Eat Fast Foods And Grow Thin!

Being on a diet does not mean you can’t enjoy fast food once in a while. Make wise choices at the drive-thru to maintain a healthy lifestyle. More restaurants are becoming more health conscious, so choosing something healthy shouldn’t be as hard. Here are some of the best fast food items you can eat when on a diet. If you are keeping a food journal,remember to add these choices to your daily entries.Read and see more after the break...

Grilled Chicken Sandwiches or Kid's Sized Burgers

McDonald’s® and Burger King® both offer grilled chicken sandwiches and “kid-sized” burgers. Hold the mayonnaise and any other sauce on your sandwich; opt instead for ketchup, mustard, pickles and lettuce. 

Fruit Parfaits

Order a McDonald’s® fruit parfait for a dessert or quick healthy snack.

Chili and Baked Potatoes

Wendy’s® Old Fashioned Hamburgers offers a hearty chili as well as baked potatoes. Put the chili on top of the baked potato instead of  sour cream or butter. Ask for a cup of shredded cheese on the side, so you can control the amount you put on your healthy choice.The Diet Channel Website has these suggestions for fast-food choices while on a diet:

Think Soft

Order something that comes in a soft tortilla. If you visit Taco Bell® or another fast-food Mexican restaurant, choose soft rather than items with deep-fried chips or on a hard taco shell, which was probably also deep-fried. Hold the sour cream, ask for only a small amount of cheese and order a side of refried beans.

Eat Pizza

You can still have pizza on your diet. Simply ask for your pizza on a thin crust and skip the meat --- just have vegetables as your topping.

Best Drink For Strong Health!

White Tea By now, nearly everyone has heard the benefits of drinking green tea. But, did you know that studies have shown that white tea has three times the antioxidants than in green tea? White tea is grown almost exclusively in China, mainly in the Fujian province.  It's called "white tea" due to the silvery, whitish "hairs" on the unopened buds of the tea plant. White tea is harvested from these tender, young buds of the plant. Read more after the break...

All tea - white, green and black - come from the same plant - that is, the tea plant. The difference is in the processing. The more processing that goes into the plant, the darker the tea. White and green tea require less processing, which increases their antioxidants. White tea requires the least processing of all. In simple terms: when the tea leaves are allowed to wither in natural sunlight and dried - voila - white tea!  The antioxidants in white tea have been shown to reduce cholesterol, boost the immune system, lower blood pressure, and protect against certain types of cancer. White tea is also known to be a natural killer of bacteria and certain viruses.

 White tea has a delicate, light flavor and less caffeine than black and green tea. White tea is more expensive than black and green teas, due to it being hand-picked from the plant, only during the early days of spring. However, less of it is needed to get a strong brew filled with health-building antioxidants. So, you may want to consider adding white tea to your daily routine, or alternate it with your black and/or green tea. White, green or black, here's to tea ~ the wonder drink!

 tea is a tea that requires the least amount of processing and is believed to have high antioxidant levels. White tea may protect against colon, prostate and stomach cancers as well as thin the blood and improve artery function. It may help lower high blood pressure, reduce cholesterol, promote bone density and treat arthritis and osteoporosis. White tea may help prevent against colds and flu, and it may ease symptoms of HIV. It is believed to contain fluoride, which is useful for keeping teeth strong and killing plaque-causing bacteria and tooth decay. White tea may also reduce stress and increase energy. Side effects of white tea include increased urination.

10 Things You Didn't Know About You

Your Stomach Secretes Corrosive Acid

The human body is a great, sweaty, fluid-filled machine, moving and mixing chemicals with precision and coordination, making everything from memories to mucus. Here we explore some of the complex, beautiful or just plain gross mysteries of how you function.There's one dangerous liquid no airport security can confiscate from you: It's in your gut. Your stomach cells secrete hydrochloric acid, a corrosive compound used to treat metals in the industrial world. It can pickle steel, but mucous lining the stomach wall keeps this poisonous liquid safely in the digestive system, breaking down lunch.Read more after the break...

Body Position Affects Your Memory

Can't remember your anniversary, hubby? Try getting down on one knee. Memories are highly embodied in our senses. A scent or sound may evoke a distant episode from one's childhood. The connections can be obvious (a bicycle bell makes you remember your old paper route) or inscrutable. A recent study helps decipher some of this embodiment. An article in the January 2007 issue of Cognition reports that episodes from your past are remembered faster and better while in a body position similar to the pose struck during the event.

