Ginger tea can reduce stress, aid digestion

Packed with antioxidants, the humble ginger has a whole range of health benefits and is a 'must-have' in your kitchen!

Even one sniff of ginger tea can improve your mood, relieve stress and is great for digestion and aiding the absorption of food, experts have claimed.

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Stomach acid is crucial to human digestion and when stressed its production can break down.

Hot water with a slice of lemon and chopped ginger is an excellent way to stimulate digestion, experts believe, the Daily Mail reported.

"Ginger can help as it stimulates the taste buds, triggering digestive secretions," dietician Alice Mackintosh said.

"Ginger contains a potent antioxidant, gingerol, which helps cleanse the harmful chemicals our bodies produce when we're worried, so ginger can help psychological stress too," Mackintosh was quoted as saying by the paper.

Ginger can also impede motion sickness, reduce inflammation, fight common respiratory problems and encourage normal blood circulation.

For ladies, placing a hot towel drenched in ginger tea on stomach provides relief from menstrual cramps, experts have advised.



Source : Indian Express

Adding Milk to Tea Destroys its Antioxidants..??

Next to water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. Chock-full of antioxidants, vitamins and other compounds, tea has been linked in a variety of studies to stronger immune function and reduced cell damage. Some research suggests tea may prevent cavities, improve blood sugar levels and perhaps provide cardiovascular benefits.

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In many parts of the world, the custom is to serve tea with milk. But lately researchers have been surprised to find that adding milk may strip tea of some of its beneficial effects.

In a study published in The European Heart Journal, researchers had 16 healthy adults drink cups of freshly brewed black tea, black tea mixed with a small amount of skim milk, or boiled water. Then the scientists measured the effects on vascular function.

Compared with water, black tea “significantly improved” arterial function, the researchers found, “whereas addition of milk completely blunted the effects of tea.”

The scientists repeated similar tests in mice and found the same results, which they speculated may be a result of proteins in milk binding to and neutralizing antioxidants. “Milk,” the researchers wrote, “counteracts the favorable health effects of tea on vascular function.”

A study published this year looked at whether the effect was limited to dairy products. It was not: Proteins in soy milk had the same effect as regular milk on antioxidants in tea.


Source : New York Times

Energy Drinks May Improve Heart Health

Contrary to popular belief, drinking energy drinks containing caffeine and taurine may actually improve health and boost heart function in healthy people, a new study reveals.

 

"With energy drinks containing both caffeine and taurine concerns have been raised of adverse effects on the heart. While caffeine increases blood pressure, studies suggest that taurine may stimulate the release of calcium from the sarcoplasmic reticulum," Dr. Matteo Cameli, a researcher at the University of Siena in Italy and co- author of the study, said in a statement today.

Italian researchers measured the blood pressure, heart rate and left and right ventricular function of 35 healthy participants with an average age of 25, and found that the function in the left and right ventricles that pump blood to the body increased an hour after drinking an energy drink.

Researchers presenting at the European Society of Cardiology conference in Munich, Germany also found that consuming energy drinks increase diastolic blood pressure by 6 percent, but not heart rate and systolic blood pressure.

Cameli said that the improvement in heart function may be caused by taurine, an amino acid in many energy drinks that is known to stimulate calcium production in muscle.

"Our study was performed in young healthy individuals at rest. Future studies need to focus on whether such benefits persist after long term consumption of energy drinks, and what the effects are of consuming these drinks during physical activity," Cameli said.

"It will also be important to determine which of the effects are induced in patients with cardiac disease to further our understanding of the potential benefits or risks of energy drink consumption," he added.

However other experts warn that too much caffeine can make people sweat and experience heart palpitations.

"People are showing up in the emergency room and doctor's office after having these drinks and not feeling well," said W. Douglas Weaver, former president of the American College of Cardiology, according to Bloomberg. "Now we can see some of the physiological effects."

