Benefits of Green tea

Green tea is good for your health. It acts as an antiviral agent. It contains fluoride, which helps it to prevent diseases related to tooth. The antioxidant levels of the green tea are 100 times more effective than vitamin C in protecting our immunity system.

Benefits of green tea:

• Keeps diabetes in control
Main benefit of Green tea is that it helps in controlling diabetes and also lowers blood sugar levels. It prevents sudden increase in blood sugar levels. It balances the metabolism rate. It triggers as well as stimulates insulin production.

• Keeps blood pressure controlled
ACE, which is produced in kidneys, is the main reason for the contraction of blood vessels and thus of increase in blood pressure levels. Another benefit of Green tea is that its polyphenols helps in controlling blood pressure hikes by inhibiting ACE.

• Lowers the risk of heart attacks
Benefits of Green tea involves improvement of the health of delicate cells in blood vessels and helps to lower the risk of heart diseases. People who take green tea normally have better vessel functions.  It lowers the bad cholesterol and increases good cholesterol levels.


• Guard from ultraviolet rays
Benefits of Green tea extract may also help to protect against the damage from harmful UV rays. It protects the skin from sunburn and also prevents UV associated skin cancers.

• Prevents cavities and other tooth enamels
Another benefit of green tea is that it has antibacterial properties because it contains catechins. It reduces the bacteria that cause gingivitis. It lowers the acidity of saliva and dental plaque. People who take green tea generally have healthier gums.

• Prevents various cancers
Major benefit of Green tea and its extracts is in cancer prevention. It helps to slow the increase of prostate and breast cancers. Green tea drinkers are much likely to have digestive cancers than non-drinkers.

• Boosts exercise endurance
Green tea improves endurance capacity.

• Hydration benefits
Hydration is also a  benefit of green tea are an interesting aspect. It hydrates the body like water with additional anti oxidant properties.

• Boosts immunity
As green tea is filled with high antioxidants, it boosts immune system. It defense the body from the pollution in your food, air and water.

• Anti ageing benefits
Benefits of green tea lies in anti ageing effect also.

• Helps to reduce weight
Green tea burns fat naturally. It lowers the cholesterol and increases energy expenditure. Catechins in green tea help to reduce your weight.So another benefit of green tea is weightloss.

• Makes your complexion acne free
Green tea polyphenols helps to decrease the signs of ageing. It diminishes wrinkles and skin sag. It also prevents skin from the sun’s damage.

• Calms your digestion
Benefit of green tea is to regulate your digestive system too.

• Prevent neurological diseases
Benefits of green tea also involves prevention of neurological diseaes.

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Hair treatment at home

Your hair can face various types of problems in winters from split ends to hair being dry and frizzy. Hair easily get damaged and get dry during this time because of dry indoor heating and dry cold weather outside.

Some tips are given below for hair treatment at home:

• Keep your hair and scalp moisture in this season.
• Regularly Massage your hair with a warm olive oil or coconut oil and leave it overnight and shampoo in the morning.
• Avoid over washing your hair instead just wash them periodically.
• Cover your hair: The winter wind takes away the moisture from your scalp. So always cover them with a scarf or a hat while going outside. Make sure it is not so tight that where it will restrict circulation in the scalp.
• Use a good conditioner every time you go for a head bath it will keep your hair look silky and shiny.
• Try to dry your hair naturally instead of using dryers.
• No hot water bath: A hot water bath may make your hair dry and dull. So wash your hair with lukewarm water.
• Hair treatment at home: You can rinse your hair with vinegar to add shine. Massage your scalp with oil.
• Stay hydrated
• Drink lots of water.
• Avoid alcohol containing products as hair sprays, gels and other hair styling products that contain alcohol.
• Pay attention to the type of shampoo and conditioner you use because essential point about these products is hydrating and moisturizing they provide to your hairs.
• Decrease the use of hot devices as hot dryers and electrical hair straighteners as they damage hair to a great extent.
• Mix an egg yolk with two table spoons of olive oil and a glass of lukewarm water. Apply it all over your hair and wash off in an hour by using lukewarm water. This pack will really prove helpful for healthy hair treatment at home specially in this chilly winter season.

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How can you take care of your skin

Taking care of your skin in winters is very essential and difficult in this season. But you can make your skin care uncomplicated and easy. Common problems during winter season are skin peeling, dryness, chapped and patchy skin but you can deal with these problems in simple ways from your home itself. Here are some steps how to take care of your skin and how you can look flawless during winters.

Face packs

How can you take care of your skin at home??
The answer is: Use quick homemade face packs. This can work really well on your skin during the dry season. 

• Best pack is a mixture of honey, sugar and milk because honey helps to soothe redness and milk keeps your skin hydrated and sugar exfoliates skin naturally.
• Fresh fruit scrubs treats damaged skin in the dry winter season.
• Use orange peels dip them in milk and gently scrub it your own face.
• Use a mixture of papaya and crushed strawberry pulp and treat your skin with the thin paste.
• Oatmeal scrubs are also used. Mix ground oats and almond oil and apply on your face.

Moisturizing

Moisturizing plays an important role for healthy skin. So another answer for how to take care of your skin is moisturizing your skin.

• Always take a moisturizer in your bag. Remember to differentiate between your hand cream, face cream and lotions.

• Apply a vitamin E enriched moisturizer to the face as it is essential for the health of skin.

Healthy lips

Chapping of lips is the most common problem during winters. Use lip balm regularly to keep them   hydrated, as lips have no moisture of their own. Use it before and after applying lipstick or use a transparent balm.

For oily skin

 If you feel your skin is becoming oily by use of moisturizer then treat your skin with a toner.

