When you go grocery shopping read the information on all packaged foods. Check serving sizes and total number of servings in the package. Now locate the number of calories per serving at the top of the label. Try to choose foods with a lower calorie count with the most nutrition. Better still shop from the outer isle of the store. You will find the fresh produce, fruits and salad makings there. Prepared foods will be much higher in calories and less nutritious.

Keep this in mind when counting calories.

1 gram carbohydrate= 4 calories

1 gram protein= 4 calories

1 gram fat= 9 calories

Take in less calories than you put out and when you reach a deficit of 3500 calories you will lose one pound. You can reach the deficit by eating smaller servings and less fat. You will lose more weight faster by exercising at least three times a week.

Here are the number of calories in some common foods that we eat daily.

Poultry:

3 oz. Chicken breast, roasted=189, 3 oz.fried=228

2.5 oz. Chicken drumstick, roasted=75, 2.5 oz.fried =195

1 oz. Turkey roasted

Dark meat=53 white meat=44

Seafood:

3 oz/ raw Clams=167

3 oz. Shrimp =100

3 oz. Scallops=95

3 oz. baked Salmon=140

1 frozen Fish stick=70

3 oz Lobster=81

3 oz. Tuna in water=135

Beef and Pork:

3 oz roasted Ham=205

1 Hamburger with bun=245

3 oz.sirloin Steak=240

3 oz. Veal cutlet=140

3 oz. Pork chop=200

1 Hot dog with bun=260

3 oz. Pork roast=180

Side dishes:

1 med. baked Potato=110, mashed with milk=160

1 cup enriched Rice=225

1 ear Corn=85

Breakfast:

3 med slices Bacon=110

1 fried Egg=90, scrambled with milk=100

1 English muffin=140

1 cup oatmeal=145

1 pancake with 2 tablespoons syrup=182

3 links brown and serve Sausage=50

1 slice buttered white Toast=100

Salad ingredients:

1/4 cup Onions=14

1/2 sweet green Pepper=10

1/4 cup Celery=5

6 slices Cucumber=5

1 cup Iceberg lettuce=5

1/4 cup Mushrooms=10

1/2 Tomato=13

1/4 cup Broccoli=11

1/2 oz. Croutons=58

Dressings:

1 tablespoon French regular=85, 1 tablespoon French low calorie=25

1 tablespoon Blue cheese regular=75

1 tablespoon Ranch regular=74, 1 tablespoon ranch low calorie=38

1 tablespoon Italian regular=80, 1 tablespoon Italian low calorie 5

Desserts:

1 Butter cookie=61

1 Chocolate chip cookie=45

1 cup Ice cream=270

1 small piece Angel food=125

1 small piece Carrot cake=385

1 small Brownie=95

1 small piece Custard=330

1 cup Gelatin=140

1 small piece pumpkin pie=320

Beverages:

12 oz. regular Beer=150, 12 oz.light Beer=95

1 cup Apple juice=115

1 cup Grapefruit juice=95

1 cup 2% Milk=120, 1 cup skim Milk=85, 1 cup whole Milk=150

12 oz.regular Cola=160, 12 oz.diet Cola=0

1 cup Orange juice=110

6 oz.black Coffee=1, With 1 tablespoon Cream=31,With1 tablespoon Cream and Sugar=80

Soup:

1 cup Chicken noodle=75

1 cup New England Clam=165

1 cup Minestrone=80

1 cup Vegetable=80

Fruits:

1 small Banana=200

1 small Apple=65

1/2 Grapefruit=40

1 cup Blueberries=80

10 grapes=35

1 Peach=35

1 Pear=100

1 Orange=60

1/2 cup Raisins=218

Other:

1 Enchilada=235

8 oz. Lasagna=290

1 cup Macaroni and Cheese=230

1 slice Pizza with Cheese=290

1 cup Spaghetti with meat=330

1 Taco=195

1 oz. Corn chips=155

1 Fig bar=52

1 oz.mixed Nuts=170

1 cup air popped corn=30

1 tablespoon Peanut butter=95

1 oz. Pretzels=111

8 oz.plain Yogurt=145

4 Saltine crackers=50

Bread:

