How To Gain Weight Naturally

I have posted a lot about weight loss recently. Today one of the user asked me about how to gain weight naturally. This definitely is a question to be answered. Above is a chart to help your out with how much you should weight as compared to your height. I myself have undergone this phase and have got an experience to gain weight in a natural way. I was able to put up almost 8kg ( 17.63 lbs ). I was able to gain 8 kgs of weight in 4 months. I was 57 kg ( 125.66 pounds ) initially and weighed 65kg ( 143.3 ) at end of 4 months. This happened a long back in 2005-2006. There was no extra cost paid for any type of products, equipments, medicines or doctors. Everything which I followed can be termed as natural way to gain weight. Below are some of the things which are very important to gain weight.

Determination
One should be determined to gain weight. Let weight gain weight become the only thing you want from your life for some time. Set your goal. Set your final target of weight to be achieved. Better to set a target of minimum required weight for the height. But I prefer the people who are more determined to set the target to be the maximum. I am 5 feet 7 inch and the ideal weight for me is between 60 kg and 65 kg. ( 132.27lbs and 143.3 lbs ). I kept the target of 65 kg.

Don't set the time
Never set a time to to reach the target weight. Just make the target weight to be one of your greatest achievement. An achievement which no matter what time you will have to put into but when achieved will make you proud. Just go on doing the necessary things checking your weight gain daily or weekly whatever you feel comfortable with. Setting time might bring your morale down if you slip in your schedule or your body is not able to perform nicely during some time of the schedule.

Workout
Join a gym. Start a healthy workout. Avoid cardio exercise except it is for a warm up purpose. Divide your workout for all the body parts so that in week you work on 1 body part at least twice. Increase your protein intake and hence the energy levels. Bananas and egg whites are the best things. Eat something at least half an hour before driving to gym. Never do workout empty stomach. You will see a sudden rise in your appetite as your body has to do extra work for a day.
More energy loss will result in more energy required. Indirectly you need to refuel your body with more food. More food means more weight gain naturally.

Break the Breakfast
This is one area where a lot of people can do well. Generally morning breakfast should be heavier than any other meal you consume throughout the day. This is the time to get your body going for the days work and the digestive system is all ready to start its functionality. Feed the stomach with as much food possible during the breakfast. I am sure in skinny people one extra meal will definitely get introduced. To increase the breakfast food consumption, workout in the morning will help a lot. Remember not to eat immediately not at least half an hour after workout.

Inspiration
Check your weight on regular basis. There surely is going to be gain in weight. Whatever weight you gain during the day or week, let it be an inspiration. Let This inspiration will drive you towards your next day or next week's weight gain regime. Inspiration combined with determination can do magic to gain weight naturally.

Tip: I wrote what worked for me. Maybe if you have any known conditions it would be best to consult a doctor.

Causes of Lower Back Pains

Back is the second most common reason for which a person visits doctors all over the world. 4 out of 5 americans face this problem once in their lifetime before they get old. We will put some light on what are the cause of lower back pains int his post. Aging, muscle imbalance and modern life style are some of the causes of lower back pains. Lets try to understand how these causes result in back pains.

How Back works?
To under what cause back pains, one should have a sound knowledge of how our back works. The back of humans is made of muscles which are interwoven in each other. The Spine of the human body is S shaped. The back muscles wrap around the S shape spinal column. The spine is
made up of 24 vertebrae connected to each other by facet joints. Between these vertebrae lie a shock absorbing material called inter-vertebral discs. These disc are filled with water and help in eliminating the shock which one might get after an impact or because of the movement of the back.

Aging Back Pain
The inter-vertebral discs are made of 80% water when we are born and can absorb more shocks. But as one grows older, the amount of water starts to diminish thus making our body more prone to pain from the shocks. It is fond that middle age person's inter-vertebral discs has 50% water left while a much older person has 20% water in the shock absorbing pads. Thus it is evident from the above the facts that aging is one of the cause of lower back pains.

Muscle Imbalance
It is also evident that the muscles around the spine should be in good balance shape to avoid back pain. When the muscles in front of pelvis are stronger, they tend to pull front of the pelvis down. As a result back of the pelvis goes a little bit up. It then becomes impossible to maintain the healthy spine shape and the change in shape increases the spine curvature. Thus the muscles in the increased curvature area are always irritated and stretched. This is another cause of lower back pain as these muscles ache when they come in action i.e when one does a activity which involves movement of these muscles.

Sitting in Chairs
Our body has been trained through all the past years of evolution to perform activities otherwise than eat, travel and sit in chair. Sitting in a cross legged position is a perfect alignment for the spine and maintaining flexibility in the hips area. This makes back pain less common in Asia as people still prefer sitting on the floor with cross legs for most of their activities. They sit on floor for their meals, for meetings and some people follow it for work a well.

Flexibility
It is important that should be very much flexible in hip, then only he or she can avoid back pain. But our modern life style of using the chair for each and every work that we perform results in putting stress on spinal disc and results in problems like cramps and weakens our back muscles thus reducing the hip flexibility.

Life Style
A balance posture is a key to pain free back. A group of cells called proprioceptors send data to the brain regarding the proper position and alignment of muscles. When we are not balanced the brain is therefor able to tell us that we should get in proper posture. However in today's stress filled life style we often tend to ignore these signals. A prolonged ignorance can thus result causing lower back pain.

Is Yoga Good For Weight Loss

This post will address Hoow to control obesity by yoga? Is Yoga good for weight loss? Over weight will definitely not be a problem you face, if you follow yoga. Pranayam which is a yoga asana recommended for the obese people. Pranayam helps reducing the overall weight of the body and can definitely benefit a person in the form of weight loss. One should have to pay attention to the cause of obesities along with doing yoga asanas. It is not like you can go on eating junk food and expect yoga to keep your weight in control. One should keep a parallel check on the daily diet of the person willing to do yoga for weight loss.


