Healthy Living Guidelines - Tips on Being Healthy

Use strawberries for your skin: feed it from the inside by eating them and put berries directly on your skin.

As many of you know a good looking skin comes from the inside. It means if you’re healthy and carefully choose the products you eat your skin will be toned and always looking fresh and beautiful. Sometimes it’s very difficult to achieve but it’s season when this task became possible to do.  There’s something spectacular in these berries; someone can be allergic to them but those who’re not can benefit from using them every day.

People who know strawberries benefits use them for their anti-cancer properties. They’re also very useful for heart diseases because can reduce the risk of coronary heart diseases; the antioxidant qualities of strawberries may also be beneficial in reversing the course of neuronal and behavioural aging being very helpful in slowing and reducing the effects of Alzheimer’s disease. These truly miraculous berries have been shown to inhibit inflammatory processes and are a good source of B2, B5, B6 vitamins, vitamin K, copper, and magnesium.
If you’re not allergic to them you may use strawberries not only as a food but also as a good base for face packs for treating a lot of skin problems.
Strawberries are rich in salicylic acid an ingredient found in many commercial acne creams and thus are the best treatment for acne-prone skin. Can be also used for conditioning and toning skin; they also help to tone, lighten any pigmentation problems and keep skin smooth and supple.
Strawberry’s main skin-pleasing ingredient is alpha-hydroxyl acid, a great substance that helps slough off dead skin cells so that new, youthful skin is revealed.

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USEFUL FATS

The vital role of fats in maintaining a good health

Don’t try to exclude from your daily ratio the healthy quantity of fats because it may be harmful for your entire organism.

Fats play a vital role in maintaining body temperature and promoting healthy cell function, in maintaining healthy skin and hair. But not all fats are good for human organism and not all of fats are well assimilated by it. It’s still important for organism to receive the daily norm of fats, the good ones. The average daily requirement of Essential Fatty Acids is about 20 grams but the body can utilize only about 10 grams per serving that’s why you should include these 20 grams in 2 of your daily meals.

It is nearly impossible to remove fat completely from the diet and it would be unhealthy to do so. Some fatty acids are essential nutrients (can be produced in organism from other compounds) but need to be consumed in small amounts. Another category of fats required by the body are non-essential and can be produced in organism from other compounds. Women need to be careful not to go too far below the recommended minimum body fat % because they risk losing their ability to menstruate or conceive children. The risks are lower for men.

You may check your daily norm of fats here

Cod-liver oil has a special place among useful fats. Its high efficiency is favored not only by the presence of A and D vitamins, but also due to the presence of a very deficient and necessary product, especially for children, called Arachidonic acid (AA or ARA), which is the most active among poly-unsaturated fat acids. People often feel certain aversion towards this useful fat. Populations from North regions (Chukchi, Aleutians, Eskimos) which live in extreme and difficult conditions don’t have diseases like scurvy, rachitis, hemeralopia, atherosclerosis, hypertonic diseases, even if they consume fat food during all their life. All these factors are probably based on the fact that they consume all their life cod-liver oil and fat of sea animals. We use instead butter or vegetal oil. They use cod-liver oil in preparing any kind of food, and feel no aversion for its smell or taste.

Cod-liver oil, Organic oil

Butterfat, pork, beef, mutton, goose fat – all these are part of animal fats family. The most popular is the butterfat, which is mainly used in form of butter with a high capacity of assimilability (up to 85%) and containing vitamins like A, B2, E, phosphatides, as well as irreplaceable fat acids. All other types of fats are popular for their low level of cholesterol and a normal quantity of phosphatides, but their assimilability depends on the melting temperature. Fats, which have a melting temperature higher than 37°? (pork, beef, mutton fat) are assimilated worse than butter, birds’ fats, as well as liquid vegetal oils.

Nowadays the medical practice proved the fact that in human ratio about 30% of the total calorie content is present in fats we consume. It means that a healthy man with an active physical activity have to eat daily 90-100 g of fats, among it 30% should be of vegetal origin and 70% of animal origin (for example, 15-30 of vegetal oil and 20-25% of butter).

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People with a poor sleep are often ill

Sleep well and the chance you get a cold is few times lower than in people who don’t have enough sleep.
American scientists ascertained that a short night sleep is harmful for our health. People who sleep less than 7 hours a day, are more exposed to catarrhal diseases.

