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February 2, 2013
7 Benefits of Cinnamon When and How Much to Take
Cinnamon is sweet, spicy and astringent and it has drying and heating affect on the body. Cinnamon is a mild herb so almost anyone can take it in small amounts with exceptions listed below. Benefits of cinnamon are in multiple areas, pain reducer, digestion, congestion, muscle relaxer, antibacterial, regulating blood-sugar, and sexual performance.
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Promote Good Digestion: Cinnamon can be used in many recipes, especially in heavy difficult to digest recipes. It promotes dige...
December 15, 2012
Connecticut Shooting: Sickness in Society Demands Solution
Did you feel the pain after the news of Connecticut shooting? Every time we hear news like this we suffer. How many times do we have to anguish through shooting incidents like this? I don’t have the answer. But we must stop this!
Being a father I feel so much grief. Today I want to talk about why it is happening? I want to talk about wellness in the society we live in. I would like to share some thoughts and would invite your thoughts.
My first thought- The society is a large living “organism”...
December 1, 2012
5 Simple Ways to Get Rid of a Headache
Frequent headaches indicate your body is aching for help. Eliminate the cause, do not just mask by taking a quick fix pill. There are simple ways to get rid of a headache.
Common Causes of Headache
Lack of water (dehydration)
Lack of sleep
Lack of downtime (mentally tired)
High blood pressure (Hypertension/Stress)
Indigestion/gas/bloating
Nasal Congestion
Dehydration: Take two glasses (20 oz.) of warm water. You may not be drinking enough water. Read how much water should I take? Throughout the day y...
October 16, 2012
Ayurvedic Massage: What a Great Benefit!
Wouldn’t you like a massage that does more than just relaxation? Ayurvedic massage is a unique massage that offers incredible following benefits:
Nourishes the mind and body
Strengthens immunity
Increases stamina
Builds muscle tone
Reduces stress
Removes toxins (more effective when followed by exercising or steam bath)
Slows down aging
Calms mind and helps sleep better
Balances and heals body faster
With so many benefits, wouldn’t it be nice to get an Ayurvedic massage every day. Well, it is recommende...
September 16, 2012
Going Bananas? If Not, You Should
Next time when you reach for a candy bar or some other processed snack, reach for the world’s most incredible fruit. Not only you will get immediate boost in energy, but you will also prevent or help many conditions. This fruit perhaps is the least expensive and most widely available fruit. After you read this article, the phrase going bananas may have altogether different meaning. Do you have this fruit in your regimen?
Look at bananas astonishing benefits:
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Bananas Benefits
Stress Reducing:
When...
July 4, 2012
How to Realize Benefits of Meditation in the Real World? Part 2
In part one of meditation article series, you discovered what is the true purpose of meditation. Here you will find out how to realize benefits of meditation in the real world. First we must understand how our body, mind, & intellect work. While body can do multiple tasks, the mind can only do one task at one time. When our mind gets involved in performing multiple tasks it gets tired easily & the quality of each action suffers. Which in turn leads to uncertainty, uncertainty leads to increas...
June 9, 2012
What is the Closest Thing to the Fountain of Youth?
If someone asks me what is the one thing that I would recommend that as the maximum impact on promoting health and preventing the sickness, it would have to be physical activity. Exercise is the closest thing we have to the fountain of youth!
Over the last century, we have invented hundreds of machines and tools to make us more and more sedentary. But the fact remains that the human body is made to spend most of his waking hours in the upright position, moving fifteen to twenty miles a day. Ye...
March 30, 2012
How Much Sodium Should You Take; Are You Shaking Up Risks?
Americans, perhaps unconsciously, consume salt far in excess of our daily requirement. So, on average how much salt are we ingesting- 3000 mg a day which is twice the recommended intake of 1500 mg a day.
Indeed, sodium is essential for bodily functions including maintaining a fluid and electrolyte balance in the body, nerve conduction and muscle contraction. Throughout much of human history salt was seen as a precious commodity and the focus was on maintaining adequate intake.
Did You Know: Pot...
March 2, 2012
Slow Down Aging: Avoid 5 Specific Sugar and Fat Felons
The five fluid felons for our health are:
White Sugar
Simple Carbohydrates
Corn Syrup
Saturated Fat
Trans-fat
By systematically eliminating these sugar and fats from the diet, we can get rid of the majority of poisons in our food supply which wreak havoc on our metabolism by switching on signals of disease and distress. These fluid felons pull the triggerto start cascade of diseases: all related to weight and metabolism and manifested by obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, he...
January 10, 2012
Health Fundamentals 101: It’s Not What, It’s How You Eat it?
In ancient Vedic times, offering food to the body with love was a ritual. This ritual is almost exactly the same as offering of foods and other things with love to the Gods in presence of fire and asking for their blessings in return. These rituals of offerings with love are found in many corners of the planet in different cultures. Now imagine offering of the food with love to the “fire” (of hunger) in our stomach and asking for blessings of a healthy body in return. Wouldn’t you agree, this...
