Brain Damaging Habits

No Breakfast
People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level. This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.

Overeating
It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.

Smoking
It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.

High Sugar consumption
Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.

Air Pollution
The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.

Sleep Deprivation
Sleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells.

Head covered while sleeping
Sleeping with the head covered increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.

Working your brain during illness
Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.

Lacking in stimulating thoughts
Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.

Talking Rarely
Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain.

Your FAVORITE foods are CANCEROUS

Anyone of us loves eating. Do you ever think about the effects of those foods in your body? Is it safe? Better check this out, and take a look if you’re fond of cancer-causing foods.

Stated below are the top among all cancer-causing foods:

HOTDOGS

Hotdogs are high in nitrates. The Cancer Prevention Coalition advises that children eat no more than 12 hot dogs a month. If you can't live without hot dogs, buy those made without sodium nitrate.

Processed meats and bacon
Also high in the same sodium nitrates found in hot dogs, bacon, and other processed meats raise the risk of heart disease. The saturated fat in bacon also contributes to cancer.

Doughnuts
Doughnuts are cancer-causing double trouble. First, they are made with white flour, sugar, and hydrogenated oils, then fried at high temperatures. Doughnuts, may be the worst food you can possibly eat to raise your risk of cancer.

French fries
Like dough nuts, French fries are made with hydrogenated oils and then fried at high temperatures. They also contain cancer- causing acryl amides which occur during the frying process. They should be called cancer fries, not French fries.

CHIPS, CRACKERS, AND COOKIES
All are usually made with white flour and sugar. Even the ones whose labels claim to be free of trans-fats generally contain small amounts of trans-fats.

Sleep well, Live well

Sleep is essential for a person’s health and wellbeing. We are in need of sleep as much as we are in need of oxygen. Sleep is capable of working wonders: it increases one's work efficiency, extends one's lifespan, and cures illnesses. So, one should not deprive him/herself of sleep.

Listed below are the things we must put into considerations regarding sleeping habits:

1. Evening at 9 - 11pm: is the time for eliminating unnecessary/ toxic chemicals (detoxification) from the antibody system (lymph nodes). This time duration should be spent by relaxing or listening to music. If during this time a housewife is still in an unrelaxed state such as washing the dishes or monitoring children doing their homework, this will have a negative impact on health.

2. Evening at 11pm - 1am: is the detoxification process in the liver, and ideally should be done in a deep sleep state.

3. Early morning 1 - 3am: detoxification process in the gall, also ideally done in a deep sleep state.

4. Early morning 3 - 5am: detoxification in the lungs. Therefore there will sometimes be a severe cough for cough sufferers during this time. Since the detoxification process had reached the respiratory tract, there is no need to take cough medicine so as not to interfere with toxin removal process.

5. Morning 5 - 7am: detoxification in the colon, you should empty your bowel.

6. Morning 7 - 9am: absorption of nutrients in the small intestine, you should be having breakfast at this time. Breakfast should be earlier, before 6:30am, for those who are sick.
Breakfast before 7:30am is very beneficial to those wanting to stay fit. Those who always skip breakfast, they should change their habits, and it is still better to eat breakfast late until 9 - 10am rather than no meal at all.

Sleeping so late and waking up too late will disrupt the process of removing unnecessary chemicals. Aside from that, midnight to 4:00 am is the time when the bone marrow produces blood. Therefore, have a good sleep and don't sleep late.

Here are some factors that are generally affected by our sleeping habits.

1. Learning and memory: Sleep helps the brain commit new information to memory through a process called memory consolidation. In studies, people who’d slept after learning a task did better on tests later.

2. Metabolism and weight: Chronic sleep deprivation may cause weight gain by affecting the way our bodies process and store carbohydrates, and by altering levels of hormones that affect our appetite.

3. Safety: Sleep debt contributes to a greater tendency to fall asleep during the daytime. These lapses may cause falls and mistakes such as medical errors, air traffic mishaps, and road accidents.

4. Mood: Sleep loss may result in irritability, impatience, inability to concentrate, and moodiness. Too little sleep can also leave you too tired to do the things you like to do.