Loss of Activity
Loss of exercise is one of the main reason that many people gain weight. One has to start being active in life. What any other way can be better than doing Yoga? Start doing pranayam. Though it is hard to get
pranayam going at first attempt but as time passes on, one will be able to do it more efficiently and can also increase the time to do it from 5 minutes to up to whatever minutes he/she is comfortable of..

Bringing Inherited Obesity Under control
Those who have inherited obesity or has a history of obesity in family can also bring obesity under control by doing yoga. It is not evident though that inherited obesity can be totally controlled by yoga but it definitely helps a person if started early. Such a person is likely to gain weight but very less compared to others not performing yoga.

General Stats of how Yoga proves good in weigh loss
There is almost 20% to 40% of the working class population around the world which are suffering from obesity. There are almost 10 to 20% of teens who are suffering from obesity all over the world. One can get rid of all the problems arising from obesity by performing yogasanas. As some of the asanas indirectly work in favor of increasing self confidence and work efficiency, it can be a feel good factor for a obese person. It has been found that doing yogasana can reduce weight by 250 gms daily. A rare amount of people have also reported a 2 kg of weight loss.daily.

Suggestions of Yoga Practitioners
Eating excessive food is one of the reason for gaining weight. It is recommended by yoga practitionars
to follow the below advice along with pranayam to bring weight under control
1) Drink water after one hour of meal.
2) Drink water when you wake up in the morning.
3) Dont eat too much sugar.
4) Eat less than what your hunger asks you to.

Tip: Just changing some of your daily activities, diet and performing yoga regularly one can bring weight under control.

Health Benefits of Black Berries

Black berry fruits are soft and juicy. Black berry is the main source of antioxidants and some additional presence of vitamins just adds to the list of health benefits of black berries. What we find in black berries is water, fats, carbohydrates, calcium, iron, magnesium, zinc, phosphorus, potassium and copper. This list is almost the nutrition which is required by our body to maintain good health. Apart from the nutritional health benefits of black berries they are used as a weapon to prevent the various types of cancers specially the breast cancer. Black berries are one of the best source of Vitamin A and Vitamin C.

Black Berry Fruits are used as an ingredient in preparing jams, juices, syrups and even wine. Most of the children are fond of the taste for black berries. Black berries also aid the health by increasing the immune system. Not only the black berry fruit has benefits but the leaves of black berries are also used in preparing a healthy tea which when consumed can help people who suffer from infections like sore throat and mouth irritation. Fibrous contents of the blackberries will help in maintaining the digestive health and blood sugar level in control. Vitamin C and the antioxidants can give one a younger look and make our skin glow. Most of the beauty creams have blackberries as content because of above health benefits. Same reason makes them the ingredient of different medicines.

Some other health benefits of black berries are
1) Black berry leaves is used to make the tea which is important to stomach cancer.
2) Black berry is the rich sources of fiber which plays a vital role in weight loss and lowering the cholesterol level.
3) Almost all the prescribed medicines for weakness in the form of syrup has blackberry in some quantity. Blackberries when taken along with diet can recover a sick person quickly because of its highly nutritious nature.

Things Which Are Not Told About Gastric Bypass Surgery

Gastric gastric bypass is a surgery to loose weight in case of people who are facing a problem of morbid obesity and have a BMI of 40+. This post is intended to those who have already made their decision or are thinking of undergoing a gastric bypass surgery to unfold some of the facts which might not be told by surgeon before undergoing the surgery. Or it might happen that a surgeon guides you through everything but we might skip a point or two by not taking a instruction in a proper sense or meaning. Read on to find what are those things.

Taste Buds can Change
Though change in taste buds is a natural process a lot of people who have undergone the surgery complain that what they used to like before the gastric bypass surgery is disliked by them post surgery. A gastric bypass patient might have planned for keeping a nutritional diet based on the food he or she liked before the surgery. But post surgery the thought of the then liked food can make them nauseous.

No more medicine in capsule form
Though the surgeon when undergoes your medical history prior to planning the gastric bypass surgery, will be known to the medicines that you take daily. But if you are not under any medication then the surgeon might skip telling you that you can no more take the medication in capsule form. The medicine which are extended release need a long time to sit and get processed in stomach. After a gastric bypass it is highly unlikely that anything will stay that long in the patients stomach as the stomach pouch is much much smaller and you have to fill it up with the nutritional diet which is a must after gastric bypass.

You will have to fight the shock of food you eat
Generally the people who undergo a gastric bypass surgery have a not to mention heavy diet. Though a patient is aware that post surgery he or she will have to cut down the diet to almost nothing, it does take a emotional turmoil on the patients when they actual start following it post gastric bypass surgery. A patient may feel not so energetic and loss of muscle strength. The first few months of gastric bypass surgery are really a test as the people in love with food have to give up for nutritional food and it feels like you are eating just to live.

Tip : Please consider these factors as well and get them verified from the physician or surgeon suggesting the gastric bypass surgery to you.

Health Benefits of Bananas

Banana is popular and affordable of all the fruits due to its availability throughout the year. Banana is a rich source of potassium. Some people say that banana is heavy to digest and increases the weight but it is wrong because banana though feels like a heavy food but can be easily digested by our body. Are you thinking of reducing your weight or maintaining it. Wekk then just start hitting your gym with an instructor and don't be surprised if the instructor suggests 1 or 2 bananas a day. During dieting ones body is deprived of vitamins as a result one can fall sick. Having 1 or 2 bananas a day will provide your body with required vitamins.

Banana contains combination of sugar and glucose. Glucose and sugar are the energy supplier of our body and keeps us fit and energetic. In children health glucose plays a important role. Without glucose child can look tired. If you look around for best diet for students you are bound to find that banana tops the chart because of its glucose, sugar, vitamin b6 and When any policy use to make pupils healthy and smart with providing some vitamins food this time banana useed in firstly because of banana supplying suger,glucose and vitamine B6 and B12.Which is useful to their growth of in school life. Banana is also a favorite fruit for the athletes.

