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 🙂

Know your Liver

We all read newspapers everyday and are very curious to know what is happening around us and all over the world.
But do you know what is happening within your body ?
Shouldn’t you be more curious to know about your body ?

We cannot take care of our body until how our body functions. In the following article we will discuss about Liver.

Functions of Liver:

1. Store
Liver stores the iron reserves you need, as well as a lot of vitamins and other minerals.
Without this, you wouldn’t have the strength to carry on.

Liver also stores energy, like a battery, by stockpiling sugar (carbohydrates, glucose and fat) until you need it.
Without this, the sugar level in your blood could fall dramatically and you’d go into a coma.

2. Create
Liver makes bile to help digest your food.
Without this, you’d waste away to nothing.

Liver manufactures new proteins that your body needs to stay healthy and grow.
Without this, you wouldn’t grow properly.

Liver makes clotting factors that stop the bleeding when you accidentally prick yourself.
Without this, you will bleed to death.

3. Process
Liver detoxifies poisonous chemicals you intake and that includes alcohol, beer, wine and drugs (prescribed and over-the-counter) as well as illegal substances.
Without this, your “bad” habits will kill you.

4. Purify
Liver removes poisons from the air, exhaust smoke and chemicals you breathe.
Without this, you’d be poisoned by pollutants.

5. Defend
Liver helps defend you against the germs going into your body all the time. Its takes those cold germs, flu bugs and other germs you encounter, and knock them dead – or at least weaken them.
Without this, you’d be a sitting duck for every infection known to man.

These are the functions of Liver. Now let us see how to protect it.

Precautions:

1. Watch what you drink!
Don’t drown your Liver in beer, alcohol or wine!
Even one drink is too much for some people and could scar the Liver for life. These scars are called “cirrhosis” and are permanent.

2. Watch those drugs!
All drugs are chemicals, and when you mix them up without a doctor’s advice you could create something poisonous that could damage the Liver badly.
Medicines are sometimes necessary. But taking pills when they aren’t necessary is a bad habit. All those chemicals can really hurt a liver.

3. Take care of what you Breathe !
Be careful with aerosol sprays. Remember, the Liver has to detoxify what you breathe in, too. So when you are cleaning with aerosol cleaners, make sure the room is ventilated, or wear a mask.
That goes double for bug sprays, mildew sprays, paint sprays and all those other chemical sprays you use. Be careful what you breathe.

4. Check what you touch !
Watch what gets on your skin! Those insecticides you put on trees and shrubs not only kill bugs they can get to Liver right through your skin and destroy the cells, too. Remember they’re all chemicals.
Cover your skin with gloves, long sleeves, a hat and mask every time insecticides are in the air or if you’re handling them.

5. Watch what you Eat !
Don’t eat too much fatty food! Liver makes the cholesterol your body needs, and it tries to make the right amount.
Eat a good, well balanced nourishing diet. If you eat the right stuff for Liver.

Warnings !!!
Liver can’t and won’t tell you it is in trouble until it is almost at the end of the rope… and yours
Remember: It is a non-complainer. Overloading it with drugs, alcohol and other junk can destroy it.
This may be the only warning you will ever get!

Check points !!!
1. Blood screening tests can identify some trouble in Liver.
2. If it is soft and smooth, that’s good. If it is hard and bumpy, that could mean trouble.
3. If your doctor suspects trouble, ULTRA SOUND and CT scans can look into it.

Your life, depends on how you treat your Liver and your Body!!!

Happy Living 🙂

Difference between Cold and Flu

People generally think that Cold and Flu are same and they synonymously use the terms. But they are different and if we know some basic facts then it is easy to distinguish between the two.

In the table below, we have tried to present some basic differences between Cold and Flu based on some symptoms:

Symptoms	Cold	Flu
Fever	Fever is rare with Cold	Fever is usually present with the flu in up to 80% of all flu cases. A temperature of 100°F or higher for 3 to 4 days is associated with the flu
Coughing	A hacking, productive (mucus- producing) cough is often present with a cold	A non-productive (non-mucus producing) cough is usually present with the flu (sometimes referred to as dry cough)
Aches	Slight body aches and pains can be part of a cold	Severe aches and pains are common with the flu
Stuffy Nose	Stuffy nose is commonly present with a cold and typically resolves spontaneously within a week	Stuffy nose is not commonly present with the flu
Chills	Chills are uncommon with a cold	60% of people who have the flu experience chills
Tiredness	Tiredness is fairly mild with a cold	Tiredness is moderate to severe with the flu
Sneezing	Sneezing is commonly present with a cold	Sneezing is not common with the flu
Sudden Symptoms	Cold symptoms tend to develop over a few days	The flu has a rapid onset within 3-6 hours. The flu hits hard and includes sudden symptoms like high fever, aches and pains
Headache	A headache is fairly uncommon with a cold	A headache is very common with the flu, present in 80% of flu cases
Sore Throat	Sore throat is commonly present with a cold	Sore throat is not commonly present with the flu
Chest Discomfort	Chest discomfort is mild to moderate with a cold	Chest discomfort is often severe with the flu

Though there is a very fine line between the two problems, they can easily be identified.

