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.

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.

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.

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

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

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Everybody wishes to live longer but healthier.

Rarely do we find people living without any ailment. Most of the people are busy struggling with Hypertension, Diabetes, Heart problem, weaker bones or some other ailment. Their goal of life is to recover faster and better.

Physical activity has been voted as the best factor for longevity. It helps strengthening the bones, the heart and maintaining balance to avoid falls. It is essential for everybody to go for 30-minutes brisk walking for 4 times a week. Stretching and breathing exercises will further boost your body systems.

Get 15 minutes of sun every day (or take 1,000 IU of vitamin D), and take 1,000 mg of calcium. Supplement the calcium with 500 mg of magnesium to avoid constipation. All of this will help promote bone strength as you exercise. Costa Ricans get these benefits naturally: they’re exposed to lots of sun between bursts of rain, which keeps their vitamin D levels high, and they drink hard, mineral-rich water and eat a traditional diet with dairy and legumes that is rich in calcium.

Insufficient vitamin D is our most important vitamin deficiency and is possibly a factor in our high levels of cancer, autoimmune ailments and heart disease. If you live north of a line between Atlanta and Los Angeles, the winter sun is probably too weak to give you the dose of light you require, so you’ll need supplements.

Choose foods that look the same when you eat them as when they come out of the ground. The powerful phytochemicals and micronutrients in whole foods (ones without food labels) support the natural rejuvenating processes of the body.

Obese people, in whom such processes become compromised, tend to die younger in part because of systemic inflammation that occurs as a result of their weight. That leads to elevated blood sugar, lousy LDL-cholesterol levels and high blood pressure. These damage the thin lining of our arteries. The fat also wreaks metabolic disarray that increases cancer rates and leads to joint pain that limits physical activity. Automate your meal choices to create routines that make it easy to eat the right foods. Snacking on healthy foods every few hours helps you avoid hunger and the associated overeating.

Sleep more than seven hours a day. Sleep increases your levels of growth hormone, a critical vitality booster. Half of mature Americans have difficulty sleeping, and all of them may pay a longevity penalty. Try some simple sleep hygiene like dimming the lights 15 minutes before bedtime to stimulate melatonin.

Finally, have a purpose — your family, your work, your community. There may be no better longevity booster than simply wanting to be here. You have one life; it makes sense to love living it.
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Mehmet Oz is the vice chairman and a professor of surgery at Columbia University, a best-selling author and the host of the nationally syndicated television talk show The Dr. Oz Show

Adopted with courtesy from an article by Dr Oz published on 11th Feb,2010 http://www.time.com

In present times, it is our limitation to live in apartments where we have to stay indoors for most of the 24 hours. We go out in the open only during commuting. Even that could be a car, bus or tube.

That results in artificial lights, recycled air to breathe, being out of touch with the nature. It results into nature deficiency. It gives rise to depression, obesity and even to cancer.

Our busy schedules have distanced us from the original taste of the nature.

Just remember the feel of sunlight which helps us to generate Vitamin D. Vitamin D prevents cancer, heart disease and diabetes. It boosts bone density and immune function. It prevents infectious disease far better than vaccines could ever hope to.

The colours of nature are different wavelengths of light striking the retina and being interpreted as colours by your brain. Light is energy, and what your body needs to be healthy is exposure to a diverse assortment of those energy wavelengths. That’s why looking at all the various colours of flowers, plants and animals is, by itself, a healing experience. It also stimulates the brain to become more active and more intelligent. Likewise nothing equals the powerful healing potential of the real sounds experienced directly in the real world.

When you’re in nature, you’re often walking, running, biking or swimming. And yet because the scenery is so beautiful, it doesn’t feel like exercise! It simply feels like fun. The health benefits of all this movement are tremendous: A boost in circulation, increased bone density and muscle strength, increased flexibility, lymph fluid circulation and much more. And yet being in nature allows you to experience all these benefits without it feeling like hard work.

Feel the magic of the bio-energy in nature by coming into physical contact with nature. Walk barefoot. Hug a tree. Touch a flower. Lie down on the grass. Touch nature as your body intended and you’ll create a closed circuit with the planet itself. Some people say that being electrically “grounded” with the earth (through barefoot walking) makes an important difference in reducing the electric “noise” that interferes with your health.

One of the greatest gifts you can offer any child is time in nature. And the earlier you start teaching children about the joys of nature, the more success you’ll have in sharing outdoor experiences with them. Plus, introducing your children (or grandchildren) to more time in nature means that you get more time in nature, too.

