Showing posts with label body care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label body care. Show all posts

Saturday, March 27, 2010

All You Need to Know about Olive Oil











Many people are not aware of the usage of olive oil for health and beauty. In fact, if it is traced one by one, we could be surprised by the usefulness of this vegetable oil.

As reported by Reuters, people who consume olive oil regularly can avoid the danger of cancer. This is proved by the research with 182 people as samples.

The results mentioned, olive oil can reduce levels of secondary metabolic results and it can be a factor on triggering the cancer cells. Therefore, the researchers recommend European to include olive oil as part of their diet.

Dr Henrik E Poulsen of Copenhagen University Hospital, Danish, strongly recommend to replace the animal fats contained in butter and meat with vegetable fats, particularly olive oil. "Olive oil contains phenols which are believed as cancer-preventing antioxidants," he explained.

In addition to the anticancer, olive oil also contains vitamin E which is very useful to maintain skin elasticity. By consuming olive oil, our skin will be tighter, smoother, and healthier. Of course it is supported also with the good care.

In addition, olive oil is also useful to moisten dry skin when it is used as a mask. Another benefit is that it can protect the skin from bad effects of the sun. It is said that the queen and princess in ancient Greece use olive oil for their beauty rituals.

Why does it so? Because this oil is proved efficaciously can make the skin looks smoother and younger. In fact, single-saturated oil content extremely useful in removing black stains on the skin.

Each olive fruit contains 80 % water, 15 % of oil, 1 % of protein, carbohydrate, and fiber. In addition, olive oil also contains omega-9 which is closely related to cholesterol. Omega 9 can suppress levels of low density lipoprotein (LDL), aka bad cholesterol and raise levels of high density lipoprotein (HDL) or good cholesterol. Therefore, olive oil is also highly recommended in dietary cholesterol and heart patients.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

15 Benefits of Yoga









Since a long time, yoga has been known as an alternative method of healing (including cancer) and balancing. Yoga became one of alternative options of sport that it has many benefits, so thet more people take yoga classes.

There are at least 15 benefits of the most widely obtained from yoga. Yoga practitioners themselves refuse if yoga is associated with a particular religion.

Here are the benefits of yoga for the body:

1. Healthier heart
Perhaps one of the benefits of yoga which are the most studied is the effect on heart disease. Yoga has long been known that it can lower blood pressure and slower heartbeat. The benefit of slowing the heart rate is for the people who have hypertension, heart disease and stroke.

Yoga is a key component for heart disease program that was designed by Dean Ornish, MD. This is the first program for the treatment of heart disease with lifestyle through diet compared with surgery. Yoga has also been associated with decreased levels of cholesterol and triglycerides and in improving immune system function.

2. Respiratory
Breathing is also included in the yoga that will increase the capacity of our lungs. This can improve the appearance and performance. But, the typical of yoga is not focused on aerobic fitness as running or cycling. Most styles of yoga emphasizes deep and long on your breath. It also stimulates the relaxation response that will contrast with the increase of the stress response.

3. Effect on the medical condition
Yoga has become popular in the western world; medical researchers have begun studying the therapeutic benefits of yoga, which is called the integrative yoga therapy (IYT). They are used as additional medical treatment for certain conditions from clinical depression to heart disease. Another benefit that yoga make is for chronic medical conditions, such as eliminating the symptoms of asthma, back pain and arthritis.

Several studies also suggested that yoga has a positive impact on learning and memory. To be sure, and feel the benefits of yoga does not hurt you in practicing it, and start to feel the benefits of it.

4. Accelerate the healing process
When having disease and wound, yoga accelerates the healing process. Research shows yoga an effective cure high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, asthma, sleep disturbances, chronic headaches, and back pain. Yoga also improves heart function, digestion and eyesight, and help to control the pain.

5. Increasing the capacity of the senses
Yoga makes you more sensitive to the rhythms of the body, improve sensory abilities, and even a sixth sense.

6. Flexibility
When some people think of yoga, they imagine such as fitness, and they feel too old, and it’s not fit to do yoga. One part of yoga, called asanas are safe to stretch your muscles. This process releases lactic acid which usually causes stiffness, tension, pain and fatigue. In addition, yoga also increases range of motion in the joints and improve lubrication in the joints.

Stretch to yoga not only to muscles but to all the cells of your body. In a study it’s found that there is increased flexibility by 35% after 8 months of doing yoga. The greatest advantage is the flexibility in the shoulders and body.

7. Can be combined with other sports
For example aerobics and weights. Yoga also improves your overall performance.

8. Strength
Some styles of yoga such as ashtanga and power yoga is the most powerful than the others. Practicing one of these styles will help increase your muscle. Other yoga styles such as lyengar yoga, which focuses only on a motion and setting a more appropriate position, can improve strength and stamina.

Several other styles like: downward dog, upward dog, and Plank, build upper body strength. This becomes important at a certain age. Hollywood stands, especially if you spiked on how long you breathe, can build muscle strength in hamstrings, quadriceps and abdominal. If done correctly, almost all of these styles to build core strength in the abdominal muscles.

9. Posture
With the increased flexibility and force posture will produce better. The number of standing and sitting style will develop core strength. Another benefit of yoga is to raise awareness of ourselves. High awareness of this gives you a warning if you bend or slumping, so you can instantly adjust the attitude.

10. Reduce stress and be calmer
If your disease is caused by stress, yoga is the best way to heal. Yoga gives relaxation, posture exercises, breathing and meditation are effective in reducing tension and anxiety levels. Yoga also increases the body's immune system is often depressed by the stress and anxiety.

Some styles of yoga use special meditation techniques to make often stress the mind become calmer. Other yoga styles also depend on deep breathing techniques to focus the mind, which makes the mind becomes calmer.

Some of the benefits of yoga anti-stress associated with biochemical, such as a decline in catecholamine, the hormones produced by the adrenal glands in response to stress. Neurotransmitter hormone levels decrease, dopamine, norepinephrine, epinephrine and create a sense of calm. Some studies focus on improving the hormone oxytocin is the hormone associated with feeling relaxed and connected to others, which allows why so many romances that began at the yoga studio.