1 slice Rye bread=65

1 slice White bread=65

1 slice Whole Wheat bread=70

Cheese:

1 oz. American cheese=105, 1 oz. Provolone=100, 1 oz. Swiss=95

Lunch meat:

3 oz. ham=157

3 oz. roast Beef=205

3 oz. Turkey=91

Miscellaneous:

1 teaspoon mustard=5

2 slices Pickles=10

1 teaspoon Ketchup=15

1 tablespoon regular Mayonnaise=100, 1 tablespoon imitation Mayonnaise=35

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The following exercises are best done while lying down, so you can practice them before dropping off to sleep.  Step by step, here’s what’s involved.

1. Begin with the arm and forearm to locate and feel tension.
2. Close your hand, making a fist.
3. Tightly clench both fists.  Notice the pull or tension on your wrists, around your elbows, and even up in the shoulders.  This is extreme muscular tension.
4. Open your fists.  Immediately release contraction from the muscles of the hands, forearms, upper arms, and shoulders.  You will feel the tension leave.
5. Close your eyes and think “relax” – breathe slowly and deeply.
6. Now do it all over again, then, do it once more.  In other words, perform the above exercises three times.
7. Next, bend toes and feet downward, then push or stretch downward with the heels.  Notice the pull or tension in your ankles, feet, hips, and thighs, but most particularly in the calves of your legs.  This is muscular tension.
8. Now let go, and the muscular tension disappears.
9. Do the foot exercise three times.
10. The final relaxing exercise is for the muscles of the neck, throat and face.  Close your eyes more tightly than usual.  Shut them as tight as you can.  At the same time press your lips together, and bite hard with your jaws’ strength.  This contracts the muscles of your eyes, forehead, mouth, jaws and neck.  You can easily feel the tension about the head—and even hear it ringing in your ears.
11. Now let go of the tension from your jaws and face.
12. Perform the face and jaw exercises three times.  You may need to practice this last exercise before you can master it.  Among all body muscles, those in the face are among the most difficult to relax.  Check on yourself when you are unable to sleep, and you will often find your eyebrows knit together, your forehead wrinkled up, and muscles around the eyes and jaws tense.

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1. Plan for tomorrow. Before you put your head to the pillow, plan out your meals for the following day. If you work a 9-5, pack your lunch and plan exactly what you are going to have for breakfast. Especially at the end of the day when you appetite is satisfied, you will be more likely to make healthy decisions. Pack a salad or instant oatmeal with some dried fruit in your briefcase for the next day’s lunch. Plan to grab a coffee and granola bar for breakfast at the local cafe. Don’t plan on snacking, and don’t bring along change that will turn the vending machine into a temptation.  
2. Let go of the morning carb overdose. It is tempting in the weary eyed hours of morning to grab a bagel and cream cheese or cinnamon bun from Starbucks. Each of these is likely over 500 unneeded calories and all carbohydrates. Instead try grabbing an apple, granola bar, oatmeal. All of these do have carbs enough to energize you, but aren’t overloading your body with glucose that you won’t be able to burn off with your limited morning activity.  
3. Start with a salad. Your office’s cafeteria has a plethora of bad-for-you options, and those hunger pangs at lunchtime make them all so darn tempting. If you are feeling these temptations, tell yourself you will start by eating a full salad, and if you are still hungry you can go back for something else you’d like. Nine times out of ten, if you give the salad fifteen to twenty minutes to digest after you’ve finished it, you will be much more satisfied than you anticipated, and the temptation to give in to the unhealthy foods will be gone!  
4.  Take the stairs. No matter what floor you are on, if it is a single digit number and there is air conditioning in the building: take the stairs. This needs no explanation, your body will thank you.   
5.  Lots of water. If you use our tips and still find yourself hungry throughout the day, try keeping a full glass of water by you at all times. Drink it obsessively. You will be cleaning out your system and keeping your body healthy, as well as creating the illusion of being full to satisfy those temptations. It should be noted that obscene amounts of water in a short amount of time can be unhealthy, so be careful not to overdo it. You may be visiting the bathroom more than your coworkers, but you will be healthier (and who really cares what they think anyway, right?)   If you have any workplace health suggestions of your own, feel free to share them in the comments for all the readers to benefit from.