Banana is high in potassium and low in salt is preferable food for people who suffer from morning sickness. Banana is also said to be a blood purifier.

Some other benefits of Bananas are as followed
* Banana can recover the weak feeling one gets from smoking. B6 and B12 vitamins present in bananas can make them stronger to face smoke related problems.
* Banana can be a refreshing fruit for people who are on the verge of nervous breakdown.
* Banana make our mood relax and happy.
* Banana in daily breakfast can increase our immune power.
* Banana is used in controlling the blood pressure.
* Doctor suggest banana to anemic patients.

Tip: Women who eat lot of bananas during pregnancies are considered to give birth to super cool babies.

Health Benefits of Spirulina

Spirulina is one of the blue green algae and and is considered as a super food. Spirulina has recieved a lot of recommendation from FAO and FDA to be included in daily diet. Spirulina found in single cell form ranges from 0.3 mm to 1 mm. These cell forms capture energy from the sun. The photosynthetic reaction in the watery environment produces minerals, vitamins, proteins, fatty acids and sugars needed by our body.

How we stay away from balanced diet
Human body is made up of almost 60 trillion cells. Our health depend on how healthy these cells are. In order to keep us healthy we require quality water and balanced nutrition. Like water and oxygen are necessary for survival, nutrition is required for maintaining good health. Balanced nutrion is considered to be a blend of acidic and alkaline food.

Balance Nutrition = 80% alkaline + 20% acidic food

However in today's hectic life one is always on a run. This leads a person into getting addicted to fast food which are highly processed and acidic in nature. Continuation of such foods is like inviting a lot of diseases such as stress, chronic indigestion, loss of concentration, rheumatic and arthritic conditions, sometimes irritability as well. Without balanced nutrition the body cannot perform the work of repairing the non functional tissues or producing the new ones and absorption of essential nutrients greatly reduces. The digestive environments become more acidic as a result of unbalanced nutrition leading to health related disorders in future.

What spirulina has to offer for balanced diet
Spirulina is a great source of nutrition and in addition has an exceptional quality to increase the absorption power of the digestive system. This gives a boost to the immune system promoting good health. Spirulina is a 100% alkaline food which adds to the balance nutrition. 5 nutrients which are present in Spirulina are carbohydrates, fats, proteins, minerals, vitamins. The 4 natural pigments which are present in spirulina are Chlorophyll, Beta Carotene, Phycocyanin and Xanthephyll which has their own health benefits ranging from blood purification to preventing cancer. It is preferred for the anemic patients. Spirulina is a complete food source. 65% of spirulina is proteins and too in an easy to digest form.

Recommendations of Spirulina
In 1974 the Food and Agriculture organization of United Stated announced that spirulina is best food for tommorow. In 1981 Food and drug administration declared spirulina to be the best supplement for nutritional benefits. And finally in 1983 spirulina received the best natural food award in West Germany International food exhibition.

Tip: A teaspoon of spirulina can keep you healthy throughout life. If you want to dig deeper into spirulina benefits please read the below site which is dedicated to spirulina antennaindia.org.

Dark Color Urine

As we all know Urine is one of the byproduct produced by kidneys to be excreted by the body. Generally urine is colorless, amber or pale yellow in a normal person. However any other color maybe symptomatic to some disorders. Regular health checkups and in some clinical visits we are always asked to provide urine samples for urine analysis. In this post today, let us see what would be the different colors of urine point us to.

Colorless Urine
A male or female has Colorless urine because of the presence of excessive water in the body. In medical term this is termed as over hydration. Though considered to be a much better condition than dehydration, some of essential salts which are present in the body are lost due to over hydration. Drug test can give unsure results if a person keeps on drinking a lot of water. Just read on wiki that this is considered to be a potential attempt to hide the presence of drugs in one's blood stream.

Dark Yellow Urine
This color of urine indicates dehydration. One should increase the water intake in such cases till the urine color returns to normal i.e. pale yellow. It is also observed that holding a urine for a long time can give it a dark yellow color.

Orange Color Urine
Urine color can range from light orange, orange to dark orange. Light orange color urine indicates that the body is losing a lot of vitamin B while a orange color urine is caused because of certain medications. Dark orange color urine can be a symptom of disorders like jaundice, rhabdomyolysis, Gilbert's syndrome.

Red Color Urine
Eating of beets can give a pinkish, reddish color to the urine. This is generally harmless coloration of urine and won't last for more than a day. If you want don't get away with it in a day or two, consult a doctor as this color of urine may also point toward a disorder called Porphyria.

Greenish Color Urine
Greenish color in urine can be result of consuming asparagus in more than normal amount. The main reason behind greenish color of urine is excessive intake of vitamin B through diet.

Tip
Before going for a health checkup or doctor drink a glass of water, just in case your urine sample is required.

How Ayurveda can Help in Child Care.

Cold is a common problem seen in children as well as in elders. But doctors around the world experience that mothers of children or baby's becomes very sensitive and questions how can their children be attacked by common cold? A main reasons of common cold in children is polluted air,vitamin less food,bad habits of eating all food. These all things can make them weak and decrease their resistance power. Without a strong immune system the children always feel sick and is also responsible to certain extent for his physical and mental growth. If all these problems pertain to you then read on how Ayurveda can help in Child Care.

Ayurveda medicines provide all the factors which play a vital role in child's good health. Through Ayurveda we can provide all vitamins and minerals which are important for physical and mental growth of children. Ayurveda also aids in increasing the immunity and making them powerful and perfect to fight all infections which are harmful to one's children.

In one of observations doctors found that Ayurveda medicine through we can stop the problem of cough, cold and temperature. This medicine when given to children between 0 to 12 years can increase the immune power and if continue these children looks very smart and healthy.

