Lifestyle Choices

So you’ve gotten your cholesterol measured, and you need to bring it down. Here are some of the best cholesterol-cutting measures you can take.

Cut meat intake. Most Americans get 13 percent of their total calories from saturated fat. Cardiologists would like to see that figure drop to about 7 percent. To that end, limit lean meat, poultry or fish to a 3-ounce portion (about the size of a deck of cards) no more than once a day. Only animal foods contain cholesterol and saturated fat. Therefore, the foods that drive up your blood cholesterol numbers most are red meats, the skin of poultry, whole dairy products and eggs. Fish, especially the white-fleshed ones, tend to be low in saturated fat. (more…)

Many of the bacteria in food are benign. They turn milk into yoghurt or cheese. But a number of bacteria are also the main cause of food-borne illness. Outbreaks of food poisoning are not limited to consumption of undercooked burgers and chicken. Incidents overseas have been traced to such items as apple cider, spanspek, alfalfa sprouts, chocolate milk, eggs, hummus, ice cream, lettuce and hard salami. (more…)

Just because your calcium supplement says 500 mg, don’t assume that’s how much you’re getting. The reason: many products list the total weight of each pill, instead of the actual amount of calcium it contains. Furthermore, the four major types of supplement— carbonate, citrate, lactate and gluconate—provide different amounts of calcium. (more…)

Health is the most priority of our life. I have talked a dozen of young couples who are so busy with their life but like to omit their health care plan. Most couples I talked thought they are young and health and rather to spend the money on something necessary instead of wasting money buying unnecessary expensive health plan. (more…)

The great man kind of music is too much of ordinary. The music out of ordinary actually is created by the nature.

The sound of nature is so pure and deep. To keep our soul close to where we belong to – the nature is our great gift. The man made life seems so depressed and full of stress. Sometimes we ma get lost.

Back to nature, find out our deep inside craving – the peace, the harmony, and the simplicity. Crystal is the great natural healing stone. Buddhism believed crystal is best stone to purify our soul. (more…)

Many forms of heat treatment are used to deep-cleanse the skin and stimulate circulation, and are generally very relaxing. (more…)

Read a dozen articles on the subject of cellulite and each one seems to give a different explanation, including total denial that such a condition exists. But look around any beach and, unless most of the women are young, sleek and super-fit, you’ll see some degree of puckered, quilted flesh on their thighs and whatever part of their buttocks that is visible. Men can be old, unfit and overweight and yet most of them miss out on this problem. (more…)

True aromatherapy is a total treatment of the face and body via the skin. It alleviates many health troubles such as insomnia, toxic retention, tension, and menstrual and menopausal problems, and helps your body to achieve a healthy, natural balance. It can certainly improve all skin problems from young and blemished to dry and atrophied. It can make one feel so wonderfully relaxed or stimulated, depending on one’s needs and the oils used. The secret is that one’s highly developed olfactory organ immediately reacts to the smells which form the basis of aromatherapy. (more…)

How can we wake in the day and feel full of energy? Do you go to your toilet and make the disgusting smell all the time?

It is a bad signal that our body has pied up toxin in a certain amount that is excess of the capability of our detoxin organs. Sadly, most people won’t realize how the toxin is gradually eating up their life.

The decreased energy will make us a wrong judgment of our aging process. Actually, when we are heading sixty something, we can keep active like thirty something. Despite long period of colon toxin torture, most people are feeling the painfulaging process. (more…)

For centuries, people have learned to use the magic energy of crystal to heal. Crystal is believed to the natural healing stone. (more…)

The main reason that your stomach feels as though you are sailing the ocean waves is because its delicate pH balance has been upset. Live yogurt to the rescue. (more…)

Fairly new in Western herbalism, echinacea is a traditional Native American medicine. The plant’s healing powers were allegedly discovered as an antidote to snakebites. (more…)

Crystal has a favorite energy which has been known for centuries. The pure white crystal bowl has so many meanings in different cultures. In the ancient Far East, people believed the pure color crystal can bring some harmony, lucky and wealth. This pure crystal has been playing a great role in the religion activities. This artificial crystal bowl brings you almost 100% natural crystal and made with the real life kind of shape. All the magic links to the crystal has been believed to do with the transparency. The more clear the crystal is, the more power it brings with, the more wanted. So the bigger the bowl and the more transparent it is, the much more magic power you may wish its power is. (more…)

Dehydration is one of the main reasons for feeling hung over. While you are enjoying alcoholic beverages your body is actually losing fluids. Drinking water is a top cure. (more…)

When your blood is riddled with pollutants, your skin is starved of the nutrients it needs for healthy cell renewal. It ages quickly, sags and looks dull. Skin also becomes damaged through chemical and physical changes, some of which are irreversible. Clean up your blood and within days you can reawaken a youthful glow. That’s how the Inner Face Lift Diet works its wonders. Try it. Long term, protecting skin from toxic damage means understanding how widespread a threat this is and how to handle it. (more…)

Decrease your toxic load to make skin more blissful. (more…)

Too much booze affects your sleep. The chances are you didn’t get very much last night and have woken up feeling like something that the cat dragged in. (more…)

• Eat foods low in refined sugar and saturated fat

• Eat foods low in salt

• Avoid stimulants such as spicy food, too-hot drinks and alcohol
• Increase daily intake of vegetables (five portions, different varieties), fruit (two portions) and a mixed salad
• Reduce intake of red meat to a portion the size of your palm once or twice a week
• Increase intake of cold-water fish and poultry — at least two to three times a week
• Increase intake of legumes, nuts, seeds, beans, peas, lentils, chickpeas, linseeds, soy
• Include 600m1 low-fat dairy products or alternate with soy milk

• Increase use of cold-pressed linseed, olive, starflower and canola oils and soft margarine rather than using butter and block margarine

• Drink at least eight glasses of water every day
• Don’t smoke; it accelerates bone loss and ageing.

Animal bodies, like ours, are made up of two basic components – lean body mass (LBM), which encompasses our muscle tissue, and fat. Lean body mass consists of organs like the heart, the liver, the pancreas, bones and skin, as well as muscle. It is your LBM that burns oxygen, uses nutrients from your food, thinks and feels, moves, grows and repairs itself. A high percentage of LBM is what gives wild animals their power, ease of movement, stamina and sleek bodies. The rest of you is fat. (more…)

The control centre for both thirst and hunger is in the same place in your body: the hypothalamus. Often when you think you are hungry what your body is trying to tell you is that you need to take in more water. Perhaps the best-kept secret in the world about weight control is this: reach for a glass of water every time you feel hungry between meals and you will find your hunger diminishing within minutes. Try it and see. (more…)