This wonderful posting is contributed by Ari Lestariono. Let’s contemplate his thoughts on living healthy. Do bear in mind that holistic remedies also include the overall care of your health with integrated and comprehensive ways.

Hello readers, in the world of consuming non healthy food, and quick lifestyle, fast motion meeting with clients, we just don’t have time to pick our food that is healthy enough to consume, I don’t blame you then.I would suggest that taking food in various fruits or vegetables. This is the one method to keep you healthy.

Other ways are working out at Gym and do work out to let go your stress, weight lifting is good also to maintain the density of the muscles.

Jogging or running daily around 30 minutes is quite fun to do it with your dogs and small cool down is required to steam out the negative energy from your systems.

Swimming 3 times a week can be benefit too, for older peoples this type of exercise not only healthy to your heart also strengthen the muscle naturally, and making your lungs capacity of O2 even improved.

Taking Yoga class, to meditate and practice internal energy is quite often applied by women who are too busy with their family and office matters, is a best way to reach inner calmness and avoid stress.

Last but not least my favorites after working out is Sauna Room, this is a must “do”, it’s making your body steam out and extract the sweat and making your freshness to become normal temperature with surrounding, try this please.

My friend’s blog is about Sauna, he has it all at http://www.crystalsauna.com/, various types’ utilities, such as infrared, packed in special wood type that characterized as Sauna norms of standards, and you can pick your option there, and build yourselves at your home or gym room.

This site, I think is the best offer for Sauna facilities, it’s not just build for people who loved to go to gym also to busy people and people concerned about their health care.

Please browse to my friend’s site, I’ll guarantee you’ll never be disappointed.

Happy Sauna

Did you remember our previous posting about brushing your teeth regularly can prevent heart disease? This time, let’s hear what Ari Lestariono wishes to deliver for you on taking care of your teeth.  Please be reminded, that there are other certain ways to secure and protect your overall health, i.e.  health insurance and bear in mind that holistic remedies also include the feeling of safe and security for your health in the future and how would you be able to guarantee them from the lack of financial support.

I believe every readers in this blog community has experienced tooth ache, either a tooth embedded in their gums and have to applied mouth surgery, or cavity in their tooth and has to cover the holes and avoid further detrimental to oral’s health.

As kids back then I remember that my mother always take me to have a routine check up every 3- 4 months or 6 months to a dentist and check the conditions of the teeth.

As we grow older and our baby tooth replaced by adult tooth, still requires to check up to a dentist every 6 months to make sure the healthiness of tooth, gums and oral are in healthy manner.

I was lucky since when I was working, the company reimbursed my expenses, and when I was a boy my parents took care of the cost problems. Then when I got retrenchments from my previous company, I realized I have no insurance or sufficient budget to go to a dentist to do check up.

I believe every reader has also experienced these problems and by having dentist insurance as referenced by our colleagues and owner of the blog http://www.dentalbuddy.co.uk/, we have to search that insurance that has reliable reputation.

We all need this kind of facilities, don’t make an action after you have problems with your tooth, taking preventions by making the right action to apply to these providers as listed in my friend’s blog.

It is a good way to take preventions, I experienced tooth ache and you can not do your daily activity.

Take my friendly advice and quickly applied to these providers in dental insurance.

Hope we all learnt something about these teeth issues.

This wonderful posting is contributed by Ari Lestariono. Let’s listen what he wishes to deliver for you on traveling safe and sound with little baby. Do bear in mind that holistic remedies also include the feeling of safe and security not only for yourself, but also for your loved ones.  As parents, especially young parents having baby or toddlers is quite a hectic, one thousand reasons happen can occur if you guys traveling with baby or toddlers, I experienced this when my nephew was a baby or most likely toddlers, this little fellow if it’s on his mood he’ll become a good boy, yet when off mode became little monster and making all noise during a trip in a car, super market, restaurants, hotel, especially hotel, punching the bell boy for room service just for the sake of having fun, it’s annoying to adults and environments. The reasons are why we deliberately guided our readers to take a look at this site for life educations and both to our baby, this baby banz site has it all.

From traveling guidance, safety pack baby traveler until staying at hotel with baby acceptance as to no hindrance stake from the hotel owner and surrounding. This is what in my opinion must read bog thoroughly. Unless you are experience parents and know how best to dealt with baby.

