intelligent great whales aren’t the only animals that depend on krill for their nutritional needs. So do seals, penguins, sea birds, squid and fish.

The hardy Neptune type of krill harvested from harsh Antarctic waters – the ones that comprise New and Improved Krill Oil – are so important they are considered a “keystone species”, an organism upon which many Antarctic predators depend.

You must have heard about two fats in Omega-3 oils that are crucial for our health are DHA and EPA. These compounds are not only essential to maintaining our health – scientific research indicates that they may also promote heart health and provide immune system and mood support.

Now in a perfect world, we would be able to get all the omega-3s we need by eating fish. Unfortunately, studies show that eating fish can potentially expose us to a high degree of contamination with industrial pollutants and toxins like mercury, PCBs, heavy metals and radioactive poisons.

In fact, the FDA and EPA have put out health advisories warning against certain fish and shellfish consumption for young children, women who are pregnant or may become pregnant and nursing mothers.
I formerly recommended that you take Fish oil was also recommended to enhance the intake of omega-3 fats. High-quality fish oils are certainly great products, with many important health benefits.
But there are drawbacks.

Fish oil is a weak antioxidant content. As you increase your intake of omega-3 essential fatty acids by consuming fish oil, you actually increase your need for even more antioxidant protection.

Fish oil being perishable, antioxidants are necessary to ensure that the fish oil doesn’t oxidize and become rancid inside our body. Oxidation leads to the formation of those unhealthy free radicals.
So, we need to consume additional antioxidants for our health in general, and for our increased need for antioxidants when using fish oil.

This was a vexing problem for a long time.

The introduction of Antarctic Pure Krill Oil (now known as New and Improved Krill Oil) – a marine oil of genuine Neptune krill solved the dilemma by uniquely and synergistically combining antioxidants and omega-3s.

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Looking for happy stomach?
Adopted from the article by: Becky Hand, Licensed & Registered Dietitian

Probiotics is a friendly bacteria that keeps the digestive system healthy. We have 400 different types of probiotics and each type of friendly bacteria has a specific health benefit to the body.
Probiotics may:
• Protect against infection
• Enhance and boost the immune system
• Promote and improve digestive health
• Alleviate diarrhea caused by antibiotic treatments
• Promote urinary and genital health
• Assist in the management of inflammation
• Help alleviate symptoms of lactose intolerance
• Improve some types of eczema in infants and children
• Reduce cholesterol levels
• Decrease the risk of certain cancers

Basically the dairy products and dairy beverages contain probiotics. To name a few:
• Yogurt
• Drinkable and squeezable yogurts
• Fluid milk with added probiotics
• Fermented milk and
• Kefir
Through fermentation, probiotics enhance the flavor and texture of these particular dairy products. Dairy foods actually buffer your stomach acid and bile, thereby protecting the probiotics from the stomach acid so that they can reach the intestines.
Raw (unpasteurized) yogurt is loaded with bacteria. Most yogurts today are pasteurized and these bacteria are killed. However, some friendly bacteria are added back. Look for a yogurt that contains the “live and active culture” sign on the label. Pay close attention to the expiration date because these live bacterial cultures can diminish with time.

Probiotic supplements such as freeze dried powder, capsules, wafers, and liquids should be taken with a caution since Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not regulate supplements in the same way as it regulates medication. Legally, manufacturers can sell supplements, even with little or no research on how well it works or how safe it is.

Supplement and medication reactions can occur, therefore seek the guidance of your health care provider before using any probiotic supplement.

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IF YOU DO NOT REGULARLY HAVE A BOWEL MOVEMENT ATLEAST ONCE A DAY, YOU ARE CHRONICALLY CONSTIPATED

Having too much fat around the mid-section is not the only cause of this extension. Most likely it’s a serious build-up of toxic fecal matter in the intestines and colon that is contributing to a chronic outward swelling of the person’s belly.

This condition called bloating is NOT the stomach making the belly stick out, for the stomach is located ABOVE the transverse colon, beside the liver. Bloat is the COLON (large intestine) expanding due to the impacted fecal matter building up inside.

It is rumored that when the beloved singer/actor Elvis Presley died, the autopsy revealed that his bloated body had about 50 pounds of impacted fecal matter in his digestive tract! The same situation is said to have occurred with the famous Hollywood actor, John Wayne, who had even more pounds of toxic fecal matter in his digestive tract when he died.

Cleaning out the impacted fecal matter in your own body could contribute to a slimming of the abdomen and some significant weight loss.

Cleaning your colon and rectum may also be the best preventive measure you can take against the risk of colorectal cancer, pre-cancerous polyps in the colon, and those painful diseases of the colon known as Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Diverticulitis, Ileitis, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) which includes Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis.

Today, doctors have no known medical cure for Irritable Bowel Syndrome or Ulcerative Colitis (other than surgery). It looks like prevention is your only option. Between 25 percent and 40 percent of people with ulcerative colitis eventually need colostomy surgery in which part or all of the colon is cut out and removed.

Medical doctors tend to treat the symptoms of a diseased colon with drugs or surgery, without getting to the real cause of the problem. Has your doctor ever told you how to PREVENT these diseases before they happen to you?

It’s really up to YOU to take charge of your health and well-being. Using a complementary therapy such as cleansing your colon and gastrointestinal tract with Holy Tea is a simple, easy, and pleasant way to start. It’s as easy as drinking two glasses of good-tasting tea per day!

It’s hard these days to avoid over-processed foods loaded with chemicals, drinks laced with caffeine, and all the toxic pollution in the air and water. But you can do something to counteract their toxic effects… simply by drinking Holy Tea to help flush the toxins, parasites, and impacted fecal matter out of your body and restore your colon to optimum health.

The primary function of Holy Tea is to gently cleanse the digestive tract of this toxic waste material, restore a healthy digestive system, and reduce the risk of all the ailments that are caused by auto-intoxification.

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By TARA PARKER-POPE
Published: March 11, 2008

As a symbol of health and wellness, nothing surpasses the simple push-up.

Practically everyone remembers the actor Jack Palance performing age-defying push-ups during his Oscar acceptance speech. More recently, Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon professor whose last lecture became an Internet sensation, did push-ups to prove his fitness despite having pancreatic cancer.

“It takes strength to do them, and it takes endurance to do a lot of them,” said Jack LaLanne, 93, the fitness pioneer who astounded television viewers in the 1950s with his fingertip push-ups. “It’s a good indication of what kind of physical condition you’re in.”
The push-up is the ultimate barometer of fitness. It tests the whole body, engaging muscle groups in the arms, chest, abdomen, hips and legs. It requires the body to be taut like a plank with toes and palms on the floor. The act of lifting and lowering one’s entire weight is taxing even for the very fit.

“You are just using your own body and your body’s weight,” said Steven G. Estes, a physical education professor and dean of the college of professional studies at Missouri Western State University. “If you’re going to demonstrate any kind of physical strength and power, that’s the easiest, simplest, fastest way to do it.”

But many people simply can’t do push-ups. Health and fitness experts, including the American College of Sports Medicine, have urged more focus on upper-body fitness. The aerobics movement has emphasized cardiovascular fitness but has also shifted attention from strength training exercises.

Moreover, as the nation gains weight, arms are buckling under the extra load of our own bodies. And as budgets shrink, public schools often do not offer physical education classes — and the calisthenics that were once a childhood staple.

In a 2001 study, researchers at East Carolina University administered push-up tests to about 70 students ages 10 to 13. Almost half the boys and three-quarters of the girls didn’t pass.
Push-ups are important for older people, too. The ability to do them more than once and with proper form is an important indicator of the capacity to withstand the rigors of aging.

