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10 Health Benefits of Lemons

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:33:51 +0000

Digestion: Mix several cut lemons with water, basically a light lemonade, and drink it in the morning to help your digestion all day long. The lemon stimulates the liver and this helps with digestion.
Nose bleeds: This one stings a little bit, but lemon juice on a cotton swab or soft cloth when applied to a bleeding nose helps to slow and eventually stop the flow of blood.
Diuretic: If you suffer from a urinary tract infection, or need to lessen the fluid in your body for any number of health reasons (such as high blood pressure, enlarged heart, etc.), lemon is a natural diuretic, helping you to shed unwanted water. Just be prepared to go to the bathroom more often!
Antiseptic:The acidic juice of lemons kills harmful bacteria, which makes lemons a natural antiseptic you can apply to small cuts, inflamed areas and other infections. Again, this one might sting a little. But don’t use lemon for major infections or large cuts, not because the lemon would be dangerous, but because you need real medical attention.
Facial cleanser: Lemon juice helps to fight wrinkles, acne, blackheads and even freckles. Apply the juice directly to your skin, then allow it to dry. Remove the juice with a little olive oil mixed with water. This will not only make your skin more shiny, but will also remove dirt and grime.
Mouth care: Swab a little lemon juice on bleeding gums to stave off further blood. Lemon also helps to give your mouth a refreshing feeling, fights bacteria and can give you fresh breath. Also, believe it or not, when applied to tooth aches, lemon juice helps to dull the pain.
Reducing fever: There are two ways to use lemon when wanting to reduce a fever. For one thing, you can drink a little lemon water. But an even better solution is to buy or make a lemon balm, then apply it to the body, probably mainly around the forehead. A lemon balm is a concentrated form of lemon, and it helps the body to perspire and sweat out the fever, any kind of fever caused by any kind of illness.
Blood pressure: Because of the high levels of potassium in lemons, the fruit is good at helping to keep blood pressure lower. The potassium counter-acts sodium.
Depression: Drinking lemon juice mixed with water a few times a day is known to create a calming effect, relaxing the body, thus helping to lessen depression and stress.
Antioxidant:All that vitamin C in lemons does several wondrous things, including cleansing the blood and helping to build a stronger immune system. Also, various medical studies have shown that high use of vitamin C helps to combat many serious illnesses, from cancer to heart disease and more.

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Don’t Die of Ignorance Since You Have Got 38 Fantastic Health Rules to Follow

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:47:22 +0000

Avoid eating supper as this will put in food load into your stomach, and thus causing the stomach to work overtime. Despite of the long-term fatigue, the stomach will age faster than your expected age. When the stomach does not have an adequate rest, you are more likely to get a stomach cancer as the ulcer or tumor will appear onto the surface of the stomach. When this condition perceives, your stomach will wear out rapidly.
The intake of eggs should limit to four per week. The more you eat the eggs, the more chances you are putting yourself in a critical health state.
It is wrong to eat fruit after the meal. The fruit should be taken before the meal but not when your stomach is empty. It is discouraged to take fruits when the stomach is empty as the acidity of the fruits may have indulged or eroded your stomach which may cause a stomach pain or a gastric.
Females who are in menstruation are strictly not allowed to have green tea. Not only green tea, but also other type of tea is discouraged to take during this period. In contrast, females should increase iron-rich foods to replenish the inadequate iron due to the loss of blood during menstruation to avoid getting anemia (lack of hemoglobin).
When you drink soy milk, do not add in an egg and sugar as it will harm your health. Take note that soy milk should not be taken too much at one time, but an appropriate amount of soy milk is recommended to take daily.
Do not eat tomato when your stomach is empty. The tomato is best to eat after the meal to promote a better health.

When you wake up straightaway from the bed, the first thing you have to do is to replenish your body with an appropriate amount of alkaline water to avoid stones forming in your gallbladder, kidney or in other related organs
Do not eat anything three hours before getting to bed. If you against this law, you are more likely to become fat. This is because foods that you ate may have remained in your stomach overnight before they are being digested when you wake up from the bed the following morning.

