Hot Or Cold Bath: Which Should You Have?

Bathing is an essential part of a healthy routine, but depending on the temperature, your time spent under the water can offer different benefits. Whether you like it hot or prefer it cold, learn how your bathing routine can affect your health. After reading, you might rethink your choice - whether cold or hot.



Hot bath can relieve tension and soothe stiff muscles. If you have a powerful showerhead, even better! Let the hot water work like a minimassage on your shoulders, neck, and back.


Studies have shown that taking a hot bath can increase tour oxytoxin level and ease anxiety. Anyone working with stress can use more of the love hormone in their life.

A hot shower also acts as a natural decongestant to relieve cold symptoms, since the hot steam moisturizes nasal passages.

Under the weather and running a slight fever? A hot shower might be what you need to help break your fever and bring your temperature back to normal.

On the other hand, cold baths also have their health benefits. Cold showers — as unbearable as they are — are actually really good for our body. Turning your shower cold for the last five minutes can help "shock" your body awake. This instant change in temperature relieves your body of fatigue and increases your mental alertness.

A "cooler" shower (around 68 degrees) for two to three minutes once or twice daily is recommended by researchers as a treatment for depression. Just make sure you check in with your doctor before testing this out.

On the more vain side of the spectrum, cold showers are better for our hair and skin. Where a hot shower can dry things out, cold showers hydrate and help with split ends and dry skin.

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Herbal Remedy For Female Infertility

Many women desire the fruit of the womb but cannot conceive due to infertility issues. Infertility is a rising problem in today’s society. Huge amount of money is spent globally on infertility issues, especially by couples who are not able to have a child because of issues relating to fertility. The saddest part is that in many cases, the body can reverse infertility naturally if given the correct resources, most times in form of herbal or natural remedies.

Very few health related problems cause more pain and anxiety as wanting to have a child and not being able to.

Infertility is often a complex problem with a simple solution. There are so many confounding factors that can cause or contribute to infertility, which is why conventional or orthodox treatment is rarely as effective… it simply can’t address all the possible causes. Fertility drugs and artificial hormones of any kind, including birth control, can make underlying problems even worse and make future fertility more difficult (this is sad, because hormonal birth control is often prescribed for various hormonal imbalances and problems).

What Causes Infertility?

Infertility can be caused by a huge number of factors: hormone imbalance, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Endometriosis, Anovulatory Cycles, physical blockage, inadequate hormone production, short luteal phase, lack of lutenizing hormone, high levels or prolactin,  and many others.

Poor nutrition often plays a major role, as does exposure to toxins. Age plays less of a role before menopause than was originally thought.

Herbal Remedy For Female Infertility

While diet and lifestyle alone sometimes reverse infertility, some women notice better or faster results with the aid of herbal medicine and herbs.

In Nigeria, there are many expert NAFDAC approved herbal therapist who have formulated herbal remedies for the cure of female infertility which have resulted in many resounding success stories. 

You can contact any of the over 90 NAFDAC approved herbal therapists in our consultancy list who are expert in that field of natural medicine, by calling +2347031040178.

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More People Will Die Of Smoking Unless... - World Heart Federation

The World Heart Federation has come down strongly on both active and passive smokers. A report released by the Federation reveals significant gaps in public awareness regarding the cardiovascular risks of tobacco use and secondhand smoke. The report, entitled “Cardiovascular harms from tobacco use and secondhand smoke”, was commissioned by the World Heart Federation and written by the International Tobacco Control Project (ITC Project), in collaboration with the Tobacco Free Initiative at the World Health Organization.

Professor Geoffrey T. Fong at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and Chief Principal Investigator of the ITC Project, commented, “This report shows a broad correlation between poor knowledge of the risks of tobacco use and high levels of smoking prevalence. To break this link and reduce the deadly toll of tobacco, more needs to be done to increase awareness of the specific health harms. Our research shows that the risks of tobacco use to lung health are very widely accepted. But we need to attain the same level of knowledge and awareness that tobacco use and secondhand smoke can cause heart disease, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease. Health warning labels are known to be an effective method for educating the public on the health harms of tobacco products. A number of countries have introduced warnings about the increased risk of heart disease or heart attack, but no country has yet implemented a label to warn people that secondhand smoke causes heart disease. Increasing knowledge of these specific health risks will help encourage smokers to quit and help non-smokers protect themselves, so raising awareness is an important step in reducing people’s exposure to tobacco smoke.”

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the world’s leading cause of death, killing 17.3 million people every year. Eighty per cent of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, which are increasingly being targeted by the tobacco industry. Tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure causes about one-tenth of global deaths from CVD. Even smoking a few cigarettes a day significantly increases the risk of heart disease. Smokeless tobacco products have also been linked to an increased risk of heart disease and stroke. Secondhand smoke exposure increases the risk of heart disease by 25–30 per cent and more than 87 per cent of worldwide adult deaths caused by secondhand smoke are attributable to CVD.

