Guest Article by Rina S

Stress effects are not limited to mental pressure and strains that one faces in daily life but they are extended to the bodily pain and energy constraints. Today’s busy schedule makes one to experience excessive mental pressure, worries, tension and anxiety that disturb the normal lifestyle and habits. Stress usually happens when an external consequence affect one’s mind that exceeds their tolerance capacity causing strain in thinking and congested in mind with a mild pain.

SYMPTOMS OF STRESS

When one examines the stress symptoms they are more sensitive that slowly affect ones health as a whole. Stress symptoms include both physical and mental signs as follows.

Physical stress symptoms

• Tiredness and restlessness
• Headache, muscle tension in neck and shoulders,
• Diarrhea and digestive problem,
• Rapid heart palpitation,
• Breathing difficulty,
• Increased blood pressure.

Mental stress symptoms

• Lack of concentration,
• Negative feeling and inferiority sensation,
• Short temperedness,
• continual irritation,
• Clinical depression and loneliness.

STRESS MANAGEMENT

Stress relief techniques are many in numbers that are more effective that results in quick recovery to normal life style. First step one must take as a remedy to come out of stress is to analyze the cause and resolve the problem at once. So of the stress relief techniques are as follows

Meditation and yoga

Meditation helps in controlling the overall body cleansing that removes the mental strain and pressure and brings in peace of mind at once. They widely help in temper management, controlling anger and fear fetching mind stability and tolerance capacity. Once the mind is brought under control they can help you in timely decision making and focus on work.

Yoga plays a major role in one’s life as they help in regulating one’s health with more added benefits such as increases blood circulation, body flexibility, muscle strength, builds stamina and build up good immune power.

Hobby ideas

Indulging one’s mind into hobby can help to divert the mind, reducing ones mental tension. A hobby can be of any sort such as collecting stamps, painting, listening to music, playing an instrument, watching TV, gardening, playing with your friends or more. There are hands full of hobby lists one can get adapted to.

Perfect time management and work scheduling plans helps one to balance stressful situations of a day. Stress relief games and some recreational activities can help in reducing stress at once.

Guest Article by Rina S ( Accepted with thanks!)

Sleep Plus Proper Rest Gives You Health !

Our human body is an intelligent piece of mechanism that is able to function on its own and yet it requires each organ to carry out its own special role.

As the human body is not a machine, it is natural that it need to rest. It can only happens when we are asleep. As such we must not neglect it by failing to have proper or sufficient rest or they will crumble and cause health challenges.

Very often, we hear people saying that they are unable to sleep well or have trouble getting to sleep, this is a sign of the person not feeling well (due to many factors) or they are too shack out.

A couple of ways you try to induce sleep :

1. A warm bath before retiring to bed followed by a gentle massage, especially along the spinal area. As this relaxes the nerves and muscles, it usually produce a faster result.

2. A hot foot bath which draws the blood away from the brain thus inducing sleep.

3. A glass of hotmilk or cocoa prior to retiring to bed will also have some therapeutic effect.

4. Having a plain diet constantly helps reduce indigestion issue that most people have and which causes uncomfortableness while trying to sleep.

5. Some claims that sleeping on a hard bed without pillow do enable a person to sleep well too.

6. Always ensure that the air in the room is fresh. Make sure the air circulation in the room is not congested.

7. Keep the mind free. Intrusion of unwanted thoughts can be replaced with soothing music or thoughts that calms your mind.

8. Never rely on Sleep inducing drugs as their side effects usually affects the heart.

Ill-Effects When Lack Of Sleep

When someone goes without proper rest or    sleep for a long period of time, they start developing many kind of health-related symptoms :

a. Nervousness or agitated

b. Palpitation of the heart

c. Headache

d. Backache

e. extremely sensitive or very emotional

To calm down or improve such health conditions, it is advisable that proper rest and dieting routine be taken in order for the change to take effect. Supplementation of tonics or vitamins is important. Changing of occupation or environment should also be consider.