Happy Living 🙂

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                                                                                                                                                                                                       

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

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 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.

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Energy – The fuel of Excellence

Part-I (Key 1 and 2) – This post is a part of a series on Healthy living program

Physiology is the avenue to excellence. One way to affect physiology is to change the way you use your muscular system – you can change you posture, your faical expressions, and your breathing. The topics we are going to discuss are on a healthy level of biochemical functioning. Here we’ll look at the under pinnings of physiology- What you eat and drink and how you breathe. We call Energy the fuel of excellence.

You have been learning all your life to run your own brain, and now here is your chance to learn how to run your body.

1. The first key to living health is – The power of breath
The foundation of health is a healthy bloodstream, the system that transports oxygen and nutrients to all the cells of your body. If you have a healthy circulation system, you are goig to live a long, healthy life. That environment is the bloodstream. What is the control button for that system? Breathing. It’s the way you fully oxygenate the body and thus stimulate the electrical process of each and every cell.
Breathing not only controls the oxygenation of the cells, it also controls the flow of lymph fluid, which contains white blood cells to protect the body.
What is the lymph system? Some people think of it as the body’s sewage system. Every cell in your body is surrounded by lymph. You have four times as much lymph fluid in your body as you do blood. The cells in our body absorb oxygen and nutrients necessary for their health and then excrete toxins, some of which go back to capilliaries. But dead cells, blood protiens and other toxic material must be removed by the lymph system. And the lymph system is activated by deep breathing. The body’s cells depend on the lymph system as the only way to drain off the large toxic materials and excess fluid, which restrict the amount of oxygen.

If the lymph system in our body is shut down completely for 24 hours, we would be dead as a result of trapped blood proteins and excess fluid around the cells. So, if you want to have a healthy bloodstream with effective lymph and immune system, you need to breathe deeply and produce movements that will stimulate them.

2. The second key is the priciple of eating water rich food
Seventy percent of the planet is covered with water and Eighty percent of our body is made up of water. What do you think a large percentage of your diet should contain? You need to make certain that 70 percent of your diet is made up of foods that are rich in water. That means fresh fruits or vegetables, or their juices freshly squeezed.
Some people recommend drinking from eight to twelve glasses of water a day to “flush out the system”. But this is not totally true. It depends on the water that you drink. Chances are that the water constains chlorine, fluoride, minerals, and other toxic substances. Drinking distilled water is usually the best idea. The amount of water you drink should be dictated by thirst.
Instead of trying to flush your system by flooding it with water, all you have to do is eat foods that are naturally rich in water – water-content foods.
Fruits, vegetables and sprouts – will provide you with an abundance of water, the lifegiving, cleansing substance.

3. The third key to living health is … (Part-II)
4. The fourth key is … (Part-II)
5. The fifth key to the living health program is … (Part-III)
6. The sixth key to healthy living is … (Part-III)

The subsequent post (part-II) will unleash the keys 3 & 4 and then in the last part-III, you will find the keys 5 and 6 to a healthy living life.
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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 !

 

 

Donts after a Meal

 

Almost all of the health problems start with stomach, and most of them are because of poor habits related to food. In this post we will discuss few points which are a strict no after a meal, specially at night.

“Donts after a meal”

1. Don’t smoke
Experiment from experts proves that smoking a cigarette after meal is comparable to smoking 10 cigarettes (chances of cancer is higher)

2. Don’t eat fruits
Immediately eating fruits after meals will cause stomach to be bloated with air. Therefore take fruit 1-2 hr after meal or 1hr before meal

3. Don’t drink tea
Tea leaves contain a high content of acid. This substance will cause the Protein content in the food we consume to be hardened thus difficult to digest

4. Don’t loosen your belt
Loosening the belt after a meal will easily cause the intestine to be twisted &blocked

5. Don’t bathe
Bathing will cause the increase of blood flow to the hands, legs & body thus the amount of blood around the stomach will therefore decrease. This will weaken the digestive system in our stomach

6. Don’t walk about
People always say that after a meal walk a hundred steps and you will live till 99. In actual fact this is not true. Walking will cause the digestive system to be unable to absorb the nutrition from the food we take

7. Don’t sleep immediately
During sleep our body relaxes and the organs becomes dormant. Thus, the food we ate will not be digested properly. This can lead to gastric problems or infection in our intestine

Take care of these few things and live a healthy life…
“Helathy Life is a Happy and Wealthy Life”