Researchers who study the biomechanics of aging, for instance, note that push-ups can provide the strength and muscle memory to reach out and break a fall. When people fall forward, they typically reach out to catch themselves, ending in a move that mimics the push-up. The hands hit the ground, the wrists and arms absorb much of the impact, and the elbows bend slightly to reduce the force.

In studies of falling, researchers have shown that the wrist alone is subjected to an impact force equal to about one body weight, says James Ashton-Miller, director of the biomechanics research laboratory at the University of Michigan.

“What so many people really need to do is develop enough strength so they can break a fall safely without hitting their head on the ground,” Dr. Ashton-Miller said. “If you can’t do a single push-up, it’s going to be difficult to resist that kind of loading on your wrists in a fall.”

And people who can’t do a push-up may not be able to help themselves up if they do fall.

“To get up, you’ve got to have upper-body strength,” said Peter M. McGinnis, professor of kinesiology at State University of New York College at Cortland who consults on pole-vaulting biomechanics for U.S.A. Track and Field, the national governing body for track.

Natural aging causes nerves to die off and muscles to weaken. People lose as much as 30 percent of their strength between 20 and 70. But regular exercise enlarges muscle fibers and can stave off the decline by increasing the strength of the muscle you have left.

Women are at a particular disadvantage because they start off with about 20 percent less muscle than men. Many women bend their knees to lower the amount of weight they must support. And while anybody can do a push-up, the exercise has typically been part of the male fitness culture. “It’s sort of a gender-specific symbol of vitality,” said R. Scott Kretchmar, a professor of exercise and sports science at Penn State. “I don’t see women saying: ‘I’m in good health. Watch me drop down and do some push-ups.’ ”

Based on national averages, a 40-year-old woman should be able to do 16 push-ups and a man the same age should be able to do 27. By the age of 60, those numbers drop to 17 for men and 6 for women. Those numbers are just slightly less than what is required of Army soldiers who are subjected to regular push-up tests.

If the floor-based push-up is too difficult, start by leaning against a countertop at a 45-degree angle and pressing up and down. Eventually move to stairs and then the floor.

Mr. LaLanne, who once set a world record by doing 1,000 push-ups in 23 minutes, still does push-ups as part of his daily workout. Now he balances his feet and each hand on three chairs.

“That way I can go way down, even lower than if I was on the floor,” he said. “That’s really tough.”

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By Mike Adams
Obese, diabetic mice whose diet was supplemented with an extract of cacao liquor demonstrated a significant reduction in blood sugar levels in a Japanese study reported in the journal Nutrition.

“The dietary intake of food or drinks produced from cacao beans might be beneficial in preventing the onset of Type 2 diabetes,” the study’s authors wrote.

Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body becomes desensitized to the sugar-regulating hormone insulin. Type 1 diabetes is caused by an actual deficiency of insulin due to low production by the body. Both lead to high blood sugar levels (hyperglycemia).

An estimated 7 percent of the U.S. population – 21 million people – have been diagnosed with diabetes. The American Diabetes Association further estimates that 6.2 million people remain undiagnosed and another 41 million are prediabetic.

Researchers supplemented the diets of obese, diabetic mice with either 0, 0.5 or 1.0 percent cacao liquor proanthocyanidins (CLPr) – containing 72 percent polyphenols – for three weeks. They found that blood sugar was reduced in direct correlation with the dosage of CLPr.

Proanthocyanidins are a type of flavonoid, a plant chemical known to have antioxidant properties. Previous studies have found evidence that eating flavonoid-rich chocolate reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease. The current study, however, is the first to record an effect of cacao chemicals on blood sugar levels.

The one percent dose given to the mice would be the equivalent of a human consuming 5 grams of polyphenols per day. This could be achieved by eating 2.5 kilograms of normal chocolate, or 100 grams of flavonol-rich chocolate. However, those considering experimenting with this technique should note that eating sugared chocolate could easily negate any benefits of the flavonoids in the cacao.

Much of the research on the health benefits of flavonols – but not the current study – has been funded by confectionary giant Mars, Inc.

“It is important that consumers realize even though cacao itself may be useful for stabilizing blood sugar, most chocolate products actually contain refined sugar as a sweetening ingredient,” explained Mike Adams, author of How to Halt Diabetes in 25 Days. “Eating sugar along with chocolate is not very smart, especially for someone suffering from diabetes or other blood sugar disorders. I recommend raw, unprocessed, unsweetened cacao, which is extremely bitter and highly medicinal,” Adams said. Raw cacao may be purchased at raw food retailers such as www.RawFoods.com or www.RawGuru.com

Here’s the Truth About Curing Your Diabetes!

Welcome to the down-to-Earth guide on beating type-2 diabetes. Five years ago, I used to be borderline diabetic. I weighed 220 pounds, suffered from severe carbohydrate cravings, mood swings, and depression. Using the very same natural health strategies revealed here, I beat diabetes and hyperinsulinemia and today maintain a steady blood sugar level of 87, without drugs or insulin.

Halting diabetes is quite straightforward using basic biochemical cause and effect. It’s relatively easy to explain. The only reason people don’t beat their diabetes is because: 1) they don’t know about this information, and 2) organized medicine doesn’t teach anybody this information. Drug companies would much prefer to keep you dependent on insulin and diabetes drugs. The moment you beat this disease, they lose a customer.

It’s proven: Diabetes can be reversed. According to a groundbreaking new study completed by researchers at UCLA and other California universities, changes in diet and moderate exercise actually reverse diabetes in at least 50% of patients in only three weeks! In only three weeks time, the amount of cholesterol and free radicals in the test subjects’ blood was lower and their nitric oxide levels were higher, which are all factors in stopping diabetes before it takes its toll on limbs and life. (Did you know that diabetes is the number one cause of leg amputations in the United States?)

Just one strategy revealed here utterly eliminates the need for insulin in 70% of diabetic patients. Other strategies described in this guide halt blood sugar swings, reduce stress on your pancreas, and help return your body to its normal, healthy state of blood sugar management.

You’ll not only beat diabetes: what you’re about to learn in this guide will also stave off heart disease, protect your brain and nervous system, and result in the natural reduction of excess body fat. These are just a few of the positive, health-promoting side effects of what you’ll learn in this guide.

How I discovered the truth about diabetes
My name is Mike Adams, and I’m known as the Health Ranger. I’m the primary contributor to a natural health news network that now reaches over half a million readers each month. I’ve written over 1,500 articles on health, nutrition and disease prevention, and I’ve dedicated over 5,000 hours of my life to studying the true underlying causes of disease and health.

In that time, I learned that organized medicine never teaches people how to prevent or reverse diabetes. Our entire medical system is geared to treating or “managing” this so-called disease, but never in helping people be free from it.

And yet, as I learned, being free from diabetes isn’t rocket science. By applying a few key natural health principles – and changing some core habits – any person can prevent or even reverse this metabolic disorder. If everyone applied this information, diabetes could be wiped out virtually overnight. We can beat this disease, all around the world, based on what we know right now!

Yet you’ll never hear the truth from doctors, drug companies or even diabetes organizations. Our nation’s best-known diabetes organization is, in fact, funded by soft drink companies. The president of that organization is on the record stating that sugar consumption doesn’t even promote diabetes. How’s that for denial? It’s all a system of corruption and Big Business, and you – the diabetes patient – keep paying the price.

Now for some straight talk

If you’re tired of being financially exploited by doctors and drug companies while you suffer from this entirely reversible disease – and you’re ready to be free of diabetes for the rest of your life – you’re ready to read How to Halt Diabetes In 25 Days.

