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Showing posts with label General. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

DID U KNOW...

It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.


Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200 pounds(90.8 kilograms) on the molars.

40 to 50 percent of body heat can be lost through the head (no hat) as a result of its extensive circulatory network.



The human brain is 80% water.
The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.

If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side


If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.



Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Have a Crowning Glory this Summer...

Just like the dry weather of winter can cause damage and you need to follow certain winter hair care tips to control damage, similarly, the summer sun and the summer humidity are also your hair's worst enemy. Thus with the advent of summer you start experiencing numerous hair problems like dry hair, split ends, frizzy and brittle hair. All these means its time you start paying attention to your hair.

Here are some handy Summer Hair Care Tips to prevent damage to your hair:

  1. Trim the damaged sections of your hair, especially if you tend to have frizzy hair and keep them short during summer. Wearing a short hairstyle during summer lets you enjoy the sun, without having to put all your worries on your hair.

  2. If you do not want to cut short your hair, remember to wear a hat, cap or scarf, slightly loose enough to allow scalp circulation, to protect your hair against the damaging effects of the sun.

  3. Keep your hair knotted or wear buns or plats to avoid total exposure to sun and thus control frizzes.

  4. Avoid hot water hair wash, as the heat can damage your hair. Use cool water instead.

  5. Deep condition your hair after each shampoo wash.

HOMEMADE PROTECTIVE HAIR MASKS:

Honey & Olive Oil Hair Mask

Mix 2 tablespoon honey with 3 tablespoon olive oil. Apply throughly to hair. Cover hair with plastic wrap or a shower cap. After 15 minutes shampoo and rinse well.


Beautiful Gorgeous Hair Mask

After you shampoo your hair, pour 1 cup fresh lemon juice or vinegar through hair and massage and rinse with water. Apply your usual conditioner and wash with water. It will remove all the dirt and your hair will be shine sparkling. Do not repeat this method before 2 weeks.


Beautiful Gorgeous Hair Mask 2

Grind fenugreek (methi) seeds soaked in water overnight. Massage this paste on scalp and hair and leave it for15-20 minutes. Wash it off with a mild shampoo. This paste is good for all types of hair problems, viz. dandruffs, falling hair, thinning of hair, baldness, split hair, etc.


Shining Hair:

  • Mix juice of one fresh orange, water, 1 tablespoon Honey and a few drops (5-7) of sandalwood oil. Use as an after-shampoo rinse.

  • Add a 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar in water and rinse your hair.

For Damaged Hair

Mash a ripe banana with a few drops of almond oil and massage into hair. Leave it for about 15 minutes. Rinse with soda water and then shampoo and condition.

Falling Hair, Hair Loss

Rub Indian gooseberry (Amla) into the scalp regularly. It can show wonderful results, it will stop hair falling.

Eat a protein rich diet inluding green leafy vegetables, carrots, mango, dried apricots, whole grain cereals, sprouts, lentils in the daily diet for the hair loss and falling hair.

Split End Hair

Split ends in hair are caused when they are damaged by strong shampoo or heat from hair dryer. Following are some cures for spit hair.
Massage hair and scalp with warm olive oil and wrap head with shower cap and leave for overnight or for 8-10 hours. Wash.

You can alternately do the following:

Take 1/2 cup olive oil in 1/2 cup boiling water in a bottle and put its cap. Shake the bottle vigorously. Massage thoroughly in hair and cover with a shower cap. Leave for 1/2 hour, then wash. Take care of your hands and head because the water is hot.

Oil your hair twice a week with coconut oil mixed with fresh lime juice.

It is always better to keep the split end trimmed, otherwise, they may split further up the hair.

Frizzy Hair

Make an after-shampoo rinse by mixing one tablepsoon of honey to a liter of water. Use it after every hair wash with your usual shampoo.

Greasy Hair

Greasy hair are mainly due to becoming sebaceous glands overactive. You should avoid too much brushing of hair. Wash your hair frequently with a nourishing shampoo.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

World Health Day - April 7

World Health Day is celebrated every year on 7 April, under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization (WHO).