Health Benefits of Figs

Fig is called as Anjeer in India. When i got introduced to the real benefits of fig through an article in a newspaper yesterday, I was really shocked!!! We have figs as a fruit in our refrigerator so many times but hardly I knew the health benefits of fig. Figs can help us to build a perfect personality! shocked !!! I too was. Read on.... Docter says that eating figs is equivalent to one meal. Whatever vitamins or nutrients a healthy meal can provide in one time is also present in one serving of figs. So one can replace at least 1 meal during a day with 1 serving of fig. Figs are therefore considered best for dieting. No fats. Just plain nutrition!

Every fruit provide us vitamins but the quantity can vary depending on fruit.Fig is the main sources of iron. Fig is readily available in any food store. Irrespective of a dry fig or a fresh fig, one can be assured that he/she will get the same amount of vitamins. Figs can be stored in refrigerator for two to three days. But Still a lot of people prefer to eat fresh figs.

This small fruit is an abundant source of iron, which is one of the essential nutrients. Iron deficiency can cause many problems in women. This blackish, green, yellow fruit is a definite yes for the women around the world. Fig which comes in large and small sizes is a reputed fruit in the Ayurveda medicine and solves a lot of problems in people of all ages starting from a child to elder people.

Some of the health benefits of Figs are mentioned below
* Fig is a complete food.
* Fig is a rich source of iron, calcium, magnesium, vitamin A,B1 and B2.
* Fig are suggested to pregnant women for the rich nutrition they provide.
* Fig fruits solve the problem of sexual weakness.
* Fig is also useful to piles and cough patient.
* It is useful to gaining weight after illness.
* Patients who have given up to disorders like asthma and cough can try this as a home remedy.
* Fig is considered as a useful fruits for men and women beauty.
* It has been found in a study eating fig can keep a women away from breast cancer.
* Fig solves bone related problems.
* In young generation one common problem is pimples. Some amount of fig juice can treat the pimples very well.
* Figs is useful to hair dandruff.
* Fig is important to them who face the problem of memory loss.
* Skin looks rich with the help of fig. It shines.
* Fig can control the heart problem by controlling the cholesterol level.
* Providing the big capacity of iron we can avoid anemia.
* People who face the problem of high or low blood pressure can eat fig to maintain their blood pressure levels.
* Lack of calcium in bones can make a person feel weaker. Eating a fig daily can make bones stronger because of the ample amount of calcium in figs.
* In our daily life we forget our self and cant give time to our mind to feel relaxed. This is when we suffer from stress. Fig is one fruit which can make our mind calm and cool.
* We can control our weight through figs.

What are the Types of Diabetes

We have close people in our family who are suffering from diabetes or we our self might be suffering from it. Just saying that he / she has diabetes doesn't make sense. We should understand what it is and how many types of diabetes are there and what type of diabetes are we or person suffering from. Based upon certain factors Diabetes is divided into three categories Diabetes Type 1, Diabetes Type 2 and GMD. Following graph represents approximate percentage distribution of people suffering from diabetes based upon the type of diabetes


Diabetes
Diabetes for most of us is just high level of sugar levels in the human body. Our body controls the blood sugar level with the help of a hormone called insulin. Insulin is created by Pancreas. So lets see what are the type of diabetes based upon the above factors.

Type 2 Diabetes : Lets talk about type 2 diabetes first as this is the most common form of diabetes and around 85% diabetic patients suffer from type 2 diabetes. In Type 2 Diabetes a person becomes insulin resistant i.e insulin ( hormone ) is not efficient in reducing the blood sugar levels. The treatment mainly deals with diet and exercise. Sometimes if needs tables are suggested. Insulin injections are not taken in the beginning but may become a necessity later on. A research says that over 40% of the type diabetic need insulin shots to be taken.

Type 1 Diabetes : Less number of people compared to type 2 diabetes suffer from type 1 diabetes. In Type 1 Diabetics, sufficient insulin is not generated by pancreas. This happens because the body's immune system incorrectly destroys the insulin producing beta cells in the
pancreas. People affected with this has to take insulin shots several times a day depending on th doctor advise. I have seen people taking shots in marriages, hotels, restaurants. They also have to follow a strict diet plan and workout routine.

GMD ( Gestational Diabetes Mellitus )
GMD is a type of diabetic which develops or is diagnosed mostly during pregnancy test. In GMD a diabetic become carbohydrate intolerant but returns to normal on delivery. However in later life a diabetic complication may be developed in mother as well as baby.

Surgery To Reduce Stomach Size

Everyone wants to get rid of the stomach flab and settle their tummy flat. Some wish to reduce stomach size for looks but in some seriously obese people it is a compulsion. This is because of the various health complications that obese people face. There are diet routines easily available at the nutritionist and exercise routines which even a normal gym instructor can help you out with to reduce your stomach size. But do you know there is another way, one can even do a surgery to reduce stomach size.

How exactly is stomach size reduced using a surgery?
Weight loss Surgery is classified into 3 different types based upon the process involved in the surgery. Any one of the following three ways is used during the surgery. First is the implantation of a medical equipment ( device ) into the stomach. Second method is by cutting out or removal of part of stomach. The last method uses a process to create a smaller stomach pouch and involves cutting and connecting the small stomach pouch to small intestine.

Who should undergo a stomach reduction surgery?
People are recommended to undergo weight loss surgery based on Body Mass Index ( BMI). BMI is nothing but a measure which tells how much fat is present in body against the height of an individual. US National health recommends the surgery for those who have BMI of 40 and above. People with BMI between 35 and 40 can also undergo the surgery if they are suffering from any other serious medical conditions. Though it is not yet clear but there are chances that the people with a minimum of 30 BMI with coexisting serious medical condition maybe allowed to undergo the surgery. Apart from BMI, People who are recommended this surgery have already undergone a diet and exercise regime but found it useless.