In this guide, you’ll hear straight, uncensored talk on what really causes diabetes. Plus, you’ll learn precisely how to reverse this metabolic condition in under a month by applying specific strategies that require no drugs, no surgery, and no crazy gimmicks.

It’s all based on 100% proven natural health strategies that will enhance your total health while simultaneously beating diabetes.
Revealed inside How to Halt Diabetes in 25 Days:

• The complete, 25-day, step-by-step guide to halting type-2 diabetes.
• How simple food changes have eliminated insulin injections for 70% of diabetics.
• The shocking truth of why half of all limb amputations in America are caused by diabetes.
• Why the American Diabetes Association won’t tell you the truth about what causes diabetes.
• The 78 destructive metabolic consequences of eating sugar.
• Why diabetes is really a metabolic disorder, not a disease, and how it can be halted in 25 days or less.
• How to get off insulin for the rest of your life.
• The one trace mineral that’s almost always missing from the diets of diabetics (and where you can find it).
• How the main food that causes diabetes also promotes the growth of cancer tumors.
• Which grocery store foods contain hidden sugars that promote diabetes and high blood sugar.
• Why the consumption of healthy oils is crucial to halting diabetes for life.
• How food manufacturers try to deceive you by making unhealthy foods appear healthy.
• Why diabetic prescription drugs are useless, and what to use instead.
• The one common cause of diabetes, mood swings and irritability.
• Why our nation is headed for a diabetic epidemic.
• All about “sticky blood” – which foods cause it, and why it can literally kill you.
• Which foods deplete your body of nutrients and leave you defenseless against cancer.
• Details on the hidden chemical solvent in white flour that directly causes diabetes.
• The real story on diabetes and exercise: why you need it, and how transforms your biochemistry.
• How simple nutritional supplements can erase your carbohydrate cravings.
• … and much more.
Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed

Does the information in this guide really work? I’m so confident it will work for you that if you aren’t satisfied with this information for any reason, you can return this book for a full refund (minus shipping, if applicable) any time for a full 30 days.

In other words, this information will produce results or you don’t pay a dime. Plus, you get a full month to make up your mind. It’s the kind of guarantee you’ll never get from a drug company, nor a doctor, nor a hospital. That’s because their advice rarely makes you healthier. With conventional medicine, you just keep getting sicker and sicker, while taking more prescription drugs year after year. Ever notice how that scam works? If their medicine really worked, why don’t you feel any better?

In contrast, this information really works. It’s guaranteed to get you off insulin for life. Of course, you have to actually follow the information. You can’t just read it and expect a miracle transformation. You have to use it to experience the tremendous health-enhancing results.

This isn’t some miracle cure

If all this sounds too good to be true, let me remind you that this is no effortless, miracle cure. It requires the application of specific health strategies that you will no doubt find challenging in terms of breaking old habits. And not everybody can accomplish this in 25 days. For most people, in fact, it will take longer. For some, it may take 25 weeks! But as long as you’re making forward progress, that’s what counts. And with this guide, you’ll have all the information you need to keep making forward progress, day after day, bringing you one step closer to a life without this devastating disease. It’s not important how long it takes… what’s important is that now you have the key to halting your diabetes. This is the information you never received from conventional medicine.

Imagine: you can have a new future, a new body, a new mind, and a whole new you! You can have a life without prescription drugs, without insulin injections, and without those frustrating blood sugar tests. I’ll bet your fingertips deserve a break from that, huh?
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• How pancakes strip your body of vitamins and minerals.
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• How bacon contains a chemical preservative that’s one of the most powerful cancer-causing chemicals ever detected in the food supply!
• The problem with cow’s milk and why it’s a perfect food for baby cows, but nutritionally disastrous for human beings.
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• The seven reasons why the standard American breakfast causes widespread illness and disease.
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• How to make this breakthrough breakfast in two minutes flat, with no cooking required.
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Adapted from an article by christian
Impotence or Erectile Dysfunction, is one of the most feared medical conditions by men today. It’s a psychologically debilitating condition that often leads to the breakup of many relationships. The sad part about it is that many relationships end at no one’s fault – Erectile Dysfunction often has purely physical causes that are in no way any indication of a man’s feelings for his partner.
But what causes Erectile Dysfunction?
Experts aren’t sure, but they’ve come up with causes such as sedentary lifestyles, a family history of heart disease, diabetes, and even smoking. They go on to suggest that drastic changes in lifestyle is necessary to cure Erectile Dysfunction. It’s actually simpler than all that.
Erectile Dysfunction has two primary causes – physical and emotional:
# Physical causes may be rooted in weak or damaged muscles around the pubic area, inadequate physical conditioning, or a lack of oxygen in the body, among others.
#Emotional causes may consist of built-up stress, anger, anxiety, or other negative energies coursing through your psyche.
With all these bad vibes going through your system, it’s a given that some bodily function has got to suffer. Sadly, it’s their sexual function.
How do you know if your Erectile Dysfunction is caused by either or both underlying causes?
As a simple rule of thumb – if it’s easy for you to get hard while doing yourself, or when it’s already up when you wake up, then your Erectile Dysfunction probably has no underlying physical causes. On the other hand, it means that something is bothering you.
There are certain exercises which can cure your Erectile Dysfunction completely and for good by addressing these two underlying causes. It won’t make you go through big changes in your lifestyle – the exercises are short, simple, and enjoyable.
Certainly – these exercises are fun to do. I’ll bet you she’ll think so, too. Perhaps the best thing about these exercises is that it addresses physical and emotional problems that are the roots of not only Erectile Dysfunction, but a host of other health conditions that keep you from enjoying life to the fullest.
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• Make passionate love for hours on end
• Give your woman the orgasm of a life time.

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Your body is approximately 70 percent water, and water is the environment within which all of your other nutrients function. Dehydration, or the loss of body water, can disturb cardiovascular function, cell metabolism, and temperature regulation. In general, dehydration leading to body weight losses of only 2 percent may lead to decreases in aerobic endurance capacity.
The body must continuously be in a proper state of hydration. Because 2.5 liters of water is lost each day through normal bodily functions, this must be replaced. There are two major issues that emphasize the need to keep the body adequately hydrated with water of the best quality, content, and structure so it can maintain homeostasis. First, the water we put in our body must be able to prevent toxins and chemical substances from accumulating and creating destructive influences on cells. Water must bring all minerals and nutrients required for cell metabolism, and remove any substances that can damage the cell. It must also be able to protect cell walls from damage and invasion. Second, since water is involved in every function of the body, it must act as a conductor of electrochemical activity, such as neurotransmission, by moving water from one nerve cell to another smoothly and effectively.
Increasing interest in Cold drinks among youngsters must be viewed in the light of following comparison of WATER VS COKE

Water vs. Coke
Comparison

Water
• 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. (Likely applies to half world population)
• In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often mistaken for hunger.
• Even MILD dehydration will slow down one’s metabolism as much as 3%.
• One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost
100% of the dieters studied in a U-Washington study.
• Lack of water, the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
• Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.
• A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page.
• Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less likely to develop baldder cancer
Are you drinking the amount of water you should every day?

COKE
• In many states (in the USA) the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the truck to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.
• You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in two days.
• To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the “real thing” sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.
• To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.
• To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.
• To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.
• To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan, wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for asumptuous brown gravy.
• To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.

For Your Info
• The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about 4 days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase in osteoporosis.
• To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must use the Hazardous material place cards reserved for Highly corrosive materials.
The distributors of coke have been using it to clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years! Now the question is, would you like a glass of water or coke?