In 1948, the World Health Organization held the First World Health Assembly. The Assembly decided to celebrate 7th April of each year, with effect from 1950, as the World Health Day. The World Health Day is celebrated to create “awareness of a specific health theme to highlight a priority area of concern for the World Health Organization (WHO)”. Activities - related to that particular theme and the resources provided - continue beyond 7th April, that is, the designated day for celebrating the World Health Day.

World Health Day 2009 : Save lives. Make hospitals safe in emergencies

World Health Day 2009 focuses on the safety of health facilities and the readiness of health workers who treat those affected by emergencies. Health centres and staff are critical lifelines for vulnerable people in disasters - treating injuries, preventing illnesses and caring for people's health needs. Often, already fragile health systems are unable to keep functioning through a disaster, with immediate and future public health consequences.

This year, WHO and international partners are underscoring the importance of investing in health infrastructure that can withstand hazards and serve people in immediate need. They are also urging health facilities to implement systems to respond to internal emergencies, such as fires, and ensure the continuity of care.

World Health Day 2008: Protecting health from the adverse effects of climate change

World Health Day, on 7 April, marks the founding of the World Health Organization and is an opportunity to draw worldwide attention to a subject of major importance to global health each year. In 2008, World Health Day focused on the need to protect health from the adverse effects of climate change.& establlish links between climate change and health and other development areas such as environment,food,energy,transport.

The theme “protecting health from climate change” puts health at the centre of the global dialogue about climate change. WHO selected this theme in recognition that climate change is posing ever growing threats to global public health security.

Through increased collaboration, the global community will be better prepared to cope with climate-related health challenges worldwide. Examples of such collaborative actions are: strengthening surveillance and control of infectious diseases, ensuring safer use of diminishing water supplies, and coordinating health action in emergencies.

World Health day 2007: Invest in health, build a safer future

Key messages for World Health Day 2007:

1. Threats to health know no borders.
2. Invest in health, build a safer future.
3. Health leads to security; insecurity leads to poor health.
4. Preparedness and quick response improve international health security.
5. The World Health Organization is making the world more secure

Themes of previous World Health Days:


• 2008: Protecting health from the adverse effects of climate change
• 2007: International health security
• 2006: Working together for health
• 2005: Make every mother and child count
• 2004: Road safety
• 2003: Shape the Future of Life: Healthy Environments for Children
• 2002: Move for Health
• 2001: Mental Health: Stop Exclusion, Dare to Care
• 2000: Safe Blood Start with Me
• 1999: Active Aging Makes the Difference
• 1998: Safe Motherhood
• 1997: Emerging Infectious Diseases
• 1996: Healthy Cities for Better Life
• 1995: Global Polio Eradication

Sunday, March 8, 2009

HAPPY WOMAN'S DAY...

We wish all the Women across the globe a very Happy Women's Day...Here is an effort to relate Homoepathy to various phases in their lives...

PULSATILLA: BABY GIRL:Loose motions, crying easily,green stools sticky,yellow phlegm,recurrent colds, when sick wants to be held all the time, cranky clingy, chicken pox, mumps & measles.

LACHESIS: PRE-SCHOOL GIRL:

Curious+++, Restless at nights +++
Attracts attention, talkative++
Cannot tolerate tight clothes, very particular about clothes
Over sensitiveness++, emotional



THUJA: SCHOOL GOING GIRL


Prone to colds and cough, fearful, hides from strangers, lack of confidence, desire to play alone, asthma <>

NATRUM MUR: TEENAGE GIRL:

Patient is very emotional type, headache of anaemic girls, marked disposition to weep, Consolation from others aggravates her troubles...Craving for salt, easily offended, dwells over painful event, will never forget, very selective company

PULSATILLA: MENARCHE:


Irregular menses, changing symptoms+++, indecisive, slow, phlegmatic temperament easily moved to laughter or tears, affectionate mild, yielding disposition, timid, better in open air, digestive disorders- no two stools alike

SEPIA:PREGNANCY

Patient is basically worn out, physically mentally and emotionally. This can be from a particular difficult pregnancy or from an ardous delivery. Indifferent to family. Diseases of women:esp. those ocuring in pregnancy. Dread of men. Constipation of preganancy, morning sickenss in pregnancy, violent stitches in vagina…sight or thought of food sickens…smell of cooking food nauseates

LACHESIS: MENOPAUSE :
Great sensitiveness to touch,menses at regular times: too short, scanty, feeble,pains relieved by flow, always better during menses.


Climacteric ailments: hot flushes, hot perspiration, burning vertex headaches, hemorrhages, can't bear tight clothes

AURUM METALLICUM: OLD WOMEN
Helps in senior citizens in nursing homes where loneliness and lack of purpose often brings on "AURUM STATE" of emptiness and despair…AURUM covers physical and emotional pain as well as the desire to commit suicide. It covers the classic situation in which one spouse dies after many years of happy marriage

Thursday, January 15, 2009

SMOKING - FACTS...

Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 different chemicals. At least 43 are known carcinogens (cause cancer in humans). Some are:
  1. Benzene (petrol additive):A colourless cyclic hydrocarbon obtained from coal and petroleum, used as a solvent in fuel and in chemical manufacture - and contained in cigarette smoke. It is a known carcinogen and is associated with leukaemia.
  2. Formaldehyde (embalming fluid): A colourless liquid, highly poisonous, used to preserve dead bodies - also found in cigarette smoke. Known to cause cancer, respiratory, skin and gastrointestinal problems.
  3. Ammonia (toilet cleaner):Used as a flavouring, frees nicotine from tobacco turning it into a gas, found in dry cleaning fluids.
  4. Acetone (nail polish remover): Fragrant volatile liquid ketone, used as a solvent, for example, nail polish remover - found in cigarette smoke.
  5. Tar: Particulate matter drawn into lungs when you inhale on a lighted cigarette. Once inhaled, smoke condenses and about 70 per cent of the tar in the smoke is deposited in the smoker's lungs.
  6. Nicotine (insecticide/addictive drug): One of the most addictive substances known to man, a powerful and fast-acting medical and non-medical poison. This is the chemical which causes addiction.
  7. Carbon Monoxide (CO) (car exhaust fumes)-An odourless, tasteless and poisonous gas, rapidly fatal in large amounts - it's the same gas that comes out of car exhausts and is the main gas in cigarette smoke, formed when the cigarette is lit.
  8. Arsenic (rat poison),
  9. Hydrogen Cyanide (gas chamber poison)
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CASH BENEFITS...

Since the typical smoker spends 35,000 Indian Rupees per year on cigarettes; one might wonder what could be bought with that money instead. Here are some examples:

  1. They could play 2,800 video arcade games
  2. Talk to a friend on the phone in another state for 126 hours and 22 minutes

