Alternative health is a very powerful way to promote our daily life. But why do we need it instead of conventional health solutions? Here are some reasons.
- Alternative health is safer, because most of its method not involving chemical medicines, so we don't have to worry about side effects.
- Alternative health has various kind of method, so you can choose which one fits your need and interest. If you like to meditate, you can choose meditation, if you are interested on food, there are toons of ways to promote our health with that, there are still countless method out there.
- Alternative health is natural and some of its method even proven for thousands years like chinesse accupunture and medicine.
So, why don't you try one of alternative health method that fit your interes now. But keeps in mind that alternative health still only for complementary solutions. You still have to ask your doctor for advice.
Good luck.
Alternative Health Tips: Why You Need It?
Alternative Health Tips: Smile Makes You Happy
If you have a serious face, you have to use 64 muscles on your lips. And if you smile, only 10 of your lips muscle is used. Small effort and you could take an advantage from that.
When you start smiling, your cheek will send messages to your brain. At the same time, happiness hormones spreads and it will stop the production of stress hormones like cortisol and adrenalin. Smile also triggers your immunity system which strengthen your body and produce antobody.
You don't have to worry if your smile is only to make others happy and not from your heart. The interesting fact is that your brain can't identify what kind of smile you've made. It means that a big smile is always a good one since happiness hormones will always be spreaded. What is the easiest thing to start a smile? You can try this tip.
Try to look at your face in your mirror for a couple seconds. You will smile or even laugh after a while, laughing at yourself. By then, you should feel the happiness hormones spread out from your body.
So, what are you waiting for, try it and be happy.
Nutrition for Healthy Bones
One and half milion osteoporotic fractures of the spine, hip, wrist and other sites occur each year, primarily in postmenopousal women.The incidence of fractures after the age of 40 result in mild to moderate trauma. These are most closely associated with osteoporosis. Fractures of the hip and spine often contribute to disability, dependencies and increased risk of death.
The number of osteoporosis cases, however, is expected to increase substantially over the next several decades as life expectancy increases and the world population expands.
Many nutritional factors have been examined for association with osteoporosis and bone mass. Calcium, phospors, trace minerals and protein are component of bone tissue. Calcium is the main mineral of bone and teeth. Total body calcium is 1000 – 1200 grams of 1,5 -2% of body weight. Vitamin D regulates calcium balance, and other nutrients influence calcium absorption. Thus, dietary intakes of these nutrients will affect bone mass, although the strength of association may be expected to vary according to developmental phase, menopousal status and individual habitual intake. Long term systematic calcium deficits lead to osteoporosis.
Normal daily intake of calcium is 200 – 1300 mg. It is absorbed in the duodenum and colon under the influence of vitamin D. Only 10% of ingested calcium is absorbed, the rest passes out in the stool. Calcium secretion occurs via the kidneys, although most calcium is conserved by renal absorption.
The recommended calcium intake is 200 – 1300 mg per day for infants to pregnant woman. Calcium is found in milk and dairy products, fish and its bone, green leafy vegetables, legumes, nuts, and whole grains. The daily requirement is higher in women then men. Lactating women require a higher amount, and osteoporosis which is common in elderly women, may be prevented by calcium supplementation.
How to prevent osteoporosis? Recommendation to help prevent osteoporosis is modifiable risk factors. Currently, a healthy diet involving adequate intakes of calcium, vitamin D, protein and vitamin K and avoiding excess intakes of phosporus, vitmain A, sodium, caffeine and alcohol is also important. Weight bearing and muscle-strengthening exercise for 30 – 40 minuter per day reduce bone lose and lower the risk of falling. Finally smoking is very important for bone health.
Note: Tai chi also have a significant effect to reduce falling and better balance.
Alternative Health Supplements: Why use the vitamin supplements?
Supplements especially vitamins are widely used as an alternative way to promote our health. But can we get it from the nature? Here, you will find some useful information about alternative health supplements basics, so you can have an alternative natural health solutions.
Vitamin A
Vitamin A helps with growth, eyesight and healthy skin. You can get it from:
Carrots, potato, pumpkin and mangoes.
Many young children do not eat enough foods with vitamin A so children should take a supplement until they are 5 years old.
Vitamin C
Vitamin C is important for general health and for the immune system. It helpswounds to heal. It also helps you absorb iron.
