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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Natural Herbs For Weight Loss - Safe But Powerful Herbs to Help You Shed Pounds


Many have already found the wonders of natural herbs for weight loss. These herbs are not only safe but proven to be very effective in helping people who are dealing with weight problems.

Since most supplements and diet pills can harm the lining of the intestines, many have already switched to more natural and pure way that would help them resolve their weight problems. If you are also looking for that same safe way then this article is for you as it will tackle some of the most effective but very safe herbs that are already proven to be effective fat busters!

Here are fat buster herbs you will need.

· Aloe Vera - can help improve digestion and a great cleansing agent as well.

· Astralagus - this herb can help increase energy and help perk up metabolism

· Bee pollen - this one can help suppresses appetite and perk up metabolism.

· Brewer's yeast - this can also help suppresses appetite and help you prevent from any crazy food cravings.

· Chickweed - proven to be effective in shedding excess pounds fast!

· Coconut oil - great and proven herb that can help flushes away toxins and waste from the body. It can also give relief to constipation.

· Dandelion - can help boost metabolism

· Evening primrose - proven to be very effective in losing ugly fat fast!

· Fennel - can relief constipation

· Fenugreek - can actually help dissolves fatty deposits on the liver.

· Green tea - proven to be very powerful in burning body fats and calories fast!

Though these herbs are safe, it is still wise to ask and get your doctor's approval first before you start using any of these.




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Thursday, August 23, 2012

Powerful herbs for weight loss


If it is difficult you, to lose weight, you want to try may be certain herbs for weight loss, the proven very effective. Herbs were used for centuries as a natural remedy for everything from a common cold to weight to lose. Because every body and lifestyles are different, a kind of herb works may be better for you, that is, why is it best for a comprehensive mixture that has several valuable herbs for weight control.

Herbs for weight loss, that work

Many different herbs were used in the course of time as weight loss remedies. Alfalfa, corn silk, dandelion, Juniper, yarrow, parsley and Uva Ursi are known for their Diurectic properties and form were used in the Tablet and tea.

Cayenne pepper, cinnamon, green tea and Guarana have long been known as thermogenic herbs, your metabolic rate boost light, while Bladderwrack and Hawthorn Berry promotes the adrenal glands and improves the function of the thyroid gland.

Certain herbs can cheat actually to think about your body that you are full and to suppress your appetite, while others to speed up the metabolism of the body. Remove others as Buchu and Uva Ursi, excess fluid from the body, but only as long as the herb regularly will be taken. If suddenly stopped, the weight will quickly return.

Note dangerous herbs

There are herbs, as dangerous to your health and even toxic. Herbal laxatives, for example, your intestines can no longer function without cause. Ephedra, a powerful connection and herbal fen-phen have also dangerous classified been and have than by the food and Drug Commission (FDA) has been marked items to avoid.

Affects some sick side, as with all medicines, herbs can create. If overused, heart-pounding can cause pain, seizures and heart ephedra overstimulate body and side effects such as heart attacks, strokes, breast. Herbal fen-phen - the main component of Phedra - also several side effects associated with been and should for irregularities in the heart beat, stroke and death account from heart attack.

Although the ban was lifted by ephedra, is it good in mind to keep, that this herb is very potent, so it is best, take time, learn it, and find out whether it meets your needs and how you take it.

Safe herbs that help drop pounds

Just as some herbs have labeled dangerous, others have a safe way of working has been proven. Cayenne, which brings your metabolism to a healthy level, is only one of those. Some other herbs that can help take off are:

Gallium Aperine, a plant that grows wild was used traditionally in many parts of the world, as a lymphatic detergent and a diuretic. It helps to remove toxins from the body, clear skin and rid the body of other conditions caused by toxins in the body structure.

Garcinia Cambogia has been incorporated for centuries in Ayurvedic medicine as a natural appetite suppressant but tons of media attention as a weight loss supplement only got in recently. Garcinia Cambogia acts as a natural weight loss remedies because of his remarkable and many features.




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Friday, January 13, 2012

Kakadu Juice - The World's Most Powerful Antioxidants!


Scientists from Sydney discover a Native Australian Bush Food that is many times more nutrient dense than Goji Berries, contains over 300% the level of antioxidants in Blueberries and is a highly rich 'natural' source of Folic Acid and Iron and this "New Australian Health Product" - "Kadadu Juice" containing Native Bush Foods could make many modern-day nutritional supplements obsolete!

