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.

November 19th, 2009 by Astri

Vacation will be fun if you enjoy it with a healthy body condition. You would not want your vacation fail just because of the declining body condition. To avoid this happening, all you have to do are:

1. Nutritious Foods

Eat 3 times a day plus healthy snacks. These healthy snacks served to maintain energy and prevent you eat too much when hungry. You also need to consume a multivitamin to maintain stamina.

2. Sleep Enough

Try to get enough sleep, with a good sleep quality, the body’s health condition will be awake.

3. Sports

You do not have to do heavy sports. You can do moderate exercise like brisk walking for 10 to 30 minutes around your house every day.
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November 13th, 2009 by Astri

Allergies can happen at any time and affect anyone regardless of age. Toddlers, children and even adults can be affected by allergies. Allergic disease emergence characterized with symptoms of red spots on the skin. Allergies can also attack the respiratory by symptoms such as sneezing, nasal congestion, runny nose, cough and shortness of breath. Although allergic diseases can affect anyone, but more often attack children. The cause of this disease is usually food, animal hair and dust. To prevent this, you can do the following things:

Food

Prevention through food, you can do by way of providing breast milk to children until the age of 8 months. Then at the age of 9 months, you can give the form of food like yolk, soy beans, green beans and fresh fish. To egg yolks, make sure you’ve cooked it. You can introduce new seafood such as shrimp and crabs at the age of 12 months. This is done because children do not have the same ability to digest food properly. If your child suffers from allergies because the consumption of cow’s milk, you can provide soy milk as a replacement.
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November 10th, 2009 by Astri

Having hair loss is a fear for a woman. Considering that hair is a beautiful crown for a woman. You will appear more confident if you have beautiful hair and healthy. So how if your hair started falling out? Do not worry, these tips will help you to cope with hair loss.

Nutritious Food

Eat nutritious foods that contain protein and iron, such as fish, eggs, yogurt, beans and soybeans. Protein is essential for hair growth. You must avoid the beverages that containing caffeine, because it is not good for hair growth.

Conditioner

You can use a conditioner that contains ginseng. Materials such as ginseng are very useful to create a strong and shiny hair that is not easily broken. When you use the conditioner, comb your hair with a comb-toothed rare. This is done so that the hair does not tangle when rinsed.

Herbal Shampoo

You can use herbal shampoo or extra mild shampoo for make your scalp more comfortable. Choose shampoo containing ginseng. This shampoo works to clean the hair from dirt and strengthen the hair shaft so that does not break easily. Do not use hot water when you wash your hair. Use cold water or lukewarm, then dry the hair with the natural winds. However, remember, do not use a hair dryer and towels. Because the scalp is very moist, so if you rub your hair with a towel, the hair will easily be dislodged from the roots.
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November 9th, 2009 by Astri

People who are overweight often do regular diet to reduce their weight. Obesity that caused by fat, not healthy for our bodies. Vice versa, has a body that is too thin is also not good for health. For you who want to gain weight healthily, the following tips will help you. All you have to do is:

1. Adding carbohydrates and proteins.

Add the food and drinks that contain many carbohydrates and high protein. You can drink one glass of milk every morning, you need to drink milk specially formulated for weight gain. Avoid foods that contain much fat. You must eat with nutrition and a balanced menu regularly.

2. Drinking supplements.

Drinking supplements that can increase appetite. However, do not easily influence by advertisements offered. Choose supplements that really legal and healthy. For this, you can consult with a health professional. Try to consume regularly the honey every morning.
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November 8th, 2009 by Astri

Cervical cancer, you are probably familiar with this term. Cervical cancer is one deadly diseases, which has claimed the lives of many women in the world. Cancer is caused by Human Papillomavirus and attack the cervix. Even based on the research, every day one life lost because of cancer. The disease is attacking the women regardless of age and professional groups. For early prevention efforts, you should know the symptoms of this cancer.

The Symptoms

1. Appetite loss and weight loss.
2. Pelvic bones and spine pain.
3. Swelling in the legs.
4. Urine accompanied by feces out from a vagina.
5. Menstruation is not normal, usually much longer and so much dirty blood comes out.
6. Arise the whitish and smell. Fluids arise containing blood with brown or pink color.

In the early stages, the disease did not show these symptoms. To detect early, you need to do a pelvic exam and pap smear tests.
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October 27th, 2009 by Astri

Buying fitness equipment may be easier than caring this device. You certainly do not want fitness equipment that you buy with an expensive price to be easily damaged just because you do not know how to care for it. To make it does not happen, the following tips may help you to take good care for your fitness equipment.

1. Electric Treadmill

To caring this fitness equipment, you should use it in accordance with the rules of its capacity. For example, if you use a 1.5 HP capacity the user weight should not exceed 100 pounds. Not use treadmill for more than 1 hour continually. You must maintain cleanliness of this tool and keep it from rats. Fold when not in use. You can check this equipment condition regularly every 3 months. For this purpose you can trust the technicians fitness equipment.

2. Manual Treadmill

To maintenance manual treadmill is easier than electric. You can check the batteries regularly and do not let get rusty. If the light is dim, immediately replaced. Do not forget to give lubrication regularly. Keep cleanliness of treadmill, especially at the bottom running belt. Do not forget to ensure the position of running belt remains in the center, so as not quickly broken.
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