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Children are notorious picky eaters. Here are some ideas to get more soy into your diet.

Soy Milk: Flavored soy milk is best with kids, especially kids who are used to cow’s milk. Plain soy milk mixed with regular cocoa powder tastes great, too. You can use soy milk instead of cow’s milk in recipes calling for milk. For sweet recipes, like recipes for cakes, pies, cookies, etc., use vanilla-flavored soy milk. For non-sweet recipes, like recipes for biscuits and casseroles, use plain unflavored soy milk. Soy milk is also excellent for homemade milk shakes.
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Elderberry has been shown to be quite effective in the treatment of colds and flu as well as other ailments.

Elderberry, called the “medicine chest of common people”, has a long history of folklore attached to it. In the Middle Ages, chopping elder branches was considered dangerous as they were inhabited with witches and cutting them would release their wrath. In folk medicine, the flowers have been touted for their diuretic, astringent and laxative properties.
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Techniques aimed at the reduction of experienced stress are the means by which a person either helps him or herself or is helped by someone else to feel more comfortable psychologically, that is, to experience less anxiety and sense of emotional disquiet.

Factors related to the induction and experience of stress vary in any given environment, as does each individual’s capacity to cope with stress-inducing events. Stress management techniques assist a person to promote thoughts and behaviors that help to counter the negative effects of events that are perceived as taxing a person’s coping resources and are therefore perceived as stressful. Read the rest of this entry »

High cholesterol in middle age is also identified as a risk factor for dementia.

If you’re middle aged with high blood pressure (140/90 or higher) and high cholesterol your chances of coming down with Alzheimer’s disease in your 60’s or 70’s are greatly increased.
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Bipolar people often have lots of anxiety. Here are some immediate ways to try to tame it.

What to Do When Anxiety Hits

1. Check Your Attitude

The Chinese word for crisis is “weiji” has two components.

These are danger and opportunity. If you focus on the

Opportunity aspect of your problem, you will definitely

Handle the stress much better.
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Medicine and religion, what do I have to lose by believing in prayer? I know that there are those who will stop reading right now because of the BIG “R” word but please hear me out.

Where do people with chronic illness stand when it comes to medicine and religion. I know that there are chapels in several major hospitals. Do the doctors believe that it helps to have religion or prayer when dealing with diseases that don’t follow normal medical treatments? MS is so unpredictable it is my opinion they do think it helps the patients’ frame of mind. Read the rest of this entry »

The stress may be affecting you more than you think. Post traumatic stress can be subtle. Take a minute and check how you are doing.

Stress has three stages: (1) the alarm or shock reaction, (2) the resistance or numbing reaction, and (3) the exhaustion state. These stages are not always in neat, organized form. Our reactions to stress can be strong or mild. The stages can take place in a few days or may take longer. Each of us will react differently, depending upon how our mind and body experiences and deals with information.
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You probably take some sort of supplements. So do I. But do we really need them for our workouts to be successful?

If you read enough bodybuilding magazines, you may think that you don’t have a chance of building a good body without taking lots of expensive supplements. The truth is, you don’t need any—especially if you eat a healthful diet with the right amount of calories and nutrients. This is not to say that supplements do no good, just that they are not necessary. And most of them really are a waste of money. Read the rest of this entry »

Know About Basic First Aid Required in Various Situations

For children older than ten years, having some basic first aid knowledge can help save lives when adults may not be available. Many youth groups offer to teach first aid to children, particularly the boy and girl scouts. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re a diabetic and you have heart disease, you may want to consider your options before you have an angioplasty procedure. New research advises that the most worthwhile treatment for heart disease in diabetics could be medications, which are an old standby.
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