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A Lifestyle Approach to Remedy Snoring
If you want to remedy snoring, you have to find the underlying cause. Snoring is not an affliction like the common cold, where you wake up one morning and you’ve just got it. It is something that normally arrives slowly over time. Most people can’t remember the day and date that their snoring started. It was sometime in my mid 30’s or some such vague description is the normal response to a question on its arrival.
The lifestyle approach to remedy your snoring, doesn’t treat it as a condition or a disease. But rather treats snoring as a symptom, or a warning, that the body is out of balance.
I like to think of snoring like the ground proximity alarm in a modern jet aircraft. (The one that goes “WOOP! WOOP! PULL UP! PULL UP!”, if the aircraft gets too close to the ground when it’s not supposed to). If you are a pilot, you’d prefer not to hear it. But if you did, you would be grateful for the warning before dire consequences arrived. I’m sure the warning siren must be very annoying when it is activated but a lot less painful than the alternative. Likewise snoring is annoying, but not responding to the warning may have more serious consequences.
The above example may seem extreme but the reality is there has been an enormous amount of research in recent years linking snoring to a range of serious conditions such as hypertension and coronary disease.
The human body is a truly amazing machine. It has the ability to self regulate a complex array of interacting chemical and electrical processes within fine tolerances. This ability of homeostasis means the body can keep the internal systems (e.g. blood pressure, body temperature, acid-base balance) in equilibrium despite changes in the external environment.
However if the body is subjected to persistent extreme conditions outside the normal bounds of function then it may not be able to rectify the situation without help. For instance if your body gets cold, it starts to shiver to maintain its core body temperature. But if your body is subjected to sub zero temperatures without any external heating then shivering alone will not be able to stop the inevitable deadly conclusion. But the act of shivering is, in itself, a warning for you to take some action; put some warmer clothes on for example.
Snoring can be set off by a number of different balance upsets such as your diet, your breathing, your stress levels, and your physical environment. If you systematically work through these factors two important things are going to happen. You’re eventually going to stop snoring and you’ll end up with a healthier body.
Once you start you may be pleasantly surprised, as often, a snoring solution doesn’t always require a big change in your lifestyle.
About The Author
Copyright © 2004 Kevin Meates
Kevin Meates writes for http://www.snoring-solutions-that-work.com where you can find a set of strategies for overcoming all types of snoring problems.
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Fruits and Juices Important for Relieving Hemorrhoids Part I
Foods to Avoid
Chili Peppers
It has been found that when you eat a lot of chili peppers that you can get a burning sensation in the rectum or anus. It is best to avoid eating too many peppers, especially if you have an advance case of hemorrhoids. Peppers are actually good for blood circulation and for healing ulcers. It is always the excess that creates problems in your body.
Here are some additional foods to avoid, which cause constipation.
? Coffee
? Alcohol
? Bad Fats
? Animal products
? Red meat
Foods you should be eating to help relieve hemorrhoids
A high fiber diet obtained from raw fruits and vegetables is what you need to eat for eliminating and for preventing constipation. When you don’t have constipation, you won’t have hemorrhoids.
The amount of fiber you should be eating is 25 35 grams per day. Most people only eat about 8 ? 12 grams per day.
If you have not been eating a lot of fiber, you need to add fiber slowly to your diet, especially if you add it by using bran. Increase your use of bran or other bran cereals over a couple of weeks.
If you add fiber to your diet with fruits and vegetables, you can add them freely without much problem. However, since your stomach will not be use to it, you may experience more gas for a week or two. You can compensate for this by taking digestive enzymes to help you digest the extra produce.
The following list of juices and fruits are good for helping cure or relieve Hemorrhoids.
Juices
Juices are good for hemorrhoids but especially dark berry juices mixed with equal parts of apple juice. The dark berry juices to use are,
Cherries, blackberries, blueberries
These berries contain “anthocyanins” and “proanthocyanidins” which reduce hemorrhoidal pain and Swelling by toning and strengthening the hemorrhoid veins. Drink at least one glass of this juice mixture each day.
Cantaloupe
Cantaloupes are one of the best foods you can eat. It has a good source of vitamins and minerals. It has a high beta-carotene level and has anti-clogging properties.
Red and Black Currant Berries
Currants are high in Vitamin C, rutin, and minerals. This makes their juice valuable in clearing hemorrhoids. The also have a small amount of the fatty acid GLA, which produce prostaglandin that control body pain.
This juice is also good for cleansing the liver and blood. Good liver function is necessary for maintaining a healthy colon, rectum and anus.
