Boost Your Health this Thanksgiving

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This article seems to me interesting  (from a mail):

Don’t be fooled by their size. Cranberries are the ultimate super fruit packed with nutrients and antioxidants. From combating urinary tract infections to promoting gastrointestinal (digestive) health, the lists of health benefits are endless. Make sure you don’t pass on the cranberries this Thanksgiving and enjoy cranberries as a juice or cocktail, in pie, jam or sauce. In addition to cranberries, life insurance quotes are another great way to add security to your healthy lifestyle.

ChicagoHealers.com Practitioner Dr. Helen Lee shares how cranberries can boost your health this Thanksgiving.

·         Urinary Tract Health: Studies in 1994 showed that women who drank cranberry juice were less likely to develop urinary tract infections. At the Experimental Biology conference in 2002 a study showed that 8-oz of cranberry juice cocktail prevented E. Coli from adhering to the wall of the bladder. Cranberries contain a structurally unique form of proanthocyanidins which prevent bacteria such as E. Coli from adhering to the urinary tract and thus can be released through the urine.

·         Antioxidants: Antioxidants are compounds in the body which have the ability to stabilize free radicals which cause cellular damage, increased degeneration/aging/disease, as well as increase risk of cancer. A study published in the November 19, 2001 edition of the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry showed cranberries to contain more antioxidant phenols than 19 other common fruits & vegetables.

·         Gastrointestinal Health: Cranberry has been found to inhibit some food-bourne bacteria from attaching to the mucosal lining of the digestive tract.  A study in Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition also showed that cranberry juice prevents the common bacteria responsible for many stomach ulcers, Helicobacter pylori, from adhering to the gastric wall.

·         Cholesterol Health: A study in British Journal of Nutrition showed 8% increase in HDL (“good”) levels of 30 overweight men with slightly elevated LDL.  Increased levels of HDL has been shown to decrease risk of heart/cardiovascular disease.

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November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Month

Here you will read some advises I found interesting.They are from one of the mails I receive so numerous in the last period. I want to repeate: Be careful with these advises, I personally can't prove them. I only find them interesting. That's all.

The other warning: even if they speak too much good about green tea, it's not so foolproof as some persons want to make us believe. Pls, use moderation if you want to begin to cure yourself with it and read this my post: 10 Things to Know about Green Tea. It's very important! Read it, this post, before you begin the cure!

November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Month, bringing attention to the 5.3 million Americans who are affected by this disease. With the baby boomer generation rapidly aging, Alzheimer’s will continue to affect millions more lives. Green Tea has a popular reputation for its health benefits and is known for benefiting conditions such as cancer, high cholesterol and cardiovascular problems.

Green tea has once again proved itself as a ‘super’ tea. An antioxidant in green tea (a flavonoid found in plants) may fight the memory robbing effects seen with plaque deposits in Alzheimer’s. ChicagoHealers.com Practitioner Dr. Martha Howard, MD recommends drinking green tea to help prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s for the following three reasons.

1.The antioxidant known as epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) significantly reduces the formation of beta-amyloid proteins in the brain. An abnormal buildup of beta-amyloid plaque in the brain is implicated in the nerve damage and memory loss seen in Alzheimer’s disease.

2.Tea inhibits the activity of the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE) which breaks down the chemical messenger or neurotransmitter, acetylcholine. Alzheimer’s is characterized by a drop in acetylcholine.

3.Green tea hinders the activity of the enzyme butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE). Green tea has Catechins in which half is made up of EGCG, which is 20 times more powerful than vitamin C as an antioxidant.

General Picture of the Obesity in USA in 2010

As you know, I like to publish interesting articles other bloggers send me. This mail I received just a moment ago. I opened the page and was astonished. It's really a great job made by Megan that I wanted absolutely present to you.

Hi Liudmila,
I just visited your site (lazy-yogi.com). I think you've done a great job with it!
My name is Megan and I run a health and fitness blog at http://ellipticaltrainers.org.

I recently created an infographic about obesity statistics (some of them will surprise you… seriously) on my blog that I thought your readers might like:

Source: EllipticalTrainers.org

6 Reasons of Overweight (Researchers Say)

Excessive weight is the problem of many persons today.This time I don't speak about my personal feelings of the non more slender body but about the results of different scentific researches. Here are they in some words.


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1 -First of all, lack of Vit. D is one of the main reasons.
Wait! Wait! Dont run in the pharmacy! Vitamin supplements do not help. To absorb it, our body needs exposure to ultraviolet radiation -to the sun rays in other words. And the body in this case (lack of Vit.D) becomes flabby and flaccid.

2 -What you eat in the moorning (till 12:00), your body uses for life necessities. If you have a good breakfast, your organizm does not need other calories for 5-6 hours.

3 -Don't hurry! It's the most sure way to remain without beautiful waist. When you eat in passing, you accumulate 2-3 times more calories than you need a day because you do not notice how much you eat.

4 -Live without credits. They are very high stress producing factor. You work much, have not time for normal relax, the awareness to have credits is just stressful itself -and your mind finds confort in chocolates, bisquits etc.

5 -married men have not stimuli to run and to be attractive, they eat regularly and good -and become similar to the arctic seals after some years of married life.