Everyone must play their part to observe their loved ones who are suffering from the above-mentioned symptoms so that preventive measure can be adopted to avoid their health challenges from getting chronic.

So remember, our human body need the proper sleep and rest it requires in order to have a healthy body or state of mind.

Courtesy of HealthGuru

Ban The Sugar

Want to Prevent Alzheimer’s? Ban the Sugar
By Kelley Herring

If you indulge in sugar-laden foods and beverages, you may be increasing your risk of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a recent study conducted at the University of Alabama.

The researchers worked with mice that were genetically bred to develop Alzheimer’s-like symptoms in adulthood. The mice were separated into two groups.

One group had a regular, balanced diet, and the other group was supplemented with 10 percent sugar water. After 25 weeks, the researchers compared the metabolism, brain composition, and memory skills of the two groups.

The sugar-fed mice gained approximately 17 percent more weight than the control group, developed insulin resistance, and had higher cholesterol levels.

These mice also demonstrated more difficulty with learning and memory retention, and their brains had over twice the amount of amyloid plaque deposits – a hallmark of Alzheimer’s.

The researchers noted that the human equivalent of the mouse diet would be about five cans of soda per day. But since mice have a higher metabolism, it may actually take less sugar for humans to develop the same health-harming results.

Ban the sugar in your home and cater to your sweet cravings with the latest all-natural, no-calorie, sugar-free sweeteners. Use erythritol instead of sugar, cup for cup, to create delicious baked goodies, and use stevia to sweeten up your coffee and tea.

[Ed. Note: Kelley Herring is the founder and CEO of Healing Gourmet (www.healinggourmet.com), and is editor-in-chief of the Healing Gourmet book series. Learn more about how simple lifestyle choices can improve your health by reading ETR's free natural health e-letter.]

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After reading article such as the one above, most people will merely shrug off the warning without much action or even forgot about the content on the article because they could not visualize what sugar can do to them.

What exactly sugar can do to the human body is another subject of its own, however, what preventive measure a person need to take regarding sugar consumption can be illustrated with the examples below. Hope its useful :

( Reference : 4.2 gms is equivalent to 1 teaspoon of sugar which is identical to a cube of sugar )

You Decide What You Want To Drink !

Looking at the above examples, do you think you should ban the sugar?

Always remember before taking these foods, are eating the stuff or drinking the sugar?

*Picture obtained from email send via my health conscious friend. Thank you!

Are You Overdoing It With Fast Food?

Author: TycoonMarketing

Forty-two percent of Americans eat fast food at least every other day. People consume more calories and receive less nutrition at drive-in counter at junk food restaurants than in any other meal situation. Perhaps fast food can be a small part of a healthy eating plan, but most people simply eat way too much of these stuff.

According to a recent article in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Americans’ overindulgence in junk food and drive-in restaurants implies that nearly half of the US population is eating junk food three times or more each week! This report reveals that young people, between 10 to 39 years old, eat the most fast food. In the past, such adolescents have only eaten fast food about twice weekly. Fast food consumption is on the rise!

What effect does this have on overall diet? Children, adolescents and adults who consume junk food consistently eat far less fruit, vegetables, dairy and legumes than those who avoid the junk food restaurants all together. Fast food eaters chow down on more fried foods (french fries?) and slurp down more sugary soft drinks (Large size?). More fast food means that consumption of calories, saturated fat and sodium goes up, while intake of vitamin A, vitamin C, beta-carotene and fiber go down.

Of course, junk food doesn’t absolutely have to equate a poor diet. However, when people feel under time-pressure or when they are away from home, they tend to see it as a convenience or “survival” food as its immediate priority. Healthy eating usually becomes the least option for choices. Some fast food restaurants are beginning to offer “healthier” meal on their menu. They even offers vegetable and low-fat diet meal as an option.

Still, the buying habits revealed in this study did not show people opting for healthier food. This report suggests that people should begin choosing lower-fat meals and should reduce their fast food consumption of calories, fat, and saturated fat. Even choosing diet drinks or water at such places can save an immense load of calories.

