Exercising to Improve Your Sleep
Thursday, August 5th, 2010 | Health
b>Studies suggest that exercise helps to promote sleep for individuals with insomnia. Below are some of the benefits exercise provides: - Adrenaline is released, increasing the heart rate and metabolism, naturally fatiguing the body. - Brain activity is increased due to increasing levels of oxygen being transported. - Endocrine system is activated, normalizing stress hormone function. - Endorphins are distributed throughout the nervous system, interacting with opiate receptor neurons and ...› Continue reading
Good Stress - Bad Stress
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 | Health
Webster's dictionary defines stress as: "a physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in disease causation". It's important to realize that this "physical, chemical, or emotional" tension is a part of life, and is essential to the workings of the human body. Stress occurs whenever we encounter something in our lives to which we must react. This may be a small event, like swatting at a fly that has landed on our arm, or something more ...› Continue reading
WHAT MOST DOCTORS DON'T TELL YOU!
Monday, August 2nd, 2010 | Health
WHAT MOST DOCTORS DON'T TELL YOU! * * * * * The following information may challenge your beliefs about health and disease, therefore read it through, keeping an open mind before you decide on a course of action. - Introducing Viny - a member of the Natural Health Council and a former chronically ill patient who eventually decided to take control of his recovery. Now a stress consultant and alternative health journalist - he has written many books and articles in order to pass on the benefits of ...› Continue reading
The Role of Vitamins in Child Development
Sunday, August 1st, 2010 | Health
Every single bodily function depends on an adequate supply of vitamins and minerals in the bloodstream, including the growth process. Nutrition has a major influence on the quality and speed of cell growth, starting in the uterus and continuing into adulthood. Poor prenatal nutrition will not only retard the growth process, but may also lead to birth defects and other physical abnormalities. The most important group of vitamins in terms of growth and development are the vitamins that make up ...› Continue reading
Chakras & Flowers
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 | Health
b>How do you connect chakras, the energy centres of the body in Eastern tradition, and flowers, pretty, ephemeral, bright, cheerful manifestations of nature? ...by way of color therapy.. yoga energy balancing techniques...meditation... and a simple way of making yourself feel better and re-energized even if you don't really believe in any of the above. There are seven main chakras (as well as several others) in a line from the base of the spine to the crown of the head and one more newly ...› Continue reading
Macadamia Oil
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 | Health
Macadamia oil is probably more widely known as a delicious cooking oil than as a massage oil. Alas, the macadamia oil used for aromatherapy is not edible, but it nonetheless provides a richly sensuous experience. Combined with another, more aromatic oil, such as lemon myrtle, macadamia oil is at once calming and revitalizing. In fact, it is better used as a base oil, than all by itself. Macadamia oil owes its success as a massage liniment to its emollient properties, which is to say it softens ...› Continue reading
Weeds and Allergies
Sunday, July 25th, 2010 | Health
WEEDS AND ALLERGIES Thomas Leo Ogren Allergy, on the rise in the United States and throughout the world, is worst in urban areas. In the past thirty years in the US the percentage of people with allergies has rapidly climbed from 10 percent, to a staggering 38 percent now affected. There are many factors involved in this epidemic of allergy including an increase in the total amount of urban airborne pollen. In urban areas much of the increase in allergy can be tied to ...› Continue reading
The Benefits of Whey Protein
Saturday, July 24th, 2010 | Health
The benefits of whey protein are so numerous and apply to so many different groups of people, that listing them all would be quite a large undertaking. In the sense of an overview, the benefits of whey protein make it an excellent choice for individuals of all ages who struggle to maintain a healthy diet and to improve their overall health. Providing all of the essential amino acids, which are the building blocks of healthy muscles, nails, skin and other connective tissue, whey protein not ...› Continue reading
The benefits of healthy nutrition
Friday, July 23rd, 2010 | Health
Question: What are some of the benefits of healthy nutrition? What makes a healthy diet worth it? Answer: The effects of having a healthy nutritional diet are innumerable. The human body needs various nutrients and minerals to keep it functioning in tip-top shape, and the only way this can be accomplished is by maintaining a healthy diet including vitamins and minerals. These nutrients are necessary to the body for three different reasons; they are crucial for obtaining energy, helping your ...› Continue reading
What do you need to know about sleeping disorders
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 | Health
Finally another strenuous day prowls to its end'hefty eyes die to shut down and do not reopen till they bask in the fairytale world, for when we live the rituals of the day, why not terminate with the custom of the night'a wonderful sleep! But seldom it happens that you get absorbed in the sleep that seems as enigmatic as the hoary mummies in Egypt, for today seven out of ten people suffer from sleeping disorders consciously or unconsciously. The sleep chaos can be minor, slight objectionable ...› Continue reading