What are the types of stomach reduction surgery available today?
Till date there are a number of weight loss surgeries available. Following is a list of them
1) Biliopancreatic Diversion
2) Endoluminal sleeve
3) Vertical banded gastroplasty
4) Adjustable gastric band
5) Sleeve gastrectomy
6) Intragastric balloon (Gastric balloon)
7) Gastric Plication
8) Gastric bypass surgery
9) Sleeve gastrectomy with duodenal switch
10) Implantable gastric stimulation

After a Weight Loss Surgery
A person BMI is reduce by 30 to 50% depending on the type of surgery used to reduce the stomach size. However some restrictions walk in, like a very strict diet. A person who has undergone this type of surgery should follow the recommended diet very strictly. Studies shows that the mortality rates have reduced a lot after weight loss surgery. It is also observed that there are certain complications which arise in some patients after weight loss surgery, depending upon the type of surgery.

Home Remedies for Gas Problem in Stomach

Flatulence, Bloating, Belching and abdominal pain are some of the problems one has to encounter when he or she is suffering from gas problems. We have also seen how precautions to be taken to stay away from stomach gas problem. Now lets see what are the home remedies to stay for gas problems in stomach i.e what actions one can take at home to stay away from gas problems.

Home Remedies for Gas Problem in Stomach

Exercise can lessen gas in the stomach.
It has been discovered in a study conducted by American Journal of Gastroenterology that moderate exercise will always keep you away from stomach gas problems. One should walk after a heavy meal for say 10 minutes or so. Walking should not be too fast, just a little lingering will do. Reason being the movement of the body helps in digestion. The study says that there was less intestinal gas left in those who had a exercise than compared to others. This is one of the reason why a 90% of people never experience gas problems during the day time. As during the day time the body performs a lot of physical activity which can be considered as a mild exercise.

Changing the way you sleep
Sometimes a change in sleeping position, sleeping place can also cause stomach gas problems. This is my personal experience, when I sleep on a flatter surface I experience almost no gas problem. But when I started to sleep on new 400$ bed it was an onset of gas problem for me as if I bought stomach gas problems for 400$. If I move back to earlier position then I can sense less gas problems in the morning. Though this is not true with everyone but I have came around a number of people who have faced the same issue. Changing sleeping position won't help you much with producing less gas but it aids in releasing the intestinal gas as the body is stretched.

Food That Can Help Digestion
Garlic soup, ginger root, coconut water, parsley herb, celery seeds, tomato salad, peppermint,
powdered cinnamon, basil leaf paste and fennel oil on your belly can relieve you of stomach gas. The items mentioned above aids in digestion and thus produce less gas. Above all they are readily available at home. One should not take all the items at once. Instead try the remedy which works the best for you.

How To Get Rid of Gas In Stomach

Now that we have already discussed about stomach gas problems and excessive flatulence, lets see how to get rid of gas in stomach. We wont be discussing the flatulence or burping as ways to get rid of gas in stomach, instead we will concentrate on how one can get rid of the gas in stomach once and for all.

Diet is the foremost thing one should strictly follow to get rid of gas in stomach.
Make a diary of what you eat.
Try to figure out which food causes more gas problems. It is not necessary that a particular food which can produce gas for one individual will produce gas for others. Once you have detected the food which causes problems for you avoid them completely.
Low Carbohydrate Diet
Carbohydrates are the main culprit to cause gas problem, as they are not easily digested compared to fats and proteins. Eat a low carbohydrate diet. High Fibers also aid the gas problems. One who suffers from stomach gas problems should avoid high fiber food as well.
Food to avoid
One should avoid milk and dairy products, fruits like apples, peaches, grapes, plums, pears and vegetables like cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, beans, peas, whole grains. One should also avoid carbonated drinks. Say no to beer. If you really want to take it, let the beer settle down after you open it. Let the bubbles go away for a while and then have the beer.
Medications
There are some over the counter medicines which are available and can be obtained without any prescription. These medicines can aid in digestion process. eg: beano, CharcoCaps.
Stop Eating Fast
If you are used to fast eating then please don't. As you eat fast you swallow more and more air, which leads to stomach gas problem. One should pay attention to take his dinner, lunch by properly chewing the food without hurrying up. Help your body to process the food faster by minimizing its effort in the processing of breaking the food.
Stop Smoking
Smoking, eating chewing gum are some of the habits which aid in maximum intake of air into the digestive system. Stop it totally. Besides there are other benefits to quit smoking. If you want to read some inspiring quit smoking stories read it here.

Excessive Flatulence at Night

In the previous post we described about stomach gas problems. Flatulence is one of them. An overwhelming amount of people suffer from flatulence and almost all of them face the problem in the night or early in the morning. Excessive flatulence at night can be irritating to your partner if you are married. It can be more embarrassing when you are on a business trip with some professionals and need to share a room. ( Not always everyone will get a deluxe room unless a VP of a company ). There are cases where I have read about excessive flatulence at night becoming a reason for an unhealthy relationship between married couples. I know its humorous but if you want to see it yourself, click here to see some links which may make you laugh but then again give it a thought. Can Excessive flatulence really cause harm to a relationship? There are lot of people who ask for suggestion at least on a yahoo answers about this problem. Flatulence can be more unbearable to others if comes with odor. One should really take care of how to handle it.

Some Causes of Excessive Flatulence at Night
People complain that they don't face the problem during the day. But in the night the flatulence takes over and is worst in the morning. Some people have flatulence problem while they are sleeping but those who have early morning flatulence actually does not allow anything to pass in the night. Hence it is the first thing the body does when they wake up as a process of releasing the gas was accumulated in the night. If you dig dipper there is no such medical condition where a person is flatulent only in the sleep.

We know the fact that meals take 3 to 4 hours to get processed by the body and then they come to intestine. So breakfast, lunch which we take during the day are reaching the end of digestion process during the night. Add dinner to it. And the body has no other work in the night than to process the food. The flatulence also depends upon the bowel movement. If one is having stool which is ready to be passed by the body, then it is evident that until the person has a bowel movement flatulence can take over.