Also when you buy drive-in food, think carefully about size portion of all meat, fries, and dressings. It’s okay to order a “small!” At about 200 calories, you won’t overdo it like you would with a 600 calorie jumbo size. The drive-in food industry’s “value marketing” strategy leads many consumers to think that they are saving money by ordering very large portions for only slightly higher cost. That strategy just means that you are paying more to overeat! Where’s the savings in that?

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Lack Of Nutrients In Your Body

Everyone knows that the human body needs a certain amount of vitamins and minerals daily in order to function properly and remain healthy.  A well balanced diet do supply your body with the vitamins it needs but if there is a lack of it, problems and disorders will arise. That is when your body starts showing signs of discomfort and what’s-not.

For people who do not get enough of nutrients in their body, they probably will lack vitamins and as a result they feel tired easily or they experience loss of appetite. More severe symptoms could involve mental and emotional stress, chapped lips, and other irritable or painful sensations.

Vitamin deficiency can be cause by poor diet, alcoholism, stress, lack of fruits and vegetables intake, or main stream medicine that interferes with your digestive system. Common symptoms such as tiredness or listlessness are probably cause by the lack of vitamins or a weakening of the immune system of your body system.

When your body lacks vitamin, it affects your Immune system too. It will be quite safe to say that your anti-oxidant level in your body will be low too. In such cases, if no attempt is made to boost up your defense system, you will easily succumb to bacteria invasion. That’s the reason why some people seem to catch cold or cough much easily than others.

Even if you are following a healthy dieting regime, you should continue to take health supplements that continue to keep your body health in an optimal state as vitamins are a great back up source for your body. How would you know if your anti-oxidant is low?

There is 2 possible way.

1. The Invasive Way. Your blood is drawn and a piece of your skin tissue is scalped so that the Laboratory can do its necessary test to give you the result. And it’s pretty costly too.

2. The Non-Invasive Way. As far I as know, Pharmanex, owned by Nuskin have the only machine in the world that can measure anyone’s anti-oxidant score within 2 minutes using a Nobel Prize technology. The machine is known as Bio-Photonic Scanner. It returns a Score known as Skin Carotenoid Score (SCS) that indicates how good your immune system is.

It is a fact that our human body is lacking in nutrients due to the food that we consume today. Those foods that we took today have low nutrient counts as compared to those 50 to 60 years ago. To make it worse, many of us became obsessed taking fast foods which have been proven over and over again that they are not nutritious at all.

In order to compensate for the discrepancy, taking vitamins or health supplements will give us the necessary intake of nutrients that the body needs to function normally.

With the invention of sophisticated equipments as well as stringent research by scientists all over the world, the supplements that are available to you today can be an alternative backup nutrients for your body. However, it is still your job to find out which of these supplement products is effective and which are not.

As wellness is a very lucrative business, there are cases of unscrupulous merchants passing off lousy supplements as quality one through their hype-up advertisements.

Ask yourself some questions before you buy your health supplement products in the market:

1. How long have this company been selling these health products?

2. How do they quantify their products quality? How many scientists were involved creating it?

3. How safe were they? What kind of Quality process did they carry out to ensure its fit for human consumption?

4. Any regulatory board approved it?

5. Are they effective?

To feel or think that it works, like most people do, does not make you healthier. To be able to measure the difference (similar to a high blood pressure monitor) is truly the right way to justify the product usage.

Most important of all, you must believe that vitamins or health supplements can truly help your body to become healthier. If these theories were false, how could the health supplements industry becomes a billion dollar industry?

Get involve, if you must, with any of these reputable company (e.g. Forever Living, Amway, Nuskin etc ) and its only when you starts seeing those around you becoming healthier, then your belief level will skyrocket!

Your body is very precious therefore make it a point that it does not have a lack of nutrients despite your heavy schedule or commitments for the day.

Jim Rohn once said “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.”