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| Miracle Cup: The
Health Benefits of Green Tea |
How
Do You Fit A Miracle In A Cup?
For 4,000 years, the
Chinese people have been using green tea as treatment for everything
from headaches to depression.
Today, studies are
conducted in Asia and the west in order to produce hard evidence of the
health benefits of green tea. In the 1994 edition of the Journal of
National Cancer Institute, the results of an epidemiological study
stated that one of the health benefits of drinking green tea is that it
can reduce the risk of esophageal cancer in Chinese men and women by up
to 60%.
The rich presence of
catechin polyphenols, particularly epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) is
the reason why green tea has so much health benefits. A powerful
antioxidant, EGCG can not only inhibit the growth of cancer cells but
can also destroy them without harming healthy cells.
The University of
Purdue has also concluded a research on how a certain compound present
in green tea can stop cancer cells from growing. Still another health
benefit of green tea is its ability to lower down cholesterol levels
and improve the ratio between good (HDL) cholesterol and bad (LDL)
cholesterol.
The EGCG in green
tea is a health benefit substance that can lower down LDL cholesterol
levels and stop blood from forming abnormal clots (thrombosis), a
leading cause of heart attacks and strokes.
Green tea has more
health benefits compared to other Chinese teas like oolong and black
tea, all of which come from the plant Camellia sinensis. What makes
green tea different is the process by which it is made. Green tea owes
much of its health benefits to how the Camellia sinensis leaves are
steamed. The steam process keeps the EGCG health benefit of green tea
from oxidizing. With oolong and black teas, however, the leaves are
fermented instead of being steamed, thus causing the EGCG health
benefit to transform into another less medicinally potent form.
Aside from medicinal
value, green tea can also offer other health benefits, especially in
the fitness field. Drinking green tea can cause a person to burn down
more calories. A recent study on the health benefits of green tea shows
that the drink can help dieters. According to the American Journal of
Clinical Nutrition in 1999, men who take both caffeine and green tea
burn down more calories than men who only take caffeine or a placebo.
Another health
benefit of green tea is its bacteria-destroying properties. The health
benefit of green tea in this area is that it can help prevent food
poisoning and also prevent tooth decay. The substances found in green
tea kill the bacteria causing food poisoning and those that cause
dental plaque to form.
Well known for its
countless medicinal and health benefits, green tea is nothing short of
a miracle.
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| Nine Myths About
Acne And Acne
Treatment |
The Truth About Acne
Reports show that over 90 percent of all adolescents and almost 25
percent of all adults are acne sufferers. And although acne affects
about 50 percent of all adult women, acne does affect males and females
worldwide, regardless of nationality.
This report an, extract from "Ultimate Acne Relief" includes
information based upon research about acne. It strives to help clear up
myths from facts and present an overview of the issues surrounding acne
along with possible solutions available to help with the prevention and
treatment of acne, all based upon the most recent studies, reports,
articles and findings available, so that you can learn more acne health
care.
For example, does chocolate really cause pimples? And how about oily
foods? Do French fries bring on the acne? The latest reports show that
although scientific evidence is not 100% accurate in this area, your
diet does not directly cause acne. And by diet, this means not only
chocolate and French fries, but also any other dietary combinations
with sugar and oil or other ingredients.
The real cause of acne can actually be a blend of several factors that
we’ll discuss here. Note that the contents here are not presented from
a medical practitioner, and that any and all health care planning
should be made under the guidance of your own medical and health
practitioners. The content within only presents an overview of acne
research for educational purposes and does not replace medical advice
from a professional physician.
In a nutshell, a few simple steps occur that cause skin blemishes.
First, acne occurs when for some unknown reason or combination of
reasons, hair follicles, also known as pores, become blocked.
Although the exact combination of reasons that pores become clogged may
not be fully known, many contributing elements for teenagers and adults
alike can include; genetics (whether or not there is a history of acne
problems and if so, to what extent), hormones, dietary and vitamin make
up (or lack of /deficiency) and stress related factors.
Other denominators could include factors like how your body normally
rids itself of its dead skin cells and influences that may be working
against this regularity (for example climate and other environmental
forces or overall body health at the time) and your hormones and their
effect on your own body’s sebum production (especially for females).
Second, the normal dead skin cells that combine with your body’s
natural sebum oil as it drains through the skin’s surface become
clogged in these blocked pores. This substance becomes somewhat sticky,
further clogging the passageway.
Third, bacteria begins to grow around these clogged areas. As a normal
reaction your, your body’s white blood cells attack the bacteria,
fighting it and pushing it out of the body.
And forth, the resulting growths during this 14-day to 21-day battle
are called Microcomedones. Microcomedones turn into Comedones, commonly
referred to as blemishes, pimples or acne.