11. Concentration and a better mood
Almost every student of yoga classes feel happier and satisfied. A recent study explored the effects of yoga on depression; the benefits are the increased flow of oxygen to the brain. Yoga is also recommended as a therapy to relieve symptoms and obsessive disorder.

12. Comprehensive and integrative
Yoga is a lifestyle that is integrative covers all aspects of life, which is a technique for optimum health, physically and mentally, to help face the challenges of modern life, and changing sex lives. Yoga also makes you feel comfortable with his own body, increase self-confidence, and boost concentration and memory abilities. In addition, yoga frees life from fear and emotions and negative thoughts.

13. Growing personality
Our body is a beautiful musical instrument, but need to be played correctly and that produces a beautiful tone as well. Yoga is a safe guide search exploration of the beautiful tone because yoga drove the wrong conception about your-self. You'll also find a new meaning of life is simple and happy.

14. Harmonization of social life
Yoga build patience, tolerance, love, and forgiveness which improves the relationship with family, friends, coworkers, and others.

15. Easy and convenient
Yoga can be practiced at home or anywhere without having exhausted and sweating like at the gym. The beginners are advised to practice with the first yoga teacher.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Benefits of Herbal Remedies for Your Body Care

Overcome Sweat Odor
The smell of sweat is not pleasant for interactions and will certainly disrupt your daily life, to overcome it, do the following natural way. Take 10 grams of young and fresh bluntas leaves, added etlingera leaves. Both of these materials are pounded, and then boiled with one cup of water; do not forget to season it with salt. Drink this potion once a day on a regular basis, it is guaranteed the smell of sweat will disappear from your body.

Overcoming Dry facial Skin
Combine chicken egg with one tablespoon of honey, mix the egg and honey evenly, then rub on face and let it dry for 15 minutes. Remove with warm water, and then wash it by normal temperature water. Try it and after several times you will see the results.

Clean the Face with Radish
All the women obviously want a clean face. For that, the following way can help. Take turnips, peel it, and wash it clean. Blend and use it as a mask, after apply it for a while rinse with water until clean. Do this once a day. Surely, your face will look smooth and clean.

Removing Acne or Pimples
Acne is a thing that often makes you upset. Now you do not have to worry anymore, try using ice cubes and then rubbed on the acne area. Do it at night before you sleep. The way to reduce red or inflamed acne, so when you wake up in the morning acne will be reduced. If your acne still seems a lot, you should do every day in order not having a new pimple come back.

Teak Leaves Makes Body Slimmer
Slender body would be a dream of all women. It is not rare to get them doing various ways, including buying slimming drugs which are expensive and not really safe to be consumed. There is an easy natural way, take twenty of teak leaves, wash them, cut into pieces and boil with three glasses of water until it is boiled. After it becomes cold, strain and drink 2-3 times a day. In order to have good taste, you can add a little sugar. Good luck.

Overcome the Bitter Taste of Drinking Drugs
When we are taking medication, sometimes bitter taste of drugs makes your mouth feel uncomfortable, even makes us almost vomit. To reduce it foolow instructions below; Take ice cubes, put it on the tongue for a while. The ice will freeze the tongue and its nerves to taste bitterness hampered for a while, as such, herbal medicine or any other drigs which do not seem bitter to be drink.

Friday, October 30, 2009

The Importance of Ayurvedic

Wherever we are on this earth at this moment, we can see and feel how bad the impact of modern life is damaging the natural environment and our lives. As modern humans we also have an understanding that the quality of our health is affected by the negative impacts, such as air pollution, water, food and lifestyle is not healthy.

In the search for balance of life discourse, there is the health contribution to the balance of the mind. Apparently this has very important role. People in unhealthy physical conditions usually think negatively too much, feel distracted, be reluctant or lazy to do anything due to their conditions.

Ayurveda is a holistic lifestyle system that teaches the practical details of the arrangement of food, body work, rest periods, and work, which aims to achieve balance of body, mind, and soul.



Thus, Ayurveda is not just medicine but a healthy lifestyle. The basic principle of ayurveda is to prevent diseases by balancing body, mind, soul and environment.

Ayurvedic health concept has been covering the entire system of human life that makes ayurveda as a system of treatment and comprehensive health care in the world. Many medications commonly used by us today come from plants. According to various sources, at least one of the basic ingredients of plant material forms part of several prescription drugs available in the world.

Specifically, ayurveda uses plants to fix the imbalance that occurs in the human body before they become disease. By combining several kinds of plants or herbs to get benefit of the drug or therapeutic value, it is commonly known as herbal medicine, Ayurveda has been proven capable of overcoming various health problems that occurred in the human body.

Humans have been known ayurvedic herbal medicine based on health since ancient times. Early primitive men discovered many things which not only provide remedy, but also food, shelter and clothing.

Ayurveda is a health science concept or recorded in the "veda", the book of the world's oldest literature. Ayurveda is the science of life that has been applied since 1000 BC by the rishi (wise man, sage) India to maintain health. In Sanskrit, “Ayur” means life and the “Veda” means knowledge, so that "ayurvedic" literally means Science of Life.

Ayurvedic principles, or power of life or dosha is divided into three; pitta, kapha, and vata. Dosha is in the material universe, including humans. The term dosha indicates the human body's metabolic type and the type of mind-body (the mind and body). In ayurvedic medicine, the determination of the type of dosha is the most important stage. To determine the type of person, ayurvedic practitioners typically conduct observations and provide a few questions, then just do the stages of therapy.

Kapha, pitta and vata are in every human being with a different level. Usually people have one dominant dosha and one accompanist dosha. Differences combination makes every individual dosha has a personality and a different health.

Dosha imbalance is the first sign that the mind and body is not perfectly coordinated. When disturbed dosha balance, the body will become vulnerable to pressure from outside, such as viruses, bacteria, pollution, and stress. Therefore, ayurvedic treatment focused on methods to balance dosha.

Today, ayurveda has been widely used in modern medicine systems. This was triggered by a number of research-conducted scientific research and has proved how effective the role of plants or herbs on human health.

