Health & Wellness

September 2, 2009

Unhealthy Habits

People develop many unhealthy habits due to certain circumstances. These habits damages our body. We dont realize until the point when the unhealthy habits develops into a major problem.

Try to avoid these unhealthy habits:

 
1. No Breakfast

People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level. This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.

In many case, a person might experience Low Blood Pressure due to insufficient supply of sugar. 

 2 . Overeating

It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.  Avoid sleeping exactly after eating or overeating. The food will not digest properly which creates many problems in the body.

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 3. Smoking

It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.  The smoke damages the lungs and respiratory system.

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4. High Sugar consumption

Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.

In most cases, the person becomes diabetic. Specially, if excercising is not in a regular schedule.

5 . Sleep Deprivation

Sleep allows our brain to rest. A habit of sleeplessness or less sleep slows the process of cell repair in brain.

6. Head covered while sleeping

Sleeping with the head covered increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decreases concentration of oxygen which again affects the brain.

7. Straining your brain during illness

Working hard or studying during sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain cells.

8. Lacking in stimulating thoughts

Thinking is the best way to train our brain. If you dont use your brain, it will stop developing. Healthy and positive thoughts will help you brain and body too. Excercise your brain by solving puzzles, crosswords, etc.

These were some of the common unhealthy habits which we should avoid in our life. They have negative effects on our body, brain and over all health.

Happy Living 🙂

August 24, 2009

Cure High Blood Pressure with proper Nutritional Diet

What is High Blood Pressure ?

 High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is the most common cardiovascular disease. Blood pressure refers to the force of blood pushing against artery walls as it courses through the body. Each time heart beats, it pumps out blood into the arteries. Blood pressure is highest when the heart beats, pumping the blood. This is called systolic pressure. When the heart is at rest, between beats, the blood pressure falls. This is the diastolic pressure.

Most people with high blood pressure have no signs or symptoms. Although a few people with early-stage high blood pressure may have dull headaches, dizzy spells or a few more nosebleeds than normal, these signs and symptoms typically don’t occur until high blood pressure has reached an advanced – even life-threatening – stage.

Normal blood pressure is 120/80, where 120 is the systolic (maximum) blood pressure and 80 is the diastolic (minimum) blood pressure. When systolic blood pressure is above 140mm Hg or when diastolic blood pressure is above 90mm Hg, blood pressure is considered high.

 

Reasons for High Blood Pressure

Hypertension may be caused by a variety of reasons such as: heredity, your genes, high salt in your diet, not being active, obesity, excessive alcohol intake and/or low potassium in your diet

Hypertension is an all too common condition in today’s hectic society. With many people being overweight, eating a poor diet, and experiencing high stress levels, blood pressure problems will likely remain a reality.

Although some people are genetically predisposed to hypertension, there’s plenty of evidence that a healthy life style and good nutrition can help during hypertension.

Here are a few Nutritional Diet tips to cure High Blood Pressure

1) Celery                                                                                                                                                                                                       celery

A number of common vegetables and spices have beneficial effects in controlling hypertension. Incorporate these into your cooking:

Celery (ajmud): Oriental medicine practitioners have long used celery for lowering high blood pressure. There are some experimental evidence that shows that celery is useful for this. In one animal study, laboratory animals injected with celery extract showed lowered blood pressure.

Eating as few as four celery stalks a day was found to be beneficial in lowering blood pressure in human beings. However, celery does contain sodium and other compounds that can have negative effects when large amounts are ingested.

2) Garlic & Onion                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    onion_garlic

Garlic is a wonder drug for heart. It has beneficial effects in all cardiovascular system including blood pressure.

In a study, when people with high blood pressure were given one clove of garlic a day for 12 weeks, their diastolic blood pressure and cholesterol levels were significantly reduced. Eating quantities as small as one clove of garlic a day was found to have beneficial effects on managing hypertension.

Use garlic in your cooking, salad, soup, pickles, etc. It is very versatile.

Onions are useful in hypertension. Two to three tablespoons of onion essential oil a day was found to lower the systolic levels by an average of 25 points and the diastolic levels by 15 points in hypertension subjects.

