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5 Natural Dietary Supplements

May 17, 2012

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Many dietary supplements claim can restrain your appetite. But you should be careful, because not all supplements are safe to consume. There are even some of them which contain hazardous chemicals, and not listed by the Food and Drug Administration.

Keeping your appetite actually is not the right solution for slimming. Just like when you are doing a full day fasting, the desire of eating will be greater than before. Instead of taking healthy risk consuming drugs that have not clear safety, you better rely on natural ingredients that can be control your appetite. These 5 natural dietary supplements can help you to prevent from over-eating.

Avocado

Avocados Hass Fresh

A fruit in which is rich in fiber and mono-unsaturated fat. The best natural food for retaining your eating desire, if taken in a reasonable amount, and in the proper way. Avocado is also used as a facial mask for a dry skin, and you may find it in some beauty products. Fat contained in avocados can send signals to the brain, and then inform you that your stomach is full. Limit the consumption of avocado by maximum of one fruit per day. Avoid of mixing avocado with milk chocolate, sugar or any other ingredients.

Apple

Gala Apples Fresh

Eating this fruit of evil is the most appropriate way to control the appetite. Apple contains lots of fiber, and low in carbohydrates, which are believed to be natural appetite control. The nutritionists recommend eating apple right away without cutting its skin first. Eating apple directly makes you harder in trying to eat and chew. The brain has more time to submit a sign that the stomach is full. The apple's crunchy texture is also capable of regulating glucose levels and improve energy level.

Tofu

Mori-Nu Silken Tofu

Tofu is a source of protein and contain isoflavones called genistein. This substance is also useful for retaining your eating desire that is not harmful, when compared with the pills, or supplements sold in the market. You can use tofu as a salad dressing to mix it with other vegetables.

Green Tea

Uncle Lee's Organic Green Tea

Green tea can also help you to prevent excessive eating. The catechins in green tea can slow down the formation of glucose into fat cells. When the blood sugar is decreased and become stabilized, the appetite is automatically controlled.

Dark Chocolate

Lindt Excellence Supreme Dark Chocolate 90% Cocoa

Please keep in mind, the kind of chocolate with 70% levels of chocolate powder. The original chocolate, not milk chocolate, or white chocolate. This food of the Gods is considered to be a natural barrier of appetite. Its bitter taste sends signals to the body, so that appetite can be controlled. Other benefit by eating dark chocolate, despite can help you lose weight, increasing libido, it also can slow premature aging, due to its content of high antioxidant.

Also keep in mind to drink a lot of water after consuming above natural supplements! Drinking water will also help you to lose your weight, to prevent you of becoming obesity, and to stay healthy without any drugs, or medications.

No Pain No Gain

December 19, 2011

Animism is the belief of the past before humans know religion. Even today, some people still believe it. Did you ever wonder if an inanimate object can talk?

I've been involved in one of the MLM based in Malaysia. Because of busy work, that side job I left off. First time I was drawn into MLM, was not due to the product (health products). But what was emitted from the product. My sixth sense captured that an energy was blanketed the product. My wife's sixth sense was also felt the same. What happens then we both joined the MLM.

Another strange was when I demo at my uncle's house. My uncle was an expert on alternative medicine. He uses techniques of reflexology combines with his own made herbs.

I carried 3 products as the demo examples. Before I explained to my uncle what were these products? Origins? Benefits and so forth. It was my uncle then became the one who explained in details about the products I carried. I'm surprised.

How my uncle could knew details about my products? He just said, 'It was your products that said to me'. I'm surprised. This is no kidding. My uncle turned out to be a Paranormal who has supernatural powers, I assumed.

I guess not all Paranormal can talk to inanimate objects. They can only communicate with the dead & the genie.

He then also said, Your product is good. If all people believe in your health product, then all drugs will not be sold on the drugstore.

But for me, my own homemade herb is enough.

My uncle also gave me advices, the most important thing is to believe. If we went to Doctor but do not believe, will you take the medicine that has been prescribed? Another important thing is, that there is no diseases that resolved spontaneously after we take medication.

A simple example is, when Our feet are sore from the fall, and was given medication antiseptic such as iodine / penicillin. How does the pain feel like? Does it feel no pain? The conclusion is we must feel the pain twice before we make a full recovery. No pain no gain that's the fact.

The most important thing is to having a believe.

If we see doctor but do not believe,
will you take the prescribed medicine?

There are no diseases that resolve spontaneously
after we take medication.

