EAT MORE SPINACH

• High in fiber, so it helps keep you full and aids in digestion.
• Helps prevent cancer.
• It's Anti-inflammatory.
• High in Antioxidants.
• Lowers high blood pressure.
• Helps improve vision.
• Strengthens bones.
• Promotes healthy, glowing skin.
• Fights diseases.
• Helps the brain and nervous system function.
• Low in calories but high in nutrients.

BANANAS

• Bananas contain natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber.
• Bananas give you a sustained substantial boost of energy.
• Research shows that 2 bananas can provide enough energy for a hardcore 90-minute workout.
• Bananas are the number 1 Go-TO fruit for the world’s leading athletes.
• Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert. Feed your kids bananas to boost their brain power!

BENEFITS OF BANANAS

1. Reduces depression
2. Regulate the bowel system
3. Reduce blood pressure and risk of heart disease
4. Help our bones grow stronger
5. Help individuals to quit smoking
6. Help prevent anemia
7. Provide us with energy
8. Reduce menstrual pains
9. Power our brains
10. Help prevent ulcers

BEET ROOT

HEALTH BENEFITS OF BEETS

• Wonderful source of iron
• Immunity booster
• Anti cancer
• Contain sodium, magnesium, calcium, iron and phosphorus
• Contain folic acid
• Contain vitamins A and C and niacin
• Protect against heart disease
• Treat and cure boils, and abscesses
• Heal acne
• Cleanse the colon
• Cleanse the blood
• Strengthen the gall bladder and liver

Beets are excellent cancer fighters:

Beets are strongly effective in breaking up tumors mainly by their excellent amount of Betacyanin.

Betacyanin is the main ingredient that causes red beet its purple reddish color.

FIGHT CANCER

Fight Cancer Causing Cells

Catechins are the powerful anti-oxidants that fight against cancer-causing cells and help prevent heart disease.

Chocolate

Chocolate contains up to four times the anti-oxidants found in tea. It is found that chocolate - specifically dark chocolate - contains 53.5 mg of Catechins per 100 grams. By contrast, 100 ml of black tea contains a mere 13.9 mg of Catechins.

Dark chocolate is a good source of flavonoids — an antioxidant that's thought to improve the function of blood vessels.

Green Tea

A cup of green tea with a chocolate biscuit or a piece of dark chocolate sounds like a great way to begin the day!

A cup of green tea would have approximately 42 mg of Catechins. So, dark chocolate may actually contain more anti-oxidants than green tea.

Green tea is great for digestion. It controls cholesterol and acidity. And it is popular as an "anti aging tea". Have a cup of green tea every evening before going to bed and stay fit and young.

Cooking Directions for Green Tea

1.     Boil water...

2.     And transfer it to a tea pot and add tea leaves...

3.     Cover with a tea cosy and leave for 4 minutes...

4.     Strain in to tea cups...

5.     Add lemon juice and honey...

6.     Serve hot...

MALE INFERTILITY

MALE INFERTILITY

Introduction

Approximately 15 percent of couples are infertile. This means they aren't able to conceive a child even though they've had frequent, unprotected sexual intercourse for a year or longer - or for at least six months if the woman is age 35 or older. In about half of these cases, male infertility plays a role.

Male infertility is due to low sperm production, misshapen or immobile sperm, or blockages that prevent the delivery of sperm. Illnesses, injuries, chronic health problems, lifestyle choices and other factors can play a role in causing male infertility.

Causes

Male fertility is a complex process. To get your partner pregnant, you must be able to produce healthy sperm that can reach, penetrate and fertilize your partner's egg. For this to occur:

•You must produce healthy sperm. Initially, this involves the growth and formation of the male reproductive organs during puberty. At least one of your testicles must be functioning correctly, and your body must produce testosterone and other hormones to trigger and maintain sperm production.

•Sperm have to be carried into the semen. Once sperm are produced in the testicles, delicate tubes transport them until they mix with semen and are ejaculated out of the penis.

•There needs to be enough sperm in the semen. If the number of sperm in your semen (sperm count) is low, it decreases the odds that one of your sperm will fertilize your partner's egg. A low sperm count is fewer than 20 million sperm per milliliter of semen.

•Sperm must be shaped correctly and able to move. If the movement (motility) or shape (morphology) of your sperm is abnormal, the sperm may not be able to reach or penetrate your partner's egg.

Medical causes:

Problems with male fertility can be caused by a number of health issues and medical treatments. Some of these include:

•Varicocele

•Infections

•Retrograde ejaculation

•Lack of ejaculation

•Antibodies that attack sperm

•Tumours

•Undescended testicles

•Hormone imbalance

•Chromosome defects

•Problems with sexual intercourse

•Celiac disease: A digestive disorder caused by sensitivity to gluten, celiac disease can cause male infertility. Fertility may improve after adopting a gluten-free diet.

•Certain medications: Testosterone replacement therapy, long-term anabolic steroid use, cancer medications (chemotherapy), certain antibiotics, some ulcer medications and certain other medications can impair sperm production and decrease male fertility.

