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Boost Your Health Simply by Alkalizing your Diet!
June 15th, 2010 in Guest Articles, Today
Boost Your Health Simply by Alkalizing your Diet!
You’ve probably heard of alkalizing your body by now and how it will boost your health. But in order to fully appreciate how an alkaline body helps in our daily living, it is imperative to know the components of an alkaline diet and the importance of maintaining the pH of our body.
pH refers to the measure of acidity or basicity of a solution. More accurately, it pertains to the extent of dissociation of hydrogen ions of our body. If we consume the right types and amounts of nutrients and minerals conducive to our body’s development, our body is able to maintain the right pH balance. But you may wonder for a moment what exactly are the ‘right’ nutrients and minerals? This is where alkaline diet comes into the picture.
The concept of alkaline diet is ultimately about foods that leaves an alkaline residue in our body after digestion. Our body’s pH balance fluctuates with each intake of food, and in order to maintain it at the optimum pH, our body must have enough alkaline reserves which can only be obtained if we include at the minimum 80% of alkaline foods in our diet.
How do we classify foods into acidic or alkaline foods?
What you need for an awesome yoga workout
June 14th, 2010 in Guest Articles, Today
What You Need for an Awesome Yoga Workout
These days, yoga is becoming more and more popular. people are beginning to understand the various benefits of yoga mainly to do with:
- Healing properties
- Weight reduction
- Mental health
- Beauty/ Skin condition
- Sex
Now, there are even fashions that have been specifically created for yoga, such as yoga pants. We see all kinds of people carrying around their yoga bags. You know the ones: They look like fabric tubes with a shoulder strap. But, what is really in these bags, and how much gear does one really need to be able to practice yoga?
Green Cigarettes
June 9th, 2010 in Health, Today
Green Cigarettes
Yes! Friendly-tips has taken a “U turn” today & we are taking about the benefits of smoking.
I started with the intention to write on Tips to Quit Smoking, but soon realized that it is easier said than done. Especially people who smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day will find it extremely hard to kick this habit.
A good friend once joking said : “ It is so easy to quit smoking, I have quit so many times.” 
Here is a boon for such friends & for their friends ( passive smokers like me) – Green Cigarette. Commercially these products are known as Electronic cigarettes or alternative cigarettes. The benefits of this modern day wonder are:
Famous Chili
June 8th, 2010 in Health, Today
Famous chili
The famous chili is back in news. This time it’s not for bringing tears in your eyes or for burning your tongue, but for its health benefits.
We had long known chili to be Rich in Vitamin A & C ( Did you know that chilies have more vitamin C per gram than Orange ?). Another astonishing fact about chili is that it’s rich in beta carotene too. The best know benefit of chilies is its ability to reduce pain. Eating chilies will aid release of endorphins which in turn reduces pain.
The famous chili is back in news for another good reason- “ Eating chili will help in weight loss.”
Ways to reduce bad cholesterol
May 7th, 2010 in Guest Articles, Today
The Lazy Man’s Way to Reduce Bad Cholesterol
a. The Myth of Good and Bad Cholesterol
There are actually two types of cholesterol, which is not a known fact for people who misconstrue it as something bad. HDL is the name of the good cholesterol, while the bad one is called LDL. A bloodstream with too much LDL will result in plaques in the arteries. Over time, blood will have a difficult time travelling your arteries because the opening becomes narrow thanks to the amount of bad cholesterol in it. Dietary cholesterol is not the culprit for your having high cholesterol in the blood. Rather, it is copious amounts of saturated fat along with Tran’s fat that is to blame for the tightening of the artery. To keep your cholesterol on the low level, you should eat plenty of unsaturated fats and fibrous foods, as well as exercise often.
b. Cholesterol Numbers and What They Mean
On an average, adults will usually need to have cholesterol checks every five years. Each time you get a cholesterol check it will yield four results – total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol and Triglycerides. You will probably need more exercise and dietary change if you go above or below the healthy levels.
