Top 100 Benefits of Meditation...................

Top 100 Benefits of Meditation:

1.  It lowers oxygen consumption.

2.  It decreases respiratory rate.

3.  It increases blood flow and slows the heart rate.

4.  Increases exercise tolerance.

5.  Leads to a deeper level of physical relaxation.

6.  Good for people with high blood pressure.

7.  Reduces anxiety attacks by lowering the levels of blood lactate.

8.  Decreases muscle tension

9.  Helps in chronic diseases like allergies, arthritis etc.

10.  Reduces Pre-menstrual Syndrome symptoms.

11.  Helps in post-operative healing.

12.  Enhances the immune system.

13.  Reduces activity of viruses and emotional distress

14.  Enhances energy, strength and vigour.

15.  Helps with weight loss

16.  Reduction of free radicals, less tissue damage

17.  Higher skin resistance

18.  Drop in cholesterol levels, lowers risk of cardiovascular disease.

19.  Improved flow of air to the lungs resulting in easier breathing.

20.  Decreases the aging process.

21.  Higher levels of DHEAS (Dehydroepiandrosterone)

22.  Prevented, slowed or controlled pain of chronic diseases

23.  Makes you sweat less

24.  Cure headaches & migraines

25.  Greater Orderliness of Brain Functioning

26.  Reduced Need for Medical Care

27.  Less energy wasted

28.  More inclined to sports, activities

29.  Significant relief from asthma

30.  Improved performance in athletic events

31.  Normalizes to your ideal weight

32.  Harmonizes our endocrine system

33.  Relaxes our nervous system

34.  Produce lasting beneficial changes in brain electrical activity

35.  Helps cure infertility (the stresses of infertility can interfere with the release of hormones that regulate ovulation).

Psychological benefits:

36.  Builds self-confidence.

37.  Increases serotonin level, influences mood and behaviour.

38.  Resolve phobias & fears

39.  Helps control own thoughts

40.  Helps with focus & concentration

41.  Increase creativity

42.  Increased brain wave coherence.

43.  Improved learning ability and memory.

44.  Increased feelings of vitality and rejuvenation.

45.  Increased emotional stability.

46.  Improved relationships

47.  Mind ages at slower rate

48.  Easier to remove bad habits

49.  Develops intuition

50.  Increased Productivity

51.  Improved relations at home & at work

52.  Able to see the larger picture in a given situation

53.  Helps ignore petty issues

54.  Increased ability to solve complex problems

55.  Purifies your character

56.  Develop will power

57.  Greater communication between the two brain hemispheres

58.  Respond more quickly and more effectively to a stressful event.

59.  Increases ones perceptual ability and motor performance

60.  Higher intelligence growth rate

61.  Increased job satisfaction

62.  Increase in the capacity for intimate contact with loved ones

63.  Decrease in potential mental illness

64.  Better, more sociable behaviour

65.  Less aggressiveness

66.  Helps in quitting smoking, alcohol addiction

67.  Reduces need and dependency on drugs, pills & pharmaceuticals

68.  Need less sleep to recover from sleep deprivation

69.  Require less time to fall asleep, helps cure insomnia

70.  Increases sense of responsibility

71.  Reduces road rage

72.  Decrease in restless thinking

73.  Decreased tendency to worry

74.  Increases listening skills and empathy

75.  Helps make more accurate judgments

76.  Greater tolerance

77.  Gives composure to act in considered & constructive ways

78.  Grows a stable, more balanced personality

79.  Develops emotional maturity

Spiritual benefits:

80.  Helps keep things in perspective

81.  Provides peace of mind, happiness

82.  Helps you discover your purpose in life

83.  Increased self-actualization.

84.  Increased compassion

85.  Growing wisdom

86.  Deeper understanding of yourself and others

87.  Brings body, mind, and spirit in harmony

88.  Deeper Level of spiritual relaxation

89.  Increased acceptance of one self

90.  Helps learn forgiveness

91.  Changes attitude toward life

92.  Creates a deeper relationship with your God

93.  Increases the synchronicity in your life

94.  Greater inner-directedness

95.  Helps living in the present moment

96.  Creates a widening, deepening capacity for love

97.  Discovery of the power and consciousness beyond the ego

98.  Experience an inner sense of Assurance or Knowingness

99.  Experience a sense of Oneness

100. Leads to enlightenment

What Happens to Your Body When you Drink Coke.................

What Happens to Your Body When you Drink Coke.............

Dear All,

This may be an anti-coke propaganda, but technical people like doctors/chemists would be able to confirm or otherwise if the comments below were correct.

However, even if 20% of it was correct, we might as well change our coking, pepsing, spriting, or sevenuping habits.

1.    In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You dont immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.

2.    20 minutes : Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (Theres plenty of that at this particular moment).

