Flaxseed -Health benifits

In the 8th century,the french king Charlemagne passed a law requiring citizens to consume Flaxseed so that they would be healthy subjects!

"Whenever Flaxseed becomes a regular food item among the people,there will be better health-Mahatma Gandhi"

Just include flaxseed in your diet and see the result,you wont believe the changes..............

Why should you add flaxseed to your daily diet?

Flaxseed is the richest source of Omega-3 essential fatty acids,the good fats (oils) which are essential for optimum health.Flaxseed is a miraculous gift from nature that offers proven benefits to numerous parts of your body and has the positive influence on almost all aspects of your life.Regular use of flaxseed oil is a great way to maintain a healthy heart,control your sugar,and is beneficial for your brain,eyes,skin,joint,your immune system and your overall health.

What are the benefits of Flaxseed?

Flaxseed is the richest plant source of Omega-3 which helps you to:

1. Keep your heart healthy-take control of cholesterol and triglycerides.
2. Normalize blood pressure levels
3. Promote blood sugar balance
4. Enhance join comforts flexibility
5. Support healthy kidney and liver functions
6. Strengthen immune system
7. Boost energy and stamina
8. Increase fat burning
9. Heighten mood and mind clarity
10. Ease menopause and PMS systems
11. Maintain radiant,healthy skin,hair and nails

How can I incorporate flax into my diet?

There are many ways to incorporate flax oil into your diet.  Flaxseed oil is delicate oil that is not appropriate for cooking because high heat will destroy the beneficial Omega-3.However,it is excellent when added to foods that have already been cooked, for example, drizzled over steamed vegetables, mixed in with rice, grains, potatoes or pasta, and even added to oatmeal and eggs. Also try adding flax oil to your smoothies, yogurt or as a substitute for(or in addition to) other oils in salad dressing. You can also add it to natural nut  butters or mix your own spread with half butter and half flax oil.   We find that adding a little bit of flax oil to just about anything is a great way to get flax into your diet. For the added benefits of flax fiber, try adding ground  flax seed as well.Just make sure that you DO NOT HEAT FLAXSEED OIL.

You can use flaxseed powder as well ,which has a nice nutty taste,can be sprinkled on your cereal,salads or other dishes.Or siply mix with juice/milk,water and drink.It can also be added to wheat flour,upto 15% for making nutritious chapatis

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Healthy tips to healthy eating

Now a days every buddy is conscious about good health,
perfect figure,balanced weight etc......so here are some of the healthy tips
to get perfect......Just try to add in your routine it will really help........

Think of water and exercise as food groups in your diet:

Water:Water helps flush our systems of waste products and toxins, yet many people go through life dehydrated—causing tiredness, low energy, and headaches. It’s common to mistake thirst for hunger, so staying well hydrated will also help you make healthier food choices.

Exercise: Find something active that you like to do and add it to your day, just like you would add healthy greens, blueberries, or salmon. The benefits of lifelong exercise are abundant and regular exercise may even motivate you to make healthy food choices a habit.

 Maintain a healthy weight:

The weight that's right for you depends on many factors including your sex, height, age and heredity. Excess body fat increases your chances for high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, some types of cancer and other illnesses. But being too thin can increase your risk for osteoporosis, menstrual irregularities and other health problems. If you're constantly losing and regaining weight, a registered dietitian can help you develop sensible eating habits for successful weight management. Regular exercise is also important to maintaining a healthy weight.

Put protien as perspective:

Protein gives us the energy to get up and go—and keep going. Protein in food is broken down into the 20 amino acids that are the body’s basic building blocks for growth and energy, and essential for maintaining cells, tissues, and organs. A lack of protein in our diet can slow growth, reduce muscle mass, lower immunity, and weaken the heart and respiratory system. Protein is particularly important for children, whose bodies are growing and changing daily.

Try different types of protein. Whether or not you are a vegetarian, trying different protein sources—such as beans, nuts, seeds, peas, tofu, and soy products—will open up new options for healthy mealtimes.

 Beans:  Black beans, navy beans, garbanzos, and lentils are good options.

 Nuts: Almonds, walnuts, pistachios, and pecans are great choices.

  Soy products: Try tofu, soy milk, tempeh, and veggie burgers for a change.
  

Avoid salted or sugary nuts and re-fried beans.

Downsize your portions of protein: Many people in the West eat too much protein. Try to move away from protein being the center of your meal. Focus on equal servings of protein, whole grains, and vegetables.

Focus on quality sources of protein, like fresh fish, chicken or turkey, tofu, eggs, beans, or nuts. When you are having meat, chicken, or turkey, buy meat that is free of hormones and antibiotics.