This should not be surprising because onion is a cousin of garlic.

3) Tomato & Broccoli                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        tom_bo

Tomatoes are high in gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA), a compound that can help bring down blood pressure.

Broccoli (hari phoolgobhi)

Glucoraphanin, also known as sulforaphane glucosinolate (SGS), a naturally-occurring compound found in broccoli sprouts and broccoli, help reduce the risk of high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and stroke.

4) Carrot & Saffron                                                                                                                                                                                                                          carrotssaffron

Carrots are high in potassium, which can help prevent and control high blood pressure.

They are also high in beta-carotene, which studies show can reduce the risk of heart disease leading to high blood pressure. Carrot juice helps to maintain normal blood pressure by regulating heart and kidney functions.

A recommended dose is a 240 ml blend of one part celery juice, one part carrot juice and one part water, taken at least once a day.

Saffron (Kesar) contains a chemical called crocetin that lowers the blood pressure. You can use saffron in your cooking. (It is a very popular spice in Arabic cooking).

You can also make a tea with it. Many Indians add a pinch of saffron in the brewed tea to give a heavenly flavor. Unfortunately, it is very expensive.

5) Common Spices                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  spices

Spices such as fennel (saunf), oregano (ajwain), black pepper (kali mirch) and basil (tulsi) have active ingredients that are beneficial in hypertension. Use them in your cooking.

The link between hypertension and diet is irrefutable.

Generally speaking, making small changes to one’s diet is one of the best ways of dealing with something as unspecified in origin as hypertension, and natural treatment of the condition addresses that which contributes to hypertension.

Happy Living 🙂

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June 3, 2008

Fantastic Flax Seed

Introduction

Flax Seed Oil is a blue flowering plant that is grown on the Western Canadian Prairies for its oil rich seeds. This natural oil (also known as Linseed Oil) is highly recommended for the general well being and whole body nutrition and is considered to be nature’s richest source of omega-3 fatty acids that are required for the health of almost all body systems.

Flax Seed Oil contains omega-6 and omega-9 essential fatty acids, B vitamins, potassium, lecithin, magnesium, fiber, protein, and zinc and also provides approximately 50% more omega-3 oils than what you could get from taking fish oil.

Advantages

Research shows low incidence of breast cancer and colon cancer in populations that have high amounts of lignan in their diet. Flax is 100 times richer in lignan than most whole grains.

– Studies show that Omega-3 fatty acids help lower cholesterol and blood triglycerides, and prevent clots in arteries, which may result in strokes, heart attacks and thromboses.

– Helps protect the body against high blood pressure, inflammation, water retention, sticky platelets and lowered immune function.

– Shortens recovery time for fatigued muscles after exertion.

– Increases the body’s production of energy and also increases stamina.

– Accelerates the healing of sprains and bruises.

– Eases weight loss in people afflicted with obesity.

– Stimulates brown fat cells and increases the metabolic rate making it easier to burn off fat.

– Improves the absorption of Calcium.

– Strengthens finger and toenails.

– Can improve eyesight and perception of colors.

– Can often improve the function of the liver.

– Can relieve the side effects and stop development of many forms of cancer.

– Can relieve some cases of Asthma.

– Helpful in the treatment of Eczema, Psoriasis, and Dandruff.

– Can relieve the symptoms of Rheumatoid Arthritis. It can relieve the symptoms of Diabetes Mellitus.

– Can alleviate some allergies.

– Helps prevent Atherosclerosis (the accumulation of fatty deposits inside the blood vessels, especially the large and medium-sized arteries, that many people experience during the aging process).

– Lowers high blood pressure in Hypertension sufferers.

– Has been scientifically proven to treat some cases of depression.

– Can improve the mental function of many old age pensioners.

– Can help in the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis.

– Has been proven to improve the behavior of Schizophrenics.

– Can relieve some cases of Premenstrual Syndrome(PMS) in females.

– And lots more…

Try to include Flax seed oil in your diet, it will work wonders for your health… But make sure you buy good quality Flax seed oil because Flax seed oil is heavy to digest. Flax seed oil can take 2 days to 6 weeks to get absorbed in our body.

Happy Living !

 

 

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