Risk Factors

A number of risk factors are linked to male infertility. They include:

•Being age 35 or older

•Smoking tobacco

•Abusing alcohol

•Using certain illegal drugs

•Being overweight

•Being underweight

•Having certain past or present infections

•Being exposed to toxins

•Overheating the testicles

•Having a prior vasectomy or vasectomy reversal

•Being born with a fertility disorder or having a blood relative with a fertility disorder

•Having certain medical conditions, including tumours and chronic illnesses

•Undergoing medical treatments, such as certain medications, surgery or radiation for cancer

•Bicycling for prolonged periods, especially on a hard seat or poorly adjusted bicycle

HEALTHY LIVING

We all think eating fruits means just buying fruits, cutting it and just popping it into our mouths. It's not as easy as you think it’s important to know how and when to eat.

What is the correct way of eating fruits?  

IT MEANS NOT EATING FRUITS AFTER YOUR MEALS! - FRUITS SHOULD BE EATEN ON AN EMPTY STOMACH.

If you eat fruit on an empty stomach, it will play a major role to detoxify your system, supplying you with a great deal of energy for weight loss and other life activities.

FRUIT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FOOD - Let's say you eat two slices of bread and then a slice of fruit. The slice of fruit is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines, but it is prevented from doing so.

In the meantime the whole meal rots and ferments and turns to acid. The minute the fruit comes into contact with the food in the stomach and digestive juices, the entire mass of food begins to spoil. So please eat fruits before meals.

Graying hair, balding, nervous outburst, and dark circles under the eyes - all these will not happen if you take fruits on an empty stomach.
You can go on a 3-day fruit fast to cleanse your body. Just eat fruits and drink fruit juice throughout the 3 days and you will be surprised when your friends tell you how radiant you look!
  

KIWI: Tiny but mighty. This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, vitamin E & fiber. Its vitamin C content is twice that of an orange.

APPLE: An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Although an apple has a low vitamin C content, it has antioxidants & flavonoids which enhances the activity of vitamin C thereby helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack & stroke.

STRAWBERRY: Protective Fruit. Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits & protect the body from cancer-causing, blood vessel-clogging free radicals.
 
ORANGE: Sweetest medicine, eating 2 to 4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessens the risk of colon cancer.

WATERMELON: Coolest thirst quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione, which helps boost our immune system. They are also a key source of lycopene - the cancer fighting oxidant. Other nutrients found in watermelon are vitamin C & Potassium.

GUAVA & PAPAYA: Top awards for vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high vitamin C content. Guava is also rich in fiber, which helps prevent constipation. Papaya is rich in carotene; this is good for your eyes. 

PROTECT YOUR LIVER

The main causes of liver damages are: 

1.Sleeping too late and waking up too late are main cause.
2. Not urinating in the morning.
3. Too much eating.
4. Skipping breakfast.
5. Consuming too much medication.
6. Consuming too much preservatives, additives, food coloring, and artificial sweetener.
7. Consuming unhealthy cooking oil. As much as possible reduce cooking oil use when frying, which includes even the best cooking oils like olive oil. Do not consume fried foods when you are tired, except if the body is very fit.
8. Consuming raw (overly done). Foods also add to the burden of liver. Veggies should be eaten raw or cooked 3-5 parts. Fried veggies should be finished in one sitting, do not store.

We should prevent this without necessarily spending more. We just have to adopt a good daily lifestyle and eating habits. Maintaining good eating habits and time condition are very important for our bodies to absorb and get rid of unnecessary chemicals according to schedule. Because,

Evening at 9 - 11 pm is the time for eliminating unnecessary/toxic chemicals
(detoxification) from the antibody system (lymph nodes).

This time duration should be spent by relaxing or listening to music. If during this time a housewife is still in a un relaxed state such as washing the dishes or monitoring children doing their homework, this will have a negative impact on health.

Evening at 11 pm - 1 am is the detoxification process in the liver, and ideally should be done in a deep sleep state.

Early morning 1 - 3 am: detoxification process in the gall, also ideally done in a deep sleep state.

Early morning 3 - 5 am: detoxification in the lungs. Therefore there will sometimes be a severe cough for cough sufferers during this time. Since the detoxification process had reached the respiratory tract, there is no need to take cough medicine so as not to interfere with toxin removal process.

Morning 5 - 7 am: detoxification in the colon, you should empty your bowel.

Morning 7 - 9 am: absorption of nutrients in the small intestine, you should be having breakfast at this time. Breakfast should be earlier, before 6:30 am, for those who are sick. Breakfast before 7:30 am is very beneficial to those wanting to stay fit. Those who always skip breakfast, they should change their habits, and it is still better to eat breakfast late until 9 - 10 am rather than no meal at all.

Sleeping so late and waking up too late will disrupt the process of removing unnecessary chemicals. Aside from that, midnight to 4:00 am is the time when the bone marrow produces blood. Therefore, have a good sleep and don't sleep late.