Healthy Life

Archive for August, 2010

Alternative medicine is a term used for various medical solutions or practices of curing or preventing a particular ailment by physicians or non-physicians, as an additional to or apart from the conventional medicine. It is projected that a little over 33% of the United States population are practicing some form of alternative medicine that is mainly included of remedies derived from several different types of traditional and ethnic therapies.

Those therapies have diverse practice and/ or product based guidelines that are not a part of conventional or the usual medical practices. This alternative implementation include meditation, acupuncture, prayer, herbal or botanical supplements, chiropractors, massage therapy and other natural medicines.

Alternative Medicine typically have practices like metaphysical, spiritual, religious and non-European medical treatments and other new techniques that are developed for healing various diseases. The promoter of Alternative Medicine claim that alternative therapies give services to public that are otherwise impossible through conventional medicines. This covers parts ranging from patient empowerment, providing medical treatments based on bio-psycho-social model of individual health, alternative methods for pain management and stress reduction etc.–these are usually not included under conventional medication.

The other usual features that differentiate Alternative Medicine from Conventional medicines are presented below:

-Alternative Medicine is considering the physical, social, spiritual and mental well being of an individual while providing treatments, whereas conventional medicines are aimed only towards the physical arena of an individual.

-Alternative Medicine stresses on health maintenance by following idea of a healthy living like healthy diet, regular exercise, positive outlook, body hygiene, moral and spiritual values, sexuality, social relations etc. Thus the individual is kept aware about maintenance of overall health- including the inner self.  Read more...

Nutrition For Your Cells. (Part 1)

by Warren Tattersall & Susan Smith

Your Body’s Health – From The Inside Out.

We all remember hearing as children that “an apple a day will keep the doctor away”.

Apples are great for nutrition, fibre, even water, but we need more than that. Modern research has clearly shown that a truly health diet needs to contain:

? protein,

? carbohydrates,

? fats,

? vitamins,

? minerals,

? oils,

? dietary fibre,

? and sufficient clean water,

- If it is to support long term, sustainable, good health.

If this is backed up by some regular exercise then you have the possibility of having a good metabolism and a highly active immune system.

Basically, the stronger your immune system the healthier you are and, as a consequence, the more protected you are from environmental factors that lead to infection and sickness. If you eat foods that are rich in the nutrients your body needs it is able to keep you strong at a cellular level.

You are giving the body the tools it needs to keep your immune system strong. A strong immune system supports individuals having fewer colds and viruses and they are better equipped to fight off illnesses at all levels, be that colds or chronic diseases.

Our problem as a community is that an average modern diet of coffee, fast food, snacks and sugars, does not give us enough of the essential micronutrients, and the botanical factors, that our body needs.  Read more...

The most common health problem suffered by most individuals these days is hair loss. This is a health problem that affects the self esteem of most people across the globe. Healthy hair plays an important role in displaying the overall personality of a person.

Hair Loss can make a person lose confidence and even self esteem in some cases. It can also result in a good amount of stress and anxiety. Hair on the scalp is very important for good looks. It provides an aura to one’s overall personalities. Hence, it is very important to get the right kind of treatment at the right time to save your crowning glory.

However, there is no need to panic for the receding hair line. There are several treatments and products available on the market these days to prevent hair loss.

Here are some great tips to stop hair loss. Follow them and save the aura and overall health of your crowning glory.

a) Say no to chemicals

Experts believe that exposure of hair to chemical products is one of the main reasons of hair loss. Frequent use of hair dyes, serums, hair sprays, gels, hair straightening machines and perming products result in breakage of hair. If you are serious about saving your hair, stay away from chemical based products.

b) Exercise

Working out makes you overall health glow. It also does a lot good to your hair. Working out regularly will increase the blood circulation and provide great benefits to hair.

c) Eat healthy

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Weight loss has become an obsession in a nation where 63% of the people are overweight and a startling 31% are obese. Clearly our modern lifestyle is not healthy. Many people are desperate to make a change and will try any lose weight fast ‘magic-bullet’ or cure that is offered – still the obesity rates climb. What are the reasons behind this trend? The stress of our lifestyles, toxicity in the environment, unhealthy processed food, improper nutrition habits, and lives spent in our cars, small offices and houses with little or no time in fresh air. Our lifestyles seem designed to make us fat.

People desperate for weight loss will try any diet, take any pill, and even resort to surgery to try and get their weight under control, but if they don’t deal with the underlying issues that lead to obesity in the first place they are bound to regain the weight leading to an ever increasing waistline. There is no ‘magic-bullet’ to take away obesity. In order to counter the effects of our unhealthy lifestyles it is necessary to deal with the underlying issues that are causing the obesity in the first place. We can learn from the lifestyles of ancient cultures where the diet is predominantly fruits, grains and vegetables and where fasting or nutritional cleansing is an accepted practice.

We are surrounded by more chemicals with higher levels of toxicity than ever before. These chemicals can build up in our body and compound the problems of improper nutrition leading to obesity. Nutritional cleansing is a great way to help our bodies deal with toxicity. By eating healthy meals, predominantly of vegetables and lean protein, and by taking regular cleanse days to flush the toxins from the system our bodies will re-set the natural balance and weight loss will automatically follow. Unlike fasting, nutritional cleansing is not simply a process of not eating. When you undertake nutritional cleansing you drink a specially prepared vitamin and mineral packed supplement that will help increase your energy, cleanse the toxins from your body and even help your skin and hair regain the gloss of health.  Read more...

Aaron Savvy, one of Los Angeles’ top personal trainers and winner of 10 tough man contests in Seattle logging country gutpunchs Mike Mooney, the grand old man of Mike’s Fight Show, who competed boxing a few dozen years ago. How does Mike do it? “Take lots of vitamins, eat healthy, work out, make yourself happy and don’t hang out with negative people. I’ve got a team of great fight guys to hang out with. Who could ask for anything more? “