Add Calcium for strong bones:

Calcium is one of the key nutrients that your body needs in order to stay strong and healthy. It is an essential building block for lifelong bone health in both men and women, as well as many other important functions.

You and your bones will benefit from eating plenty of calcium-rich foods, limiting foods that deplete your body’s calcium stores, and getting your daily dose of magnesium and vitamins D and K—nutrients that help calcium do its job.

§  Dairy: Dairy products are rich in calcium in a form that is easily digested and absorbed by the body. Sources include milk, yogurt, and cheese(fat free).

§  Vegetables and greens: Many vegetables, especially leafy green ones, are rich sources of calcium. Try turnip greens, mustard greens, collard greens, kale, romaine lettuce, celery, broccoli, fennel, cabbage, summer squash, green beans, Brussels sprouts, asparagus, and crimini mushrooms.

§  Beans: For another rich source of calcium, try black beans, pinto beans, kidney beans, white beans, black-eyed peas, or baked beans.

  Eat more grains, fruits and vegetables:

These foods give you carbohydrates for energy,plus vitamins, minerals and fiber. Besides, they taste good!
Try breads such as whole-wheat, bagels and pita. Spaghetti and oatmeal are also in the grain group.
Bananas, strawberries and melons are some great tasting fruits. Try vegetables raw, on a sandwich or
salad.

Eat a variety of nutrient-rich foods:

You need more than 40 different nutrients for good health, and no single food supplies them all. Your daily food selection should include bread and other whole-grain products; fruits; vegetables; dairy products; and meat, poultry, fish and other protein foods. How much you should eat depends on your calorie needs.

Happiness-be happy always

Happiness is difficult to define and even harder to measure. We experience it as a combination of elements, in the same way that one wheel or spring inside a watch doesn't keep time — it is a result of the synchronicity of the whole. As a relative state, happiness is what psychologists call our "subjective well-being" and, fortunately for us, it is a state that we can actively change for the better.
These are a few ways which will make you feel happy:
1.Play with kids :according to psycologists playing with kids or just watching them has positive effects on your mind.
2.Mediatate: or Sit in a room for few minutes and think about the good things.Count your blessings once a week and this will make you happy.
3.Play a sport: Work out as hard as you can. Take a walk so your stress will take a hike. Moving your body releases endorphins, the quintessential feel-good chemicals found in your brain.
4.Be Happy and positive:Happiness can lead to success, rather than just the other way around. Happy individuals are predisposed to seek out new opportunities and set new goals.
5.Do new things or try to do old things in new ways :Learn new things like new game
6.Talk about the good and bad things with others :Talking about things makes your heart lighter and helps you overcome negative thoughts.Talking about a negative experience made the emotional intensity of that memory fade faster than if the event had not been recounted.
7.Be flexible and have balance between work and home :People who establish boundaries between work and home are more connected to their families and have less conflict than those who integrate the two.
Happiness is not rocket science,it is a state of mind.It all depends on you to make yourself happy.

Michelle Obama's Secrets

The First Lady’s number one health rule: Give yourself permission to be happy.

Ascariasis

Introduction  Roundworms are almost worldwide in distribution and are abundant in the surface layers of soils. Roundworm infections are common and frequently go unnoticed, but several species cause serious diseases. It is a helminthes infection of the small intestine. A person becomes infected by swallowing infective eggs. Symptoms are variable, often vague or absent. Live worms passed in stools or vomiting are frequently the first recognized sign of infection. Pulmonary signs too are present. Heavy parasite burdens may cause digestive and nutritional disturbance. Causative organism- Ascaris lumbricoides  Mode of transmission • By ingestion of infective eggs from soil contaminated with human faeces containing eggs, but not directly from man to man. Salads and other foods eaten raw are the common vehicles. Contaminated soil may be carried long distances on feet or footwear into house, transmission of infection by dust is also possible. • Children of 3-8 years whose fingers become contaminated while playing on open ground are also the source. The worms can live 1-2 years in their host.

Symptoms

Symptoms are ordinarily mild

1. Live worm passed in stools

2. Pulmonary signs
     
     • Loeffer’s syndrome with irregular respiration, spasms of coughing
     • Fever and pronounced blood eosinophilia

3. Digestive, nutritional disturbances

     • Abdominal pain
     • Vomiting
     • Restlessness
     • Disturbed sleep

4.Serious complications
      
     • Bowel obstruction
    

 • Occasional death due to migration of adult worms into liver, gall bladder, peritoneal and rarely from perforation of the intestine.