There are basically four types of acne, whiteheads, blackheads, pimples
and nodules. Whiteheads are when the sebum (oil) and resulting bacteria
are trapped below the skin’s surface and you can actually see a white
head appear above (or near popping out of) the skin.
Blackheads are when the sebum and resulting bacteria are only partially
trapped, slowly draining out the surface and turning black because of
your skin’s melanin or pigmentation.
In the absence of either white or blackhead are generally (but not
always) smaller pimples. And the often deeper, boil-like lesions are
referred to as nodules.
All forms of acne can be mild, moderate or severe. Typically, mild acne
is visible in the form of whiteheads and blackheads, sometimes pimples.
With moderate acne, more pimples and pustules are present on the face,
some may appear on the back or chest. And with severe acne, many
nodules develop, often large and sore, over parts of the face, back,
chest and other body areas.
This type of acne can lead to scarring. Actually, lesser cases of acne
have been followed by scarring. So for those with possible nodular
acne, seeking advice from a healthcare provider as soon as possible is
recommended.
A gender issue to note is that males more often have the severe form of
acne rather than females, due to their hormones. And the areas where
they tend to break out most frequently are unfortunately more difficult
to treat, the chest and back.
This has been an extract from our new e-book "Ultimate Acne Relief".
The full report contains a further in depth study of Acne and advice on
curing and preventing Acne. If you would like to receive the full
report click here.
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Lose Weight Faster And Feel Fitter
More Effectively Without Rigorous Exercise!
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How You Can Benefit
From Daily Use of Yoga Techniques
This report, including extracts from "Yoga Made Easy" includes
information based upon research about Yoga
Yoga is an ancient health-art developed and perfected over the
centuries by the Sages and Wise Men of ancient India. Yoga is not a
religion, a metaphysical doctrine, or a philosophy. Yoga can take years
off your face and years from your body--and add years to your life.
Not only does Yoga make you look and feel years younger, years
healthier, but it lends your body superb healthiness. This system of
Yoga does not demand difficult positions and postures, uncomfortable
exercises or strenuous diets. It works like magic because it enables
the body to realize its full potential of good health.
You know that Nature built into your body certain natural safeguards
against disease, certain "defense mechanisms" for self-repair. Well,
modern Yoga helps the body's machinery function smoothly, efficiently,
at peak performance. Yoga assists all your muscles and bones and organs
to operate at top masculine or female vigor. Yoga stimulates into peak
performance the latent abilities of your body to throw off the attacks
of disease, the psychosomatic "nervous illnesses" that nag and plague
millions. Yoga has the amazing power to refresh and relax you, soothe
your nerves, calm your mind, give you the serenity and strength and
inner stamina that is part of the "Magic of the East."
Yoga prevents the premature grey in your hair, the ugly wrinkles in
your face. For far too long the secret wisdom and lore of this ancient
art has been denied to men and women of the Western world. In so doing,
I have taken full cognizance of modern advances in nutrition,
vitamin-therapy, health foods, and the new systems of diet and
exercise, as well as the most recent medical knowledge and research
into methods of revitalizing the human body and halting the "aging
process."
You want a full life. You want to feel well. You want energy, vitality,
staying power. This system of Yoga applies age-old secrets to everyday
life at the modern tempo
Why Yoga?
As recently as a century ago, when the average life expectancy
throughout the Western world was less than forty years, people gave
little thought to keeping fit. Life was simply not long enough. Surgery
is capable of life-saving magic. Even as the years of our lives stretch
out longer, existence becomes infinitely more complex. The Atomic Age
is hardly a relaxed age. As for our physical conditions, as fast as the
human body is enabled, through technical advances, to last longer, it
falls prey to a new, totally different roster of ills.
It is possible for anyone who will only take the trouble to learn to
live serenely in our Age of Anxiety. The key to such well-being is Yoga.
Yoga, you say? The misconceptions about Yoga are many, and naturally
what sticks in the minds of most people is the flamboyant, or what we
might call the circus approach. True Yoga philosophy and Yoga health
practices are sane, serious, utilitarian and easily applicable to our
own daily lives.
If you are an average man or women coping with just average problems,
here is what you are doubtless up against: Your day is too short.
Heaven help you if, on top of all this, a major crisis looms. Next come
the perpetual frowns, the wrinkles, the graying hair, a general sense
of defeat and of growing old before one's time.
Think of Yoga as a tool that will help you banish fear, and the fear of
fear. For instance, proper breathing and relaxation, the very
cornerstone of all
Yoga teachings, result in deeper, more beneficial sleep and a general
sense of restfulness and well-being; and these in turn enable one to
function at the very optimum of one's abilities. So starts an entire
beneficial cycle: a healthy body means a better-functioning body, it
means added tone, improved functioning of the glands; and that in turn
means better metabolism, muscle tone, skin tone, elimination and
general vitality and vigor.