  3. Shop till they drop for music – about 45 compact discs!
  4. Buy 1186 packs of sugar free gum – a better habit!

  5. If they saved the 35,000 Indian Rupees every year in a bank account earning 5% interest, they would have 1.23254806 million Indian Rupees after 20 years. Talk about being able to buy a nice car!
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  1. Cigarette smoking has been identified as the most important source of preventable morbidity and premature mortality in the United States and the world.
  2. Smoking-related diseases cause an estimated 440,000 American deaths each year.
  3. Smoking costs the United States over $150 billion annually in health care costs.
  4. A 2004 Study by the CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion found that cigarette smoke contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer.
  5. Women account for 39 percent of all smoking deaths.
  6. Each day 1500 more of American youngsters become regular smokers.
  7. 1/3 of them will die prematurely from this habit.
  8. 1200 Americans die every day from tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke. That is one person every 72 seconds.
  9. Tobacco industries spend over $34.1 million a day in marketing its products in the U.S. alone.
  10. Smoking kills more than 400,000 Americans and costs more than $89 billion in health care expenditures every year.
  11. Tobacco-related health care bills cost the states and taxpayers billions of dollars each year under Medicaid and other state-funded health care programs.
  12. 5 million people die annually from smoking throughout the world.
  13. About 90% of all adults who smokes took their first puff at or before the age of 18.
  14. Every eight seconds, someone in the world dies due to tobacco
  15. In the US, smoking causes about 445 new cases of lung cancer every day.
  16. Over 50,000 people a year die from secondhand smoke in the US alone.
  17. People that smoke have 10 times as many wrinkles as a person that does not smoke.
  18. Research has indicated that approximately eleven minutes are cut off the life of an average male smoker from each cigarette smoked.
  19. Tobacco kills more Americans than AIDS, drugs, homicides, fires, and auto accidents combined.
  20. 1 out of 3 smokers are estimated to eventually die from a tobacco-related disease.
  21. A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will on average lose two teeth every ten years.
  22. A study indicates that smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers.

Friday, December 12, 2008

HOMEOPATHY- CHANGING TRENDS...


  • Today, 100 million people use homeopathy.
  • Indian homeopathic market valued at Rs. 630 Crores.
  • Homeopathy forms approx. 14% of total alternative
  • Annual growth rate: 20-25% (Pharma 10%).
  • 125 teaching institutes affiliated to universities.
  • France, with over 300 billion euros, is the largest homeopathy market in the world, followed by Germany (200 billion euros).
  • Over 2500 homeopathic medicines are prepared from sources such as vegetables, animal, minerals, chemicals, etc. Hence homeopathic remedies with its ultra minute dose are non toxic, absolutely harmless and bring about safe cure.
  • All Homeopathic remedies are FDA approved drugs, and are under the same regulations as Allopathic Drugs.
  • Approximately 40% of French physicians and 20% of German physicians prescribe homeopathic medicines. Over 40% of British physicians refer patients of homeopaths, and almost 50% of Dutch physicians consider these natural medicines to be effective.
  • In Mumbai, 52% of population use Allopathy, while 39% of population use Homoeopathy.
  • 10% of the British population consults homeopath physicians.
  • 600 doctors practice homeopathy on a regular basis out of 1,300 graduate members of the London School of Homeopathy practicing throughout the world
  • Americans spend $48 bn on alternative health therapies including homeopathy.
  • Italy 8.2% of all Italians uses homeopathic drugs, which are available in almost half of all pharmacies.
  • In Italy 7,000 doctors out of a total of 360,000 prescribe a homeopathic treatment on a regular or occasional basis.
  • PakistanOut of 10,000 doctors registered in Pakistan, 4,000 or 5,000 prescribe homeopathy on a regular basis.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

DECEMBER...


Hello All,

December's flower is the narcissus or holly.

Its birthstones are turquoise, lapis lazuli.

EVENTS THIS DECEMBER:

World AIDS Day (December 1)
Human Rights Day (December 10)
Christmas (December 25)
New Year's Eve (December 31)



Monday, November 24, 2008

An Apple A Day Keeps The Doctor Away...

HOW MUCH TO EAT: A medium apple weighs 100g (no core); an average glass as snacks , in fruit salads, grated on to cereal, as juice, baked, or stewed.

MAXIMIZING THE BENEFITS: Flavonols, especially quercetin, are well absorbed by the body. Eating fresh apples will maximize flavonol intake. Stewing can reduce levels by up to 70% as flavonols leach into cooking water, So eat the cooking juice too. Limit peeling as flavonols concentrate near and in fruit skins.

KEY BENEFITS:
  1. The flavonol quercetin, which is found in apples, is one of the most potent antioxidants of flavonoids. Quercetin also has anti inflammatory and anti-cancer actions.
  2. Eating plenty of apples reduces risk of developing lung cancer.
  3. Quercetin reduces risk of stroke...