From some of the world's harshest landscapes ~ comes the world's most nutritious plant foods like:

Kakadu Plum which holds the World Record for Vitamin C content, Tasmanian Pepper Berry hailed as the World's Strongest Antioxidant food and a polygodial-rich food plant traditionally used as a bush medicine by indigenous Aboriginals of Australia. illawarra plum A very close rival to the pepper berry for the title of strongest antioxidant. Plus a host of other super potent plant foods like; Blueberries, Quandong, Wild Rosella, Acai, Goji, Mangosteen, Pomegranate, Green Tea, Cherry, Flax, Barley Grass, and Grape Seed.

One major thing that separates Kakadu Juice from many of the competing brands is that it is the first product to release that is not 60% or more plain water. It is the first truly concentrated product with real value for money. Secondly Kakadu Juice contains a unique blend of very powerful native bush foods. Thirdly it is a complete product, not just an antioxidant, or a vitamin product but a rich source of all the major essential nutrients. See [http://www.SuperWonderJuice.com] for more information. Fourthly it is proudly Australian.

Australia's unique wild plant foods have sustained the world's longest living culture ~ the Australian Aborigines for thousands of years. The health benefits of these fruits, herbs and spices are gaining global attention as emerging research reveals record levels of natural Vitamins, Antioxidants and Unique Phytonutrients.

Now after many years of research, testing and development, these newly recognised, world-leading Australian food plants are blended with exotic foods from around the world in an exquisite nutrient dense SUPER BEVERAGE known as (see front cover photo) Kakadu Juice.

Can Kakadu Juice make you healthy and wealthy?

Well, consider this quote from the book "The Wellness Revolution - How to Make a Fortune in the Next TRILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY" where author Paul Zane Pilzer says "Teaching consumers about such products and services, intellectual distribution, is the greatest opportunity now and for the foreseeable future".

The Wellness Revolution is here and Australia is staking its claim with a world-beating functional food beverage that offers a refreshing mix of innovation, integrity and value for money in an industry tired of the 'hot air' that seems to keep many direct sales companies afloat. Kakadu International has created a no-hype opportunity for people to stake their own claim in the burgeoning Wellness Industry by offering ordinary people a way to get involved with a great Australian company and learn how to create additional income from drinking and sharing Nature's tastiest liquid bounty.

Thanks to the work of dedicated people like Dr. Kowalski, Vic Cherikoff and the tireless efforts of those in the CSIRO and other home-grown agencies, awareness of and the subsequent demand for Australian Bush Foods has created a viable industry that is now established and thriving. In similar fashion to the progressive growth of the Organics industry, Australian Bush Foods are now experiencing an organic growth all of their own.

With the emergence of scientific research into the Native Bush Foods, they've entered the record books for their nutritional and medicinal potency - something that Wellness industry entrepreneurs have a very healthy interest in. As a pioneer in this emerging sector of the Australian economy, Kakadu International, creators of Kakadu Juice, is proud of the knowledge that every bottle of Kakadu Juice is not only making people healthier but also providing employment for Aboriginal Australians.

The Australian Outback is one of the last pristine wilderness areas of the world. Wild harvesting of bush foods from this region relies on ancient Aboriginal knowledge of healing foods meshed with the modern practical skills of how to transport, process and distribute these foods in a way where nutritional vitality is...vital.

Remember the first vital rule to success in Network Marketing is you must have a very unique and highly consumable product that can not be obtained from anywhere else. Historically the most successful Network Marketers made their fortunes with nutritional products. Unfortunately many of them are overhyped, overpriced supplements that do little more than create expensive urine and some studies indicate do far more harm than good. This results in mass public confusion because one month we read how one thing protects us and a month later we read another study that the same synthetic supplement raises your chances of disease and premature death. Who do you believe and trust? The big pharmaceutical and supplement manufactures or the wisdom of Mother Nature?

The Truth About Supplements

The Dirty Secret Supplement Makers Hope You'll Never Discover The overwhelming number of supplements on offer can leave many consumers feeling confused and frustrated; not daring enough to venture into the local health shop without first getting a degree in biochemistry! If that's you, then you'll be glad to hear the good news which is, there's really only 2 kinds of supplements to choose from; those that are completely natural and those that are not.

The hard part is knowing the difference. Since the World became aware of "natural is better", supplement companies have done everything in their power to convince you that their product is either "natural" or is so high-tech that it's now "better" than natural. The truth is that the vast majority of nutrition supplements actually don't contain any real nutrients, instead they're made from cheap synthetic chemicals. A lot of slick marketing has led the Nature-seeking public to buy chemical products, with questionable results. How did we get it so wrong?