Johanna Ralston, CEO of World Heart Federation, commented: “If people don’t know about the cardiovascular effects of tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure, they cannot understand how much or how quickly smokers are endangering not only their own lives, but those of family members, friends, co-workers or other non-smokers who breathe tobacco smoke. In countries like India or China, so many people are at high risk for heart attack or stroke, and it strikes at a relatively early age: risks of CVD are far more present and immediate than most of the better-known fatal effects of tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure. Knowing about cardiovascular risks of tobacco will help smokers take quitting seriously, and encourage people to demand and comply with policies that protect everyone from the harms of tobacco. The World Heart Federation calls on governments around the world to a make these policies an immediate priority, as they committed to do last year through the Political Declaration of the United Nations’ High-level Meeting on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases.”
 
Dr. Douglas Bettcher, Director of the World Health Organization’s Tobacco Free Initiative, noted that, “This report provides conclusive proof that the level of information people have about the cardiovascular harms of tobacco use and secondhand smoke is still insufficient and therefore mass media campaigns and warnings are urgently needed to make people aware of these lethal harms. In fact, to avoid the enormous toll of needless deaths caused by tobacco use, a special UN high level meeting on non-communicable diseases recently called upon Parties of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) to accelerate implementation of this Convention, recognizing the full range of measures, including measures to reduce tobacco consumption and availability. I hope that this report will boost the sense of urgency that world leaders and the public health community are trying to instill into the implementation of the WHO FCTC.  This will mean the difference between death and life for almost six million people each year.”

The report, which presents data from two major global tobacco research and surveillance studies - the Global Tobacco Surveillance System (GTSS) and the ITC Project - recommends three steps to reduce the current and future cases of CVD due to tobacco use - which may total over 100 million people - among the one billion people throughout the world who smoke today, and of their families exposed to secondhand smoke:
1.    Support tobacco control policies outlined in the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), including those that:

a.    Increase the price of tobacco products
b.    Eliminate tobacco promotion and marketing
c.    Implement 100 per cent smokefree laws in workplaces and public places – which is proven to significantly lower hospital admissions for heart attacks
d.    Make the necessary step-change in public awareness through committing to population-level strategies, such as large graphic warnings on tobacco product packaging and mass media public education campaigns – including warnings and messages about the risk of smoking and secondhand smoke to cardiovascular health
e.    Introduce plain packaging to discourage youth from starting smoking

2.    Increase training in cessation advice and support among health professionals

3.    Implement programmes and protocols to ensure cessation advice, support and aids are provided systematically.

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Boost Your Sexual Life With Herbal Medicine, Meet The Experts

One basic fact about herbal medicine is that it is organic in nature - much like the food you eat - and any part that is not absorbed by the body is taken out through the various excretory organs. This is quite unlike chemical based drugs which do not have a route of escape for the body and thus become toxic, thereby leading to other health issues.

Enhancing sexual drive through herbal medicine has been found to be more effective than orthodox drugs. In fact, one major reasons while our forefathers where able to marry many wives and satisfy them sexually even in old age, is because of their intensive use of herbal medicine. Compare that with what is obtainable today and you will discover that nowadays, men as young as 30 or 35 years are having problems with their sexual life because they do not make use of these natural medicines.

The use of  natural aphrodisiac found in herbal medicine has been in use since time immemorial.

The origin of "aphrodisiac" derives from Greek mythology and references Aphrodite, the goddess of love. Since the beginning of time, men have searched for aphrodisiacs in order to stimulate their failing passions. Overtime, longevity has increased and so has the pursuit for enhanced experience. Although Viagra (sildenafil citrate) has proven itself an extremely effective aphrodisiac, it is also a prescription medication that is not appropriate for use by all men and is in fact considered "inadvisable" for those men with underlying cardiovascular risk. In contrast, herbal medicine have been found to be much better health wise than these orthodox drugs.

In the case of many men, a more natural remedy with accompanying connotations of mellowness and tradition is preferred.

One of the herbs that are used to enhance sexual life is the yohimbe, a tall evergreen native to west Africa, including Nigeria and its bark natural remedy called yohimbine. Yohimbe bark has traditionally been used in Africa as an aphrodisiac and is currently used as a remedy for sexual dysfunction, including erectile dysfunction. As a dietary supplement, the dried bark is made into tea and taken by mouth; an extract of the bark is also put into capsules and tablets. The amount of yohimbine in dietary supplements may vary with some products containing very little yohimbine.

Of course, there are several herbs that are currently been formulated into natural remedies for sexual dysfunction.

