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Green Tea Natures Miracle Health Drink

ste01153 — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 03:00:15 +0000

“Camellia Sinensis” or Green Tea is rich in catechins, antioxidants. The best variety is said to come from tea plantations in China, especially those protected from pesticides. It is preferable to pure green tea, no preservatives or other artificial flavorings.

Tea has shown potent effects on cholesterol levels in blood and your overall health. Green tea in particular, may also contribute to the fight against cancer. In Japan, it was found that drinking more than 10 cups of green tea per day delayed the onset of cancer by some nine years for females and about three years for men.

Another source of good quality green tea is the tea sold at Japanese Tea online. This is delicious tea and contains large quantities of polyphenols and flavoniods (catechins, which are also immunostimulatory), and natural vitamins and minerals. Catechins destroy free radicals. Green tea also has carotenoids, chlorophyll, polysaccharides, natural vitamins C and E, manganese, potassium and zinc, all essential to your health. Pure green tea is called 100 times more effective than vitamin C from other sources, and 25 times better than vitamin E from other sources.

You may find green tea mixed with other herbs in leading pharmacies, but rarely find pure green tea sold alone. Green tea is usually sold in tea bags, but modern processors has made possible its liquid form in bottles, and the powder in sachet packages, without compromising the health and healing.

Green tea and other natural food supplements carry micronutrients that feed your immune system and strengthen the cells of your body. When the immune system becomes stronger, is the restoration of tissues and cells in a manner that strengthens the body’s ability to heal itself maintains, therefore, disease and even serious diseases are healed. This is not the food itself supplement that heals, but the immune system responsible.

A Japanese monk, Eisai, wrote in 1211 AD that tea (green) is a miraculous medicine for the maintenance of health. “Tea has the extraordinary ability to prolong life. Wherever a person cultivates tea, long life will follow. ”
Eisai further wrote that tea in general, was known as an elixir that the “immortal mountain people” made.

In the 16th century, European explorers said they found that tea, especially green tea, has been used for fever, headache, joint pain treatment, and abdominal pain and a number of health tea ailments.Green other experts believe modern medicine and nutritional herbal, can help prevent high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, skin diseases and lung disorders. It actually slows the aging process. It eliminates distress by refreshing your body and your mind.

A DNA Link between Diabetes and Obesity

admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:11:27 +0000

There are certainly risk factors that make the likelihood of you being diagnosed with the disease higher. One of the only risk factors that you have control over is your weight. If you are obese, the single best thing you can do for your health and the prevention of diabetes is to lose weight. Even in small increments, when you shed pounds you are increasing your health benefits.

There are new studies that are now showing that there is a genetic factor or mutation for people who are obese and have diabetes. This genetic malfunction affects how the bodies use energy and insulin – two key elements in the functioning of your body and the cause of diabetes and obesity.

If you carry this defective gene you are not guaranteed to be obese or have diabetes. But the link is there and it can be prevented. Discuss with your doctor options and ways to prevent or put-off the onset of diabetes.

The gene that researchers have discovered as a precursor to diabetes has been found in young children. It is scary to know that children in their preschool years are being diagnosed with obesity and type 2 diabetes due to genetics. But parents can reduce or prevent these things from happening by giving their children healthy lifestyle choices. Now that a DNA link has been found, the research can focus on finding a way to fix or prevent this from happening at some point in the future

5000 Year-Old Medical Secret Unearthed

admin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:29:08 +0000

Natural medicine is the use of natural methods, herbal medicines, and traditional practices to heal ailments. Every culture has a form of natural medicine. Many categories of the healing methods fall under natural medicine. Among these are traditional medicine, complementary medicine, and alternative medicine.

Usually, natural medicine refers to medical practices that were in place before the advent of modern medicine. This includes herbal medicine, or phytotherapy, which is prevalent in Chinese, Ayurvedic, and Greek medicine.

Upon the advent of modern medicine, many professionals discarded the use of herbs in favor of man-made medicine. Natural medicine can be considered as a lost art. In some cases, natural therapy is actually better than modern medicine. This leads some doctors to seriously consider and study the possible uses of natural medicine

Currently there are numerous organizations that study the effects and advocacy of natural medicine – among which is herbal medicine. There exist today many alternative medical treatments that fall under natural medicine. You could mention homeopathy, aromatherapy, acupuncture, and other alternative medical treatments.

Natural medicine should also be thought of as an accompanying medicine. Right now, the current collective medical thought suggests that natural medicine be used only to supplement accepted modern medical practices.

The practice of modern medicine revolves around diagnosing an illness and prescribing treatments for such. Natural medicine is helpful because it suggests that treatment be not necessarily given only when sick. Natural medicine strives to make each patient practice good health habits. These habits include good diet, healthy living, and the regular natural treatment.

7 Weight Loss Tips for Kids and Their Families

admin — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:23:36 +0000

Here is a sure-fire list of diet dos and don’t to help your family triumph over obesity:

1. Try again. Weight loss and healthy eating is not easy. There will be times when you and your family will struggle with this new lifestyle. It is important to keep trying. Failure is certain if you are not trying.

2. Avoid portion distortion. When serving food you must use portion control, a buffet-type or family-style situation tends to promote overeating.

3. Start the day off right with a good breakfast. A bowl of low-sugar cereal with low-fat milk, low-fat yogurt with a granola or breakfast bar, or an English muffin with peanut butter, rather than a doughnut or muffin. A healthy breakfast will put your family on the healthy track for the rest of the day.

4. be a ‘healthy’ role model. If there are chips, cookies and Twinkies and no fruit or vegetables when your kids look for snacks, how can they succeed? Line your refrigerator and cabinets with fresh fruits, nuts, low-fat cheese, and easy things for kids to snack on besides ‘junk food’.

5. Be positive. Say, Let’s go pick out fruits and make a fruit salad, don’t eat this or that. Use positive words and phrases when talking with your kid.

6. Make healthy eating a family affair. Create family meals together and for the entire family. Do not single out an overweight family member with special diet food. Your entire family can benefit form healthy eating regardless of weight.

7. Make time for physical activity. Make physical activity a family activity. Every night after dinner in the summer, go for a half-hour walk and make it an activity that kids look forward to.