It means eyes that sparkle, hair that shines and appetites time will
not dull. As for the spiritual and mental results of Yoga practice,
these soon become manifest in a fresh ability to make the most of one's
inner resources. As one's powers of relaxation increase, there follows
an enormous improvement in concentration.
The prize, if found, was to be a promise of physical perfection without
end: beauty that did not fade, an ever-supple, lovely body, a face
without lines. For in reality it isn't _eternal _ life that man longs
for, but rather a long, good, useful life lived to the full and without
fear-- fear of pain, of dependence, of invalidism and weakness and all
the other miseries which can make old age a burden and an indignity.
Once you learn to live without tensions, you discover your own optimum
potential and are on the way, though without urgency, to live up to it;
in short, once you begin to achieve that inner harmony which will allow
you to stop living at odds with yourself, you will find your entire
viewpoint changing. People often ask, understandably enough,
whether there aren't some limitations as to the time of life when the
study of Yoga may begin. Old people may take it up as well as the
young, and even children have benefited by it.
On the other hand the very young, who with their wonderfully elastic
limbs and limber joints are often able to approach the most difficult
Yoga postures in the spirit of play, will gain little from such
practices if permitted to perform them like acrobatic stunts.
The prime purpose of Yoga is a reeducation of one's mental processes
along with the physical. Therefore, encouraging children to participate
will only serve a purpose if it will teach them the habit of relaxing,
help them grow up relaxed. Above all, always keep in mind that success
is a relative matter--a matter of degree.
What IsYoga
Let us begin with a working definition: Yoga is a method by which to
obtain control of one's latent powers. It offers the means to reach
complete Self-realization.
This the Yogis achieve by turning their thoughts inward, away from the
objective world. The literal meaning of the Sanskrit word Yoga is yoke.
Yoga is very definitely not a religion: some Yogis are deeply
religious, others are not.
The name, derived from the Sanskrit Ha, which stands for the female
principle and Tha, the male principle, implies that this Yoga may be
practiced by both men and women with the object of achieving complete
control of the body. The second important feature of Hatha Yoga is the
practice of asanas or postures. In short, we make exercise hard work.
Bear in mind that the body is always first slowly prepared for each
pose and that the limbering-up process, which each student pursues at
his own pace, is geared in such a way as not to overtax his capacities.
By the time he is ready to practice an asana, certainly by the time he
has mastered it, really is relaxing as well as beneficial. Then the
profound balance achieved by the body makes it possible for the mind to
soar.
Yoga teaches that it is essential never to overdo, never to strain and
tire. Rhythmic deep breathing is an essential part of all exercises.
Much more emphasis is put on breathing than is true of any of the
Western schools of physical culture, since the Yogis understand that
for purely physiological reasons deep breathing is a sure way to calm
the nerves, and this in turn reduces tensions and improves
concentration.
One might say that the overall reason for combining deep breathing with
asanas and mudras is that the Yogi, while purifying and disciplining
his body, aims to bring his mind, too, under similar control.
Many Western students are content with the sheer physical well-being
they are able to achieve, with no concern at all for the second aim,
which is for mental and spiritual discipline.
Hatha Yoga, in common with other Yoga schools, teaches certain rules of
conduct, or yamas. This chanting is done in conjunction with deep
breathing, which admittedly does arrest mind-wandering so that the
practitioner becomes drawn into himself in spiritual contemplation.
There is hardly a place for it in our Western world.
In Laya Yoga the student remains perfectly still, in a profound state
of trance. As we have already mentioned, this form of Yoga is not safe
for anyone to practice who has not gained complete control over his
emotions as well as over his mental processes.
Essentially practical, Karma Yoga teaches helping others as a means of
helping one's self. Still another school is Jnana Yoga, the Yoga of
Knowledge as against that of Action. Jnana educates the mind to
perceive Self and so free itself from all forms of delusion.
Bhakti Yoga is a system of intense devotion, with emphasis on faith.
Finally we come to Raja Yoga which, translated literally, means "King
of Yogas." By then the Yogi has learned to stop his thinking processes
so completely that his consciousness is absorbed into the Infinite.
Raja Yoga may be thought of as the synthesis of all the systems of Yoga
as a whole.
Now to recapitulate: The gaining of a healthy body and a mind calm and
passive under all circumstances is common to all Yogas. Control of
one's mental processes as well as of the emotions is a basic common
goal. In our own Occidental utilitarian terms, then, Yoga techniques,
translated into Yogism, offer us the means for better Self-realization
in the realm of the physical, the mental, the emotional and the
spiritual.
This report an, extract from "Yoga Made Easy" includes
information based upon research about Yoga, if you would like further
details on how to obtain this book and video set please click here.
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