The most tough questions when asked as parents is, how do you dealt traveling with babies and a list of question arise during that experiences….” Somehow these babies also can teach you many things, patience I thing is the best lessons”…”or what will you do if your baby crying out loud while your in a lorry of train at night while other passenger is sleeping?

All too many to describe, if you go through the above blogs, it’ll show tips and trick how to dealt with any situations with baby on traveling.

Having said that most experience Mom is conversations is sharing their experience with other Mom’s how to handle their babies, and the knowledge is gaining, more to it giving a free lessons to community other than Mom’s association to both gain benefit. I still remember when I was a boy, not a baby, accompanying my mother to a tea party in our neighborhood, many of them always discussing issues how to handle babies problems, their behavior, having cold, or fever, and many thing it can be said. I think this could be an interesting topic and educational for parents or Mom’s instead of discussing how much discount in Mall, or talking consumptive things that I don’t think is wise especially during global recessions.

I hope the above can be a good pointer to every one. Please check this out http://www.babysafetravel.com/baby-boutique/category-4/

The only thing when you were heat up or exhausted after working out, and lots of sweat is to drink something that can refresh your body and regain your energy. Isotonic drink is still an option. Is it true this beverage can rejuvenate and regain your energy?

Here is a program to regain your energy back and completely eliminate your exhausted, not only will improve your health, also boost your immune system:

End Tiredness Program

Water formed to 60-70% of water in your body. Part of this water is exhaust through perspiration, fasces, urine and respiration. Consequently, water that has exhausted should be replacing continuously. Lacking of fluid will cause metabolism in body. Average adult people require 2, 5 liter per day, the quantity increased during exerciser. In normal conditions, consuming water and foods containing high fluid is sufficient to replace the exhausted fluids. It’s a different story if your body dehydrates and extracts excessive fluids. Dehydrate occur when high temperature to body applied, sweating in excessive, or diarrhea. The body not only looses many fluids, also important electrolyte such as chloride, calcium, magnesium, sodium and kalium. It is proven in research that 1 % dehydration are already making big changes in body temperature. Meanwhile 2 % dehydration can decreased the endurance down to one third. Loosing more than 2 % of fluids it is not sufficient by replacing with water. Since adding water will only dissolve the electrolyte and will intervene the functions of those electrolyte with the effect to water poison and harmful to your body.

Electrolyte is a mineral in blood and fluids in your body with carrying potentials electric quantum. It is important to balance the electrolyte in the body having the impact to quantity of water in the body, blood pH, muscle activity and much other important process.

The quantity of brand isotonic drink in the market reflects the enthusiasm of people to this kind of drink. These drinks not only to prevent dehydration for athletes, also is used by ordinary people, from kids, teenager until elderly peoples. Actually is it safe to drink this kind of isotonic drink?

Not an Energy Drink

The idea of isotonic drink came from the usage of hospital using infuse to patient that have problems in consuming foods and or drinks through mouth. The content is mixture of water and glucose with addition vitamin and mineral.

Isotonic drink and energy drink actually is a two different things, although the two are so called for sport drinks. Isotonic drinks are made without caffeine and similar to fluids used by infuse in hospital to prevent dehydration. While energy drink on the contrary can cause dehydration which contains caffeine. Caffeine are stimulant can caused the energy to boost instant and having the diuretic symptoms. Therefore isotonic is more accurate to call as sports drinks.

Sports drinks are beverage that can dehydrate and at the same time replace electrolyte, carbohydrate, and other enzyme nutritious that exhaust with sweat after exercise or work out. Lacking electrolyte can caused the muscles contractions and impacting to cramp.

Lacking carbohydrate can decreased the fuel in body to muscles and source of energy is to efficient using less O2 compare to protein or fat.

During work out, the muscles will take glucose from the storage of liver. Consuming carbohydrate before and after work out can prevent the blood level to decrease and sustaining the glycogen in body. Heavy training can decreased 3 - 4 gram sugar in 1 minute. Recovery of muscle and glycogen storage in liver recuperates within 24 - 48 hours.

To obtain energy it’s not sufficient from fuel only. Many elements required such as vitamin C and vitamin B in energy drinks in markets containing caffeine than carbohydrate. Caffeine is not energy it is stimulant to boost energy. If people are sayings that energy drink can prevent from sleepy, that is caffeine.