6 -Did you know that 0,5l of orangeade contains quantity of sugar equal to 6 tea-spoons? You can absorb 2000 kal ONLY with drinks (milk, fermented milk etc included), researchers say. The best are normal water (mineral water contains salts keeping it in the body), herbal infusions and green tea.
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Healthy from the Morning

After  week thaat I began to do my yoga exericses (pls read my previous post) I can be satisfyed with my results. First of all I have less neck- and back- pains. They were very disturbing and I just could not move from the aches I had. Second (and the fiirst by the degree of satisfaction) is that the cuscion of the fat on the belly seems to be more little. Well, it was promised by havasana. :-)

Now, if you begin to do asanas, you have to notice that mornings are the hours when it's difficult to reach the same resullts than you have in the daytime. It's normal, don't be afraid. Knowing it, we do not try to break our body. Here I found the video where there are asanas to do in the morning. But before you watch it I tell you an interesting fact about the morning state of any person.

Did you know that we are 1,6 cm longer in the morning?

How I Do Asanas

What has to happen in the world to make me do asanas? Do you know it? Neither I don't know. But the last days when I was completely unable to live and the incredible increase of the weight carried me to begin to make so loved exercises.

You will not believe but I love to do asanas. If I would have more time, I would surely do them every day. Here are some of my preferite

dhanurasana



sarvangasana



And finally halasana



I have to confess you, I feel much more alive after I do my asanas. From other side, they say, the "upside down" positions are very useful and good for health generally. Specially for those who, like me, sits all days long. And, they are good to turn back to original state of our bodies. :0)))

By the way, if you do practices, try do some preferite asanas before you begin the practice. The mind finds the necessary state easliy and fast.

Dalai Lama Crying when Teaching Bodhicitta

This video is very beautiful. I was really delighted to watch it. And the teachind is very nice too. I wrote the text you can see in English there to read it more easily. So, you can enjoy it too.

...to direct our mind towards them, this shows we have great merit. For the Lama it's fortunate to have this opportunity to teach about Bodhicitta. For you, the desciples, also this occasion for bodhicitta the altruistic mind cherishing others over oneself you are fortunate to hear the teaching on it. Whoever generates this altruistic intention will find themselves setting out on the path to true happiness. We all want happiness and don't want suffering. Right? If you wish for real peace and harmony there is nothing more one could ask for than reflecting on bodhicitta.

Usually, I do believe and even say that, as recited in Lama Choepa: You are the Guru, the Personal Deity, the Angel, the Dharma Protector, as I do not seek any refuge other than you from now until my enlightenment please hook me with your compassion in this life, in the interim state, and throughout future lives. Relieve me from the fears of existance and peace, grant me all feats, befriend me forever, and avert all obstacles.

It is bodhicitta, this good heart, which is all these.It helps us in this life and in the in-between state.Also if one is able to maintain this altruistic mind at the time of dieing it is absolutely certain that the next life will be good. Why?
A bad rebirth is due to the negative actions and these are purified by the altruistic intention. An excellent higher form of rebirth has to come about through merit and there is nothing greater than the altruistic intention to gain merit.

Please hook me with your compassion in this life, in the interim state, and throughout future lives. This delivers us from our existence in samsara. How? We are tossed around in samsara by our ego-clinging wich destroys ourselves and others. Since the intelligent Bodhisattvas are able to see it how would they ever appreciate ego-clinging at all? How would they ego-clinging overpower them? Therefore bodhicitta helps us to get out of samsara. Although bodhicitta is not cultivated just for nirvana, it happens as a natural side-effect of this practice. It is only bodhicitta wich can release us from the one-sided peace of nirvana. No other path can do it.

Regarding "grant all blessings" bodhicitta fulfills all our goals in this life and in the next, temporary and ultimate. Even for our ordinary needs like sleep, cultivate the altruistic mind and you will be happy.
When you are happy, you will be helthier and you will sleep more peacefully, and your food will taste better, everybody will be friends with you, even birds and animals. How happy! You will live longer. You may not age permanently or die untimely death.

If you could think bodhicitta, this good heart, though you are young, you will be in harmony with everybody. In middle age you will not be troublesome but helpful to all. If you have been practicing bodhicitta than even when you become old, you will be calm and peaceful. Otherwise, if you become one of those elderly people who always make a nuisance, your own children will complain. Worse still, the children might think, "How awful! These oldies haven't died yet!" Even children, if they are kindhearted, receive more presents! Children who are always fighting, or are cruel lose out. They get no presents and nobody will take care of them.

If you are kind, you will be happy in childhood, middle and old age. You will be happy in this life and in future lives.
A kind heart is an offering to please the Buddha. Develop it so that all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are delighted. Right? And our kind heart will be our friend forever, as we pray in Lama Choepa: plese be my friend forever. It is kindness which can avert the obstacles. I talked about it before.

So far, I haven't met people trying to harm me. If they did come to me, I am not sure if I can react with bodhicitta. However when I'm relaxed, I do think, "Who are my enemies? Where are they? I feel sorry for them." All beings are our "friends". We should not exclude enemies, beings who hinder us or evil beings. (from my blog "Yungdrung Bon Blog")