Probably, ayurveda is the only science where blood cancers or leukemia are cured, without side effects. Pediatric leukemia is recovering amazingly faster, often few weeks time for perfect control. Advanced nations are spending billions of dollars in research for a cure. However, recurrence of most types of cancers is a general phenomenon. Scientists can research how ayurvedic acts selectively, inducing cell death in only the malignant cells and not affecting neighboring healthy cells.

According to the World Health Organization, almost 80 percent of the world's population, or 4 billion people now use some aspects of herbal medicine in their health care process. Common elements in the American Indian medicine are traditional oriental medicine, naturopathy, homeopathy and ayurvedic medicine herbs.

Nowadays, most commercial drugs using substances derived from plants for the treatment of high blood pressure, heart disease, asthma, pain, and other problems,. Ephedrine is used to treat the symptoms of asthma and other respiratory problems. It is the active ingredient in ephedrine, a traditional Chinese herb.

The foxglove plant is another example pointing to the use of modern medicine herbal extraction. The leaf of this plant is powdered digitalis to stimulate the heart and provide assistance to a large number of heart patients.

Some of the herbs used in ayurveda successful in reducing diabetes and cholesterol. In recent years, there is growth in the use of herbal medicines because of the success stories which replaced Prozac for treating mild depression. In the United States, the popularity of Ginseng and Ginkgo Biloba increases due to the healing effect.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Caring for Healthy Lips

All the women would like to have soft and beautiful lips. Stop peeling off lip skin. In addition to pain, the activities will cause mouth infections.

Lip is an important part of body, it would be better if we take care of it regularly. However, every day, our lips will be always used when we're talking.

Here are the tips:

1. Always apply a natural lip balm to protect lips. If you want a natural way, try it with regularly rubbing honey on lips before you sleep at night. If your lips have returned to be "healthy", should still do it, at least to prevent your pain on lips recurring.


2. Soak a black tea bag in warm water and tap it on the lips for three minutes. This will increase the skin moisture level in your mouth.

3. To make the lips relax, make a natural mask with thick papaya juice. Put on a soft towel and gently rub around the lips. Let stand for 10 to 15 minutes, wash and apply lip balm. Papaya contains enzymes that the function and can help to peeled off dead skin on the lips and makes it smooth.

4. Apply a light massage on the lips with a special cream and apply a little lip on the lips at night to protect naturally.

5. When your lips hurt, take a cotton bud and apply ointment containing hydrocortisone cream to heal the wounds. In the morning and afternoon when you do activities, apply petroleum jelly, such as lip balm, to keep the humidity level lip.

6. Do not forget to always apply a lip balm before applying lipstick.

7. Clean lipstick before you go to bed with special lips cleaning and do not forget to apply a moisturizing lip as protection.

8. Dispose of lipstick, lip balm or any products related to your lips when they are over the age of one and a half years. If they have already expired, certainly the will make your lips irritated.

9. Always try to keep clean when cleaning lipstick, it means use special lip cleaners to clean the lipstick, because who knows something left which can make pigment skin irritated.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Herbs for Acne Treatment & Tips


There are many ways in which people undertake to treat pimples that grow on their face. Some of them use modern medicine and some try traditional medicine. To use modern medicine, there are a few things into your consideration, the cost and side effects of modern drugs.

Here there are a few tips to prevent acne before take a look at the traditional medicines:

  • Always keep the face clean, diligently wash face with soap that matches your skin PH.
  • Exercising regularly or doing physical activities which pretty much produce sweat.
  • Drink plenty of water. It does look simple, but this therapy really works not only to have acne problems and even to diseases other major diseases though. With a good system of mineral circulation in your body, then your blood or other organs of your body will be more "clean" and healthy so it will support your healing process of acne or other diseases.
  • Avoid excessive stress can be a trigger for increasing the number of your acne.

You can also use the traditional way to handle the acne, in addition to the efficient of costs and side effects which are not as large when using modern medicines.


Traditional acne treatment uses natural ingredients easily available and affordable in relative costs. Examples of these alternative treatments include:

Wild Ginger
5 slices of ginger, leaves mimba 7 pieces, and 30 grams of Centella asiatica. All materials are boiled with 5 cups of water until the remaining 2 cups. Results of stew is taken 2 times a day each 2 cups. During the process of healing, acne sufferers, avoid eating fatty foods, animal oil, coconut milk, brains, eggs, peanuts, organ meats and spicy foods.

God’s Crown (Phaleria macrocarpa)
God’s Crown fruit which are still green and the grated results directly attached to the skin as acne face mask.

Mengkudu (Morinda citrifolia)
2 pieces of Mengkudu fruit and 2 segments of the fingers crushed rock sugar (blend) with a glass of water (200 cc), then strain and boil it. Drink while still warm, in every morning one hour before meals. This potion will clean dirty blood. This dirty blood is one cause of acne.

Lime
A squeeze of lemon and a crushed and squeezed of cucumber, the water is taken, then mix. Rub mixture all over the surface of the skin as a face mask, leave for 30 minutes then rinse with warm water. Perform regular 2 days. If the acne feels stung, the usage is stopped.

Garlic
Half clove of garlic, a finger segment of turmeric and medium-sized potato and cucumber added with Aloe Vera. All the ingredients are blended and mixed. This potion is applied to the entire skin surface of acne as a mask, leave for 30 minutes, then rinse with warm water, followed by cold water.

Jasmine Petals
20 of jasmine petals, 2 finger segment of Java acid, 2 tablespoons of lime juice and sulfur as big as marble, they are mixed and ground until becomes smooth, then apply on pimples facial skin in the morning and at night before sleeping, the potion can cause acne to deflate.

Betel Leaf
5-10 of betel leaf sheets then boiled with 2 cups water in a covered container. After boiling, remove and let stand until lukewarm. This herb is used to wash your face with acne; it should be done routinely before bed and after travel.

Star fruit Acids or Starfruit Buluh
5 fruit starfruit acids and salt water, and then finely ground water is applied to the skin of acne twice a day in the morning and at night before bed.



