News by nature – Page 21

18Oct

By CatherineNo Comments

Wellness

10 Natural Hair Ingredients for a Healthy Mane

Are you are a label reader? It is the best way to guarantee you are purchasing a healthy product. Here is a breakdown of harmful ingredients to look for in hair conditioners and why you want to steer clear. 1. Sulfates 2. Dimethicone 3. Ethanolamines 4. Polyethylene glycol (PEG) 5. Synthetic fragrance 6. Synthetic preservatives It’s crazy to use any of the junky ingredients above when natural ingredients give you gorgeously healthy hair without the health risks. Plant oils, nut butter, essential oils, and other naturals hydrate, smooth, and repair hair. Here are a few you’ll find in natural hair conditioners. 1.Coconut Oil - the best at not only hydrating hair but getting to the root of hair damage. The oil has the ability to penetrates the hair shaft better than any other ...

16Oct

By CatherineNo Comments

Diet, Wellness

New Food Trends That You Should Look Out For

Food experts have identified the super-healthy foods—and concepts—that are hitting supermarket shelves, and have the potential to become the next açaí berry or coconut water. Here’s a closer look at them. The next superfood: moringa The leaves contain high levels of calcium, potassium, and protein, as well as vitamins A, B, C, D and E. Because the trees can grow in both tropical and temperate climates and produce leaves year-round that can be eaten fresh, cooked or dried without losing their nutritional content, moringa is becoming an attractive The next buzzword: regenerative grazing “Grass fed,” once a progressive term in the food world, has become a mainstream buzzword used to attract consumers who want to eat beef that doesn’t come from cows raised in feedlots. There is a g...

11Oct

By CatherineNo Comments

Botanicals, Remedies, Wellness

Herbal medicine: A relic of the past or a signpost of the future?

Dr. Carol Barron has been researching the National Folklore Collection at University College Dublin (UCD) consist of 3,000 bound volumes of folklore to see what people used when they were sick. “For colds, people took garlic or onion, and the fumes worked like a eucalyptus decongestant,” says Barron. “We see elderberry wine feature heavily. But it’s not wine as such: they mean elderberry with sugar and some blackcurrant. This is straightforward vitamin C. Fruit comes up a lot. We find cures which say to use fresh fruit.” Some of the cures are simply fascinating in their own right, she says. “A lot of the herbs were either boiled in milk or mixed with butter or lard as an emollient, ointment or cream. Mint was commonly used.” One cure that comes up, again and again, is a spider’s w...

7Oct

By CatherineNo Comments

Wellness

The Miracle Food: Apple Cider Vinegar

Using apple cider vinegar to assist dieters in losing weight quickly is simple enough. It will first involve collecting the right ingredients. If you are intrigued in using apple cider vinegar as a fat loss aid, you will have to buy the following: chamomile tea, cinnamon powder, raw honey along with the all-natural apple cider vinegar. Here's the power recipe: heat up a cup of chamomile tea, add one or two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar, enough raw honey to taste along with a touch of cinnamon powder. This hot mixture must be consumed twice a day, thirty minutes before meals. If you would like something a little easier, consuming two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar, thirty minutes before every meal, may also do the trick. Boldsky Limitless Living

4Oct

By CatherineNo Comments

Diet, Wellness

Schizophrenia natural home remedies: Diet and exercises

Often known as alternative or complementary therapy, natural remedies for schizophrenia help maintain a person’s overall health while improving their condition. Ketogenic diet with high fat/low carb intake may help treat schizophrenia - characterized by high fat and low carb intake, this may help treat schizophrenia. The ketogenic diet has long been successful in treating epilepsy in children since the 1920s. The researchers believe it is due to the fact that such style of eating provides an alternative source of energy and helps avoid abnormal cell function Aerobic exercise can significantly help people cope with schizophrenia - An alternative study has found that aerobic exercise can significantly help people cope with schizophrenia. Lead researcher Joseph Firth said, “Using exerci...

