Health and Wellness

Energy - The fuel of Excellence

2008-06-17T10:14:00.000-07:00

Part-I (Key 1 and 2) - This post is a part of a series on Healthy living program

Physiology is the avenue to excellence. One way to affect physiology is to change the way you use your muscular system - you can change you posture, your faical expressions, and your breathing. The topics we are going to discuss are on a healthy level of biochemical functioning. Here we'll look at the under pinnings of physiology- What you eat and drink and how you breathe. We call Energy the fuel of excellence.

You have been learning all your life to run your own brain, and now here is your chance to learn how to run your body.

1. The first key to living health is - The power of breath
The foundation of health is a healthy bloodstream, the system that transports oxygen and nutrients to all the cells of your body. If you have a healthy circulation system, you are goig to live a long, healthy life. That environment is the bloodstream. What is the control button for that system? Breathing. It's the way you fully oxygenate the body and thus stimulate the electrical process of each and every cell.
Breathing not only controls the oxygenation of the cells, it also controls the flow of lymph fluid, which contains white blood cells to protect the body.
What is the lymph system? Some people think of it as the body's sewage system. Every cell in your body is surrounded by lymph. You have four times as much lymph fluid in your body as you do blood. The cells in our body absorb oxygen and nutrients necessary for their health and then excrete toxins, some of which go back to capilliaries. But dead cells, blood protiens and other toxic material must be removed by the lymph system. And the lymph system is activated by deep breathing. The body's cells depend on the lymph system as the only way to drain off the large toxic materials and excess fluid, which restrict the amount of oxygen.

If the lymph system in our body is shut down completely for 24 hours, we would be dead as a result of trapped blood proteins and excess fluid around the cells. So, if you want to have a healthy bloodstream with effective lymph and immune system, you need to breathe deeply and produce movements that will stimulate them.

2. The second key is the priciple of eating water rich food
Seventy percent of the planet is covered with water and Eighty percent of our body is made up of water. What do you think a large percentage of your diet should contain? You need to make certain that 70 percent of your diet is made up of foods that are rich in water. That means fresh fruits or vegetables, or their juices freshly squeezed.
Some people recommend drinking from eight to twelve glasses of water a day to "flush out the system". But this is not totally true. It depends on the water that you drink. Chances are that the water constains chlorine, fluoride, minerals, and other toxic substances. Drinking distilled water is usually the best idea. The amount of water you drink should be dictated by thirst.
Instead of trying to flush your system by flooding it with water, all you have to do is eat foods that are naturally rich in water - water-content foods.
Fruits, vegetables and sprouts - will provide you with an abundance of water, the lifegiving, cleansing substance.

3. The third key to living health is ... (Part-II)
4. The fourth key is ... (Part-II)
5. The fifth key to the living health program is ... (Part-III)
6. The sixth key to healthy living is ... (Part-III)

The subsequent post (part-II) will unleash the keys 3 & 4 and then in the last part-III, you will find the keys 5 and 6 to a healthy living life.
Please do visit back every week to read more about the healthy living tips.

Fantastic Flax Seed

2008-06-10T09:41:00.001-07:00

Introduction

Flax Seed Oil is a blue flowering plant that is grown on the Western Canadian Prairies for its oil rich seeds. This natural oil (also known as Linseed Oil) is highly recommended for the general well being and whole body nutrition and is considered to be nature’s richest source of omega-3 fatty acids that are required for the health of almost all body systems.
Flax Seed Oil contains omega-6 and omega-9 essential fatty acids, B vitamins, potassium, lecithin, magnesium, fiber, protein, and zinc and also provides approximately 50% more omega-3 oils than what you could get from taking fish oil.

Advantages

Research shows low incidence of breast cancer and colon cancer in populations that have high amounts of lignan in their diet. Flax is 100 times richer in lignan than most whole grains.

- Studies show that Omega-3 fatty acids help lower cholesterol and blood triglycerides, and prevent clots in arteries, which may result in strokes, heart attacks and thromboses.

- Helps protect the body against high blood pressure, inflammation, water retention, sticky platelets and lowered immune function.

- Shortens recovery time for fatigued muscles after exertion.

- Increases the body’s production of energy and also increases stamina.

- Accelerates the healing of sprains and bruises.

- Eases weight loss in people afflicted with obesity.

- Stimulates brown fat cells and increases the metabolic rate making it easier to burn off fat.

- Improves the absorption of Calcium.

- Strengthens finger and toenails.

- Can improve eyesight and perception of colors.

- Can often improve the function of the liver.

- Can relieve the side effects and stop development of many forms of cancer.

- Can relieve some cases of Asthma.

- Helpful in the treatment of Eczema, Psoriasis, and Dandruff.

- Can relieve the symptoms of Rheumatoid Arthritis.
It can relieve the symptoms of Diabetes Mellitus.

- Can alleviate some allergies.

- Helps prevent Atherosclerosis (the accumulation of fatty deposits inside the blood vessels, especially the large and medium-sized arteries, that many people experience during the aging process).

- Lowers high blood pressure in Hypertension sufferers.

- Has been scientifically proven to treat some cases of depression.

- Can improve the mental function of many old age pensioners.

- Can help in the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis.

- Has been proven to improve the behavior of Schizophrenics.

- Can relieve some cases of Premenstrual Syndrome(PMS) in females.

- And lots more…

Try to include Flax seed oil in your diet, it will work wonders for your health… But make sure you buy good quality Flax seed oil because Flax seed oil is heavy to digest. Flax seed oil can take 2 days to 6 weeks to get absorbed in our body.

Happy Living !

Donts after a Meal

2008-05-27T09:33:00.000-07:00

Almost all of the health problems start with stomach, and most of them are because of poor habits related to food. In this post we will discuss few points which are a strict no after a meal, specially at night.

"Donts after a meal"

1. Don't smoke
Experiment from experts proves that smoking a cigarette after meal is comparable to smoking 10 cigarettes (chances of cancer is higher)

2. Don't eat fruits
Immediately eating fruits after meals will cause stomach to be bloated with air. Therefore take fruit 1-2 hr after meal or 1hr before meal

3. Don't drink tea
Tea leaves contain a high content of acid. This substance will cause the Protein content in the food we consume to be hardened thus difficult to digest

4. Don't loosen your belt
Loosening the belt after a meal will easily cause the intestine to be twisted &blocked

5. Don't bathe
Bathing will cause the increase of blood flow to the hands, legs & body thus the amount of blood around the stomach will therefore decrease. This will weaken the digestive system in our stomach

6. Don't walk about
People always say that after a meal walk a hundred steps and you will live till 99. In actual fact this is not true. Walking will cause the digestive system to be unable to absorb the nutrition from the food we take

7. Don't sleep immediately
During sleep our body relaxes and the organs becomes dormant. Thus, the food we ate will not be digested properly. This can lead to gastric problems or infection in our intestine

Take care of these few things and live a healthy life...
"Helathy Life is a Happy and Wealthy Life"