Welcome to the 7th issue of Healthy World Digest. In this issue...
* Avoiding cat dehydration
* The queen of vitamins, Vitamin D
* How to exercise for increased weight loss
* Increase fats for health and beauty
* Preventing diabetes through delightful plant foods and herbs
* Thoroughly chew your food
* Developing cancer and BBQing
* A low carb, super healthy macaroni & beans dish
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Is it the 1st of October already? Must be since you're reading Healthy World Digest and my bills are due. Well, as promised, brief health news items that can help transform your precious health and wellness follow.
* Preventing cat dehydration
Well, the news items are for you and your loved ones and pets matter too.
The following hyperlink to an news article brings up the issue of preventing dehydration in cats. It suggests cat owners include canned foods with its extra moisture, relative to dry food, for assuring your cat gets sufficient water.
It also advises against adding water to dry cat food because the water can cause bacteria to form on the cat food. Healthy Water has suggested adding a tsp or Two of water to dry cat food to help avert dehydration.
Note however, that we don't recommend you keep the cat food out available to your pet at all times of day. That practice is not healthy and not natural to cats. The best way to feed your cat is the way they have eaten in nature for thousands of years. That is, every day or two and then the food is gone.
However, water should always be available.
So feed your cat every day or 2 but have the water bowl full and available at all times.
Your cat will be healthier and not end up like most older cats that are as overweight as the average American. Blunt but true.
Following is the hyperlink to article cited and to Healthy Water page on feline dehydration.
Article on feline dehydration
Healthy Water page on feline dehydration
* The queen of vitamins, Vitamin D
If vitamin C is the king of vitamins, Vitamin D is coming to be viewed as the queen of vitamins, and for good reason.
A study showed higher vitamin D levels in the body boosted athletic performance especially when the vitamin is gotten from the sun's rays.
It seems vitamin D works as a healthy steroid bettering reaction time, speed and muscle strength.
We're so impressed with studies on the benefits of vitamin D, from cardiovascular health to cancer, clinical depression and much more, that we just completed a full section on vitamin D. Check it out, it's eye opening.
Healthy World Online's page on vitamin D facts
* How to exercise for greater weight loss
A study at Syracuse U. found that exercising the muscles below your belt led to greater fat and weight loss. Specifically, weight training exercise was the real key to weight loss especially weight training for legs and buttocks.
* Eat more fats for health and beauty
Italian researchers found that increasing the percentage of fat to 55% of your daily calories helped the body use up fat. This is a very complicated issue but I've long admired the clinical wisdom of the low carb advocates. Research almost always backs up their method for better health and weight loss.
I also believe that Dr. Robert Atkins, well known for touting a low carb diet plan starting decades ago, is one of the great heroes in alternative medicine. Much of the recent work of present low carb approaches is a borrowing of Atkins' principles without giving due credit. Take note South Beach Diet, Heller Diet, etc etc etc.
* Preventing diabetes through delightful plant foods and herbs
Especially broccoli. Broccoli is good for you. Really, really good for you.
Along with everything else that broccoli is good for, British researchers find that it also helps prevent diabetes. A specific chemical, sulforaphane in cruciferous vegetables seems to be the beneficial agent.
* Chew your food
Remember the thirty chews per bite rule? There's a whole lot to it according to Japanese scientists who found that fast eaters increased their risk of diabetes & weight gain.
* Cancer and grilling
That delicious char on the meats you grill is cancer causing. Sorry about that. But the fact is that any char or crust, even bread crust (my favorite part of the bread) is carcinogenic. Same for the crispy outside of fried foods.
With grilled or barbecued meats, marinading them in an herbal mix reduces the cancer causing compounds. It also makes meats taste better. Win - win.
Use or make a marinade containing peppers, thyme, rosemary, chives.
* A low carb, super healthy pasta & beans dish
You've read right. This recipe is a modification of my mom's quick and dirty pasta fagiole (pasta with beans). (Of course, the classic recipe is absolutely exquisite but a little more complicated.)
When my mom had to get supper on the table real quick, she would just boil up a pot of pasta, leaving enough of water in to cover all of the macaroni so it was a soupy pasta. Then she'd get a can of Campbell's Pork & Beans, dump them in, add some black pepper, parsley and a few tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil and voila.
It was delicious. The beans, the touch of ketchupy sauce, the black pepper, parsley and then the heavenly taste of olive oil, all made for an incredibly delicious, simple, quick, cheap dish.
Pretty healthy too.
But I think I went one better with my even healthier adaptation of this family classic.
Here are the ingredients:
A pound of dried pasta. (Use a spoonable pasta of your choice. I like elbow macaroni. If you are counting carbs, get a low carb, high fiber brand. I use either Dreamfields or the major brands that have redeveloped some of their pastas like Ronzoni's Smart Taste line.)
Two cans of pork & beans (or the vegetarian variety I get these days). Make sure it's the kind that you would have as a side dish for franks.
One can of soy beans. I get Libby's Organic Soybeans. Make sure to rinse off the soy gel. Yuck!
A little heart healthy virgin olive oil and a smidge of salt, pepper, parsley, cilantro, hot red pepper flakes to taste.
Cook up pasta leaving enough of the water to cover it when it's cooked.
Toss in the beans
Spice to your taste and add olive oil, a tablespoon or 2 per serving
The pinto beans add healthy carbs with plenty of fibre combined with some good healthy pasta. The soybeans have little carbs, some fat and lots of protein and fiber. The soybeans flavor, that I do not find pleasing, gets lost in the mix. And then you have the goodness and flavor of mono-fat olive oil.
I like to freeze a few servings for later on in the next week or two.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Healthy World Digest, #6, September 2009
Welcome to the 4th issue of Healthy World Digest. In this issue...
* Herbal garlic supplements & blood pressure
* Put on repetition weight to take off pounds
* Mom's nutritious & delicious lemon salad
* Supplements for obsessive compulsives
* Jerry Seinfeld & Chris Rock come together to improve cardiac health
* Women's viagra
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* Herbal garlic supplements & blood pressure
Australian research finds herbal garlic supplements to be as good as prescription drug medicine for reducing high blood pressure. Better yet, just use lots of fresh garlic in your recipes. A clove in your soup, salad or meats gives you the same benefits as a dose of supplemental garlic.
* Put on repetition weight to take off pounds
New research confirms that to lose weight, lift more weight during resistance exercise.
Heavy, low rep movements uses more calories than light, high rep lifts according to studies.That doesn't mean everyone should be pressing 200 pounds. Just add a little weight to your movements while cutting back on repetitions.
The real key here is the after effects of heavy lift exercise. Your body has to do more muscle repair which boosts your metabolism leading to fat loss during recovery.
* Mom's lemon salad
As promised, an authentic, interesting, good for you Italian recipe that's quick and easy to make, straight from my Sicilian mom's kitchen.
For a quick lunch, my mom would make this lemon salad.