If you want to access Nigeria's NAFDAC approved herbal remedies for the enhancement of libido or sexual drive; or you want to meet practitioners in the Nigerian herbal medicine industry who are experts in sexual enhancements and are approved by NAFDAC, call this consultant on +2347031040178.

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Improve Your Mental Capacity With Crayfish

Are you interested in crayfish? some people are so in love with this seafood that they are ready to use it instead of fish. The following article was written by a specialist from Trapper Arne  who decided to study crayfish and do a research on it. 

Ever since my mother told me, I have believed it. Fish and shellfish are brain food.


As I grew older, I may have taken that truth with a grain of salt or two. But when I started gathering nutritional facts about crayfish, I found to my surprise that nutritionists now are convinced that crayfish, and other shellfish like lobster, crab and shrimp, do indeed have the nutrients that stimulate mental energy.


The more I studied the subject, the more I realized that crayfish have a super healthy combination of nutrients from its almost pure form of protein to its healthy amount of Omega-3 Fatty Acids which we now know are among the most beneficial fats we can eat. Crayfish protein has large amounts of the amino acids tyrosine that mentally energizes the brain.


Come to think of it, maybe this is why I usually feel so revived after a meal of crayfish. These amino acids are supposed to make you think and react better and to be more attentive and motivated and mentally energetic. Could this be the reason why crayfish parties and crawfish festivals are so lively?


One nutritionist expressed it as “being on a mental roll” thanks to the dopamine and norepinephrine getting to work in the brain.


However, it appears, according to many physicians specializing in blood types in relation to foods, that people with type O blood thrive on shell fish while those of type B blood often are allergic to it. Just like my wife who cannot touch crustaceans.


In a serving of 3 - 4 ounces of crayfish, you can expect the following amounts of nutrients:

 Total fat  1 g.
 Saturated fat 0 g.
 Cholesterol 126 mg.(compare one egg 200 mg.)
 Sodium  170 mg.
 Total Carbohydrate 0 g.
 Dietary fiber 0 g. 
 Sugars  0 g.
 Protein  16 g.
 Calories 80 (compare to beef 242 calories)

In addition, there is a healthy supply of vitamin D and A as well as calcium and potassium, copper and zinc in crayfish. Iodine is also often mentioned as an important ingredient. As you can also see, crayfish is a very low carbohydrate food, and without ‘carbs’ you can safely eat crayfish without putting on unwanted weight.

Another favorable aspect of crayfish nutrition is that there is hardly ever any toxic residues or artificial hormones injected into the meat as crayfish usually come from lakes that are free from industrial or other pollution. In addition, crayfish are very sensitive to polluted waters and have in the past been used to test the purity of lakes before we invented other methods to determine water purity.

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Boiled Or Fried Egg: Which Should You Eat?

In Nigeria, many people love to eat eggs. But for some, it is not usually clear whether to boil the eggs or fry them before eating. You love eggs, you don't necessarily have to give them up to follow a healthy diet. A study published in the "British Journal of Nutrition" found that healthy people can eat eggs up to almost daily without increasing their heart disease risk. However, boiled eggs are a better option than fried eggs because they are a bit lower in fat, including the saturated fat that may potentially increase your cholesterol levels.

 

Each large hard-boiled egg provides 78 calories, 6.3 grams of protein, 0.6 gram of carbohydrates and 5.3 grams of fat, including 1.6 grams of saturated fat. Fry that egg and you'll increase the calories to 90 and the fat to 6.8 grams, including 2 grams of saturated fat, or 10 percent of the daily value for both fat and saturated fat.

Eat a large boiled egg and you'll be getting 15 percent of the DV for riboflavin, 10 percent of the DV for vitamin B-12 and 11 percent of the DV for vitamin D. Fried eggs have a similar vitamin content, although the amounts are slightly less. Riboflavin helps produce red blood cells and turn carbohydrates into energy. You need vitamin B-12 for nervous system and brain function and vitamin D plays a role in immune function and calcium absorption.

Fried eggs have a slightly higher mineral content than hard-boiled eggs. However, the only mineral they contain in significant amounts is phosphorus, with each large fried egg providing 10 percent of the DV. Hard-boiled eggs provide about 9 percent of the DV for this mineral. Phosphorus is essential for strong bones, producing DNA and kidney function.

Other than the fat content, boiled and fried eggs are similar in nutrition, with small differences due to the cooking method and the addition of oil to the fried egg. You can improve the nutrition of your eggs, regardless of your cooking method. If you opt for true free-range eggs, according to an article published in "Mother Earth News," free-range eggs are higher in beta carotene and vitamins A and E, while providing less saturated fat and cholesterol than conventional eggs. While in healthy individuals moderate egg consumption doesn't necessarily increase heart disease risk, it does appear to affect the risk for mortality more in people with diabetes, according to a study published in the "American Journal of Clinical Nutrition".

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