Bones Break (Down) to Balance Minerals

In addition to supporting the bag of organs and muscles that is our body, bones help regulate our calcium levels. Bones contain both phosphorus and calcium, the latter of which is needed by muscles and nerves. If the element is in short supply, certain hormones will cause bones to break downeupping calcium levels in the bodyeuntil the appropriate extracellular concentration is reached.

Much of a Meal is Food For Thought

Though it makes up only 2 percent of our total body weight, the brain demands 20 percent of the body's oxygen and calories. To keep our noggin well-stocked with resources, three major cerebral arteries are constantly pumping in oxygen. A blockage or break in one of them starves brain cells of the energy they require to function, impairing the functions controlled by that region. This is a stroke.

 Thousands of Eggs Unused by Ovaries

When a woman reaches her late 40s or early 50s, the monthly menstrual cycle that controls her hormone levels and readies ova for insemination ceases. Her ovaries have been producing less and less estrogen, inciting physical and emotional changes across her body. Her underdeveloped egg follicles begin to fail to release ova as regularly as before. The average adolescent girl has 34,000 underdeveloped egg follicles, although only 350 or so mature during her life (at the rate of about one per month). The unused egg follicles then deteriorate. With no potential pregnancy on the horizon, the brain can stop managing the release of ova.

Puberty Reshapes Brain Structure, Makes for Missed Curfews

We know that hormone-fueled changes in the body are necessary to encourage growth and ready the body for reproduction. But why is adolescence so emotionally unpleasant? Hormones like testosterone actually influence the development of neurons in the brain, and the changes made to brain structure have many behavioral consequences. Expect emotional awkwardness, apathy and poor decision-making skills as regions in the frontal cortex mature.

Cell Hairs Move Mucus

Most cells in our bodies sport hair-like organelles called cilia that help out with a variety of functions, from digestion to hearing. In the nose, cilia help to drain mucus from the nasal cavity down to the throat. Cold weather slows down the draining process, causing a mucus backup that can leave you with snotty sleeves. Swollen nasal membranes or condensation can also cause a stuffed schnozzle.

Big Brains Cause Cramped Mouths

Evolution isn't perfect. If it were, we might have wings instead of wisdom teeth. Sometimes useless features stick around in a species simply because they're not doing much harm. But wisdom teeth weren't always a cash crop for oral surgeons. Long ago, they served as a useful third set of meat-mashing molars. But as our brains grew our jawbone structure changed, leaving us with expensively overcrowded mouths.

The World Laughs with You

Just as watching someone yawn can induce the behavior in yourself, recent evidence suggests that laughter is a social cue for mimicry. Hearing a laugh actually stimulates the brain region associated with facial movements. Mimicry plays an important role in social interaction. Cues like sneezing, laughing, crying and yawning may be ways of creating strong social bonds within a group.

Your Skin Has Four Colors

All skin, without coloring, would appear creamy white. Near-surface blood vessels add a blush of red. A yellow pigment also tints the canvas. Lastly, sepia-toned melanin, created in response to ultraviolet rays, appears black in large amounts. These four hues mix in different proportions to create the skin colors of all the peoples of Earth.

Mobile Phones And Your Health...

Regular use of mobile phones linked to ear ringing,People who use mobile phones regularly may be putting themselves at risk of developing a debilitating ear condition.Read more after the break...

A small study published today suggests that using a mobile for at least four years seems to be linked to a doubling in the risk of developing chronic tinnitus, a persistent ringing or hissing in the ear.

Regular use is defined as 10 minutes per day by the researchers, from the Institute of Environmental Health atthe University of Vienna.Chronic tinnitus is becoming more common and affects around 10 to 15 per cent of people in the developed world; there are few treatment options.