Thus its truly said, An Apple A Day Keeps The Doctor Away...

Monday, November 17, 2008

BLACK TEA...

Black tea is made by fermenting leaves of the tea plant Camellia Sinensis
Its strong antioxidants give black tea its characteristic colour and flavour.
TO MAXIMIZE BENEFITS:

Brew tea for at least a minute to maximize the release of flavanols. Adding milk does not affect absorption. The phenolic compounds in tea can reduce iron absorption from non-meet foods, so do not drink tea with every meal. The fluorine in tea helps protect against tooth decay.


HOW MUCH TO DRINK:

Positive health benefits have been associated with drinking 1-5 cups of black tea, or decaffeinated black tea, daily.

MAJOR BENEFITS:

  1. Flavanols are the main phytochemicals in black tea. Simple flavanols are transformed into complex transformed into complex flavanols are transformed into complex flavanols (thearubigens and theaflavins) during the fermentation process.

  2. BONE HEALTH: A study of 1,256 women in the UK aged 65 to 76 found that regukar tea drinkers had regular tea drinkers had significantly stronger bones than non-tea drinkers, suggesting that tea flavonoids may influence bone health.

  3. CANCER: A study of 35,369 postmenopausal women in the US indicated that those who drank two or more cups of black tea daily had 40-70 percent lower rates of digestive and urinary tract cancers compared to those who rarely drank tea.

  4. HEART DISEASE: A number of population studies links high flavonoid intakes, especially from a reduced risk of heart disease and stroke.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

DRINK YOUR WAY TO HEALTH... ONE CUP OF GREEN TEA!!!


Green tea is known for its Antioxidant strength!!! It is produced by steaming the leaves of the tea plant Camellia Sinensis.

BOOSTING THE BENEFITS:

The flavanols in green tea are very soluble and are absorbed well by the body. Allow to brew for at least a minute for maximum release of flavonoids into the hot liquid.

HOW MUCH TO DRINK:

Just one cup of green tea can lead to a significant increase in antioxidant activity in the blood.
[P.S. : Four to five cups may give optimal benefits.]

VITAL BENEFITS:

Epicatechin flavanols, the main phytochemicals in green tea, have been shown to have antioxidant, antithrombotic, antibacterial, antiviral, anti-cancer, and immune system regulating effects.

ROLE:

HEART DISEASE: Drinking green tea regularly may significantly lower cholesterol levels. This may be explained partly by flavanols’ ability to inhabit cholesterol absorption into the body.

CANCER: A study indicated a link between drinking green tea and a reduced incidence of cancer of the oesophagus and stomach. Another study found that drinking green tea inhibited the development of blood vessels needed to support the growth of cancerous tumours.

TOOTH DECAY: Flavanols may protect against tooth decay by inhibiting the bacterial activities that lead to a built-up of plaque.


Monday, November 3, 2008

HEALTH- THIS NOVEMBER





Chrysanthemum- Birthflower for November

Dear Friends,

From this month onwards we are starting a monthly health article related to that particular month. It will showcase various Health or Disease related events of that month. We will also have a few articles or tips related to those conditions throughout the month.

Here is for November:

The birthstone for November is either Topaz, Citrine, or Aquamarine.

MONTH LONG DEDICATIONS:
  • Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
  • Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month
  • Crohn’s & Colitis awareness month
  • Diabetes month
  • Osteoporosis month

DAYS-
1. 14th Nov- World Diabetes Day
2. 19th Nov- World COPD Day

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

RELAXATION IS THE KEY...

Life is frittered away by details. Simplify... Simplify…simplify! Cried Thoreau, several years ago. Much water has flowed under the proverbial bridge ever since, but we have continued to make this world a more and more complicated place to live in. Indeed we have reached a stage where success has become synonymous with heart attacks, ulcers and high blood pressure! In fact, these ailments are no longer considered as diseased, but have come to stay as status symbols in modern society!

