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Healthy World Digest, #7, October 2009

2009-10-27T03:34:00.000-07:00

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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Healthy World Digest, #6, September 2009

2009-08-30T05:21:00.000-07:00

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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Healthy World Digest, #5, August 2009

2009-08-03T21:24:00.000-07:00

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

Healthy World Digest, #4, July 2009

2009-06-30T16:01:00.000-07:00

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.

Taking the right vitamins for your requirements and goals

2009-06-13T09:23:00.000-07:00

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.

Healthy World Digest, #3, June 2009

2009-06-02T13:46:00.000-07:00

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
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* 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

Healthy World Digest, Issue #002 -- May, 2009

2009-05-14T15:23:00.000-07:00

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

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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.
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If you drink bottled water, you're a loser: Bottled water facts

2009-05-04T15:54:00.000-07:00

Paying attention now? Very good, because the unadulterated bottled water facts will make you feel a bit foolish if you constantly pick up bottled water.

I know I am being a bit harsh but if you purchase bottled water and then compare bottled water vs. tap water vs. filtered water you're likely to feel like the schlub who was sold the foot-long hot dog with eight inches missing in the middle.

So, just ask yourself this question. Why are you buying bottled water?

Here are your possible answers:

1) It's safer and healthier than kitchen water

When comparing bottled water vs. tap water, well, that's just one of the myths accepted as a fact about bottled water.

Here's what the Food and Drug Administration in the United States declared concerning the safety of bottled water:

Companies that market bottled water as being safer than faucet water are fooling the American public.

In point of fact, there are no government standards for bottled water that require it be safer than tap water. Governmental regs for home water are in place and ordinarily assure a degree of quality in the available home water.

So, when deciding upon purchasing bottled water vs. tap water, choosing tap may be the best choice.

2) Oh, I drink bottled water that's been filtered

Most bottled water is not filtered. In contrast, city tap water is filtered and disinfected.

But if you happen to be chugging bottled water that is filtered, good for you. If it's the stuff I occasionally go for, I am pretty sure the price is even steeper than the cheaper bottled water.

But there's still a problem. Filtration is not all equal. Very good filters get rid of the live, very life-threatening contaminants, the inert, highly toxic metals, extremely tiny pollutants and the sediment that affects taste and quality of the water.

There are cheaper purifiers that fundamentally get rid of larger sedimentary particles that slightly discolor water but really do little else. Most commercially filtered water tends to filter on the cheap.

3) Since it's a food product, there are government standards that maintain its quality

Nah, not really. In fact, a strategy used by bottled water companies is to sell its water within the state that it's bottled in so that federal regs are not applicable.

In fact, between 2/3 to 3/4 of the bottled water sold is in the state it's bottled in. Most likely you are drinking water with no attached federal regulations to maintain its safety.

4) It's better than the usual drinks sold at the store

Well, that's a tricky one. Its better than the genuinely bad beverages. You know the colas, mile-high iced teas and fake fruit drinks that are in lots of kid's lunch bags.

But, if you went to a health food store, you can probably purchase some fresh fruit/veggie juice, or a sprout-based drink, really healthy water and so on. I will admit, that it might cost an arm and a leg but what's your good health worth to you?

5) It's pretty inexpensive

Compared to what? Some trendy beverage, maybe. Not when comparing bottled water vs. tap water that is filtered ($1 - $2 vs. 9 cents) But it's about the same cost as the soft drinks that litter shop shelves.

To me, this is one of the most confusing angles of the bottled water market.

We are gleeful that we are being offered what is basically free tap water for a dollar or so per bottle. How about that. If you bought a bottle on most days and 2 bottles or larger ones on days that you need more, you would be spending between $300 - $700 per year on water that is less safe than tap water.

6) It's convenient

Oh, spare me. I've done the math on this because, like you, my time is very precious.

It takes me a minute to fill up my water bottle with filtered water from my tap. I can even make a sandwich in just a few minutes. That is much easier and faster than the time needed to sprint to the store, maybe wait on a noon lunch line, order and/or pay for my water and/or lunch.

7) I have no better alternative to bottled water

Again, if you are most likely to chug cola, yes. But you don't have to have the bottled water from the store when you could just bottle your own filtered water in a reusable bottle.

8)Hey, at least it forces me to drink the necessary amount of water I should drink every day

Finally, I agree with you, mostly. Hey, if it's a choice between drinking nothing and suffering from dehydration or chugging expensive, land polluting, minimally safe bottled water, maybe you should go ahead and get a container of water.

This should only happen occasionally. For example, if I'm working out in warm weather and there's no water fountain nearby, I'll just go and get a bottle of water from wherever.

