Natural Health Solutions

Nourishment with an evening primrose oil is currently being studied all over the world as a treatment for aging problems, arthritis,, acne, diabetes,symptoms of menopause, premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Evening primrose oil has so many preventive and therapeutic qualities that it has become a standard part of recommendations of many herbalists.

Our body requires certain fats and oils for proper functioning. Evening Primrose Oil contains a high concentration of a fatty acid called GLA. There are two fatty acids that are essential – Omega 3 and Omega 6.

They are essential because our body cannot function without them but unfortunately it cannot produce them like it does for other fatty acids.  Therefore, we need to consume them in our diets. Now GLA is an Omega 6 essential fatty acid found abundantly in evening primrose oil. Read the rest of this entry »

Natural solutions for healthy hair: try these foods and you’ll see the difference. From simple shine – - to lustrous locks – - more and more evidence is showing that diet can make a difference. When it comes to protecting the “mane attraction,” eating right can definitely help your hair:

We wash it.. cut it .. color it ..and style it. But hair stylist John Chacchia says bad hair days may come as much from what we do on the inside…. as on the outside.

Hair is a direct reflection of what we put in out bodies. So if you want to minimize those bad hair days, experts say there are six things you may want to add to your diet. Here are the foods to add to your daily diet today to get a gorgeous head of  healthy hair in six months to a year. Read the rest of this entry »

Now, the power of  dietary fiber  in plums helps to prevent a lot of diseases. Plums contain insoluble fiber, the secret weapon for improving sluggish digestion, easing hemorrhoids, and lowering colon cancer risk.

A single plum contains more than half a gram of fiber and more than one gram of sorbitol (a carbohydrate that our bodies do not absorb well). Large amounts of sorbitol can cause diarrhea. Plums also contain the laxative, diphenylisatin. No wonder they prevent constipation. Read the rest of this entry »

Coping stress: down with stressful events, up with healthy brain says Dr. Rajita Sinha, a professor of psychiatry and neurobiology at Yale University School of Medicine and director of the Yale Stress Center.

Stress could be taking a toll on both your brain and your body. Adverse life events that cause stress can lead to shrinkage in parts of the brain responsible for regulating emotions and metabolism.

In addition, she and her team found that it’s not individual traumatic events that have the most impact, but the cumulative effect of a lifetime’s worth of stress that might cause the most dramatic changes in brain volume. Read the rest of this entry »

This is what benefits of garlic are about, both healing and preventive. Green Med Info has listed more than 150 health benefits of garlic, such as:

• Inhibiting cholesterol accumulation
• Reducing risk for heart attack and stroke
• Helping fight drug-resistant bacteria
• Lessening cadmium-induced liver damage
• Providing protective effects against cancer Read the rest of this entry »