Archive for July, 2011

List of Toxin Absorbing Plants

Plants can not only to lift the spirits of a room but also absorb air toxins. Plants take in carbon dioxide and give off health-giving oxygen and water vapour as part of the photosynthesis process. That’s why plants are the best way to absort air toxins and increase air quality on health.

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Olive Oil vs. Grapeseed Oil

Both olive oil and grapeseed oil are good vegetable cooking oils because they have high smoke points and offer health benefits. They are very similar in terms of nutritional value: high in unsaturated fat, low in saturated fat and cholesterol-free. It’s difficult to choose between the two types of oil to use for various cooking needs, the main considerations are the relative tastes and smoke points.

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Unhealthy Vegetable Oils

Canola oil, flax seed oil, soy oil, corn oil, and other polyunsaturated fats are unhealthy cooking oils. All of these oils, even if they’re organic, cold-pressed, unprocessed, bottled in glass, and stored away from heat and light, are damaging. These oils have no shelf life at all, they go rancid within days unless refrigerated, and when they’re warmed to body temperature, they disintegrate even faster. Once ingested, they bind with cells and interfere with every chemical reaction in the body. The results are hormone imbalances, inflammation, and all kinds of illness.

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Red Rice Wine Recipe

Red yeast rice is name in a dialect of Chinese for the lees of rice wine that has been specially fermented. It is red in color and is used as a seasoning for several Chinese dishes including Peking duck.

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Red Yeast for High Cholesterol

Red yeast (or red yeast rice, latin name: Monascus purpureus) is used for maintaining desirable cholesterol levels in healthy people, reducing cholesterol in people with high cholesterol, for indigestion, diarrhea, improving blood circulation, and for spleen and stomach health.People use red yeast as medicine. High cholesterol levels increase the risk of heart disease.

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Best Inflammation-fighting Foods

Anti-inflammatory foods, if eaten regularly, can reduce inflammation in the body. Inflammation is a reaction of tissue to irritation, injury, or infection. Symptoms of inflammation include pain, swelling, red coloration to the area, and sometimes loss of movement or function. Eating sufficient vegetables, fruits, and the proper fats can help to prevent inflammatory diseases. The following is a list of anti-inflammatory foods that if incorporated into your regular diet will help bring a balance to inflammation in your body. Try and feature some kind of anti-inflammatory food into every meal that you eat, and eliminate pro-inflammatory foods from your diet all together. 

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Health Benefits of Vitamin E

Vitamin E has been proposed for the prevention or treatment of numerous health conditions, often based on its antioxidant properties. Vitamin E is used for treating vitamin E deficiency, which is rare, but can occur in people with certain genetic disorders and in very low-weight premature infants.  It is used for preventing cancer, particularly lung and oral cancer in smokers; colorectal cancer and polyps; and gastric, prostate, pancreatic cancer, and many chronic diseases.


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Patchouli Essential Oils

Patchouli (also known as pogostemon cablin, Pogostemon patchouli) and is also known as patchouly and puchaput.It has great diuretic properties and also help break down cellulite while stimulating the regeneration of skin cells, speeding up healing and preventing ugly scars to form when wounds heal.

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July Mediterranean Diet Menu

Breakfast:

• Yogurt with Fresh Fruit and Honey

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Healthy Vegetable Oils

Tropical oils such as palm and coconut oils are healthy vegetable oils which are best for cooking because they are much more stable and less inflammatory than polyunsaturated oils.
They have very little polyunsaturates and are mostly composed of natural saturated fats which are the least reactive to heat/light and therefore the least inflammatory in your body from cooking use.

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