Green tea is a simple and ancient beverage that has been researched and proven to have enormous healing properties. Not amazingly, the Internet is chock-full of information and resources on green tea.

In all my research on green tea I have yet to discover even one negative thing written about it, all reports have been favorable! Green tea is reported to be a preventative for all sorts of ailments including many cancers, heart attacks, strokes, gum disease, cavities, and bad breath.

Green tea is a wonderful alternative to morning coffee. If you …

Men usually don’t consider it a big deal to carry a few extra pounds on their frame. However, if those extra pounds are around the middle, then you could be sporting a problem bigger than your waistline. Excess belly fat can affect the health of the rest of your body.

What do you know about belly fat? Well, for men, extra abdominal fat occurs as you age. In women, during child-bearing years, fat accumulates in the hips, thighs and also in the abdomen. For them too, extra belly fat is a …

Harmful Chemicals
It seems that harmful chemicals are everywhere. Industries have been fined for dumping them into the water supply. The dangers of pesticides used in farming have been widely publicized. And improper disposal of certain materials has caused hazards in landfills. But did you know that most of us can find multiple dangerous chemicals right in our own homes?

We’ve all heard about the precautions we should take to keep young children from ingesting household cleaners and other chemical compounds. But swallowing them isn’t the only way that we can experience …

Activated charcoal powder is an amazing substance and there are many benefits of activated charcoal. It adsorbs more poisons than any other substance known to mankind.
Did you know about these benefits of activated charcoal?
It can adsorb lead acetate, strychnine, DDT, many drugs (including cocaine, iodine, penicillin, aspirin, phenobarbital), and inorganic substances (chlorine, lead, and mercury).

Activated charcoal powder can adsorb thousands of times its own weight in gases, heavy metals, poisons, and other chemicals; thus it renders them ineffective and harmless. As this absorption ability is one of the major benefits …

Through the simple process of touch, Reflexology is so effective in the healing process. In the hi-tech world that we live in, touch has taken second place to machines.

Physiotherapists are now using machines instead of their hands. Doctors use machines to scan bodies and no longer rely on their hands for diagnosis. People have forgotten how to hug one another. They now shake hands. They walk past one another in the streets and do not even greet each other.

Electric blankets are used to keep warm in bed – human arms …

In the right hands sunlight is a medicine. Throughout history it has been used to prevent and cure a wide range of diseases, and a few doctors still use its therapeutic properties to good effect. However, at the present time it is widely held amongst certain sections of the medical profession and the population at large that the damaging effects of sunlight on the skin far outweigh any benefits.

Public health campaigns reinforce this message in an attempt to curb the annual increase in skin cancers. Any illusions about tanned …

Help yourself to give up Smoking

As you read this, you are probably filled with anxiety with the very thought of being without that reassuring packet of cigarettes in your bag or pocket! You might have been smoking for years. Maybe this is the first time you are seriously considering “giving up” or perhaps you have tried before and failed. Whatever the case may be – don’t be discouraged, you are one of millions!

In my opinion, not enough recognition is given to the fact that nicotine dependency is a serious …

Psoriasis is a chronic skin condition which results in flaky red areas of the skin which can become itchy and painful.

At this time there is no definitive cause for psoriasis although, researchers to believe that there is a combination of genetics and environmental factors which are the causes. Because there is no cause identified there is also no way to prevent the illness or condition from happening.

However, researchers and doctors do have a number of treatment protocols which can help individuals to control the skin condition that so often …

The elderly individual who faces a future full of pain, immobility or decreased function is very likely to become depressed as he/she contemplates the future. Chronic diseases can lead to desperation, sadness or feelings of hopelessness that can lead to depression.

As we grow older and face these issues we are likely to be doing so with less support due to loss of family members and friends to death or lifechanges that separate us from those we care most about. Depression is a common bedfellow to the diagnosis of a …

You doctor will tell you that tobacco and smoking cause a rise in blood pressure. There are other factors that will increase your blood pressure such as obesity, lack of exercise, poor nutrition and moderate alcohol intake.

So why does smoking cause a rise in blood pressure? Smoking injures the blood vessel walls and speeds up the process of hardening your arteries which ultimately increases your blood pressure. So, even though smoking doesnt immediately increase your blood pressure it leads to the changes in your arteries that will …