You can get vitamin C from fruit and vegetables, especially blackcurrants, kiwi fruit, citrus fruits, tomatoes, peppers and strawberries.
Vitamin D
Vitamin D helps make strong bones.
Very few foods contain vitamin D – sunshine is more important because you make vitmain D in your skin when you are outside in the sun. This happens in the summer months but not during winter. If you have dark skin or always keep your skin covered when outside, you may not make enough vitamin D for you.
Folic Acid
Folic acid is a B vitamin. It is very important before and during early pregnancy.
All women who might get pregnant should take a supplement of folic acid as it is hard to get enough from food. Black eyed beans, spinach, spring greens, broccoli, green beans and yearst extract are the best sources of folic acid. Some breakfast cereals and bread have folic acid added to them.
Try This Mindfulness Meditation
Learning To Be In The Moment
Imagine thinking clearly, and feeling relaxed at will.
Could you get more done? Enjoy life more? Would you
like to know how to do that right now? Start by
learning how to put yourself more in the moment with a
simple mindfulness exercise.
Basic Mindfulness Exercises
A basic mindfulness exercise begins with sitting down,
relaxing and breathing deeply. Close your eyes and pay
attention to your breathing, following the breath in
and out a few times. Then move your attention to your
body, one part at a time, noticing any sensations of
cold, hot, tight, sore or anything you can identify.
After a few minutes, start listening to the sounds of
the room, without judging, criticising or thinking
about them. Just listen for a minute.
Open your eyes and look around as if seeing for the
first time. Rest your eyes on any object for half a
minute. Examine it without talking about it in your
mind. Repeat this with another object, and then
another, while still maintaining an awareness of your
body and breath. Continue this state of mindfulness
until you're ready to get up.
When sensing your body, your breath, and your
immediate surroundings, you are more fully "in the
moment." A mindfulness exercise like this puts your
mind in a receptive state while removing mental
distractions that hinder clear thinking. It leaves you
ready to work mentally. Do this before important
mental tasks and you'll find you have more focus and
concentration.
Using Mindfulness For Daily Life
When you're in the middle of a task and feel stressed,
stop. Take three deep breaths, then carefully watch
yourself until identify what is bothering you. Find
everything you can. Are you expecting something bad to
happen? Is an argument from this morning still going
on just below the surface of your consciousness? Are
you worried about something? Is some part of your body
in pain? Note everything you find.
Now deal with these thieves-of-concentration one by
one. Make the phone call that's on your mind, take an
aspirin if you need to, and apologise to someone if
necessary. Take things from your mind and put them on
a list for tomorrow (in writing). If all you can do is
acknowledge that there's nothing you can do right now
- do that. After doing this mindfulness exercise,
you'll feel less stressed, and you'll be able to
concentrate more effectively on the tasks at hand. Try
it now.
Alternative Health Tips: Is it dangerous to consume 500 mg of vitamin C on a daily basis? If not, what are the benefits?
Today's alternative health tips is about vitamin C. We
can see a lot of vitamin C supplement product today in
the market. Most of them with a high dose of vitamin
C.
The fact is, large amounts of vitamin C are not
harmful. The excess of vitamin C including the type
that disolves in water that cannot be absorbed by the
body is discharged through the bladder.
A high dose of vitamin C has been suggested to prevent
flu. But Dr. Terrence W Anderson does not agree with
this suggestion.
According to him, if you take vitamin C daily you will
be less likely to get flu, but 250 mg daily will give
the same effect as 500 mg daily or even higher dose
because the body simply cannot absorb any more :).
Hope that you find this alternative health tips
useful.
Facts About Laugh
Laugh is a very simple thing that we could do to stay healthy and young.
A research to 300 people has shown that people with heart disease laugh 40 % lesser than people that don’t have heart disease.
Another interesting fact is that 100-200 laugh a day equal to 10 minutes of jogging. This means that laugh is also a work out.
Start laugh now, and have a work out.
Learning Tai Chi
My interest on Tai Chi came when I saw the movement. It's just calming and relieving only by seeing it.
Actually I interested on chikung also, but it's to hard for me. I mean, I like something slower than that.
After read a couple of books and watched some videos, I tried to practice it myself. I choose the Yang's Style Short Form.
Only from the first week, I could feel the difference and got an unexpected result.
My reflex was better than before!!
Somehow, I could catch many falling things instantly.
Well, I think its time to practice it in public area :), so more people will get interested as I am..
Go Tai Chi...