Hey, it's either that or get the more serious consequences of dehydration in warm weather. That could lead to all types of health crises that must be avoided at all costs.

And, I'll give you credit because at least you didn't say that it's "Green." That, I'm sure, never crossed your mind. How could it?

9) And, this is one of the bottled water facts we haven't gone into that you should know about. Drinking bottled water causes an incredible amount of pollution.

In fact, roughly a million plastic bottles are disposed of daily, it is one of the major culprits when it comes to pollution.

Imagine, what about a hundred million empty plastic water bottles looks like, going straight straight for the landfill. You know, generally the fill that is not recycle-ready since many water bottles are disposed of in all-purpose wastebaskets along with non-recyclables.

So, if for no other reason, the pollution that follows from this mega consumption of drinking bottled water should lead us to other alternatives.

Ok, so perhaps those of you purchasing bottled water from the store aren't exactly losers but I hope this article encourages you to act on the real bottled water facts and stop buying bottled water which has serious drawbacks and few virtues.

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A Guide to ADHD Prescription Drugs and their Effects on your Child's Well-being

2009-03-22T07:38:00.000-07:00

Following is HWO's most recent article on specific ADHD drugs. It's an eye opener.

Ever wondered how many ADHD conventionalFDA-approved drugs are out there? Apart from the most common drugs like Ritalin and Adderall, you may be pleasantly surprised to learn that there are many other prescription medications for adhd that can be helpful in treating the signs of ADHD.

The main drug types dispensed in ADHD treatment are long lasting stimulants, short/intermediate lasting stimulants, and non-stimulants. But each one comes with potential side effects, some of which can be quite serious.

ADHD orthodox drugs of the long lasting stimulant variety include Vyvanse, Adderal XR, Concerta, Daytrana, Focalin XR, Metadate CD, and Ritalin LA. The effects of these long-acting stimulants last for 8-12 hours and as such they only need to be ingested once a day.

They are useful for children who don't want to take a pill at school. Adderall XR and Ritalin LA capsules can be opened and scattered onto food if your youngster can't physically take them. Daytrana comes in the form of a patch that children can wear for a few hours.

Short/intermediate acting prescription drug medications for adhd include Ritalin, Dexedrine, Adderall, Dextrostat, and Methylin ER, to name a few. Short/intermediate acting stimulants are ADHD treatment options that have become less employed than the long lasting type.

These medicines must be taken more than once a day because their effects are short-lived. The gain of short lasting Ritalin, Dexedrine and Adderall is that they are available in generic form and are thus less expensive.

The most used alternative among non-stimulant ADHD orthodox drugs for ADHD is Strattera. Strattera and the other non-stimulants are not prescribed as much as stimulant drugs.

Children who also suffer from anxiousness in addition to ADHD may benefit from Strattera. Some children take Strattera because they can't bear stimulants due to their side effects or because stimulants simply don't work for them.

In general, side effects affiliated with prescription medications for adhd are the biggest cause why more people are turning to alternate treatment options these days.

The side effects of ingesting stimulants can include headaches, stomachaches, insomnia, eating disorders, sociopsychological withdrawal, nausea, and vomiting, to name a few.

Many parents note that their children seem dull, very restricted, and zombie-like due to using stimulants for ADHD.

Non-stimulant orthodox medications for ADHD such as Strattera are not without their side effects either. Strattera can cause quesy stomach, diminished appetite, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, tiredness, psychological mood swings, and even allergic reactions.

If you want to treat the symptoms of ADHD in your kids without subjecting them to the concerns and undesirable side effects that come from from using prescription drugs, you may want to look for a natural, alternative remedy.

The most disturbing recent tests regarding the effects of ADHD orthodox drugs is the greater potential of clinical depression in adulthood, as well as the greater potential of substance abuse problems and prescription drug dependence in adulthood.

The immediate side effects of employing these dangerous prescribed drugs are troubling as it is but when you reckon the harmful effects in the long run, the thought of dispensing your tyke orthodox drugs may seem like too great of a risk. Thankfully there are high quality homeherbal remedies that can be quite helpful and do not cause any side effects at all.

So there you have it. If you want to assuage the symptoms connected with ADHD so your youngster can live a fulfilling, successful life, start learning more about optional ADHD remedies like homeopathy.

The injurious short-run and somewhat permanent side effects of prescription medications for adhd are cause enough to try out alternative treatment options for your child.

Rather than put your child's health at risk, research alternative treatment methods like homeopathy so you can treat ADHD safely, gently, and effectively.

There are other alternatives to most used prescription medications for ADHD.

Salvator Giustra is a Health Researcher who has written extensively on ADHD. Discover what natural ADHD alternatives are available.