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When your shoulder hurts because you have moved your shoulder the same way again and again, you only want it to stop. Unfortunatley, it feel like every way you move it causes more pain. Then if you work in a desk job, or your job is the reason your shoulder hurts, you’re in pain constantly; day in and day out. Finding relief for the pain is your only thought, and you don’t care how you go about getting it.

The best thing to do with any pain, tear, cut, or lesion is use the R.I.C.E method. That is Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation. First of all try to stop using it. Do anything you can top stop using it, and get it elevated above your heart. With two shoulders hurting, the only way to elevate it is sit up or stand up. The most important part of the RICE method in the beginning is the Rest part. You need to stop doing whatever it is that causes the pain. Even if that means taking a few days off. Once you’ve done this, you should feel a little bit of relief.

Now the Ice. But some sore spot need more than just Ice, so try alternating ice and heat. If you there is more pain with one then the other, try to leave it on there longer; it;s very possible that that is the healing process you;re feeling. After 10 minutes, if the pain doesn’t start to leave it’s not worth it and stop using that temperature at all. Keep the heat and ice on it for 20 minutes. Allowing the sore area to rest for 10 minutes in between each temperature.

Now you need to stop the pain from coming back, or figure out a way to relieve it. Most shoulder pain is there because it is pitching something or it has been rubbed raw by overuse. A few good stretches will cure both problems and prevent this from happening later. Begin by stretching the top of your shoulder first by trying to grasp your shoulder with the same hand and with the other hand, push your elbow up as far as you can.

Now you want to stretch the other side of the shoulder machine, the shoulder blade. Grasp your arm as you cross it across your chest. Pull it as you feel the back muscles pull slightly. Remember, the shoulder blade is the part of the shoulder joint that holds the arm in its socket. Any of these stretches that are too much for your soreness, do not do them or just do them lightly.

Now you need to strengthen you shoulder muscles. Once you’ve stretched them out so that nothing is being pinched or torn, you can strengthen them so that the tissues and connective muscles aren’t so exposed. Begin by placing two books flat in the palm of one hand. Put the books at shoulder level, almost touching your shoulder, and raise each book into the air until your arm is completely straight. Hold this position. Do this with each side three times. After that, get two soup cans and hold one in each hand. Put your arms straight out like you’re going to fly away. Hold them at that level for a count of 10, then raise them up, and lower them back again. Do this 4 times.

These stretches and excercises should be done on a daily basis. the pain will slowly start to subside, but only do this as much as you can. You don’t want to over do it, and you don’t want to injure yourself more because you did too much. Listen to your body, it will tell you what you need to do and not do.

Before you grow a beard look around and find a style you feel will suit the structure of your face.  If you have a longer face, you can get away with a taller thicker beard. If your face is shorter, a very thin chin strap will most likely suit you because it will help elongate your face. By following one of these simple how to guides, you will learn how to trim your beard to look like a sexy beast!

Regardless what you choose, before starting to grow your beard, you are going to want to start with a clean slate.  Get out some shaving cream, lather up your face really well and using a high end razor, shave all the hair off your face, including your side burns.

Allow your hair to grow back for a few days, if you have strong facial hair, a few days should be enough to notice some growth.  At this point, you will want to use your razor to carve out your design.  If you want to grow a chin strap, start with your neck.  Create a very straight line that runs along your jaw starting from your jaw close to your ear.

Once your neck is cleared up, thin your side burns up so they are around 1/4″ thick.  Follow this line down to wear you created a straight line near your neck.  Keep the line roughly the same thickness across your entire jawline.