Courtesy: http://www.snyderhealth.com

Shoppingjobs has been launched to locate people who want to find work in the “Mystery Shopping” field. By joining, you will receive instant access to a database absolutely loaded with companies who are willing to pay you to evaluate establishments in exchange for financial compensation!
Many people have made this a full time job, while others prefer part time. You decide on what assignments you want to take. Many shoppers are earning between $10 and $40 per hour just for having fun! This is perfect for Stay at home moms, college students as well as the retired!!
This opportunity is not limited to just women. Many men have been successful mystery shoppers!!
You can start immediately! Most companies will send assignments right to your email inbox! Just register with as many companies as you like and wait for job offers to pour in! Then, select the jobs you want and email or call them! You can make UNLIMITED Income! It is that easy!
This is so awesome! Just take the assignments you want and get paid! Listen to this.. how would you like a free cruise or how about going to an amusement park for the day FREE plus get your concession costs reimbursed PLUS get paid! This is VERY MUCH possible by joining our program!
Bring your children along too! Many of the companies are looking for people with children to Mystery Shop! They need to know how children are being treated or accommodated and what better way to do this but by hiring YOU!
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Research out of Otago and Oxford Universities in New Zealand indicates that having LASIK surgery can lead to permanent problems with vision over the long term.
More specifically, it appears that having laser surgery for near-sightedness (myopia) may lead to excessive glare, haze, and blurred vision as people enter their 7th and 8th decades of life.
What follows is a simplified explanation of why researchers have come to this conclusion:
During LASIK surgery for near-sightedness, the tissues of the eye are cut and vaporized to flatten the central region of the cornea.
The potential problem with flattening the cornea is abnormal movement of the cells of the cornea.
Normally, the cells of the cornea move in a way that results in the formation of a pigmented line (called the Hudson-Stahli line) that forms somewhere below the pupil. This pigmented line tends to thicken with age, and can eventually begin scattering incoming light, which can lead to glare, haze, and blurred vision. But because this line is usually formed below the pupil, it doesn’t tend to cause significant problems with vision, even when the line thickens as a part of the normal, degenerative changes that occur over many years.
After LASIK surgery, the movement of the cells of the cornea are affected in a way that increases the chance of the Hudson-Stahli line forming in front of the pupil. In such cases, as this line begins to thicken with age, glare, haze, and blurred vision become inevitable.At this point, it is impossible to predict how many recipients of LASIK surgery are going to experience this problem as they get older.
Given the lack of data on potential long term dangers of having LASIK surgery, I think it’s wise to avoid it, at least for now.
You can improve your vision without surgery by taking good care of your overall health. When I underwent a two-week water fast back in 1999, I noticed significant improvement in my vision - not enough for me to throw away my glasses, but enough for me to realize that emotional stress, lack of physical rest, and sub-optimal food choices can all contribute to poor vision.
There are several expensive “natural restoration of vision” programs on the market today. As far as I can tell, most of these programs are variations of the Bates method, a simple program that outlines specific eye exercises and offers dietary and lifestyle suggestions that are aimed at optimally supporting all of the organs associated with vision.
You can learn about the Bates method for free by doing a Google search on it. A quick search on Amazon.com will turn up several inexpensive books that offer excellent guidance on how to exercise and take good overall care of your eyes and vision.
Two books on this topic that I have read and can recommend are:
The Bates Method for Better Eyesight Without Glasses
and
Relearning to See: Improve Your Eyesight - Naturally!

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Meditation is said to be a great stress reducer.
The first significant studies, in the ’60s and ’70s, proved that meditators could get themselves so deep into trances that they wouldn’t react when they were prodded and burned. Another study showed that meditators, unlike marksmen, didn’t flinch at the sound of a gunshot. And a Harvard Medical School professor studied 36 meditators and found that they used 17% less oxygen, lowered their heart rates by three beats a minute, and increased their theta brain waves – the ones that appear right before sleep – without slipping into actual sleep. A later Harvard test showed that the EEGs of meditators were significantly different than those of a control group.
Later studies became more sophisticated with brain imaging. One study showed that the brain doesn’t shut off when it meditates but rather blocks information from coming into a certain portion of it – the parietal lobe. Another study showed that meditation slows blood flow to all portions of the brain but the limbic system, which generates emotions and memories and regulates heart rate, respiratory rate, and metabolism.
For 30 years, meditation research has told us that it works beautifully as an antidote to stress,” says Daniel Goleman, author of “Destructive Emotions.” “But what’s exciting about the new research is how meditation can train the mind and reshape the brain.” Tests using imaging techniques suggest that it can actually reset the brain, changing the point at which a traffic jam, for instance, sets the blood boiling.
Good news: You don’t need a guru, weird clothes, or a monastery to meditate. It’s pretty simple:
1. Find a quiet place and turn out the lights.
2. Close your eyes.
3. Inhale slowly and deeply through your nose.
4. As you exhale (slowly), say a word or phrase that has a soothing sound.
5. Repeat.
Start with 10-minute sessions. If desired, increase gradually.

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By Shane “The People’s Chemist” Ellison

Millions of American’s suffer from fatigue. Their energy levels are so low that they require a pot of coffee to crawl out of bed. When afternoon hits, caffeine rich energy drinks flow freely to keep up at work. By evening, exhaustion sets in and it’s straight to bed – only to repeat the lethargic process tomorrow. This isn’t how the body was meant to operate.

Massive amounts of energy can be had without “fatigue masking” substances. Once possessed, anything is possible. Your energy will be the fuel behind your life’s most important projects, thoughts, creativity and relationships. It’s what the best athletes and entrepreneurs in the world are made of. And to get it, you have to adhere to three energy building requirements.

First, replace carbohydrate consumption with healthy fats three times per day. I’m not talking about heart disease causing-trans fats and vegetable oils. I’m talking about Mother Nature’s energy boosting fats like whole eggs, grass fed beef, coconut oil, seeds, nuts and avocados, just to name a few. Unlike carbohydrates, consuming healthy fat does not cause a spike in the fatigue causing, fat storing hormone insulin. But even better, it exponentially increases the production of a molecule known as ATP. ATP is the master energy and strength producing molecule within the body. The more you have, the better you perform.

A single fat molecule can produce a whopping 129 molecules of ATP. In contrast, if you are not consuming enough healthy fat the body is forced to utilize an inferior source of ATP production - carbohydrates. A single carbohydrate molecule produces a paltry 38 molecules of ATP! Do the math – fat yields more than three times the energy as a carbohydrate!

Second, ensure that your body has sufficient amounts of acetyl-L-carnitine (ACLAR). This essential molecule acts as a chaperone to fat. It works by carrying it to our energy furnace – the mitochondria. Without ALCAR, fat remains stored – usually in the belly – and you grow tired. The best way to obtain this energizing molecule is from your own “internal pharmacy.”

The human body makes ALCAR from the amino acids lysine and methionine. The best sources of these essential building blocks are spinach and whey isolate. Consuming these daily ensures that your internal pharmacy is pumping out plenty of ALCAR for your much needed energy - mental and physical.

The Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics recently highlighted the effectiveness of ALCAR among the elderly. They showed that ALCAR was successful at boosting both mental and physical energy among those over 70 years old.

Finally, replace sugary energy drinks with water, green tea or yerba mate. Each one of these health drinks mobilizes fat into the bloodstream to ensure energy production. Green tea and yerba mate can also boost mood and serve as a great pre and post exercise drink.

As these requirements become habit, expect a life filled with sustained energy. Say goodbye to the highs and lows associated with the use of fatigue masking substances. And regardless of your age, say hello to a new found energy that will fuel success in all areas of your life.

About the Author
Shane Ellison holds a master’s degree in organic chemistry and has first-hand experience in drug design. After abandoning his career as a medical chemist, he dedicated himself to stopping prescription-drug hype. He is an internationally recognized authority on therapeutic nutrition and author of Health Myths Exposed, The Hidden Truth about Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs and The AM-PM Fat Loss Discovery.

