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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December 17th, 2009 by Astri

Do you like to consume a chocolate ? Maybe you’ve heard the name of dark chocolate, or maybe you are one who loved dark chocolate. Dark chocolate also known as sweet chocolate. It only contained 15 % liquor, as well as sweeteners and cocoa butter. Dark chocolate is good for your body health. Many of the benefits you can get by consuming dark chocolate. Such as :

1. Lowers high blood presure.
2. Lower cholesterol.
3. Heart and cardiovascular symtem running well.

Dark chocolate can speed up your heart beat and increases your brain activity. Chemicals contained in chocolate will react with your body chemistry, so that can give you feel pleasure and well being. Dark chocolate can also help you to relieve stress.

December 13th, 2009 by Astri

This time we’ll talk about the virus. What do you think about the virus? The virus one of the most horrible things in the world of health for me. Until now the virus is still difficult to be killed by using drugs. The most appropriate way to deal with this virus is by preventing our body from the virus. Increasing endurance of the body is one way to prevent the outbreak of the virus and disease. The following tips will help you to improve endurance of the body, in order to avoid virus attacks and disease, especially at the turn of the season.

1. Nutritious Food

Improve your diet. Eating foods that contain nutrients, especially vegetables and fruits. Make sure the food that you eat is cooked hygienic and clean. If you feel the daily diet is not adequate nutritional needs, you can consume a supplement vitamin as a solution.
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December 5th, 2009 by Astri

If you find it hard to sleep at night, maybe you suffer from insomnia. Stress, mood bedroom that does not support, anxiety and the wrong food can cause insomnia. To overcome this problem, the following tips will help you to create a good sleep quality.

Consumption of foods containing tryptophan.

To be able to sleep soundly, your body requires a substance called tryptophan. Tryptophan function produces serotonin that can relax the nerves in the brain centers. If brain has to relax, you can sleep easily. You can eat low carbohydrate foods such as biscuits, muffins and fruit.

Herbal Tea

With a cup of herbal tea before bed, it will also help you to sleep soundly. Avoid beverages containing caffeine such as coffee, chocolate and soft drinks.

Time To Meal

Interval of time to eat with sleep that too close is not good for your body’s metabolism. You can go sleep after two hours from the last meal at night. In this way, you can maintain your weight, because sleep after a big meal will save a lot of fat. If you are really hungry at night, you can choose wheat cereal mixed with milk. Then you can go to sleep after one hour from eating these foods.

December 3rd, 2009 by Astri

Do you like ice cream? Hmmm ….Ice creams are delicious food. Even so, without you knowing it, turns out delicious food like burgers and ice cream can hypnotize you to not stop eating. Basically, people will stop eating when they had to feel enough. But, if you eat delicious food, it will be difficult to stop until your stomach cannot accept it anymore.

Ice Cream

According to the research, the fat molecules in the ice-cream can trigger your brain to send messages to the body’s cells and then ignore the signals from appetite-suppressing hormone. As a result, you will be hard to stop eating.