A Brief History of Vitamins

The ancient Egyptians noted that night blindness (vitamin A deficiency) could be cured by adding certain foods to the diet. In 1747 James Lind, a Scottish Naval Surgeon made the connection between a lack of citrus fruit intake and sailors developing scurvy. In 1905, Englishman William Fletcher discovered there were 'special factors' naturally present in whole food that when processed away, resulted in disease. A few years later a Polish scientist named Funk identified these special factors and called them "vitamins"....or did he? He identified what he thought were the special factors that prevent disease; in fact, these Funky "vitamins" were only single molecules, a small part of the whole. The scientific methods available to Funk were fairly crude, no mass spectrometers, no electron microscopes or particle accelerators; science not sophisticated enough to correctly identify the complete structure of a vitamin.

Your body DOES know the difference Vitamins in Nature do not exist as isolated molecules. A molecule of ascorbic acid is not vitamin C, d-alpha tocopherol is not vitamin E; they're merely individual pieces of much bigger puzzles. It's not even just a matter of missing out on some benefits, these nutrients have multiple interacting roles. So, when you use a synthetic instead of the living complexes found in Nature, you upset the metabolic balance. The reason you don't have to consciously control things like breathing, your heart beating and the digestion of food, is they're just too complex. To say that a supplement chemist can create the right balance of chemicals to mimic what happens naturally in "your" body or any living human is like saying a child who makes a paper plane could just as easily build a space shuttle. A cell in a dish doesn't equal a cell in a living human. To say otherwise is an embarrassment to real science and an insult to Nature.

Value for money!

Imagine paying good money to see the Sydney Symphony Orchestra flawlessly perform a 2-hour piece of powerful classical music. Thousands of you sit, waiting to have your breath taken away by 50 of the World's finest musicians all playing in perfect harmony but, they don't show. Instead, a child walks out dressed in a tiny tuxedo and spends the next 2 hours bashing a xylophone with a brick. Not the experience you were hoping for was it? Well, your body feels similar disappointment every time it's forced to metabolise cheap synthetics instead of the breath-taking perfection offered by Mother Nature's vitamin source - whole foods.

But I buy mine from Company XYZ...

Is your favourite supplement actually synthetic or mostly full of artificial ingredients? It has a great story behind it, pictures of rain forests on the label, endorsements by doctors, everyone else takes it...must be good, right? Ask anyone who was alive in the 30's and they'll tell you that doctors actually used to prescribe cigarettes to their patients. Between 1929 and 1949 doctors believed that "smoking relaxes the nerves, renews energy and soothes throats". Cigarette companies used doctors to promote the 'health benefits' of smoking until 1950 when the facts about lung cancer became undeniable. The medical community pulled away from the tobacco industry and the use of health claims in tobacco advertising was banned in 1951. By learning to read labels and ask questions you see past the advertising hype and avoid the disappointment of buying something synthetic.

How to read a product label

Ask any biochemist and they'll reveal that levels of vitamins in real food are not constant, they go up and down. Any manufacturer will tell you that it costs hundreds if not thousands of dollars to have exact amounts of a single vitamin tested. So, when you see a label with Vitamin C - 60mg or a list of 20 nutrients each with an exact quantity shown as being the same month after month, either they have money to burn, test every batch and by some freak miracle they're all identical every time, OR, in reality they are synthetic nutrients, not natural ones. It kind of takes the fun out of playing the "which one has more in it" game when comparing supplements. Either way it doesn't matter which has more if one or both contain synthetics.

What happens when you eat chemicals?

When people begin taking multivitamin tablets they may feel some brief benefit. This is your body doing its best to use its reserves of real nutrients to fill in the gaps. Manufacturers know this, it's why they recommend "take with food". Once your body runs out of its reserves, isolated nutrients act like drugs, cannot be used the way natural nutrients are, create more imbalances and like all synthetic chemicals must be removed from the body before toxic damage takes place.

Easier said than done... Take iron for example, an important mineral that you don't want too much or too little of. Most iron is stored in red blood cells. Women lose blood every month and have much fewer iron toxicity diseases than men do. Inorganic iron from multivitamin tablets or from meat is difficult for your body to eliminate. Furthermore, iron from non-vegetarian sources destroys vitamin E, a nutrient essential for life. When iron comes from plant foods, it does not harm vitamin E and it is joined by 'real' vitamin C which improves absorption. It also comes with phytic acid which is not only an antioxidant which prevents that 'rusting' effect that excess iron creates in the body, it also helps bind and remove excess iron from the body. It's an efficient, intelligent, synergistic system when left up to Mother Nature but a complicated, destructive mess if not.

