August 23rd, 2010 by Astri

Are you thirsty? You always deal it with the soft drink? Does the soft drink can resolve your thirst ? I think not. In fact, now you must reduce the soft drink or better if you do not consume them at all. The expert’s research said that soft drink can disrupt your health. You need to consider about the dangers of soft drinks, such as:

Soft Drink Never Eliminate Your Thirst

Soft drinks are not like water, which needed the body. If you continue to consume soft drink without balanced it with water, then this will lead the chronic dehydration, and the body becomes weak. It can weaken the immune system.

Soft Drink Can Destroy The Essential Minerals in The Body

The soft drinks contain a high level of Phosphoric acid that can destroy the essential minerals and vitamins in the body. If the body deficiency vitamins and minerals, it can cause heart disease, osteoporosis and other chronic diseases. Vitamins did not function optimally without minerals. In addition, the soft drink can also disrupt the function of digestive and other organs.
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May 22nd, 2010 by Astri

The nature of forgotten is a big problem in our lives. For example, you often forget when searching for goods. Of course you will waste a lot of time and energy to remember and search for the goods. It will be creating bad emotions on yours, and probably also will get a scolding from others. Worse yet, if you forget the important things to do. Not only your work was delayed, but you have the possibility of getting fired from your workplace. Facts prove that our brain’s memory would be reduced when we get older. What should be done to prevent forgetfulness? You do not need to worry, this problem can be reduced by brain’s training. The brain is divided into the right brain and left brain. Right brain associated with creativity, imagination, color, shape, emotion, music and long-term memory. Left brain is associated with logic, writing, intelligence, numbers, calculation, analysis and short-term memory. Some of the techniques below will help you to train the brain functions.

Total Number Technique

Total number technique used to remember the numbers. Because the right brain does not recognize text or numbers, then you can change the order of the numbers as stories. Suppose you want to remember the number 007, you can change by the word – James Bond (007). This method will make you more creative in creating a short story and create imagination. This will increasingly be honed when you add color, motion and other things in your imagination. This will be a good exercise for the right brain that can spur creativity and optimize your brain.
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March 22nd, 2010 by Astri

For most of people, osteoporosis become a frightening specter. Whereas actually, we do not need to worried about, if knowing what we need to do for avoid the disease. Below are 6 easy steps to prevent osteoporosis.

1. Enough Calcium

To provide 800-1000 mg/day adults calcium requirement, you need to note the consumed food. One of calcium source is milk. Two glasses of milk a day, able to provide the body’s need for calcium. Or you prefer choose other calcium source, such as fish, meat, poultry, eggs, vegetables, fruits and nuts.

2. Beware of Medicine Used

Because some drugs can interfere with the bone performance. Drugs such as antacids, laxatives, diuretic drugs, anti-gout and anti-rheumatic, have a disturbing effect of calcium absorption.
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March 13th, 2010 by Astri

Did you know that we often do bad habits that can accelerates aging. And you need to recognize the bad habits are, so that aging can be prevented. There are some unhealthy behaviors you need to know and avoid.

1. Drinking Alcohol

You better confine drinking alcohol to avoid the health problems, such as heart attacks, liver cancer, throat cancer and breast cancer. And the alcoholic beverages can stimulate the wrinkle on skin.

2. Less Exercise

If we get less exercises, it will trigger the health problems. To prevent it, you must do the exercise regularly. If you do that, you can reduce the health problems like overweight. If you cannot take the time to exercise, you can do by changing your daily habits. If you usually park your vehicles near the office, you can try to park at a distance place from office. So, you can walk to your office. In addition, you can choose the manually stairs instead of the elevator. Thus, you will be healthier.

3. Excessive Stress

Excessive stress can cause premature aging. To fix this, you can do the exercises of diaphragmatic breathing regularly. You can take the time to do activities that you like. Thus, it can reduce stress.
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March 3rd, 2010 by Astri

Maybe you still think, that wine consuming could be bad for our health. But read the reasons below, would make a different assumed about wine consumption.

Increase Bone Strength

Wine can increase your bone strength. Wine consumption will reduce the risk of fractures, it is because alcohol increases estrogen and other hormones that are essential for bone strength.

Protecting Your Heart

People who regularly drank one glass of wine a day, have a risk of heart disease less than those who do not consume wine.

Increase Your Insulin sensitivity

By consuming wine, you can increase the body’s insulin sensitivity. More effective your body responds to the insulin hormone, the lower your chances to get diabetes.