3.    40 minutes : Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dialate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.

4.    45 minutes : Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.

5.    60 minutes : The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.

6.    60 minutes : The caffeines diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.

7.    60 minutes : As the rave inside of you dies down you start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.

7 - MINUTE EXERCISE...............

Don't have an hour or even twenty minutes to exercise each day? You might not need it. This routine of 12 exercises is a complete workout based on the latest fitness research—and it only takes 7 minutes.

As with other short, but highly efficient exercises, this routine is based on interval training, where you're combining intense activity with brief recovery periods. We've seen interval training touted before as the most efficient type of exercise. You could do it with cycling, but this workout is an alternative guide and you can do it basically anywhere with almost no equipment.

The routine was posted in the May-June issue of the American College of Sports Medicine's Health & Fitness Journal and highlighted by The New York Times. In this program:

The exercises should be performed in rapid succession, allowing 30 seconds for each [with a 10-second rest between exercises], while, throughout, the intensity hovers at about an 8 on a discomfort scale of 1 to 10, [director of exercise physiology at the Human Performance Institute] Mr. Jordan says. Those seven minutes should be, in a word, unpleasant. The upside is, after seven minutes, you’re done.

As you can see from the chart at the top of this post, all you need is your own body weight and a chair to get "maximum results with minimal investment." However, this was designed for people with pretty sedentary lives, so if you're starting out somewhat in shape, you should probably do this a few times in a row. 

USES OF LEMON - 2..............

11.Lemon To Get Rid Of Worms: You must have suffered from worms in your stomach as a kid. Intestinal worms cause pain and abnormal faeces. Lemon has the power to kill these worms and serve as a natural de-worming agent.

12.Lemon To Digest Food: We all suffer from indigestion and stomach problems from time to time. A glass of lemon, salt, sugar and water is the best way to solve such minor stomach issues.

13.Lemon To Clean Toxins: Everyday, we are exposed to toxins like pollution and junk food. Lemon has the capacity to clean up these toxins and prevent free radical damage.

14.Lemon To Maintain Oral Hygiene: Lemon, salt and mustard oil is the best natural formula to whiten yellow teeth. Lemon also kills a number of oral bacteria and curbs bad breath.

15.Lemon As An Antiseptic: If you have cut or bruised yourself, and do no have any antiseptic at your disposal; then wipe the wound with a slice of lemon. It might burn a little, but lemon will do the job of an antiseptic.

16.Lemon To Cure Acne: Lemon's capacity to fight infections and serve as an antiseptic helps cure acne and other skin allergies. That is why, it is one of the best beauty ingredients for a clear skin.

17.Lemon For A Healthy Liver: Liver is the organ in our body that secretes juices that clean toxins. Lemon helps to dissolve uric acid and other toxins, thus keeping the liver healthy.

18.Lemon For Good Eyesight: Lemon contains an element called rutin. This element even in trace amounts helps to improve eyesight and cure retina problems.  

19.Lemon To Dissolve Kidney Stones: Lemon contains citric acid in very high concentration. This concentrated essence of citric acid is very useful to dissolve kidney stones.

USES OF LEMON - 1.................

1.Lemon Juice For Clear Bowels: Squeeze a lemon into lukewarm water and add honey to it. Drink this first thing in the morning. This keeps your bowels clean and moving regularly.

2.Lemon For Sore Throat: Lemon has anti-bacterial proprieties that can be used to cure many infections. Have lemon with basil leaves and honey. It is the best natural remedy to cure a sore throat.

3.Lemon To Stay Young: Lemon has antioxidants that helps repair free-radical damage in your body. Thus, lemon helps look young and radiant.

4.Lemon To Lower Blood Pressure: Lemon has a certain amount of potassium that helps lower blood pressure. If you have high blood pressure try to squeeze a lemon into your soups and salads everyday.

5.Lemon For Immunity: Lemon has loads of Vitamin C that is known to increase your immunity from within. Vitamin C helps build the body's resistance to infections of all kinds.

6.Lemon To Burn Fat: Lemon is citrus and when it is consumed with warm water, it helps burn fat. Most people who exercise regularly have a glass of lemon water after working out.

7.Lemon For Nausea: The refreshing citrus smell of lemon is an added advantage. When you are nauseated, just smelling a lemon will make you feel better.

8.Lemon To Cure Rheumatism: Lemon has great diuretic properties. This basically means that lemon helps the body to form urine and expel excessive water. So if you have health problems like rheumatism, then lemon juice is great for you.
9.Lemon To Fight Cancer: We all know that lemon is citrus and therefore rich in antioxidants. Lemon has 20 different types of cancer-fighting compounds in it.

10.Lemon To Cure Headaches: Headaches are a result of stress and tiredness. You can cure headaches naturally by having herbal tea with a slice of lemon in it. This tea is rich in antioxidants and very useful to de-stress yourself.

lemon.........