What are multivitamin tablets made from?

Well, you now know how to check the label to find out how artificial the ingredients are, you could also just ask the company who makes them but also consider that those artificial ingredients don't just naturally stick themselves together in the shape of a vitamin tablet. Here's a partial list of the things they use:

gelatin (from the boiled bones, skins and tendons of animals)

stearic acid (from boiled cow fat)

carnauba wax (car polish)

sodium alginate (chemically processed algae used in the paint & printing industry)

croscarmellose sodium (wood pulp)

What does the Scientific Community say?

As long as they're not being paid by a company who makes synthetic supplements, they're going to show you the research which as suspected indicates quite strongly that when its Mother Nature vs. Synthetics, Big Mamma beats Big Pharma every time! In February 2007 The Journal of The American Medical Association (JAMA) published a review of 68 scientific studies involving 232,606 people, which sought to determine the effects of supplementing with antioxidant vitamins and minerals for prevention. Their findings stated: "supplementation significantly raised mortality" (made people die faster). Headlines like "Vitamins Can Kill You" followed soon after. This negative attention resulted in numerous researchers looking closely at the meta analysis to see how it could be that increasing dietary vitamin intake could actually be killing people. Unsurprisingly they found that ALL of the studies under review involved synthetic supplements, not natural ones.

An 11-year study by the Queensland Institute of Medical Research involving 1,056 test subjects, found, those who ate at least three serves of green leafy vegetables a week reduced their risk of skin cancer by up to 55 per cent.

Studies from the Human Nutrition Centre on Aging at TUFTS University suggest that consuming antioxidant rich fruits may help slow the aging process.

Research scientist Maret Traber found that the liver will preferentially recycle natural vitamin E and excrete the synthetic imitation, effectively 'spitting it out' like a bad taste. In a Vitamin E study by the National Research Council of Canada, Dr Burton discovered that given a choice, the body ALWAYS chooses natural vitamins over synthetic ones. Don't you think you should do the same?

Well, now's your chance to get behind Australia's Best Kept Secret and experience for yourself the difference that real nutrition can make to your health. Kakadu International invites YOU to benefit from its unique profit sharing opportunity as it expands internationally.




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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Add Ginger Spice to Your Life - It's a Powerful Anti - Oxidant, Anti - Nausea and Pain Relieving Spi


History:

Ginger is native to China and India, the word deriving from Sanskrit meaning 'with a body like a deer's antler'. Ginger's shape reminds me of another root that is commonly sold in our supermarkets that can be prepared like potatoes, but obnoxiously produces such awful flatulence as to have made it totally banned in our home: Jerusalem artichoke. I digress.

Ginger spice was so popular in Europe that it was often provided in containers like salt and pepper. In England, the-epicentre-com says that pub owners and innkeepers provided small containers of ground ginger for customers to sprinkle into their beer, the original ginger ale!

Interestingly, the most searched-for ginger topic on Google seems to be a pornographic star with the first name of Ginger! That is probably due to a combination of things, maybe red hair, often called ginger hair, or that she spices up men's lives.

Ginger Root Properly Called Ginger Rhizome:

Regardless of popularity, we will speak here of the rhizome, Zingiber officinale, the ginger spice commonly used to make gingerbread cookies, ginger tea and flavor Asian cuisine and sauces. A rhizome is an underground stem, not a true root. If you were to dig up the whole ginger plant, you'd see fine hairs that feed the rhizome - those are ginger's real 'roots'.

As an aside, these rhizome nodule clumps are called 'hands' and that is how they are shipped to your grocery store, in clumps which you purchase by weight. You can break off a nodule, skin it and slice it thinly or finely grate it for additions to sauces or soups. Asian cuisine often calls for its use fresh, while many western recipes call for dried, ground ginger.

Fully 50% of the world's ginger harvest is produced in India, but the best quality comes from Jamaica. Lower quality ginger is used in beer or ginger ale production or pressed and reduced to oils for flavorings or perfumes.

Medicinal Uses of Ginger:

Ginger has been used medicinally for several thousand years, the first recorded mention being 3,000 years B.C. in China. Confucius is reputed to have eaten ginger daily, noting its stomach calming and gas reducing effects in the intestines.

