Snacks – Is It Good or Bad For Your Health?

Since childhood, We’ve been taught that snack is bad for health and we should avoid from it as far as possible. The point is, “Do snacks really that bad for your health?”

Well, to me it’s certainly depending on the situation. As we knew that, the elder people are normally having poor digestive function due to their aging problem. Therefore, if they cannot digest all those rough foods, you can buy some healthy snacks that enriched with high fibers to substitute with their main meals.

For the school-age children, since they’re situated in a growing stage and have a high metabolism, you also can treat them with some high fiber health snacks, such as crackers or cookies.

Snacks can also be a very healthy and nutritious foods, as long as you’re followed the daily dietary schedule!

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Remember Not to Over Do it!

Do you know that even you’re not affording the time and money to the gym, you can still working out your body at anywhere and anytime?

According to the latest survey, 15 minutes of daily exercise is more than enough for your health. The only matter is most people didn’t have the 15 minutes time, thus exercise seems like a time wasting process to them!

Well, if your office or company is located near to your home, why don’t you ride bicycle to the working place, as this action is considering as an exercise! Beside that, it can also help to reduce the emission of Carbon dioxide too.

The main goal of exercising is to lose at least 50 calories per day, and it would be better, if you can lose more than that amount!

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Milk Drinking Will Help to Reduce Your High Cholesterol!

Some of the people were too scared to drink milk, as they thought that the milk is the main cause of high cholesterol. Well, if you’re one of them, then you should read on this article…

According to the report from the USDA, the milk doesn’t contain a very high amount of cholesterol and it contains the miracle substances that can be helped to inhibit cholesterol!

For your information, our liver will need to detoxify all the foods that we’ve eaten everyday. During the detoxification stage, there is a very complex process called “Liver Cholesterol Synthesis” will be taken place inside our liver and it will lead to the increasing of cholesterol in our blood!

By simply drinking milk, the milk whey acid that containing inside the milk will inhibit the liver cholesterol synthesis and hence, it will reduce the cholesterol level as well.

Furthermore, the medical research discovered that milk could also help to reduce the chances of getting coronary heart disease and high blood pressure!

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Drinking Water is Not Only For Quench Your Thirst!

Do you think that the reason of drinking water is to quench the thirst away? Well, the water is more than you’re thought here…

Water has three main functions to human body. Firstly, water is the main resource for cells generation, without the existing of water the cell generation will be terminated! Secondly, water is the main transport of nutrients, thus without the help of water the nutrients would be able to transport to our body parts. Thirdly, water is the message transmission, if we lack of water then nothing will be survived!

According to the medical research, if you drink a glass of water in the middle of night, it can help you to reduce the risk of having stroke!

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Don’t Soak The Kelp in Hot Water!

People often soaking kelp in hot water for a very long time, as this to remove the white powder on the layer, which they think it’s moldy substances.

Well, you’ve done the wrong thing, as the white powder on the kelp is called “Mannitol”, where it can be used to prevent prostate cancer!

So, next time when you’re preparing the kelp, remember not to soak kelp in hot water or not to rinse it too long, and this to prevent the Mannitol from drain away.

Hope this little tip will help you here ;)

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Do Mind About Your Sleeping Hours!

Do you know that if you’re lack of sleep, it will not only cause you a fatigue, but it also can lead to the weight gaining problem as well?

A research group from University of Chicago has done an experiment on 30 young men and women that involving themselves in the bodybuilding field. These 30 people have been divided into two groups. Group A is the group that having sleep disorder and barely sleep over 5 hours each day, while group B is the normal group that sleeps over 7-8 hours per day.

The experiment has been conducted for over two years and the result was truly shocking!
According to the survey, 11 out of 15 people for group A has at least gained 8-12kg during the research, while there are only 2 out of 15 people for group B that having weight gained 3-4kg!

The research group has found out that the weight gain problem is causing by the deficiency of insulin, where the pancreas cannot secrete insulin normally due to the lack of sleeping hours!

