The Secret Healing Power of Water.

The Secret Healing Power of Water.
Scientist have shown that about 75% of our body make up is water, while only 25% of this is solid which dissolves in them.
These goes a long way in showing that without water man cannot survive.
The human body is made up of trillions of cells with about 80% being water.
The amount of water varies from about 90% in newborn to about 55% in old people.
With water occupying almost the whole of your body. It shows it has important functions. These function include
1) transportation of nutrients, acidic waste, oxygen.
2) It also plays a role in digestion.
3) It is involved in the regulation of body temperature.
4) it acts as a detoxifier

 Water as a Detoxifier:
With the amount of waste generated daily by our body. The body has devised a means of eliminating these waste, through the kidney, our skin and the rectum. All these process require lot of water. Hence, for optimal development, the  water used for these process must be replenished as fast as they are used up.
Our Body is Alkaline
Our God erected body has a natural alkaline environment but what we take in determines the pH of our body. Though the blood has a buffer which helps maintain the alkaline state of our body. Excessive intake of acidic food tends to make our body generate lots of hydrogen ion which must be eliminated from our body. Because these hydrogen ion puts lots of pressure on the kidney, heart and liver making them to become over worked. Thus water is required to eliminate them.

When water required to eliminate these waste are  in a shortfall. Our body tend to draw water from our bones and joints and muscles and redistributes them to 5 critical organs namely
*lungs
*heart
*brain
*liver
*kidney
these thus leaves the other past of the body in a shortfall which we see as pain, in our muscles, chest so on and on. 

Water Shortfall a link to Chronic Disease
This goes to show us that most of the chronic disease such as hypertension, head ache, migraine, ulcer, angina are simply a function of dehydration; when there is onset of dehydration lots of toxic substances are generated by our body as a result of non elimination of these waste which are corrosive in nature thus destroying and distorting our cells, leading sometimes to cancer. Hence what we eat and drink and our lifestyle causes over 95% of the disease.
How to eliminate dehydration and living a healthy life.
When we grow older, it becomes difficult to determine when we are thirsty as our body has developed conditioned reflex. I.e our taste buds no longer indicates when we are thirsty; hence determining the right amount of water to take in, just by how thirsty we are would be wrong. However scientist have proven that drinking at least 7 cups of water goes a long way in eliminating dehydration and also ensuring that we live a healthy life, free of most chronic disease. So put this into practice and see an outstanding improvement to your health

Simple Principles for Preventing Asthma

With the rate at which asthma is spreading among the populace, it is important for the general public to become aware of its dangers, how to prevent it and also manage this chronic illness.
Before delving into the management of asthma, lets define asthma and list out the symptoms.
Asthma can be defined as a chronic diseases which is characterized by recurring episodes of wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness and coughing particularly at night or in the morning.
How Severe Can it Be
Its severity can range from mild to severe and this depends on individuals; and based on how severe the attacks can be, treatment choices are made.

Factors that Predisposes one to Asthma

Several factors  has been attributed as increasing the risk of contracting asthma. These factor include
1. Exposure to Allergens such as dust mites, pollens, smoke and beta blockers.
2. Genetic factors: scientist has shown that asthmatic gene can be passed down from parent to offspring

Having dealt with factors that predisposes one to contracting asthma. It is important to note that asthma is preventable.

Preventing Asthma
For those kids with family history of asthma, preventing asthma involves avoiding exposure to triggers such as dust mites, cockroaches, cat e.t.c while for adults avoiding exposure to smoke or chemicals in our workplace is helpful.

Determining if You are Asthmatic.
Though diagnosis of asthma could be difficult due to similar symptoms to diseases such as Chronic Obstructed Pulmonary Disease or Chronic Bronchitis; use of peak flow meter to measure Peak Expiratory Flow and spirometer which measures Forced Expiratory Volume in 1sec (FEV 1) alongside considering genetic factors helps improves diagnosis.
Also if a patient who is given asthmatic drugs sees remarkable improvement it is highly possible the person has asthma, however before the doctor arrives at such conclusion an array of test to determine if the patient has any previous infection should be carried out.
Managing and Controlling Asthma.