Drink 1 ?2 glasses a day of red or black currant berries.
Pomegranate Juice
Although pomegranate juice may be hard to find, it is quite useful in reducing hemorrhoids, because of its strong astringency. Saturate a cotton ball with pomegranate juice and push it slightly into your rectum.
If you have pinworms, the tannins in pomegranate juice will help you get rid of them. You can also drink the juice. During the summer I have on occasion found pomegranate juice at a farmers market. It is slightly tart but it is easy to drink. However, it’s hard to drink more than a glass full without getting a stomach upset.
Oranges and bananas
Eat 2-3 oranges and 2 bananas a day. Oranges provide vitamin C, bioflavonoids, and fiber. Bananas provide minerals that help to strengthen tissue and have plenty of fiber. Bananas can also be steamed to give more relief and even eliminate hemorrhoids. Steam two not quite ripe bananas with their peel until they are soft. Eat two in the morning and two in the evening.
Papaya
Papaya is an excellent fruit to eat. It has good mineral content, fiber, and has enzymes to digest protein.
These are the fruits and juices to use to for relieving hemorrhoids. Adding more vegetables to your eating habits is also important to get more fiber. These fruits, juices, and vegetables will help you keep regular and provide pain and inflammation relief for your hemorrhoid symptoms.
Rudy Silva has a Physics degree from the University of San Jose California and is a Natural Nutritionist. He writes a newsletter called “natural-remedies-thatwork.com” and he has written an ebook called “How to Relieve Your Constipation with 77 Natural Remedies.” You can get more information on this ebook and more hemorrhoid remedies at this site. http://www.hemorrhoid-remedies.for–you.info
How to Benefit from The Mind-Body Connection
Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of “Love, Medicine and Miracles” was once a distraught surgeon who fretted over his inability to effectively serve his cancer patients. Dr. Siegel’s recognition and growing understanding of the mind-body connection eventually allowed him to serve his patients and himself in a greater capacity.
Bernie writes in his book, “When a doctor reports amazing improvements in a patient’s condition, he or she almost never mentions that person’s beliefs and lifestyle, but when I inquire, I find the patient always has made some drastic change toward a more loving and accepting outlook. The patient seldom tells an unreceptive doctor about this, however.”
When the person’s mind changed, the state of their health changed. Hence, the importance of the mind- body connection.
However, just covering up the surface with positive thinking isn’t necessarily going to help. It’s like cleaning out a house. The dirt and filth has to be removed and the stale air replaced with fresh air. There has to be a fundamental change for real healing to take place. Surface level, ‘positive thinking’ isn’t going to effect this kind of change, just like lightly dusting our homes won’t get the real dirt out.
So what are the dirty and stale things in our minds? Well, they could be things like grudges, prejudices, anger, resentment and hate. One spiritual principle from religion talks about “loving your enemy”. That can’t be done without giving up hate. By giving up something bad, we can make room for something good to come in and may, as a result, see a corresponding change in our bodies.
The problem here is that many of these bad things are buried and hidden and we won’t necessarily see them or recognize them in ourselves. We can be certain that they are there though, it is a virtually inevitable consequence of living in a world that is so focused on selfishness and less concerned with “loving” others.
So in order to find these bad things and eliminate them requires introspection, it requires looking at oneself hard and long. However, there is still a problem. When we are searching within our minds, we have to have a standard to do the comparison with. Otherwise, how will we find anything? How will it stand out?
Let’s look to one of the greatest thinkers of the Western world, Socrates. What did Socrates do with is life? Didn’t he teach others about virtue? Interesting, isn’t it? One of the most influential people in western thinking emphasized virtue to his students. Socrates talked about things like absolute goodness, beauty and truth.
If someone as great, as well loved and respected as Socrates thought these things were important, perhaps therein lies the key to the mind-body connection. To live a truly healthy and worthwhile life, maybe virtuous thoughts like truth and goodness are what our minds should embrace rather than the negative things modern life finds us clinging too.
Remember what Bernie said, “I find the patient always has made some drastic change toward a more loving and accepting outlook.” When we embrace truth and goodness, the beauty of life and this vast universe that we live in becomes evident. That is when we can heal our bodies. Real healing happens in the mind.
This article is for information purposes only, it is not meant to diagnose, prevent or treat any illness or health issue. If you have or think you have a health condition, please visit your primary-care physician immediately.