Ingredients: one lemon, one cup fresh, cool, filtered, healthy water for best taste, salt & black pepper to taste, olive oil, red pepper flakes (optional), crusty Italian bread (can be a bit stale)
1) Peel lemon. Leave white flesh on. Chop lemon into cubes making sure juice goes into soup bowl. Squish the cubes to release some more of the juice
2) Add one cup cold, preferably filtered water
3) Sprinkle in salt and pepper to taste. Add some of the red pepper flakes if you like heat like I do.
4) Add olive oil, 1 - 2 tbls
5) Slice your Italian bread and your good to go
Now just dip a morsel of bread into the delicious lemon broth, with piece of lemon cube. Repeat until the bread is gone. I love to drink up the precious little remaining lemon broth.
The light lunch is antioxidant rich, packed with Vitamin C and enzymes and lightly filling on a warm summer or spring day.
Oh, and for an even more interesting sweet and sour treat, just use an orange instead of lemon. Especially interesting when you taste the contrast between sweet orange, olive oil & spicy pepper.
And, when I really want to go nuts, I'd double the ingredients and use 1 lemon and 1 orange. That reminds me. Be right back.
* Supplements for obsessive compulsives
Hopefully, few of you will ever have to pronounce the word "trichotillomania." The better known term is "hair pulling." The disorder is a class of compulsion where sufferers tear hair from their scalp, eyebrows and eye lashes to the point of baldness.
But, trials of a nutritional supplement N-acetycysteine has shown it helps in about 50% of the cases.
The aspect of general importance here is that this supplement is helpful for obsessive-compulsives in general, of which there are many sufferers. That's good news since orthodox therapy for OC has included powerful psychiatric drugs and talk therapy, each being much more expensive and/or demanding than just taking effective N-acetycysteine.
* Seinfeld & Chris Rock come together to improve cardiac health
Well, sort of.
You see, laughter is good for your heart.
That's what scientists in Greece found. Laughing results in the relaxation of the arteries. This could even help avert stroke or heart attack.
* Oh those Brits
Finally, women's viagra! British researchers found that loud car engines arouse women's sexual desire. You can't make this stuff up.
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* Herbal garlic supplements & blood pressure
* Put on repetition weight to take off pounds
* Mom's nutritious & delicious lemon salad
* Supplements for obsessive compulsives
* Jerry Seinfeld & Chris Rock come together to improve cardiac health
* Women's viagra
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* Herbal garlic supplements & blood pressure
Australian research finds herbal garlic supplements to be as good as prescription drug medicine for reducing high blood pressure. Better yet, just use lots of fresh garlic in your recipes. A clove in your soup, salad or meats gives you the same benefits as a dose of supplemental garlic.
* Put on repetition weight to take off pounds
New research confirms that to lose weight, lift more weight during resistance exercise.
Heavy, low rep movements uses more calories than light, high rep lifts according to studies.That doesn't mean everyone should be pressing 200 pounds. Just add a little weight to your movements while cutting back on repetitions.
The real key here is the after effects of heavy lift exercise. Your body has to do more muscle repair which boosts your metabolism leading to fat loss during recovery.
* Mom's lemon salad
As promised, an authentic, interesting, good for you Italian recipe that's quick and easy to make, straight from my Sicilian mom's kitchen.
For a quick lunch, my mom would make this lemon salad.
Ingredients: one lemon, one cup fresh, cool, filtered, healthy water for best taste, salt & black pepper to taste, olive oil, red pepper flakes (optional), crusty Italian bread (can be a bit stale)
1) Peel lemon. Leave white flesh on. Chop lemon into cubes making sure juice goes into soup bowl. Squish the cubes to release some more of the juice
2) Add one cup cold, preferably filtered water
3) Sprinkle in salt and pepper to taste. Add some of the red pepper flakes if you like heat like I do.
4) Add olive oil, 1 - 2 tbls
5) Slice your Italian bread and your good to go
Now just dip a morsel of bread into the delicious lemon broth, with piece of lemon cube. Repeat until the bread is gone. I love to drink up the precious little remaining lemon broth.
The light lunch is antioxidant rich, packed with Vitamin C and enzymes and lightly filling on a warm summer or spring day.
Oh, and for an even more interesting sweet and sour treat, just use an orange instead of lemon. Especially interesting when you taste the contrast between sweet orange, olive oil & spicy pepper.
And, when I really want to go nuts, I'd double the ingredients and use 1 lemon and 1 orange. That reminds me. Be right back.
* Supplements for obsessive compulsives
Hopefully, few of you will ever have to pronounce the word "trichotillomania." The better known term is "hair pulling." The disorder is a class of compulsion where sufferers tear hair from their scalp, eyebrows and eye lashes to the point of baldness.
But, trials of a nutritional supplement N-acetycysteine has shown it helps in about 50% of the cases.
The aspect of general importance here is that this supplement is helpful for obsessive-compulsives in general, of which there are many sufferers. That's good news since orthodox therapy for OC has included powerful psychiatric drugs and talk therapy, each being much more expensive and/or demanding than just taking effective N-acetycysteine.
* Seinfeld & Chris Rock come together to improve cardiac health
Well, sort of.
You see, laughter is good for your heart.
That's what scientists in Greece found. Laughing results in the relaxation of the arteries. This could even help avert stroke or heart attack.
* Oh those Brits
Finally, women's viagra! British researchers found that loud car engines arouse women's sexual desire. You can't make this stuff up.
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Monday, August 3, 2009
Healthy World Digest, #5, August 2009
Welcome to the 4th issue of Healthy World Digest. In this issue...
* High carbs = liver damage
* Be hip
* Italians aren't fat
* Arthritis and vitamins
* Take a hike in the woods!
* Fibromyalgia doesn't exist
* Reply to eMail
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* High carbs = liver damage
Duke University researchers found that taking in too many carbs can not only make you pack on extra pounds but can also hurt your liver. That is because too high blood sugar becomes fat in your liver. Good news is that sticking to reduced carb meal plans can improve the related liver condition in 6 months.
* Be hip, exercise, that is
Ever think about your hips when working out? Start to. If the spine's health is the best indicator of youth, according to the Yogis, then the hips are second. For improved performance and to avert injury click --> hip exercise
* Italians aren't fat
When I was a tyke, I asked my Sicilian mom why Italians were so fat. She looked at me in horror and said, "Italians aren't fat. Americans are fat!"
She was referring to Italian-Americans who ate, well, Italian-American stuff. You know, the stuff that's featured at the corner pizza place.
But that's not the food my family ate. Real Italian food features good bread, rich, fresh cheeses, salads with a little olive oil, piles of greens & fresh fruit. Yeah, it's fast food but good for you.
I now understand that whatever was imperfect in the diet I was raised on, was offset by the good stuff: the salads, cooked greens, fresh fruit and fish.
So eat Italian, REAL Italian.
P.S. Future newsletters will offer recipes for dishes served in my family that are simple, yummy and healthy. If I forget, remind me.
* Arthritis and vitamins
Arthritis is a major, pervasive problem in the West. There are no cures per se. But a number of supplements can very be useful.
Think fish oils, magnesium, calcium, Vitamin E & Vitamin C.
Click for much more on treating arthritis with vitamins
* Take a hike in the woods!
Researchers found that a walk in the woods strengthens your immune system. Just the kind of health story that makes my day.