If you screw up your first time, don’t worry it happens to all of us.  One trick, although hard on your skin is to shave without shaving cream.  Shaving without shaving cream, while slightly painful gives you a much better vision of what you are doing.  If that doesn’t work for you, after you apply the shaving cream, use your finger to trace out the areas you want to leave hair.  Then all you have to do is shave where there is shaving cream!

Happy shaving men!

The Benefits of Homemade Apple Cider Vinegar

The Mother: With regards to apple cider vinegar the mother is the cobweb-like sediment at the bottom of the bottle. What this means is that if you can see the mother in the bottom of the apple cider vinegar jar you can be reassured that the vinegar is unpasteurized, unfiltered and nutrient-rich.

Mineral Content: Apple Cider Vinegar contains the following critical minerals that are so vitally essential to your all round good health and well being: calcium, chlorine, fluorine, iron, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium, sodium and sulfur

Cardiovascular Benefits: Ways in which apple cider vinegar delivers cardiovascular health benefits include the lowering of a user’s blood pressure.

Plaque Reduction: Apple cider vinegar also plays a role in greatly reducing the quantity and rate of plaque formation and ongoing plaque deposition and buildup in the major arterial blood vessels such as the aorta and the coronary arteries.

Pocket Valves: The consumption of apple cider vinegar can also be directly linked to reducing the plaque buildup on the internal pocket valves of the body’s major blood vessels. This reduction in cardiovascular pathology in turn translates to a greater all round cardiovascular fitness.

Cholesterol: One mechanism by which the consumption of apple cider vinegar contributes directly to the above cardiovascular benefits is achieved through the influence that apple cider vinegar can exert in reducing your “bad” cholesterol levels.

Calcium Absorption: Apple cider vinegar helps in the extraction and absorption of calcium from what you eat. This results in your body having greater levels of calcium available for metabolic processes. This property of apple cider vinegar is something that all of those afflicted by osteoporosis should look into.

Toxic Wastes: The potassium contained in apple cider vinegar acts to assist the body in the removal of toxic wastes (detoxification).

Beta-Carotene: Beta-carotene helps proactively to aid the body in countering the damage caused by free radicals. It also helps with repairing said damage.

Malic Acid: The malic acid fights found in apple cider vinegar plays a key role in assisting our bodies to resist and fight fungal and bacterial infections. It is also reported to provide relieve to those suffering from joint pain.

Other Benefits: Other benefits that can be gained from the consumption of apple cider vinegar include relief of constipation and bloating.

All-Round, All Purpose Get Well Remedy

Here is a simple to prepare supplement that is commonly used all around the globe to help facilitate a rapid recovery for the sick. Add one teaspoon of apple cider vinegar to a mug and then 90% fill the mug with hot water. Give it a quick stir and then gradually stir in two teaspoons of honey.

Making Your Own Apple Cider Vinegar

1. Select a large bowl/container/jar for use as a fermentation vat
2. Wash and peel 2 Kg of apples. Keep peelings and the rest of the fruit separate. It is the apple peelings that are to be used in the making of the apple cider vinegar. The rest of the fruit (the flesh) can be put to other uses such as stewing the apples, use in making apple sauce or to make apple pies etc.
3. With the apple peel in the container that is going to be used as the fermentation vessel add enough water to ensure that all of the apple peelings are covered
4. Now cover the fermentation container and place in a warm place that is rarely disturbed (air closet for example). Leave to ferment.
5. Don’t forget to regularly checkup on the apple cider vinegar’s progress from time to time. Remove (skim off) the scum that collects on the top.
6. Once the fermenting apple cider mix has reached your desired strength you can begin bottling it remembering to use sterilized bottles/jars (coffee jars are ideal)

Tips

Bottling: I usually bottle ¼ of the apple cider a day for four days. In this way we can have a range of apple cider vinegars of varying strength from which to select.