1) in order to manage asthma, patients should ensure they avoid the above listed risk factors.
2) Medication which has been prescribed to you by your doctor should be taken regularly.
3) symptoms should be monitored and if severe seek medical help.
PEF greater than 80% of personal best indicates good control.
While PEF of less than 80% may indicate sign of worsening asthma. For more info on asthma management plan visit http://www.asthma.org.uk

How to whiten our Teeth

Am sure we love to see people whose smile can simply be efficacious. A wonderful smile helps not only to breakdown barriers but also gives us a good first impression.
Most of us only think about how good our hair, face and clothes look without taking notes of our teeth.
They forget that our teeth and a smile has a way of sinking into our subconscious, long after we have left a person we have just met.
For instance, I can bet you would vividly remember a person if that person has an infectious smile. While the smile of a person with a white teeth is charming; that of someone with a discoloured teeth is simply disgusting. This is why people with discoloured teeth find it difficult to smile and their confidence level seem to diminish especially when they are expected to speak in a crowd.
This was my lot; having been addicted to eating lots of chocolate, my friends and enemies alike would poke fun at me telling me about my discoloured teeth.
What did i do?

How Dark People Avoid Cancer Causing Agents.

While it is a widely held view by scientist that fair skin people are more prone to skin cancer than dark skin people. It is advisable for dark skinned people to avoid long term exposure to sunlight. This is because while it may be easier for fair skinned people to easier to detect any complication arising from sun exposure; for dark skinned people it is more difficult, not until the damage has become devastating.

Let’s Examine why sun exposure could be dangerous

The sun rays have what we call the ultra violet rays and light rays. Among these rays the UV- rays is of much concern here. This is because the UV rays has been fingered by scientist as the ray that does much damage to the skin; leading to DNA damage and possibly skin cancer.

This is because our ozone layer; i.e that thin layer found in the atmosphere which reduces the amount of UV rays that reaches the earth surface has been depleted by man’s activities, such as the use of ozone depleting substance .

Listed below is the dangerous effect of excessive sun exposure

Relationship between Yoghurts and Cancer

I just read an article about dairy produce and its relationship with cancer. This relationship has established way back in 1989 by Dr Daniel Cramer of Havard University. In his study, he recorded in details the diets of over a hundred women with ovarian cancer and he discovered that they all took yoghurt. This much was also confirmed by Professor Jane Plant, a previous victim of breast cancer who was able to overcome the disease through the help of dietary regulation. The implementation of a new diet plan enabled her live the good life, as she became perfectly healthy.

Chinese Diet and Cancer Prevention.

According to her even with chemotheraphy treatment there was no positive reduction on the cancerous lump untill she changed her diet to strictly plant based diets which is readily found in chinese foods. After she had disposed off yoghurt and other dietary produce from her meal she discovered shrinkage in the lump size and disappearance of lump completely after 6weeks.

Recommending Chinese Diet for cancer patients

With this hind sight, it has been shown that Chinese diet are good in the fight against cancer, as they contain lots of anti oxidants; which enable a one maintain the health of their body as it helps in detoxifying our body system.

Importance of Vegetables/Fruits in Cancer Treatment.

Fruits are known to be rich in flavonoids and anti-oxidants which helps in boosting our immunity. So incorporating it into our diet will enable us beat breast cancer. However, women should not forget to go for breast cancer screening once every 3years between age 20 to 29 and when above 40 once every year.

Living the Good Life"How Working Ladies Can live it"

Annie as a goal getting, young enterprising lady loved to live the good life. But her career with its demands had taken a heavy toll on her youthful body.
Beneath her outward appearance was a worried lady, who complained about falling ill often. This is a common occurrence in our society today. A painful reminder about life struggles, about being successful even at the cost of our health. But, this ought not to be so.
How then do we combine life struggles whilst being healthy?
Below are some useful tips for living a good life
Drinking Lots of Water
By drinking lots of water, especially in morning before eating anything, we do our body system a lot of good. This is because, water as great detoxifier help cleans the body system by removing a lot toxic substance from our body while also gives our skin a healthy glow.

Eating Coconut
Eating of coconut will enable one live a healthy life. This is because it has the ability of boosting energy and endurance. It does this by quickly creating a nutritional boost of energy that last. It also softens the skin and improve insulin secretion.

Knowing that You are Stressed Up
For working ladies who hope to reduce stress, they must recognise that they have stress and endeavour to take a break from anything that would put them under great strain.Having adequate sleep and eating a balanced diet would help a lot, as adequate sleep helps rejuvenates the body system.

Laugh a More Often
Make genuine laughter a part of you, by interacting with people who are humorous. Or if you feel thats so difficult. Visit any cinema of your choice, and watch movies which you feel will make you relax, "I suggest comedy". This is because laughter that comes from the heart,has the ability to relieve us of stress and also remove years from our age; making us appear younger.

Avoid Cigarettes and Alcohol
avoid cigarettes, alcohol and other triggers, by keeping from pubs where smoking is allowed. If you are already an addict seek for counseling.

and finally have a positive view about life sidelining negative thoughts, which are usually 'strain bringers'

Advantages and disadvantages of Organic Food

What food should you buy is it organic or non organic.
This is one question that begs for an answer. This is because most food out their are non organic.
 