Is it not time that we understand that success at the cost of serenity, is no success at all? Is it not time we appreciate, that victory at the cost of peace and tranquility, will only be a victory in vain? Like happiness, relaxation is not a station you arrive at. It is a manner of traveling. Let us not fallinto the mental trap that we shall relax after we succeed. On the contrary, let relaxation be a part of our way to success.

And here are TEN surest ways to RELAX for those who would like to relax and succeed:

Do not get angry easily – be forgiving, Remember, all anger ends in repentance!

Do not believe everything you hear; do not do everything you see; then you shall always be relaxed.

Browse through a book or magazine in a book store or public library or challenge yourself with a crossword puzzle whenever you find time.

Do not dwell on the past. Live for the present and plan for the future. Remember, today is the tomorrow you did not plan for yesterday!

It is perfectly normal for people to be ungrateful. So, if you are expecting gratitude, you are going to get heartburns!

Do not give your spouse, children and subordinates a tough time every now and then. Take a rigid stand only on truly important issues.

Do not worry about changing things that are totally beyond your control.

Understand that contentment is not the fulfillment of what you wish, but the appreciation of what you already possess. Understand that contentment is natural wealth and luxury is artificial happiness.

Engage in a sport or activity like Tennis that allows you to release your aggressions you can hit the ball as hard as you like!


Do meditation regularly.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

EAT IN MODERATION THIS DIWALI...

Well, it’s that time of the year again. Festival time, which means mithais, lots of eating out, rich food and sheer indulgence. Wonderful. But by the end of it, we are also wonderfully stuffed.

True, it’s just for this month, but we can make the best of the festive season, along with making the best of ourselves. We just need to know what to eat – and more important – how to eat it.You can and you must indulge. This is the time for it. But there’s a key to keep in mind – moderation With a little planning, you can eat out without blowing your diet

How? The trick is to eat small quantities of whatever you want to eat, and eat it in a balanced manner. It isn’t necessary to eat butter chicken or pasta in cream sauce every time you go out. Have that on one day, and juggle between salads and grilled / baked dishes, or just roti and seek kababs or tandoori chicken / paneer otherwise

Healthy starters
If you’re out for drinks and dinner, then have salads instead of peanuts with your drinks. “Peanuts, chips and so on are avoidable. Fresh cut salad like cucumber and carrots and celery with dips is better. It will fill up your stomach a little and help you not overeat
Deep fried appetisers are a complete no no. Boiled, broiled or roasted are better options. Add a soup to your meal. Not a creamy one but a clear broth that is healthy, filling and delicious.

Balanced Meals
Always select food that is either steamed, poached, roasted, broiled, boiled, grilled or baked.
Beware of any dish that is described on the menu with these words: cream sauce, butter, makhani, oil, au gratin, breaded, kofta, alfredo, battered or batter-dipped, crispy, cheesy, malai. These dishes are notoriously high in calories. Also, banish buffets. When we’re given more choices, we tend to eat more. Order a la carte. If you’re fond of Italian food, go for a tomato sauce-based pasta instead a cream-based one. Also, a pasta should not be your complete meal. Add grilled sandwich and some salad on the side. It will limit your flour and cream intake and will be a balanced meal.
Daily bread
A plain tandoori or roomali roti is the best bet with an Indian meal. Avoid lachcha parathas, stuffed rotis, naans and butter naans. There’s too much flour, ghee, butter or oil in those. If you must have it, have only one. But then have it with grilled or tandoori food and maybe just a little dal.

Sweat it out
Curtail your regular workout if you must, but exercise daily. Do some breathing and bending and stretching exercises for at least 10-15 minutes a day. It will help keep your metabolism going as usual. Start your day with a glass of lukewarm water and lemon. It helps your digestion and cleanses your stomach.
Multi meal course
Small meals at regular intervals will not only help you stop indulging, but also make sure you’re satiated. Eat smaller meals during the day if you’re dining out. Just be sure you don’t eat too sparingly so that you’re so famished by dinnertime that you overeat. Have a small, healthy snack in the evening to quell hunger if you’re going out for dinner

Monday, September 29, 2008

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT CHOCOLATES...

