September 2017 ~ The Vegan Wisdom

Constipation Cure

Constipation is more than an aggravating condition; this silent epidemic has led to more than 6 million doctors’ visits and 700,000 emergency room visits, and costs billions of dollars in direct and indirect health care costs Factors that influence your risk include eating a low fiber diet, using medications that affect your bowels, dehydration, lack of exercise and frequent use of laxatives or enemas You may reduce your risk of chronic constipation...

What happens when you go off Wheat

A renowned cardiologist explains how eliminating wheat can shrink your belly and save your health. Cardiologist William Davis, MD, started his career repairing damaged hearts through surgical angioplasty and stents. “That’s what I was trained to do, and at first, that’s what I wanted to do,” he explains. But when his own mother died of a heart attack in 1995, despite receiving the best cardiac care, he was forced to face nagging concerns about his...

Osteoporosis and the Benefits of Exercising

Osteoporosis is a common problem, affecting an estimated 1 in 10 women worldwide at the age of 60. By the time a woman reaches the age of 80, she has a 2-in-5 chance of developing osteoporosis. In most people, sometime during your 30s your bone mass will start to gradually decline. For women, that bone loss can significantly speed up during the first decade of menopause. Statistics suggest that, worldwide, 1 in 3 women and 1 in 5 men over the age...

Ginger Onion Hair Tonic for longer and stronger hair

Onions are supposed to help in hair growth. Ginger is supposed to regulate the circulation of blood from scalp to the tip of hair strands making your hair long and shiny. You can choose either as well. If your hair growth is scanty, go for Onion juice, and if, dull, split ends bother you, then go for Ginger juice. This recipe is really simple to make and you have to apply the ginger juice on the scalp, leave it on for thirty minutes and then wash...

Beauty Through Your Own Eyes

When Fred said, “I’d love to get a shave,” I knew he was on the mend. That was true about all my patients in the hospital: Once they showed interest in grooming, I knew they were over the hump of anxiety about their recovery. They felt free enough and well enough to focus on their appearance. But when I heard skinny 16-year-old Sharon say, “I’m so gross! I wish I could cut myself in half,” I knew her body image reflected her mind’s torturous state...

Loving our Children

Loving my daughter comes so easily when she wins a competition, gets high marks, listens to me, keeps her room clean, finishes her food, pays attention while studying, sleeps on time, Never raises her voice and practices dance/singing/drawing without me reminding her. That's the easy way to love.... However when I look back at my childhood I realize that *the moments I really wanted love badly were* when I scored less marks,...

Seven Food Additives that Trigger Leaky Gut

In the study, the research team examined the effects of industrial food additives used in processed food. Specifically, they wanted to see how these ingredients impacted the intestines and on the development of autoimmune diseases — conditions in which the body attacks and damages its own tissues. These food additives are added to processed foods and drinks to improve taste, smell, texture and shelf life. And what did scientists find? “…a significant...

The OPIOID Trap

More people use opioid painkillers than tobacco. That means more people are popping opioids than are smoking cigarettes or cigars, chewing or dipping tobacco or using snuff. Opioids can be prescribed for numerous conditions associated with pain. For seniors, unfortunately, those conditions are not in short supply. Painful chronic conditions that become more common with age, such as arthritis, cancers and neurological diseases — to name a few...

Easy Homemade Ketchup

Prep 5 mins cook 5 mins total 10 mins yield 2 cups A natural and simple homemade ketchup recipe that kids love. Ingredients 1 kg of organic tomato 1/2 cup white vinegar or apple cider vinegar (ACV will leave a faint apple taste) 1 tsp garlic powder 1 TBSP onion powder 2 TBSP honey or cane sugar, or about 1/2 tsp stevia powder/tincture 2 TBSP molasses 1 tsp sea salt 1 tsp dry mustard a pinch of each of the following (to taste): cinnamon, cloves,...

