Dig into summer's favorite vegetable (well, fruit): researchers in the U.K. say tomato consumption may lower a man's risk of prostate cancer by a staggering 20 percent. The health benefit may be related to reselycopene, a powerful antioxidant found in tomatoes. "Our findings suggest that tomatoes may be important in prostate cancer prevention," said lead researcher, Vanessa Er, in a press release.
Source: "Tomatoes may reduce prostate cancer risk, study says," August 27, 2014, FoxNews.com.
As we enter the heart of cold and flu season, consider boosting your immunity naturally. There are many foods and simple techniques that will help you and your family fight off "superbugs." Follow these tips for a healthy, happy winter season.
Eat a quality diet including vitamin C and zinc supplements.
Exercise regularly - take the dog for a walk, try out show shoeing or skiing, go sledding with your kids or hit up a local gym.
Wash your hands before eating and after using the restroom or touching potentially contaminated items.
Keep wounds clean and covered. When wounds don't heal properly, seek medical attention.
Avoid sharing personal items such as clothes, towels, soap and razors.
Promptly change wet and sweaty clothes.
At the gym, use your own yoga mat, shower with flip-flops and sanitize fitness equipment.
By Regina Drueding, MD, Certified Meditation Instructor
Meditation makes us more stress resistant, and reverses the physiologic damage of stress. The stress response affects our physiology, our emotions, our mental capacity and our chemical balance in the body – it directly influences how our immune system works, and we all know how important our immune system is when battling cancer or infections, for example.
Meditation makes us more resistant to stress, can reverse some of the damage that has been created by the many substances that are released in our body during stress, and will bring us profound mental and physiologic rest. It creates a state of restful alertness, which also has been coined the "Relaxation Response”.
OTTAWA, ONTARIO - Today, Parliamentary Secretary Eve Adams on behalf of Rona Ambrose, Minister of Health, hosted a toy safety demonstration to highlight the importance of making safe toy choices when shopping for children this holiday season and encouraged Canadians to visit healthycanadians.gc.ca, a one stop shop for consumers.
"When choosing the perfect gift for a child in your life this holiday season, start by reading the toy label," said Parliamentary Secretary Adams. "Unsafe toys can put a child at risk for illness or injury, so it's important to make sure that the toys you select are well made and age-appropriate."
When buying toys for children of any age, consumers should always follow these safety tips:
Purchase age appropriate toys, as toys for older children may contain small parts or other hazards that may make them unsafe for young children;
Read and follow the age labels, warnings, safety messages and assembly instructions that come with a toy; Look for sturdy, well-made toys; andLook for toys that come with contact information for the manufacturer or importer.
Keeping a healthy weight—and especially losing weight—is not easy for many reasons says Dr. George Traitses. For one, easy access to extremely tasty high-calorie foods pushes many to overeat. Living with stress—a common source of negative emotions—also makes it difficult to keep healthy habits. In fact, according to www.webmd.com, up to 75 percent of overeating is driven by emotions. Stress in particular has the power to push people toward overeating and other unhealthy behaviors. Research shows that stress forces people—particularly those who usually restrain their eating—to eat more and to choose high-fat foods over healthier ones. The high calorie foods serve as self-medication, producing a relief from negative emotions. Of course, the relief is only temporary—the effect of chocolate, for example, disappears after only three minutes, according to studies.
A diet rich in soy and whey protein, found in products such as soy milk and low-fat yogurt, has been shown to reduce breast cancer incidence in rats. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Surrender to the temptation of food!
When you're following a diet, one of the most common mistakes you commit, when you surrender to the temptation of food and spoiling your diet in a certain meal, is the immediate feeling that there is no need to keep your diet for the rest of the day, due to the non-application of it in that meal!
Here lies the problem! If you rely on this idea, then you will continue in the remaining days, and you'll have an argument to spoil the diet. Therefore, I advise you to allocate one day a week to eat what you want, in order to prevent breaching the diet and invoke perseverance in the next day.
It is popular in Japan today to drink water immediately after waking up every morning. Furthermore, scientific tests have proven its value. We publish below a description of use of water for our readers. For old and serious diseases as well as modern illnesses the water treatment had been found successful by a Japanese medical society as a 100% cure for the following diseases:
Headache, body ache, heart system, arthritis, fast heart beat, epilepsy, excess fatness, bronchitis asthma, TB, meningitis, kidney and urine diseases, vomiting, gastritis, diarrhea, piles, diabetes, constipation, all eye diseases, womb, cancer and menstrual disorders, ear nose and throat diseases.
