Archive for May, 2009
The Best Kept Diet Secret
Submitted by Natural Remedies
What’s the best kept diet secret? The right soups tame the dieter’s worst enemy: hunger.
Imagine a typical lunchtime meal – say, chicken and vegetables with a glass of water.
If you eat the food and drink the water, you will feel full for a couple of hours before hunger kicks in. But if [...]
For Summer Sunburn: 10 Natural, Safe Food and Herbal Remedies
Submitted by Natural Remedies
Sunburn is better avoided than treated, but here are five food and five herbal remedies to soothe the pain, inflammation, redness, and discomfort if it happens.
When summer arrives, sunburn often isn’t far behind. Perhaps you forget to put on your sunscreen, or you don’t put enough on, or maybe you’re someone who [...]
How to Avoid Dementia
Submitted by Natural Remedies
A new study suggests that an effective way to ward off Alzheimer’s disease is to keep working.
Keeping the brain active by working later in life may be an effective way to ward off Alzheimer’s disease, research suggests.
Researchers analysed data from 1,320 dementia patients, including 382 men.
They found that for the men, continuing [...]
Low-Fat Dieting Can Lead to Depression
Submitted by Natural Remedies
Not everyone is aware that the “scientific consensus” that fat is bad for you was wrong. Some people - particularly women - are still trying to lose weight by limiting fats, which leads to mood problems like depression.
The subject of dietary fat is always one of controversy - fat is good, fat [...]
Binge Drinking Increases Risk of Dementia
Submitted by Natural Remedies
While a little wine may help you live longer, heavy alcohol consumption increases the risk of dementia later in life, especially for women.
Heavy drinking may be to blame for one in four cases of dementia. Doctors have linked alcohol intake to the development of the brain-wasting condition in between 10 and 24% [...]
5 Minutes to Whole-Body Rejuvenation
Submitted by Natural Remedies
This video demonstrates a stretch that targets the hips, which in turn increases circulation and vibrancy throughout your whole body. You can participate by sitting in a chair, wearing whatever you happen to be wearing (although if that includes a belt, loosen it slightly first to breathe and move more easily).
Rating 3.00 [...]
The Best and Worst Brain Foods
Submitted by Natural Remedies
Food is the ultimate natural remedy since we have to eat. Here’s a list of the best and worst foods to eat to for performing various mental tasks.
If you want to make the right decisions in confusing times—Time to refinance? Explore a different career? Root for the singing spinster or the 12-year-old?—you [...]
Want to Live Longer? Drink a Little Wine
Submitted by Natural Remedies
A new study finds that drinking a little wine each day boosts men’s life expectancy by five years.
Men who regularly drank up to a half a glass of wine each day boosted their life expectancy by five years, Dutch researchers report.
Light, long-term alcohol consumption of all types of beverages, whether wine, spirits [...]
12 Foods Every Pantry Should Have
Submitted by Natural Remedies
“Recipes for Health” author Martha Rose Sulman lists twelve foods every pantry should have, so you will always be able to throw together a good, healthful meal.
In her online series for The New York Times, “Recipes for Health” author Martha Rose Shulman offers delicious foods that also reflect scientific thinking about health. [...]
