Monday, 12 January 2015

Eye health

-Leafy greens like spinach, kale, collard greens, brussels sprouts can help improve vision.
-Dark berries like blueberry and blackberry are best for eye health.
-Carrot is good old vegetable which helps eyesight.

2. Vitamin A  
-Deficiency of vitamin A can cause night blindness. It can also cause severe dry eyes, which can lead to eye infections and vision loss.

3. Eye Exercise
    - Roll your eyes clockwise and anticlockwise. Repeat for 8-10 times.
   
   - Close your eyes tightly for 4-5 seconds. Open them for 4-5 seconds.Repeat 8-10 times.
    
    - Lightly press three fingers of each hand against your upper eyelids. Hold them there for 1-2 seconds, then release. Repeat 5 times.
    
   -Hot and Cold Compress: Soak one towel in hot water, and the other in cold. Take one and lightly press it to your face, focusing on your eyebrows, closed eyelids, and cheeks. Alternate between the two as desired, making sure to end with a cold compress.
    
    -Eyelid Massage: Close your eyes and massage them with circular movements of your fingers for 1-2 minutes. Make sure you press very lightly and have washed your hands to avoid damaging your eyes.
    
    -Lightly press three fingers of each hand against your upper eyelids. Hold them there for 1-2 seconds, then release. Repeat 5 times.

4.Give your eyes a rest

-If u spend lot of time at a computer or focusing on any one thing, you sometimes forget to blink and your eyes can get fatigued. For every fifteen minutes, look away about twenty feet infront of you for twenty seconds. 

5.Quit Smoking

    Research has shown that smoking can lead to cataract. It also increases the risk of developing age realted macular degeneration. It may also lead do optic nerve damage. It also results in dark circles around your eye. Quit smoking.


Sunday, 11 January 2015

Brain boosters

1.Gotu kola
Consumption of five leaves of gotu kola daily will help boost your memory power. It is also used to treat Alzheimer's disease. Gotu Kola is a rejuvenative nervine recommended for nervous disorders, epilepsy, senility and premature aging. As a brain tonic, it is said to aid intelligence and memory. It strengthens the adrenal glands and cleanses the blood to treat skin impurities. It is said to combat stress and depression, increase libido and improve reflexes

2.Ginko Biloba
Ginko Biloba tree leaves are used to boost brain funcionality. These leaves help reduce loss of memory and other brain disorders like alzheimer. Ginko Biloba is also called as Maidenhair tree or Balkuwari tree(Hindi).

3.Vitamin E and B
The most powerful brain antioxidant is vitamin E. It decreases inflammation in the brain, scavenges free radicals, and helps stop degeneration of cognitive function.
Degeneration of cognitive function leads to parts of brain not to work. It also leads to deceases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's deceases. Take a good B-complex supplement that includes B6 and B12. Vitamin B helps to overcome mental fatigue.

4.Food enriched with Folate(Folic acid) boost brain. 
Folate deficiency is linked with depression. Make sure your food is enriched with folates. Leaves which contain folate are spinach and lettuce. Vegetable like beetroot is rich in folate content. Even jaggery is rich in iron content. Nuts(almonds, walnuts, cashewnuts) and legumes(all daals and peas) are rich sources of folate.


Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Yoga and meditation benefits

Benefits of Meditation
- Lowers high blood pressure.Increases blood flow and reduces heart beat rate.
-Reverses heart desease.
-Lowers the levels of blood lactate, reducing anxiety attacks.
-Reduces pain and enhances bodies immune system.
-Decreases any tension-related pain, such as, tension headaches, ulcers, -insomnia, muscle and joint problems.
-Reduces feeling of depression, anger and confusion.
-Increases serotonin production that improves mood and behavior.
-Increases the energy level, as you gain an inner source of energy.

Benefits of Ujjayi pranayama
(video link-  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8dd8gAxLDI)
-It has tremendous healing effect on thyroid problem.
-It controls snoring.
-It heals asthama and tonsils.
-It enhances capacity of respiratory systems and digestive system.

Thursday, 1 January 2015

Hair Health

1.Egg
For silky hair, take egg white from 1 or 2 eggs according to your hair length, apply to hair, leave it for 1 hour. Rinse hair with mild shampoo. Egg white will be containing protein which will nourish your hair. Do it once in a week.

2.Scalp massage
Massaging scalp can help stop your hair fall. Massaging scalp will increase blood flow to hair follicles, condition the scalp and enhance the strength of hair roots. Use of nourishing oils will increase the benefits of scalp massage.

2.Hibiscus
Hibiscus plants extracts act as Hair conditioners. Take some 20 hibiscus leaves and 4-5 hibiscus flowers, wash them, put them in a cloth like handkerchief, squeeze. You will get jelly from squeezing. Wash your hair with shampoo. Now apply this jelly, leave it for 5 min. Rinse hair. Your hair root will be nourished and hair become smooth.

3.Nail rubbing

Nail Rubbing is Indian culture. We can get long, dense hair from nail rubbing technique. You should do it while you are empty stomach or 2 hours after food.
Pregnant woman and Blood Pressure people should not do this technique. 

4.Use of Wooden Comb
Use wooden comb to comb your hair. It does not produce static electricity where as plastic combs produce static electricity. Static electricity is not good for hair and scalp.

5.Reduce use of hot dryers and straighteners.
Hair is mainly made up of proteins. Using heating straighteners and dryers will damage hair cuticle and protein. Cuticle is outer most layer of a hair strand. Once the cuticle is damaged, the moisture balance is disrupted and your hair is more prone to breakage. So use straighteners and dryers only on special occasions.

6.Quit smoking
Smoking may result in hairloss. So quit smoking.