METHOD OF TREATMENT
1. As you wake up in the morning before brushing teeth, drink 4 x 160ml glasses of water
2. Brush and clean the mouth but do not eat or drink anything for 45 minute
3.. After 45 minutes you may eat and drink as normal.
4. After 15 minutes of breakfast, lunch and dinner do not eat or drink anything for 2 hours
5. Those who are old or sick and are unable to drink 4 glasses of water at the beginning may commence by taking little water and gradually increase it to 4 glasses per day.
6. The above method of treatment will cure diseases of the sick and others can enjoy a healthy life.
The following list gives the number of days of treatment required to cure/control/reduce main diseases:
1. High Blood Pressure (30 days)
2. Gastric (10 days)
3. Diabetes (30 days)
4. Constipation (10 days)
5. Cancer (180 days)
6. TB (90 days)
7. Arthritis patients should follow the above treatment only for 3 days in the 1st week, and from 2nd week onwards – daily..
This treatment method has no side effects, however at the commencement of treatment you may have to urinate a few times.
It is better if we continue this and make this procedure as a routine work in our life. Drink Water and Stay healthy and Active.
This makes sense .. The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals not cold water. Maybe it is time we adopt their drinking habit while eating!!! Nothing to lose, everything to gain...
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.
A serious note about heart attacks:
· 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.
· 60% 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...
A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it to everyone they know, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life.
Please be a true friend and send this article to all your friends you care about.
WHAT: Meagan’s Walk: Creating a Circle of Hope is celebrating 12 years of creating hope for children and families affected by paediatric brain tumours. This annual Gala will celebrate its many accomplishments, which include raising more than $2.7 million for brain tumour research at the world-renowned The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Canada’s leading centre dedicated to advancing children’s health.
WHEN: Friday, February 1, 2013 - 6 p.m. Cocktails - 7 p.m. Dinner
WHERE: Atlantis at Ontario Place, 955 Lakeshore Blvd. West, Toronto, ON
WHO: Media are invited to schedule interviews with the following people:
Denise Bebenek - Meagan’s mother and founder of Meagan’s Walk
Dr. Eric Bouffet - Paediatric Neuro-oncologist and Director of the Brain Tumour
Program at SickKids
Dr. James Rutka- Neuro-surgeon and Director of The Arthur and Sonia Labatt
Brain Tumour Research Centre at SickKids
Kim Stockwood – Canadian Acclaimed Singer Songwriter
About Meagan’s Walk:
In 2000, Denise’s daughter Meagan was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour at four years old. This was something the family knew little about. It was not until they lost her six short months later that they learned brain tumours are the leading cause of cancerous death amongst children and teenagers up to the age of 20. To Denise, it was a shocking statistic, and she knew something had to be done to get it under control.
It was the start of an idea that became Meagan’s Walk. Denise wanted to honour her daughter and raise awareness and funds for paediatric brain tumour research in Canada. Over the past 11 years, over $2.7 million has been raised through Meagan’s Walk and its many events throughout each year. For all the information about the walk, the gala and other events visit www.meaganswalk.com.StarBuzz, Toronto
Hypnosis and NLP can help people make changes in their lives at the subconscious level. Once the change is accepted by the subconscious mind unconscious behavioral changes are the result. There are three most common reasons a person comes to see a hypnotist, to stop smoking to lose weight and to reduce the stress in their lives. There are hundreds if not thousands of other potential uses of hypnosis from pain management to improving focus, from improving your communication to the elimination of specific fears. On the edge there are other uses for hypnosis. Uses such as entertainment and past life regression.
Metabolic Rate refers to the rate one expends calories in a given period of time. Essentially, it is the rate by which we expend energy through the chemical breakdown of “burning calories”. Not only do we spend calories during periods of work and during exercise, we also burn calories at rest simply to keep our cells alive. This is a vial point to understand! What I am referring to is known as the “Basil”, or resting, metabolic rate. In fact, you burn more during your ‘resting hours’ than you do during periods of exercise! For example, one hours worth of tennis or basketball could burn about 600 or so calories. One hour at rest may burn only 90 or so. But you might only play one hours worth of tennis three or four times a week, while your resting metabolic rate is what you burn 24/7. It is easy to see that 90 times 24 times 7 is significantly greater than 600 times 4. (90 * 24 * 7 = 15120 vs. 600 * 4 = 2400). The point I am making is not that exercise is useless, it is the importance of the bazil metabolic rate in determining the caloric balances within an individual.