Hair Regrowth after Chemotherapy

A lot of patient these days who have hair fall related problem are turning towards homeopathy. Homeopathy treatment can suit people of all ages. There is always a need for people in the age group of 30 to 40 to get a complete health checkup. Some tests which are included when we talk about complete body checkup is ESR, Routine haemogram, calcium density and mammography.
Anemia, PCOD, Thyroid disorder, high blood pressure, acidity, breast cancer are some of the disorders in which a person looses a lot of hair.

A person suffering from breast cancer feels like they have a muscle ball on the chest. Feeling warm, a slight pain, swelling, feeling heavy and pains are some of the symptoms which can raise an alarm towards breast cancer. The treatment which is chemotherapy or Radiotherapy for such diseases can result in hair loss in huge quantity. Hair Loss is termed as huge when it becomes impossible to count the fallen hair. This finally result in complete baldness.

Some doctors in homeopathy claim that they have a solution to this. By using the blister packaged homeopathic medicines the doctors say they can regrow the lost hair naturally. The treatment helps in regularised menstrual cycle, keeping blood pressure normal, controlling the hemoglobin levels, acidity, stress and also taking care that the women will never face the problem again. Modern blister pack homeopathy helps the patient to take the required dose and also helps in maintaining effectiveness, purity of the medicine.

Note: The points mentioned in this article are researched online, not practically.

Stomach Gas Problems

Almost everyone in this world suffers from the stomach gas problems. People wrongly consider the process of passing gas through rectum to be some type of disorder or stomach gas problem. But if it really is a problem, should be given a thought once you read further.It is normal to pass gas 13-14 times a day as our body produces 1 to 3 pints of stomach gas daily. Normally gas produced is odorless as it contains mainly oxygen, carbon di oxide, hydrogen and nitrogen. However the bad odor which sometimes can be more embarassing than the sound comes because of the bacteria in the large intestine which release sulfur. Methane is also one of the contents of the stomach gas but it is not found in everyone. It is not yet clear why some of the people can produce methane and some not. Either case this is not considered to be a problem.

Causes

There are two basic causes said to cause air in the digestive tract.
a) Habit
Each one of us have different habits which directly or indirectly lead to swallow more or less air. Smoking, eating fast, chewing gum are some of them. The basic behind this is the more gas you let into your body the more you will come to read about stomach gas problems.
b) Processing of Undigested Food
Some of the carbohydrates which can be categorized into sugars, fibers are not fully digested by our body. While trying to break the undigested food the bacteria in the intestine produces hydrogen, carbondioxide and methane. This gas is later let out through the rectum.

Precautions

a) Changing the habits
Stop smoking which lets in the warm smoke from the nicotine in your body. Some people tend to eat too fast. This lets in more than normal air in the mouth which is swallowed along the food. So please take your time at the dinner table. Eat slowly, chew properly. Habit of eating chewing gums every now and then is also not suggested.
b) Help Digestion Process
Help your own digestive system by chewing your bytes as many times as possible when you eat. Make the food finer and the digestive system will run much smoother producing less stomach gas.

Yellow Jaundice

Jaundice is a common disease in which the skin turns yellow in color. Hence sometimes it is referred as yellow jaundice by novice. Sometimes a Jaundice patient also has somewhat yellowish eyes. It is also called as ecterus in english. Yellow Jaundice itself is not a diseases, instead suggest that something is wrong with liver or the gallbladder.

Cause of Yellow Jaundice

Yellow Jaundice is caused by excess presence of bilirubin pigment in the blood of an individual. Bilirubin is converted into bile in the liver which further aids in digestion. However, if the process of conversion slows down then the excess bilirubin pigment gets deposited under the skin , eye thus changing the color to yellow. As said earlier jaundice is a condition rather than a disease and can be caused because of cirrhosis, hepatitis, tumors of kidney or gallbladder and gallstones. Bad habits or addicts to smoke, drugs or alcohol are also prone to Jaundice.

Symptoms of Yellow Jaundice

The foremost symptom is yellow color of the skin or the white part of the eye i.e. the sclera of the eye. Stool color turns white. The skin might turn itchy. The nails, teeth color might change to yellow or brown. Urine color goes brown. Fever, bad breathe, cramps, live pain may also accompany Jaundice.

Diet during Yellow Jaundice

Jaundice when taken proper care can cure itself. A friend who was recently suffering from Jaundice was advised by his doctor to follow a strict diet of milk, rice and only fruits. He was rightly suggested so because this is light food, not too heavy for the body to digest. Non-Veg, Junk Food, salt, oily food should be totally avoided. The body needs to produce more bile to digest these heavy substance and hence can be harmful during Jaundice. The above die can be followed till the 5th day of the jaundice infection or till the skin color returns to normal.

Irritated Eyes

Seen a Colleague yesterday who was having severe irritation in the eyes. The irritation was very annoying as I saw him squeezing his eyes for some time. He is kind of a professional and will never do any thing of that sort when at work. So curiously I asked if there was any problem? Irritated eyes was the prompt reply!!! Many people complain about irritated eyes after swimming in the sea, during pregnancy, allergies, wearing contact lenses and people who spend a lot of time on computers. Lets see what might be the possible reason for the irritation in the eyes.

Irritated Eyes due to Contact Lenses: This happened with me one time. It is very much necessary change the contact lense solution every alternate day to keep the contact lenses free of dust and hygienic. Before using the lenses it is essential to clean them with the lens clean solution. The eye is one of the most sensitive part of the human body and any foreign particle introduction can easily cause irritation of the eyes.
Tip: Clean the contact lens before and after use. One should also have a backup glasses so that the eye heals faster and one can avoid the use if contact lenses till then.

Irritated Eyes After Swimming: Swimming pool are regularly sprinkled with chlorine which makes the water clear. This chlorine is responsible for irritation in eyes in most cases. The same is true when one goes swimming in the sea or gets a little beach joy.
Tip: Try to wear goggles while swimming.

Irritated Eyes During Pregnancy: The hormonal changes during pregnancy can result into irritation of eyes. Some doctors suggest that some of the eye drops can also restrict the blood vessels and cause more irritation. This is mostly a temporary problem and will go away when the baby comes.

