Do you get car sick or suffer from other sources of nausea? If so, healthy tips offer you an easy method for relief and without the side effects of medication!
Stimulation of the pericardium 6 (P6) acupuncture point is as effective as anti-nausea drugs without the side effects! (From The Cohrane Library review of 40 studies)
You’ll find this point on the middle of the underside of your wrist — about 2 inches above the crease where the wrist meets the palm of your hand.
Explore the area with a deep probing pressure (use your fingertip, knuckle or pencil eraser) until the exact point announces itself with a sharp twinge. It starts as a jolt, and after a moment becomes a numbing sensation, or a tingling radiating from the point.
When you have found the point, apply pressure for 15 to 30 seconds. Repeat using the same point on the other side of your body. You should notice immediate relief. P6 stimulation doesn’t work for everyone, but neither do anti-nausea drugs.
Healthy Tip # 2: The Healing Power of Chicken Soup
Research now supports your mom’s wisdom. Researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center confirm that chicken soup helps relieve the flu’s symptoms.
According to James A, Duke, PhD, retired chief of the Medicinal Plants Laboratory, researchers found chicken soup reduced activity of neutrophils, the most common white blood cell that defends against infection. They suspect that lower neutrophils activity reduces the inflammation that causes many of the flu’s symptoms. It’s believed the combination of vegetables, chicken, and broth does the trick.
Dr. Duke recommends adding lots of garlic, ginger, and hot pepper too. He recommends these ingredients to help reduce fevers:
Shallots
Basil
Sweet bell peppers
Healthy Tip # 3: Natural Weight Loss
With the holiday season starting this month, you may be wondering how you’re going to avoid those extra pounds that often appear at the end of the year. I have good news…
There’s a new weight loss paradigm emerging that is moving away from the traditional, ineffective weight-centered approach to a more health-centered approach.
Recently published research by the Journal of the American Dietetic Association and others suggest that a health-centered approach to weight loss works and has long-term beneficial effects.
Natural weight loss says YES to losing weight the natural way while supporting a healthy YOU. Stop punishing yourself, stop starving yourself, save money, and get healthy. You can get the details in the new article “Natural Weight Loss.”
Healthy Tip #4: Mealtime Thanks
Most spiritual traditions teach that mealtime is a time to connect with the sacred. This happens with giving thanks to plant and animal food sources, God, or the natural order of the universe. Make mealtime a time to nourish both the body and the soul.
Expressing gratitude at mealtime has many healthful benefits:
It shifts your awareness from the busyness of the day to being present for your meal.
When more aware and present for your meal you are likely to eat less and enjoy it more.
You enjoy the good, nurturing feeling of gratitude.
Gratitude helps you express yourself, enjoy life, be satisfied, and connect with something or someone beyond yourself.
This amazing resource costs you nothing; it only requires that you choose to express it.
Watch for the coming article,
“Gratitude: An Emotional Pillar to a Healthier, Happier Life.”
In this article, you can take The Gratitude Survey to see how your expression of gratitude compares with others and learn three simple gratitude-boosting techniques.
Healthy Tip #5: Enjoy a Mindful Thanksgiving Dinner
Do you find that you eat
too much
during Thanksgiving dinner? If you do, welcome to the club!
Thanksgiving brings friends and family together to give thanks during a meal — a rather large, yummy meal. This BIG meal is so good well… you can end up stuffing yourself.
You can get so full it’s hard to enjoy the wonderful presence of family and friends.
That’s why, you’re invited to join me in eating a Mindful Thanksgiving Dinner.
Mindful eating brings your full awareness to your meal. It’s a form of mindfulness meditation that helps you live life more fully.
When eating mindfully, you eat when you’re hungry versus out of habit or feeling upset. With mindful eating, you appreciate your food: its source, flavor, texture, and nourishment. You’re aware of subtle cues that you are full or have had enough.
You can appreciate the presence of your friends and loved ones.
Healthy Tip #6: Which nutrient is most critical for your health?
Some scientists now view vitamin D as “nature’s antibiotic.” Making sure you have adequate vitamin D is the most important thing you can do for your health.
Almost everyone living north of 40 degrees latitude suffers vitamin D deficiency (includes most of the United States, Canada, and Europe).
Evidence now links low levels of vitamin D with a growing list of chronic, inflammatory, and infectious diseases:
Cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke
Osteomalacia, softening of bone surfaces, which causes pain
Infectious diseases: influenza, tuberculosis, HIV, respiratory and wound infections
Most of your vitamin D comes from your skin’s exposure to the sun’s UV-B radiation. Dietary sources of vitamin D through fortified milk and other sources are rarely adequate.
You likely need a vitamin D supplement. Get your vitamin D blood level tested soon!
Did doctors say that there is nothing more that can be done, you must learn to “manage” your pain? If they did, they may be wrong.
With some forms of chronic pain, such as rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, and neuropathic pain, to “manage” may be the best that medicine can do until modern science brings new insights to its cure.
But, not so for most types of muscle and joint pain. George Stuart Hackett, MD, demonstrated a cure for musculoskeletal pain sixty years ago — Prolotherapy.