It is used today to aid in the reduction of menopausal side effects as well as an aphrodisiac, the latter perhaps only the calming influence mentioned above, allowing for peaceful and enthusiastic reciprocal engagement with a willing partner.

Ginger has also been shown to be an excellent preservative, eliminating salmonella in tests!

Additionally, ginger has been recommended to counteract nausea associated for some with air, car and sea sickness. If you are nauseous, you can take a cube of sugared ginger candy and nibble it. The taste is fairly strong, so nibbling is the best course. If you prefer, you can eat a few gingersnap cookies to settle your stomach. That works well, too!

While the most potent antioxidant spice is clove, ginger ranks third behind oregano leaves, followed by cinnamon, turmeric and paprika. These spices pack a wallop, netting us more concentrated antioxidant power than even blueberries or red wine. In addition, they do this with a zero calorie cost (!) which cannot be said of other foods or beverages.

Cooking with Ginger Spice:

Vegetarian dishes abound with ginger spice. It is both sweet and hot, depending on the quantity used, lending a pleasant bite to some otherwise bland foods such as tofu.

For our recipe of the day at vegetarian-fun.com, we provide Old Fashioned Ginger Snaps found on Suite101.com - titled: Grandma Edna's Ginger Cookies. We modified the recipe to reflect Grandma Edna's alterations per her quote: "In my oven, 12 minutes is about the right time. Otherwise they get too brown. This makes a very rich cookie. I like to add a little more flour (maybe 1/4 cup) and add a tiny bit of water, maybe 1 Tbsp."

So the resulting recipe is as follows!

Grandma Edna's Ginger Cookies (World's Best Ginger Snaps)

Ingredients:

o 3/4 cup shortening

o 1-cup light brown sugar, firmly packed

o 1 egg

o 1/4 tsp salt

o 4 Tbsp molasses

o 2 1/4 cups flour

o 2 tsp baking soda

o 1/2 tsp ground cloves

o 1 tsp ground cinnamon

o 1 tsp ground ginger

Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

1. Cream together shortening and brown sugar until well mixed, light, and fluffy.

2. Beat together well the egg, salt, and molasses and then mix these into the above. (Grandma beat and mixed these by hand.)

3. Sift together flour, baking soda, ground cloves, cinnamon and ginger.

4. Add dry ingredients to first wet mixture and combine well.

5. Chill in the refrigerator a few hours or overnight.

6. After chilled, shape dough into balls about walnut sized and place balls on a greased cookie sheet, allowing room for expansion. Flatten balls with a fork.

7. Bake in 350-degree oven 12 to 15 min. Do not let get too brown.

Grandma liked these cookies thin and crisp. Experiment and adapt to suit taste, size and desired consistency. Grandma's were about 2 1/2" in diameter.

So there you have what we hope you will find a keeper ginger snap recipe. My dear spouse dearly loves a snappy, zingy and crispy ginger cookie. This fits his bill. However, if you have made one that is snappier and has a real ginger bite, please submit a recipe!




Sue Bozeman is co-owner and principal writer for http://www.vegetarian-fun.com which has been creating articles about healthy eating, gardening and vegetarian-oriented activities since 2004. There are articles of interest to everyone, regardless of lifestyle preference, centered around fruits, vegetables, spices, grains, nuts and seeds. We've recently begun a series on vegetarian pets, the first of which was the green iguana.




Friday, October 28, 2011

Ginger - Powerful Antioxidant for Alzheimer's, Cancer and Heart Disease


Not only is ginger (Zingiber officinale) one of the most popular of all the spices but is also of the top five antioxidant foods (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, July 2006). Numerous studies investigating ginger's medicinal properties have also shown it to be effective in conditions such as motion sickness and the prevention and treatment of diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, inflammatory diseases and stomach ulcers.

Research has shown ginger to have effects against the following conditions:

Alzheimer's Disease

Two of ginger's most important antioxidants, curcumin and gingerol, have been shown to inhibit and even reverse the deposition in the brain of the amyloid plaques that are associated with Alzheimer's disease. Moreover, zingerone, another of ginger's antioxidants, neutralizes the powerful oxidant, peroxynitrite, which has also been implicated as an aggravating factor in Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Cancer

Several phytochemicals found in ginger have demonstrated strong anticancer activities in both laboratory and clinical studies. While ginger's anti-tumorigenic effects have yet to be fully understood, they are thought to involve the following mechanisms:

Anti-inflammatory: Cancer is often associated with inflammatory processes and ginger's potent anti-inflammatory activity reduces the risk of inflammation-induced malignancy. Ginger is an effective COX-2 inhibitor, curtailing the activity of potentially damaging COX-2 enzymes, the overproduction of which may cause harm to several tissue types.