Dave Snape is a health, fitness and wellness enthusiast. His website is http://tobeinformed.com
Once You Discover and Act on This ?Secret? to Health and Energy, You May be Changed for the Better
I discovered something completely, 100% amazing about 5 years ago. The first thing it did for me health- wise was get rid of my back problem to the point that I no longer needed the chiropractic treatment that I would get once or twice per month. Another thing it did after a while was give me the energy to get things done. Do you know what I mean?
Does this sound familiar to you? Getting through a long day of work, then engaging in whatever preferred social activities you have, plus doing the maintenance on your house or apartment, can drain every last second of time out of your day. And if you have children that you love and care for, forget it, your energy and time are spent. Finally, when you get to the end of a long day filled with demands on your time and energy, you just want to collapse on the floor.
Then you wake up and have to do it all over again the next day. Sound familiar?
I want to tell you about the key component to my personal health, fitness and wellness program. This is really it. This one key powers my ability to get more done with more gusto and energy than before I discovered this powerful ’secret’. And I’m going to tell you all about it right now, right here.
By the time you get done reading this article you are going to know exactly where to go to find this free resource that will turn your life around. You might become a healthier and happier person and you may find the energy you wish you had now. I know because I used to wear a similar pair of shoes. I’m still just as busy as ever, maybe even more so. But, I have the energy I need to get through it all. And now, I can really get more enjoyment and satisfaction out of my life.
Enough said, I’m going to cut to the chase because I know in my heart that this is something everyone would want to have for themselves if they just knew what I know about it.
In 1999, I was fortunate to discover an amazing exercise and self improvement system. Hold on, this may be the easiest exercise to learn that you ever heard of. It is such a good exercise that it doesn’t leave you feeling tired and worn out at the end. Instead, it leaves you feeling good and energized. This is completely different than what a typical person envisions as exercise.
Then there are the gigantic health rewards that come with it. You read my simple and tame by comparison story above, but go to this webpage to read about someone else’s story. This was someone who was in a little more dire circumstance than me. And on the same page you will find a zero cost e-book that you can download, written by two medical doctors, called Ultimate Health.
Now here is the catch. Ha, you knew this was coming didn’t you? I bet you didn’t expect what I am going to say next though. This entire system is available to you at no cost. None- Zippo- Nadda. There are no fees and donations will be flatly refused.
What does this amazing system consist of? The answer depends on how you approach it. What you need at the bare minimum are a book and exercise instruction. You can download the book at no cost from a website: http://falundafa.org (you won’t even be asked for an email address). The name of the book is Zhuan Falun. Go get it now and start reading it. If you want to step up gradually, you can download a book called Falun Gong first, before reading Zhuan Falun. Falun Gong is a bit shorter and quicker read. It also is available at no cost.
Ok, you don’t have to read the book first, but you will have to read it at some point to gain the full benefits of this self improvement system, which is called Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong. If you really are determined to learn the exercises first, which is fine, you can also download all the instructional videos at no cost to you from the same website mentioned in the last paragraph.
Now, I know it may not be easy to learn all the ins and outs of these 5 sets of simple, energizing exercises just from a video. So I am going to let you in on another no cost resource. On the very same website mentioned two paragraphs ago, you will find a volunteer instructor list. It covers most major cities around the world and even many smaller cities. The bottom line is, you can find a volunteer to help you learn the exercises if you really want to. The best part, none of these volunteers will accept a penny of your money. They will show you these exercises out of the kindness of their hearts with no strings attached. Let me say it again, “No strings attached”. If you find anyone adding any strings at all, email me right away: david@tobeinformed.com.
You might ask me, “OK, Dave. How do you make money from this?” The answer is, I don’t make money from it and I never want to make even a single penny from it. The reason why is that it has given me so much, I’m not going to let something like money stand in my way of sharing it with others. Besides money isn’t everything. In fact, when we pass away, money means absolutely nothing to us anyway.
My reward is the satisfaction that will come to me from seeing more people practice this wonderful system. And seeing those people reap the same wonderful benefits that I have. That is why I took my time to share it with you today. In fact, I should have shared it with you a long time ago. But this may be the first time you and I have crossed paths in this lifetime. So I am telling you right now.
Tell you what, if you really want me to know how you feel after you learn it, just send me an email. I would love to hear your story and maybe we can add your personal experience to my website.
This article and all of the above is for information purposes only. It is not meant to prevent, treat or diagnose any health condition or disease. If you have or suspect you have any type of health problem whatsoever, you are advised to consult your physician right away. And you are advised to consult a physician before embarking on any exercise regimen or program, no matter how simple it might be.
My best wishes to you ,
Dave Snape
Dave Snape is a health, fitness and wellness enthusiast. His website is http://tobeinformed.com