Straining: I also strain some before bottling to be used as table vinegar (especially with fish, chips etc.). The reason for doing this is that it does make the final bottled apple cider vinegar more appealing to a considerably larger range of the population (especially the kids).

High cholesterol foods, trans-fat foods, food additives, air toxic emissions, vehicular emissions, haze and many more contributory factors are reasons that explain why our life is at huge treat of toxicological substances. Every second, every minute our body is exposed to a dangerous and deadly toxin. The toxin residues penetrate deep into our body quietly and later hide in the cells, tissues, muscles, and organs. Our large consumption of poultry meat and other animal based foods has caused us sickness with the common symptoms such as acne, bad breath, constipation, insomnia, weight gain or obesity, and other underlying symptoms.

The symptoms of having a ball-shape body at the lower abdominal part, rough and dull skin appearance, loss concentration, loss memory and for no reason we get irritated, angry or depressed easily are all consequences describing toxin accumulation in our body. In fact, the toxin residues are rubbish not being digested or excreted by our body and thus remaining in our body to later posing many health-related problems. These “junk” if left ignored in our body may turn to other stimulating agents that might have worsened the existing health condition of the patients and simultaneously they might weaken our immune system to fight off the germs in our body.

Oh, no, the acnes came out from your skin! You feel pain when touching on them. The mouth ulcers lead you to an extremely bad temper. And the story of the mouth ulcer is not ending here, as it keeps on spreading until all your mouth has more painful “cracks.” The other thing that irritates you is your feces. You keep on shouting in the toilet, “Oh, my god! What’s wrong with my feces today? All turn hard and smelly!” When you encounter someone at your workplace or any places, you find yourself bursting into anger more easily. You are in fact, not in a good mood! It seems like the hot weather outside has worsened your feeling. And you ask yourself again, “What’s wrong with me?” Well, my dear friend, do you know that all the drama scripts that are screening lively in your life is a signal from your body telling you that you are in a state of DANGEROUS. What kind of the danger is it? Frankly speaking, your body is bathed in a deep “toxic” state.

Now, you may ask me, “Chan, what am I going to do with this poisonous body?” “Well, you should go for a thorough detoxification!” a simple reply from me. Detoxification is not a new terminology for you to learn. Many of us came across this topic before this article was written, but we tend to forget its importance and role to our health. You are advised to learn how to detoxify toxins from your body in order to avoid putting yourself into a critical health circumstance. For sake of health, every one of us should spend some time to undergo the detoxification process that will aid in cleansing our body from any harmful or toxicological substances.

You may find a wide range of healthcare products which promote body detoxification flooded in the market. Then you keep on asking which is good among them and which is to choose from? Let me tell you that you do not have to trouble yourself with this selection. In fact, our body has a set of very good detoxification system to help us get rid of dangerous substances. As long as you know how to make use of it, you will win in this “detoxification war” to achieve your desired effects. Prior to this, please do a self-test to diagnose whether you need to go for detoxification or not.

Below is a set of self-test questionnaire to let you know whether you need to go for detoxification or not. The questionnaire may also help you to understand and communicate with your body better so that undivided attention can be given promptly.