Try to experience the nature and stay healthy.

Article adopted with courtesy: http://www.naturalnews.com

“Better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one”

It is an ancient Chinese proverb. It indicates the importance of green tea and its medicinal importance, as realised by the Chinese. They have been using green tea for last 4,000 years.

With the passage of time modern researches are confirming that green tea lowers cholesterol levels and improves the ratio of good cholesterol to bad cholesterol.

Green tea has been found very effective in:
• Reducing headache, depression
• It reduces esophegeal cancer by 60% among Chinese men and women since they consume green tea regularly
• It reduces cholesterol levels
• It helps in improving upon cardiovascular disease infection
• It kills cancer cells without harming healthy tissue
• It controls abnormal formation of blood clots
• Its bacteria-destroying abilities can help prevent food poisoning
• It helps in preventing tooth decay
• It kills the bacteria that causes dental plaque
* Extract of green tea may help treat uterine fibroids

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Anybody can improve his/her health from the present state by increasing the quantity of friendly bacteria in the body system. This bacterium is lined along the digestive tract of the intestines so as to help in the protection of the blood and internal organs against harmful materials.

The benefits may broadly be classified as:
# Improves the digestive system and reduces the build-up of toxic waste
# Improves the immune system by stimulating the production of antibodies in the blood.
# It prevents the infection by fungi and parasites.

Friendly bacterium helps in:
• Easy bowel movements
• Reducing allergy related skin diseases like- acne, eczema and other food related problems
• Reducing seasonal allergies
• Protection against asthma
• Reducing snoring, ear infections and nasal congestion and joint pains

Lacto-fermented foods like sauerkraut, kim chee, pickled cucumbers, fruit chutneys, miso, yogurt, cheese, kefir, and kvass helps in getting friendly bacteria but there are all chances of getting harmful bacteria.

There is still safer and better way to get healthy bacteria through high quality probiotic – a supplement which contains friendly intestinal bacteria.

Health professional have highly rated a Japanese probiotic. It is popular by the name” Dr. Ohira’s Probiotics 12 Plus. Dr. Ohhira’s formula has been found very effective for addressing constipation, yeast overgrowth issues, severe acne, food poisoning, hay fever, nasal congestion, and asthma.

Main ingradients of Dr. Ohira’s Probiotic include: Wild strawberry, Mulberry, Chinese matrimony (similar to goji berries), Wild vine, Chinese bayberry, Oleaster (a type of wild fruit), Sea tangle (a type of seaweed), Brown seaweed, Mugwort, Broad-leafed plantain, Pure mountain spring water and dozens of special herbs, leaves, and fruits that grow in the wild in Japan.

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In 1919, Flu killed 40 million people but the family of one farmer was very healthy. When asked for the reason, the farmer’s wife revealed that she had kept unpeeled onion in a dish in each room of the house.

A doctor could not believe it so he took an onion from her and placed under the microscope. He found flu virus in the onion. The onion absorbs the bacteria which kept the family healthy.

A hairdresser had found her employees suffering from flu, she tried the same procedure of putting peeled onion in trays, around her shop. She also experienced positive results.

The moral of the story is, buy some onions and place them in bowls around your home. If you work at a desk, place one or two in your office or under your desk or even on top somewhere. Try it and see what happens. We did it last year and we never got the flu. It may help you and your loved ones from getting sick. You do not loose much by buying few onions and placing in trays around your house. You will minimize the effect of flu.

Onions are a huge magnet for bacteria, especially uncooked onions. You should never plan to keep a portion of a sliced onion. It’s not even safe if you put it in a zip-lock bag and put it in your refrigerator.

It’s already contaminated enough just by being cut open and out for a bit, that it can be a danger to you (and doubly watch out for those onions you put in your hotdogs at the baseball park!)

If you take the leftover onion and cook it like crazy you’ll probably be okay, but if you slice that leftover onion and put on your sandwich, you’re asking for trouble. Both the onions and the moist potato in a potato salad will attract and grow bacteria faster than any commercial mayonnaise will even begin to break down.

Please remember it is dangerous to cut onions and try to use it to cook the next day, it becomes highly poisonous for even a single night and creates Toxic bacteria which may cause Adverse Stomach infections because of excess Bile secretions and even Food poisoning.

