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Saturday, June 26, 2010

Gooseberry and its Miraculous Benefits

Common Name:
Hindi -           Amla (आंवला)  
English -       Gooseberry , Emblic Myrobalam
Latin  -          Emblica offcinalis Gaerte
Sanskrit -      Amalki, Dhatri
 Tamil    -      Nelli
Kannada -     Nellaka
Telgu       -    Usirikaya
Malayalam-   Nellimaram
Marathi    -    Anwla


The Amla or Neelikkai (Phyllanthus Embilca) is also called Amalka in Hindi. In Sanskrit its name is Amalaki, which translates as ‘the sustainer’ or ‘the fruit where the goddess of prosperity presides’. The English term for Amla is Indian gooseberry. It is a small tree with leathery leaves and a fleshy fruit.  Amla is one of the richest natural sources of vitamin C, its fresh juice containing nearly twenty times as much vitamin C as orange juice. A single tiny Amla is equivalent in vitamin C content to two oranges. Clinical tests on patients suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis have shown that this high concentrate is more quickly assimilated then the synthetic vitamin.
   It is an ingredient of many Ayurvedic medicines and tonics, as it removes excessive salivation, nausea, vomiting, giddiness, spermatorrhoea, internal body heat and menstrual disorders. Because it is also cooling, it increases sattwa, and is an excellent liver tonic

It is the finest herb and is nowadays prominent all over the world due to its copious benefits. Where artificial products can leave so many hazardous side effects on health, skin and hairs, goose berry is showing up a path to the people to achieve beauty target without any harm. Herbal beauty products are nowadays piled up with goose berry in it as a main ingredient, because people are now shifting towards natural products to reduce side effects of chemicals.

Gooseberry is commonly available in herbal stores in the form of dry seeds or in powdered form. Luckily, small sized original gooseberry is nowadays available in super markets. It might be green, white, yellow, or red in color. The size may vary from pea size fruits to the size of hen's eggs

Since centuries, people are using gooseberry for its medicinal and nutritious properties. It is very sour in taste, and it is bitter and pungent, when used in dried form. . It is the best vitamin C supplement in contains as much as 20 times that of an orange. The fresh fruit contains more than eighty percent of water besides protein, carbohydrates, fibre, minerals and vitamins. Minerals and vitamins mainly include calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, Vitamin C and B complex. It also contains gallic and acetic acid
Due to its antibacterial and astringent attributes, the gooseberry protects against infection. You can apply its juice on your skin as a toner regularly to fade off your spots and to reduce pimples.

Gooseberry is also a powerful antioxidant agent. Many health problems are conduced by oxidative damage Vitamin C is a good antioxidant agent and so is Gooseberry. You can apply powdered or original gooseberry pulp on your face twice a week to remove fine lines and wrinkles. If your skin is damaged or you have sensitive skin, do not use it without consulting doctor.

Daily dose of gooseberry can relive you from day-today stresses. It can detoxify your body systems efficiently. It is a perfect way to boost your immunity and resistance system of your body. It is a great revitalizer which thoroughly helps in reactivating your whole body system.

It is also used as remedies for fever, liver disorder, indigestion, anemia, urinary problems, respiratory problems, and cerebral illness. It increases red blood cell production and strengthens teeth and nails.

Remember, healthy and proper balanced diet and intake of excessive water, along with using gooseberry can cure lots of problems. It is wisely recommendation to the entire beauty lovers to turn their interest towards natural products than artificial in order to improve the quality of health and life.

Friday, June 25, 2010

Are you looking for the best natural cure for acne?

        












Natural Acne Solutions
The Right Choice for You

Natural acne solutions are preferred
over antibiotics by many patients

Home Remedies for Acne are excellent alternatives for over the counter products or prescription drugs.

Acne Home Remedies are effective, very easy, inexpensive and rarely cause side effects.
What Causes Acne
Even though what causes acne is not exactly known the results of those causes is explainable. The sebaceous glands over produce sebum and the pores of the skin become blocked.

This leads to infection and damage to the pore. This might be a first grade type of explanation but it's basically what happens
Are you looking for the best natural cure for acne?
 
The versatile natural cure for acne is the Australian skincare miracle, tea tree oil.

Used as a cream of 5% to 20% strength you rub on your face after you cleanse and moisturize, this product offers just the right level of relief to take care of common acne.

Scientists have compared its healing power to the best selling chemical cure, benzoyl peroxide. Both products kill acne bacteria. Benzoyl peroxide usually takes about two days. Skin creams made with tea tree oil usually take about three.