• You are unable to wake up naturally from the bed in the morning but have to depend on the alarm clock to wake you up. After getting up from the bed, you always suffer from weaken and fatigue limbs. You may feel like you have not enough slept, and might have a feeling to return to the bed to sleep again. You may also feel dizzy, headache, back pain or you feel very weak enough to get up from the bed. (5 marks)
• When you comb your hair, some of your hairs fall off your head. (5 marks)
• You are suffering from rheumatism. (10 marks)
• Your lumbar abdomen appears in a bulging curved shape. (10 marks)
• You are always having a problem with your bowel action and diarrhea. You might have a difficulty to defecate. That means it will always take you more than one hour to poop. And your feces are not in a healthy shape. Compare the healthy and unhealthy feces by reading my article here. (5 marks)
• You are always suffering from respiratory related diseases which include coughing, flu, sinusitis, nasal polyps, nasal inflammation, running nose and sore throat. You might also have difficulty in breathing. To know about these respiratory related diseases, read my article here. (5 marks)
• Your face and other parts of your skins appear rough and dull. (5 marks)
• You are more likely to have an itchy skin whenever there isa change of the season. (5 marks)
• After working for one hour, you feel very weak, exhausted or your chest may feel a shortness of breath or dyspnea. In some cases, the sufferers may have an acute dyspnea that involves lung and breathing disorders, cardiovascular disease, or chest trauma. (5 marks)
• You have a terrible temper. You get irritated or upset easily over small matters or for no reasons you get angry and annoyance. (5 marks)
• You have no appetite to eat. You may have eaten a bit, but you have a feeling of vomiting out the food that you have swallowed. You feel no interest to eat at all as the food appears to be tasteless or unattractive to you. (10 marks)
• You are always experiencing insomnia or other types of sleep disorders. Your sleep quality is extremely bad. Even you may have slept on the bed, but you always engage in a nightmare every night causing your brain and body not being rested thoroughly. (10 marks)
• Your immune system is extremely lower as you have at least two or three times experiencing fever, flu, influenza, running nose and other sickness in a week. (5 marks)

Next, add up all the marks you get from this self-diagnose test and see the results below.

1. If your accumulation mark is below 20, it tells you that your body has fewer toxins that are not hazardous to your health
2. If your accumulation mark is 20 and above, it tells you that your body has a substantial amount of toxins accumulated
3. If your accumulation mark is 40 and above, it tells you that your body has a large amount of toxins accumulated. It isa warning that you should not ignore as your body’s condition just lies close to the border line of the dangerous level.
4. If your accumulation mark is 60 and above, it tells you that your body has become a huge dumpsite of toxins which put you in a critical health state. If left ignored, the accumulated toxins may lead to certain chronic diseases or adverse symptoms. If you are a patient, you should aware that this condition may have triggered and worsened your existing health problem.

Those who have the conditions as listed in (2) and (3) are advised to arrange time to let your body undergo the detoxification process, while those with condition listed in (4) must go for a thorough detoxification immediately. Though those with condition listed in (1) have the least impact of the toxin accumulation, they are advised to go for detoxification to promote an optimum health.

Lung Detoxification

Lungs are the organ that is more likely to become a dump site for dirt, germs, tiny particles, suspended substances in the air. Therefore, it is not surprisingly to find more dirt and tiny particles attached to the surface of the lungs. In a nutshell, the lungs are the place where toxin accumulated more easily than other parts of our body. This is because the daily breathing will take in about 8,000 liters of air into the lungs. When we breathe, the dirt, suspended tiny particles, bacteria, virus or any harmful foreign substances might have entered into our lungs. Not only they will harm our lungs, but also they will get our blood vessels clogged easily and subsequently causing the poor blood circulation.

Method

Coughing is used as a method to get rid of toxins from the lungs. The first thing to do is to search for a place with a refreshing and fresh air. This detoxification method is best to do in the early morning before 10.00 a.m. or after the rain stops. Choose either period that suits you at your ease. Now, you have to do a deep breathing. While doing a deep breathing, raise up your hands in a V shape gradually upwards to the sky as shown in the above picture. Next, you have to make yourself coughing suddenly while falling off your hands rapidly downwards to the ground. This step is essential to let a parcel of dirty air being forced out from your nasal passage and phlegm being coughed out. Repeat the steps several times a day. Do this every day to ensure your lungs are being washed off from any impurities. This is the only method that you can help your lungs undergoing detoxification.

Apart from this, you are advised to include black fungus in your daily diet. Black fungus contains abundant plant glial cells that perform as a “housekeeper” by clearing out debris, excess and unwanted materials from our lungs, blood vessels, cells, tissues and muscles of our body.

Kidney Detoxification

Kidneys are very important organs in human body as they help to filter out toxins in the blood and waste generated from the decomposition of protein. Then the filtered waste is discharged through urine.