Acne has affected millions of young boys & girls and adults. It is certainly a serious problem. It causes embarrassment to the person suffering from acne. It has even long term effects on the self esteem and social behaviour. After trying various treatments, it is difficult for the people to get the real results.

It has been experienced that most of the chronic problems could not be solved successfully by allopathic medicines after even treating for long periods. Natural remedies could offer relief for many problems within shorter period. The results have been long lasting and the side effects have been almost negligible. Natural products offer many nutrients and vitamins which are effectively accepted by our body systems.

Aloe vera, amla, garlic, neem, Coconuts, Cumin seeds and Cinnamon are some of the most effective natural products. Egg white has been found to be very helpful in treating acne. It has been found to help in shrinking large pores. Egg whites are rich in proteins. It helps in healing, curing and rebuilding the skin.

Procedure to use the egg white is very effective and simple. Crack an egg and take out the white in a bowl. Beat it to make foam. Clean your face with warm water. Apply the foam on the face and leave it for fifteen minutes. Rinse it with warm water and pat it dry with a soft towel. Apply moisturiser. It must be noted that egg white should be applied to the face thrice a week only.

Acne confirms fault in digestive system. It is advisable that the affected person should increase intake of water. Consumption of Aloe Vera Gel will improve digestive system. Aloe Vera Gel can also be applied on face – once a day for ten minutes.

Try it and you will be happy with the natural way of gaining relief from Acne.

Appearance is very important for celebrities, supermodels, actresses and actors of the film industry.

Individuals work very hard to achieve the prime position. They wish to remain in limelight with their devotion but the clock does not stop for anybody. Signs of hard work and experience are bound to show up on them.

Wrinkles, sagging skin, age spots, skin discolorations, under eye puffiness & dark circles reveal the truth of ageing.

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Hollywood celebrities & supermodels have appreciated the results. That is the group who is very much concerned about anti-ageing and anti-wrinkle treatments. They are very much dedicated to uphold their appearances.

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Skin-ageing is caused by free-radical damage, changes in fat content of skin, changes in skin collagen, dehydration, DNA changes, degradation of the elastic polypeptides and certain disorders in the packing of the lipid matrix of the skin. We “look old” because of wrinkles, lines, skin blotchiness, age-spots, loss of skin radiance, sagging skin (a big one), “feather” lips, under-eye puffiness (a dead give-away),crow’s feet and thinning lips.

Women over 40 years have 25,000 micro-points on their face. These micro-points have to be stimulated to form a network to help make the skin look tighter and firmer. The production of the collagen helps smoothening lines, wrinkles, unsightly crow’s feet.

Most of the ladies keep on applying around 25 creams on their faces to tackle different skin-ageing problems which may result into little positive effects but surely leaving many other problems—unattended.

In short, anti-aging skin care cream must attack ALL the problems associated with skin-aging. It should not be ineffective quick-fix…a band-aid on a bullet wound.

The ladies should not be expected to buy a moisturizer, firming serum, under-eye cream, anti-wrinkle cream, night cream, day cream, age-spot reducer and so on… and slather all these creams on their faces at once. And finally, telling them that they have a “chance” to look young.

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Most of the younger and middle age persons are diagnosed for high Cholesterol. They are prescribed cholesterol lowering drugs.

Do you realize that cholesterol lowering drugs may affect your natural healing process? The side effects of cholesterol lowering drugs may lead to fatigue, muscle weakness, soreness and ultimately heart failure.

130 LDL cholesterol level was considered healthy till end 2003. Cholesterol levels were revised to a maximum level of 70, effective from 2004.

Do you know WHY?

It is for the profit which drug industry looks for. An enormous market for the cholesterol lowering drugs could be captured simply by altering the cholesterol level. The profits started running to the tune of billions of dollars.

Cholesterol is essential for many important functions of the body. It’s an integral part of cell membranes, and also the raw material which the body uses to make steroid hormones – it includes vitamin D. The skin contains cholesterol, and when UVB rays from the sun hits the skin it converts that form of cholesterol to vitamin D3, which is then transported to the blood. The body then further converts it into the active form of vitamin D.

Cholesterol is very important for the for optimal brain health. It helps in the formation of your memories and is vital for neurological function. In fact, low cholesterol has been linked to a variety of neurological problems, including memory loss and other negative events occurring in the body

Having too little of this beneficial compound also:
• Increases your risk of depression
• Can increase your risk of suicide
• May lead to violent behaviour and aggression
• Increase your risk of cancer and Parkinson’s disease

Cholesterol levels above 300 may be considered high. One may further ensure to be far from risk if the following criteria are fulfilled:
“ Divide your HDL level by your cholesterol. That percentage should ideally be above 25 percent. Typically, the higher the better, as there are no known side effects of having too high good cholesterol. If your ratio falls below 15-20 percent you are at high risk, and below 10 percent, it’s a significant indicator of risk for heart disease.”

