Category: Health

Step One
Choose a hotel with a fitness center. Pack your gym clothes. Get on that treadmill even if for 15 minutes every day.

Step Two
In the morning and in the evening, jog in place for 5 minutes in your hotel room.

Step Three
After the workday is over, take a walk. You will get to do some sightseeing while burning some calories.

Step Four
Eat healthy at meetings. Don’t eat that donut – go for the fruit and yogurt instead.

Step Five
Eat healthy at the lunch with business associates. Get a grilled chicken breast instead of the pasta with cream sauce. Making the right choices at every meal is important.

Step Six
Eat healthy at dinner. Instead of the side of mashed potatoes, get a side of roasted vegetables.

Step Seven
Skip the dessert or order a bowl of fresh seasonal fruit. If you absolutely want that …

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Many physicians sustaining these at every phase of therapy to avoid recurrence, and may recommend preventive steps in the first indicators of severe acne infestations. Such steps contain inner health and removal and meticulous skin of particular foods. The relationship between fat and foodstuffs like dairy food -soaked products …

Finding healthy snacks is a challenge. Having basic ingredients on hand makes life much easier. Use lots of herbs, along with spices to kick up the taste of your foods. Lemon and vinegar are great to have on hand. Onion powder, minced onion, garlic, yogurt, canned peas or beans and tomatoes are the basis for quick and easy dips. Serve dips with veggie chips, whole grain crackers, or vegetable dippers.

An easy snack is roasted tomatoes with garlic, basil and olive oil. When tomatoes are soft the skin will peel easily. Mash tomato with the soft garlic and blend juices with oil. Add basil, salt and black pepper to taste. Add yogurt and delete olive oil for a creamy dip.

Arugula has a peppery taste, substitute for spinach. Add minced dry onion, onion powder to yogurt. Add salt and pepper to taste. A jar of pureed artichoke can be added …

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This is the key to get a life that is more healthy and happy:

1. A balanced diet
2. Sports regularly
3. Meditation
4. Enough sleep and the “great sex”
5. Positive Attitude

Why meditation is also included among the 5 main thing is this?

Meditation has been known and applied by our ancestors in the “high Civilization” from the days of yore, for example, the high civilization in Egypt, China, Aztec, December and the Celtics in Europe.

Recently, doctors in a modern hospital and in the United States and Europe such as the VA Hospitals and Kaiser Permanente Hospitals enter the program of meditation as a complementary treatment for patients, clients.

Meditation has been proven in clinical accelerate healing patients. Time meditation, the human brain is in the state of Alpha, and the body to make the program self-healing. Meditation is often considered as a reset button, where all …

Make Tosca the ancient health drink that energised the Armies of Rome.

It was a popular tonic drink in antiquity  and taken for its strengthening and refreshing qualities. The Babylonians brewed it 600 years BC and the Bible describes Ruth and Boaz taking a tipple together after a busy day in the harvest fields at around the same time.  100 years later Hippocrates, the founder of modern medicine recommended it for many ailments.   It is, of course, apple cider vinegar, commonly known as cider vinegar.

Cider vinegar is made from fermented apple juice and its attributes are many.   Its detoxifying and purifying properties are reported to improve the working of kidneys, bladder and liver.  It thins the blood  and lowers blood pressure.  It contains vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and dietary fibre and these are just a few of the claims made by enthusiasts, both ancient and modern who have …

Are you looking for a snack to hold you over until dinner that won't threaten your diet? Are baby carrots and celery sticks not quite cutting it? Below you will find 9 other snack ideas that will satisfy your taste buds, and keep you on track.

Dark chocolate 
According to WebMD, dark chocolate is full of antioxidants, helps lower your blood pressure, improves cognitive functions, helps control blood sugar levels, and is rich in important vitamins. Eating three small pieces of dark chocolate can curb a sweet tooth without harming your health.

Raisins
According to the Diet Health Club, raisins contain antioxidants, are rich in iron, and help to remove toxins from the body. They also contain an amino acid named Arginine which increases libido and induces arousal. Raisins therefore may even have an influence on increased physical activity.

Pistachios 
According to the Pistachio Health Institute, pistachios are …

Why medicine may not be the best option?Medicine has long been taking corrective rather than preventive action. It is a whole world of chance. There are no hard and fast rules and everything is just a hit-and-try. Every medicine causes some effects. But it comes along with a lot of side effects. Some common side effects include drowsiness and upsetting of stomach. Others weaken you slowly but steadily. Thankfully, these days, holistic health is gaining importance.

The concept of Life Energy:It has now been realized that treating the different organs of the body separately is not as effective as the treatment of the entire mind and body combined. There is something called life energy, that can be generated, increased and that has amazingly effective healing powers. There is an old saying that a doctor can only dress your wound, but it is God who heals it. This …

Nature provides us with many healthy food choices, but some of the healthiest are just plain old weeds. Find out which ones you can enjoy.

Purselane (Portulaca oleracea)

Purslane, a member of the Portulacaceae family has grown wild in my garden for years. It grows on a straight smooth looking reddish brown stem and has fleshy leaves that grow at the joins and ends of the stems. I always referred to it as “The Rubber Tree Weed” and left it alone to grow because it was pretty and didn’t strangle my vegetable plants or make the garden look “weedy.”

Plantain (Plantago major)

Plantain is another weed that I have had an abundance of for all of the years that I have owned my home. Unlike the Purslane, I did not find it pretty or of any good use for that matter. That is until my mother-in law came over as …