27 Health Tips

27 Health Tips - Practical Health Guides

This booklet contains 27 selected health tips compiled by the editors of PRACTICAL HEALTH GUIDES.They are effective and easy to follow.
Many are based on recent research, while others were known in ancient times.
But they have all been proven to be effective.
So keep this guide close at hand and make the advice it offers a part of your daily life.

Did you know that just walking for 30 minutes, 3 or 4 times a week is enough to combat aging?
According to researchers at the University of California, one of the principle causes of deterioration of the human organism's physical faculties is its diminished ability to metabolize glucose.
And they showed that even leisurely exercise, like taking a walk, plays an important role in keeping glucose metabolism functioning smoothly.

Do you spend the whole day sitting at your desk or in front of a computer screen?
Why not get up occasionally and do a few minutes of physical exercise?
Don't worry about what other people think.In some Japanese companies, it is even become a collective habit.
Every twenty minutes a bell sounds, and everybody gets up to do some stretching exercises, after which they sit down again as if nothing had happened.
Japanese managers are convinced that their employees are more productive when they are relaxed.It is okay to worry, but at the right time.
Psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania tell patients who suffer from anxiety to regularly do a daily twenty minute "worry session," always at the same time and in the same place.
Collect your head full of worries during the day (don't suppress them!) and then pour them out during your daily worry session.
Exaggerate your worries to the point of absurdity - knit your brows, make faces, let the sweat flow, shake and cower as much as you like.In other words, make a caricature of the part of yourself that is always worried, and in so doing exorcise it.
Eliminating worry will help prevent numerous psychosomatic illnesses, which result from living in a state of permanent anxiety.If you sleep on your stomach or on your left side, you are putting pressure on your heart with the extra body weight, while the heart has to continue pumping blood as usual.
This additional burden wears the heart out more quickly.
Think about it - you spend more than one third of your life sleeping!
To reduce the strain on your heart, sleep on your right side, or on your back.
This simple technique will add years to your life.
If you smoke, you can greatly reduce the risk of contracting cancer by drinking carrot juice.
This according to the German Doctor Hans Nieper, founder of Eumatabolic Medicine, a new alternative mode of treatment which has become very popular in Germany.
The carotene found especially in carrots prevents and can even cure cancer.
Dr. Nieper states, "If you smoke 60 cigarettes a day but drink 4 glasses of carrot juice, you will still be less prone to contract cancer than someone who doesn't smoke but who doesn't drink carrot juice."
Of course, if you don't smoke and do drink carrot juice all the better!
Avoid eye problems caused by T.V. and monitors
The eye was not made to be constantly focused on close objects.
If your work requires that you stare at a computer screen all day long or if you watch a lot of television, stop from time to time to do a few eye exercises.
For example, roll your eyes in large circles in both directions; look over to each side as far as possible and then go from up to down; or scan an imaginary text on the wall from left to right; or look out the window as far as you can following the horizon then return to a point right in front of you and begin again.
In this way, you will avoid long term eye problems, you will enlarge your inner space, and relax both your eyes and your mind.
Asthma partially obstructs the bronchial tubes, making breathing difficult.
The cause of asthma is still not known.
But if you are an asthma sufferer, you can, through natural means, considerably reduce the number of asthma attacks you get.
A placebo study has shown that asthmatics who consume 1 gram of vitamin C per day had 4 times fewer attacks.
As for magnesium, it also works wonders!
Dr. Zack H. Haddad of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southern California conducted a study on thirty children suffering from asthma associated with allergies.
Twenty of them drank a daily amount of mineral water rich in magnesium, while the others received no magnesium supplement.
After three months, the first group had a higher level of magnesium in their blood, and they were able to breathe more easily.
So taking vitamin C and magnesium is an excellent way to prevent asthma attacks.
But what can you do to breathe more easily during an attack?
Simply drink 2 or 3 cups of strong coffee.
By activating blood circulation, it eases respiratory blockage.
Before doing anything, make sure you don't do what you absolutely shouldn't: rub or press the eye, lift the eyelid, or remove contact lenses without washing your hands.
Tears and natural eye movements will usually get rid of the irritation.You can pull on the skin around the eyes, but don't touch the eyelid.
· If this doesn't work, wash your hands, and then lift both the upper and lower eyelids to locate the irritant.
If you have liver spots, it is up to you to get rid of them.