There are simpler ways to regulate your cholesterol levels. 75 percent of your cholesterol is produced by your liver, which is influenced by your insulin levels. Therefore, if you optimize your insulin levels, you will also regulate your cholesterol levels. Exercising and paying attention to your diets will further help you in regulating your cholesterol level. Foods increase insulin level and influence the liver to produce more cholesterol

Tips for safely lowering and regulating your cholesterol levels:
1. Get an appropriate amount of exercise
2. Reduce, with the plan of eliminating, grains and sugars in your daily diet.
3. Eat the right foods for your nutritional type
4. .Eat a good portion of your food raw
5. Make sure you’re getting plenty of high-quality, animal-based omega-3 fats. Krill oil may be opted.
6. Avoid excessive smoking and alcohol.
7. Address your emotional challenges.

Important: Cholesterol lowering drugs affect your body system. It reduces an enzyme in your liver to reduce the production of cholesterol. It also reduces the production of coenzyme Q10, thereby increasing your risk of a variety of different health problems, such as premature ageing and DNA damage.

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Heard about the pineapple diet and want to find out how it works?

Follow these steps:

Prepare an eating plan for the pineapple diet covering the next 7-10 days. The pineapple diet is meant to be a supplemental diet, not the only thing you eat for weeks on end.

Next, plan on three small meals and two snacks (snacks are all pineapple) a day. Eating smaller meals frequently is part of the pineapple diet, and common diet knowledge.

Then choose the two days a week that will be your “all pineapple days.” Basically on these days you eat pineapple and water and that’s it, before going back to a normal eating plan. These days should not be consecutive.

It takes a lot of will power, but keep with it, and if you’re eating reasonable low fat, low calorie meals along with the water and pineapple, you should see results fairly quickly.

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Bollywood star or Hollywood star – Every cine-star has to live under constant pressure of film shooting, attending different shows and still maintaining a fresh look on their face. Public expects them to look best with a slim figure. Their performances need them to have a constant flow of energy.

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An amazing longevity tonic which may:

*prevent ageing
* improve lever and kidney functioning
* nourishes blood, fortifies muscles, tendons and bones
* strengthens and stabilizes the lower back and knees,
It surely is a Chinese herb which has enhanced sexual drive and fertility in both men and women.

Extract of the herb improves the cardiovascular system, enhances immune functions, slows the degeneration of glands, increases antioxidant activity and reduce the accumulation of lipid peroxidation.

Roots of the herb have to be formulated for the best results. Roots after harvesting are cooked in black bean soup, once it is dried, it is fit for use.

This herb is known by the name: He Shou Wu

He Shou Wu is best taken in tinctured form or in a fine sifted powder shaken into juice or other liquid. As a “Tea” it does not have its full potential as it is not completely water soluble. A great way to take it is powder in the morning and a teaspoon of the tincture at night. (It tends to help with sleep in this way)

Be sure to get it from a reliable source and be sure the roots are at least 4 years old and that it is traditionally prepared in black bean soup. 6-10 year old roots are available and can really show off the amazing powerful restorative energy of this Superior Chinese Tonic Herb.

Courtesy inputs from: www.naturalnews.com

London: A pill that allows people to live beyond 100 and eliminates Alzheimer’s, diabetes and heart disease is being developed by scientists.

In a New York study, boffins have found three genes that extend life and prevent diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

Lead researcher Dr Nir Barzilai, of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, said several labs were now racing to create a pill that mimics them, reports a news daily.

Of the three longevity genes, two boost the production of so-called good cholesterol, which reduces the risk of heart disease and stroke. The third prevents diabetes.

The discoveries were made while studying the DNA of 500 Ashkenazi Jews Jews of German and Eastern European descent] with an average age of 100.

Professor Judith Phillips, president of the British Society of Geron¬tology, said the discovery would change how people look at growing old.

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She said: “It’s a huge opportunity because the ageing population is growing anyway. They would be a huge resource because people would be able to work longer and they would have a healthier life, and it would r¬evolutionise the way we look at older people.

“And it would reduce costs in terms of care.”

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