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Michele Malaguarnera, Maria Pia Gargante, Erika Cristaldi, Valentina Colonna, Masa Messano, Aleardo Koverech, Sergio Neri, Marco Vacante, Lisa Cammalleri and Massimo Motta. Acetyl l-carnitine (ALC) treatment in elderly patients with fatigue. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics. Received 24 October 2006; revised 15 March 2007; accepted 22 March 2007.

by Alison McCook NEW YORK (Reuters Health)
People with diabetes can help keep their bodies healthy by simply adding a dash of spice to their diet, new research reports. In a study, diabetics who incorporated one gram – equivalent to less than one-quarter teaspoon – of cinnamon per day for 40 days into their normal diets experienced a decrease in levels of blood sugar, cholesterol and blood fats. And for people with diabetes, the less of those substances in the body, the better. Type 2 diabetes arises when the body loses sensitivity to insulin, a hormone that shuttles the sugars from food into body cells to be used for energy. As a result, the amount of sugar, or glucose, in the blood remains high, leading to fatigue and blurred vision. Over the long term, excess blood glucose can increase the risk of heart disease, kidney failure and blindness. The current findings suggest that a small amount of cinnamon can help protect diabetics from these and other potential complications of their condition, study author Dr. Richard A. Anderson of the Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center in Maryland told Reuters Health. Diabetics could add a dash of cinnamon to their morning servings of coffee, orange juice or cereal, Anderson noted. “You can also make a cinnamon tea by simply boiling water with stick cinnamon,” he suggested. Anderson noted that cinnamon may also help stave off the onset of type 2 diabetes in people at risk of the condition. He added that cinnamon contains some substances that can be toxic in high amounts, so people should be sure not to get too much of a good thing. “Certainly, a gram per day is not a high amount,” he reassured. During the study, Anderson and his colleagues asked 60 people with type 2 diabetes to consume 1, 3, or 6 grams of cinnamon each day for 40 days, or the equivalent amount of wheat flour, as a placebo. Both the cinnamon and wheat flour were administered in capsule form. Reporting in the journal Diabetes Care, Anderson and his team found that all cinnamon-takers experienced a drop in blood levels of glucose, fats and cholesterol by up to 30 percent. No change was seen in the people taking placebo capsules. Anderson explained that cinnamon contains compounds that help make insulin more efficient, improving the hormone’s ability to bring glucose to the cells that need it. As an added bonus, cinnamon contains virtually no calories, Anderson said, allowing diabetics to add zest to their meals without adding to their waistlines. Cinnamon contains less than 3 calories per gram, “negligible in the total dietary intake,” Anderson said. Previous research has shown that cinnamon appears to help fat cells recognize and respond to insulin. In test tube and in animal studies, the spice increased glucose metabolism by about 20 times.

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SOURCE: Diabetes Care, December 2003

Wise Online Entrepreneurs know that the best selling products online are health products and health-related ebooks, books, tapes, newsletter subscriptions, etc.

Now World famous Dr. Suzanne Gudakunst has just released her latest “shocker!” that makes it possible for just about anyone to profit from this fact.

She’s making it possible for someone to get a fully-operational online “store” that specializes in “health-related” goods and services.

Literally now anyone can get a complete Internet “health” business in a box!

This complete website has a main product as well as up to 17 separate products that all center around breakthrough health products. And where YOU can earn some really HUGE CASH!

It seems that Dr. Suzanne has really done her homework (especially for YOUR benefit!)

First she correctly determined that according to Forrester Research (which is perhaps the most powerful & accurate online research database to date!) “health-related” products and information is by far the most sought after things anywhere online.

Nope! – Despite what you might have thought, “sex,” “porn,” and “UFOs” are NOT the most searched for items on the Internet (but “health stuff” is hands down!)

Second, Dr. Suzanne’s “Top Secret Fat Loss Secret” shook the entire World with its release recently - and she’s even made a special lead-capture page that you also get central to this amazing site!

Why is this important?

Simple: because Dr. Suzanne’s affiliates are making millions right now with what is perhaps one of ClickBank’s HOTTEST products (and this same product is the central seller at your new health e-Biz site!)

Third, the site you get also acts as a “database” that never stops growing so that you get 10,000’s of customers you can continue to sell to over and over again other things!

Why is this important?

Again, very simple: anyone who’s wise online knows that “backend” sales are chief to making long term and extra profits!

Dr. Suzanne’s NEW “Health Biz In a Box” complete and fully-operational website you get for next to nothing contains an electronic “Automatic Sales Manager” (like a salesman robot - Ha!) built-in that works to upsell to your list over and over again so that you enjoy additional “automatic” income!

Fourth, Dr. Suzanne health-biz site also includes a complete health-related products Shopping Mall so that your site visitors stopping by are likely to buy at least 1 to up to 17 additional products creating instantly for you up to over a dozen other income streams!

This way you get the “most bang for your buck” so to speak!

As if all this weren’t enough, the fifth (and perhaps the very best) thing about this automatic seller is the tiny spokesmodel “Rachel” that literally walks out onto your Health-Biz site and guides your site visitors (like a tour guide) through your entire site and what it has to offer!

Dr. Suzanne carefully tested the site both WITH and WITHOUT “Rachel” and accurately determined that the addition of “Rachel” boosted sites sales by as much as 396% (meaning nearly 4 times as many sales!)

Dr. Suzanne believes that having the spokesmodel adds credibility as well as an informative approach to the site so that it generates a much higher “conversion-to-sales” ration at large.

And ALL these amazing features stand to make YOU very, very rich as you get all of them with your own “Health Biz In a Box” website!

If any of this floats your boat, then I highly recommend you get over to:

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…and because rumor has it that Dr. Suzanne may put a ceiling on the number of these Internet “health-biz” sites she’s giving out in order to avoid everyone having one and risking market saturation.

Already people securing theirs have had nothing but great things to say about this:

“I’m so happy with mine! … Having this site professionally set up by Dr. Suzanne’s Team for us was the greatest thing we ever did! … the site literally is just pouring money into our pockets even while we’re doing other things, vacationing, and even crashing out!”
-Cynthia Conrad, Atlanta, Georgia

“I never knew that making money online could be so easy!”
-Richard Bosworth, SLC, Utah

“Health stuff is the real way to make money online easily … everybody sooner or later has to have it!”
-Carla Dupree, Boise, Idaho

“I’m making about $6,000 a week with mine … and this after failing on the Net for nearly 10 years trying to sell everything else!”
-Jason Herman, San Dimas, CA

“$500 a day is what this biz is shoving in my pocket! I even went out of town for nearly two weeks and my health biz site completely ran itself!”
-Michael Sorbowski, Mason, Ohio

As you can see by these people’s comments, everyone grabbing their own automatic health-products Internet business is raking in the cash! (And now you can too!)

Just grab yours now simply by going to:

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I guess I should have added above that not only do you get all the things I’ve described thus far, but you also get professional customized set up at no extra charge!

That’s right! - Dr. Suzanne’s own Team of web experts actually build your “Health Biz” for you so you don’t have to!

They:

- design your site
- put all the 17 income streams into place
- install the electronic sales manager for you
- add sharp selling graphics
- add powerful videos
- add several other webpages
- and a complete online shopping mall of health products!

All so that you can earn big income online and while you sell product that help people and that you can be very proud to sell.

So all in all this is perhaps one of the BEST instant online ventures worth your time.