Method

If you feel like you want to urinate, go for it, but do not keep your urine staying too long in your bladder. For your information, our urine is always congested with many harmful toxins, if you do not urinate promptly when you feel you should be, and you try to stand on your urine, then the urine will be reabsorbed into the excretory system. This can be hazardous to our health. It is simple to detoxify toxins in your kidneys. You just replenish the excretory system by drinking appropriate amount of fresh alkaline water. By doing so, you are helping the kidneys to dilute the concentration of toxins to its minimal ratio. This is important to help your kidneys to stimulate the metabolism while eliminating more toxins out of your body. One important thing to take note is that any carbonated or sweetened drinks cannot substitute the alkaline water to furnish your kidneys with appropriate amount of water. The more you replenish your kidneys with any carbonated or sweetened drinks, the more sugar and calorie are absorbed into the kidneys which will later damage or wear out your kidneys. For effective kidneys’ detoxification, I recommend you to replenish your body with a glass of warm sea salt water when you woke up straightaway from the bed.

The other thing to bear in mind is that you should include cucumbers or kyuri (Japanese cucumbers) and cherries in your daily diet to help your kidneys to accelerate the detoxification process. It is always recommended to go for organic cucumbers or cherries but if you could not afford, then just go for the normal cucumbers or cherries. They will do the job as well even though its effectiveness is not as good as the organic one. This is because the non-organic cucumbers or cherries might have the residuals of pesticide and chemical fertilizers.

An Intestinal Detoxification

When the food remnants are fermented by the bacteria, they will turn bad and spoil to form into feces. This process will produce a chemical substance called indole which is an extremely dangerous substance to keep in your body. The indole plus any toxicological substances originated from our food consumptions and breathing could pile-up substantial amount of toxins in our body if they are not eliminated promptly. Besides that the previous feces that are not properly being pooped out will attach firmly to the wall of your intestine. The accumulation of feces in your intestinal tract is hazardous as they will produce very toxicological substances such as hydrogen sulfide, the smelly manure, and indomethacin that will poison your intestine. Imagine that three or four feces with 6cm each in length are equivalent to the harmful substances from 10 cigarettes you smoked! How dangerous are your feces! Therefore, you should poop properly everyday and make sure your bowel functions smoothly to avoid the chances of getting diseases. To know more about the feces, read my article here.

Method

The intestinal detoxification can be done by flushing your body with water. When you get up from the bed in the early morning, remember to replenish your body with at least 200ml warm alkaline water. After replenishing your body with some water, try to move around in your park, backyard or any places that are free from heavily polluted air. By doing this, you are helping your intestine to get washing off the toxins. This will aid in a smooth bowel action. Besides doing this, you should shift from artificial foods to non-artificial foods. Fresh organic fruits such as pineapple, kiwi, papaya, and guava are natural foods that help cleansing your intestine. The lack of peristalsis (moving action) of intestine is the main cause why you are facing the constipation, and thus you should include fiber-rich vegetables and fruits in your daily diet. Foods that are rich in fibers are unpolished brown rice, kiwi, oatmeal, pumpkin, and banana, to be named a few examples for your reference. Feeding your intestine with these vegetables and fruits are vital to promote intestinal peristalsis to get you away from the annoyance of constipation.

A Liver’s Detoxification

A liver is the body’s largest detoxification organ. All kinds of toxins will undergo a series of chemical reactions in the liver to be converted into a toxic-free or lower toxic substances.

Method

Physical exercises are good measures to detoxify a liver. That means a physical exercise is the top thing to do to help exerting pressure on the liver in order to improve the state of tension within the muscles and adjacent cells joining to form the liver. The physical exercise has such a strong effect to stimulate a good function of the overall blood circulatory system, which will later accelerate detoxification to be taken place in the liver.