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Herbal Remedies for Heartburn

2009-03-17T15:36:00.000-07:00

Herbal remedies are especially good for healing and soothing fiery stomachs, or really, upper stomaches. Try the following herbs for heartburn.

Chamomile is one of the best known herbal remedies for heartburn and is even good for general tension and upset stomach. My mom gave us chamomile tea for stomach upsets. Worked great!

It is calming and soothing to the digestive and nervous systems. Having a couple of cups of chamomile tea daily.

Meadowsweet is also a good herb for heartburn. It is especially good for soothing digestion.

Slippery Elm bark is yet another great digestive herb which really reduces heartburn symptoms.

Ginger is one of the best herbal remedies for heartburn, and really for all-around health. Research has proven its effectiveness in promoting healthy digestion. Juice it along with carrot, apple & parsley to really help out. Or, you can make a delicious tea adding a little lemon and honey for flavor. We think this herb contends for king of herbs and so devoted a page to the benefits of ginger

Fennel has been used since ancient times, especially to prevent 'growling stomachs' during church services. Fennel generally supports the health of the liver, kidneys and spleen. Studies have also confirmed its use for digestive health. Incorporate fresh fennel in salads or lightly cook along with other greens.

Peppermint is one of the best known delicious mints, an excellent herb for heartburn. Why do you think it's been used for centuries in many cultures. Many studies point to its being useful for digestion & heartburn. Make a refreshing tea from its leaves, dry or fresh.

Finally, make a soothing juice cocktail with angelica stalks, carrot, celery, fennel, garlic, parsley and parsnips. If you don’t have all of the ingredients, use the ones you do have.

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Healthy World Digest, April 2009

2009-03-09T16:02:00.000-07:00

Following is our newsletter for April, 2009

HEALTHY WORLD DIGEST

"Healthy nuggets of news to keep your motor humming "

1) What's healthier with dinner, beer or red wine?
Red wine, that's what. It packs fewer calories and greater physical benefits. Two 4 ounce glasses of wine will cost you only 200 calories. The cost for two 12 ounce beers will be 300 calories, 50% greater than the two glasses of wine. Beer contains one notable antioxidant, ferulic acid but red wine contains the extremely healing resveratrol, which fights cardiac disease & Alzheimer's. Pass the wine.

2)Four prescription - supplement pairings that either enhance benefits of medicine or decreases its side effects.

a) Taking statins? Include CoQ10 which reduces
lessens decreases muscle pains which often follow statin use.

b) How about SSRI antidepressants? Take some SAMe for a huge psychological boost.

c) Using NSAIDS for back pain? fish oil with prescription offered additional pain relief. Or, just eat some scrumptious salmon or tuna.

e) If you're using ace inhibitors, you could be suffering the undesirable effect of blood pooling in your ankles. Take some pycnogenol to cut back swelling
puffiness.

3) Eat fatty fish. The oil in fish helps you focus better. That's one reason to give ADHD sufferers fish oil supplements. Also consume salmon, tuna, mackerel, 2x weekly.

4) Want to be a better runner? Strike the ground with your mid-foot instead of your heel. Just start by attempting to run more quietly. You will start to land on your mid-foot more and more.

5) Barley is really for you. Starting with a bowl of barley for breakfast will decrease the sugar spikes for the rest of the day which also helps keep off the pounds. The reason for that is the soluble fibre which acts as a glucose depressor. Diabetics will
particularly gain from barley.

Uppers & Zoloft for ADHD: Helpful & Safe or Hazardous?

2009-03-07T09:24:00.000-08:00

Children taking Zoloft for ADHD? Are you kidding me?

In my former psychotherapeutic practice practice, we might give Zoloft for adults with pretty dangerous emotional difficulties. But now we're giving this dangerous stuff to young kids& teenagers.

When you are thru with reading this article, you will realize why Zoloft may not be the superior option for managing ADHD.

Ok, I'll admit, though it is not a normally approved treatment for ADHD, Zoloft has been known to assist in the reduction of symptoms of ADHD in some people. Zoloft for ADHD is often offered in addition to stimulants such as Ritalin and Adderall.

The rationale for why Zoloft and stimulants are used in combination is because many people who suffer from ADHD also have problems with other disturbances such as depression, OCD, anxiousness and others. Zoloft may also be effective in treating the hyper-focused kind of ADHD versus the inattentive type.

The prime difficulty with using Zoloft for ADHD management is its severe side effects when downed unaccompanied and in interaction with other drugs.

Potential side effects of Zoloft include anxiety, panic attacks, irritability, aggression, problems sleeping, impulse problems, and mania.

