THE NATURAL HEALTH GOODNESS OF HONEY

Everybody likes honey. The kids, mum, dad and even house pets can't seem to resist the sweet sensation of this unique, rich and all-natural golden-brown jelly. Honey can practically be used on or for anything. The health benefits of this wonderful and priceless handy-work of the ever industrious bees can never be quantified. But regretfully many are not aware of the great deal they can gain from the daily use of this gift of nature. The honey have varied tastes, either Manuta or UMT honey. It is primarily composed of sugars like glucose and fructose; minerals like magnesium, potassium, calcium, sodium, chlorine, sulphur, iron and phosphate. It also contains many vitamins like B1, B2, B6, B5, B3 and C all of which varies according to the qualities of the nectar and pollen. Besides this, it contains also in small amounts copper, iodine and zinc. Several kinds of hormones are also found in honey that are very helpful for the body. It is fat free. It is cholesterol free. An excellent choice for anybody with a dieting plan. Have you a jar of honey in your home? If no, please go get one and go with me on a honey ride of the health importance of honey.

AS QUICK SUPPLIER OF ENERGY - As monosaccharides with it's main attributes - fructose and glucose and the high osmotic pressure (osmotic value), honey as a carbonhydrate food is quickly and directly absorbed into the blood, thereby giving energy quickly to various organs and systems of the body like the brain, muscles, heart, kidney etc. This is even more possible because the absorption of fructose is faster than that of glucose.
AS NATURAL ANTISEPTIC - Honey contains anti-microbial and anti-bacterial agents which prevents infections by killing all bacteria in and around wounds. So by applying honey to your cuts, grazes as surgical dressing, you are creating a sterile medium where no bacteria will survive because honey do not accommodate bacteria. And your wound are sure to heal in no time. It is interesting to note that medical journals cite more than 600 different cases where honey have been utilized to treat wounds.
AS ANTIOXIDANT - Honey as a good source of body defenders plays a beneficial role of boosting the prevention of cancer and heart diseases. Because it is fat and sugar free, adequate and daily intake of it should cause you no harm of too much fat clogging around the heart giving you heart problems. Though honey supplies you a great deal of energy, compared to sugar, it gives your body 40% less calories. So it does not add you weight, so diabetes and obesity is out of the question. Honey is better for brain than normal sugar. The free sugar molecules of honey helps your brain, being the largest consumer of sugar, giving you the healthiest of energy to function optimally, checking fatigue. Honey helps in blood cleansing, circulation and formations. It helps and protects against capillary problems. It prevents you from having Arteriosclerosis (a disease which brings about the gradual deterioration of the walls of the arteries through the body). Thus it helps to boost blood flow through the arteries of the brain, also checkmating stroke.
AS NATURAL BEAUTY THERAPY - Many, especially women desire radiant, healthy skin and hair and honey can help you achieve this goal. Honey has wonderful minerals and amino acids that is excellent for your beauty enhancements. For a lustrous shine to your hair, mix 1 teaspoonful of honey into 4 cups of warm water and use as hair rinser. Honey also makes a good lotion for dry patches of the skin either on hands, elbows, knees, ankles or other parts of the body. Mix 1 teaspoonful each of honey and olive oil and half teaspoon of lemon juice. Apply on the desired part of the body and wash off after 15 minutes. Continue it, twice daily (morning and night) until desired effect is achieved. Moreso, honey mixed with ground almonds makes an excellent facial cleansing scrub. For a better face mask, add 1 tablespoonful of honey to an egg-white and stir properly. Add 1 teaspoonful of glycerine and about one-quarter cup of flour. Mix all. Apply all over the face and leave for 15 minutes before washing off. You will be delighted by the result after some few days. For a perfect moisturizer, mix 2 tablespoonful of honey with 2 teaspoonful of whole milk. Smooth-rub over the face and throat. Rinse off after 15 minutes and finish with the splashing of cold water.
OTHER HEALTH TIPS - Have you heard or seen an example of a kind of special honey substance produced by the worker bees? It is called the royal jelly. This nutritious substance contains sugar, protein, fats, minerals and vitamins. It is used to combat health complications caused by tissue deficiency and body frailty. Do you suffer from sore throat? Honey with lemon juice should do the trick. Into a large serving spoon, pour a teaspoonful of honey, top up with lemon juice and swallow whole every few hours until you are good. Honey is also known to take good care of indigestion, gastroenteritis and stomach ulcers. A research conducted in New Zealand by Somaletal (1994) at Waikalo shows that Manuta honey successfully inhibits the growth of Helicobacter pylori, the organism responsible for upper gastro-intestinal dyspepsia of stomach ulcers. Because sodium, calcium, potassium and magnesium are all found in honey, honey helps to maintain the acid-alkaline balance of the body. It also helps in shortening the duration of diarrhoea treatment. It curtails allergic reactions that comes with seasonal changes. It also fights cold, hangovers and sleeplessness. All of this and more are the goodies you derive from using honey. However if it is possible for you to take your honey undiluted, it is the best. So have you gotten that jar of honey?