Get your now before the ceiling number is reached and maxed out…

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-Ajit Kumar

Adopted from the article by Suzanne Barston, Gina Kemp, M.A., and Robert Segal, M.A.,
I had very bad reputation of SNORING. Usually no body liked to share a room with me during my college days because I never allowed my partners to sleep. I took it lightly but after getting married, my wife used to complain which forced me to pay an urgent attention. Now my wife has stopped complaining. Certainly she has not adjusted with my snoring; rather I have improved upon my snoring problems. My snores are very mild so she finds it a meditation mantra.
SNORING is normally caused when the airways in the nose and throat get narrower during sleep therefore the breath during inhaling and exhaling needs little force to push it. The air vibrates the loose tissues at the back of the throat causing sound which we call – snores. The snores could be mild or severe.
The snorers are continuously being asked to reduce snoring but it cannot be controlled voluntarily. There could be number of reasons for a person to snore. It could be because of breathing problems like Asthma, sinus, or bad throat. Habitual smoker, obese or middle-aged people have narrower throats, therefore once the person sleeps the snoring starts.
The snore disturbs the sleep of the partner but it becomes more disturbing when the person himself cannot sleep properly. Snoring can affect both the physical and social intimacies of a relationship. The constant sleep disruption and excessive tiredness caused by noisy snoring often creates problems. Sleep partners of heavy snorers awaken over twenty times per hour, which severely cuts into the quality and quantity of their sleep.
Many partners of snorers decide to sleep in separate rooms, and the resulting lack of bedtime chatting and physical intimacy can lead to a strained relationship. The snorer often becomes isolated and frustrated about a problem they seemingly have no control over.
In extreme cases, snoring can cause reduced oxygen flow to the brain, which can lead to Type II Diabetes, high blood pressure, hypertension, stroke, and heart disease.
Chronic snorers are often middle-aged and overweight, and snoring may indicate a more serious underlying medical problem. If you are a severe snorer, see a doctor so you can rule out any serious health problems that are a result of or a cause of the snoring.
Snoring can also be a symptom of sleep apnea, which can be life-threatening. While snoring is caused by narrow airways, sleep apnea is a true breathing obstruction, which requires the sleeper to awaken to begin breathing again. A person with sleep apnea wakes up many times a night to regain breathing, but usually remembers nothing at all about the awakenings. The sleep partner of a person with sleep apnea usually remembers the awakenings and is generally a good witness of the incidents.
Snoring is a common symptom of sleep apnea, but snoring by itself does not involve the cessation of breathing.
Mild snoring that isn’t related to sleep apnea responds well to home remedies. Finding a cure for your snoring problem can result in an improved quality of life for you and your loved ones. Try some of the self-help tips below to prevent or alleviate your snoring:
# If you feel that you have excessive weight, try to reduce it. Give up smoking, in case that is in your habit.
# Pranayam exercises have been giving very good results.:
i) Deep breathing-inhale and exhale for two minutes,
ii) Inhaling from left nostril and exhaling from the right nostril. Then inhaling from right nostril and exhaling from left nostril. In either case keep the other nostril pressed by index finger/thumb. This exercise has to be repeated continuously for three minutes. See the results after 30 days, there are all chances of the snoring getting milder.
#If you sleep on your back, you are probably exacerbating your snoring problem - in this sleeping position, the soft tissues in the back of your throat (including your tongue) are more prone to slide backwards, blocking your airway. If you are a mild snorer, switching to sleeping on your side might cure your snoring altogether.
# An even better solution is to elevate the head of your bed four inches, which may make breathing easier and encourage your tongue and jaw to move forward. Elevating the entire head of the bed is better than using a pillow, which can crimp the neck and contribute to snoring. Placing rolled up towels under the head of the mattress is an easy way to change the angle of the mattress.
# Having a stuffy nose makes inhalation difficult, which in turn creates a vacuum in your throat, and noisy breathing. In fact, people who seldom snore often find themselves snoring quite loudly when suffering from allergies or a cold.
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Fitness Exercises
Five Secret Tibetan Rejuvenation Rites

Practicing the Five Tibetan Rejuvenation Rites isn’t the same thing as jogging five miles every morning – no question about that.
You see, unlike jogging, when you do the rites,
* You don’t have to set aside 30-60 minutes every day;
* You don’t have to suffer with sore muscles;
* You don’t have to purchase expensive equipment;
*You don’t even have to work up a drippy sweat!
Instead, you work at a gentle pace that fits your current shape and gradually build up to doing 21 repetitions of each of the five simple exercises every day.
Some people do the rites immediately upon rising;
Others practice the five rites during their lunch break as a fabulous pick-me-up that carries them through the afternoon hours when everyone else in the office is slumping like crazy;
Some people breeze through their daily reps of the exercises when they get home from work;
Visit this site to know more about Tibetan Rites:
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Few Comments:
I have experienced and experimented with dozens of movement therapies, exercise routines and the like for many, many years. The five rites is by far the most effective; with the most results in the least amount of time.
I particularly like your addition, and the added meditation has really helped me to connect with my inner teacher.
For the year, while in school I didn’t have time to go to yoga classes, or do physical activities, but 15 minutes doing the five rites rejuvenates me, and people often ask me what I do “to be in such good shape". The only thing I can attribute to the muscle tone and definition, increased stamina and flexibility is the five rites; I haven’t done anything else. I’ve also noticed that it completely revitalizes me when I’ve gone a night without sleep.
I cannot recommend a practice more highly than the five rites. I recommend it to all my clients.
As long as you practice them, building slowly day by day, it’s a purchase you won’t regret. There is no false advertising here. Thank you Chet! I really appreciate you sharing this knowledge with us.
Katrina
Santa Monica, CA

I’m still doing the Tibetan Rites regularly. Since I last wrote to you, here’s what happened:
# My energy continues to increase;
# My muscles have definition they never had before;
# I lost 20 lbs. effortlessly;
# My right arm – which I broke five years ago and couldn’t straighten – is almost normal, having straightened by 10-15 degrees!
# I now have greater ability to work and have been getting a few jobs.
Heidi G.
Linden, NJ

Most important steps to reduce your risk of developing diabetes.

1. Regularly engage in some form of exercise that builds and/or maintains your muscle mass. Muscle tissue has significant capacity to store excess blood sugar in the form of glycogen. Simply put, the more muscle you have, the more capacity you have to “soak up” excess blood sugar and maintain a healthy blood sugar level. This is one of the biggest benefits to doing some resistance training on a regular basis.

2. Be active! The more you move your body throughout the day, the more sugar your cells need to burn up to produce energy.

3. Reduce or eliminate your intake of the following most common, sugar-rich foods in today’s grocery stores:
o Pop (soda)
o Doughnuts
o Pastries
o Conventional store-bought cookies, cakes, and muffins
o Conventional chocolate/candy bars
o Many boxed breakfast cereals

4. Eat magnesium-rich foods on a regular basis.
Studies conducted by researchers from Harvard University and published in the January 2004 issue of the journal Diabetes Care indicate that consistent intake of magnesium-rich foods can significantly lower your risk of developing diabetes. Healthy magnesium-rich foods include:
o Brown rice
o Raw almonds
o Spinach
o Swiss chard
o Lima beans
o Avocado
o Raw peanuts
o Raw hazelnuts
o Okra
o Black-eyed peas

5. Consider consuming prickly pear cactus, called nopal in Mexico. Nopal is a natural plant that is grown throughout Mexico and the southwestern United States, and has been shown through several studies to be effective at promoting optimal blood sugar levels.
If you follow the measures described above, you can confidently expect to reduce your risk of developing diabetes and improve your overall health.

One-quarter teaspoon – of cinnamon per day for 40 days consumed in any form can decrease the levels of blood sugar, cholesterol and blood fats. Cinnamon contains compounds that help make insulin more efficient, improving the hormone’s ability to bring glucose to the cells that need it.