The researchers from the  Carnegie Mellon University, led by professor Sheldon Cohen, during four years (from 2000-2004) observed the state of 153 men and women aged 21 to 55 years.

First of all every patient were submitted to a medical examination. The experimenters analyzed everyone’s health condition, the normal quantity of antibodies in blood, counted the index of weight and revealed different particularities of the organism. Then, during 14 days, every patient related their sleeping process: how long did the sleep lasted, what was the general feeling and other particularities. After 14 days every patient was injected with a simple Cold (chill) virus – rhinovirus. Doctors were analyzing the situation of the patient during 5 days, then, after 4 weeks the patients were submitted to a repeated blood analysis.

As a result, the researchers came to the following conclusions.
-    People who sleep less are more exposed to catarrhal diseases.  People that sleep less than 7 hours a day are at risk to get cold three times frequently than people who sleep 8 hours and more.

-    As better sleep one gets, as more improbable is the possibility to get a cold. People who practically sleep less than 92% of time, have 5,5% higher probability to get Cold, than those who are in a deep sleep.

-    The self sensation has no influence over the risk of getting ill.

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If you have trouble with sleeping try to eat honey before going to bed. After 20 minutes it enters our blood. In cases of chronic tiredness folk medicine recommend us to consume before our sleep one spoon of honey with lemon juice for a half glass of water. As it was established for people who suffer from chronic tiredness it is not recommended to wash with soap. Soap is a strong alkaline solution which penetrates our skin and increase the tiredness.

If it is necessary to use soap, after this it is recommended to dip your body or a part of your body into acidulous water. For the acidification of the water we may use lemon juice or apple vinegar.

The insufficiency of iodine in the organism may be another reason of chronic tiredness. In this case it is recommended to consume sea products, especially laminaria.

It’s also very important to know that some soap ingredients are really harmful for human organism. If you use soap you get closer to: fatigue, nausea, dizziness, migraines, rashes and eczema, sinus problems, dermatitis and the list may continue

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“Black marks” of a disease are easy to identify

English writer Jerome K. Jerome said that a person after reading the medical encyclopedia will discover he has all the diseases specified in there. It is partially true, because the symptoms of many diseases are similar to each other. It is increased by the tendency of people to hypochondria and to panic whenever there are occasions.

In order to escape from this fear and panicking we have to learn to identify diseases and their “black marks”. In the opportune moments it will help us to make the right decision and to preserve our powers. We are the main doctor for all our diseases. So we must keep accumulating knowledge.

If you discovered that you became forgetful and it makes you angry, the probable cause is the deficit of linolenic acid. The remedies are nuts, fig and rice.

If you permanently want to drink and there is no real reason for that (you didn’t eat anything salty and carried no physical activity), your skin became dry, you loose weigh and have a huge appetite, the “black mark” was probably sent by the diabetes. Check the level of your sugar in blood. If you are lucky and the amount of sugar is in norm, but you still have a huge appetite and continue to loose weight and to sweat, check your thyroid gland, it may be the cause of your problems.

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Best advice on correct nourishment at work

Nowadays it is stylish to be healthy as well as to invest your money in your health. We spend a lot of money on fitness, diets, rejuvenation and other things. Sometimes the need to work and the need to feel young and healthy are contradictory. But we are able to combine these needs.

Do you eat junk food at work or do you eat a healthy food?

First advice, effective advice: it is important to combine properly your alimentation regime with the working day. We have to nourish depending on our regime, on our hours of activity and of relaxation. The proteins enriched food (meat, fish, and legumes) increase the metabolism and excite the nervous system. During its digestion there is an active secretion of gastric juice. Therefore spending the whole day in an office is better to eat a portion of meat with potatoes. But this dish would not be so useful in the evening, because your sleep slows down the stomach activity and the proteins are processed mush more difficult. It does not refer to the people that work in night shift. It is recommended to eat before night, if you are about to work a complete night shift.

It will be better for you to drop out the junk food and to begin a healthy eating regime.

Second advice: not so effective: if you have an intellectual work, you shouldn’t forget this is connected with a tense nervous activity. In this case you better keep a chocolate in your bag. The coffee and chocolate combination is a perfect double stimulator, less harmful than cigarettes and much better than brain stimulating pills. This method helps you get rid of headache and tiredness. In few hours you will begin to solve your problems like a modern computer. It is efficient also for people who have to mobilize fast. And it is important that chocolate is better to be consumed without drinks, unlike any other snacks.

