Archive for August, 2011

Comparison of Tea Vs Coffee – Caffeine, Acidity, and Health Benefits

Tea and coffee are the main two natural caffeinated beverages consumed in most of the world, and they are often presented side-by-side, as alternate options. This article provides a comparison of tea and coffee in several major categories: caffeine, acidity, health benefits, and other reasons for preferring either tea or coffee to the other.

Caffeine Content of Tea vs Coffee:

Compared to tea, coffee contains much more caffeine: often as much as 2-3 times the amount. Compounding the comparison, however, tea is more widely variable than coffee in terms of how much caffeine is in a typical cup. Coffee tends to contain about 80 to 135 milligrams in a typical 8 ounce cup, whereas tea typically contains between 15 and 75 milligrams per cup. Both coffee and tea will be higher in caffeine if they are brewed more strongly (i.e. longer steeping times, or using more grounds / leaf per unit water). Keep in mind that many people, especially in the United States, drink a lot more than 8 ounces when they have a single serving of tea or coffee.

Too much caffeine is known to cause a variety of health problems, and can contribute to anxiety and insomnia. The Mayo Clinic currently claims, based on their survey of medical research, that 200-300mg of caffeine per day is safe, but 500-600mg daily can cause health problems. For pregnant women, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ official stance is that 200mg daily of caffeine or less is completely safe. Read the rest of this entry »

Top 5 Important Tips To Prevent Hair Loss

Hair loss is a big concern for men and women worldwide. There are many reasons behind this is improper diet, stress, environmental conditions and many more.

A recent study shows that two third of women suffer from hair loss at some point of their life. However, such hair issues are more severe in men than in women. Hair and health experts suggest many ways to prevent hair problems.

Here are 5 important tips to prevent hair loss:

Tip #1: Keep stress out of your life

Prolonged stress is one of a major cause of hair loss for both men and women. Women are more sensitive to stress and prolonged stress both emotional and physical can lead to severe hair loss problems. You need to keep stress out of your life, try to relax and unwind by doing regular exercise. Yoga is very effective in relaxing body and mind, get enough sleep and avoid unreasonable thinking. According to health experts prolonged emotional stress can lead hair to a condition which is called the talogen stage, when hair reaches this stage no new hair grows for sometime.

Tip #2: Your genetics may be the reason

If you have your close relatives suffering form hair loss, you are most likely to suffer from it too. Alopecia is a genetic condition which occurs in one out of every 5 woman and can lead to hair problems. But there is less you can do about genetic patterns. Read the rest of this entry »

Food is the Best Medicine

Food is perceived in many ways- as an element of fun, a comforter in times of distress, a tool to transform the body contours and, at a more basic level, something that actually makes the body function! Most people think calories when they think food. Or they think energy, but very few people know the many constituents of foods. Thanks to the new information about foods, today doctors and health professionals use food products as a healing disease correction tool!

Foods have energy: How this energy is transformed to human energy entirely depends on how we process the food before we eat it. For example, nuts are very high in plant energy. If we eat them raw they lead to a high level of human energy, but if we roast them we lose a part of this energy, and if we fry them (in gift boxes, we all gorge on them!) we completely kill them (not only do they become fattening but also lead to acidity). And if we sprout them, then we discover an anti-aging remedy.

Foods builds our body: The basic unit of all life is the same, plant or animal products literally break down to the smallest unit in our body. These are the buildings blocks of the human body, right from bones, skin, hair and organs.

Foods have vitamins: Vitamins, we believe, give us energy or have a healing effect. Vitamins are the essential links needed to process food inside the body; without vitamins, the calories on their own cant be of any use. So right from the digestion of food to the absorption of food, till the time it becomes our muscle, bones, hair and a many other things, vitamins are the key to transformation. They are live active molecules capable of getting killed if we do not handle food right. For example, exposing a juice to air oxidises the Vitamin C quickly. Read the rest of this entry »