5. Cardiovascular health: Serious sleep disorders have been linked to hypertension, increased stress hormone levels, and irregular heartbeat.

6. Disease: Sleep deprivation alters immune function, including the activity of the body’s killer cells. Keeping up with sleep may also help fight cancer.

Fruits & the EMPTY Stomach

Do you love fruits? How often do you eat them? Are you eating those right after every meal? If yes, then you better read this one.

Fruits are an essential part of a healthy diet. These are full of antioxidants and low in calories and fat content. When eaten raw or consumed as fresh juice, these become an excellent way to retain and balance moisture level in a body. Likewise, eating liberal amount of fruits daily ensures a healthy energetic life and active life lifetime.

However, be aware that there is a correct way of eating fruits. Fruits should be taken on an empty stomach, which means that it should not be eaten after meals. If you eat fruit like that, it will play a major role to detoxify your system, supplying you with a great deal of energy for weight loss and other life activities. Fruit is the most important food. Let's say you eat two slices of bread and then a slice of fruit. The slice of fruit is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines, but it is prevented from doing so. In the meantime the whole meal rots and ferments and turns to acid. The minute the fruit comes into contact with the food in the stomach and digestive juices, the entire mass of food begins to spoil. So please eat your fruits in an empty stomach or before your meals!

You have heard people complaining - every time I eat water melon I burp, when I eat durians my stomach bloats up, when I eat bananas I feel like running to the toilet etc - actually all this will not arise if you eat the fruit in an empty stomach. The fruit mixes with the putrefying other food and produces gas and hence you will bloat! Graying hair, balding, nervous outburst, dark circles under the eyes - all these will not happen if you take fruits in an empty stomach. There is no such thing as some fruits like orange and lemon are acidic because all fruits become alkaline in our body, according to Dr. Herbert Shelton who did a research on this matter. If you have mastered the correct way of eating fruits, you have the secret of beauty, longevity, health, energy, happiness and normal weight.

When you need to drink fruit juice - drink only fresh fruit juice. Not from the cans. Don't even drink juice that has been heated up. Don't eat cooked fruits because you don't get the nutrients at all. You only get to taste.

However, eating a whole fruit is better than drinking the juice because the whole fruits contain fibers which act as a laxative and helps to reduce constipation. But, if you should drink the juice, drink it mouthful by mouthful slowly. Because you must let it mix with your saliva before swallowing it.

You can go on a 3-day fruit fast to cleanse your body. Just eat fruits and drink fruit juice throughout the 3 days and you will be surprise when your friends tell you how radiant you look! During the fruit fast you can eat fruits, prepared in salad forms and make it more interesting.

Healthy Living

Neither one of us, don’t want to be healthy or sexy as well. However, we missed on doing things that are necessary to achieve so. What is lacking on us is determination and willingness to do what is right. We are often tempted on things which are considered unhealthy. Why don’t we start changing are lifestyle right at this very moment?

Listed below are the simple healthy tips towards healthy living:

1. Drinking water as you begin the day is a healthy routine, and have at least 2 liter of water in the whole day.

2. Have a good, wholesome breakfast. Never skip this meal. Likewise, don’t skip lunch and dinner either. It is vital to have regular meals. And as essential to not graze between meals.

3. Try a 5 to 10 minutes work out or a half an hour walk, preferably in the morning.

4. Eat more salads and less of food rich in calories.

5. Carry fruits with you so that you can eat a fruit and lessen your hunger.

6. Cut down on sodas, soft drinks, tea, coffee, and artificially flavored drinks.

7. Aim at loosing gradual weight loss and not sudden weight loss. The sudden weight loss if harmful for the body and is regained immediately. Small changes are easier to make and stick to than a dramatic and sudden overhaul.

8. A healthy diet should be permanent not a burden for a week or two.

9. Maintain a proper good eating habit to maintain the gradual weight loss.

10. Start with small goals and try to maintain it. If you try to change everything at once, you are likely to give in as soon as you experience your first craving.

Isn’t it easy? Try it, then we’ll see the result.