Monday, October 12, 2009

Various Homeopathic Remedies for Acute Disease

Acute word derived from the Latin "Acutus". Means "sudden", the disease is sudden and brief and sustained severe. Acute disease has its own deadlines (self limiting), did not last long and if it's time it will heal itself. However, there are acute diseases are started with pneumonia, meningitis disease, or disease nephritis (nephritis) and considered in case of emergency or hazard that can lead to death.

Cough, cold, influenza, food poisoning and other childhood diseases like chicken pox are some examples of diseases that are classified as acute disease. If these diseases correctly and appropriately treated with homeopathy, it will undoubtedly there is quick recovery.
Some bidders used in homeopathy to treat acute diseases such as:

Abrotanum
Abrotanum Mother Tinctures made from fresh roots and leaves. Abrotanum are wild plants with the high three-foot numerous in southern Europe. Abrotanum is very useful to manage disease, particularly members of the lower

Allium cepa
Mother tinctures made from Allium cepa onion. In the test, it causes nose symptoms and watery eyes, throat symptoms, and salesma. Allium cepa salesma is appropriate for patients in the cool and humid, fever, sneezing, runny nose and watery eyes.

Aloe socotrina
Mother tinctures socotrina aloe in Indonesia we know as "aloe vera". This is very useful as antidote to overcome diarrhea, hemorrhoids, and accompanied by burning pain and itching but it was cool when exposed to water.

Apis Mellifica
Apis mellifica Mother tinctures made from bees that are still alive. The main symptoms of a bee sting to be the main symptom of this bid as swollen or puffy, stinging pain, pain, can not stand the heat and can not being touched a bit. Apis mellifica suited to treat a swollen body parts because of poisonous stung by animals, swollen eyelids with water. In treating mental or psychiatric apis mellifica can eliminate anxiety because of jealousy and ill-tempered nature, difficult to concentrate when studying

Arnika
Mother tinctures made from arnika sunflower. In its test, a drug substance produces symptoms of injury, falls, blows, beat, and bruised. Arnika is widely used for cases of treachery, although injury was long, painful limbs like getting hit, vaginitis in women and impotence in men due to over-indulge sexual wishes, and so forth. In terms of psychological or psychiatric arnika efficacious can eliminate fears like fear being approached by others, fear of pain, fear of crowds, moody, restless, unable to bear the pain, never well since experienced the tragedy, and so forth.

Calendula
Calendula is an antiseptic in homeopathy which can be used as a topical medicine primarily to help heal wounds, ulcers, and others. Calendula can also be mumbled to relieve pain due to injury and can eliminate. For the face, calendula useful to eliminate acne and whiten the face.

Chantaris (Spanish fly)
Mother tinctures made from chantaris surviving insects. There are many in the months of May and June in the central region and southern Europe and Southeast Asia. Chantaris is able to cure the symptoms of difficult urination, too frequent urination, bloody urine, genital gangrene equipment, cleaning fetus that have been dead, uri-uri (placenta) after childbirth or miscarriage.

Cocculus indicus
Mother tinctures cocculus seeds are taken from fruits that contain a powerful poison. It is type of short plants, solid mount to the top. These plants are common in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Malaysia. Cocculus indicus is very useful to overcome the nausea, especially for those who like a good drunk land vehicles, sea, or air.

Hyoscyamus Niger
Hyoscyamus Mother tinctures from fresh tree with a height of two feet two-year-old, yellow flowering between June to August, and growing in sandy soil. These plants are common in Europe, Asia, and America. Hyoscyamus Niger is very useful for the brain nerve.

Ipecacuancha
Ipecacuancha Mother Tinctures made from dried roots. In its test, it causes symptoms persistent nausea. Ipecacuancha is suitable for eliminating nausea. As for psychological or psychiatric ipecacuancha can cure mental pressure, and cope with children who are fussy (like crying, screaming, not knowing what he wants).

Lachesis Muta
Mother Tinctures made from Lachesis snake species found in South America (Brazil). Its length is 7-meter, has red and gray colors and grouped black color on its back. The poison is taken, mixed with milk sugar which is triturationed. Similar to all Lachesis snake venom, Lach blood damage, making it more liquid, by which such a tendency to bleed much. The symptoms are caused pain in the left, then move to the right especially throat problems and ovaries. Lachesis is used as an antidote for women who are monopouse. Lachesis psychological problems can be used to treat diseases due to breakup.

Opium (Poppy)
Mother tinctures of opium are made from latex picture taken from the poppy capsules which are not yet ripe. It is found in India, Turkey, some countries in Asia and Europe. Opium is used for symptoms such as loss of the nervous system, haggard and was unconscious, no pain, general weakness and lack of energy is the body's reaction. Opium can be used also for constipation, has hard stools.

Ruta gravolens
Ruta gravolens Mother tinctures from fresh tree with 2 feet tall, yellow flowers from June to September. The plant is located in West Asia, southern Europe, also grown in India and the United States. Ruta Gravolens is very useful for bone and eye problems.

Spongia
Mother tinctures made from sponge spongia. Sponge is a kind of animal that grew up on a rock and hard objects in the water. The best types are mostly in the Mediterranean Sea close to Syria and Greece, in the Pacific Ocean and Turkey. Sponge is diced and roasted nut so that the colored cook (brown). Spongia is very useful for heart problems and coughing.

Stramonium
Mother stramonium tinctures made from fresh trees when the flowering and fruiting. Funneling white flowers, three-foot tall trees, flowers appear in July to October. Easy to grow, mostly found in Asia, America and India. Stramonium is useful for problems rooted in the brain nerve disorders such as Parkinson's, epilepsy.

Veratrum Album
Veratrum album Mother tinctures made from dried roots of the subject. This tree is more than five feet tall, the flowers have white or yellow color, appear from June to August. This plant grows in much of Europe, Russia, China and Japan. Veratrum album is beneficial to overcome cholera.