When cooking the evening meal cook a double portion so that you could eat a part of it the next day.

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Insomnia interesting facts – Fight Insomnia

Great receipts for an efficient fight against insomnia. Insomnia definition and methods of fighting with it.

Insomnia – was a permanent matter in the development of mankind. Regardless of its statute and social state every man can have this problem. In ancient times, in order to fight the insomnia people kept at their courts poets or storytellers, which were entertaining rich people having insomnia. As time went on we managed to a find a more appropriate solution. We read in our beds, trying to relax our mind. A good chosen book may really be a somnifacient during the insomnia period. But sometimes the book is not enough to solve this problem and we try to find other solutions. We can try hypnotic drinks which proved, during centuries, to have a benefic influence in fighting insomnia.

What is really insomnia?

Insomnia implies the difficulties with falling asleep and complaints of unrefreshing sleep.
How to find out if you’re suffering from insomnia?

If you’re walking up too early in the morning, if you have difficulties with falling asleep you’re probably suffering from insomnia.

What causes insomnia?

The main factors are: stress, extreme temperatures, medication side effects, time zone changing.

The symptoms of insomnia are very similar to other diseases, which makes this disorder a little difficult to diagnosis accurately. Do not diagnose yourself!

Drinks to fight the Insomnia

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A hot shower may cure many diseases – Sometimes a hot shower may be better than any medicine

Our first reaction to discomfort and indisposition is to find a warmer place. And it is right: the heat is really useful for a series of diseases.

Cough and Rhinitis

Lock yourself in the bathroom and turn on the hot water. You may even not take a shower, just breath some hot steam for 10-15 minutes. It will help you get rid of phlegm, will remove the irritation of mucous membrane and will help you to cure the cough and rhinitis.
You may add eucalypt oil and the procedure will be even more effective. After a good steam breath, fill the bath with hot water poor some oil and relax. After such a bath you will breathe more easily and your throat ache will decrease.

Stress and insomnia

A hot shower or a bath is better than any other sedative. Do you have trouble with sleeping? Take a shower or a bath for 15 minutes, using boiled sage or calendula. And unless, other sedatives this solution will have no side-effects on you.

Arthrosis and muscular spasm

The shower is not capable to cure you muscular pains for good, but it will considerably ease the pain. 15 minutes, spent under hot water will improve the blood circulation in your body, will relax your muscles and will heal inflamed articulations. It is a more convenient method than alcohol compressions, massages or elastic bandages.

Migraine (severe headache)

The difficulties in your blood flow are one of the main causes of the headache. It is connected with the spasms of your blood vessels. As a result of hot water your vessels will normalize their state. A few drops of pink water will help you to improve the healing process.

Skin dryness

Dryness and cracks on your skin is a normal phenomenon in cold weather. In order to get rid of this problem is not necessarily to buy an expensive moistening cream. You may use your common cosmetic means – milk or tonic, but before that you should take a good hot bath. The skin pores will wide open, a fact that will favor the consumption of the nourishing and useful substances you will use.

Attention! If you have problems with your cardiovascular system, you have to avoid hot showers. It may lead to hypertension, arrhythmia and other abnormalities.

Take a hot shower and your indisposition will fade away - ‘Wash off’ your bad mood and anxiety

Know all about low calorie products – know about the danger of low calorie food and drinks

Recent research of the American scientists proved the fact that transition to low-calories products nourishment leads to obesity, because the organism loose its capacity to regulate independently the daily norm of energy.
In times the man begin to eat much more than it is necessary, increase his portions, eat more often – at one time it looses the sense of measure.

A low-calorie cake it is just a name which miraculously attracts the customers, people who take care of their body. But it is just a psychological trap. In dietary cakes the butter is replaced by margarine, natural cocoa by soy-bean chocolate, eggs by egg powder, etc.

Low-calorie, diet coke sounds like a joke for the experts. The diet sodas are made of synthetic materials. Sugar is replaced by artificial substances like sorbitol, saccharine, etc.

The difference in calories is minimal, but the permanent consumption of this kind of products leads to certain health problems and add several kilograms to our weight.

The deception continues: manufacturers of low-calorie products decrease considerably the energetic value of their products, in order to obtain a better sale. On the package they indicate rounded, decreased amount of calories.

The result of recent expertise of the Consumers Association proved that the majority of popular low-calorie products are allegedly low-caloric, for package to be attractive for the consumer.