• Use a mild exfoliant :In winter your skin become dry and patchy and sometimes oily. So it is important to take care of your skin. Exfoliate your skin regularly during the winter season. This will slough off dead skin and clear clogged pores. Also do not overdo if skin tends to be oily. Because too much of exfoliantion produce more oils.

• Use oil free make up :During the winter if your skin is oily then use makeup products that are free of oils and extra moisturizer.

• Moisturize day and night :Moisturize your skin day and night by a lightweight and a oil free moisturizer.

Watch your food

Drink at least eight to ten glasses of water. 

 I  hope you will follow these simple steps to take care of your skin. your winter related skin problems will also be solved.

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Tips for healthy eating

One of the things that most people don’t know about eating is that if you combine the wrong combination of foods, it can have negative effect on your health. It affects the most in case of digestion. There are certain rules for the combination of foods that will give you a better digestion but many people are not aware of them. Let us have a quick look on the tips for healthy eating one must follow while combining the foods. By knowing the right combination of food one can prevent indigestion. Eating the appropriate combination of foods not only improves digestion but also increases energy and helps to relieve depression, mood swings, anxiety.

Some tips for healthy eating are as follows:

COMBINATIONS THAT SHOULD BE COMBINED

• Make a diet plan that lets you feel full while lowering your calorie intake. Just eat low calorie food that is rich in fibre to feel full for a long time.
• White oats upma or Dalia along with vegetables like bottle gourd, onion, tomato, beans are good to eat.
• Eat vegetables with anything you wish but not with fruits.
• Baked vegetables like capsicum, cabbage, onion and mushrooms should be preferred.
• Fruits should be eaten alone and on an empty stomach.
• One should eat brown rice poha.
• Make sure you drink a glass of water half an hour before your meal but not with your meal.
• Eat proteins with non starchy vegetables like broccoli, asparagus, carrots and cabbage.
• Salads should be eaten before your main meal because the enzymes that they contain will help in the digestion of your main meal.
• Eat whole wheat bread, oat bread or whole wheat pasta.
• Roasted murmura and chana chaat with cucumber, tomato and onion. 

COMBINATIONS THAT SHOULD NEVER BE COMBINED

• Sugar and alcohol :Combining sugar with alcohol leads to digestive problems as both are dense in calories. While drinking, you must steer clear of sweets such as mithai, cake and biscuits or give sufficient time between the two for best results.
• Fried food and alcohol: Alcohol is rich in calories and when consumed with fried foods, increases the calorie intake which leads to weight gain and acidity.
• Do not combine pure fats (butter, cream) with high starches (potatoes, breads).
• Fruits and food :Sugar in fruits is absorbed faster than the complex sugars in food. Sugars in food needs to be broken down in the mouth and the stomach and are tougher to process.
• Do not combine high proteins (fish, meat) with high starches at any one meal.
• Don’t combine melon with any other food item as fruits, vegetables, meat or starch, if combined together, the melon would rot in your body before it is digested.
• Don’t combine acids and carbohydrates.
• Do not take butter milk, lemon juice, orange juice or any vinegar with your meal because that includes high starches and sugars.

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How to prevent and control diabetes.

Diabetes is described as a group of metabolic diseases which the person has high blood glucose (blood sugar) either because insulin production is inadequate or the body cell's do not respond properly to the insulin or both. It is a lifestyle disorder, which essentially means that it arises out of the way we live and choices we make with nutrition balance, exercise, our stress coping capacity and other habits.It can be scary to hear about, but the good thing is that diabetes is most responsive to improvement if you make small changes in your lifestyle.To make sure your blood sugar levels don't control your entire life, there are several practical tips for how to prevent and control diabetes and are given as follows.

How to prevent and control diabetes:

• Say no to sugar

Blood sugar is the most affected by the kinds of food we eat. The most obvious cause is eating foods that cause your own blood sugar levels to shoot up. If you consume food that takes time to convert to sugar, then the body is better able to maintain outs insulin levels. The foods which convert to sugar rapidly in the body include all refined foods-flours like rice flour, maida, sooji, refined sugar, sweetened fruit juices, bread, potatoes, bakery foods.

• Say yes to fibre

The best bets are the foods in their original form. These include dalia, whole grains, dals that have their skin still on, all types of fibrous grains like jowar and bajra. Papaya and sweet lime are the safest to eat. Avoid the too sweet fruits like banana, cheeku, and grapes.
All vegetables apart from potatoes and arbi are good to eat for a diabetic. Green leafy vegetables are particularly good among nuts flaxseeds are good source of omega acids, while almonds, walnuts, sunflower and pumpkin seeds are also healthy.as diabetic needs chromium which is good for insulin production so nuts and seeds are a good source.

• Say no to stress

diabetic, those who are  not overweight can control their condition if they improve their stress coping abilities. Listening to mantras, bhajans or clamming sounds lowers the heart rate and cools you down and also improves the nervous system ability to manage stress. Yoga seems to be the most effective stress buster. Pranayama, anulom, vilom that stimulate the manipur chakra are the most beneficial for stress level reduction.

• Say yes to special foods

Choose aloe Vera, which can be taken as 20ml diluted with water daily. Amla juicer one can either eat one alma a day or one teaspoon of alma juice mixed with water in the morning. Cinnamon bark is good too. Crush a cinnamon stick and boil in water till the water changes color. Consume two cups daily. Drink a ginger infusion twice a day turn to triphala. Half a teaspoon of crushed jamun seed powder consumed daily with water works wonders too. The biter flavor of karela many not be o everyone’s taste, but the fresh juice of the raw fruit goes a long away to balance the sugar levels.

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