15 Steps for Weight Loss

Weight problem is a very complicated problem and often questioned by patients who are currently overweight. Being overweight is a nightmare for some people, especially for those who are concerned appearance. Obesity will also deplete someone's self confidence that will affect hos or her career. Here are 15 steps that can be followed to control weight:

1. "I can do it!" Instill four words in mind as the first step. Although facing many temptations which come, always remember that you should be able to lose weight, and then you have to be on the right track. Find someone who have lost weight as your motivator for eliminating any temptations.

2. Breakfast is a must do. Do not ever leave the house in the morning without touching anything to have breakfast because it will give you enough energy for all day activities. No need for having breakfast too much, take enough bananas, yogurt, cereal, bread, etc. for snacks that contain plenty of fiber and protein which will give you a sense of full until lunch time.

3. Take a moment to read the nutritional content in food packaging. Notice the calories of the food because it is has big role in increasing your weight when you consume it excessively. Customize your energy needs or your calories in a day with a note that stated in the container.

4. Do not do diet. For the short term, it would make you lose weight, but if you stop the diet your weight will increase again. Eating strange foods for your diet or reduce some types of food would not make your weight decrease. The important thing to do is choose a balanced diet according to nutritional value of your body need, so that the calories taken will be utilized optimally.

5. Always eat regularly. Our body will decrease metabolism when we are hungry, this is certainly not good for weight-loss process. To avoid these two, make a daily eating schedule and you can do it habitually. Make sure your eating schedule is at least 3 times a day.

6. Increase fiber consumption. Fiber is very important to keep the body healthy. Fibers have functions to help lowering cholesterol and facilitating to deplenish the digestive tract. Fiber can also accelerate sense of full thus naturally reducing unuseful portion of food. Most of the fibers have a high water content and low calorie that fit with what we need to lose weight.

7. Healthy food has always been the main choice. Choose foods that contain less saturated fat. Increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables. Choose a vegetable oil as a source of fat because they contain unsaturated fats in the high portion. Eat foods which contain lots of Omega 3 such as fish.

8. Sports. Customize your sport you choose with your body condition. One healthy sport, inexpensive and can be done by everyone is walking. Walk at least 5 miles a day. Always try to increase the distance you walk. Remember, exercise not only losing your weight but also making your body be more healthy.

9. Dispose of snacking habits at night. Snacking at night will destroy your efforts to lose weight because the calories you eat after dinner will be buried in the body. Brushing your teeth after dinner helped you to reduce the desire to snack.

10. Expand protein consumption. Eat foods that contain large amounts of protein will make your belly full in a few hours, thereby reducing your need for food containing high calories.

11. Discard bad habits that make your weight increasing and replace them with healthier habits. For example replace the sugar you use to make coffee with low-calorie sugar, avoid eating fried foods and more.

12. Make the people around you as your motivator. They will help you to give encouragement when someday you experience boredom with weight-loss program you are doing.

13. Write down any developments that happen to you as long as you follow a weight-loss program. If it is needed, compare your achievements and the achievement of your friends who do similar programs. This is also a motivator in achieving your goal to lose weight.

14. Drink enough. Some nutritionists say that drinking enough then you will avoid excessive eating. It is advisable to drink water 6 to 8 glasses a day.

15. Do you want to lose weight and make the body healthy? For it, never turn away from your real goal that is losing weight. Remember always motivate youself so that the goals can be reached.


Friday, October 2, 2009

Spa using Natural Materials

There are many materials used for spa;

1. Turmeric
Turmeric for Spa can be used as an antioxidant, antiseptic, antibacterial, antifungal and allergy. Eliminate itching of the skin, and also serves as a stimulant to the blood circulation smoothly.

2. Powder
To refine the skin, treat irritated skin tissue, as antiseptic, get rid of body odor, and helps eliminate fatigue.

3. Coffee
As a thrower toxin (detox). Coffee used in spa such as coconut spa to eliminate scars or mosquito bites, improve blood circulation, improve skin metabolism so that the skin becomes healthier and stronger.

4. Green tea
These antioxidants can be used in a natural spa.

5. Chocolate
As anti-aging substance because chocolate contains antioxidants that can fight damaged cells. Likewise coconut spa is used.

6. Milk
Bleaching, softening, rejuvenating, and accelerate the regeneration of skin tissue in a way likewise it is used in spa services.

What Makes Failure on Diet Program

What makes a diet / lose weight go up and down like a yo-yo is the excessive desire to eat every time when having a problem. So it is needed special tricks to resist the temptation to be an emotional eater. Here's a guide:

Remember that every success must be accompanied by a strong effort. It means, if we allow ourselves to sink into the emotions, the food business would be two times heavier than the first time we run diet programs.

Basically every healthy diet has the same message that we are able to provide the best. So do not ever want to be defeated by circumstances. When problems roared, face and find the solution to finding a natural diet.

Do it for yourself. We can make a maximum result of diet programs in natural ways, if we do it for ourselves. So find a reason why we should make a healthy diet and do it wholeheartedly.

Do not let the fear of failure descend away too long. Remember the fear of failure before the war, will never lead us to the goal.

Keep Your Heart Health with Yoga

Yoga exercises for eight weeks is proved to benefit patients with heart disease who had a heart attack and reduce the signs of a risk of inflammation which is often associated with death, according to a recent study published recently.

More than five million U.S. citizens suffer from chronic heart disease one condition, in which in the long run will come to the heart can not pump blood efficiently to the body.

Health problems and deaths from the disease remains in high levels even now already uses drugs effective therapy to cope with these conditions.

Researchers at the School of Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta who assess the effectiveness of spiritual practice of yoga for six weeks by 19 patients who had suffered heart attacks, get the physical exercise of yoga to reduce the signs of inflammation associated with heart failure, while it also has increased tolerance of physical exercise and quality of life.

"Many people believe that the additional practice of spiritual health yoga will also benefit heart health recovery," said the researchers who carried a presentation on their findings at the annual meeting of Heart Disease. "In addition, yoga exercises also give effect to the mechanism of action involving the advancement of the patients who had experienced heart failure.