Add a little pinch of cinnamon to the morning servings of coffee, orange juice or cereal, Make a cinnamon tea by simply boiling water with stick cinnamon. Cinnamon may also help stave off the onset of type 2 diabetes in people at risk of the condition.

Yoga Exercise:
Kneel down on the hard mattress. Sit on your heals and join both fists(with thumbs inside the fists), and put it on your navel. Exhale your breath and bend your upper body to touch your knees. Maintain your eyes wide open looking straight forward. Wait for 15seconds, raise your body back. Repeat this exercise three times. This exercise will improve the working of your pancreas.

Article has inputs-courtesy Dr. Ben Kim

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Sciatica nerve runs between spinal chord and end of each heel. Its pain is unbearable.

The pain in normally felt between hips and heels. Sometimes it also causes numbness. Reasons for this problem could be many but more important is to give faster relief to the patient.

Immediate pressure must be given on the following points:
(a) Below the heel
(b) On second and third toe of the affected foot.
© Around the ankles of affected leg.
(d) On the back side of leg upto 5″ height from the base of the heel.
(e) Along the Fourth channel on feet and back of palm.
(f) Make the patient to lie on his stomach. Give deep pressures at the back of both legs and by the side of back bone.
(g) On the side of pelvic bone by elbow.

Regular use of Acupressure plate - twice a day by feet will be a great relief. One must use it 20 - 30 days.

1) No liquid calories (with the exception of a post-workout drink).

Get rid of all the juices, the sodas, and the sports drinks. Liquid sugar is the last thing you need when you are trying to lose fat.

You must also limit your alcohol intake - especially if you are adding mix to drinks…that is a double calorie bomb! A single “Jack and Coke” is over 200 calories (100 calories from booze and 100 calories from mix).

2) No fast food.

Do not eat at fast food restaurants. Even if you choose what you think is healthy, remember this:

Fast food restaurants are all about profit.

And in order to profit while giving you cheap, quick, and easy to prepare foods, the quality of the food ingredients will be poor -especially the protein.

Now you might have read that you can still make healthy choices at fast food restaurants. But you know what, that’s just politically-correct opinion. If it’s fast food, it’s poor food.

Walking into a burger joint and grabbing a chicken breast on a white bread bun with a piece of old lettuce and a half-green, half-pink tomato is “barely” healthy eating.

The politically-incorrect truth is that it’s going to take time and effort to eat properly. You will have to plan, shop, and prepare healthy meals. You will have to spend time cleaning, cutting, and cooking your food. That’s the truth.

But believe me, it will taste so much better than fast food, and healthy eating will make you more alert. Eating fast food will make you feel terrible, and will make you want to have an afternoon nap at your desk.

Make one small improvement to your nutrition everyday for the rest of your life.

3) Eat more fruits and vegetables.

If you are eating 2 servings per day, then go up to 4 servings per day by the end of the week. And even if you think you are doing great by having 5 servings per day, you still need to double that (take 2-3 weeks to work your way up to 10 servings per day).

Stick with fiber-rich fruits and vegetables - organic if possible.

4) Eat 1oz of almonds or walnuts per day (1/2 oz in the AM, and the other half in the afternoon).

Most nuts are roasted in oils (possible source of trans fats), so stick to natural or dry-roasted nuts.

Don’t panic…this small amount of nuts won’t make you fat, but will fill you up and help you lose weight.

5) Be consistent with your workouts.

And make sure the workouts are efficient and effective. To make it easy for you to follow, stick with the Turbulence Training workout system.

It doesn’t matter if you train in the morning before or after breakfast, or at night before or after dinner, or at 1pm on days when the moon is in line with Saturn…don’t worry about the details, just train consistently.

Chocolate: A Health Food? By Jay S. Cohen, M.D.,

I’m a chocolaholic. I’ve been a lover of chocolate in its myriad forms from before I can remember. As a kid, it didn’t get any better than a box of chocolate chip cookies and a glass of milk. So I was intrigued by recent articles about chocolate’s newly discovered health benefits. I’d certainly like to believe that chocolate is good for me. And why not? Even Andrew Weil recommends dark chocolate.
Headline grabbing stories in 2002 about chocolate’s new-found health benefits stemmed from a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.1 The study was small, comprising only 23 subjects, and it was funded by the American Cocoa Research Institute. The abstract (summary) of the article, which is what most people read, stated that cocoa and chocolate, when added to a healthy diet, provided antioxidant benefits and increased the good HDL (high density lipoprotein) cholesterol. One antioxidant benefit was to impede the harmful, atherosclerosis-accelerating oxidation of LDL (low density lipoprotein cholesterol, the bad cholesterol). These were the findings that the media trumpeted.
But a closer look at the article wasn’t quite as encouraging. The authors acknowledged that the beneficial effects from chocolate were small at best. “It is important to note that the clinical significance of these small differences in indexes of oxidation status remain to be clarified.” Meaning that the small differences might have no significance at all. And regarding the so-called benefits of increasing HDL, these weren’t significant, as the researchers noted: “the cocoa-chocolate diet had neutral effects on lipids and lipoproteins.”
“I’d certainly like to believe that chocolate is good for me.
And why not? Even Andrew Weil says so.”

In fact, as if anticipating that this study might be over-hyped, the journal headed the issue with an editorial to put the findings in perspective. In “How good is chocolate?” nutrition expert Paul Nestel noted that plants supply many thousands of healthful substances to the human diet. It is well known that soy, grapes, tea, onions, apples, citrus and many others are rich sources of antioxidants, so it’s not surprising that cocoa contains an antioxidant, too. How important is the antioxidant in chocolate? Nestel questioned the importance of chocolate’s modest effects on LDL oxidation. He further asked, “Given that there are thousands of flavonoids in the foods that we eat … should each new finding be greeted as an encouragement to eat that particular source because it contains a special flavonoid?” 2
“Unfortunately for chocolate lovers, chocolate’s high content of stearic acid puts it in the same category of risk of coronary disease as meat and butter – i.e., pathogenic!” – American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Also not mentioned was that chocolate contains a high amount of stearic acid, a saturated fat, and saturated fats are directly linked to elevated LDL cholesterol levels and to increased risks of coronary artery disease and coronary death. Chocolate supporters claim that stearic acid isn’t like other saturated fats. Yet, in the Nurses’ Health Study Involving more than 80,000 women over 14 years, the saturated fat in chocolate was shown to increase the risk of coronary heart disease by as much or even more than other, proven-harmful saturated fats.3
Stearic acid also appears to reduce the protective HDL and may increase tendencies toward fibrin and plaque deposition in the development of atherosclerosis. Based on these and other findings, a 1999 editorial in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition concluded: “Unfortunately for chocolate lovers, chocolate’s high content of stearic acid puts it in the same category of risk of coronary disease as meat and butter – i.e., pathogenic!"4
Let’s put chocolate’s “benefits” into perspective. First, you can get similar antioxidants from almost any other plant-based foods. Vegetables, fruits, and whole grains are much better sources of antioxidants, and also contain many other healthful nutrients. And unlike chocolate, they won’t increase your waistline with extra calories from sugar and fat.
Just three ounces of Toll House semi-sweet chocolate contain 420 calories, 210 (50%) from fat and 168 (40%) from sugar. And the saturated fat and simple sugar in chocolate are the kinds you want to avoid the most. Indeed, even if cocoa contains some healthful flavonoids, only 10% of the calories of Toll House semi-sweet chocolate come from cocoa. The rest is junk.
Food industry-funded studies notwithstanding, the bottom line on chocolate is this: Chocolate is a terrific food, but it isn’t a health food. Use chocolate – dark chocolate, not milk chocolate – in moderation. Dr. Stephen Sinatra, who is a cardiologist, a colleague, and also a chocolate lover, suggests one ounce of dark chocolate a few times a week. I can live with that.