Choose the Right Thing

A fluid can be called isotonic if it contains carbohydrate and electrolyte(i.e. Natrium, Calcium, Magnesium, Cilium, Chloride) with concentration 6 - 8 %.This concentrations having Osmolarity or degree of rheology close to serum(the fluids in blood concentrations).These concentrations like this needed to accelerate the process of  absorptions from stomach to intestine. Beside the above factors, an isotonic drink should also have the criteria, not preservatives, caffeine, etc. Other isotonic drink adding to C vitamin, and B Vitamin with the considerations that those additional vitamins required by body that has lost energy or fluids during work out or daily activity, it is acceptable as long the measurement is balance and not overwhelming.

Energy Drinks, OR Isotonic Drinks?

Not Over Consumed

Isotonic drink is to be considered safe as long as it balance, good for people who like to work out or exercise, with exercise to 90 minutes and the glucose and electrolyte extract from body. Drink a quarter of water every 15 minutes exercise and after. Giving isotonic to sick people and toddlers should be consulted to doctor first.

Source: Nirmala Magazine, ed. Feb 2009

The herbal remedies we found in herbs and spices fall into category of magnificent anti-inflammatory because they are rich in phytochemicals. Based on a study from University of Michigan, for instance, holy basil has anti-inflammatory activity compared to ibuprofen, naproxen, and aspirin.

Why are anti-inflammatory foods important for good health? Because inflammation is suspected to play a significant role in cancer, heart disease, stroke, atherosclerosis, arthritis, asthma, allergies, and more.

Do not forget to sprinkle some of these powerful healing herbs and spices on your daily intake! Here are the top 13 anti-inflammatory herbs and spices.

Herbs and spices work wonderful on inflammation in a multi-faceted holistic and balanced way without the side effects of drugs.

Excellent Herbs & Spices for a healthy living

Jan de Vries, practitioner and pioneer naturopath from Scotland, point out his pondering the essence of balance in consuming foods and beverages to attain perfect health.

1. Increase your food consumptions on vegetables, fruits, whole grains and peanuts. They should become your daily intake. It would be the best for your health if you can have 70% from daily food consumptions contain vegetables.  Besides the high fiber that is useful for digestions, vegetables contain all vitamins and mineral, and antioxidant requires by our body. For optimum result, it is better you consume vegetables in fresh condition, or minimize the process before you eat.

1. Meat can be consumed only once in a week. Consuming meat, especially red meat should be avoided, because it is hazardous to your body. They contain fatty acid and high cholesterol threat. Do not worry about getting insufficient protein just because you do not eat meat. Protein can be taken from vegetables, such as peanuts and cereal. Also, fish contains high fatty acid omega 3 like salmon, sardine and mackerel. They are giving protection for your heart from heart attack.

1. Use the healthy fat. Fat proportions should not be more than 20 - 30%. It is strongly recommended to avoid fat from meat, especially red meat. Moreover, vegetable (unsaturated fat) like olive oil and canola provide benefits to your heart health.

1. Reduce your sugar and salt consumption. Try as much as possible to avoid  sugar and salt. For instance, cookies, snacks, etc.

1. Drink a lot of water. Drink 6 to 8 glass of water per day to avoid dehydrations. Besides water, tea that is rich in antioxidant would be an ideal beverage to be taken on daily basis.

1. Time Lag between eating your meals. There should be time lag around 5 hours. The meals you eat will be digested after 4 - 5 hours and then they will leave the stomach. If there is new foods intake between this lagging times, there are two possibilities. First, the food will not digest properly. Thus, it can cause fermentation. Second, the food will not be processed properly in stomach, because they will go through intestines directly. Therefore, the effect of bacteria will ferment in your intestine and food with imperfect digestions will cause you gas in stomach and consequently, will make you feel uncomfortable.

Eating Healthy Do you have this healthy eating habit?

The weather nowadays seems so unpredictable although we have been learning so many years that certain months have particular seasons. Usually at these times, I often see many people got cold, sore throat or allergy. Here are some tips below to deal with such ailments using home remedies which I came across from a grandmother’s experience combine with my own.
Bronchitis: For mild bronchitis symptoms, use a vaporizer, take a steamy shower or turn the hot water on in the sink and cover your head and the sink with a towel (kind of a quick and easy sauna) to ease your discomfort and open up your chest.

Congestion: Red pepper, jalapenos and hot salsa will temporarily open up your nasal passages and break up congestion.