Reduce your intake of milk tea as it contains high-calorie and no nutritional value which might not be good to your health. If you have a habit of drinking milk tea frequently, you are more likely to suffer from hypertension, diabetes and other underlying diseases two times higher than those who do not drink milk tea.
The newly baked bread, cakes or cookies should not be eaten straightaway as it has a high possibility to cause cancer and swelling of the stomach
Avoid yourself from any electrical charges, high-power device or any infrared electrical device that may have released high frequency radiations which lead to the health hazard. These devices should be placed 30 cm or more from the distance where you are. Remember not to put these things close to your bed or bedroom as it will disturb your brain from having adequate rest. In some cases, these high power devices may have caused a brain cancer. Apart from that, you should avoid yourself being exposed to computer’s radiation as it will harm your eyes and may have spoiled your brain’s cells if you stay too long gazing at the computer’s screen. I have recommended some useful tips to avoid the radiation in details in Nine Effective Tips to Prevent Computer Radiation.

Drink at least 8 glasses of alkaline water every day to replenish your body with an appropriate amount of water which is lost through sweating, respiration, breathing, urination and defecation. If you drink 10 glasses of alkaline water a day, you help to keep your kidneys away from the cancer. Health: Improve Your Daily Energy Levels is another source that explained why your body needs water badly.
Drink more water during the day time as you are more active during this time, but take less water during the night time

Do not drink more than two cups of coffee in a day. The more you drink coffee, the more chances you are going to suffer from insomnia and gastric. In conclusion, coffee is good to our health in 1 to 2 cups, but it may pose health related problems in a large consumption as described in Coffee: Good/Coffee: Bad.
Cut down the intake of oily food as your stomach requires 5 to 7 hours to completely digest it into a simpler form to be absorbed by the cells. The digestion may cause the blood from the brain to be concentrated in the gastrointestinal causing you to be in a state of dizzy, drowsiness, sleepy and fatigue.
Do not eat too much but eat less after 5p.m. as your body requires less energy. The more you eat, the more chances you are putting yourself at a high risk.
Banana, grapefruit, whole-wheat bread, oatmeal, spinach, tomato, cherry, yogurt and low-fat milk are foods that you should eat regularly as they make you feel happy and energetic. Regarding healthy fruits, vegetables and foods, you may find more useful information in Five Great Colors for Excellent Health, 10 Healthy Fruits to Promote Optimum Health, Top Six Excellent Foods to Reduce Lipids and Cholesterol, The Health Benefits of Carrots, Eight Great Fruits for Different Parts of Body, The Health Benefits of Celery, Seven Foods That Helps to Cleanse Body Waste, Why Psyllium is Great for Health?, Red, Yellow and Orange is Good for Our Eyes, Five Foods That Helps to Fight Against Depression, Five Fruits That Will Energize Your Body and Spirit, Healthy Eating with Potatoes, Mushrooms are Nutritious to Health, and Why Kiwi Fruit is So Good?
An inadequate sleep or sleep disorder may reduce your memory besides accelerating aging to be taken place in certain parts of your body. Your body needs at least 8 hours to perform well. A 20 to 30 minutes nap is also good to rest your body besides delaying the aging. Sleep disorders is dangerous to your health as documented in Sleep Deprivation is Serious.
Your body gets good rest from 10p.m. to 6a.m. Make sure you sleep within this time frame so that your body can be fully charged to enable the better performance the next day.
Drink no more than one cup of liquid or alcoholic drink a day. This is because the alcohol will inhibit the production of the B-cell antibody and thus exposing yourself to a high risk of bacterial infection.
Swallow soft gel capsule with cold water. “Cold” here does not refer to water mix with ice cubes. Instead, it means naturally cold plain water. Take your medicine one hour before your sleep. Never lie down straightaway when you have just taken medicine.

