Prevention (through herbs and diet) and what constitutes a Healthy LifestyleThe tools that can be used to maintain health and vitality,
and the role herbs and food can play in this process. “What constitutes the state of being healthy?”- is a question that has been answered differently by various groups for a long time. Allopathic Medicine advocates have maintained that it is a state of being ‘without’ diseases, even though the father of modern medicine, Hippocrates was the one who said, “Health is the expression of a harmonious balance between various component of man’s nature, the environment and ways of life…nature is the physician of disease”.
The typical approach of modern or allopathic medicine has been to ‘cure’ disease once they arise. They do not look for the cause of the problem but apply cure to a specific or group of symptoms. As against of that, according to traditional medicines, being healthy is not only a state of ‘not’ having diseases but also having the energy to lead life with exuberance. It does not treat the mind and body as different entities like allopathic medicine but considers them together as contributing to a person’s state of health and well being. Above all, traditional medicines believe that a person’s habits and life-style, their nutritional intake, their exercise patterns all of which determine their energy levels have a direct impact upon their ‘being in a state of health’ and hence by controlling these contributing factors, diseases can be ‘prevented’ and a person can maintain a state of health and vitality. “Prevention is better than cure” is an adage that alternative practitioners advocate. This fact has now gained complete acceptance in modern medicine and present day nutritionists and life-style consultants play a vital role in health care by guiding their clients to follow a balanced nutrition regimen, complete with herbal and vitamin supplements. There are various factors that play a major role in maintaining the mind-body equilibrium- this balance is essential for having good health. Read more... What is Alternative Medicine or Wholistic Healing?
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Five Healthy Habits for Vision Health
Many of us rely on healthy vision and take it for granted on a day-to-day basis. Unfortunately, eyesight tends to worsen or improve little by little. There are things we can do to improve our eyesight and to keep vision healthy. The following tips will help you maintain healthy vision. Sleep is very important in order to let our eyes get the adequate amount of rest. It is recommended for individuals to sleep a minimum of six hours, with the optimal sleeping period being a full 8 hours. Getting enough sleep also helps reduce dark under eye circles that many tend to struggle with. Consuming the right types of food, that deliver the proper nutrients to your body, is essential for maintaining healthy eyesight. Eyes rely on cell repair and the best way to repair cells is to provide it with appropriate nutrition, minerals and vitamins. Healthy options for eyesight improvement include lots of vegetables, fruits, carrots and calcium. The best minerals for your eyes include vitamins A, B, C and E, as well as magnesium and zinc. read more... |
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Way of the Future: Cheaper Therapies using Super Foods
What makes a person super can come from a variety of things. It could come from what one does or how one treats others on a regular basis. But there is one common denominator which encompasses all the things they do, and this is what keeping them healthy. If your body is not healthy, you cannot even stand to start anything at all. In order to achieve optimum health, one should have good lifestyle practices. It is a combination of regular exercises and consumption of a healthy diet; in this case, super-foods.
Research has paved the way for better food choices. This is very rare these days especially with the abundance of processed food that are available in the market. Most of which are being sold in a manner that are either have too many preservatives or have chemical buffers and additives. Fast food eateries have aggravated this problem further in our current fast-paced, dead-line focused living and working environment. Such low nutritional value foods have been proven to be very detrimental to one's health. But, still people consume them because they are palatable (with high salt or sugar, which actually deadens the taste buds) and are the easiest to gain access to. Even those which are supposed to be healthy, such as fruit shakes, already have too much sugar in them. It defeats their very 'healthy' purpose.
Again, healthier food choices are being publicized. These are known as super foods. These are everyday foods that aim to promote health. Its objective is to promote health; not on the curative side but more so from a preventative perspective. Their healing and helpful potential is being researched further and initial results show very promising future.
Recent studies also showed that these super foods have gone to new heights. It has been found out that they have the ability to possibly prevent any development or stop further metastases of cancer. The main reason being high antioxidant content in Super Foods.
Also, some foods which were always cherished for their taste and basic nutrition e.g. Oranges (for it's refreshing citrus-y taste and high Vitamin C) are now known to have several other added benefits such as lowering of high blood pressure and help in reducing bad cholesterol.
Research has made so many breakthroughs in this regard. It has been fueled by the desire of most individuals to find cheaper alternative to pharmaceuticals which are typically very expensive and tend to have too many side effects. And with a global health & nutrition crisis on our hands, looking at cheaper, preventative and healthy alternatives such as Super Foods may be the way of the future.
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Research has made so many breakthroughs in this regard. It has been fueled by the desire of most individuals to find cheaper alternative to pharmaceuticals which are typically very expensive and tend to have too many side effects. And with a global health & nutrition crisis on our hands, looking at cheaper, preventative and healthy alternatives such as Super Foods may be the way of the future.
Read more under Healing Foods Blog
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