Cancer cell death: The pungent vanilloids, gingerol and paradol found in ginger, are very effective in killing cancer cells. They achieve this both by direct cytotoxic activity against the tumour and indirectly by inducing apoptosis in the cancer cells.

Reducing tumour initiation and growth: The phytochemical zerumbone antagonises the processes of both tumour initiation and promotion. It does this by inducing antioxidant enzymes and by weakening the pro-inflammatory signalling pathways associated with communication between cancer cells.

Prevents DNA damage: Melatonin is an antioxidant produced by the body that is also found in some plants, such as ginger. It has the valuable property of being able to access most parts of the body, including brain and nervous tissue, and protects DNA against carcinogenic free-radical damage.

Anti-bacterial: Ginger can eliminate all strains of Helicobacter pylori, the bacteria that are the principal cause of stomach cancer.

Cardiovascular Disease and Blood Lipids

Ginger has been shown to lower dangerously high cholesterol and triglyceride levels, while raising the levels of beneficial HDL. These lipid-modulating effects are partly due to the inhibition of fat absorption from the intestines. In addition, ginger's cardioprotective effects are enhanced by its ability to reduce platelet stickiness and in so doing further reduce the risk of heart attacks and thrombotic strokes.

Anti-inflammatory Properties

Ginger's long-valued role as a treatment for arthritis and other inflammatory conditions has now been substantiated by a number of scientific studies that show how it is involved in several anti-inflammatory mechanisms. It is a strong inhibitor of COX-2 enzymes, pro-inflammatory cytokines and prostaglandins that are all important components of the inflammatory response. Abnormal tissue inflammation occurs when an excess of prostaglandins, cytokines and COX-2 enzymes are released by cells in joint tissue. The more of these molecules that are released, the more inflammatory cells and chemicals are attracted to the joints where they cause pain and damage to the joint surfaces. These substances are integral to inflammatory mechanisms that can involve many tissue types, as well as the condition known as chronic systemic inflammation.

Antimicrobial Effects

The hydrochloric acid found in the stomach is a powerful defence against ingested pathogens and rapidly destroys almost all organisms that are taken in with food. Helicobacter pylori, however, is an unusually resilient bacterial species that thrives in the hostile, extremely acidic environment of the stomach. Once established, this bacteria causes a range of problems including indigestion, esophagitis, gastritis, stomach and duodenal ulcers, and stomach cancer. Ginger has traditionally been used as a treatment for stomach ailments, and it has recently been shown to kill all nineteen pathogenic Helicobacter pylori species. The regular ingestion of ginger should help to kill these dangerous bacteria before they become established, and thereby pre-empt the need for antibiotics which destroy many valuable intestinal bacteria, in addition to their intended targets.

Diabetes

Although there has been relatively little investigation into the antidiabetic properties of ginger, promising early studies show that it can increase insulin sensitivity. This suggests that, in all likelihood, it is a valuable prophylactic spice against this disease.

Obesity

Ginger has a dual antiobesity effect. The phytochemicals gingerol and shogaol increase the metabolic rate and thus help to "burn off" excessive fat and also suppress the absorption of calorie-dense dietary fats from the intestines.

Antioxidant Effects

Ginger is a source of a large number of important antioxidants that, amongst other activities, reduce lipid oxidation by enhancing the activities of crucial internally produced antioxidants, such as superoxide dismutase. Melatonin, in particular, is not only a highly effective free-radical scavenger itself, but also stimulates production of the main antioxidant enzyme of the brain, glutathione peroxidase.

Ginger's prominent role in traditional medical systems have been validated by contemporary research. As is the case with most spices, its preventive effects are enhanced when taken with other spices as there are synergistic effects between the medicinally active compounds that occur in this food group.




Keith Scott is a medical doctor who has a special interest in nutritional medicine. He has written several books on health related topics including Medicinal Seasonings, The Healing Power Of Spices and Natural Home Pharmacy. For more information about ginger,the medicinal value of other spices and spice supplements go to: http://medspice.com




Thursday, September 29, 2011

Powerful & Practical! By a Doctor who Cured Herself of Cancer!

In Healing Cancer Peacefully, Dr. Nancy Offenhauser tells her amazing story and leads the reader step by step through a wide range of natural cancer-fighting medicines and modalities. This new book is being heavily promoted in multiple media!

Check it out!