DID YOU KNOW…?

Chocolates are easy to make, easily available and beneficial to health, if taken in moderation.

Listed below are few reasons to indulge!

1. Chocolates build immunity by stimulating the secretion of endorphins, which in their turn stimulate the body to produce powerful antibodies.

2. Chocolates help cut cholesterol. Chocolate is a plant product, hence it contains zero cholesterol, thought it does have calories.

3. It is a powerful fatigue fighter and instant energy booster.

4. It helps fight depression by increasing the level of serotonin, the hormone that helps fight depression

5. Chocolate is beneficial to heart as it possesses phenolic compounds which reduces coronary heart diseases

6. Chocolates are a natural analgesic which helps reduce pain.

7. One plain chocolate bar has more protein than a banana and we all know how nutritious bananas are!

Friday, September 19, 2008

THOUGHTS, DISEASE & LIFE

IN PURSUiT OF HAPPYNESS...

The way we live our lives too determine the kind of illnesses we have...Here is one of my favorite excerpts from the book, "You Can Heal Your Life" by Louise Hay. If we can incorporate these WE CAN SHAPE OUR LIVES FOR GOOD!!

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Every thought we think is creating our future.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Everyone suffers from self-hatred & guilt.

The bottom line for everyone is, “I’m not good enough”.

It’s only a thought, & a thought can be changed.

We create every so-called illness in our body.

Resentment, criticism, & guilt are the most damaging patterns.

Releasing resentment will dissolve even cancer.

We must release the past & forgive everyone.

We must be willing to begin to learn to love ourselves.

Self-approval & self-acceptance in the now are the keys to positive changes.

When we really love ourselves, everything in our life works!!!

So friends very shortly I will be introducing to all of you my 3rd venture into blogging, my 3rd blog which is going to be based on happy & positive living & thoughts!!! I would really appreciate if you'll can come forth & help me find a TITLE suggetive for my 3rd blog...Awaiting your reply!!

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

About Homeopathy

HOMEOPATHY

“Here is a wonderful science of healing, which the world ought to know more about”
- Dr.Jayesh V.Sanghvi


Homeopathy is a science of healing suited to all:

… THE YOUNG, THE OLD.
… THE RICH, THE POOR.
… PEOPLE OF ANY RELIGION, CAST OR CREED.
… PEOPLE IN DEVELOPED AS WELL AS UNDEVELOPED COUNTRIES.
… PEOPLE IN ANY PLACE, UNDER ANY CLIMATIC CONDITION.

Homeopathy discovered by German physician, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (1755 – 1843), is a natural science of medicine, and generally has the advantage of being devoid of any reaction or adverse effects, isn’t habit forming & is absolutely safe when given with any system of medicine…

It’s based on the age old law of nature - Similia Similibus Curentur (Like Cures Like) which was first mentioned by Hippocrates, the father of medicine, in 5th century B.C. and later on by peers like Paraselsus, Aristotle, etc. and also in the Hindu texts. It was also utilized by many cultures, including the Chinese, Greeks, Native American Indians and Asian Indians. But it was Dr. Hahnemann who studied and experimented in depth, to codify this law into a full fledged, systematic science of medicine


Status & Popularity:
Mahatma Gandhi said, “Homoeopathy cures a greater number of people than any other method of treatment”.

Some well known proponents of Homeopathy – British Royal Family, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Pope Pius X, Mahatma Gandhi, Daniel Webster, The Ambani’s, Madonna, Amitabh Bachhan, Ashok Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Lara Dutta, etc.

Homoeopathy is also widely practiced in a lot of other countries like Brazil, Mexico, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Australia, S. Africa, Nigeria, Soviet Union, Argentina, Netherland, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, etc.


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