While there are some known causes or triggers, such as head trauma or ear disorders, there are few known risk factors or clear explanations for the increasing prevalence.The authors compared 100 patients who needed treatment for chronic tinnitus with 100 people, matched for sex and age and who did not have the disorder, over the period of a year.All were asked about the type of phone they used and where, which was seen as relevant because mobile phone output tends to be stronger in rural areas.They were also asked about how long their calls took, how intensely they used the phone, which ear they preferred and whether they used hand-held devices.Most tinnitus was one-sided with the left side accounting for 38 cases. More than a third described it as distressing “most of the time” which almost a third also had vertigo.Although almost all the participants were mobile users, but only 84 tinnitus patients were using a mobile when the symptoms appeared (compared to 78 in the comparison group at the start of the study).The patients who had used a mobile before the onset of tinnitus were 37 per cent more likely to have the condition than those in the comparison group, while those who used their mobiles for an average of 10 minutes per day were 71 per cent more likely to have the condition.Most people use their phones on both ears and those who had used one for four years or more were twice as likely to have tinnitus compared with those in the comparison group.There are limitations with the study – including the small number of patients included and people’s likelihood of over or underestimating their mobile phone usage. But the authors say: “Considering all potential biases and con founders, it is unlikely that the increased use of tinnitus from prolonged mobile phone use obtained in this study is spurious.“Because of the high prevalence of tinnitus and the widespread use of mobile phones, even a slightly increased risk would be of public health importance.”They suggest that the microwave energy emitted by mobiles and absorbed by the cochlea and auditory pathway may be to blame.The study, published online in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine, comes shortly after a warning that children should reduce their mobile phone use where possible. The chief medical officer of Wales, Dr Tony Jewell, put out advice to children which suggested keeping calls short and texting rather than phoning, although it acknowledges that “at the moment it seems that using a mobile phone won’t cause health problems”.

Prevent Cancer Change Your lifestyle

Brain cancer is a disease of the brain in which cancer cells (malignant) arise in the brain tissue. Cancer cells grow to form a mass of cancer tissue (tumor) that interferes with brain functions such as muscle control, sensation, memory, and other normal body functions.Read more how to prevent...

Cancers of the brain are the consequence of abnormal growths of cells in the brain. Brain cancers can arise from primary brain cells, the cells that form other brain components (for example, membranes, blood vessels), or from the growth of cancer cells that develop in other organs and that have spread to the brain by the bloodstream (metastatic brain cancer).

Brain Cancer Symptoms:

* Headaches, usually worse in the morning.

* Nausea and vomiting.

* Changes in your ability to talk, hear or see.

* Problems with balance or walking.

* Problems with thinking or memory.

* Muscle jerking or twitching.

* Numbness or tingling in arms or legs.

Causes of Brain Cancer:

There is no known cause of brain cancer. Extensive research has been conducted to pinpoint a cause to help prevent the cancer from occurring. Although there has not been very much conclusive evidence leading to a cause of brain cancer, the one thing that doctors do know is that brain cancer is not contagious and it does not occur due to head injury. There are known instances where cancer has spread to the brain from other parts of the body. (Lung cancer, Breast cancer, Liver cancer and so on.).

Treatments for Brain Cancer:

Brain tumors are treated with surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Our doctors also are studying a vaccine for treating a recurrent cancer of the central nervous system that occurs primarily in the brain, known as glioma.

Home remedies that have been listed in various sources as possibly helpful for Brain cancer may include:

Exercise, Stress Management, Massage Therapy, Mind Body Exercise, Beans, Blueberries, Strawberries, Blackberries, Buckwheat, Black tea, Green tea, Cabbage, Apricots, Tomatoes, Carrots, Cauliflower, Cherries, Corn, Garlic, Grape juice, Watermelon, Mushrooms, Nuts, Olive oil, Onions, Oranges, Peas, Potatoes, Pumpkin, Yogurt.

Breast cancer is cancer originating frombreast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas, those originating from lobulesare known as lobular carcinomas. It occurs in both men and women, although male breast cancer is rare

After skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women in the world. Butbreast cancer rates have fallen in recent years, though doctors aren't certain why. Still, for many women,breast cancer is the disease they fear most.

Types of Breast Cancer:

* DCIS Ductal Carcinoma In Situ

* IDC Invasive Ductal Carcinoma

* ILC Invasive Lobular Carcinoma

* IBC Inflammatory Breast Cancer

* LCIS Lobular Carcinoma In Situ

* MBC Male Breast Cancer

* Paget's Disease of the Nipple

* Phyllodes Tumors of the Breast

* Recurrent and Metastatic Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer Symptoms | Signs of Breast Cancer:

* Swelling of all or part of the breast

* Skin irritation or dimpling

* Breast pain

* Nipple pain or the nipple turning inward

* Redness, scaliness, or thickening of the nipple or breast skin

* A nipple discharge other than breast milk

* A lump in the underarm area

Sometimes there are no symptoms of breast cancer when it is in the early stages. If you notice a lump, or are experiencing anything unusual, you must report the symptoms to your doctor as soon as possible.

