Natural Health Solutions

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 »

Trash it or stash it to stay healthy? Here’s what to save or toss for healthy you because nothing lasts forever, and some stuff lasts only a month!

*   In the bedroom:

-   Pillow.  Stash it, but wash and cover it.

Your head piles up gross sweat, drool, dander and dust mites.But instead of throwing it away, invest in a washable allergy case, which blocks mites and their leftovers. This is the advice of Amy Newburger, M.D., a dermatologist in Scarsdale, New York. Read the rest of this entry »

Nature’s remedies rival prescription medicines for excessive gas and bloating and they are completely safe. An effective way to fix the problem with excessive gas naturally is with *1. Honey or Dill Oil With Honey

Warm up 6 to 8 ounces of water. You don’t want it to be boiling. You want it to be drinkable. Add 2 tablespoons of honey and ¼ teaspoon of non-irradiated cinnamon powder and mix well.

It will take a minute for all of the honey to dissolve. Boiling honey is unhealthy. You want it to be raw to be beneficial so make sure the water has cooled a bit.

Drink your honey beverage before you eat dinner to help with indigestion. It will relieve your gas and will cure stomach aches.  Feel free to drink your honey beverage before every meal to feel less bloated.

You can also use dill oil and honey. Take a drop of dill oil and 1 tsp. of honey and mix together. Take the dill oil and honey mixture right after a meal and it should prevent and relieve flatulence. Read the rest of this entry »