Plums are good to take to prevent aging. Those who have a liver problem are encouraged to consume plums frequently to promote the health of liver.
Take note that hair loss is due to factors include pressure at work, alcohol, trans-fat and cholesterol rich foods, inadequate sleep due to stay overnight, and foods that are enriched with too much sauce, chili, salt and seasonings, MSG and food additives added foodstuff (Food for Thought…the Skinny on MSG and MSG are two excellent resources to explain to you the danger of MSG to your health). Thus, you should cut down these types of foods to prevent hair loss as in a serious case it may lead to balding.
Increase the intake of cabbage, and beans (warning: this rule is not applied to those who are suffering from thyroid and liver problem) to promote hair growth while reducing the intake of sweetened or fructose added foodstuffs
Drink one cup of fresh organic lemon or orange juice a day can help repairing the texture of skin, whitening the skin and fading away the mole as well. In general, fresh fruit juices are good to promote better health as mentioned in 10 (Updated) Exotic and Healthy Juice Recipes, and Nine Reasons Why You Should Drink Juices.

An apple a day keeps you staying away from a doctor. The apple is a good medicine particularly for those who are drivers, heavy smokers, drug addicts, workers, salaried staffs and housewives. One day one apple (warning: green apple is not recommended here as its acidic property may erode your stomach, and thus red fresh organic apple is recommended) is a good remedy for clean lungs. Other excellent resources about the health benefits of apples are explained in Apples: The Wonder Fruit and Apples Could Delay the Aging Process.
Do not eat fruits or vegetables that are rich in beta-carotene or vitamin A (A carrot which is rich in beta-carotene can bring harm if consumed in large doses as documented in Carrot Addicts May Turn Orange) while you are smoking as this will lead to cancer. Smoking is not good for your health as it may invite cardiovascular, arteriosclerosis (blood hardening) and heart related diseases. You are advised to quit from smoking if you do not want to die too quickly. Try to reduce the cigarette you smoke from 5 a day to as minimal as 2 per day and subsequently stopping from touching any brand of cigarettes. For your information, the cigarette you smoked not only harms your health, but also the smoke that you breathe out will cause cancer to persons who breathe in the air around you. So it is time for you to quit from smoking in order to protect our air from being polluted by the harmful substances found in the cigarette. Effective ways to quit smoking can be found in Quit Smoking: the Surest and Easiest Way.
All females should not ignore the 5 critical moments in their life. The moments here refer to a period of menstruation, pregnancy, menopause, before and after delivering the birth. Do not drink tea during this period to avoid any unwanted health problems. Besides that, females are advised to do health screening tests as described in details in Top Ten Health Screening Tests Females Should Do and Five Scan Tests That Could Save Your Life.
Smoking is closely related to cancers which are clinically proven in many academic documents. You should now aware that smoking may put you in a high risk of getting lung, oral, larynx, esophagus and bladder cancers.
Drinking any types of alcoholic drinks in large quantity are factors that lead to cirrhosis (chronic liver disease), lung and liver cancers. Therefore, you should stay away from the alcoholic drinks. However, appropriate amount of red vine is recommended as documented in my article entitled Red Wine: Drink or Not Drink?

Do not chew betel nut as it contains the nut of the betel palm ( Areca catechu ), part of the Piper betel vine, and lime which may result in sedation in a large consumption while in a small dose, it leads to euphoria (elevated mood of extremely exciting feeling). Its constituents are potentially carcinogenic as it has been linked to the worsening of asthma, rapid heartbeat, squamous cell carcinoma (cancer). Oral submucous fibrosis (OSF), low blood pressure and pre-cancerous oral lesions (mouth wounds).
Foods that are artificial, too fine in its texture, less fiber and high in fat and cholesterol may lead to stomach swelling and cancer or gastric. Some foods are not good as it may cause cancer as described in my article entitled What Foods is Bad or Good for Cancer?
Foods that are too rough in its texture and less nutritional values will cause your body to suffer from a syndrome related to the intake of insufficiency of nutrients. Those who have this bad eating habit are at a high risk of getting esophageal cancer and gastric.
Chemical substances include food flavoring, food acids, food conditioners, anticaking agent, Monosodium Glutamate, Disodium Guanylate, Disodium Inosinate that are added to the foodstuffs are some of the examples which may cause cancer or it may indulge the healthy cells to become cancerous cells. Other unhealthy foods to avoid are described in The Top Foods to Avoid and A Satirical Look at Dieting.
Always reduce the intake of table salt in your daily diet. The salt or sodium that you consume every day may have hidden in certain parts of your body to later posing health related problem. To know how to cut down the salt consumption, read the article entitled Salt’s Sneaky Hiding Places to grasp more ideas.
Always cut down the meat consumption but take plenty of vegetables. The ratio between meat and vegetable should be at 1:3, which means 3 portions of your daily diet should include vegetables. Meat is unhealthy to consume as explained in The Amazing Facts About the Meat and Think Before You Eat. Therefore, you should take more vegetables for an optimum health. The article Five Good Reasons to Be Vegetarian described why you should go for vegetarian.

