Friday, January 11, 2013

Benefits of Bathing

Take a bath, yes. Fresh and healthy! According to the recent research, bathing is not only good to clean the body from the dirt, but also to make stress away. Bathing also have an important role improving the immune system, helping to avoid skin disease such as eczema as well as healing serious medical problems.

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that diabetics who spend only 30 minutes for soaking in a tub of warm water, can lower blood sugar level about 13 percent.

Another study in Japan showed that soaking in a warm water for 10 minutes can improve the health of heart both men and women. It helps them to lead a better exercise test and reduce the pain.

So, what are the benefits of bathing? And how long you should shower? Here are some suggestion for fun and healthy bathing.

Monday, October 15, 2012

Benefits of Green Tea

Since 500 years ago, humans have enjoyed steeping tea leaves in boiling water. Tea (Camellia Sinnensis) is the most widely consumed beverage in the world after water.

Modern medical research shows many benefits of green tea for health. Most of the benefits related to polyphenols, a powerful antioxidant phytochemical that gives a bitter taste of green tea. There are four primary polyphenols found in the tea leaves,i.e. Epigallocathecin Gallate (EGCG), Epigallocatechin (EGC), Epicatechin Gallate (ECG), and Epicatechin (EC). Recently, researchers have focused amino acid of tea called theanine. Theanine (also called L-Theanine) is a primary amino acid in green tea leaves which gives a distinctive flavor tea.

Here are the benefits of green tea

Monday, July 23, 2012

Wanna Have a Healthy Heart?


Continuing the last article, now, I want to give you some tips to have a healthy heart (also read The Factor of Heart Attack Article). 

Heart is an amazing machine in the body because the damage of this organ can lead to lives lost. Maintaining a healthy heart is something that cannot be compromised. Caring for heart health is similar as well as preserving your life. Some basic tips can be done starting from consuming a healthy food to doing regular physical activity.

Dr. John Knight in his book, "Family Medical Care", exposed the basic rule in maintaining cardiovascular health. So, wanna have a healthy heart? These are the tips.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

The Factors of Heart Attack

Heart attack is one of the biggest causes of death in the world. Identify the trigger factors to determine how to avoid it.


World Health Organization defines a heart attack as inability of acute or chronic heart occurred because of the lack of blood supply to myocardium due to the process of disease on coronary artery system. Keep in mind that acute is suddenly happened while chronic means happened long ago. Myocardium is the name of all the muscles that make up the heart.


In general, there are two categories of trigger factors of heart attack, non-dieter risk factors and risk factors related to diet and nutrients.


These are the following detailed description of the trigger factors of heart attack.

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