THE TRUTH AND SECRET OF DANCING - IT KEEPS YOU FIT YOUTHFUL

While some people practice these graceful art with a lot of passion and joy, others see it as a challenge, an intimidating task and yet to still greater number of people, it is a boring sport……a waste of time. But alas!!! How wrong they have judged and concluded. If only they knew.

Dancing is an old age tradition. It is not on record of any culture without one or any form of dancing, whether artistic or without glamour or purpose. If you one of the type that loath dancing or see it as a huge task, better drop such assertion and embrace and practice it for it's numerous health benefits of keeping you fit and younger. Naturally every human have the ability to move and shake the body. Then with determined practice and skills, one can go on to be an established dancer and why not? Make a carrier out of it. So go on drop your guard, come out of the inhibiting shell, listen to the beautiful and irresistible melody, let it filter into your sub-consciousness, let it take control, to shake and move your body any way you feel like. When you are starting to learn to dance, you may feel cramped and awkward but with time you will be surprised by your progress and the grace, joy and passion that will be exuding in and around you each time you sweat it out to this special exercise. The secret and truth is that whenever you move your body to dance, you are exercising all parts of the body, releasing healthy hormones and developing your mental and psychological well being.

There are several different kinds of dance with their unique style and steps. Whether you do the conventional, choreography, ballet, ballroom or cultural dancing. Whichever one you choose to indulge yourself in, is really worth your time and overall health practices. The health benefits you derive from dancing are enormous and can not be shelved aside. Dancing does wonders to your heart - keeping it in top and perfect working condition. Dancing also do goodness to the lungs too - opening and freeing the airways. Dancing frees and lubricates all your body parts, joints from cramps so that all muscles in your body are in unison with the body system - leaving you the most fittest. Therefore if you are addicted to dancing, sweat not but be rest assured that you are addictively healthy. And if you do not indulge in any major active lifestyle, then raw high energy dancing should help you a great deal to burn a lots of fat and excess calorie - helping you to manage weight. So you see, whether you like it or not dancing is good for you.

BEAT THAT OVER-WEIGHT, LOOK GREAT AND LIVE LONGER

When one is over weight, it also means one is obese. People who suffer from obesity have the risk of still going into the chronic stage where no matter the sophisticated weight loss plan can be, it still can't help the sufferer. There is also the non-chronic type where one can still effectively follow a simple weight loss plan and still get back into shape, good health and longer life. Being over weight not only put you in a horrible shape, it also introduces life threatening health challenges that can suddenly render you bedridden and eventually take your precious life.You can't even wish your worst enemy health evils like coronary heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, fatty liver, and gall-bladder stone, then why simply bring it upon yourself just because you can't control your ever busy mouth, your taste and choice of lifestyle, when you can also simply lead a healthier, fitter, lively, beautiful and enduring life.

