Staying healthy - tips for being healthy

Staying healthy tips – Find out what to do when you’ve already caught a cold or flu

Staying healthy during cold and flu season Cold and flu prevention tips

If caught, cold and flu have strong inclinations to set for at least six days, some of those catching these seasonal diseases don’t either bother to ease somehow their conditions. It is wrong to let cold and flu beat you when there are several things you can do to alleviate your condition.
If you already caught cold or flu and desperately search for emergency help tips here is a list of must do things.

1. Rest as much as possible. A good night sleep is essential. Tips for healthy sleep

2. Have plenty of drink. Enough drink would flush away from your body viruses and bacteria and in fever would stabilize body temperature.

3. Eat small portions of food 5 times a day. Less food – quicker your body will recover. Also stay away from high sugar food, fat food and junk food. Tips for Eating Healthy

4. Eat products with beneficial proven effects in treating cold and flu : garlic, onion, ginger, habanera, horseradish, Acerola Cherry, and elderberry.  Foods that increase immunity

5. Eat more vegetables green vegetables and fruit. Don’t exaggerate with fruits because of their high sugar content. Healthy fruits to eat

6. Give your body some good bacteria by drinking yoghurt and other cultured milk products that contain probiotics. It would have an immune-boosting effect.

7. Staying positive is one of the keys in a faster healing in every condition and cold and flu aren’t an exception.

8. Flush regularly your throat and nose with salted water.

9. Don’t use soap when showering because it would weaken the skin’s natural protection.

10. Use teas and herbs known for their benefic effects in treating cold and flu (ginseng, Echinacea, ginger, Thyme, Licorice Root, slippery elm and yarrow tea).

11. Good quality vitamins and supplements intake would also help relief your condition by boosting your immune system.

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Healthier, Happier – is it possible?

Achieving a healthy body and mind and be happier than you are in the very moment

Life is running so fast and sometimes we don’t even have time to stop and think about our present, not about past or even future. It’s sometimes hard, for some of you – impossible, for cynics reading this it may seem a waist of time. I, personally, don’t like to live on instruction but this kind of articles are making me think more positive and believe I can change my life with my own hands. Read the next 30 tips on How to be Healthier and Happier and choose the advice that seems more attractive to you; begin a new life – a better one.

1.    Chew your food well

2.    Drink fresh vegetable juice

3.    Brush well and then floss your teeth

4.    Add sprouts to your sandwiches

5.    Drink water with fresh lemon

6.    Drink smoothies made from almond milk, berries and unsweetened green powder

7.    Eat fresh or frozen berries instead of desserts

8.    Throw out your non-stick cookware and choose cast iron or enameled cast iron instead

9.    Eat more raw fruits and vegetables

10.    Twice a year take a good quality multivitamin and mineral

11.    Brush your skin with a dry natural brush before shower – to boost circulation and lymphatic drainage.

12.    Clean out the mess in your house – the thief of your energy

13.    Clean your home with baking soda and vinegar

14.    Choose a natural remedy instead of a pharmaceutical drug

15.    Stretch your body

16.    Get more sleep

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Discover some type of bathes you could take for different conditions. You may also invent your own original recipes.

A hot bath is probably the original hydrotherapy treatment, and still the best. But as much as you may already enjoy a hot bath, there’s a good chance that you’re not tapping its full potential. At its best, a hot bath can be a surprisingly powerful tool for healing

Hot bath for Cold prophylactics. These baths are better to take before sleep. In order to prepare them we need 100 -150 grams of dry mustard to dissolve in one liter of water (36 degrees), after a careful agitation we will feel the smell of mustard oil. All this substance is poured into the bath with hot water (36-38 degrees). The procedure lasts 10-12 minutes. After that we must wash with hot water and lay in bed keeping the hot temperature with blankets. After one hour, when the sweat is gone, wipe off the water excess and go to sleep.

Tonic bath. The preparation of the bath is similar to what we described in previously. Use clover, couch grass and its rhizome, door weed, horsetail and bur marigold, cembra pine or fir.

Another type of tonic bath. We have to cut to pieces 1 red grapefruit, three middle-sized lemons. Boiling water should be poured over the pieces of grapefruit and lemons then thrown into the bath. Then we have to add I glass of orange juice. The temperature of the bath should be 2 degrees higher than the temperature of human body. The bath lasts for about 20 minutes.

Bath for skin manifestations. We have to use 400 g of walnut leaves and pour on it 10-12 liters of boiling water. Then the water is filtered and poured into the bath. The bath lasts 15-20 minutes at a temperature of 38.5 degrees.

Bath for the weight loss. The birch branches and leaves, some nettle, burdock rhizome and its leaves, dandelion, crouch grass rhizome, chamomile, door weed, horsetail and bur marigold: everything should be mixed in 8-10 liters of cold water, and then everything should be boiled. Let it to stay for 40-50 minutes. All this liquid is poured into the bath which must last about 5-10 minutes depending on its temperature.

Health Benefits and Risks of Hot Baths

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.

-    The difference in risk to get cold can not be motivated by a weight surplus, by organism’s particularities or other factors. Read the rest of this entry »

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.

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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