Get The Right Time To Drinking Tea

Last Updated on Sunday, 1 August 2010 07:46 Written by Natural Health Team Thursday, 3 September 2009 02:03

Tea is a beverage that can be served at many events. To have a cup of tea really helpful you should look the situation and condition for suitable tea.

Would you like to drink black tea, green tea or lemon tea you should have the right time to drinking it. So there’s no harm in storing a variety of tea in your home for the right situation and condition.

People in North African believe that tea can keep the body warm, stay comfortable during a fever. In China green tea Aromatherapy has been used for treatment for more than 4000 years. In Japan there is a tea ceremony which show how to brew and enjoy a tea that is believed can balance the body and mind.

All traditional tea comes from Camellia sinensis plant. Traditional tea is categorized based on how the process and there are 3 types of tea, there are green tea, oolong tea and black tea.

Green tea is a tea which is dried immediately after picking, black tea is a tea which being wilting first after picked, then fermented and dried, oolong tea is oxidized just before drying.

“Tea is very healthy plants for consumption,” said Smit Karlien, dieticians from Shelly Meltzer and Associates.

Drinking four cups of traditional tea a day believed to provide good health benefits as quoted from Health24, Monday (13/7/2009).

Green tea contains many antioxidants. Black tea has 5 times more anti-bacterial and having  immunity support for proteins in the blood, reducing dental plaque, and fight bacteria that causes bad breath.

Essentially all of the traditional tea containing amino acids, minerals, antiseptic, anti-cancer, anti-allergy and important antioxidants. Antioxidants in tea may lower bad cholesterol and make blood vessels relax, and reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke.

Ming Wei, an expert on tea from Origin Coffee Roasting, believes that the art of tea making is at the moment of making tea. Each type of tea has different temperature and time to produce a delicious and potential tea.

Black tea brewed with hot water at a temperature of 90-95 degrees Celsius for 3 to 5 minutes to achieve a good taste and high antioxidant levels. Oolong tea is brewed with water at a temperature of 90-100 degrees Celsius for 1 to 3 minutes. While green tea at a temperature of 60-80 degrees Celsius for 1 to 2 minutes.

Tea making process should not be too hot because it can burn the tea leaves and causes the tea to be bitter and eliminate anti-oxidants that contained on tea.

To get a better efficacy for the body, tea should be added with honey instead of using sugar to not add any calories to the body.

In addition to traditional tea there is also herbal teas such as Rooibos and honeybush. Rooibos and honeybush contain very little or even not caffeine amount and make this kind of teas good to be consumed by people which are sensitive to caffeine.

Besides these two tea also contains a little tannin levels and contains many minerals like potassium, iron, zinc, and magnesium. Both contain vitamin C levels that are good and there is no side effects to taking these two herbal teas.

Here’s a good time to enjoy the tea:

1. When getting out of bed: drink black tea and try to mixed it with breakfast.
2. At mid-afternoon: oolong tea or green tea.
3. Before going to bed: Rooibos tea or honeybush. Camomile tea could also help your body feel more relax.
4. If you feel stressed: black tea or Rooibos tea.
5. For children: mix child’s favorite juice with a cup of herbal tea, Rooibos also can be mixed with orange juice and honeybush with apple juice.
6. If  got throat sore try to drinking tea with honey as an antiseptic.
7. For nausea stomach, drinking fresh ginger tea can help.
8. To adding vitamin C to the body, drinking lemon tea can provide vitamin C for the body.

Vegetables Diet Can Prevent Chronic Diseases

Last Updated on Sunday, 1 August 2010 07:45 Written by Natural Health Team Sunday, 30 August 2009 06:38

Vegetables Diet which rich in nutrients believed to help prevent chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, obesity and diabetes. This diet can be done by teenagers, children, babies and pregnant women.

Quoted from MSNNews on Saturday (11/7/2009) the association of America diet, planning to create a diet consisting of vegetables, can be total vegetables or some vegetables part but still healthy and nutritious food that might prevent people from chronic disease.

Vegetable diet is usually got lot’s of benefits such as low cholesterol, small heart disease risk, normal blood pressure levels, the small risk of hypertension and reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes.

“Vegetables have low body mass index and low average cancer risk. Diet vegetables tend to give the unsaturated fats and high levels of fiber, magnesium, vitamin C and E, folate, carotenoids, flavoid, and other pitokimia. This difference nutritional provide variety of health benefits and balance diet of vegetables, “says Winston Craig, PhD, MPH, RD, a professor and chairman of the Department of Nutrition and Wellness at Andrews University.

