Refreshing Mint Leaves for Health

Mint is a popular plant that contains a lot of benefits for health. Mint leaves (Mentha cordifolia) have a fragrant aroma and refreshing taste of cool. Light fragrant aroma of mint oil content caused asiri of menthol oil. Aroma and taste of mint combined with other ingredients to make this plant used as beauty products, toothpaste, chewing gum, shampoo and others. This leaves contain vitamin C, pro-vitamin A, phosphorus, iron, calcium and potassium.

Some toothpaste manufacturers have often used the scent of peppermint as a natural flavor. Peppermint is also used to treat teeth, it can protect the content of teeth from microbes and germs by its antiseptic. Diligently consume peppermint will make a healthy mouth and fresh breath.

Peppermint can also eliminate stress. A cup of mint tea can make the mind becomes calm. In addition, mint can also remove existing toxins in the body because mint is a diuretic and anti-microbial.

Fiber, chlorophyll and phytonutrients contained in many mint. Mint leaves is believed to restore stamina, relieve headaches, prevent fever, has cancer-preventing antioxidant properties and maintain eye health.

Many people confuse how to process mint. Some people consider merely mint leaves for garnish cake, pudding or beverages. Yet this leaves could be processed into a variety of dishes, such as seafood seasoning, mixed salad, a mixture of juice, tea or stir the mixture.

Mint tea mixed into the water bath can eliminate fatigue. Mixture of two drops of mint oil and two ounces of water are incorporated into a bottle you can use as a conditioner with the way the hair spray.

Other benefits of peppermint are:

• Eliminate dandruff on the scalp.
• Used as an aromatherapy that can refresh and hydrate skin.
• Improve blood circulation.
• Eliminate fatigue and increase energy.
• Eliminate swelling in the legs.

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.