Total Cholesterol – less than 200 mg/dL (5.2 mmol/L)
LDL Cholesterol – less than 100 mg/dL (2.6 mmol/L)
HDL Cholesterol – greater than 40 mg/dL (1.0 mmol/L)
Triglycerides – less than 150 mg/dL (1.7 mmol/L)
c. Can Vitamin E Protect Your Heart?
Vegetable oils, nuts and leafy vegetables are good sources of Vitamin E. Vitamin E is not proven to stop you from getting a stroke, but it can lessen your heart disease risk level.
d. Five Great Foods to Lower Your Cholesterol
1. Oatmeal and Oat Bran: These contain a high amount of soluble fiber, which can lower LDL.
2. Fish: Fish is a great source of omega 3 fatty acids, which lowers LDL and raises HDL.
3. Nuts: Not only are nuts high in fiber, but they contain the healthy fats you need to keep LDL in check.
4. Plant Sterols: This is found in foods like margarine, salad dressing, orange juice, and functional cookies. 2 grams per day will lower your LDL by 10-15%.
5. Soy: This popular meat replacement can lower LDL by up to 3%.
e. Plant Sterols and its Healthy Benefits
Foods such as VitaTops Muffin Tops, Benecol Spread, granola bars and fat free milk are rich sources of plant sterols. You can easily help your heart when you start eating foods packed with plant sterols and avoid eating foods that contain saturated fats. A saturated fat-filled diet is not canceled out by this. Exercising often as well as eating healthy food will keep your cholesterol in check.
About the Writer – Deborah H. Land writes for cholesterol reduction diet site, her personal hobby blog she uses to help people lower bad cholesterol levels.
Flax seed benefits
April 9th, 2010 in Health, Today
Health benefits of flax seed & flax seed oil
Flax seed health benefits are established beyond any doubt. If you are looking for preventive medicine, flax seed benefits are second to none.
Here is a look at 5 benefits of flax seed:
How to study better & faster
April 7th, 2010 in Lifestyle, Today
How to get better grades
Study better & have fun too! Yes it is possible to get better grades even if ones is of average IQ. In fact getting better grades has got do very little with your intelligence & IQ score.
This article may not help you immensely if you are reading this just a day prior to exam. “How to get better grades at school” is an ebook that may help you in that case. Here are friendly-tips to help any student get better grades at college & school:
3 tips on how to get better grades & have fun
Summer Food Recipes
March 28th, 2010 in Health, Today
The Cooling foods article dealt with the need to eat different types of foods for different seasons & as promised, friendly-tips is back with two healthy summer recipes.
You can instantly download 100′s of summer recipes here
In this article we are going to see two delicious summer recipes, a simple cold soup & a fantastic drink; both of which can be made with simple ingredients available in the summer season.
Quick summer recipe No 1 : Indian Raw Mango Cooler ( Aam Ka Panna)
Forex Trading Tip #2
March 21st, 2010 in Today, Useful Sites
Forex tip for beginners
Forex market might look quite lucrative, but trading in forex needs a lot of precautions. May be even more than Stock market. This is mainly because of the power of leverage. In most forex platforms you can leverage your money upto 200 times. While this means more money for you if your tarde does well, this also means that you are risking more with each trade. Here are few tips for beginners with e-toro.
1) Do not, DO NOT trade with real money unless you have mastered the forex trading with demo account. I believe that e-toro is the simplest to understand trading platform for fx trading. You can download the free demo account of etoro by clicking the link below.
Click here for a free forex practice account
Cooling foods
March 21st, 2010 in Health, Today
Summer foods that cool our body
Summer of 2010 is just settling in. Yahooanswers are already getting clogged with questions on nose bleeding, sleeplessness & indigestion. Such questions get many sympathetic responses but very few address the root cause of the problem i.e. body heat. We need to eat differently in summer as compared to winter. In fact one needs to eat cooling foods in summer
Tell tale signs that your body is heating up is when you notice any of these symptoms:
