Monday, September 1, 2008

White Teeth are very important to healty smile


White teeth and strawberries may not sound like they go hand in hand, but it turns out the berries can actually lighten your smile.

The secret to this inexpensive home whitening method is malic acid, which acts as an astringent to remove surface discoloration. Combined with baking soda, strawberries become a natural tooth-cleanser, buffing away stains from coffee, red wine, and dark sodas. While it’s no replacement for a bleaching treatment at your dentist’s office, “this is a fast, cheap way to brighten your smile,” says Adina Carrel, DMD, a dentist in private practice at Manhattan Dental Arts in New York. “Be careful not to use this too often, though, as the acid could damage the enamel on your teeth.” You need: 1 ripe strawberry 1/2 teaspoon baking powder Directions: Crush the strawberry to a pulp, then mix with the baking powder until blended. Use a soft toothbrush to spread the mixture onto your teeth. Leave on for 5 minutes, then brush thoroughly with toothpaste to remove the berry–baking powder mix. Rinse. (A little floss will help get rid of any strawberry seeds.) you can apply once a week.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Food Choices For Young Women

Is your teenage daughter always dieting or worrying about eating too much?
Teenage girls often seem preoccupied with their weight. Even though they need fewer calories than teenage boys, girls continue to grow until about age 16. So consuming enough calories is very important. Too few calories can result in a failure to grow.
A healthful diet for teenagers should include four or more servings of milk, cheese or yogurt per day; four to six ounces of meat, fish, poultry or dried beans; three servings of vegetables; two servings of fruit and at least six servings of grain products.
Teens can control their calories by limiting high fat foods and getting regular physical activity.
If your teenage daughter needs help with her eating habits, contact a registered dietitian.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Exercise most important for health

Since a long time it is a fact, that excercising and fitness activities have a therapeutical effect on a lot of mental problems and deseases. Apart from other wholesome effects, physical fitness helps to reduce stress and symptoms of depression and anxiety disorders.
Especially endurance sports such as walking, jogging, swimming and cycling, are very effective. Regular excercise reduces the stress level and strengthens the immune system. Fitness helps to sustain certain happiness hormones (endorphines), which lowers the mental impact of psychological problems. Equally important is that you can aim higher and higher and experience the success. As well, sport activities can lead to new contacts and a deliberate distraction of the problems. So by exercising you improve your life and help on your health, as you don't have to worry about your problems all the time.
Try to find out, which sport activities you used to like, and start exercising again:
Swimming
To go for a walk
Regular Walking/Jogging
Cycling at the weekend
Golf
Badminton
Tennis
To go on a boat trip with your son
To play with the dog
Aerobics
Going to the gym

BRAIN DAMAGING 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.
2. Overeating
It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.
3. Smoking
It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.
4. High Sugar consumption
Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.
5. Air Pollution
The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.
6. Sleep Deprivation
Sleep allows our brain to rest.. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells.
7. Head covered while sleeping
Sleeping with the head covered, increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.
8. Working your brain during illness
Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.
9. Lacking in stimulating thoughts
Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.
10. Talking Rarely
Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain.
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The main causes of liver damage are:
1. Sleeping too late
and waking up too late are main cause.
2. Not urinating in the morning.
3. Too much eating.
4. Skipping breakfast.
5. Consuming too much medication.
6. Consuming too much preservatives, additives, food coloring , and artificial sweetener.
7. Consuming unhealthy cooking oil. As much as possible
reduce cooking oil use when frying, which includes even the best cooking
oils like olive oil.
Do not consume fried foods when you are tired,
except if the body is very fit.
8. Consuming raw (overly done)
Foods also add to the burden of liver. Veggies should be eaten raw or cooked 3-5 parts. Fried veggies should be finished in one sitting, do not store.
We should prevent this without necessarily spending more. We just have to adopt a good daily lifestyle and eating habits. Maintaining good eating habits and time condition are very important for our bodies to absorb and get rid of unnecessary chemicals according to 'schedule.'
Because :

Evening at 9 - 11
PM : is the time for eliminating unnecessary/toxic chemicals (detoxification) from the antibody system (lymph nodes).
This time duration should be spent by relaxing or listening to music. If during this time a housewife is still in an unrelaxed state such as washing the dishes or monitoring children doing their homework, this will have a negative impact on health. Evening at 11pm - 1 am :
is the detoxification process in the liver, and ideally should be done in a deep sleep state.
Early morning 1 - 3 am :
detoxification process in the gall, also ideally done in a deep sleep state.
Early morning 3 - 5 am :
detoxification in the lungs. Therefore there will sometimes be a severe cough for cough sufferers during this time. Since the detoxification process had reached the respiratory tract, there is no need to take cough medicine so as not to interfere with toxin removal process.
Morning 5 - 7am :
detoxification in the colon,
you should empty your bowel.Morning 7 - 9 am :
absorption of nutrients in the small intestine, you
should be having breakfast at this time.
Breakfast should be earlier, before 6:30 am , for those who are sick. Breakfast before 7:30 am is very beneficial to those wanting to stay fit. Those who always skip breakfast, they should change their habits,
and it is still better to eat breakfast late until 9 - 10 am rather than no meal at all..
Sleeping so late and waking up too late will disrupt the process of removing unnecessary chemicals. Aside from that, midnight to
4:00 am is the time when the bone marrow produces blood. Therefore, have a good sleep and don't sleep late.

DO TAKE CARE ABOUT YOUR HEALTH.................
AND PASS THIS TO ALL WHOM YOU LOVE & CARE FOR

Monday, February 11, 2008

Drinking Water Necessary for Health

Want a Healthy Heart? Drink Water
Still not drinking the recommended eight glasses of water a day? Here's one more healthy reason to start. Staying hydrated may protect your heart and reduce the risk of heart attack. A new study shows people who drank more than five glasses of water each day were less likely to die from a heart attack than those who drank fewer than two glasses a day. Researchers at Loma Linda University in California studied more than 20,000 healthy men and women aged 38 to 100 for six years. They found women who drank more than five glasses of water a day were 41% less likely to die from a heart attack during the study period than those who drank less than two glasses. The protective effect of water was even greater in men. Men who drank more water had a 54% lower risk of a fatal heart attack. But not all liquids were equal. When researchers included the consumption of other liquids such as coffee, tea, juice, milk, and alcohol, the risk of heart attack increased. Women who drank large amounts of liquids other than water were more than twice as likely to die of a heart attack, and non-water drinking men had a 46% increase in risk. Researchers say when people drink water it is absorbed quickly and easily into the bloodstream and thins the blood -- helping to prevent artery-clogging clots. But other liquids require digestion, which may require fluids to move from the blood into the gut -- creating a blood-thickening effect.

bare Foot

Have you ever been really tired at the end of a long day and then feeling better when removing your shoes? Shoes trap energy around the feet and that could be one of the reasons for feeling tired. So take your shoes off whenever you can and give your feet as much air as possible. Barefoot walks help tone the muscles of your feet, keeping them young and strong. An early morning barefoot walk on cool, dewy grass is refreshing and invigorating for the entire system, not just your feet. It is also believed to have a very good effect on improving eyesight. Do walk barefoot as much as possible to help the bone structure of your feet function according to its natural shape.

Color of EYE

  • Keep deeper colors on the lid.
  • Use lighter colors on the brow bone.
  • For a casual but polished look, sweep one shade from lashes to brow bone.
  • Use cream shadows sparingly -- the colors tend to be very vivid.
  • Eye gloss is the newest trend. It adds a sheer shine to lids, but don't try it unless you know you can carry it off -- it can look greasy and inappropriate.
  • Apply powder eyeliners wet for more intense color.
  • White, pink and yellow eyeliner pencils tend to make the eye look open and brighter. Blue counteracts redness, and black will give you a sultry look.
  • In order to make eyeliner easy to apply, manufacturers sometimes make it so creamy it doesn't stay put. You can use a matching eye shadow or powder liner to set our eyeliner.

Treatmetn oily Hair

If you have this problem, wash your hair daily with a mild shampoo that does not contain conditioners -- often labeled "clarifying"; these will leave the least amount of residue. Then use a light crème rinse or conditioner only on the ends of your hair, if needed, and be sure to rinse thoroughly. Avoid all products containing silicone , oils or lanolin, as well as two-in-one products. During the day, a quick combing can help redistribute oils and reduce that stringy appearance. Or, for a more serious case, sprint a little water on your hair and blow-dry it using a comb to remove and redistribute oils -- the heat of the dryer will make the oils more liquid and easier to manipulate

Bring Dry Hair To Healthy Hair


Dry or brittle hair can be closely related to the same problem as with dry skin, and that's essential fatty acids. With today's low-fat diet mind-set the problem is common. High carbohydrate content can make it worse, because protein is necessary for hair growth. First of all, avoid unnatural fats, such as margarine (plastic butter), and any hydrogenated fats ("partially" counts, too). Heated fats and deep-frying should also be avoided. (Saturated fats in moderation don't contribute to the problem.) Consider taking fresh flax oil: a tablespoon or so daily on salads or in a health drink. Or you can take combinations of fish oils (EPA/DHA) with primrose, borage or black currant seed oil. High-sulfur proteins, such as eggs (yolk included), and digestive enzymes are also recommended to ensure that the body is breaking them down adequately. .As for conditioners, there is a long tradition in Pacific cultures of using jojoba oil as a conditioner. Conditioners containing jojoba oil or the oil itself could be used.You're right to avoid harsh chemicals on the scalp and hot hair dryers. Hand drying is also good for scalp stimulation, which increases blood flow to the scalp.

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Make your Hairs Beautiful and Healty



Say goodby to Dandruff
Dandruff remedy#1
To clear dandruff, take an equal amounts of dried shikakai, amla and ritha. Mix well and powder them. Take some water and soak 2-3 handfuls of this mixture over night. Be sure that it should not be too thin. Next day sieve it and use it to wash hair. This helps in hair growth and also cures dandruff.
Dandruff remedy#2
Soak two tablespoonfuls of Fenugreek seeds overnight in water. In the morning the softened seeds are ground into fine paste and applied on the scalp, left on for 1/2 hr. good to avoid dandruff.
Dandruff remedies#3
Infuse 2 tbsp. of fresh or dried rosemary and sage in 1 gallon of water for 24 hours. Use daily as a hair rinse to control dandruff.
Dandruff remedy#4
Mix the olive oil with the almond oil. Apply and leave it on about 5 mins after it starts to burn. Rinse well to clear dandruff.