Breast canceroccurs due to the irrepressible growth of cells in thebreastthat invades the nearby tissues and spreads throughout the body. These collections of irrepressible growth of tissue are called tumors or malignant tumors. However, not all tumors arecancerous.
What do you do when a healthy smile needs more than basic brushing? Dr. Jordan Appel, a Toronto-based dentist, answers some of the most pressing questions.
Dear Dentist:
Occasionally I find I get a strong, sharp pain in my teeth. It's worst when there is a cold wind or I have hot drinks like coffee. A friend suggested switching to a sensitivity toothpaste, but I'm not sure because I don't want to give up on things like breath freshening, plaque removal, cavity protection or whitening. What's a girl to do?
Sincerely,
Ms Sensitive
Dear Ms Sensitive:
You're not alone in your sensitive situation. In fact, 44% of Canadians suffer from tooth sensitivity and it's one of the most common complaints I hear from patients. While it can be triggered by cold or hot food and drinks, as well as sweets, sours and cold air, there are lots of things you can do to help prevent it.
Sensitivity can also be prevented by keeping the gums from receding by using soft toothbrushes and applying a moderate amount of pressure when brushing. Brushing too strenuously can damage teeth and gums, so being gentler is an important step.
When you brush, also choose a toothpaste specially formulated for sensitivity, like Sensodyne iso-active. This new type of Sensodyne toothpaste is a great solution for anyone who suffers from even mild tooth sensitivity. With twice the foam of regular toothpaste, it penetrates hard to reach places, plus it has the benefits of cavity protection and plaque removal with brushing, and it comes in a gentle whitening formula. You don't have to compromise and you can prevent the
cringing from sensitivity.
Lastly, make sure to visit your dentist at least twice a year so that you can catch any dental issues as early as possible.
Author: It is very necessary to plan out a workout schedule to reduce weight. With proper exercise routine, you will also have to consider upon the importance of natural diet solution to maintain your energy levels. Fresh fruits are the essential part of a natural diet especially if you are trying to lose weight.
Lisa Klain
It is very necessary to plan out a workout schedule to reduce weight. With proper exercise routine, you will also have to consider upon the importance of natural diet solution to maintain your energy levels. Fresh fruits are the essential part of a natural diet especially if you are trying to lose weight. Most of the fruits are rich in fiber and hence work to improve the metabolic activities of your body. They also provide all the essential vitamins and minerals to help you attain an attractive body. Papaya is one of the significant fruit that is not only known for its fat burning effects, but it is also a tasty fruit that can be taken as a diet supplement.
As a rule of thumb, the earlier a musculoskeletal injury is treated, the sooner healing can begin. An untreated injury can easily slide from “acute” into “sub-acute,” and even into “chronic.” “Find Your Game” means achieving optimal function at any level of fitness. That includes everyone from athletes to office workers, young and old. The Ontario Chiropractic Association (OCA) encourages everyone to use the month of October to resolve to be your best, feel your best, and perform your best. Chiropractic: Athletes’ Not-So-Secret Weapon Athletes know that chiropractic gets them back on their feet after injury. Doctors of chiropractic (DCs) support athletes in high school, college and in professional sports. DCs work at events such as the Olympic Games, the World Games, the Pan-American Games—wherever they are needed.
StarBuzz, Toronto-
Author: Ellen Dyson-Embracing Depression-Depression is a disorder that disrupts the lives of its victims and renders them incapable of enjoying life. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in ten American adults say that they feel depressed but the real figures are likely much higher. That's to say nothing of American children, of whom three to eight percent are estimated to be clinically depressed. A further 20 percent of young people report feeling depressed but do not quite meet the criteria for the disorder.
StarBuzz, Toronto-Author: Meredith Henner-Most individuals are desperate to lose weight and do it fast. Perhaps it's for a wedding or a high school reunion, or maybe it's totally because they ate too much food over the winter and now need to visit the beach and not look like a sausage in a two piece.