What do i mean by non organic foods? Non organic foods are food which are produced through the application of pesticides and use of in organic fertilizers e.g NPK 15:15:15. These foods can harmful because sometimes even after washing, the pesticides still remains,
But the obvious advantages of non organic over organic is they are cheap to produce compared to the later.
So for a family which is trying to cut cost organic food seem to be the least obvious choice. So is this necessarily a plus for non organic. It is left for you to choose.
The purpose of this article is to inform you about the pros and con of organic food and inorganic food.
Organic food are also easily affected by bacteria compared to non organic food. This is because most organic farmers are lack the required technology and so are less efficient in getting there produce to the market. But the obvious advantages of organic over inorganic is that
the food are superior in mineral content than non organic food.
The food contain little or no pesticides that may result in cancer, and other harmful disease.
The food also taste better than non organic as organic food have higher specific density than non organic. Also note that some non organic are easily susceptible to intake of pesticides than others. Some of them include apples, cherries, grapes, peaches and pears . These foods are not advisable to be eaten as organic version are preferably despite the cost. To view the list of organic food you ought to buy you can visit www.robin.hubpages.com/hub/organic

Millet is a grain which bears a resemblance to maize but is tinier in appearance. This highly nutritious plant can be found in ghana, nigeria, india and many other countries. It is not an acid forming food, and contains high amount of fibre and B vitamins as well as phosphorus, potassium and magnesium.
Prevention of Gall Stone
It is this presence of fibre in millet, that helps prevent gall stones by speeding intestinal transit time and also reducing secretion of bile acid which has been fingered as leading cause of gall stones.
Other Benefit of Millet
Millet has also been attributed to weight reduction, lower elevated cholesterol and fat in the blood and also good heart health. This is because it reduces homocysteine level in the blood.

Health Benefits of Banana(medical usage)

Banana, a crop which grows in parts of west africa is a highly nutritious plant containing potassium, sodium, calcium and iron.

The Health Benefit of Banana Fruit.
The banana fruit through stimulation of hemoglobin production can help prevent anemia.

Its fruits has also been associated with the regulation of blood pressure because it has a high content of potassium.

In nigeria, hypercholesteroliemia a condition in which levels of cholesterol in the blood are more than normal has been treated using dried banana pulp.

Lectin, a chemical substance that can be found in banana has been suggested to have the ability to block HIV-1 Cellular entry.

Based on this, banana lectin is a potential chemical component that would be used as a microbicide against sexual transmission of HIV virus.

Eating More to Lose weight.

For many, the matter is how they can eat to their satisfaction, while also losing weight.  

This is because most of the literature on weight loss prescribes for eating less and appropriately so, a means required to lose weight.

However, most people who suffer from obesity have difficulty following the above suggestion.

This should however not give them sleepless night on how to bring their weight down.

Experts have shown that some food have higher ability to keep people from feeding hungry. So, in our quest to pursue weight loss formula that works we need to incorporate such food in our diet

Food that contain hunger faster than other

These stable foods such as potatoes, fish, oats, apples, orange, millet, whole wheat and beans enable one to become easily full.

Reason why potatoes, fish makes one easily full

The reason is because these foods have high fibre content, as well as proteins and other chemical compounds

Health Action For Children

Feeding problems in children can be a very big upset to family life. Because of this parents are usually worried about the impact this may have on their children. Its important to state that this disorder has the ability to cause poor mental and physical development of a child. Proper nutrition can lead to enduring, good eating habit and the wellness of child. Therefore feeding problem is an important issue which need to be tackled if  a child is to live a good and healthy life.
Feeding problem
feeding problems include but is not restricted to the following.;
insistence on a particular meal while rejecting other food
total refusal to eat or eating insufficient quantity of food.
Lose of appetite on seeing either of the parents leaving the house.
Solutions
some useful tips which may enable parents handle this problems are listed below:
parents should not force their children to take in meals which they do not like, as this reduces their appetite.
Eating in between meals could be helpful to a child.
When a child feeds poorly offer to him less of that food as the child may likely ask for more.
Encourage the child to feed by itself, while leaving for a while. When back do not scold the child no matter the outcome instead put on a smile.
Prevent children from watching TV while eating as this could lead to loss in concentration.
Fat children should be offered less fatty food which they like frequently . Ensure family fighting do not occur in front of the children as this could cause loss of appetite.
Its important to understand the basis of child nutrition as they grow from infancy until they reach teenage age. Thus the parents become properly informed so as not to make mistakes but rather healthy choices, which would enable the children have healthy feeding habit.