Diagnosis

Tests to diagnose this condition include:

     • Stool ova and parasites exam
     • Abdominal x-ray   
     • Complete blood count.

Treatment

Piperazine hexahydrate or piperazine salt (citrate, adipate, or phosphate) can be used for the treatment of Ascariasis. During pregnancy, unless infection is heavy and ladies health is at risk, treatment is generally postponed until after delivery of the baby. 

Prevention

• Provision of adequate facilities for proper disposal of faeces and prevention of soil contamination in areas immediately adjacent to houses, particularly in play areas of children.

• In rural areas contribution of privies should be done in such manner as to prevent dissemination of ascarid eggs through overflow, drainages. Treatment of night soil, such as composing, should be practiced where such facilities are lacking and in areas where human faeces are used as fertilizer.

• All persons (particularly children and food handlers) should be educated about the use of toilets facilities and washing hands after defecating. Encouragement of satisfactory hygienic habits on the part of children in particular, should be done. They should be trained to wash their hands before handling and not to eat food which has been drooped on the floor.

Childhood obesity

Childhood obesity is a condition where excess body fat negativelyaffects child health. The factors effecting childhood obesity are hereditary, no physical activity and no proper diet. Children with obesity, suffer from some of the diseases, that earlier used to affect only adults, like diabetes. Obesity can be controlled by maintaining a strict and balanced diet. Child obesity increases the risk of obesity in adults. Inactivity usually coupled with excessive TV watching or sitting in front of a computer game must be changed for the child to eventually reach the long term weight goal. The conclusion that sedentary hobbies have a profound inclination toward obesity in children.

Low sodium diet

Sodium is found in salt. 5 gms that is 1 teaspoon of salt contains about 2,000 – 3,000 mg of sodium. The recommended daily intake of sodium is 5gm that is around 2300mg. Limiting the salt in our daily diet is low sodium diet. Too much sodium in your diet is not good for health. It may cause your body to retain excess fluid. Limiting the salt intake is important for patients with kidney disease, liver and heart disease.

Normal sodium intake recommendations:

0 - 12 months	1 gm
1 - 3 years	2 gm
4 - 6 years	3 gm
7 - 10 years	5 gm
Above 11 years	5 to 6gms

Role of sodium:

The amount of sodium in the body is regulated by kidneys. When there is too much of sodium in the body kidneys filter some out and the excess sodium is excreted in the urine. When the body doesn’t have enough sodium, the kidneys help to conserve sodium and return the needed amount into the blood stream. When kidneys are not working properly or not able to filter, sodium begins to build up in the blood. Sodium in the blood pulls up  out and holds the water from cells in the body and leads to edema. This in turn increases the volume of the blood and puts pressure on the circulatory system.

Benefits of low sodium diet:

• A low sodium diet for kidney patients is necessary to prevent fluid retention.
• A low sodium diet helps to reduce blood pressure.
• A low sodium diet is good for people who are at the risk of heart diseases.
• It helps in management of hypertension.

Tips to follow a low sodium diet:

• Choose the foods which are naturally low in sodium.
• Don’t add too much of salt to you food.
• While you shop , read the nutrition fact labels so that one can determine sodium content in the food.
• Avoid fat free dressings as these contain lot of sodium.
• Avoid eating pickles.
• Avoid foods containing preservatives especially in canned foods and processed foods as they have high sodium content.
• Limit use of condiments that are high in sodium.
• In the market salt substitutes are available such as potassium chloride and magnesium chlorine. However some people may not tolerate the salt substitute so one should be careful in adding those to their dishes. Use unless a healthcare provider prescribes.
• Frozen prepared food items should be avoided.
• Avoid soups as they are high in salt.
• Salad dressing and dip contain high in salt should be avoided.
• French fries, potato chips , papads should be avoided as they contain salt.

Low Sodium Foods:

Fruit drinks, Apple, Banana, Blackberries, Broccoli, Cherries, Black Berries, Coffee, Chick Pea, Walnuts, Straw berries, Peaches, Prunes, Rice, Cucumber, Watermelon, Wheat,  Honey, Barley, Jam, Pop corn unsalted, Nuts unsalted, Puffed rice.

Medium Sodium Foods:

• Egg limit 1 per day
• Limit one choice per day should be around ½ serving. celery, carrots, Mustar greens,Frozenpeas, Turnip.
• Low fat milk limits 2 cups per day.

High Sodium content foods:

Buttermilk, Olives, Pickles, Canned vegetable juices, salted butter, salted margarine, sauces, Marinades, Salt biscuits, Potato chips, cheese, Instant pudding, Soft drinks, Fish ,oysters.