The study also found striking differences in the levels of biological signals in the blood - interleukin-6, reactive protein-C and cellular extra dismutase superoxide between patients who underwent a spiritual practice of yoga with health patients who only received standard therapy. Patients who do yoga exercises, receive medical treatment without experiencing complications.

In addition patients who follow the practice of yoga has decreased symptoms or biological signs in the blood by 26 percent who set the standard quality of life compared with 3 per cent decline from just patients undergoing medical therapy alone.

"Yoga is a type of aerobics, because it is not surprising such impact in terms of signs of the inflammation," said Dr. Nieca Goldberg, who suggested the spiritual practice of yoga and tai chi a martial arts traditional come from China to the patient, thus Reuters.

Acupuncture Therapy Benefits to Health

One of usage of Acupuncture therapy is therapy which has provided success way for relieving pain or anesthetics. Patients usually conscious when they receive Acupuncture anesthesia therapy.

Acupuncture therapy or accupunture is also used to treat children affected by autism. It has been shown to restore the behavior of children afflicted with autism to be normal.

Acupuncture points have electrical characteristics that are very unusual. These points can flow around the electric flow to the skin and the adjacent or related areas. However, the amazing thing is the point changes following the emotions of Acupuncture patients.

Chinese Medicine also linked the weather relationship with the 5 elements of wood, water, fire, metal, and earth with one's health and disease. When the organ in the body is associated with the 5 elements and the Yin and Yang, for example, wood is associated with liver, heart with fire, lymph nodes with the earth or land.

However, the most important thing in managing Acupuncture is pulse diagnosis. This is an important thing because it can diagnose the disease which has been experienced by the patient. This allows acupuncture practitioners knowing the background easily one disease.

In addition, practitioners of traditional acupuncture or Acupuncture can also measure the organ abnormalities, in the meridian with the pulse of the radial artery at the wrist. Abnormalities in the organs, these meridians can reach 14 kinds of arterial pulse on both wrists. Acupuncture is also used for Acupuncture Beauty.

However, experts argue that only Acupuncture pulses 5 or 6 are usually the subject of diagnosis for treatment purposes. In addition, traditional Acupuncture Therapists will also examine the tongue, skin color, hair, and the position and movement of body gestures, breathing and the sound of voices in acupuncture or acupuncture therapy. In addition, style and lifestyle, diet, adequate sleep habits, stress thoughts, and reactions to the disease include disease-level affect someone. This process is known as 'Pelpitating or pulse palpitations' that diagnose the Qi flow disorders or often called chi and diseases of internal organs. You can find acupuncture points for depression here.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Healthy with Candle Therapy


Have you ever heard Ear Candle therapy? Ear Candle therapy is the therapy candles that use a special candle burned.

Ear Candle therapy has been already done centuries ago. It is said that this therapy comes from ancient Indian tribes in South America. Initially using corn skin dipped in a beehive. Now it is used special candle made of quality linen coated wasp nest. There is holes in the middle.

How to use it is putting a candle in a container such therapy coasters that have been drilled, so the candle can be through. Place the tip of the candle in the ear canal, while the other end was burned. After about 15 minutes, make the fire of candle off, then repeated for the other ear.

After that, cut both ends of the candle and there will be visible dirt. That's the dirt from the ears of the reach of ear cleaning. How? Smoke or steam from the candle takes all the dirt.

Ear Candle therapy is best done by experts or mistakenly you can burn your ear. Besides ear discharge, ear therapy can eliminate insomnia, vertigo, overcome ear infections, hearing sharpens, overcoming insomnia, reduce sinusitis, overcome ear buzzing, cure asthma, coughs and colds, and respiratory relief.

This therapy was not only useful for ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat). We have a lot of beauty salons as well as providing care services Ear Candle Therapy. This therapy can help to eliminate acne and gives freshness to the face. Besides, this therapy also can be used for relaxation. The smoke produced from burning candles can make us relax.

If undertaken regularly, this therapy can get rid of ear diseases mentioned above. After Ear Candle therapy, the effect will be felt immediately, you'll sleep even more soundly.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Benefits of Honey for Our Health

Almost everyone knows that honey is an important food source for humans and beneficial to human health, but very few people who noticed the characteristic of the producer, namely honey bees.

Bees produce honey not for themselves, but also for humans. Like other creatures in nature, bees are also dedicated himself to serve mankind; the same as the egg-laying chickens every day despite they are not need it and cows that produce milk far exceeds the needs of her children.

Honey is composed of several sugar compounds such as glucose and fructose and minerals like magnesium, potassium, calcium, sodium, chlorine, sulfur, iron, and phosphate. Honey also contains vitamins B1, B2, C, B6 and B3 that composition changes according to the quality of nectar and pollen. In addition, honey is also a small amount of copper, iodine, and zinc, as well as several types of hormones.

Today, apiculture and bee products have opened a new branch of research in countries advanced in science. Other benefits of honey can be described below:

Easily digested:
Because sugar molecules in honey can convert into other sugars (eg. fructose to glucose), honey is easily digested by the most sensitive stomach though, despite having a high acid content. Honey helps kidneys and intestines to function better. Low calorie: Quality honey is, when compared with the same amount of sugar, honey calories 40% less.

While giving a lot of energy, honey can not cause gaining weight. It diffuses more rapidly through the blood: When mixed with warm water, honey diffuses into the blood in seven minutes. Free sugar molecules make the brain function better since the brain is the largest sugar consumer.

Helps blood formation:
Honey provides the energy needed by the body for blood formation. Furthermore, he helped clean the blood. Honey has a positive effect and helps regulate blood circulation. Honey also acts as a protection against capillary problems and arteriosclerosis.

Kill the bacteria:
The nature of the honey kills bacteria called "inhibition effect". Research on honey show that these properties more than doubled when diluted with water. It is interesting that the newly born bees in the colony fed diluted honey by the bees responsible for their care, as if they know the capabilities of this honey.


Here are other benefits of honey for human health:
1. increase endurance,
2. increase sexual arousal,
3. increase the milk production,
4. cure high blood pressure,
5. launch blood and urine,
6. heartburn cure,
7. treat rheumatism,
8. smooth functioning of the brain,
9. heal burns,
10. good for skin care,
11. treat sinusitis,
12. colds, coughs, etc..

Hmm .. there many other benefits that can be exploited by humans from honey, even from the days before, honey has been known as a drug and a potent drink to cure various diseases.


Saturday, September 5, 2009

How to do an Athlete Diet

Ordering diet or a diet is eating a healthy arranged food and balanced nutrition includes adequate macro-and micro-adjusted to the weight and height and fat of a person. In the long run, a successful athlete depends on the fulfillment of nutrition every day.


There are many ways and ways to make weight-loss diet for an athlete. Diet can be relatively easy and safe from people who are not athletes. Although an active athlete will spend more calories than the calories consumed. Metabolic system of an athlete's body is also relatively better.

Weight loss = calories out> calories in. Because of calories in and not used will cause fat deposits and gain weight.

How to do a very diverse diet? But for those who want to go on an athlete diet and continue to improve performance, you can perform the following steps:


1. Establish the hearts and minds. All the behavior and condition of the body is almost entirely controlled by the brain. So to go on a diet, you should start thinking about goals and intentions of doing diet.
2. Discipline. In the diet, there must be many temptations and distractions that can spoil our diet program. For that discipline in diet, managing diversion of mind when comes the temptation should be done.
3. Continue to exercise. The main key is the fat-burning moves. Perform routine activities in the morning and evening with outside sports activities during the day.
4. Be sincere. Another key is doing it willingly without feeling forced. Enjoy it!

As an example the daily diet of activities that can be practiced:

Morning
1. Doing sit-ups 25x waking.
2. Drinking enough water
3. Doing a small gym and a little stretch after that
4. Jogging or brisk walking for 30menit
5. Drink sports or warm drinks. Mix the tea or coffee (Nescafe mix, coffeemix or other). Small glass and do not add sugar.

Afternoon
1. Eat gravy food.
2. Perform Endurance Run for 20-30 minutes. (Most good runner wears jacket around the stadium). Do it every 2-3 days.
3. When you don’t run, do a fitness or other sports instead
4. Adequate rest

Afternoon
1. Drink cold drink supplement 30 minutes before exercise.
2. Exercise or practice games at the club. Do it with love!
3. Drinking water more. (You’re sweating for sure! Naturally)
Night
1. Do not eat at night!
2. If you feel hungry, eat a banana or green apple fruit 1-3.
3. Drinking enough water.
4. Prepare supplies drinking water in addition to 1.5 liters for the anticipation when awake or stomach feels hungry.
5. Try to sleep most nights at 10:30
6. The number of hours for sleep at least 6 hours

That's an example of activities that has been done by an athlete. Remember, the tips above are the example and not absolute programs with excellent results. However, with activities like the tips above, the relevant weight of the athlete dropped 12kg during 4 months.
But the key dietary laws are:
Weight loss = calories out> calories in
Hopefully useful.

Reducing Bad Cholesterol by Consuming Some Herbs

Cholesterol is a fatty substance found only in animal foods. Cholesterol is made by the body in the liver. Two important components of cholesterol are LDL (low-density lipoprotein), also often called "bad" cholesterol, and HDL (high-density lipoprotein) cholesterol is called "good".

Some plants that have been researched and gave a positive indication in the treatment of hypercholesterolemia are vegetables and herbs. For example, garlic, leek, celery, ginger, star fruit, turmeric, and green tea.

Garlic
Extracts of garlic Allium sativum shown to lower serum cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood serum. It also can raise HDL cholesterol levels and increase activity of fibrinolitik. These garlic bulbs can prevent the infiltration (infiltration) of fat, inhibit or prevent platelet aggregation (blood that plays a part in blood clotting), so that clotting does not occur. All of this prevents the occurrence of Calcification and will prevent the occurrence of high blood pressure and heart attack (coronary). Garlic is also said as antiarteriosklerosis. Experiments in humans are more meant for prevention.
All parts of the garlic plants containing essential oils. Compound content of garlic is more present in the leaves than in tubers. Unfortunately, the smell of garlic is sting. Tryto eliminate it by mixing it with betel essential oil. Also, it has been tried with mixed leaves beluntas. In vitro, leaf beluntas can remove the smell of garlic, but does not affect the potency of garlic.
It takes two cloves of garlic, or about 4 grams each time to consume them. White tuber with a stinging sense should be chewed to swallow. After that, drink warm water to leave the taste. This is done three times a day.

Celery
Compounds contained in celery are; glucoside, apiin, and that gives apoil distinctive aroma. However, efficacious compounds which reduce blood cholesterol levels have not been revealed.
When the leaf was chosen as a drug, it is required braised celery with 1 cup boiling water to drink. After becomes cold, drink the boiled water. In one day it is enough to drink one time.

Ginger and turmeric
Xanthorrhiza ginger extract and turmeric Curcuma domestica. Both can lower blood cholesterol levels. In certain doses, ginger rhizome can lower total cholesterol and blood triglycerides and increased HDL-cholesterol in the blood of people with hyperlipidemia.
Meanwhile, turmeric has a cholesterol lowering properties. This blessing kurkumin contained therein.

Leaf leek
Leek leaves (Allium porrum L., A. fistulosum L.) can increase triglyceride levels and blood cholesterol

Starfruit wuluh
Star fruit Averrhoa wuluh is commonly used as part of the seasoning or vegetables, also proven to reduce blood cholesterol levels.

Green Tea
At certain doses, green tea was able to lower total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, and body weight. But green tea does not affect HDL cholesterol levels.
However the treatment is a good step to lower blood cholesterol levels which are already high. However, prevention is better. A few simple standard to prevent hypercholesterolaemia in increasing levels of soluble fiber in the diet is by eating fruits, vegetables, pea, and bean; choose white dishes of meat products or fish; remove chicken skin before cooking; choose lean meat and remove all fat, as well as being consumed in portions.
Also limit the amount of peanuts consumed; limit the use of butter, margarine, cheese, and use cooking oil from coconut or palm oil, instead use sunflower oil, soybean, canola, or olive oil; choosing food products and beverages with no or low fat; and if having extra weight, you should do weight reduction and exercise.