Breast Cancer Causes:

It's not clear what causes breast cancer. Doctors know that breast cancer occurs when some breast cells begin growing abnormally. These cells divide more rapidly than healthy cells do. The accumulating cells form a tumor that may spread (metastasize) through your breast, to your lymph nodes or to other parts of your body.

Breast Cancer Stages:

There are four stages of breast cancer.

* Stage 0 (carcinoma in situ)

* Stage I

* Stage II

* Stage IIIA

* Stage IIIB

* Stage IIIC

* Stage IV

In stage IV, the cancer has spread to other organs of the body, most often the bones, lungs, liver, or brain.

Breast Cancer Remedies:

* Garlic: Eat raw garlic cloves or in powder form as it makes good anti cancer agent.

* Broccoli: When this is taken in raw form, it has the power to kill the tumor cells.

* Beans: Fava beans contain much herein, which has shown to block carcinogens in the digestive tract. And soy beans are especially rich in isoflavones, which appears to reduce the risk of breast cancer by blocking the tumor growing influence of estrogen.

* Whole Wheat: Scientist found that the more whole grain there is in a woman's diet, the lower her risk of breast cancer, as well as heart disease.

* Grapes: Grapes contain a compound that leads to effective treatment of breast cancer.

* Green Tea: Prepare herbal green tea as it has anti inflammatory properties.

* Lignans: Lignans are present in cashews, strawberries, flax seed, sunflower and peanuts as this slows down the rate of progression of cancer.

Eat food low in fat and high in fiber , reduce caffeine intake and avoid non vegetarian food items. Supplement your diet with flex oil , fish oil and vitamin E & C.

Control your Dandruff

Dandruff can be a very embarrassing condition that affects many people. Having dandruffmay cause a lack of confidence and self esteem. The person suffering with dandruffoften feels they cannot wear dark clothing because others may notice.Dandruff consists of scaly particles with an oily sheen that lie close to the hair root. This condition should not be confused with a flaky scalp.Read more after the break...

Dandruff is where the natural process of the shedding of skin cells has for some reason got out of hand. The precise cause of dandruff remains a mystery but some experts believe it is the result of bad diet orillness, others that it's fungal infection. Dandruff should not be confused with a very dry scalp.

Causes of Dandruff:

The following are items that may cause dandruff:

Hormone imbalance.

Excessive perspiration

Allergic reactions

Excessive stress

Poor hygene

Poor nutritioin/health

Lack of sleep

Inherited genetic trait

Inadequete shampooing and rinsing of the hair.

Tight fitting hats.

Excessive use of hair styling products (gel, mouse, hair dye, hair curler...)

Cold weather

Dry enviroment.

Excessive Heat

Even though dandruff is known as the drying of the scalp, it is most common in people with oily hair.

Symptoms:

The common symptoms of dandruff include itching and white, oily flakes. That said, there are several conditions, including psoriasis, dry skin, seborrheic dermatitis, or contact dermatitis, which present similar symptoms. Before beginning treatment for dandruff, it is important to consult your dermatologist to make sure you're treating the right condition.

Dandruff Treatments:

* If you have only a mild case of dandruff, shampooing your hair with a regular shampoo daily or twice a day will usually do the trick.

* Start out by trying a mild shampoo, stronger shampoos can irritate and dry out your hair making dandruff flaking worst.

* If your standard shampoo doesn't get rid of your dandruff, buy an anti dandruff shampoo and yourdandruff condition should improve signifigantly in a couple of weeks.

* Once you have found an anti dandruff shampoo that works for you, keep on using it or your dandruff will most likely reoccur.

* Lather and rinse twice when using anti dandruff shampoos, the first time cycle will clean your scalp, the second cycle will medicate it.

* If you think you may have a severe case of dandruff, it is advised that you set up an appointment with a dermatologist.

* Poor health may be the cause of your dandruff, so be sure to get enough sleep, eat nutritiously, and avoid stress inducing activities.

* If you have to scratch your head, avoid using your fingernails to scratch (you'll risk an infection if you do) instead use the pads of your fingers.

* Wear a hat outside on days that are extremely cold, windy, and when you're going to be out in the sun for a lengthy period.

* Limit the use of hair coloring and hair styling products with alcohol which dries out hair.

* Make sure that you get an adequate ammount of B6 in your diet, which will help prevent dandruff.

* Massage your scalp with the pads of your fingers in a circular motion to increase circulation.