The biggest advantage, however, is that it does something benzoyl peroxide doesn't. Tea tree oil literally gets the red out. It stops itching and inflammation at the same time it fights acne-causing bacteria.

And tea tree oil doesn't do something benzoyl peroxide does. Benzoyl peroxide can dry out your skin. This side effect is not especially noticeable in teenaged skin so much, but it can be a major problem in adult acne care.

Tiny flakes of dry dead skin lodge over the openings of pores and guess what?

They cause more acne!

If you use benzoyl peroxide, you will have to keep using it to treat new pimples in new places on your face. If you use tea tree oil, you can get rid of pimples for good.

And that is not all natural cure for acne can do for you.

Maybe you have heard of MRSA. This is an antibiotic-resistant form of the bacterium that causes staph infections. The problem with antibiotic-resistant infections, as you might suppose, is that antibiotics have little or nothing to offer to stop them.

Tea tree oil, however, is not an antibiotic. It's an antiseptic. The distinction that there are no bacteria that has a genetic advantage for resisting tea tree oil that they can literally pass on to other bacteria by swapping genetic material.

                   Adding tea tree oil to your regular skin care routine of washing, moisturizing, and exfoliation is the best natural cure for acne, and it won't cost you a lot 
Latin Name: Melaleuca alternifolia
Other Names: Melaleuca oil, Australian tea tree oil
Tea tree oil is an essential oil obtained by steam distillation of the leaves of Melaleuca alternifolia, a plant native to Australia.
Historically, the leaves were used as a substitute for tea, which is how tea tree oil got its name. The part used medicinally is the oil from the leaves.


Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Nature's Wonder - Asparagus















Another great vegetable and one of my favorite food that are also full of nutrients and health benefits. - Asparagus. A member of lily family, Asparagus is one of the most nutritional vegetable you could ever find. A vegetable that grows from a crown planted about a foot deep in soils which can grow 10 inches in a very suitable condition.

Asparagus is the main source of folic acid which is responsible for blood cell formation, growth and prevention of liver diseases. Asparagus are also low in both sodium and calories combined with lots of fiber which makes this vegetable more ideal to those people who are health conscious. Aparagus is a multi awarded nutrient vegetable that can give you lots of health benefits.

Below are the nutrients found in Asparagus.

~ Rich in potassium
~ High in folic acid
~ High in fiber content
~ Vitamin B6
~ Vitamin A
~ Vitamin C
~ Good source of rutin
~ Thiamin
~ Glutathione
~ Protein

This folic acid rich vegetable contains no fat and cholesterol free which makes it more heart friendly. Asparagus are best for soups, appetizers and other world famous recipes. Asparagus are also well produced around the world that is why it is always available in your local market.

If you haven't tasted this delicious food, you must try it now to take advantage of its health benefits. It is best to consume a slightly cooked asparagus but others prefer it raw to maintain its freshness and its nutrients. Live healthy by eating right foods for your body.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

How to Lose Weight With Miracle Fruit

                                           
Losing extra weight whether it is 5 pounds or 25 pounds can be excruciatingly difficult. Most people know that in order to lose weight you need to have will power, focus and a plan. In this day and age we are all busy and busy means not having time make proper meals, not having time exercise as much as we should and because we're tired, we can succumb to temptation very easily. When temptation comes in the form of a chocolate bar or cookie or other high calorie snack - the impact on plans to shed extra weight can be disastrous. What if there was something that could satisfy a temptation craving but still be good for you? Miracle Fruit just might be that something! 







Miracle Fruit is a berry plant that originates in West Africa. The berries themselves have a protein called miraculin that is nothing short of miraculous. When the miraculin hits your tongue, the protein binds with your taste bud receptors and enhances the ability to taste sweet. In fact, it works so well you can drink straight lemon juice or bit into a lime without even puckering. In fact, the lemon juice or lime slice will taste like you mixed it with a cup of sugar. Miracle Fruit is not new, it has been used by West Africans for centuries to sweeten simple foods such as cornbread, soups and porridge.






How can this fruit help you lose weight? It's simple: the key is to get your diet on track by reducing sweets. In order to reduce your intake of sweets, you need to be able to withstand the temptation to indulge yourself when you are hungry, stressed or in a hurry. To do this you will need to have healthy food at hand such as carrot sticks, apple slices or other fruit or vegetable. Simply eat a Miracle Fruit berry when temptation strikes and then indulge yourself in the sweetness of the snack. Carrots will taste like they are covered in brown sugar. Apple slices will taste like they are straight out of a pie and you will be on track to losing that extra weight!