Take note that your diet plays a very important role if you do not want to grow over weight. Exceesive intake of fatty foods is the root cause of high fat deposition in the body which also shoots up cholesterol level of the body. Therefore discipline yourself to take very little of red meat, pork, eggs, milk, butter cheese etc, and that's if you must take them. Night eating should be avoided and eating only twice in a day is also ideal. Lemon juice taken with warm water first thing in the morning, essentially helps alot in weight reduction. However, it should be put at the back of the mind that fighting over weight or obesity will take a lot of will power, perseverance, patience and determination because result (slimming) isn't acheived over-night. With vigorous exercising plan, strict dietting regime and positive lifestyle, two (2) weeks is enough for you to start getting visible results but you should be determined to continue for an exciting newer, healthier and longer life. All this you can acheive on your own but if you feel otherwise, then you can sign up with a reputable gym with a good weight loss program. A good example is that of Bob and Oprah Whinfrey's "BEST LIFE WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM" Their weight loss therapy is churning out excellent results for ethusiastic and determined weight lossers.
Meanwhile you can consider the following herbal recipe for weight loss:
RECIPE ONE: Collect lemon juice and chickweed (stellania media). Make a tea infussion of the chickweed and boil for 15 minutes in a pot and then add small amount of the lemon juice. Take orally trice a day. Drink a full glass, all at a go. This serves as a natural diuretic, an important part of weight loss program. It also put appetite in check.
RECIPE TWO: Collect lemon juice and leaves of oriental water plantain. This recipe can also be taken as a substitute to tea. The oriental plantain leaves, together with some water is boiled and allowed to stand for fifteen minutes. Then to be diluted with lemon juice and warm water and be taken half glass, just before bed time for a long course.
RECIPE THREE: Collect fresh celery, salt, sesame oil, chilli pepper. Chop up the celery and put in a boiling water for 5 minutes. When cooked, add some salt and sesame oil and chilli pepper and take daily for 2-3 months. Also before bed time, taking lemon juice diluted with warm water is added advantage.

THE GOODNESS OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

Have you ever wondered how the earliest man faired in terms of his diet? The only food he probably heated may be his meat, fish and tubers. The rest of his food, he takes raw and fresh and he enjoyed excellent health and he was stronger and he was fitter and amazingly he lived longer than the present day man. Imagine such simplicity in his diet and he had it all good. Believe it or not, science and technology with all it's breakthrough have made present day man's life a complex one. Hardly anything is done the natural way anymore and man's health and longevity is now the price being paid for man's unjust activities and alteration against natures gift of the earth from God. But the good news is that you can still have that excellent and good health that our forefathers enjoyed then if you will only make it simple and know that fruits and vegetables are natural goodness for good health and longevity.

Fruits and vegetables like water melon, banana, paw-paw, sugar cane, tomato, pear, ginger, honey, egg plant, onion, maize, rice, pepper, water yam, garlic, pineapple, tangerines, lemons, carrot, cucumber, pumpkin, orange, apple, mango etc, are foods that can greatly nourish and improve your health, it is also medicinal. They can cure illness and diseases when combined with other herbs. For example eating garlic is known to reduce heart broblems and for dysentery, eating one bulb takes care of it. Garlic also act as anti-bacteria and improving the immune system. Paw-paw too is good for promoting digestion and also excellent in taking care of dysentery and constipation.

Aiming for variety means including as much as possible fresh food as possible in your diet. Minimize your consumption of processed and fast food. While consuming plenty of fruits and vegetables, try to include carbonhydrate, fat and protein in all your meals. Whatever your age, the right diet will improve every aspect of your life, cause good nutrient, assuredly will make you look younger, feel better and live longer.