The great majority of products after the expertise have not confirmed their nourishing value. The real amount of calories, evaluated by the experts proved to be much higher.

Pay attention to what you are buying – low calorie products proved to be hazardous to your health.

12 advice on how to preserve your health

There is no secret that diets, stress, sport activities and the unfavorable ecological conditions influence the physical and the psychical health of a man. During the years this effect is cumulative.

In order to prolong your life and to decrease the risk to get diseases like Alzheimer or Parkinson syndrome you must follow the following advices:

A healthy nourishment, accomplished from youth

The fast-food, as well as high caloric food, like chips or salty peanuts, – are a direct way to excessive weight and obesity. Healthy nourishment from childhood must be one of life priorities.

Eat many fresh fruits and vegetables

Fruits and vegetables are rich in natural antioxidants, vitamins and important microelements.

Avoid saturated food and trans-oils

We have to use vegetable oil which has a balanced structure of Omega-3 and Omega-6 acids and mono-unsaturated fats. We have to eat predominantly food of vegetable origin, non-fat milk products, diet meat, and bird meat.

When preparing meals, the use of vegetable oils containing Omega-6 acids, especially maize, sunflower and peanut oil must be minimal.

Eat food, enriched with Omega-3 acids

At least once in a week you have to eat fish meals. If you do not consume fish, you must use cod-liver oil or additive food containing Omega-3 acids emitted by water algae. Buy fish which contains less harmful substances (mercury, polychlorinated biphenyl) mackerel and tuna.

The “clean” fish is considered cod, haddock, pollack, and salmon.

Reduce the use of sugar

Sugar in tea or coffee, in jam and honey, in chocolate or in soda increase the level of glucose in blood.

This fact may lead to obesity II type diabetes, cardiovascular diseases.

Increase the amount of low-glycemic-index carbohydrate in your food
Glycemic index – A low GI food will release glucose more slowly and steadily. A high GI food causes a more rapid rise in blood glucose levels and is suitable for energy recovery after endurance exercise or for a person with diabetes experiencing hypoglycemia.

There is an amount of this substance in shell rice, barley, oats, and rye, buckwheat croup, in fruits, vegetables with a low level of starch, in chick-pea, lentil, macaronis, pumpkin and tuberous fruits. An amount of low glycemical carbohydrate in your food may prevent the increase of glucose in your blood.
Most vegetables are, in fact, low- or moderate-carbohydrate foods (note that in the context of these diets fiber is excluded because it is not a nutritive carbohydrate). The vegetables that the average person tends to enjoy the most, potatoes, rice, maize (corn), and others, are typically those that have high concentrations of starch but these are, in reality, the exception not the rule. Most low-carbohydrate diet plans easily accommodate most vegetables such as broccoli, spinach, cauliflower, avocado, peppers, etc

Alcoholic beverages have been reported to have low glycemic index values, but it should be noted that beer has a moderate GI.

Recent studies have shown that the consumption of an alcoholic drink prior to a meal reduces the GI of the meal by approximately 15%

A temperate use of alcohol is allowed.

Many experts agree the fact that a temperate use of alcohol (about 9-36 ml of pure alcohol per day) is normal. Of course people must restrain themselves from alcohol during pregnancy or car-driving.
The red wine, as well as green tea contain important antioxidants, which decrease the risk of developing the Parkinson Syndrome.

Diminish your contact with the chemicals

We may encounter toxic chemicals at home, as well as at the workplace. It is proven that the contact with several popular chemicals, like pesticides, increase the risk of developing the Alzheimer disease or diabetes, a fact that may lead to mental dementia. We have to avoid contacts with substances like lead (plumbum) or solvents used in paint processes.

We must use “green”, healthy construction materials.

Increase the physical activity

At every age the physical and the emotional state increase in case we are in a process of advanced motion.  Everyday promenades improve our health and avoid the obesity.

We have to make sport every day, for example a prompt step walk half hour a day will enforce your body health.

Increase the social activity

Regular communication with different people decreases the development of dementia in the old age.

WE have to meet more often with our neighbors and communicate with our relatives.

Lower your stress

Many of us are permanently in a multitask regime, having a lot of things going through our mind.

It is paramount to have moments of total relaxation during a day.

Train your brain

In order to preserve the lucidity of mind at the old ages, the brain must be permanently trained.

It may be accomplished by playing chess, solving crosswords, charades, playing logical games.

You can improve your health and cut your risk of disease !