When the clock is ticking, we search for a fast way to get rid of those extra pounds so we can look our very best. But is it realistically achievable to lose weight in only a week, and if it is, is it safe? Well, that depends on how you decide to lose the weight.
Enter a Juicer Diet
A juice cleanse is a fantastic way to shed extra pounds. However unlike other ways you might have struggled through before, juice fasting has a myriad of benefits that are some major icing on an already-sweet cake.
One incredible benefit of a juice diet is that by drinking freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juices only, you are giving your body a much needed break from the act of digestion. Have you ever thought about how much energy it takes to digest all of your food? You'd be amazed. This is why on a juice cleanse people might notice that the body's energy goes way up. The energy you normally use for the act of digestion can now be used for other things, such as detoxifying cells, healing other organs of disease and getting rid of dangerous inflammation. You can't get these benefits on an Atkins diet, I promise.
How Much Weight Can You Honestly Lose on a Juice DetoxCleanse?
To answer this question we have to decide how long of a juice diet we are talking about. A person can do a 1 day juice diet, a 3 day, 5 day, 10 day and even 30 day cleanse. Obviously the length of cleanse will determine how much weight loss is doable.
Let's take a look at a 10 day juice diet, as that is a realistic time frame. That is to say most people, even newbies to juice diets, have the will to do a 10 day fast and 10 days is also the perfect amount of time to really see and feel all of the amazing benefits.
By doing a 10 day juice diet, a person's body body will lose weight in 3 specific ways: water, waste and fat. Any shorter than 10 days and your body will mostly lose weight from water and waste loss only.
Shedding Water
Numerous men and women roll their eyes at water loss as anything significant because they assume it's not as good as fat loss. But let me tell you from personal experience - much of what makes us fat is not fat, it's bloat, pure and simple. You'd be stunned at how better you look, and how much better your clothes fit simply by losing 5 pounds of water weight.
Loss of Fecal Matter
An individual would be amazed at how the body eliminates old waste. Multiple days will have gone by without an individual eating any dense food, but the body will keep evacuating solid waste. In addition to the fact that this weight loss flatten the stomach, but the toxins are being released which will makes a person healthier.
Loss of Fat
The fat loss will start around days 7 - 10. At this point your body will be forced to turn to stored energy to fuel itself. It goes without saying that an individual will have a whole bunch of new energy as well, so physical activity will be more fun. The more you move, the more you will burn.
It's safe and fair to say that during a 10 day diet, an individual can expect to lose anywhere from 8 to 12 pounds, give or take. Okay, guilty, 10 days is actually more than a 7 day week, but I believe those 3 extra days are definitely worth it!
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Meredith Henner is the creator of The Juicer Diet blog, a site dedicated to teaching the many health benefits of a juice cleanse.
StarBuzz, Toronto-Author: harrytan-Trying to get your body in shape is not a very easy task and it will take a lot for you to get where you want to be. Follow a few words of advice and be patient because the road ahead will be extremely long and hard. This article contains some great tips to get you started on your weight loss journey and hopefully, have some words of encouragement for you that will give you the inspiration to continue.
OTTAWA - The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, and Chris Alexander, Member of Parliament for Ajax-Pickering, announced that, as of today, retailers must only sell cigarette and little cigar packages that display the new, larger health warning messages.
If you are looking for that perfect Bollywood Smile, porcelain dental veneers may be exactly what you want. Whether it is that beautiful white smile like Sunny Leone, or Bipasha Basu’s more natural and elegant smile, or Aasad Mirza’s big and bold look, the possibilities are endless. The procedure is surprisingly simple, and the results are always dramatic. Similar to artificial acrylic nails, porcelain dental veneers are bonded onto your existing teeth.The shape, colour, and alignment of these veneers is customized to match your facial type and to exceed your expectations.
We typically treat the 8 upper front teeth by first removing a very thin layer of enamel to create the necessary room required for the veneers. This first appointment which includes an impression of your teeth usually takes 1 hour. The following week, a second appointment is required to bond the custom-made porcelain veneers onto each of your 8 front teeth. This second appointment takes approximately 1 hour as well.
These veneers are permanently attached to your teeth and are not removable. You must brush and floss them daily to ensure a long lasting result. Because they are made of the finest porcelain and are not porous, they are much less prone to staining than your natural teeth. Ask your cosmetic dentist for more details.
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