Healthy Tip #9: Light Heals Body, Mind, and Spirit.
Vitamin D,
critical for health, forms in your skin when it interacts with sunlight.
We hunger for sunlight during the dark winter months. Some experience a serious mood change, seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Natural light therapy can help.
We become more soulful this time of year, drawn to reflection, family and friends, and helping others in need.
The winter solstice (December 20-21) marks the returning of the light. It’s the time of Christmas and Hanukkah and more. Light a Christmas tree, a Menorah, or a beeswax candle.
Celebrate the returning of the light!
For more on light therapy read “Light Box Therapy.” (Coming Soon)
Healthy Tip #10: Your Mouth’s Unsung Hero
Saliva, rich in calcium and phosphate ions, quietly and powerfully keeps your mouth healthy:
Washing away food and plaque (a sticky acid-producing film)
Fighting bacteria
Neutralizing damaging acids
If you don’t have enough saliva (a dry mouth), chew gum sweetened with xylitol, a naturally occurring sugar substitute. Studies show that when used frequently, it can prevent tooth decay and even harden the tooth surface where a cavity has begun.
If your mouth continues to be dry, see a doctor or dentist. Some medications and health conditions may cause deceased saliva.
Healthy Tip #11: Are You a Lark or an Owl?
Larks prefer to be active in the morning; Owls prefer to be active in the evening. Knowing your natural biological rhythm helps match your internal clock to the clock of the cosmos.
Scientists call these daily rhythms responding to the sun-lit day and the dark night, circadian rhythms. Being in-syc with your natural circadian rhythm helps sleep and mood problems, jet lag, and performance.
Learn more about circadian rhythms in my new article (coming soon).
Healthy Tip #12: Diverticulosis: An Epidemic
Diverticulosis earns its name from diverticula, small pouches that bulge outward through weak areas in the bowel’s lining.
Most people who have diverticulosis don’t even know it. You usually don’t have symptoms until diverticulitis, a potentially serious complication develops where one or more of the pouches become inflamed.
As you age, your chances of having diverticulosis increase dramatically:
over age 40 you have a 10 percent chance,
between ages 60 and 80 you have a 50 percent chance,
over age 80 almost everyone has diverticulosis.
Learn how you can prevent diverticulosis and its complications in our next article coming soon.
Healthy Tip #13: Have fun and Get Healthy the Virtual Way
Virtual game programs gain the respect of health experts as they watch their users’ bloom in a host of heath indicators (regardless of their limitations due to age or disease):
Physical activity and fitness scores
Balance
Eye-to-Hand coordination
Problem solving skills
Social skills
The prototype, Nintendo’s Wii combines the virtual environment with wireless motion sensitive controllers that allow interaction with life-like games. Newer versions can track your progress as you do yoga, aerobics, or slide down the mountain on your snowboard.
Step or slide into the virtual health world today!
Healthy Tip # 14: Meet Almost 70 Years Young… Werner Berger!
Werner, an ardent supporter of wellness, takes nutritional supplements, exercises regularly and keeps a "can do," "positive attitude." Two months before his 70th birthday he became one of the oldest people in the world to climb Mount Everest (courtesy of YouTube)…
Heathy Tip #15: Heal Yourself with Creative Visualization!
Health exists within you. It may be a dim ember, but it is there awaiting the conditions for its full expression. Healing is the movement toward health. The word heal is derived from the old English word “haelan” meaning to restore wholeness. True health exists in the full expression of who you are…body, mind, and spirit. You may have an incurable disease or an injury so extensive that a function is forever lost, but you can always heal.
Healthy Tip # 16 How Olympians Use Natural-Healing-Health
The Olympians inspire us. They provide real life examples of the power of knowing what you want and going for it.
They use many of the same skills and tools you’ll find in articles on this site. For example, Dennis Waitley, trainer of Super Bowl and Olympic Athletes and Apollo astronauts, started using visualization in the form of “Visual Motor Rehearsal” in the US Olympic Team’s program in the 1980s.
He credits visualization exercises as being as important as physical exercises for their success.
You may not aspire to being an Olympian, but you can use visualization exercise to create the life you want.
Tip #17 A Healing Riddle: What action has the most power to heal?
Often unnoticed, your breath feeds, cleanses, and heals your body. An intentional focus on your breath can boost its healing power. Here’s an easy powerful exercise proven to enrich body, mind, and spirit.
Breathe in, bringing full awareness to the sensation of breathing. Feel the air as it moves through your nose and into your lungs. Feel the gentle rise of your abdomen.
Breathe out, silently saying a word with deep meaning to you like “peace,” “relax,” “joy,” “gratitude,” or another word that is affirming for you.
Repeat ten times.
Use this simple exercise anytime and anywhere to boost the healing power of breathing.
Tip # 18: Don’t Miss this Life Saving Message!
Facts
Two third’s of our children are over weight or obese.
Diet related diseases are our biggest killer, right here, right now… Far more dangerous than homicide.
Please for yourself, your children, your friends and neighbors, take the time to here Jamie’s message!
Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach Every Child About Food