How to Overcome Diarrhea Without any Medicines

December 14, 2011

Diarrhea is one of the silent killer. Diarrhea occurs as a result of bacteria or foreign substances (toxic) that attacks the immune system in the gastrointestinal tract. Antibodies in the body reacts to the process of secretion.

Excessive secretion process will lead to dehydration. Acute dehydration can lead to death if not promptly addressed. An easy way to overcome it, based on my experience is :

Drink Water as much as Possible

A glass of water

You may add sugar and salt to your water. It will increase the levels of sodium and glucose to the blood. My experience when diarrhea is to drink a glass of water (300ml) every ten minutes. After spending three glasses of water (approximately a litre), diarrhea I experienced gradually recovering.

Why Water?

Water is a new blood substitute in the body. Blood is the center of the immune system. If Our blood is always new, the antibodies in our body system would be immune from all diseases. Dehydration occurs because the lacks of new blood in Our body.

Therefore, do not always get used to taking medicine. Antibiotics drug, if too often will be able to make the disease resistant to antibodies in our body. Water is the best medicine for all diseases.

The Complete Book of Water Therapy by Dian Dincin Buchman

Ways to Eliminate Stress

November 27, 2011

Anyone are usually not conscious of being depressed mainly mild to moderate depression because the symptoms are not too flashy. When depression has become severe, then most people see a doctor and prescribed anti-depressants.

In addition to a wide range of side effects, there're ways to overcome depression that more healthy without any drugs. These include :

Light Therapy
On cloudy days in winter, some people prone to mild depression called seasonal affective disorder (SAD). One way to relieve symptoms is with light therapy, which sits next to a box with a bright light using lasers, light emitting diodes, fluorescent lamps, and any others that usually controlled with various devices.

This therapy is usually performed for about 15 minutes and increase to two hours every day. It depends on the severity of symptoms and the intensity of light is determined by your doctor. This therapy does not cure depression, but can relieve the symptoms after a few days.

Meditation
Research shows that meditation plays a role in preventing recurrence of depression. The research focused on awareness based cognitive therapy that combines traditional meditation with cognitive behavioral approach. Meditation has been used in clinical settings as a method of stress and pain reduction.

Support Groups
Support groups have long been used as a standard of mental treatment, but not used as often today. This method is an excellent way to help treat mild depression. This group will provide education about depression, act as community advocates, and provide learning opportunities for people who face similar problems.

Have a Diary
Research has shown that therapies that teach you how positive thinking can relieve depression. Mood diary to train someone to track the positive things happening in her life and not let negative events cause it to fall. The diary will keep the mood remained negative events in the perspective of a reasonable and also serves as a reminder that the days of good can happen. Write once a week will be easier and not writing a diary every day if you feel too much work, so this practice can continue.

Yoga
Practicing Yoga can reduce stress, hostility, anxiety, depression, increase energy, sleep quality, and welfare. Although not too much research on this theme, Yoga is proven to be a simple and low risk for depression.

Acupuncture
Like many other alternative therapies, there are no data that prove acupuncture can reduce depression. However, some research suggests it might. Research by the University of Arizona against 33 people depressed women found that 64% of depressed patients experienced improvement in symptoms after undergoing acupuncture. Compared with only 27% in the group who did not receive similar treatment.

Sport
Exercise can relieve depression, appears to work by affecting the expenditure of brain chemicals that regulate mood, namely norepinephrine and serotonin. Exercise also releases endorphins which can lead to feelings such as 'floating' on a few athletes runners. Exercise as much as 3-5 times a week for 20 to 30 minutes. Aerobic exercise such as brisk walking is the best.

November 25, 2011

For diabetics, minor injuries can lead to potentially fatal impact of nerve death. High blood sugar levels slowly damage the blood vessels. This impact on the lack of nutrients to the nerves. Nerves become weakened and die. Neuronal death to be one cause complications.

Complications of diabetes are very diverse. One complication in the legs leading to amputation. That risk can be prevented by routine foot care as follows :

Clean feet daily with soap and rinse with warm water. Stop the habit of rubbing the feet in the bath to avoid injury. Immediately dry feet, especially between the toes.

Check your feet every day to determine if there is sores, blisters, irritation, calluses, or other foot problems.

If skin feels dry feet, keep the moisture by applying lotion after washing and drying the feet.

Check the nails once a week. Trim your toenails by cutting according to the shape of the finger. After clipping your nail, puree with a miser so nails are not sharp.

Keep your legs smooth blood circulation. Avoid sitting cross-legged for long periods.