Besides the exercise, you should include bitter gourd in your diet. Though a bitter gourd has a bitter taste that is hard to stand for, it is indeed an extremely good foodstuff to promote the detoxification in the liver. This is because a bitter gourd has a type of rarely found protein in other foodstuffs. This protein is clinically proven to boost up the immune cells’ activity to their maximal level, and at the same time it functions as a vacuum cleaner to sweep off toxic substances from our body.

Skin Detoxification

Besides a liver that I mentioned earlier, human skin is also the other largest detoxification organ. The sweat gland and the sebaceous gland within the skin get rid of the toxins through sweating.

Method

You should do an aerobic exercise to promote sweating at least once a week. If possibly, go for a sauna, a natural spa, a steam bath or a medicated warm bath at least once a week. The bath helps to accelerate the metabolism, promote the blood circulation and the most important thing here is that it helps washing off toxins from your body through sweating. Prior to the bath, you should always replenish your body with a glass of alkaline water to help speeding up the detoxification process. Similarly, you should furnish your body with an appropriate amount of alkaline water after the bath to help eliminating any toxins that might have remained beneath the layer of your skins, armpits or muscles.

Please proceed to How to Detoxify your body: Part Two and Detox program: flush your body for a healthier life

Lastly, I wish you a success in undergoing the detoxification process. Let us employ a healthy lifestyle to achieve an optimum health! Good luck!

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Crank up the volume on the radio

When fatigue starts to set in during a commute, turn up the radio volume and become a more active participant. Put on your best rock star voice and sing along with the music. If rock music isn’t enough to keep you awake, switch over to opera. It’s been shown that music with high frequency sounds is most effective in boosting alertness and reducing fatigue.

Roll down all the windows

Nothing will wake you up and clear your mind more quickly than a blast of cold air. Roll down all the windows in your car and breathe in the cool air that floods your car. This is a great energizer when you’re fatigued from driving.

Suck on a powerful mint or candy

Keep a box of mints with a strong flavor such as peppermint handy for long drives. The intense flavor will help to energize you and increase alertness. A good choice is Altoids which advertises itself as the curiously strong mint.

Take a quick jog

Pull into the next rest area and do a couple of laps at a fast pace around the parking lot. Once you get your heart and blood pumping, you’ll feel the fatigue melt away and experience renewed vigor and alertness.

Drink coffee

Coffee is the old standby for fatigue but it really works. If you use this technique for staying alert, it’s important that you know your tolerance for caffeine or you could end up feeling nervous and jittery which isn’t ideal when you’re operating a motor vehicle.

Eat frequent, high protein snacks

When you’re driving for long periods, it’s important to maintain your blood sugar. Skip the high sugar, high carbohydrate fast food sweets and snacks. Instead eat snacks high in protein such as nuts or peanut butter. These snacks will help to maintain your blood sugar levels and keep you awake.

Now that you know how to stay awake while driving, enjoy your trip!

On very effective way to stop biting is to dip, dunk or paint your nails with something you can’t stand. Every time you’re tempted to nibble or chew your nails this will definitely make you think twice.

Here are the top 5 things to cover those nails in:

• Red hot chilli Peppers. (No not the band, the vegetable.).
• Curry powders
• Stop Biting Aids. (Available at chemists.).
• Compost
• Garlic

Failing that just use something you personally can’t stand.

Wrap Them Up

Keeping your nails covered is a great way to avoid getting your teeth into them.

The most popular items to use are:

• Gloves
• Plasters/Band-Aids
• Sticky tape

Keep Busy

Many people bite their nails simply because they are bored and have nothing else to. Keeping busy will keep you mind off them and soon you will be so occupied elsewhere, your nails will have time to grow.

Chew On Something Else

Try replacing your fingers with something much tastier. Boiled sweets, chewing gum and other treats are a great place to start.

Imagine Beautiful Nails

By imaging how gorgeous your nails could look if you let them grow can give people the sense of wanting and pride. After all, who truly wants nasty looking chewed up stubs on the tips of the fingers.

Finally Failing All That Try Tip 6.

Will Power

There’s nothing quite like it. Just put your hands away and say no.