Irritated Eyes from Computers: C.E.I or C.V.S termed as Computer eye irritation or computer vision syndrome respectively by the ophthalmologist are the conditions in people who are lot more dependent on computers for their day to day work. The bright light of the computer is responsible for the irritation in the eyes.
Tip: Use a UV protector screen for the computer screen.

Facts: 20% of US population are allergic.

Common Cold

Cold is very common in children as well as old people. As one can get cold easily one always tries to avoid them and looks for preventive measures. Sometimes common cold can get us into critical condition and can stay with a person if not treated. Cold and cough are considered to be common sickness in the human race.

Cause of Common Cold
Though one can get cold because of a variety of viruses, Rhinovisus is one of the main reason of common cold. Still till date we dont have any specific solution to solve the problem of common cold. These types of virus are responsible for repeatedly attacking our body. Common cold is a contagiouse disease and people are infected via the virus getting inside a human body via mouth, nose and the ears.

Treatment of Common Cold

Taking hot steam through our nose can control cold for sometime.
Cold is contagious disease and there is only one precaution to stay away from cold. The precaution is to stay clean and maintain the good habit of keeping our surrounding hygienic.
If you are attacked by common cold in all seasons of the year then please visit a ear, nose and throat specialist to diagnose before the common cold becomes a headache for you.

Symptoms of Common Cold

Some symptoms of common cold which can be seen on the body are
1) Sneezing
2) Heavy Head
3) Body feels heavy than usual
4) Creepy sensation ( hair strands ).
5) Burning nose
6) Low Voice

Alternate Precautions to avoid Common Cold

1) Try to live in a area where there is not much wind.
2) One should keep himself/herself warm.
3) Gargle frequently.
4) One should easy to digest and light food.
5) Include salt and sour liquid ingredients in your diet.
6) Try to drink warm water.
7) While sneezing one should always use a handkerchief.

Heavy Painful Periods

Do you suffer from heavy painful periods? On the onset of the periods ( Menarche ) it is common for a female to be in pain, as the female is having the period for the first time. However moving further if the female complains of heavy painful periods then one should not ignore it. Take the person seriously. Ask them how serious it is. What is the difference between period pain that she might be suffering from that to others. Don't tell the person with heavy painful periods that she is overreacting. Instead try to analyze her situation. There are situations where pain killers also stand of no use to the people who suffer from heavy painful periods. The pains can differ from abdominal pain, back pain and cramps.

Basically the heavy painful periods are categorized into two different types
1) Primary dysmenorrhea: This stage is said to be in the early period stages that is the Menarche and is not related to any of the uterine disorder instead is considered to be caused by the increased amount of the prostaglandin hormone.

2) Secondary dysmenarrhea: This pain can been later when the periods are more regular. Secondary dysmenarrhea are the heavy painful periods which might be related to some of the uterus or pelvic disorders. Hence one should consult the gynecologist to get themselves assured that they are not suffering from the below disorders
Endometriosis: This is a condition in which uterus cells tend to grow outside the uterus walls like on the ovaries. This might lead to extreme pain, bleeding and infertility.
Fibroids: Fribroids are the non cancerous swellings which appears on the uterine connecting tissues and causes heavy painful periods. Fibroids is mostly found with women of 30 to 40 age group.
Ovarian Cyst is also one of the cause for heavy painful periods.


Note: Please consult your doctor before running to any conclusion after reading the content of this site or any other.

Painkillers and Pregnancy

Those who are going to be first time parents hear a lot about care to be taken during pregnancy. Some have specific questions related to painkillers and pregnancy. We will try to address all those issues in this post.

What are the effects that painkillers can have on the baby?
Painkillers when taken by pregnant woman might result in improper development of the sexual organs of the unborn baby boy which leads to infertility in male child. Studies show that testicular cancer in the after life and undescended testes are some of the effects of taking painkillers. In the last decades the male reproductive disorders are increasing and it is believed that painkillers is one of the factors behind it. Mild painkillers can also act as hormone disruptor s, which effects in the above mentioned results. Some times it is found that regular use of pain killers also lead to miscarriage, early, prolonged or delayed labor, bleeding during the labor, increased contractions which might reduce the blood supply to the unborn child.

What painkillers are safe during the pregnancy?
There are painkillers which are considered to be safe during pregnancy. However the trimester period during which painkillers can be consumed vary depending upon the actual painkiller. Paracetamol is considered to be one of the safest painkiller amongst all. But should be taken only with the suggestion of the doc. Further Painkillers are categorized according to their contents in Acetaminophen and non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Acetaminophen is one of the researched and proven painkiller by scientist which can be used during any trimester of the pregnancy. Some NSAID's like Ibuprofen and naproxen are considered to be safe during the first two trimesters of pregnancy.

What painkillers are not safe during the pregnancy?
Woman tend to take different type of pain killers and those who do this during their pregnancy have 7 times more chances of affecting the child. Taking painkiller like Paracetamol during 4 and 6 months of pregnancy increases the risk by almost double as woman's are more vulnerable during this time. Some painkillers like aspirin or ibuprofen are said to increase the risk by 4 times. Using two of the painkillers increases the risk 16 times. Basically, all the painkillers should be avoided in the later stages of pregnancy.

Is it a problem if I take painkiller during the days when I consume?
Some people have the knowledge that painkillers are not good for pregnant woman. But due to regular late periods some woman might be unknown to the fact that they are pregnant and might take some painkillers to relieve themselves of pain.