Friday, September 4, 2009

Fasting for Detoxification, Fasting for Health

Toxin is formed because of unbalance metabolism which happens if the amount of old cell is more than the amount of new cell. Fasting will accelerate the process of detoxification and smoothen the process of forming new cell as well.

There are four steps of food metabolism in the body; they are digestion, absorption, assimilation, and elision. While we are fasting, the body will naturally decrease intensity of food digestion, absorption, and assimilation and incase the elision process of toxin from the body.

Detoxification process in fasting period is more maximal because metabolism of poison elision in the body runs longer. Additionally, while fasting we eat less so that the poison that goes to our body is also lessened.

Moreover, there is limitation of calories while we are fasting. The limitation of calories gives effect on reducing the risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and can extend our age. How? When we eat food contained calories, there is a process of changing it to become energy in our body. With this energy we can do our daily activities. But this process needs oxygen, and excessive oxygen will create unimpeded radical. This radical which has toxin quality attacks body cells so there are damaged cells which will advance the aging process. The limitation of consumed calories while fasting is very beneficial to lessen toxin in our body.

Obesity because of Thinking Too Much

If you are kind of person who is demanded to think a lot, be careful, because thinking can spur on your appetite. It is resulted in a research in Psychosomatic Medicine journal. Dr Angelo Tremblay form Laval University in Quebec, the leader of the researcher team, stated that pressure or stress while thinking can increase appetite to eat more because thinkers need much more calories.

Intellectual activity gives impact on fluctuation of glucose level and insulin compared with rest mode. The fluctuation of glucose level will affect body to demand more food, to bring back the balance of glucose level as the source of energy for brain.

The desire of eating more will then spur on obesity. Therefore the activity of thinking should be balanced with physical activity to burn accumulated fat as the result of eating too much

Obesity because of Thinking Too Much

If you are kind of person who is demanded to think a lot, be careful, because thinking can spur on your appetite. It is resulted in a research in Psychosomatic Medicine journal. Dr Angelo Tremblay form Laval University in Quebec, the leader of the researcher team, stated that pressure or stress while thinking can increase appetite to eat more because thinkers need much more calories.

Intellectual activity gives impact on fluctuation of glucose level and insulin compared with rest mode. The fluctuation of glucose level will affect body to demand more food, to bring back the balance of glucose level as the source of energy for brain.

The desire of eating more will then spur on obesity. Therefore the activity of thinking should be balanced with physical activity to burn accumulated fat as the result of eating too much

Benefits of each Fruit



Fruit has nutrients, vitamins and minerals that are generally very good to be eaten every day. Compared to supplement chemical drugs sold in stores, fruit is much more save without the dangerous side effects, also about the general price which is far cheaper than the supplements. we can see the functions, content, efficacy and benefits in health of some types of fruit on earth below :



1. Tomato: tomatoes contain vitamin A, B1 and C. Tomatoes can help cleanse the liver and blood of our hearts. Tomatoes can prevent us fromvarious diseases and other health problems such as; bleeding gums, night blindness, clotting, intestine, prostate cancer and breast cancer.

2. Papaya: Papaya contains vitamin C and provitamin A. Papaya can help to break down food fiber in the digestive system. Papaya can make the digestive tract becomes smooth. It can overcome or cure various diseases and other health problems such as: wound healing, infection, remove and eliminate allergies.

3. Banana: bananas contain vitamin A, B1, B2 and C. Bananas can help to reduce stomach acid. Bananas can help to maintain water balance in the body, and treat various diseases, also other health problems such as: gastric disorders, heart disease and stroke, stress, lower levels of the blood cholesterol.

4. Mango: mango contains vitamins A, E and C. Mango can act as a disinfectant to clean the blood and overcome or cure various diseases, and also other health problems such as: bad body smell and reduce body heat during fever.

5. Strawberry: It contains provitamin A, vitamin B1, B and C. Strawberry contains antioxidants to fight free radicals substances. Strawberries have their other health functions such as: treatING health problems at bladder, as anti virus and the anti-cancer.

6. Apple: the apple contains vitamins A, B and C. Apple may help to lower blood cholesterol levels It has other health functions such as: anti canver, reduces too much appetite.

7. Orange: orange juice contains vitamins A, B1, B2 and C. Oange for the body contains anti cancer. Citrus can prevent and treat various diseases and other health problems such as: curie sprue, lower the risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and cataracts.

8. Pear: pear contains vitamin C and provitamin A. Pear contains anti-oxidants which are good for health care. Pear may prevent various diseases and other health problems such as: reduce heat while get fever, cure dilute and cough.

9. Red Guava: red guava contains very much vitamin C. Red guava contains antioxidant and anticancer. Red guava has other health functions such as: lower blood cholesterol, infection, cure sprue, maintain blood circulation, digestion, prevent constipation.

10. Watermelon: watermelon contains vitamin C and provitamin A. Watermelon can be eated for allergy. Watermelon has other health functions such aslower levels cholesterol, prevent and restrain a heart attack.

11. Melon (Honeydew): melon contains vitamin C and provitamin A. Melons contain anti-cancer and anti-oxidants. Melon has other health functions such as: prevent blood clotting, for clean skin, for well digestion, to lower cholesterollevels.

12. Carrots: carrots are rich in vitamin A. Carrots are good for maintaining healthy vision. Carrot has other health functions such as: enhance immunity and body resistance, keep the heart healthy.

13. Starfruit: star fruit contains vitamin C and provitamin A. Starfruit can help to facilitate the digestion of food. Starfruit has other health functions such as: reduce blood pressure, lower levels of cholesterol in the body.

14. Pineapple: It contain vitamins B and C. Pineapple can prevent heart attack and stroke. Pineapple can treat various diseases and other health problems such as: healing wound, healing infection in the digestive tract.

To be healthy naturally, without chemicals eat a variety of fruits to be tasted every day. This is for the health of our bodies which is very valuable.