Lemon is one of the cheapest sources of good health available to us. You cannot even count the number of health benefits that lemon has. This citrus fruit packs a punch of good health in its tiny form. As they say, good things come in small packages. That is why, the uses of lemon for maintaining good health are second to none other. We only know of the common uses of lemon to cure a sore throat or to treat acne on the skin. A vast majority of the health benefits of lemon are not really explored by us. Lemon is healthy for almost each and every part of your body. This citrus fruit is rich in antioxidants and also in Vitamin C. Thus it fights cancer and ageing with equal gusto. Other than that, it helps to clean and detoxify the body. Apart from health benefits, lemon also has a lovely citrus smell that can cure nausea and headache. In next article, we will give you twenty different ways to use lemons for being healthy. There are bound to be many more uses of lemon for good health.

So, lemon is a wonderful health protecting fruit.............................keep eating it..........................

STAYING HYDRATED.............

STAYING HYDRATED!!!.....................!!!.......................!!!............

Well, here's some good advice on hydration.

Why hydration matters: Good hydration helps prevent constipation,asthma,elevated blood glucose and protects against heart damage.Mild hydration(a one and a half percent loss of normal water volume) reduces energy,affects mood and hampers memory.

How much you should drink: About 22 percent of water you consume comes from food.The rest about 50 to 60 ounces a day should come from liquids such as coffee,pure water and juices with pulp.

What you should drink: Unless you are exercising in hot weather,avoid sports drink and liquids with added sugar(especially high fructose corn syrup) and drink only as much coffee as your nerves and stomach can handle(less than five cups won't hydrate).The rest? Good old pulp-filled fruit and vegetable juice,and lots of water.

How Clean Is Your Kitchen?

How Clean Is Your Kitchen?

A Kitchen plays host to a variety of germs and bacteria and a superficial cleaning will not help eliminate them. I offer tips on how to make it hygienically clean.

The kitchen is the perfect place to rustle up delicious foods.But few are aware that kitchen is also the palce that sees a proliferation of germs and bacteria.This may sound odd since the kitchen is considered to be one of the cleanest spots in the house.

Commonly touched surfaces in the kitchen such as dustbin lid,soap dispenser,mobile and radio buttons were also contaminated, posing a risk of cross-contamination.

QUICK TIPS:

DO'es:

1.Wash your hands before cooking or after handling raw foods.
2.Clean and disinfect preparation areas regularly.
3.Disinfect drying towels,reusable clothes and sponges regularly.
4.Disinfect the kitchen sink daily.

DON'Ts:

1.Don't keep dirty soiled utensils in the sink for too long.
2.Don't wipe kitchen surfaces with a soiled cloth.
3.Don't reuse cleaning clothes and sponges without disinfecting them.

TEXT NECK......................

Excessive texting may keep you in touch with family and friends, but it also spells trouble for your health.......

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Text Neck is a pandemic syndrome in people who are involved in excessive texting.Beingstuck in the uncomfortable position of looking down for a long duration with a strained spine can lead to tension in the neck and shoulders,inflammation in the neck muscle and joints,and even chronic headache.This is a problem seen in the younger generation who want to be connected all the time.Without timely invention, text neck can lead to permanent arthritic damage as well as increased curvature in the spine and even slipped disc.

PAIN-RELIEVING TIPS:

1. POSTURE CORRECTION: While texting for long periods,try to keep the neck in a neutral position where the ears are aligned with shoulders. Atleast be conscious of the neck's position and avoid maintaining the awkward position for a long time.

2.NECK EXTENSION: Perform neck extension exercises(raising the chin until a stretch is felt on the neck),neck side flexion(bringing the side of the head alternatively towards the left and the right until a stretch is felt) and neck rotation.

3.TAKE A BREAK: Frequent breaks between messaging helps give the body much needed relaxation.

4.HEAT THERAPY:Treat your aching neck to hot water fomentation to increase blood circulation and help the muscles relax.Add one teaspoon Epsom salt to hot water,soak a towel and squeeze out excess water.Place the towel on affected areas.Repeat it five times.

5.REST:Stop doing what makes your neck hurt.Put a halt to your daily routine of texting.It wont do any harm.This important pause will allow the neck to start healing.

ACUTE KIDNEY ATTACK...........

ACUTE KIDNEY ATTACK...........

WARNING SIGNS:

Sudden decrease in urine output or no urine output.
Swelling of the face and the body
Breathing difficulty
Vomiting
Poor appetite
Alteration in level of consciousness, fits [advanced stages].