Should always use footwear indoors in order to avoid injury to your leg anywhere.

November 02, 2011

Diet often misunderstood with torturing the body by not eating at all. Though diet success key is by changing your bad lifestyle and habits. From many diet programs that you've been through, there are some little things that can actually accelerate weight loss. Try these following tips :

Walk More
This is certainly often you hear but feeling lazy and tired of always be a reason not to. Walk up the stairs burns calories high enough. 300 calories for 30 minutes. It also boost heart rate and stamina through leg motor movement, so it can reduce your risk of heart attack. Also park your car further, so you have time to walk more. But make sure the place you park is not a strange place for security reasons.

Smart Shopping
Avoid canned, processed or ready-to-eat foods when you shop at the supermarket. Choose fresh foods like fruits, vegetables, fresh bread or meat. Do not shop when hungry, because it all seemed to be purchased. Lastly, check the detail contents of food listed on the packaging. Avoid foods with high calories, fats and sugars.

Foods Journal
Making a journal about everything that you consume may sound silly and a waste of time, but it can motivate you. When you read it from day to day, you will be surprised with the fact that your diet has failed. Little things like eating sweets too much until your coffee is too much sugar lead to it. But remember, do not get obsessed with your scale numbers.

Foods from Home
It is useful to know what you eat and how many condiments are included. The portion that was brought from home were usually much less than the portion of the restaurant. And most importantly, you can save even more money.

Stop Your Bad Habits
Add sugar to drinks, beverages soda selection, ice cubes, until adding salt to your food. It much better to eat one teaspoon of peanut butter for snacking.

Brain Alarm
Did you know that your brain needs 20 minutes to remind you that your stomach is full? The best way to make you full faster is to drink a full glass of water 15 minutes before meals and another while you are eating. It's recommended to eat five small meals rather than three large meals.

Turn off your TV while Dinner
When eating, your body will process food focus and hard work to perform multitasking functions. Thus, during the time watching TV while eating, you will not realize how much you eat and forget the alarm when it's stuffed body.

Dance
This extra activity besides lowering the body stress levels, it also burns calories quite a lot. Do it with friends and it can prevent the coming depression. Your body will get used and stamina becomes more powerful and stable.

Sleep
Another fairly trivial thing that never bored repeated. Ideally 7-9 hours of sleep is good but it all varies depending on the needs of each person. Without enough sleep, your metabolism is compromised. It began to lose sharpness to process food more, so your fat will be buried without a chance to be burned.

" Let us not waste our health to look for treasure and then squandered our treasure to seek health "

October 21, 2011

Habits vs Diets

Everyone will want to live a healthy life. But without knowing it, sometimes we made some mistakes in eating or handling food. Experts say, this error include the most commonly performed, it can even occur in people who care about healthy diet though. Here are the errors in eating food that you need to know :

Drinking Diet Soda

Diet soda drinks emerged as an alternative for soda lovers who want to maintain their weight. But in fact, diet soda is no different from regular soda. Diet soda is often attributed as a cause of weight gain. Diet sodas may be calorie free, but that doesn't mean you can be free from the consequences of weight gain.

A study at the University of Texas found that drinking two glasses or more diet sodas could increase a waist circumference of 500% greater in the next 10 years, compared to not drink diet soda. What causes this to happen? The major factor is the pattern of thinking.

Promising diet soda drinks as good as regular soda, but no calories. Frills 'zero calorie' is then misinterpreted and make people think, safe to eat lots of food. In fact, diet sodas also contain plenty of sugar. In addition, diet soda can increase the desire to eat more junk food. The content of sodium in the diet soda causes people to more easily thirsty. But the brain is often caught on the body's thirst signals as hunger signals. So the desire to eat is greatly increased.

The solution: Replace with drinking other that has more nutritious but low in calories and fat. Such as fat-free milk, green tea or fresh juice without sugar. Milk can give the effect of filling and helps build muscle. While green tea rich in anti-oxidants and increase metabolism.

Gave Too Much Extra on Salad Dressings

Selecting a mixture of various kinds of vegetables as an appetizer is a healthy choice. But the least healthy salad you ate, depending on what ingredients you add on top of it. If you add beef slices bacon, sunflower seeds, meat and cheese, the amount of calories and fat in your salad can equal or even more than a cheeseburgers.

The solution : If you want a healthy salad, get rid of all types of meat, dry bread, meat, tuna, eggs, pasta, potatoes and mayonnaise based dressing. Balsamic vinegar and olive oil is the best choice for salad dressings. If you wanted a more creamy taste salad, add the yogurt without the taste of low fat.