Source : http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles/11761/20120827/energy-drinks-may-improve-heart-health.htm

Impact Of Breast Implants Breast Milk

Has a lot of risk presented by experts on breast implant surgery or. But how the risks in terms of raising the baby?

Breast surgery or breast implants are a way for some women to beautify her shape. Yet according to the study, women who do this risk can not breastfeed her baby.

You will remember, some time ago, Victoria Beckham breast implants removed shortly after the news of her pregnancy came to light. Perhaps these facts below that drive the mother of three children do it.


Breast milk has been proven as the most complete nutrition for newborns. Health experts worldwide have advised mothers to give milk to her baby for six months to two years.

Excerpted from the Care Fair, breastfeeding can be disrupted when a woman decides to change the shape of her breasts by surgery or implants. Medical research states that, breast implanted women who have had a different sensibility. Excessive breast sensitivity will cause a sense of comfort while nursing. Pain and pain will be felt extreme these women.

Not only that, in breast implants also can interfere with milk flow. So the baby can not get the maximum nutrition for the mother's milk production is too little.

The risk of an accident while operating can also make milk production to be interrupted. In the breast are the nerves that trigger the production of the hormone oxytocin and prolactin. Both hormones that affect milk production. When operating, some nerve damage are likely. That's what ultimately makes milk production impaired.

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7 Healthy Drinks for Health

Water is the key to healthy living. Drink six glasses of water a day can prevent you from developing the disease, and reduce wrinkles. Water can even increase metabolism. However, when bored with plain water, you can also try other drinks.

1. ORANGE JUICE (Pure Orange Juice)
Protects against heart disease. Antioxidants in orange juice helps protect your heart by fighting inflammation that can cause damage to blood vessels. Consider this: People who eat fast food with a glass of orange juice have fewer substance artery-damaging free radicals in the blood compared with those who ate burgers and fries with white water, a study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Is not that a good reason to choose the juice? But note also the content of one cup of sugar-containing 21 grams and 122 calories.


2. Chamomile Tea
Can make you calm. People who drank chamomile extract every day for two months to feel the anxiety level in him is reduced, a study report from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Easy to get in on the mellow mood in the evening with a cup of chamomile tea.


3. Cranberry Juice
Can prevent gum disease and urinary tract infections. natural compounds in the juice can prevent gum disease by preventing bacteria from the mouth. Cranberry juice also provides 39 percent of the daily requirement for vitamin C per 8 ounces, increase good cholesterol levels and keep your urinary tract either. One sip berry so smart!



4. Milk Chocolate
A glass of skim milk chocolate provides a large content of carbohydrates and protein, helps you recover after exercise. Athletes who drank reduced levels of post-exercise muscle damage after four days of intense exercise than those who drink water or other recovery drinks, according to findings presented at the meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine in Seattle. That means less pain and fatigue, so you can go back to the gym and start practicing again. Simply stir 2 tablespoons chocolate powder or syrup that has less than 20 g of sugar into your milk and drink.



5. Green Tea
Can keep your weight stable. Mice that drank green tea at the trial as much as 22 percent have a low likelihood to gain weight than those who just simply drinking ordinary tea, according to a study in the International Journal of Obesity. Polyphenols in this beverage makes metabolic inside you and makes it easier to burn fat in the body. Plus, Antioxidants in green tea may reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease. Try colder in summer!



6. Tomato Juice
Can reduce the risk of cancer in your body! The content of the fruit is full of vitamins and lycopene, to protect from cancer. Try it with the addition of spices, celery sticks and no-vodka for cocktails at any time during the day!



7. Black Tea
Can help ward off skin cancer. The content of flavonoids, antioxidants carry anticancer agents. Research shows that sipping a cup of tea or more a day may lower the risk of squamous cell carcinoma in the body, the cells contained in skin cancer, as much as 30 percent. Hot or cold, black tea is a delicious addition to how to care who your skin - and a good way to wake up thanks to the caffeine content in it-so your kettle panaskanlah every morning!