Researchers concluded that, on hikes, we absorb the natural protectants that the trees emit.
Yeah, and I could think of several other aspects of that hike that contribute to immunity. The exercise, the relaxation, the connexion to nature, etc.
* Fibromyalgia doesn't exist
I don't believe there is such a thing as fibromyalgia. The pains are real, patients' suffering is real, someTHING(s) is happening.
But that someThing has been placed in a category that doesn't advance our understanding or our treatment.
I believe that persons diagnosed with fibromyalgia are truly suffering from a few or many disorders with shifting symptoms. Perhaps, a large part of the suffering includes an psychological component, part of the reason why symptoms appear to be vague & shifting.
My advice is for sufferers is to deal with the symptoms as THE disorders.
Then work on getting generally healthy.
Eat correctly
Exercise
Drink lots of purified water. Visit our sister site for helpful information on water & health.
Use herbal remedies
Do one thing that is emotionally fulfilling. Make a friend. Volunteer your time. Take up yoga. See a psychotherapist. Just do one constructive emotional thing.
Then reevaluate your fibromyalgia.
For more information, visit our page on fibromyalgia vitamins and fibromyalgia herbs
* Reply to eMail
Hope this isn't too self serving. In response to an email I received asking if Healthy World is a front for some company, I replied as follows:
No, Healthy Water & Healthy World Online's other sites are not fronts for any other companies.
We have a few partners we work with, ones I trust, and Google ads pay for some of our bills. Yes, HW makes some money and I am very happy with our direction.
But HW is a group of information sites based on my decades of research into {health|wellness|health issues. There is no urgent reason for visitors to do anything more than just evaluate the info offered and make their own decisions as to how to best use the info.
I don't hard sell any products or brands. You can purchase a good water filter at your local home store, herbs at any herbal store and there's no shortage of available equipment at sporting goods stores that is not connected to the exercise site.
I hope you and Healthy World's other visitors (about 30,000 monthly) find the sites helpful and I genuinely hope that they encourage you to be active vis a vis yourself and others when it comes to health.
That would be satisfaction enough for me.
Anyway, thanks for visiting & good health,
Sal
* High carbs = liver damage
* Be hip
* Italians aren't fat
* Arthritis and vitamins
* Take a hike in the woods!
* Fibromyalgia doesn't exist
* Reply to eMail
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* High carbs = liver damage
Duke University researchers found that taking in too many carbs can not only make you pack on extra pounds but can also hurt your liver. That is because too high blood sugar becomes fat in your liver. Good news is that sticking to reduced carb meal plans can improve the related liver condition in 6 months.
* Be hip, exercise, that is
Ever think about your hips when working out? Start to. If the spine's health is the best indicator of youth, according to the Yogis, then the hips are second. For improved performance and to avert injury click --> hip exercise
* Italians aren't fat
When I was a tyke, I asked my Sicilian mom why Italians were so fat. She looked at me in horror and said, "Italians aren't fat. Americans are fat!"
She was referring to Italian-Americans who ate, well, Italian-American stuff. You know, the stuff that's featured at the corner pizza place.
But that's not the food my family ate. Real Italian food features good bread, rich, fresh cheeses, salads with a little olive oil, piles of greens & fresh fruit. Yeah, it's fast food but good for you.
I now understand that whatever was imperfect in the diet I was raised on, was offset by the good stuff: the salads, cooked greens, fresh fruit and fish.
So eat Italian, REAL Italian.
P.S. Future newsletters will offer recipes for dishes served in my family that are simple, yummy and healthy. If I forget, remind me.
* Arthritis and vitamins
Arthritis is a major, pervasive problem in the West. There are no cures per se. But a number of supplements can very be useful.
Think fish oils, magnesium, calcium, Vitamin E & Vitamin C.
Click for much more on treating arthritis with vitamins
* Take a hike in the woods!
Researchers found that a walk in the woods strengthens your immune system. Just the kind of health story that makes my day.
Researchers concluded that, on hikes, we absorb the natural protectants that the trees emit.
Yeah, and I could think of several other aspects of that hike that contribute to immunity. The exercise, the relaxation, the connexion to nature, etc.
* Fibromyalgia doesn't exist
I don't believe there is such a thing as fibromyalgia. The pains are real, patients' suffering is real, someTHING(s) is happening.
But that someThing has been placed in a category that doesn't advance our understanding or our treatment.
I believe that persons diagnosed with fibromyalgia are truly suffering from a few or many disorders with shifting symptoms. Perhaps, a large part of the suffering includes an psychological component, part of the reason why symptoms appear to be vague & shifting.
My advice is for sufferers is to deal with the symptoms as THE disorders.
Then work on getting generally healthy.
Eat correctly
Exercise
Drink lots of purified water. Visit our sister site for helpful information on water & health.
Use herbal remedies
Do one thing that is emotionally fulfilling. Make a friend. Volunteer your time. Take up yoga. See a psychotherapist. Just do one constructive emotional thing.
Then reevaluate your fibromyalgia.
For more information, visit our page on fibromyalgia vitamins and fibromyalgia herbs
* Reply to eMail
Hope this isn't too self serving. In response to an email I received asking if Healthy World is a front for some company, I replied as follows:
No, Healthy Water & Healthy World Online's other sites are not fronts for any other companies.
We have a few partners we work with, ones I trust, and Google ads pay for some of our bills. Yes, HW makes some money and I am very happy with our direction.
But HW is a group of information sites based on my decades of research into {health|wellness|health issues. There is no urgent reason for visitors to do anything more than just evaluate the info offered and make their own decisions as to how to best use the info.
I don't hard sell any products or brands. You can purchase a good water filter at your local home store, herbs at any herbal store and there's no shortage of available equipment at sporting goods stores that is not connected to the exercise site.
I hope you and Healthy World's other visitors (about 30,000 monthly) find the sites helpful and I genuinely hope that they encourage you to be active vis a vis yourself and others when it comes to health.
That would be satisfaction enough for me.
Anyway, thanks for visiting & good health,
Sal
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Healthy World Digest, #4, July 2009
Welcome to the 4th issue of Healthy World Digest. In this issue...
* King of Vitamins
* Best sneakers
* It's summer, make sure your kids don't dehydrate
* How to select herbs for your protocol
* Why worry about too much mercury?
* Chinese herbs for arthritis
* Finished a marathon? Congrats, you've just made yourself ill.
* I guess that's why kids don't get canker sores
* KING of Vitamins
Vitamin C continues to be the best per penny nutrient on the market. Now you can add diabetes as the latest health problem that C seems to correct or prevent. Vitamin C: Cheap and safe. Get it in fruits and vegetables and supplements. Just get it.
* Best athletic shoes
As July is upon us and many of you resolve to hit the outdoor exercise venues, our friends at Consumer Reports have come out with their rankings on sneakers.
Briefly, for men, the top rated sneaker was Asics, GEL-150 TR at $65. Their best buy was Champion, Amp 2 (Payless) for $45. (My unpaid commercial: I adore Payless! If you turn your nose up at this discount shoe store, well too bad for you.)