In addition to psychiatric side effects, Zoloft can also lead to bodily symptoms such as muscle spasms, flu-like symptoms, problems with speech, extreme skin rash, jaundice, cardiac palpitations, and hazy vision.

Consuming Zoloft for ADHD management presents the most dangers when taken in combination with other drugs. For example, taking Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors (MAOs) even 2 weeks before taking Zoloft can be deadly.

Life-threatening side effects can also occur if a patient changes from Zoloft to another serotonin selective reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) drug.

One of the more dangerous aspects of children and adolescents Zoloft and ADHD treatments is the aggression, homicidal conduct and suicidal thoughts that may result. This has led to many lawsuits against Pfizer, the corporation that produces Zoloft.

There have been numerous items in the news about adults and children who have committed or attempted to commit homicide after taking SSRI drugs like Zoloft.

In fact, the two adolescents who murdered their fellow students and then themselves during the Columbine shooting were taking SSRI drugs.

Finally, like most very powerful prescriptive medication, research studies which help determine risk are all short-term. There are no studies on the effects of Zoloft on ADHD when taken for a decade or more. Such studies are too impractical and expensive.

And, yet, understanding what we now understand about how the seeds of many adult disorders are deeply-rooted in childhood, do you doubt that consuming very strong ADHD prescriptive drugs can very possibly lead to severe disturbances in adulthood? I don't.

So don't go throwing the stimulants & Zoloft out of the window. Using herbal alternatives for ADHD requires thinking and qualified medical professional help.

But do consider other, safer treatments to powerful prescription medications.

Discover what natural ADHD alternatives are available.

Too much Vitamin C? Depends.

2009-02-28T12:06:00.000-08:00

Basically, there is really no such thing as too much vitamin C.

And, frankly, the idea of Vitamin C toxicity is a bunch of crap drummed up by protectionists in orthodox medicine & pharmaceutical types.

Hey, C is mostly just excreted so it's really hard to get too much of it.

Also the C in your body mostly does nothing but good.

However there are a few groups of users who do need to be cautious about taking too much Vitamin C at certain times. These include diabetics & persons about to undergo certain medical tests.

Click here for more on too much Vitamin C & "Vitamin C toxicity."

Top Herbs for Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis

2009-02-24T16:11:00.000-08:00

Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is a thyroid gland inflammation. Its symptoms can be very serious so any suspicion should be checked by a doctor.

The thyroid gland is essential for growth & metabolism. When the immune system attacks the thyroid, growth & metabolism slow down. Hashimoto’s thyroiditis can lead to underactive thyroid gland (hypothyroidism).

This leads to many serious symptoms including weight gain, depression, fatigue & muscle weakness. However, as thyroid disorders can range from mild to severe, so too can symptoms range from debilitating to hardly noticeable.

Herbal remedies for Hashimoto’s thyroiditis mainly stop your body from suffering from auto-immune responses and/or to decrease hypothyroidism which results Hashimoto‘s.

Herbs for Hashimoto’s thyroiditis

The following herbal remedies for Hashimoto's thyroiditis can be very helpful:

Ashwagandha

Bitters

Flaxseed

Fucus vesiculosis (Bladderwrack or kelp)

Milk thistle

Avena sativa (Green Oats)

Myrrh

Olive leaf

Sage

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Health benefits of Tai Chi

2009-02-21T07:44:00.000-08:00

I love writing about the effects of exercise because I believe, down deep, that exercise trumps other factors for staying or getting healthy.

Yep, diet included.

Exercise simply transforms you. It turns your broken machine of a body into a lean, mean butter burning machine.

That was Covert Bailey's premise. (Covert Bailey was a popular exercise "guru" whose books & video programs greatly influenced me & entertained public station viewers. I loved his work.)

And no system of exercise beats the Asian programs. That includes the martial arts, yoga, etc.

I just wrote an intro page on the health benefits of Tai Chi.

Perhaps more than any other exercise system, Tai Chi's effects may be deeper, more immediate & longer lasting than any other system.

Click for much more on the health benefits of Tai Chi.

Rosemary herb benefits your health in numerous ways

2009-02-17T17:16:00.000-08:00

Want an anti-aging herb? How about rosemary. Rosemary is a perfect herb. Herbal rosemary benefits wellness in many ways & has no side effects. Oh, and did I say it is delicious in meat & potatoes?

As an herb rosemary's health benefits have been known & used for thousands of years by cultures, including the Ancient Chinese & Ancient Greeks, who used rosemary, usually correctly, for its health benefits.

Rosemary as an herbal treatment is currently employed for headache, indigestion & depression.

However, it also has many other uses as outlined below.