DO YOU DESIRE GOOD HEALTH AND LONG LIFE? GO IT THE NATURAL WAY

Looking good, feeling good and living life to the fullest doesn't come easy and it isn't childs play either. It takes a lot of self discipline, sacrifice and will power to achieve great health, both in and out. Often times people pay too much attention on how they look on the outside than how they are fairing on the inside. The picture that is painted is that of great looking walking corps, ready to pack up at the slightest exposure to any health complication. The secret is that, put the whole energy on your inside and you are already glowing and exuding vitality and the ideal health you truelly desire. And ofcourse, people will not stop asking.............. hey! What's the secret?

Good health and great trim and fit body, goes hand in hand. You can not be healthy and you are not fit. While also you can not be fit and you are not healthy. It's either you have both or you do not have them at all. Finding a way to balance both is very crucial because they can guarantee you long life. The following four (4) principles, if strictly applied, should help you achieve that great health, envious body and fulfilling long life that you have always wanted.
WHAT WE EAT AND DRINK: It is a well known fact that food and drink is the fuel that pushes us as humans arround. Without food and drink, we will sure be inactive, weak and eventually die. But it is not just about eating and drinking any junk that crosses our path or what we can afford; It's all about moderately eating nutritious and well balanced meal. Forming the habit to eat natural and unprocessed food is an added advantage to our well being. And talking about eating habit, lots of people have bad and horrible eating habit. Thier mouth at all the time is at work, eating. Some will want to even eat any and everything at a time and the end result is the nightmare having diabetes, obesity, hypertension etc. So adopting a healthy eating life style is advisable. Also the quality of food and drink taken is important. Meats, vegetables, fruits and food rich in carbonhydrate are essentially good for our health. Minerals and vitamins like vitamin A, B, C, D & E and calcium etc, are paramountly excellent in boosting your immunity and giving you beautiful and radiant skin. Therefore what we eat and drink can either enhance or endanger our health, whatever approach we choose will determine the kind of health and longevity we will get.
THE ENVIRONMENT WE LIVE IN: Living in seren and aboundantly-nature-gifted environment devoid of any polution whatsoever is the ultimate environment that can contribute to the quality of our health and to an extension, how long we can live. People who live in poor environment have lots of health challenges to cope with. This people fall ill too often because the food they eat, the water they drink and the air they breath have seriously been compromised and as such quality health can not gotten. City life too is a hectic one. The noise, the dangerous carbonmono-oxide emissions from cars, industrial waste and gas flaring from big multinational companies will adversely have effect on peoples health and longevity. So if you truelly desire good health, consider living in places where trees, flowers, hills, gardens etc, sorrounds you.
THE PHYSICAL EXERCISE WE DO: Finding out time to indulge in some physical exercise is another sure way of enhancing our health. It is a well known fact that regular physical exercise puts the heart in great condition to perform optimally. Thus to have that physical fittness and the ability of our body to perform at any given time, we must be able to do some exercises like walking, dancing, play golf, lawn tennis, lift weight, do yoga, tai chi etc. Some people live a life of luxury and inactivity, even common walking do not cross thier mind and what they get is that they store up dageruos fat as if it is wealth. With each passing day, they grow fat and out of shape and into obesity, diabetic, hypertension and sufferings. So take time to do your exercises because it improves all body systems like blood circulation, digestion, building of hormones and enzymines. Think about this. A chines proverb says......if you want to live to the age of 99 years, then and please walk 100 steps after each meal.
THE MEDICINES WE TAKE: While medicines are good to take whenever we fall ill, we should also watch out the kind and how often we take them. While some non herbal drugs or medicines are known to have serious and unpleasant side effect, their efficacy can not be relied upon. Some of this medicines could do vital organs of the like the heart, liver, kidney etc, irrepairable damage.Though some of this medicines are a life saver and very important but they are usually very expensive. We can use this medicines, but under the supervision of a qualified pharmacist or doctor. We should also know that herbal based medicines is also good to cure common ailments that may befall us and cause to be sick. Herbal based medicines are common this days and are less expensive. It is advisable to use herbal baesd medicines because they are naturally made to enhance our health