So much has been said in praise of Vitamin C. So it is not surprising that it is also effective in treating allergic reactions like hayfever.
We recommend taking Vitamin C in the form of ascorbate rather then ascorbic acid.
When taken in ascorbic acid form, it can cause gastro-intestinal disorders.To fight an allergic reaction, you should consume up to 8 grams.
Start with a dose of 3 grams. Every three hours, take another 1 or 2 grams, until the symptoms disappear completely.
The condition is not dramatically serious, but it does bloat the stomach and can prove embarrassing (stomach gurgles, etc.)
How to prevent it?
Above all chew your food properly and savor it fully.
Swallowing too much is a direct cause of aerophagy.
Don't drink a lot when you eat.
Avoid tobacco and alcohol, cabbage, radishes, doughy bread, strong spices and bubbly drinks.
Don't eat food that is too hot or too cold.
And pay attention to the kinds of food you eat together: make a note of any combination that seems to provoke an attack and avoid it in future.
Heartburn usually results from excess acidity in the stomach, or from improper functioning of your digestive system.
At the point where the esophagus and stomach join, a special muscle opens and closes the esophagus.
When we swallow food this muscle relaxes to let the food pass into the stomach after which it closes again.
But it can happen that the muscle malfunctions.
The contents of the stomach then rise back up the esophagus, irritating the area.
And this results in the infamous feeling of heartburn.
Avoid acidic foods (lemons, etc.), alcohol, fat or fried food, food that is overcooked, coffee, juice, tomato base products and chocolate.
Rather, observe which foods bring on heartburn and avoid them.
Also, don't go to sleep right after eating (you should eat supper around 7 o'clock) and don't smoke, especially after meals.
If we offered you a miracle remedy that prevents cardiac disease, certain types of cancer, diabetes, obesity, tooth decay and varicose veins, would you buy it?
But it is not a recent discovery and you won't find it in a pharmacy but at the grocery store.
A study conducted in Holland on 871 men, over a period of ten years, showed that subjects who had a low fiber diet were three times more susceptible to mortal disease - causes notwithstanding than those who ate a lot of fiber (Future Youth).
This said, it cannot be confirmed at present that fiber prevents the above mentioned diseases in all cases.
But there is conclusive proof that they occur more frequently in populations with low fiber diets which is precisely the case in the west.
According to The Lancet (the British Medical Journal) a diet which contains at least 37 grams of fiber per day (the equivalent of one cup of bran, one apple, one potato and a half cup of cooked spinach) can effectively protect the organism against chronic illnesses common to western society.
So fiber is useful in combatting many disorders besides constipation.
Notably white bread (since fiber is removed in white flour), beef, pork, chicken, milk, butter, cheese, sugar, processed meats, desserts, fish, seafood and noodles.
· Whole grains: barley, whole wheat (you should eat whole wheat bread because of the bran it contains), oats, corn.
Note that there are numerous types of fiber, and that you should alternate between them.
For example, the fiber contained in apples and the fiber in cereals are both essential, since they don't have the same digestive function.
· First cut down on saturated fats.
Select lean cuts and ask your butcher to cut off the fat.
· Drink skim milk instead of whole milk.
Do the same for all dairy products.
Note that vegetarians have a much lower cholesterol level (almost twice as low as average) which is perfectly understandable, since cholesterol is only found in products derived from animals.
Not more than two glasses a day.
However, it does appear that drinking a moderate amount of alcohol raises the number of HDL lipids (the good ones!), which break down cholesterol.(Moderation = two 4 oz. glasses of wine or two 12 oz. beers.)
· Do regular exercise, for example walking.
· Take Vitamin E. It reduces the risk of coronary disease.
· Calcium brewer's yeast, Vitamin C and Vitamin B-6 also combat the accumulation of cholesterol.and angina (as well as psoriasis, anxiety and diabetes - and reduces the likelihood of contracting cancer).
Losing weight is a good way to raise your HDL level.
· Use poly-unsaturated, non-hydrogenated, cold pressed oil: corn oil, sunflower seed oil, soy, flax etc.
· Daily consumption of fish would be ideal for preventing cardio-vascular problems, as demonstrated conclusively in a number of studies on fish-eating populations (Eskimos for example).
Prepare an infusion (tea) preferably using the fresh plant: 3 1/2 tablespoons of roots per quart of water.
It aids digestion and the elimination of intestinal gas, it soothes stomach cramps, aerophagy, dyspepsia (contractions of the digestive organs, dizziness and a heavy feeling after eating).
· Calcium supplements (1 gram per day) and magnesium (500 milligrams) can help reduce anxiety (always take both).
Applied to a wound, it can prevent infection by helping white blood corpuscles and fresh oxygen surround the area more quickly.


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