Eating While Working

Eating while working at a computer can cause us to overeat. Why? Because there was never any sense of satisfaction. We tend to eat whatever is on the plate without us remember what and how much has been eaten. So we tend to eat more.

The solution: Keep yourself from elektrobik devices while eating. Even if you are forced to eat at your desk, swivel chair position so that the view was not on the computer monitor. It could also put the computer on stand-by position. Just focus on food, will make you full faster and eat less food.

Storing Fresh Vegetables For a Long Time

Fresh vegetables are healthy. But only if eaten in a state of really fresh, not wilted. During this time, perhaps many of us are directly store fresh vegetables in the fridge or put it in the open air. But probably few know that vegetables are allowed to wilt will lose nutritional importance.

Therefore, if you do not intend using or consuming vegetables immediately after purchase, should be frozen and put in the freezer. Nutrition in frozen vegetables as much as fresh vegetables. This is because, frost can bind nutrients in vegetables. Place in an airtight container tightly so that the nutrients remain intact. There are many assumptions are wrong about frozen vegetables. But keep it in the freezer can store all the essential nutrients. You can save a maximum of one week.

Let us not waste our health to look for treasure and then squandered our treasure to seek health

September 26, 2011

Being healthy are everyone's dream. But most people have some problems about their eating habits. Eating habits for healthy foods are considered to be difficulties of some people. The way of life that some people do are the most important thing, whether we want to be healthy or not.

You must devide the term of "what you need" and "what you want". Think about it everyday in your life. No pain no gain, that's the fact. When your are sick or suffering from any diseases, you must have felt a lot of pain (from medicine) before you heal.

Here are several tips to gain a healty life :

Many people believe, drinking while eating can interfere with digestion and trigger obesity. The fact is not always the case, because eating is interspersed with drinking. Water can actually help you lose weight.

Avoid drinking tea after meal, because it can make a protein that is contained in the food becomes difficult to digest. Substances that are difficult to digest could reach 80%.

If you are the kind of a pessimistic person, you must change that attitude. Harvard scientists found that people whose attitude is optimistic and satisfied with their life will have a healthier heart.

You should reduce the hours of sleep, because the researchers found that one cause of dementia, especially in old age was due mostly to sleep.

Vegetables that contain the lowest amount of choline such as spinach, carrots, cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, radishes, lettuce and cabbage can eliminate body odor. High levels of choline which triggers the body produces a chemical compound that causes the trimethylamine someone has severe body odor like the smell fishy.

As the summer with high temperatures usually easy endurance will drop. Keep the intake of drinking water but avoid very cold drinks because when the weather is too hot can cause stomach cramps when the body temperature is high.

If you forget what to do or want to take something, try to give time for the brain to rest for 20 minutes. 20 minutes is enough for the brain to refresh, so they can think more clearly and recall.

Let us not waste our health to look for treasure and then squandered our treasure to seek health.

September 01, 2011

One of the five senses God has given to us. Unfortunately not all of us can see perfectly. Blind, vision problems like cataracts, nearsightedness, eye minus and so on. Sometimes if one of the senses we have not which function as it should, then all four of our senses will react with more leverage to work beyond the five senses possessed by normal people. It will also trigger the emergence of a sixth sense without us knowing it. Way to bring the sixth sense can also be learned by a person with normal senses, such as a magician.

If we have five senses are normal, so keep & take care. Here are tips to keep our eyes :

If you work or activity using the screen on a PC or laptop. The eyes will get tired if we keep staring at the screen. To fix this, rest your eyes by looking the other direction. With frequent flashes also to avoid your eyes become dry.

Adjust the monitor tilt so easily adapted to the position of the eye. Keep the distance between the eyes with a screen about 25-30 cm. Adjust the height of the monitor screen is also slightly below the eye.

I recommend you to use the LCD instead of CRT monitors due to the radiation produced is lower.You can also use the screen protector to reduce radiation.

Avoid dust and pollution. Use goggles to protect your eyes from dust and pollution. If you are driving on a motorcycle, wear a helmet mirror. Because dust and pollution can cause eye infection that can cause cataracts.

Change your bad habits when reading a book. Reading with less lighting and read while sleeping is one of them. Reading habits like these make the eyes work harder and can result in minus eye.

Reading books preferably with adequate lighting and keep reading distance between 25-30 cm. If too close, can result in nearsightedness in the long run.

Hope these tips can help keeping our eyes. Live a healthy life with a good habit.