Therefore, if you don’t want to become the next “Plus-sized” person, then you should be mind about your sleeping hours!

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Dark Chocolate is Good for Your Heart!

I always heard my friends and colleagues said that Chocolate is the main causes of obesity and it has a bad effect on our health. Since I’m the type of person that only believe to the scientific proof, that’s why I will only believe one thing if you can show me the solid evident!

Instead of believing all the hearsay, I have tried to find out the truth fact of chocolate to our body health. Guess what! I have finally proofed that their words were wrong!

According to the United States Dietetic Association or also known as USDA, the chocolate is one of the healthy foods that have great benefits to our heart. Chocolate contains a substance called “Flavonols,” and it is an essential nutrient that can be used to promote human health.

The benefits of consuming chocolate are:

1. It can help to enhance the blood circulation;
2. It can lower the high blood pressure;
3. It can reduce the chance of getting blood vessel blockage.

Basically, chocolate has a role that similar with Aspirin, where it can help to reduce the incidence of heart disease.

Beside of the chocolate, these following things also containing some flavonols as well:

• Red wine;
• Green Tea; (My favorite!)
• Apples; (Not wonder the old saying, “An apple a day, keeps the doctor away!”)
• Onions.

If you don’t want to buy processed chocolate, then you might want to choose the original dark chocolate, as it contains the highest flavonols of all. If you want a healthy heart, then try to consume 30 grams of dark chocolate biweekly!

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You Are Consuming More Protein Than You Need!

Other people have told you that the more you exercise, and then the protein intake should be increased as well.

The truth is the human protein intake is not in direct proportion to the number of activities!

Do you know that protein is not the most important energy provider, but rather a supplier of essential chemical substances to the human body? A swimmer that swam over 10 kilometers is needed only the same portion of protein as a person that sitting still on a chair!

Hence, it’s useless and a waste to intake too much of foods that rich in proteins each day, and you should only take it in mediocre amount.

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Working Is Not Equal To Exercise!

For those of the people that involving themselves as the blue collars workers, they may have the thoughts that after a whole day long of working and sweating, they need no more exercises at all!

Well, you might have “moving” a lot during your working period, but this doesn’t mean that you have doing the exercise here! According to the physicians, the definition of “exercise” is the movements or actions that involving different body parts from time to time, but not concentrated in the same part only.

Furthermore, the exercise will make you feel even more refresh, while the working will only causing you to be more exhausted! Thus, this is the biggest different of “working” and “exercise”.

You should have a regular exercise routine, at least 3 times a week and 30 minutes per session, if you want to have a healthy body.

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Don’t Mix The Tofu with Onion!

Some people called it Tofu, some called it Doufu and some of them loved to call it Bean Curd, and whatever! Tofu is a food of Chinese origin, which it is made by coagulating soy milk and pressing the resulting curds into cute little blocks.

Since the Tofu is low in calories, has no saturated fat and high in iron and calcium, it’s has been classified as one of the healthy green foods.

Basically, fresh Tofu can be divided into three main classes, which as:

The Soft or silken tofu

This type of tofu is contains very high moisture content than other two does. As a result, it is mostly served as a dessert and generally eaten with a spoon!

Asian Firm Tofu

Although it has been drained and pressed, but it still contains a certain amount of moisture. This one is slightly harder than the Silken Tofu and can be picked up easily with using even a pair of chopstick!

Western firm/Dried Tofu

This tofu contains the least amount of moisture of all fresh tofus. Plus, this tofu can be shredded into dried tofu slices due to its hardness!

If you love to cook Tofu with the onion, then please stop this action right now! Do you know that tofu is rich in calcium, while the onions contain oxalic acid. When these two substances mixed, it will form Calcium Oxalate.

Did you know that with a small amount of calcium oxalate, it’s enough to cause some intense sensations of burning in the mouth and throat? If you consume it in larger amount, then be prepared to have the severe digestion, breathing difficulties, coma or even death!

If you do concern about it, then stop cooking the tofu with onion now, or you can substitute it with garlic if you want...