Using rosemary as an herbal remedy

Asthma may be relieved by rosemary's volatile oils which can open breathing passages narrowed by histamine.

Rosemary herb benefits includes preventing food spoilage as the commercial products BHA & BHT. Simply fold crushed rosemary into meat, fish, pasta & potato salads. Of course, rosemary also enhances the flavor of the foods it is mixed into.

You can also use rosemary for body odor that is caused by bacteria or fungus. Simply mix ground rosemary into bath powder and use normally. You can also use rosemary tea as a bath wash.

Rosemary's health benefits include its effect against infectious bacteria. This also extends to its inhibiting infections from minor cuts. Simply press fresh rosemary leaves onto cut before washing & treating.

While modern herbalists do not generally recommend rosemary for memory problems like ancient people did, there might still be a role for rosemary in cognitive problems. As a tea or shampoo herb rosemary contains certain compounds that may help inhibit Alzheimer's . Drink lots of rosemary tea & use shampoos containing rosemary.

Rosemary herb benefits also includes enhancing hair quality & delay baldness. Give it a shot. At worse you'll come out with very clean hair.

Rosemary has generally stimulative properties so it may be a good natural treatment for fatigue. Drink several cups of rosemary tea a day or look for candles that contain rosemary oil.

Scabies is a disturbing condition where mites house themselves under the skin & lay its eggs. This causes infections & lesions. Rosemary health benefits include minimizing pain of scabies by dabbing cooled tea onto affected areas.

Its antispasmodic effects enable it to relax smooth muscle tissue so rosemary is quite good for digestive problems.

Rosemary can also help relieve congestion brought on by colds & flu.

Rosemary also contains powerful antioxidants which are requisite for preventing cancer, heart disease & premature aging.

Its antioxidant effects may also help arthritis sufferers especially before disease worsens.

Its antioxidant properties also suggest it may be effective against cataract formation. Drink lots of rosemary tea for that purpose.

If I've lost your attention, how about this? Rosemary is being studies for its ability to prevent & treat wrinkles by Japanese researchers. Drink some rosemary tea & use rosemary in facial masks.

Using rosemary herb to improve everyday health

For congestion, make an herbal tea with crushed rosemary. Use 1 tsp per cup of hot water, steep for 10 minutes, strain & enjoy a few cups a day. You can also inhale steam from tea to breath in rosemary?s healthful properties.

As a bath, add 10 drops to warm water.

As a tincture, use ï¿½ - ï¿½ tsp, 2 - 3x daily.

For commercial preparations, follow manufacturer?s directions.

You can offer diluted rosemary tea to children under 2 years of age.

Finally, use rosemary liberally, to taste, in meats & potatoes.

Cautions when using rosemary as herbal remedy

Rosemary is very safe to take for most people.

However, even small amounts of rosemary oil may cause irritation of the stomach, kidneys & intestines. Larger doses may be poisonous.

Never ingest more than a drop of concentrated rosemary oil.

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Herbal remedies for hyperthyroidism

2009-02-16T12:14:00.000-08:00

Just posted a page on hyperthyroidism & boy are the symptoms scary. Enlarged thyroid gland, bulging eyes, fast pulse, sweating, fatigue, weight loss, irritability & muscle tremors.

If you experience this pattern of symptoms, get to a doctor quick. Even more so if you are a woman as women are way more at risk for thyroid disorders than are men.

One warning, and this time I really mean it. Don't self treat this condition!

Use herbs for hyperthyroidism under the guidance of a medical professional.

Go to Herbal Remedies World for much more on herbal remedies for hyperthyroidism.

2009-02-14T14:43:00.000-08:00

I just put up an umbrella page on Vitamin C for Healthy World Online.

The power & effect of that now humble vitamin is astonishing.

Cheap, plentiful, few side effects visit my page for basic facts on vitamin c

Welcome to Healthy World Online

2009-02-10T16:18:00.000-08:00

Thanks for visiting my blog on improving your health & life.

My name is Salvator Giustra. With a little help from my friends I am the creator of Healthy World Online, Inc.

I am currently a NYC Teaching Fellow, health researcher & computer scientist.

Previously, I was a clinical psychotherapist, psychological evaluator, taught at the College of New Rochelle for many years & spent a few years directing a busy psychiatric clinic in New York, produced a newspaper - jobs that I often held concurrently.

Look for posts on alerts about new material on the Healthy World websites. Also, I will be posting snippets on health that are not placed on the HWO sites.

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Health importance of water - Healthy Water

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Benefits, effects of exercise - Healthy Exercise World

Top current health articles - 4 Healthy World

Importance of Vitamins & Supplements

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