For women, the top rated athletic shoes were Asics GEL-150TR at $65 (just like for men). Next highest rated was Ryka Core Strength XT at $70. The best buys would be Avia A104W at $45 and Champion C9 Rocksie (Target).
* It's summer, make sure your kids don't dehydrate
A Madison Wisconsin news station reinforces that very crucial point that we can't stress too much. Particularly crucial for growing kids to be fully hydrated. Following are some key excerpts from article:
Kids are at the point, depending on their age, they're playing, they're thirsty, but they're not going to stop and get some water.
Kids are more susceptible to dehydration because their bodies are less efficient when it comes to perspiring.
What I do with my kids -- I have a bottleful with each of their names on it. I fill it up with ice, and they have to finish it by the end of the day..
Just to reinforce the most crucial point in the article - It's especially vital that kids be hydrated because growth requires a whole lot of healthy water. There's no knowing the harm that could be done to children if they don't have access to the required nutrients and water.
* How to choose herbs for your protocol
Ever notice how supplement websites and books often list illnesses and suggest a slew of herbs, vitamins & supplements you could take for that illness?
Well, after reading at a list of supplements, then what? How do you decide which ones to get?
What you should do is get 1 - 2 of the suggested supplements, try them out and continue if they help. If not, substitute with other options. You don't just go eat all 23 supplements and make them into a side dish. You don't just take the cheapest ones.
Click for the complete item on taking the right herbs
* What to do about excess mercury
Because mercury is deadly to humans. Unfortunately, it is found in a slew of the otherwise very healthy seafood we consume, not to mention the water we drink.
Here's the good news. Green or black tea may stop the poisons in seafood from entering your bloodstream. So, be sure to sip tea on your next seafood binge.
* Two Chinese herbal remedies for arthritis
Cinnamon, which the Chinese call Rou Gui, is a good Chinese herb for arthritis. The bark is especially good for blood flow and functioning of the spleen and kidney. Improving blood flow is helpful because it helps relieve pain and inflammation in many types of arthritis.
Ginger, called Gan Jiang by the Chinese, is also used as an anti-inflammatory. You can use the fresh roots as a tea or compress.
Combining the two in a delicious tea with a little raw honey would be ideal.
Click for more Chinese herbs for arthritis
* Just finished a marathon? Congrats, now go see a doctor
Exercise is the healthiest thing for you but not running a marathon. But, if you insist on running marathons, well, it's not against the law, not yet anyway.
Running a marathon is genuinely bad for your health. It can cause many injuries and health problems and even death.
However, working out for a marathon without ever actually running it is healthy. So go ahead and train for that next marathon. Then on the day of the marathon, watch it on the TV.
* Okay, that's why kids don't get canker sores
New research finds that licorice root extract can remedy canker sores. This delectable herbal remedy is a good, all natural solution to this bothersome problem. Your pharmacy may carry CankerMelts which is made from licorice root. You can also ask your health food store for a recommendation.
Oh, just kidding about the licorice candy. Those licorice Twizzlers wont do a thing for your canker sores.
* King of Vitamins
* Best sneakers
* It's summer, make sure your kids don't dehydrate
* How to select herbs for your protocol
* Why worry about too much mercury?
* Chinese herbs for arthritis
* Finished a marathon? Congrats, you've just made yourself ill.
* I guess that's why kids don't get canker sores
* KING of Vitamins
Vitamin C continues to be the best per penny nutrient on the market. Now you can add diabetes as the latest health problem that C seems to correct or prevent. Vitamin C: Cheap and safe. Get it in fruits and vegetables and supplements. Just get it.
* Best athletic shoes
As July is upon us and many of you resolve to hit the outdoor exercise venues, our friends at Consumer Reports have come out with their rankings on sneakers.
Briefly, for men, the top rated sneaker was Asics, GEL-150 TR at $65. Their best buy was Champion, Amp 2 (Payless) for $45. (My unpaid commercial: I adore Payless! If you turn your nose up at this discount shoe store, well too bad for you.)
For women, the top rated athletic shoes were Asics GEL-150TR at $65 (just like for men). Next highest rated was Ryka Core Strength XT at $70. The best buys would be Avia A104W at $45 and Champion C9 Rocksie (Target).
* It's summer, make sure your kids don't dehydrate
A Madison Wisconsin news station reinforces that very crucial point that we can't stress too much. Particularly crucial for growing kids to be fully hydrated. Following are some key excerpts from article:
Kids are at the point, depending on their age, they're playing, they're thirsty, but they're not going to stop and get some water.
Kids are more susceptible to dehydration because their bodies are less efficient when it comes to perspiring.
What I do with my kids -- I have a bottleful with each of their names on it. I fill it up with ice, and they have to finish it by the end of the day..
Just to reinforce the most crucial point in the article - It's especially vital that kids be hydrated because growth requires a whole lot of healthy water. There's no knowing the harm that could be done to children if they don't have access to the required nutrients and water.
* How to choose herbs for your protocol
Ever notice how supplement websites and books often list illnesses and suggest a slew of herbs, vitamins & supplements you could take for that illness?
Well, after reading at a list of supplements, then what? How do you decide which ones to get?
What you should do is get 1 - 2 of the suggested supplements, try them out and continue if they help. If not, substitute with other options. You don't just go eat all 23 supplements and make them into a side dish. You don't just take the cheapest ones.
Click for the complete item on taking the right herbs
* What to do about excess mercury
Because mercury is deadly to humans. Unfortunately, it is found in a slew of the otherwise very healthy seafood we consume, not to mention the water we drink.
Here's the good news. Green or black tea may stop the poisons in seafood from entering your bloodstream. So, be sure to sip tea on your next seafood binge.
* Two Chinese herbal remedies for arthritis
Cinnamon, which the Chinese call Rou Gui, is a good Chinese herb for arthritis. The bark is especially good for blood flow and functioning of the spleen and kidney. Improving blood flow is helpful because it helps relieve pain and inflammation in many types of arthritis.
Ginger, called Gan Jiang by the Chinese, is also used as an anti-inflammatory. You can use the fresh roots as a tea or compress.
Combining the two in a delicious tea with a little raw honey would be ideal.
Click for more Chinese herbs for arthritis
* Just finished a marathon? Congrats, now go see a doctor
Exercise is the healthiest thing for you but not running a marathon. But, if you insist on running marathons, well, it's not against the law, not yet anyway.
Running a marathon is genuinely bad for your health. It can cause many injuries and health problems and even death.
However, working out for a marathon without ever actually running it is healthy. So go ahead and train for that next marathon. Then on the day of the marathon, watch it on the TV.
* Okay, that's why kids don't get canker sores
New research finds that licorice root extract can remedy canker sores. This delectable herbal remedy is a good, all natural solution to this bothersome problem. Your pharmacy may carry CankerMelts which is made from licorice root. You can also ask your health food store for a recommendation.
Oh, just kidding about the licorice candy. Those licorice Twizzlers wont do a thing for your canker sores.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Taking the right vitamins for your requirements and goals
Following are guidelines on taking the right vitamins for your personal requirements and goals.