1Oct

By CatherineNo Comments

Remedies, Wellness

Top 5 Cures to Harvest from the Forest

No matter what the reason for looking to the great outdoors to find alternative medicine offerings for home remedies, opportunities appear to abound. Using trees and plants for healing is also often referred to as holistic medicine, survival medicine, or wilderness medicine. Learning how to properly identify trees, being aware of potential poisoning issues, and consulting a doctor before embarking on any natural medicine regime, is highly advised. Making a mistake when identifying a tree or ingesting even natural ingredients which are only safe to use topically, could become a deadly proposition. Top 5 Medicinal Trees Oak - heralded as the "tree of life". Tea brewed from the bark of the white oak tree has been used to treat sore throats, diarrhea, and mucus discharge. Tea made fro...

29Sep

By CatherineNo Comments

Wellness

Natural Colors: An Array of Options and Health Effects

Consumer demand has driven numerous manufacturers to reformulate their products to remove many synthetic colorings, regardless of their proven safety. Global sales of natural colors have been projected to be more than US$600M annually, up approximately 29 percent from 2007; natural colors now account for over 40 percent of the global color market.As the demand for natural colors increases, manufacturers must increase development efforts to ensure the variety, versatility, tinctorial strength and stability of these value-added functional ingredients. Clinical studies demonstrate the health-promoting potential of natural colors such as anthocyanins, carotenoids, turmeric and others. Since fruit and vegetable intake is suboptimal for most of the U.S. population, the addition of natural col...

26Sep

By CatherineNo Comments

Remedies, Wellness

Ready for the Bad Weather? These 20 Foods are Immuno Boosters!

There is little way to prevent cold or flu that occurs during weather fluctuation; but eating healthy, so that your body remains strong and prepared to deal with adverse conditions, can really help you gain immunity. Here is a list of foods that'll help in boosting your immunity during fluctuating weather. 1. Ginger - antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties 2. Curd, Yogurt - contain friendly bacteria to improve immunity. 3. Cheese - conjugated linolenic acid strengthen immunity 4. Oily Fish - omega-3 fatty acids make body strong against cold, flu & other serious ailments 5.Zinc supplements - Cooked shellfish is a good option 6. Foods containing vitamin C 7. Garlic - sulphuric compound in garlic called allicin forms potent antioxidants 8. Anise Seeds (Saum...

24Sep

By CatherineNo Comments

Remedies, Wellness

Slow down the aging process, these natural alternatives to botox can help!

Aging is an inevitable part of life that leaves undesirable effects on the body, inside and out. Weaker muscles, thinning hair, fine lines, and wrinkles are but a few signs that give away a person’s age. Wrinkles and other signs of aging can be managed with the use of natural products and certain changes in everyday life. These are safe, don’t cost much, and give health benefits that are good for the entire body: 1. Alpha hydroxy acids - These are a group of acids found in different kinds of fruits and plants. Their effects on the skin are derived through both consumption and topical application 2. Oils - extracted from different natural sources deliver a wide range of health benefits when applied to the skin, and their efficacy is doubled when used in conjunction with other oils. Na...

23Sep

By CatherineNo Comments

Diet, Wellness

Stress May Undo Our Healthy Food Choices, Study Finds

Despite the basic truth of the cardinal rule of nutrition—you are what you eat—some caveats have been discovered in recent years. For instance, it’s not just what we eat, but it’s when we eat, what we drink, and what other habits we’re engaging in on a daily basis. And a new study in the journal Molecular Psychiatry finds that our stress levels may actually undermine our healthy food choices. Why stressors would affect how our bodies respond to food is an interesting question. One possibility is that the boost in inflammation that comes from stress might act to counteract the effect of healthier oils since it essentially mimics the physiological effects of unhealthy fats. (Unhealthy foods, like certain fats, processed food, and excess sugar seem to raise inflammation in the body.) The s...