Eat plenty of varied fruits like oranges, kiwi, guava, papaya, etc. and make your plate a ‘rainbow’ plate which means regularly eat different colors of fruits.

Echinacea: drink Echinacea tea at the very first sign of a cold.

Green tea: Green tea is a natural antihistamine, which helps both allergies and colds. Choose Oolong type (Chinese green tea) or Ocha type (Japanese green tea).

Saline nose drops: Make your own nose drops by sprinkling some salt in boiled water (about 1/4 cup) to break up congestion and help you breathe (or you can get it already bottled and ready to use at the local drug store).

Sore throat, gargle salt water several times daily or gargle cider vinegar. Another way is you can chew on a cod liver oil pill, or drink hot green tea as (jujube tea).
Thyme: Make a tea with thyme or add a little to your recipes when you cook to break up congestion and relieve stuffy noses.

Vicks Up: Rub a little Vick’s Vapor Rub or another menthol salve on the upper chest, then rub what is left on your fingers under your nose, this can break up congestion and help you breathe more easily.

FACT

Brushing your teeth regularly has been shown to prevent heart disease.

I remembered when my dentist always advice me to brush my teeth every time I finish eat meals or even chew a bit of snacks or fruits. He also suggested me to carry handy toothbrush every where I go, thus including during traveling using airplane or train. I asked him the reason for this and he explained that every bit of food that has bitten by your teeth leaves a ‘trail’ and this lead to tooth decay, plague or gum disease. Moreover, if you don’t brush your teeth properly, some foods are being so stubborn enough to remain there as well.

The good news from this good habit is when I found out that a new study conducted by British and American researchers, states that warding off gum disease can directly improve the health of blood vessels by helping the flow of blood through arteries. Gum disease may provide bacteria a port of entry into your bloodstream.

Furthermore, better oral care is must for enjoying better cardiovascular health. Not only that, it is the window for your overall health. Your eyes may be the window to your soul, but your mouth is a window to your body’s health. The state of your oral health can offer lots of clues about your overall health. Oral health and overall health are more connected than you might realize. So please do not forget to brush your teeth plus floss properly and get yourself regular dental checkups, can help prevent tooth decay and gum disease.

Are you sure about your tooth brush?

No worries! I’ll help you to check it out!

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.”
~ Anne Frank ~

We are oneness with the universe.

That’s why when we feel something missing from our inner selves, our nature is the best answer for natural remedies.

Based on many recent studies, each spoon of your meal fed into your mouth and slowly chew your food will make you healthy. Bear in mind that prevention of sickness is the mother of necessity.

A slowly digest and enjoying every spoon is like meditative state of mind. Your digestion internal organ in abdomen will help the metabolism process in your body system and nothing is left out.

Let’s imagine if you eat in a hurry, you will end up eat more because you add more portion and your digestion internal organ will work extra hard. Thus it will harm your stomach in overall and most likely it will cause you stomach ache too. Eating slowly and enjoyable will make you feel full easily and longer. Nevertheless, it helps you maintain a balance weight and it is good to as part of your weight loss program.

Here’s HOW natural way to loose your weight is essential for a healthy you!

Enjoy Meals for Each Bite

The patterns of eating ala Mediterranean have known for quiet some time and it is healthy for our heart and lungs.

Recently the journal “Thorax” discovering a research into 690 kids feeding the diet ala Mediterranean in rich content of fruits, vegetables, and olive oil. The result was those kids had lower asthma and allergic illness.

Apply 3 times in a week like oranges, grapes, nuts, seeds would most likely protect your health against various ailments. Alan Greene, the author of Raising Baby Green, declares that fruits and vegetables is rich in antioxidants which strengthen the body immune system. Therefore, you will be free from ailments and diseases, include an inflicting asthma and allergic.

Healthy fat can be found in seeds, nuts, olive, fish (from Deep Ocean) i.e. salmon, tuna, and sardine. Thus, the aforementioned components are needed to infiltrate inflammation/infections. Alan Green also advice to replace our diet into simple carbohydrate (rice and wheat that has been processed) with brown rice and wheat from Whole Wheat.

Have you managed to apply other types of diet that suit your needs?

Eclectic Diet Choice appropriately according to your need!

Fire up your feedback in the comment section below!

Okay, now it’s the time for you as patient to take turn and being inside the practice room of your doctor, make sure to use your time efficiently and effectively since many people are waiting outside.