So, you have a particular health problem or goal. You go to a search engine and type in some appropriate search term and come upon a site which outlines a list of supplements which can ostensibly help you reach your goal.
The list of supplements is long, perhaps a dozen or more nutrients.
What do you do to ensure that you end up taking the right supplements?
Do you just go out and buy every vitamin on the list and just start gulping them daily? Do you just go get the cheapest ones and cross your fingers? Maybe you'll just get the ones with pretty sounding names or that the media is trumpeting.
Those strategies plainly will not work. Even though vitamin supplementation is more often than not effective and safe, it is not always effective and safe, for all people, at all times, suffering from all conditions.
A whole lot of factors are involved in taking the right vitamins at the right times.
Certainly, it would not be wise to treat your body as if it's a human lab, pouring a stew of man-made and natural supplements into the pot and mixing it up. It's your body, the only one you have.
There's a better tact than some willy-nilly strategy.
Be smart. Get informed. Read on.
1) First, appraise the suggested supplements thoroughly. Read the rationales for their use, respective usefulness and cost. Everything matters. Make careful notes that you could refer to later on.
2) Consider the fit between particular supplements and your particular needs and goals. Some supplements may be a better fit for your particular purposes.
An example might be if you suffer from arthritis and cardiovascular problems. In that case, it might be wise to take fish oil supplements since they can help both arthritis and cardiac issues.
Certain supplements may not agree with you or might be harmful to you for whatever reason. Blood thinners, as an example, are dangerous to take before an operation or if your physicial has prescribed a drug that thins blood.
3) Taking the right vitamins begins with buying a good multivitamin and taking it consistently. A good multivitamin may contain many of the nutrients you need, address other issues you are dealing with and provide a health insurance of sorts.
4) Buy one or, at most, two of the supplements that seem to fit in with your needs and try them out for a few weeks. Assess their effects. Decide if you need to add another supplement to your protocol or supplant one supplement with another one.
5) If you're addressing your concerns with other lifestyle changes, as you should be, reevaluate your vitamin protocol. You may need other nutrients to address present needs or you might be able to eliminate some vitamins as your goals are being met.
For example, if you are taking vitamins for hypertension and you begin to exercise, the improved fitness and weight loss will lower your hypertension. As that happens you could reconsider your supplementation regimen.
6) For particular problems that run their course, you could begin tapering off as the condition is remedied. For example, as cold and flu season end, you would start tapering off from Echinacea and Goldenseal.
However, there are two important cautions here.
First, you should not suddenly cease taking some nutrient. Gradually decrease daily dosage. See if your condition remains improved and then stop taking supplement.
Secondly, unless you reside in a pristine environment, eat only organic foods, work out avidly and have a stress-free existence, you can surely profit from some supplementation.
A high potency multivitamin and a little extra Vitamin C, some antioxidants and minerals, could go a long way to help keep you healthy and happy for a long time to come.
7) Reevaluate your previous concerns a little while after you stop taking targeted supplements. Has your condition revisited you and possibly worsened? Are you feeling well with no return calls from your nemesis?
The above strategy should assure you are taking the right vitamins for your requirements helping to assure a longer, healthier, happier life ahead.
Salvator Giustra is the creator of this blog, a health researcher and owner of - http://healthyworldonline.net/ - the independent vitamins and supplements guide. Click here for more information about vitamins and supplements Copyright: you may freely republish this article, provided the text, author credit, the active links and this copyright notice remain intact.
So, you have a particular health problem or goal. You go to a search engine and type in some appropriate search term and come upon a site which outlines a list of supplements which can ostensibly help you reach your goal.
The list of supplements is long, perhaps a dozen or more nutrients.
What do you do to ensure that you end up taking the right supplements?
Do you just go out and buy every vitamin on the list and just start gulping them daily? Do you just go get the cheapest ones and cross your fingers? Maybe you'll just get the ones with pretty sounding names or that the media is trumpeting.
Those strategies plainly will not work. Even though vitamin supplementation is more often than not effective and safe, it is not always effective and safe, for all people, at all times, suffering from all conditions.
A whole lot of factors are involved in taking the right vitamins at the right times.
Certainly, it would not be wise to treat your body as if it's a human lab, pouring a stew of man-made and natural supplements into the pot and mixing it up. It's your body, the only one you have.
There's a better tact than some willy-nilly strategy.
Be smart. Get informed. Read on.
1) First, appraise the suggested supplements thoroughly. Read the rationales for their use, respective usefulness and cost. Everything matters. Make careful notes that you could refer to later on.
2) Consider the fit between particular supplements and your particular needs and goals. Some supplements may be a better fit for your particular purposes.
An example might be if you suffer from arthritis and cardiovascular problems. In that case, it might be wise to take fish oil supplements since they can help both arthritis and cardiac issues.
Certain supplements may not agree with you or might be harmful to you for whatever reason. Blood thinners, as an example, are dangerous to take before an operation or if your physicial has prescribed a drug that thins blood.
3) Taking the right vitamins begins with buying a good multivitamin and taking it consistently. A good multivitamin may contain many of the nutrients you need, address other issues you are dealing with and provide a health insurance of sorts.
4) Buy one or, at most, two of the supplements that seem to fit in with your needs and try them out for a few weeks. Assess their effects. Decide if you need to add another supplement to your protocol or supplant one supplement with another one.
5) If you're addressing your concerns with other lifestyle changes, as you should be, reevaluate your vitamin protocol. You may need other nutrients to address present needs or you might be able to eliminate some vitamins as your goals are being met.
For example, if you are taking vitamins for hypertension and you begin to exercise, the improved fitness and weight loss will lower your hypertension. As that happens you could reconsider your supplementation regimen.
6) For particular problems that run their course, you could begin tapering off as the condition is remedied. For example, as cold and flu season end, you would start tapering off from Echinacea and Goldenseal.
However, there are two important cautions here.
First, you should not suddenly cease taking some nutrient. Gradually decrease daily dosage. See if your condition remains improved and then stop taking supplement.
Secondly, unless you reside in a pristine environment, eat only organic foods, work out avidly and have a stress-free existence, you can surely profit from some supplementation.
A high potency multivitamin and a little extra Vitamin C, some antioxidants and minerals, could go a long way to help keep you healthy and happy for a long time to come.
7) Reevaluate your previous concerns a little while after you stop taking targeted supplements. Has your condition revisited you and possibly worsened? Are you feeling well with no return calls from your nemesis?
The above strategy should assure you are taking the right vitamins for your requirements helping to assure a longer, healthier, happier life ahead.
Salvator Giustra is the creator of this blog, a health researcher and owner of - http://healthyworldonline.net/ - the independent vitamins and supplements guide. Click here for more information about vitamins and supplements Copyright: you may freely republish this article, provided the text, author credit, the active links and this copyright notice remain intact.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Healthy World Digest, #3, June 2009
Welcome to the 3rd issue of Healthy World Digest. In this issue...
* Beet high blood pressure
* Master Yoga in 28 days
* Pregnancy herbs
* Use fabric shower curtains
* Munching on spinach could build muscles.