February 5th, 2010 by Astri

Working in a comfortable and quiet place be the desire of each person. Working hard can make you get stress. If your workplace has a problem with an unpleasant smell, certainly the possibility to get stress can be greater. In addition, you also felt uncomfortable in the work, because the unpleasant odor, worsening the tension in your workload.

The best solution to reduce stress at work is with the help of aromatherapy. Inhaling natural essential oils has been shown to ease the tension of your mind and prevent the occurrence of stress.

Aromatherapy Candles

You can use the aromatherapy candles on your office. There are various options of smell that can you choose. For a calming effect, you can choose an aromatherapy candle with lavender scent.

Aromatherapy oil

If you feel less secure with a burning candle, because maybe can cause fires if not placed in a safe place, you can use aromatherapy oils. You can choose aromatherapy oil with the jasmine scent, chamomile or other soothing scent.
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February 3rd, 2010 by Astri

Creating a healthy body cannot be separated from the foods that we consume. You need the foods that contain of many nutrients to forming the strong and healthy body. It’s like the health of skin. The skin requires a healthy diet such as healthy fats, proteins and vitamins that right from fruits and vegetables.

Green Tea and Almond

You have already known the benefits of green tea. Green tea contains antioxidants that can make your skin look healthy and young. By consuming three cups of green tea a day, you can prevent premature aging of the skin. In addition, green tea can prevent skin cancer and skin inflammation. As an alternative, you can consume a handful of almonds every day. Almond has levels of vitamin E that good for your skin rejuvenate, and moisturize dry skin.

Broccoli

Broccoli is rich in vitamin A that very beneficial for reducing oil production in the skin. Broccoli also contains vitamin C, which is useful for preventing premature aging because it contains a powerful antioxidant. It also contains vitamin K, which is helpful to prevent bruising of the skin.
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January 14th, 2010 by Astri

Probably most of us never realized about unhealthy lifestyles while in office. Just think back, eight hours of sitting in a chair in front of the computer, for five days a week, this would bring the risk to your health. As a result of sitting for hours and hours to produce tension eye, stiff neck muscles and also overweight because of unhealthy food that we consume. Now we give the best 10 tips to stay healthy while in the office.

1. Avoid Sweet Foods

Snacks provided by your coworkers can add thousand of calories, if you are not careful it will ruin your diet and weight gain.

So if you know your coworker has a candy or chocolate on his/her desk, Surround your friends table to stay away from temptation, that is the dentist suggested from the American Dietetic Association. Rest for a moment, take a deep breath, and remove the desire to eat sweet foods. If you are hungry, better to consume fruit.
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December 23rd, 2009 by Astri

Are you in pregnancy now? What about the health of your gums? Did you know that gum problems can affect your baby’s health? A beautiful smile and white teeth are not a guarantee that people’s teeth and gums are in good health. People who diligently brushing teeth are not always having healthy gums and manicured. Usually they are more concerned to the dental than for the gums.

Lack of maintenance gums can cause plaque, and if not quickly treated can cause gingivitis. This disease can damage another teeth buffer network, characterized by swelling of the gums, the emergence of the gap between the teeth and gums. If the gums get down, can cause bacteria enter to the nest between tooth and gums. Not only that, the bones which form the basis would be susceptible to infection, so the tooth will easily be broken.

If gingivitis is not treated immediately, can lead to infection. If that is happened, the bacteria can enter the bloodstream and cause various diseases such as stroke, diabetes, heart disease, and cause the babies can be born prematurely or with a body weight less than the standard size.

December 19th, 2009 by Astri

How do you feel when you are being at the age of 30 years and over? Did you start questioning about your skin aging? But, do you know that there is food that can inhibit the rate of aging of your skin at the age of 30. Fruits and vegetables are the best foods to keep your skin fresh and healthy, even though you grow older age. To control aging in your skin, you should consume fruits and vegetables properly.

Balanced Nutrition

You have to note the food that you consume. Choose foods with balanced nutrition. Fruits and vegetables are a good source of nutrition for the body and skin health. You can add vegetable proteins and vitamins to supplement your nutritional needs. Eat almonds to enhance the intellectual and make a beautiful skin. Avoid eating too many chips. At the age of thirty, you also have to reduce the amount of red meat consumption. To reduce the risk of heart disease, you can cook food with olive oil.
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