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Seek early treatment for vomiting ,diarrhoea and replacement of lost fluids.
Avoid self-medication,NSAIDs, commonly used for pain relief ,lead to acute kidney attack.
Do not repeat prescriptions because symptoms resemble earlier illness when a drug gave relief.
Consult your family physician immediately at the onset of illness and follow his/her advice.
When a dialysis is advised, do not hesitate to agree.
Keep your neighbourhood clean and prevent vector-borne diseases like dengue,malaria,leptospirosis.

Hair Dyes Can Cause Allergic Reactions.................

Hair Dyes Can Cause Allergic Reactions.................

Skin and other allergic reactions pose the biggest risk to hair dye users. It's difficult to say how many hair dye users suffer from allergic reactions, as most do not seek medical attention. However, there are many cases where allergic reactions to hair dyes have been severe or even fatal.

Signs of a mild reaction may only be irritation of the upper eyelids or rims of the ears, but in more severe reactions, the whole head or body may be involved.

A severe form of allergic reaction is anaphylactic shock. When this occurs, the mouth and tongue swell and the airways constrict. Anaphylaxis can be rapidly fatal, and there have been isolated cases of hair dyes causing anaphylactic shock.

Skin reactions can occur on a person's first exposure to hair dye, or can suddenly occur in a person who has been using them long-term. A patch test before every dyeing is important to help detect skin allergies, but very time dye is applied to the skin, the immune system may become sensitized, increasing the risk of future allergic reaction.

Working as a hairstylist is associated with an increased risk of skin allergies. One review found that 17-80% of stylists suffered from allergic reactions on contact with hair dye

DRINKING WATER STORED IN BRASS VESSELS GOOD FOR HEALTH........................

DRINKING WATER STORED IN BRASS VESSELS GOOD FOR HEALTH........................

Ancient Indian wisdom said that drinking water should be stored in brass vessels for good health and it has been proved scientifically by researchers.

Microbiologists say that water stored in brass containers could help combat many water-borne diseases and should be used by us.Water-borne diseases remain a serious threat in many poor regions of the world,with around 2 million children dying each year from diarrhoea. Efforts to provide safe drinking water have difficulty reaching remote areas.

People believe that traditional brass water containers offer some protection against sickness.It has been found that bacteria are indeed less likely to thrive in brass water pots than in earthenware or plastic ones.
Copper can disrupt biological systems.Pots made of brass, an alloy of copper and zinc, shed copper particles into the water they contain. The amount that circulate into the brass water vessels could not harm humans.

Brass water pots also easily outperformed plastic ones, the researchers discovered.

BUT MANY PEOPLE USE PLASTIC DRINKING VESSELS BECAUSE THEY VIEW THEM AS MORE MODERN.

HEART ATTACK: a serious note....................

A serious note about heart attacks............

 HEART ATTACK PROCEDURE

Women should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting. Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line. You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack. Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. Sixty percent of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know the better chance we could survive.

Drinking Cold water after a meal = Cancer! ....................

Drinking Cold water after a meal = Cancer! 

Can u believe this?? 

For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. Once this 'sludge' reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer.

 It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.

EATING FRUITS...........

EATING FRUITS...

We all think eating fruits means just buying fruits, cutting it and just popping it into our mouths. It's not as easy as you think. It's important to know how and when to eat.

What is the correct way of eating fruits?

IT MEANS NOT EATING FRUITS AFTER YOUR MEALS! * FRUITS SHOULD BE EATEN ON AN EMPTY STOMACH.

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 on an empty stomach or before your meals! You have heard people complaining — every time I eat watermelon I burp, when I eat durian my stomach bloats up, when I eat a banana I feel like running to the toilet, etc — actually all this will not arise if you eat the fruit on an empty stomach. The fruit mixes with the putrefying other food and produces gas and hence you will bloat!

Graying hair, balding, nervous outburst, and dark circles under the eyes all these will NOT happen if you take fruits on 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. 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. Cooking destroys all the vitamins.

But eating a whole fruit is better than drinking the juice. 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 surprised when your friends tell you how radiant you look!

KIWI: Tiny but mighty. This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, vitamin E & fiber. Its vitamin C content is twice that of an orange.

APPLE: An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Although an apple has a low vitamin C content, it has antioxidants & flavonoids which enhances the activity of vitamin C thereby helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack & stroke.

STRAWBERRY: Protective Fruit. Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits & protect the body from cancer-causing, blood vessel-clogging free radicals.

ORANGE : Sweetest medicine. Taking 2-4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessens the risk of colon cancer.

WATERMELON: Coolest thirst quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione, which helps boost our immune system. They are also a key source of lycopene — the cancer fighting oxidant. Other nutrients found in watermelon are vitamin C & Potassium.

GUAVA & PAPAYA: Top awards for vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high vitamin C content. Guava is also rich in fiber, which helps prevent constipation. Papaya is rich in carotene; this is good for your eyes.