* Worst foods your kids might be eating
* Water helps keep you thin
* Water makes you stronger
* Soap reduces sexual drive
* Strengthen neck to quash pain
____________________________________
* Beet hypertension
The many connections between eating veggies and fruits & good health never fail to amaze me.
Harvard & British scientists found that drinking beet juice lowers blood pressure by 10 points in just a few hours.
The rationale seems to be the nitrate in beets which converts into nitric oxide in your body.
Nitric oxide helps open blood vessels thereby lowering blood pressure.
* 28 Days until you're a yoga master, give or take a day
The best yoga book for people who know they should be doing yoga but can't totally commit to being consistent with it.
But enough about me.
Actually, here I go again. I'm starting to do the yoga program in Richard Hittleman's book, Yoga 28 Day Exercise Plan.
This isn't the place for a full scale book review. I'll leave that for another day.
Anyway, I've done the program 2 - 3x before and loved it and felt so much better and, and ... then ... just stopped. Why? I don't know.
But I'm into the 3rd day, likely further along when you read this and I just want to urge the many non-Asians, and Asians, who are somewhat like me, to go get this excellent book and give it a try.
The book is dated but very it's timeless. You will not be disappointed.
For a brief introduction to yoga visit our page on the benefit of yoga exercise
* Best pregnancy herbs
For expectant mothers & fathers, a list of the top herbs for pregnancy follows.
The following ease pregnancy: peppermint, ginger, partridge berry, raspberry leaf teas
The following speed delivery: blue cohosh and parsley, in large amounts
To help prevent spina bifida, eat lots of spinach
Click for our page on best herbs for pregnancy
* Use fabric shower curtains
An easy way to head off health problems?
Change your choice of shower curtains.
A group in West Virginia finds vinyl shower curtains contain chemicals that are continually released, especially more so when in contact with hot water.
That pungent new curtain smell may be one sign you should switch curtain types.
* Popeye, was right. Eating spinach may build muscles.
Well, it's not the spinach itself.
Research finds that spinach helps your body absorb and use protein leading to muscular growth.
* Worst foods your kids might be eating
According to Men's Health, the worst foods your kids might be eating include:
> Cap'n Crunch: piles of empty sugar
> Oscar Meyer Lunchables: Lots of salt, sugar & chemicals
> Baskin-Robbins Health Shake: A small cup contains Forty-six grams of fat and 27 tsps of sugar.
By the way, fast food chains that scored high for health includes Subway & Wendy's. Scoring low were Pizza Hut & Krispy Kreme.
*) We told you that downing H2O helps keep you thin
Now research proves that downing water does keep you svelter.
Our sister site, Healthy Water, has a page on how gulping water helps you keep pounds off or lose weight. However, we didn't have much recent research demonstrating this connection.
Well now German researchers have shown that in fact chugging water greatly boosts up your metabolism leading to a slimmer you.
Researchers found that Ninety minutes after drinking Sixteen ounces of cold water, metabolism rises by a whopping 24%.
Drinking 50 additional ounces of cold water daily can help burn up 47 calories each day or about 17,400 calories yearly.
Hey, that's a whole lot of calories but really it directly leads to only about Five pounds of fat loss every year.
Simply drink more cold water to pump up your metabolism even more.
Click to visit our page on how cause & effect of obesity can be dehydration
Want more water benefits?
* Water makes you stronger!
Other studies showed how drinking water helps performance during a weight training session.
Uconn researchers showed that men who drank water before lifting weights performed 17% more reps per set than men who did not drink water.
The recommendation is to drink Sixteen ounces before a workout, Four ounces for every Twenty minutes of exercise time during workout & 1 - 2 cups after a workout.
So along with the many other benefits to drinking water, adding water to your diet is win, win for dieters and exercisers.
* Store bought soap may reduce your sex drive
Yep, we at Healthy World Online will never be happy until every adult is having good sex!
Ucal at Davis researchers found that an ingredient, triclocarban, in many soaps leads to the body decreasing testosterone. Not good if you're a man on the prowl.
Low testosterone can also lead to other symptoms such as infertility & depression. The National Institute of Health has a page on soaps containing triclocarban at hpd.nlm.nih.gov
* Strengthening exercises eliminate neck pain
A study in Arthritis & Rheumatism demonstrated that strengthening the upper trapezius muscles relieves neck pain by 80%.
Makes sense since training helps repair muscles and prevent further strain.
Oh, the upper traps are those muscles alongside your neck, you know the ones that hide football players' necks.
Healthy Exercise World has several good pages on building and stretching the neck muscles.
Click to visit HEW's pages on neck exercises
* Beet high blood pressure
* Master Yoga in 28 days
* Pregnancy herbs
* Use fabric shower curtains
* Munching on spinach could build muscles.
* Worst foods your kids might be eating
* Water helps keep you thin
* Water makes you stronger
* Soap reduces sexual drive
* Strengthen neck to quash pain
____________________________________
* Beet hypertension
The many connections between eating veggies and fruits & good health never fail to amaze me.
Harvard & British scientists found that drinking beet juice lowers blood pressure by 10 points in just a few hours.
The rationale seems to be the nitrate in beets which converts into nitric oxide in your body.
Nitric oxide helps open blood vessels thereby lowering blood pressure.
* 28 Days until you're a yoga master, give or take a day
The best yoga book for people who know they should be doing yoga but can't totally commit to being consistent with it.
But enough about me.
Actually, here I go again. I'm starting to do the yoga program in Richard Hittleman's book, Yoga 28 Day Exercise Plan.
This isn't the place for a full scale book review. I'll leave that for another day.
Anyway, I've done the program 2 - 3x before and loved it and felt so much better and, and ... then ... just stopped. Why? I don't know.
But I'm into the 3rd day, likely further along when you read this and I just want to urge the many non-Asians, and Asians, who are somewhat like me, to go get this excellent book and give it a try.
The book is dated but very it's timeless. You will not be disappointed.
For a brief introduction to yoga visit our page on the benefit of yoga exercise
* Best pregnancy herbs
For expectant mothers & fathers, a list of the top herbs for pregnancy follows.
The following ease pregnancy: peppermint, ginger, partridge berry, raspberry leaf teas
The following speed delivery: blue cohosh and parsley, in large amounts
To help prevent spina bifida, eat lots of spinach
Click for our page on best herbs for pregnancy
* Use fabric shower curtains
An easy way to head off health problems?
Change your choice of shower curtains.
A group in West Virginia finds vinyl shower curtains contain chemicals that are continually released, especially more so when in contact with hot water.
That pungent new curtain smell may be one sign you should switch curtain types.
* Popeye, was right. Eating spinach may build muscles.
Well, it's not the spinach itself.
Research finds that spinach helps your body absorb and use protein leading to muscular growth.
* Worst foods your kids might be eating
According to Men's Health, the worst foods your kids might be eating include:
> Cap'n Crunch: piles of empty sugar
> Oscar Meyer Lunchables: Lots of salt, sugar & chemicals
> Baskin-Robbins Health Shake: A small cup contains Forty-six grams of fat and 27 tsps of sugar.