The analysis evidence which had been made by American diet association showed that the vegetable diet nutrition are sufficient for pregnant women and showed positive results on the health of the mothers and the babies. In addition, the basic evidence also shows that a diet of vegetables associated with lowering risk of death due to ischemic heart disease (obstruction of blood flow to the arteries in the heart).

The association of American diets is also developing the details of the factors that are available in vegetables that can protect human body from cancer. Other factors that having contribution to preventing osteoporosis are found in fruits, vegetables, soy products, protein, calcium, vitamin D and K, and potassium for healthy bones.

The dietitians list issued by the association of the American diet may provide important information about nutrition, modification of the vegetables diet to meet dietary needs and restrictions because of illness or allergies, and provide guidance to meet the needs of people in various health fields.

For those who want to go on a vegetables diet, should consult with your nutritional doctor first to find out what vegetable diet is right for you.

Don’t Ignoring Breakfast

Last Updated on Sunday, 1 August 2010 07:44 Written by Natural Health Team Saturday, 29 August 2009 01:10

The reason could not make the breakfast make a lot of people often ignore breakfast. Whereas traditional breakfast before the activity must be done so that the concentration of study and work uninterrupted.

Reported by dietbio, Saturday (11/7/2009) breakfast is the food consumed in the early days. Because the body during sleep are keeping the activity and remained 500-600 calories burned which is in the morning the body need to took back your calorie intake.

At breakfast our bodies need 25% of the caloric needs per day, which means 400-550 kcal for women and 670 kcal for men. If we ignore the breakfast, then we will nibble and eat something that makes our diet is not balanced, the consequences could be obese (overweight).

When the stomach is empty because there is no breakfast, the body will not produce the energy needed for efficiency in the morning. Hence, in the 10-11 hours a day will come fatigue and hunger that can damage your concentration.

A healthy breakfast can also contribute to weight loss, improve memory and concentration, and improve overall health. The best food for breakfast is fruits, because it is absorbed quickly and can immediately begin the process of metabolism.

In addition, you can also consume cereal in the morning that will give your body carbohydrates needed by the body and make more energy for your body.

A bowl of cereal was able to meet the needs of breakfast that can be prevented for snacking in the office and could ultimately lose weight. Healthy foods can make healthy throughout the day.

Someone who skip breakfast have difficulty concentrating, especially in the hours before lunch. A nutritious breakfast and full in vitamins can help improve concentration and increased their power. However, do not eat too much sugar, because after the sugar missing the concentration will decrease too.

Someone who did not eat breakfast, make the energy intake needed by the body taken from blood glucose. This causes levels will be reduced, resulting in health and balance of the body affected.

The result is the body becomes weak, headache, drowsiness, tired and lethargic, and affect the concentration of power in the thinking and work.

Overall benefits of breakfast is to increase strength and stamina during activity, lower cholesterol, improve concentration and ability to solve problems. And good coordination between the senses, weight control, reduce fatigue and sleepiness during activity.

So, from now on should never neglect breakfast.

Lack of Sleep Trigger Hypertension

Last Updated on Sunday, 1 August 2010 07:41 Written by Natural Health Team Wednesday, 26 August 2009 07:27

Blood pressure can be increased by many factors. Heredity, diet, and not conducive conditions environment can cause a person suffering from hypertension aka high blood pressure.

Works that piled up, the streets are jammed, and various other activities that can make you reduce the hours of sleep each day. Yet the lack of sleep can led a person to have high blood pressure.

Recently, a study at the University of Chicago, the United States, found that the lack of sleep can increase the risk of hypertension. Even in Britain, one of three people who have hypertension, have potentially to get stroke and heart attack, as quoted by the telegraph.

This research involved 578 adults with age range 33 to 45 years. The researchers checked the blood pressure of the object of study. The researchers then monitored sleep patterns using sensors placed on each study subject’s wrist in order to know their activities and rest before blood pressure is checked again. The study involved 578 adults with age range 33 to 45 years.

From the research proved, 1 percent of the objects of study sleep 8 hours per day or more. The rest, sleep with an average of 6 hours per day. The result states that a person who slept an hour less than 6 hours per day increases the risk of hypertension by 37 percent.

Dr. Kristen Knutson fromArchives of Internal Medicine said, “This study provides evidence that an association between sleep duration and sleep quality with high blood pressure level are determined by the characteristics of a person’s sleep pattern”.

Basically hypertension rarely have obvious symptoms, only if the blood pressure are being tested, the results will consistently above 140 and 90. To lower blood pressure, doing physical exercise and salt diet are proved can lower blood pressure.