The same principle can be applied at home as well. When you feel like snacking (which is the downfall of the dieter) make sure you eat a Miracle Fruit berry first and then head straight for the crisper instead of the cupboard. You can also indulge in things such as a lemon meringue pie - just leave out the sugar! You can also brew cold tea and pair it with a Miracle Fruit berry in order to feel like you are drinking sweetened iced tea.






Successfully losing weight feels amazing and with the right planning and tools you can be successful!

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Stay Away From These Weight Regain Mistakes

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So you have lost some or all of the weight that you wanted to. Now you have got to avoid these weight regain mistakes that are so common for dieters. There are a few thing that you must do to ensure the weight stays off.

The first obvious thing is you must understand that high levels of exercise are a key element of keeping fat off and ensuring that you stay at your ideal bodyweight.

When we lower our calorie intake we know that your body gets sluggish, you often don't feel like really exercising or if you do you really don't do it at the level that you should be. So this means that you have to push yourself extra hard because your body will naturally want to slow down and conserve its energy levels. You will hit a plateau. A fat loss plateau, this is something that you don't hear about all that often.

This is why most of those diet plans show the people immediately after the weight loss. They don't show them a few months later, this is because a lot of people put the weight back on quickly. In fact the majority do.

So you say "this is not going to happen to me, I wont make the same weight regain mistakes". But it is actually a natural occurrence in the body. Your body tricks you into thinking a number of different ways so it can keep the energy it has in storage. It is a physiological response, the body thinks it is in starvation mode.

This is why people who think that diet alone can is the answer for them are actually not generally going to make it long term in their weight loss goals. When you don't look at the results right after the weight loss, but instead look a year ahead generally you will not be happy with the results at all.

The system that works long term, the system that ensures you wont make the same weight regain mistake is high exercise levels while feeding the muscle with high intake clean foods. This is much much, better than simply losing weight through starvation alone. Low calorie diets are generally not the answer, especially when there is no exercise being performed.

You have to eat to feed your muscles, but we are not talking about fast food at lunch, and a heavy fatty dinner. The right kinds of foods, the basics of good nutrition.

If the question is can you simply lose weight with diet alone, then yes. But if you don't want to be fighting that weight loss rollercoaster for your whole life then it is time to simply lose the weight the right way, while building a leaner, better body.

The bottom line is, weight loss the right way will trump temporary weight loss every time. Anyone who tells you otherwise, is either lying or telling you the temporary results. They will gain the weight back, but if you do it right you wont!

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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Improve Your Health by Quitting Smoking Sooner Than Later
















Many people who are thinking about quitting smoking excuse themselves by thinking that whatever damage to their health that smoking does has already been done. Medical research, however, has shown that there are short and long term benefits of quitting.


Even just one hour after quitting your body begins to benefit. Your pulse and blood pressure will go down while the temperature of your feet and hands will go up. When chemicals in cigarette smoke that force your heart rate to go up are removed from your system, the body can normalize itself.

The amount of carbon monoxide in your blood will also normalize just a few hours later. The amount of oxygen in your blood is decreased when CO, which is present in cigarette smoke, binds with hemoglobin, which is what transports oxygen through the body. Oxygen can flow more freely and better feed the tissues of your body when the level of CO in your body goes down.

Your risk of experiencing a heart attack starts going down only twenty-four hours after you quit smoking. Your nerve cells change because of being constantly exposed to nicotine, but, after just forty-eight hours, the nerve cells will begin to normalize and you will be able to experience normal feeling once again. This also allows you to smell and taste normally again.

Nicotine cravings will begin to go away after a few weeks and may reappear randomly during the following few months. During that time your body's circulatory system can recover from the damage that smoking has dealt it. When several weeks have passed without smoking, you should be able to exercise normally without having to wheeze and gasp for breath.

The body will begin to regain energy that is usually sapped by fatigue caused by smoking. Sinus congestion and hacking will also be greatly reduced after a period of a few months of not smoking. These things occur because the body is finally recovering and starting to work at its best again.

Strokes are twice as likely to befall a person who smokes than one who does not. After a year of not smoking, your risk of having a stroke will have dropped by 50% or so. Your risk will go down to that of someone who does not smoke after five to fifteen years of not smoking cigarettes.

Other health risks also go way down. Cancer of the lung, larynx, pancreas, and bladder will all be much less likely to appear in your body. About 87% of lung cancer patients have developed lung cancer because of being heavy smokers. When you stop smoking, your risk of developing lung cancer goes way, way down.

Quitting smoking is a commitment that will last the rest of your life. If you choose to continue smoking you will be at a very high risk for a variety of diseases. The best idea is to stop smoking now.