By the way, fast food chains that scored high for health includes Subway & Wendy's. Scoring low were Pizza Hut & Krispy Kreme.
*) We told you that downing H2O helps keep you thin
Now research proves that downing water does keep you svelter.
Our sister site, Healthy Water, has a page on how gulping water helps you keep pounds off or lose weight. However, we didn't have much recent research demonstrating this connection.
Well now German researchers have shown that in fact chugging water greatly boosts up your metabolism leading to a slimmer you.
Researchers found that Ninety minutes after drinking Sixteen ounces of cold water, metabolism rises by a whopping 24%.
Drinking 50 additional ounces of cold water daily can help burn up 47 calories each day or about 17,400 calories yearly.
Hey, that's a whole lot of calories but really it directly leads to only about Five pounds of fat loss every year.
Simply drink more cold water to pump up your metabolism even more.
Click to visit our page on how cause & effect of obesity can be dehydration
Want more water benefits?
* Water makes you stronger!
Other studies showed how drinking water helps performance during a weight training session.
Uconn researchers showed that men who drank water before lifting weights performed 17% more reps per set than men who did not drink water.
The recommendation is to drink Sixteen ounces before a workout, Four ounces for every Twenty minutes of exercise time during workout & 1 - 2 cups after a workout.
So along with the many other benefits to drinking water, adding water to your diet is win, win for dieters and exercisers.
* Store bought soap may reduce your sex drive
Yep, we at Healthy World Online will never be happy until every adult is having good sex!
Ucal at Davis researchers found that an ingredient, triclocarban, in many soaps leads to the body decreasing testosterone. Not good if you're a man on the prowl.
Low testosterone can also lead to other symptoms such as infertility & depression. The National Institute of Health has a page on soaps containing triclocarban at hpd.nlm.nih.gov
* Strengthening exercises eliminate neck pain
A study in Arthritis & Rheumatism demonstrated that strengthening the upper trapezius muscles relieves neck pain by 80%.
Makes sense since training helps repair muscles and prevent further strain.
Oh, the upper traps are those muscles alongside your neck, you know the ones that hide football players' necks.
Healthy Exercise World has several good pages on building and stretching the neck muscles.
Click to visit HEW's pages on neck exercises
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Healthy World Digest, Issue #002 -- May, 2009
Welcome to our Second issue of Healthy World Digest!
In this issue:
1) Healthy coffee
2) Exercise!
3) Stop using bottled water
4) Sexy supper
5) Healthy antiperspirant/deodorant
.........................................................................................
1) Ultra healthy coffee
Ok. I?ll just come right out and admit it. I love the coffee brew. I know there are a whole lot of concerns about coffee's health effects.
Well, darn it, I grew up on the stuff.
So, I worked out a way to get the taste, some of the boom and add some fringe health benefits.
My coffee recipe, if you will.
Start with a pot of fresh filtered cold water (use auto-drip electric coffeemaker)
Use organic coffee. I carafe 1/2 caffeinated, 1/2 decaf so I don't get a ton of caffeine at once.
In the carafe, I put 1/3 tablespoon natural stevia, an excellent, no calorie sweetener and a sprinkling of either cinnamon or powdered dark chocolate.
Fire it up.
When it's done, I boil about a cupful of organic soymilk and add to my hot coffee.
I then proceed to work for several hours, sipping my delicious coffee, just about guilt-free.
My recipe has no carbs, no sugar, healthy cinnamon or chocolate, two great herbs, clean water and about a cup of very healthy soymilk.
After drinking the pot of coffee - I know it's a bit too much caffeine- I don't even need a snack because the brew serves as a healthy, filling snack.
I usually wait a few minutes until I relieve myself and then go and work out.
2) Covert Bailey, an exercise physiologist who taped lectures for PBS in the '90s, retired from the field a few years ago. Too bad.
He had the most succinct message about exercise and could get the laziest among us to exercise and like it.
If you are not sufficiently motivated to work out or even if you like exercising, I'd suggest you run to the bookstore, library, search online, wherever ,and get his books and videotapes.
He is smart, funny and very motivating.
OK, so what's the nugget of health items here? It's Bailey's central theme.
Sure engaging in many sound life-style choices is wise. Eating right, not smoking, etc. But the thing that genuinely separates the healthy from the unhealthy is exercise.
Exercise does what the best herbs do, what steroids do, what fruits and vegetables do, what salmon capsules do, what ginseng does, what Prozac does, what relaxation techniques do. On and on.
If you exercise, to the point of fitness, you can {probably|likely|plausibly|potentially|in all likelihood|in all probability make loads of other mistakes and you'll still be ok.
If you don't exercise, well...
So Exercise!
Today, tomorrow, yesterday. Hey, work out right now. You'll feel great in approximately Fifteen - Thirty minutes and soon, you'll look great.
3) I'm finishing up an article on bottled water and of all the topics I've written on, this is the one that gets me really riled up.
Briefly, the facts:
* Most bottled waters are less safe than faucet water
* Even filtered bottled water goes through low-end filtration which leaves in plenty of the unhealthy stuff
* They are selling us water, WATER! that's not that good, at between $1 - $2 a pop. What's next, air?
* The glut of used plastic water bottles results in an unbelievable amount of landfill pollution
Here?s a solution. Get a water bottle, a high end filter and bottle your own, healthy water for less than a dime a bottle.
4) Sexy supper
Want to put together a supper that can really resurrect your love life? Well, forget the oysters & avocados.
The following meal features courses & a drink each having erotic powers.
Just start with a glass of red wine, then serve a shrimp cocktail, then present a nice piece of steak, maybe filet mignon, baked sweet potato and spinach salad. End with fresh berries drizzled with chocolate. Now fasten your seat belt.
5) Ultra healthy coffee
Ok. I?ll just come right out and admit it. I love the coffee brew. I know there are a whole lot of concerns about coffee's health effects.
Well, darn it, I grew up on the stuff.
So, I worked out a way to get the taste, some of the boom and add some fringe health benefits.
My coffee recipe, if you will.
Start with a pot of fresh filtered cold water (use auto-drip electric coffeemaker)
Use organic coffee. I carafe 1/2 caffeinated, 1/2 decaf so I don't get a ton of caffeine at once.
In the carafe, I put 1/3 tablespoon natural stevia, an excellent, no calorie sweetener and a sprinkling of either cinnamon or powdered dark chocolate.
Fire it up.
When it's done, I boil about a cupful of organic soymilk and add to my hot coffee.
I then proceed to work for several hours, sipping my delicious coffee, just about guilt-free.
My recipe has no carbs, no sugar, healthy cinnamon or chocolate, two great herbs, clean water and about a cup of very healthy soymilk.
After drinking the pot of coffee - I know it's a bit too much caffeine- I don't even need a snack because the brew serves as a healthy, filling snack.
I usually wait a few minutes until I relieve myself and then go and work out.
1) Make your own healthy antiperspirant/deodorant
OK, possibly this is too personal but I can't use off the shelf anti-perspirants because they make me break out. Well, the more I looked into my particular problem the more horse sense it made to me.