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The Hair Care Tips 4: The Speed of Hair Growth is Not Related With the Frequency of The Hair Cut!

Most of the people will have this thought that the more you’re cut your hair, then the more likely it grows faster than before! Hehe, if you also one of those having this theory, then you should read the below statement…

The truth is the speed of hair growth having no relation with the external factors! For your information, the hair needs an intensive care like any other organs. Thus, if you want your hair to grow longer and healthier than anyone else does, then don’t forget to consume those foods that rich in Vitamin H!

Ok, you must be wondered, “Vitamin H? What is this stuff? I never heard it at my entire life!” Well, Vitamin H, also known as Biotin or B7, is a water-soluble B-complex vitamin. The U.S. diet recommended us to intake at least 30-40 mcg of Vitamin H per day!

Those foods that rich with Vitamin H are:

• Milk
• Liver
• Egg Yolk
• Peanuts
• Oatmeal

If you want to keep your hair healthy or like to promote the growth of hair, then the above foods will be your daily dietary!

Note: By the way, Vitamin H also good for your bones and fingernails as well!

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The Hair Care Tips 3: Your Hair Also Need Some Hair Massage As Well!

Do you love to do massage? Well, if you’re only focused on the arms and legs each time in the massage, then you should consider giving your head a massage as well!

The professional massagers found out that the proper massage on your head would help to reduce the hair loss problem! If you’re doing a hair massage everyday, it will improve the hair blood circulation and thus the hair will become healthier.

So, next time if you’re going for a massage, don’t forget to tell the massager to do a massage on your head as well!

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The Hair Care Tips 2: Don’t Dye Your Hair Too Frequently!

Some people love to have different hair dyes and they think it’s a really cool and stylish trend! Well, believe it or not, if you dye your hair too frequently, then you’ll have the chance of having the brain or cerebrum cancer in the end!

Yep, this is not a joke, as the US medical centre has been discovered that the chemical substance inside the hair colorants can be the main causes of the cancer matter!

If you want to stay healthy and would like to have a longer lifespan, then please leave this hair dyeing habit, as it will only ruins your health, rather than making you glamour!

Remember, you’re the one that making the decision for your own life!

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Teach Your Baby to Read as Early as Possible!

There is an old adage that sounds like this, "Our life is a long learning journey!" This is a fact, where our life is not starting soon after we've been born but it's already started while we still inside our mother's uterus!

According to the latest surveys, there are over 60% of the pregnant women have starting the "prenatal teaching methods," where they're usually playing some classical music or reading some storybooks to their unborn child. These methods to be known have some great effects to the baby soon after they have getting birth!

Furthermore, some of the genuine scientists and researchers have been discovered that the most critical age for brain development is from 0 to 5-year-old, where this is the most suitable time for your baby child learning to talk, listen, write and read!

The experts classified this 0 to 5-year-old as the "golden stage," which means the earlier your baby learn to read, then he/she will have a higher possibility to master all the basic reading skill.

Since most of the parents were starting to send their children to kindergarten while they're only 3 to 4-year-old, then it's better to expose themselves with babies read materials and help them to learn as many words as you could!

If you care about your children reading ability, then you must spend a few minutes and visit ababycanread site to find out more by your own!

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The Hair Care Tips 1: Blowing Your Hair with Hairdryer Won’t Hurt Your Hair!

If you thought that the hairdryer would cause the damage to your hair, well then you should think again!

Do you know that the hair is very fragile when it is in the wet condition? This also mean, it is more likely to fall off, if you rubbing your wet hair with the towel!

For the above matter, you should first use the ultra absorbent towel and wrapped it on your head to absorb the moisture away. After about 10-15 minutes, you then can use the hairdryer to blow your hair. However, you must remember to move the hairdryer all around your head and keep the distance 10cm or above between your hair!

Also, remember to control the hairdryer using time and you should use it no more than 5 minutes!

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Hair Washing Tips 3: Mind About Your Hair Hygiene and Wash Your Hair Everyday!