Here below are my experiences and I am sure would be useful for you:

• Before going to a doctor, while at home: make a list of questions to confirm your doubts on your illness, impact and your medication whether they are truly significant to your health in the long run, or just being merely a worriness as a patient; also make sure that you already cross checked your questions with other reliable sources as comparison for your alternative treatment or healing.
• Ask your doctor about the symptoms you feel recently, is there any relation with your prevailing conditions in connection with your ailments?
• Ask the doctor what kind of prescription of drugs or medications that you will consume, is there any side effects? If it yes, request your doctor whether he/she can gave a generic drug medication to find the suitable price. It would be the best way to find an MD Doctor who also specialized in herbal remedies or natural remedies. You will be served by “both worlds”.
• At the end of your session with your doctor (around 20 minutes), try to rephrase the questions you have asked and make a brief summary from your doctor’s explanations as to avoid misperception for your treatment, nevertheless you will not skip any doubtful you have or forgot your doctor advice. Please jot down your doctor’s explanations, thus is more accurate and you can see your notes again in case you forgot detail information.

Doctor – Patient Relationship

Do you know that if you are willing to listen someone’s complaints, it would help that person to reduce their stress, or make them feel relieve and find their own solution to their problems. Thus it is based on research by Rebecca Shafir,  an expert communication from Massachusetts, who also known as author of The Zen of Listening. According to her if someone is given a chance to discuss the occasion or event in their daily problems, it will help them to lower their blood pressure. The tense in their soul will be released and consequently, their feeling become relax. At this point, the person have a clarity in their minds to think straight and solve their problems.

According to Rebecca, peoples who have high stress will inflict their immune body systems and become vulnerable. After they have regain their self esteem -which is by sharing and talking about their problems to other people- their body system will recover and making them stronger than before. “We feel worthy if someone is listening to us, the feeling being appreciated is a life treasure”.

Our willingness to listen other people’s sharing also useful to our mutual benefit, besides strengthen the communication and emotionally connected, furthermore we will have positive impact to our health system, both physically and mentally. In fact, based on a study, helping other people definitely makes us healthier.

When our brain is in active mode, the flow stream of blood is rushing to our brain blood vessel, fire up our spirit and makes our soul glowing. Thus, it would be the healing process for our stress reliever. And that is why we need holistic remedies to complement the implementation of using home remedies or natural remedies.

What does your mind say if one day your whole body is having aches, fever, painful, sore throat and feeling weak? Most likely you are having flu and you would go for some OTC drugs for medication. Purchasing flu pills or sees a doctor requesting an injection for anti flu is a method to heal you. Do you think it is necessary to drink those flu OTC drugs, since we all aware actually there is no medication for flu?

Our society tends to consume drugs that are unnecessary to cure flu or common cold. In fact, antibiotics are made to weaken the bacteria. While flu caused by the virus. For light flu actually you don’t need drugs at all. The wise doctor will provide tips that you just take a rest and drink a lot of water, drink juice, and eat healthy food. The advice given is simple and efficient to boost your immune system. Thus, the virus can be driven away with your immune system ability to fight these bacteria and virus naturally. Further details on how you can prevent or heal common cold or flu, please go to previous posting:

10 Tricks To Avoid Flu & Survive During Cold

Home Remedies for Common Cold

Home Remedies for Sore Throat 

In difficult times like these days, you have to be smart patient and take precautions. Remember the drugs or medication pills that heal your illness also can kill you if not properly used. So here goes the saying “Don’t Let Your Body Becomes The Drugs Trash Can”

Have a healthy day!

As times goes by and you are going through aging process, it is important to have your medical check up regularly. Here below we share with you important tips for general check up. Even a car needs a thorough machine tune up at least every 6 month, and so does your body!

It would be the best for your overall health to check your body using conventional medical methods and apply your healthy living using herbal and natural remedies. Thus, it is using “both world” and if possible try to find a medical doctor for you and your family who also specialized herbal remedies.

Every 6 months

Check your teeth to a dentist and clean the plaque

Every 1 Year

Check the condition of your blood (such as blood sugar, cholesterol, uric acid etc).

Check your eye’s vision and ear.

Papsmear test: every 1 - 3 year starting from age 20 and every year starting age 30.

Mammogram test for breast: every year from age 40, every 3 years from age 20 -30.

Every 10 year

Colonoscopy: to extract and clean colon (start age 40)