Briefly, antiperspirants host a whole lot of chemicals and it's the metalic aluminum that prevents you from sweating. Yep, bits of metal are just deposited into your sweat pores.
That can't be good for you which is why my body protests when I use it. But look, I work around lots of kids and am a big guy, and so I perspire, ok. So, what can guys like us do, especially as the summer nears?
Here's a recipe that should please those of us who are concerned about chemicals and aluminum, and those of us who are economical (ie cheap).
Just mix a natural moisture absorber (cornstarch), a natural deodorizer (baking soda), and a natural anti-bacterial, anti-fungal oil (tea tree oil) to keep odor and sweat at bay.
1/4 cup baking soda
1/4 cupful cornstarch
10 - 12 drops tea tree oil
2 tablespoons shortening
Put baking soda and cornstarch in a bowl with tea tree oil. I use Fifteen - 20 drops of tea tree oil, just in case. Other oils like lavender oil work well also.
Fold in shortening until it's a proper consistency. You may need to experiment a bit.
Cram final product into an empty deodorant canister. It will be a proper consistency to utilize in about a day.
.....................................................................................
For more on the above topics:
Bottled Water
Herbal Remedies
Healthy Exercise
In this issue:
1) Healthy coffee
2) Exercise!
3) Stop using bottled water
4) Sexy supper
5) Healthy antiperspirant/deodorant
.........................................................................................
1) Ultra healthy coffee
Ok. I?ll just come right out and admit it. I love the coffee brew. I know there are a whole lot of concerns about coffee's health effects.
Well, darn it, I grew up on the stuff.
So, I worked out a way to get the taste, some of the boom and add some fringe health benefits.
My coffee recipe, if you will.
Start with a pot of fresh filtered cold water (use auto-drip electric coffeemaker)
Use organic coffee. I carafe 1/2 caffeinated, 1/2 decaf so I don't get a ton of caffeine at once.
In the carafe, I put 1/3 tablespoon natural stevia, an excellent, no calorie sweetener and a sprinkling of either cinnamon or powdered dark chocolate.
Fire it up.
When it's done, I boil about a cupful of organic soymilk and add to my hot coffee.
I then proceed to work for several hours, sipping my delicious coffee, just about guilt-free.
My recipe has no carbs, no sugar, healthy cinnamon or chocolate, two great herbs, clean water and about a cup of very healthy soymilk.
After drinking the pot of coffee - I know it's a bit too much caffeine- I don't even need a snack because the brew serves as a healthy, filling snack.
I usually wait a few minutes until I relieve myself and then go and work out.
2) Covert Bailey, an exercise physiologist who taped lectures for PBS in the '90s, retired from the field a few years ago. Too bad.
He had the most succinct message about exercise and could get the laziest among us to exercise and like it.
If you are not sufficiently motivated to work out or even if you like exercising, I'd suggest you run to the bookstore, library, search online, wherever ,and get his books and videotapes.
He is smart, funny and very motivating.
OK, so what's the nugget of health items here? It's Bailey's central theme.
Sure engaging in many sound life-style choices is wise. Eating right, not smoking, etc. But the thing that genuinely separates the healthy from the unhealthy is exercise.
Exercise does what the best herbs do, what steroids do, what fruits and vegetables do, what salmon capsules do, what ginseng does, what Prozac does, what relaxation techniques do. On and on.
If you exercise, to the point of fitness, you can {probably|likely|plausibly|potentially|in all likelihood|in all probability make loads of other mistakes and you'll still be ok.
If you don't exercise, well...
So Exercise!
Today, tomorrow, yesterday. Hey, work out right now. You'll feel great in approximately Fifteen - Thirty minutes and soon, you'll look great.
3) I'm finishing up an article on bottled water and of all the topics I've written on, this is the one that gets me really riled up.
Briefly, the facts:
* Most bottled waters are less safe than faucet water
* Even filtered bottled water goes through low-end filtration which leaves in plenty of the unhealthy stuff
* They are selling us water, WATER! that's not that good, at between $1 - $2 a pop. What's next, air?
* The glut of used plastic water bottles results in an unbelievable amount of landfill pollution
Here?s a solution. Get a water bottle, a high end filter and bottle your own, healthy water for less than a dime a bottle.
4) Sexy supper
Want to put together a supper that can really resurrect your love life? Well, forget the oysters & avocados.
The following meal features courses & a drink each having erotic powers.
Just start with a glass of red wine, then serve a shrimp cocktail, then present a nice piece of steak, maybe filet mignon, baked sweet potato and spinach salad. End with fresh berries drizzled with chocolate. Now fasten your seat belt.
5) Ultra healthy coffee
Ok. I?ll just come right out and admit it. I love the coffee brew. I know there are a whole lot of concerns about coffee's health effects.
Well, darn it, I grew up on the stuff.
So, I worked out a way to get the taste, some of the boom and add some fringe health benefits.
My coffee recipe, if you will.
Start with a pot of fresh filtered cold water (use auto-drip electric coffeemaker)
Use organic coffee. I carafe 1/2 caffeinated, 1/2 decaf so I don't get a ton of caffeine at once.
In the carafe, I put 1/3 tablespoon natural stevia, an excellent, no calorie sweetener and a sprinkling of either cinnamon or powdered dark chocolate.
Fire it up.
When it's done, I boil about a cupful of organic soymilk and add to my hot coffee.
I then proceed to work for several hours, sipping my delicious coffee, just about guilt-free.
My recipe has no carbs, no sugar, healthy cinnamon or chocolate, two great herbs, clean water and about a cup of very healthy soymilk.
After drinking the pot of coffee - I know it's a bit too much caffeine- I don't even need a snack because the brew serves as a healthy, filling snack.
I usually wait a few minutes until I relieve myself and then go and work out.
1) Make your own healthy antiperspirant/deodorant
OK, possibly this is too personal but I can't use off the shelf anti-perspirants because they make me break out. Well, the more I looked into my particular problem the more horse sense it made to me.
Briefly, antiperspirants host a whole lot of chemicals and it's the metalic aluminum that prevents you from sweating. Yep, bits of metal are just deposited into your sweat pores.
That can't be good for you which is why my body protests when I use it. But look, I work around lots of kids and am a big guy, and so I perspire, ok. So, what can guys like us do, especially as the summer nears?
Here's a recipe that should please those of us who are concerned about chemicals and aluminum, and those of us who are economical (ie cheap).
Just mix a natural moisture absorber (cornstarch), a natural deodorizer (baking soda), and a natural anti-bacterial, anti-fungal oil (tea tree oil) to keep odor and sweat at bay.
1/4 cup baking soda
1/4 cupful cornstarch
10 - 12 drops tea tree oil
2 tablespoons shortening
Put baking soda and cornstarch in a bowl with tea tree oil. I use Fifteen - 20 drops of tea tree oil, just in case. Other oils like lavender oil work well also.
Fold in shortening until it's a proper consistency. You may need to experiment a bit.
Cram final product into an empty deodorant canister. It will be a proper consistency to utilize in about a day.
.....................................................................................
For more on the above topics:
Bottled Water
Herbal Remedies
Healthy Exercise
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