Some of the people thought that it will hurt the hair, if you washing it each day. However, the fact is you must wash your hair every single day, if you want it to keep healthy and clear from the germs.

In the hot sunny day, especially in the summer time, we all use to sweat a lot. Thus, it is very important to wash your hair and having the hair and scalp treatment as you can.

Here are some of the steps you should know for the hair care matter:

1. Choose the shampoo that suitable for your hair type
2. Washes your hair with the hot water first, and then with the warm water
3. Doing a hair message when you’re washing your hair

Therefore, you’d better washing your hair everyday, if you want it to look more shining and healthier!

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Hair Washing Tips 2: Never Washing Your Hair with Cool Water If You’re Overtired!

Some of the people love to use the cool water to wash their hair, especially when they’re feeling exhausted or overtired. They thought by doing this it will freshen up their mind and keeps the sleeping head awake…

If you’re one of them, then you must completely stop doing this, as it will cause you to have the migraine in the near future! For overcome the overtired, I suggest you to take 30 minutes or an hour of nap, as this not only will make you feeling refresh but will also avoid you from getting the migraine as well!

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Keep Your Body Shape in The Finest Condition!

Nowadays, we're too busy with our daily job and the overtime stuffs (Not to mention the stress and tension matter!) Well, no matter how hard or busy your work is you still need to spend at least 30 minutes to workout and maintain your body in the good shape every day!

Well, if you're too busy with the work and don't even have time to go to the gym, then why don't you go and purchase a set of exercise equipment and workout in your home?

For your information, I'm also one of those people that frequently workout in my house with the exercise equipment, as I didn't have too much of spare time heading to the gym. Go figure, after hours of daily work, we have been extremely exhausted and I don't want to force myself to go the gym, which is situated 30 km away from my home!

For saving the time and money, I have renovated one of my house's room into a small gym and I usually workout in the room daily. Well, guessed what! My gym room is only 250 square feet large, but I have almost all types of exercise equipment inside it, such as a few steppers, mini exercise pedal cycle, fitness ball, dumbbells, exercise wheel, Yoga set and so on (Well, I need to admit that I'm a kind of obsessed with the exercise equipment lol)

We must remember one important thing here that the health is our treasure and that's why we have to keep it in a good condition and never try to lose it, or you will be regretted in the end!

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Hair Washing Tips 1: Avoid Washing Your Hair At The Middle of Night!

After a long day of work, you’re extremely tired and exhausted, all you want to do when you’ve arrived at home is a nice and warm bath! However, you might be don’t know when we’re over exhausted, your immunity system will be significantly decrease as well. Thus, if you washing your hair at the middle of night, you’ll have the risk of getting migraine or stroke!

At the very beginning, the patient will find that their head started to feel numb, each time they wake up in another day. When the time goes by, the patient will soon realize that the migraine had already begun to happen to them. If the condition becoming even more worst, they will probably have the chance of getting stroke!

Thus, you’d better washing your hair at evening or earlier than it, and after you’ve washed your hair, remember to dry your hair with towel or blow it with the hairdryer!

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Why Invisible Braces Appeal To Adults and Kids?

In today’s market of medical technology, many forms of orthodontics or dental braces are appearing. Users no longer have to rely on the traditional metal braces to get their teeth straightened using braces. Now a person can undergo orthodontic treatment in a completely invisible form such as recently popular Invisalign.

Now you may find that your dentist offers these invisible forms of braces, however you can expect to pay significantly more. Braces cost varies from orthodontist and dentist, however the invisible forms of dental braces are not for everyone. Usually the mild to severe cases are still better of using old trusty metal braces. With the combination of an archwire, palatal expander, elastics, and other devices, a patient that requires major movements will be directed down this path. Browse the orthodontist directory to find an orthodontist specializing in your choice of braces.

BracesReview.com gives patients and doctors a like a central hub where they can communicate. From a patient standpoint, you are now able to research all the available form of invisible braces and make an educated decision along with your doctor. While undergoing treatment, you will be able to get advice from other experienced dental braces users and keep you doctor on his/her toes.

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