Health Benefits of Basil

Basil is one of the most common plant in India and across Asia. Health Benefits of Basil are carved deep down in the Ayurveda spanning from diabetes, heart diseases to common cold. If we go by the botanical name of the plant then it is Ocimum Sanctum. Below are some of the health benefits of Basil plant

a) Anabolic : The overall growth of the body muscles and tissues is termed as anabolism and Basil (Tulsi) is studied to benefit because of its anabolic property .
b) Hypoglycemic: Studies show that blood glucose level can be reduced to 17% before meal and 7% after meal in a diabetic patient as compared to a normal placebo treatment. This anti diabetic effect is possible because of the hypoglycemic property of Basil plant.
c) Blood Pressure: Basil plant leaves can keep the blood pressure in control. One can take basil leafs in combination with some sweet ingredients twice a day, empty stomach in the morning and then while going to bed. This practice will always keep your blood pressure in control as compared to others.
d) Anti fertility: It is proven with experiment on rats that ursolic acid which is one of the major constituent of the basil leaf possess an anti fertility property. Basil has the capability to free the locking of the spermatogenesis ( which is process of formation of sperms in males ) and
inhibitory effect of female fertilization process.
e) Adaptogenic: Extracts from the Basil plant are found to reduce stress thus giving the plant an antidepressant property. It is said to be one of the ancient habit where chewing about 12 leaves of the basil plant twice a day will relieve you of stress. To make it more effective one can take it in tea.
f) Ancient practices: Ancient practices show that the basil ( tulsi ) paste is applied to the fingers and toes on the nails during fever. Boiling the tulsi and then using the liquid as mouth wash to get rid of tooth ache is also one of the ancient practices. Juiced leaves of basil (tulsi ) are also applied to mosquito bites, burns, cuts or wounds. It is also applied to the scalp to treat the lice problem.

Health Tip: Never Drink milk after eating Basil ( Tulsi ).

Buy Aloe Vera Plant

Last time I posted about the health benefits of Aloe Vera Pulp. Some people also seem to be interested in buying aloe vera plant. I too have it at my home. Lets see where one can buy Aloe Vera Plant which is a fast growing watery plant.

Tips to Buy Aloe Vera Plant in United States : Almost all the nursery, greenhouses, Wallmart, Kmart and some of the home improvement stores have this plant for sale. Their buy price ranges from $1.5 to $3, depending on the size of the aloe vera plant. Some other stores where one can buy aloe vera plant are Home Depot and Lowe's. Contradictory to what is read that one should not buy plants from Kmart or Wallmart, people say that the aloe vera plant they bought from these stores remained in good shape for a very long time.

Tips to Buy Aloe Vera Plant in UK : Homebase, B&Q, Aldi, IKEA are some of the aloe vera buy places in UK. Look for the house plant section in the stores.

Tips to Buy Aloe Vera Plant in India : Nursery's are the main source to buy an aloe vera plant in India. Besides almost every other neighbor who has a garden will have aloe vera planted and one can get it from them as well.

General Tips for everyone around the world: If your friend or a neighbor has the aloe vera plant. Get a full leaf of the aloe vera plant with some root and plant it. Give some time, water and sunshine for the plant to grow and you have got it. Aloe Vera plant can also be grown from the offshoots which can be found at the base of the aloe vera plant. Aloe Vera plant needs a little care. Not much water, a well drained soil and warm climate are some optimum conditions to grow a aloe vera plant. One can also buy aloe vera plan online like ebay, amazon. At the time of this post I saw an auction on ebay which read 100 aloe vera plants for 370$. The bid was still on. Another auction read a single plant costed around 5$. Please check the size of the plant before buying. It is also preferred that you buy a specific Aloe Vera pant variety which is named as Barbedensis Miller.

Health Benefits of Aloe Vera Pulp

Health Benefits of Aloe Vera Pulp

Aloe Vera is an herb whose health benefit is not constrained to one part of a body, rather it can be used to benefit our whole body. Some of the body parts that can be considered to take health benefits of aloe vera span from hair and skin to nails. Health benefits of Aloe Vera seems to be discovered in the past as evidences show that our grand parents and their ancestors also used this plant.Aloe Vera leaves are fresh green in color and if you have seen the plant the leaves are longer and watery. If you try to squeeze the leaves a clear green shady pulp comes out which is called as the aloe vera pulp

.This pulp is used to make lots of effective beauty creams and health related medicines. Do you have dandruff, do you want to improve your skin shine? Well aloe vera pulp is the answer. 

• Aloe Vera pulp is used to remove dandruff .Not only this as it also makes the hair soft and shiny. If  aloe vera pulp is applied to the skin, the skin remains fresh and glows for a longer time.
• The aloe vera pulp protects the skin from strong sun rays and hence can be used as a UV protector to avoid tanning of the skin.
•  Aloe Vera pulp can be applied to remove burn marks and wound spots. Lot of people has one or the  other  spots on their body of such type and would love to get rid of them. Aloe Pulp comes to rescue!!.
• Cleansing of stomach is faster with a tea spoon of Aloe Vera pulp with some honey.

How To Reduce Belly Size

Why would anyone like to have a flat stomach? Just to look good? No! The belly part is not just related to looking beautiful but is also associated with the health of a individual. Heart disease, metabolism rate in people who take insulin and acidity are some uncommon diseases related to overgrown belly.
How to reduce the size of the belly? Exercise or the sit ups is not the only solution. But definitely one of the first step. Exercise in Gym. This will make every muscle of the body much stronger and leaner. This increases the basal metabolism rate. Exercise will also accelerate the fat burning process of the body and slow down the rate of accumulating fat. To further increase the rate of burning fat one should get involved in aerobics exercise as well. Fast walking, swimming are a couple of fat burning exercises.
Apart from these exercise one should also concentrate on some stomach exercises as well. Situps, reverse colors, oblique exercises help to tone the belly muscles. Also if one can give a vibratory massage to the stomach then the fat has a tendency to loosen up and getting used when one is exercising.

Apart from the exercise it is also important that one take a controlled and balanced diet which will not increase the body heat. The diet is a another part of controlling the belly.

The combination of exercise and good diet is called a combo method to reduce the belly fat along with the body fat as well. While working for a weight loss and if one can follow the above methods one can achieve almost 3 inches of reduced belly size every month.

Tips: The above mentioned methods are just a start, please learn the details before you start.