Always increase fiber-rich foods in your daily diet to promote good digestion besides avoiding constipation. Oatmeal, grains, cereals, wheat, whole grains, potato, yam, kiwi are some of the good sources of fiber that you can include in your every day’s diet to promote better health. More benefits of fiber-rich foods are documented in Fight Colon-rectum Cancer and Diabetes with High Fiber Bread, Fruits and Vegetables, Oatmeal for Health, and The Importance of Fiber in Your Diet.
Prevention to certain diseases at the early stage is essential to save your life. By knowing certain signs of diseases, you can take an appropriate measure to raise your attention towards your health’s condition besides the timely and immediate treatment can be given in order to curb the underlying symptoms from becoming a chronic disease that may take you more money to spend on medical bills. More information regarding prevention towards diseases is explained in Why HPV is Said to be More Dangerous and Threatening Than Sars?, 26 Signs of Illnesses You Must Watch Out for, How to Detoxify Your Body, Proven Methods to Cut Heart Attack Risk, Effective Massage to Delay Body’s Aging, Are You Stressing?, Are Your Feces Healthy? and How to Boost Your Immune System.

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Lastly, I wish you all good health, good luck!

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Cheer to Your Health

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:31:31 +0000

It is not alcohol drinks that I am talking about, but it is the drink that can boost up your energy. These drinks can help you waking up in the morning, get rid of headache, ease upset stomach, strengthen the immune system, and prevent cramps, as well as satisfying your thirst.

We have been told to drink eight glasses of water a day, and it can be bland, boring, and not enticing. So, here are some drinks to consider for your general good health.

Light coffee

Can’t wake up in the morning? Grab a cup of java to stimulate your nervous system, and energize your head. Stick to low-fat or skim milk, and use less sugar. Light milk gives you the needed protein and a dose of carbs to keep your blood sugar even for a little longer. Regular coffee drinker can lower the risk of type 2 diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, and colon cancer.

Ginger Tea

Ginger is well known for helping upper respiratory tract. It has anti-inflammatory properties that lessen rheumatoid arthritis. Ginger tea can ease your stomach ache, and settle a nausea feeling in your stomach. You can add a dash of ground ginger in regular tea, or grate some fresh into a pot of boiling water and let it sits for about five minutes before drinking. If you can’t tolerate ginger, you can have chamomile or peppermint tea for substitution to comfort bellyache.

Have a glass of apple juice

The health benefits of apple are widely spread because apples are high in antioxidant, and are unlikely to cause allergic reactions. Grab a glass of apple juice to cure your headache. Apple juice or cider, both hot and cold, can be as powerful as an Aleve when you have a severe pain from stress. Any type of green or red apple juice, fresh or from concentrate, will help relieve headache pain. The smell of apple is also very therapeutic.

Lemonade

Lemon is one of the fruits that can strengthen the immune system. It can also help in fighting disease that related to infection, and purifies blood. Lemonade can increase your energy level in the morning or late in the afternoon. The taste of lemon can fight fatigue by stimulating a nerve in the nose, and can sets off a wake up sensors in the brain. Lemon juice contains calcium which will help teeth and bones.

Milkshake

Diet rich in calcium and vitamin D helps reduce the risk of PMS by about 40%, and possibly altering estrogen levels. At that time of the month, grab a low-fat milk shake to satisfy your sweet tooth craving. It will ease cramps and other symptoms of PMS. There are many different delicious milkshake recipes on the internet. Find one that you like, and blend up some.

Now, cheer to your health with these drinks. You don’t have to drink just water anymore. What could be better than these drinks that provide good benefits to your health? They are readily available at home, as well as on the road. The right drink at the right time can help change the moods you are in.