One ounce of dark chocolate three times a week.
Stephen Sinatra, M.D., cardiologist.
In fact, you can indulge yourself a lot more by using products and recipes that combine cocoa with healthier fats and sweeteners rather than manufactured chocolates. The food industry should work on this. Providing “healthy chocolate” made of cocoa and healthy ingredients would tap a big market of health-conscious chocolate lovers like me. Maybe then I could write a truly enthusiastic article about chocolate.
References
1. Wan, Y, Vinson, JA, Etherton, TD, et al. Effects of cocoa powder and dark chocolate on LDL oxidative susceptibility and prostaglandin concentrations in humans. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Nov. 2001;74:596-602.
2. Nestel, PJ. How good is chocolate? American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Nov. 2001;74:563-4.
3. Hu, FB, Stamp, MJ, Manson, JE, et al. Dietary saturated fats and their food sources in relation to the risk of coronary heart disease in women. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Dec. 1999;70:1001-1008.
4. Connor, WE. Harbingers of coronary heart disease: dietary saturated fatty acids and cholesterol. Is chocolate benign because of its stearic acid content? American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Dec. 1999;70:951-952.
Work of: Jay S. Cohen, M.D., The Free Underground MedicationSense E-Newsletter, July-August 2003, www.MedicationSense.com.

While many of us have an easy time showering other people with love, we find that Cupid has yet to hit us with the “body love” arrow. Don’t wait for Cupid! Begin today to start appreciating, accepting and yes, even loving your body.

Stop picking yourself apart
Let’s face it: No matter how close-to-perfection body you have (and just what is the perfect body anyway?), chances are, there is something you would change about it if you could. Even celebrities and models who have been stamped with the media’s “perfect body” rating have parts they dislike – their feet, their hands, their ears – and they don’t necessarily have high self-esteem either! Rather than pick your body apart, look at your body as a whole (and read the next point…)

Consider the marvelous functions of your body
There are millions of microscopic functions that go on in our bodies every day, and you don’t even have to think about them. They just happen! Unfortunately, it often takes a crisis or a tragedy, such as a brush with death, a go-around with a disease, or a debilitating accident for some women to realize that their bodies weren’t so bad to begin with and that their body hang-ups were a big waste of time. Don’t let that be the case with you! How much time are you spending each day worrying about your weight, your body shape, the size of your rear? What could you be doing during that time? Maybe you’re supposed to be the first female president, but you’ll never know because you’re too busy obsessing about your abs!
Get real
Did you know that most of the images you see on television, movies and magazines aren’t even real? A model for a magazine cover goes through hours of professional hair and make-up, has professional stylists, top photographers who know her “best side,” professional lighting, and that’s all before the chosen photo goes to a company where they remove stray hairs, wrinkles, blemishes and “extra” curves. Sometimes Model A’s head is stuck onto Model B’s body. What you see is totally made up!

And it’s not just fashion magazines that are creating a fantasy. Most of today’s “fitness” magazines are following suit. On top of airbrushing and computer generating their models, fitness magazines now need to audition their models to be sure they’re strong enough to just do basic exercises! Muscles are even airbrushed in! It’s time to get real! Find real role models who emanate the qualities you desire. Educate yourself about what really goes on “behind the scenes.” And realize that no one naturally “glows” the way those models in the magazines do!

Change your inner dialogue
It’s been said that we teach others how to treat us. If we believe that, the message that comes across to others is that we are not worth being liked, loved, or treated with respect. Most of it comes from what we’re not even saying. Choose to believe that you are worth taking care of and that you have the right to be respected and treated with dignity – and act like it!

Take care of your body
Diets, pills, quick-fixes, binging, not exercising, over-exercising, all these things disrespect one of the greatest gifts you have been given – your body! You only get one per lifetime, so give it the respect it deserves. You will not only feel better, but you just might become someone else’s role model!

A new breakthrough secret is all you now need in order to forever shed countless pounds, stay healthy, and add many years to your life!

A lady doctor from Arizona has blown the lid off the best-kept secret in weight loss ever discovered – and this has the whole diet food and drug industries turned upside down and in nothing less than a torrential uproar.

Her name is Dr Suzanne Gudakunst, and she’s marching to the beat of a different drum.

And no, nothing about her “secret” is difficult – nor does it require that you do something completely out of the ordinary or anything unnatural.

Instead, the Arizonian boasts proudly “…this is something that I caught onto just before 2002 when there was so much research and exploration going around concerning the human colon and digestive system working in harmony with nutritional absorption, and I started doing independent studies just to test things at first … but which I later expanded on after seeing some fantastic results.”

This same woman medical practitioner went on to accurately determine a definitive correlation between harmful plague and parasitic infestations of the human bowel tract, and people suffering chronic obesity – and who despite intense diet and exercise appeared to be unable to lose any weight whatsoever.

Over the course of six years the Arizona doctor developed a number of natural treatments for the removal of these same harmful, even life-threatening plaques and rapidly reproducing digestive parasites – and when applied to even worse-case patients suffering extreme obesity (98% of which were in immediate danger of dying) she saw a 100% effectiveness and success rate.

She then borrowed from her research on the severely obese, and applied the same strategies on milder cases of overweight persons – only to find the same effectiveness and quality results as described above (although the individual weight loss per subject wasn’t nearly as much as those obese patients 100 lbs to 200 lbs or more overweight).

So powerful is her secret that she’s able to reverse diabetes, rid illness altogether in people suffering from cancer (linked directly to poor diet and overweight factors), as well as an elimination of an entire spectrum of serious and otherwise life-threatening diseases.

Nearly 100% of all her case subjects were told in the alternative by “conventional doctors” that they either had just months or years to live, or they would never live a life anything resembling remotely a “normal” existence – yet after applying Dr Suzanne’s treatments saw a complete contradiction to others doctors’ prognoses.

Again, nothing about her secret is unnatural or requires someone to do any major action or modification in their lives.

In fact, her entire treatment is based completely on built-into-nature ‘protection agents’ scattered throughout the world in the form of select herbs, extracts, and organic constituents, and which can be found in a variety of plants – but when combined in specific combinations and carefully chosen amounts make for a solution to what is perhaps the world’s worst ever plague: OBESITY (and the illnesses and diseases resulting from it – or at least severely aggravated or exacerbated by it).

Now to everyone else’s great gain, whether suffering from just a few extra pounds and inches, to those extremely fat and overweight, this brave, bold lady doctor is releasing to the general public her secret for forever destroying the tight unrelenting closed-fist of obesity’s stronghold over the now more than 40% of Americans labeled obese, and others worldwide.

But she’s not promising any of us for how long.

Some experts and sociologists suggest that in the bigger scheme of things, the world will never tolerate a discovery of such magnitude, any more than it would be realistic to expect a car that runs on water (even if very real) to ever become commercially available to the general public for day-to-day use.

One well-respected and famous diet & wellness author wrote years ago that if anyone ever “truly unlocked the keys to permanent fat loss, they may actually suffer the same fate as JFK.”

It is currently available at:

…so you may want to head on over there now and get it and before someone or “something” gets it forever yanked out of ever getting in YOUR hand at least.

It’s in a very easily readable format and is quickly and readily understood and mastered by anyone with even a 4th grade reading level.

While you’re there, why not scroll down and review for yourself the huge successes others are now having with this incredible breakthrough in rapid, massive weight loss and extremely improved and enhanced health, now made freely available to the rest of us?

Ajit Kumar