Fructose vs Glucose

It all starts with one word: insulin. Glucose, in the form of starch, spikes your insulin, while fructose does not directly spike your insulin. However, that does not mean that fructose is good for you and glucose is bad for you. Excess fructose goes right to the liver and triggers lipogenesis (the production of fats, such as triglycerides and cholesterol), which leads to one of the major causes of liver damage known as fatty liver disease. What’s...

Loneliness

Loneliness may be more of a hazard to our health than obesity, according to a 2017 article published by the American Psychological Association in Washington, D.C. At this very moment there are so many people feeling lonely that many nations like the United States now face what is being called a “loneliness epidemic.” In fact, loneliness is a leading precursor to depression and alcoholism, as well as all kinds of other medical concerns. Why would...

Homemade Avocado Hair Mask For Dry Hair

You will Need: a ripe avocado 1 ripe banana 1 tbsp olive oil 2-3 drops essential oil (optional) The Drill: In a medium bowl, mash the avocado and banana together until it forms a paste. Then, add the olive oil and essential oil and combine. Apply the mask to damp hair, massaging your scalp gently as you do it. Make sure to saturate all hair. Pin your hair or cover with a shower cap and let sit for 15-20 minutes. Rinse out and wash your hair...

Best of Fresh Lime

The acidity in our body can be harmful and lemon water can help reduce this. Though lemon has citric acid, the nutrients and minerals in it are alkaline in nature. Citric acid is not a strong acid and so, is easily removed from our bodies by elimination processes like perspiration. Lemon, however, stimulates the formation of calcium carbonate that neutralizes other strong acids in the body. This is helpful, especially if your diet is heavy in proteins...

Ayurveda Herbs for Women

In ancient days, women largely relied on natural products like herbal pastes and powders for their health and beauty care. Today, women have gone back to the age old traditions, and prefer home remedies and natural products, to fancy brands and synthetic chemical-based products. This is because they have noticed that herbal formulations can tackle several chronic conditions, and are also quite affordable. Particularly, in India, there is rich flora...

Why You Need to Detox Your Body

The human body is much like a car’s engine in that it tends to get “gunked up” from constant exposure to toxins. Cleaning chemicals, environmental pollution, pharmaceutical drugs, processed foods – all these and more place a constant burden on the body’s natural cleansing systems. While these systems are designed to capture and flush as many toxins out of the body as possible, they can (and do) become overwhelmed by the immense, constant toxic onslaught...

How to Use Rice Water for Beauty Treatments

Rice water is one of those all natural treatments that has been used for thousands of years to cure a multitude of things. Among those things are hair and skin treatments. Rice water contains tons of vitamins and minerals which penetrate the skin and nails to cure things such as irritated and dry skin, and damaged hair. If you’ve never used rice water before, you should definitely start! Here’s how to use rice water for beauty treatments! How to...

Building a Better Brain

People over the age of 65 have some sort of age related memory loss, creating real problems in their day to day lives from issues with concentration to the inability to complete tasks, like paying bills. And, of those people, 15% will go on to develop Alzheimer’s, and have their life stripped from them… memory by precious memory. It’s no wonder many of us are more scared of getting Alzheimer’s than of being diagnosed with cancer. There are a couple...

Aloe Vera Gel

From Nature’s beauty parlor comes the magical Aloe Vera! Skin and hair care, anti-ageing, healing powers and more are the services that this unique plant dishes out. A type of cacti, it is widely found in India and has been used for medicinal purposes and skin conditions since years. Aloe Vera, when applied increases the water content in your skin leaving it hydrated. It especially works wonders on oily and acne prone skin. Full of anti-oxidants...

On Depression

Vegetarians were nearly twice as likely to suffer from depression as meat eaters, even after adjusting for variables like job status, family history and number of children Vegetarians tend to have lower intakes of omega-3 fats, vitamin B12 and folate, which could affect depression risk. So as vegetarians or vegan, we must supplement our diets with these key nutrients. The association may also be related to higher blood levels of phytoestrogens,...

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