Everyone seems to be focused on improving their health. However, you may be surprised to learn that many of the things that you are doing to improve your health may in fact be harming it. However, if you take notice of these guidelines and make a few simple changes you can be back on the path to a healthier you. Here are some common health habits that could be ruining your health-
"My father was diagnosed with prostate cancer. I have read about Vitamin D and there seems to be a connection between it and prostate cancer. Do you know anything about low Vitamin D levels and how that can have an impact on prostate cancer?"
The swine flu has millions of people worried all across the country. To help protect yourself from swine flu, the wine flu injection is your best bet. The downside is that the swine flu is only available to high risk individuals so the general public has to suffer through it. When it comes to preventing swine flu from infecting your household, here are 10 things not to do:
We gather toxins from everything in ours lives. How your body reacts to those toxins makes a big difference to your health. When you body isn't reacting to the level that it should, it is time to look into detoxing.
Detoxing is a process that cleanses your blood and tissue of the toxins that are plaguing your body. There are many things that can come from detoxification. If you aren't feeling up to par then maybe a good detox is the answer.
Translated from Sanskrit, Ayurveda means "science of life." Ayurvedic medicine is originally from India, where it has been around for over 5,000 years. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of Transcendental Meditation, introduced Ayurveda to the West in the early 1980s. Because of the tremendous work and dedication of people like Dr. Deepak Chopra (medical doctor, lecturer, and bestselling author) and Dr. Vasant Lad (author, teacher and founder of The Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico), Ayurveda has become popular and widely recognized in the United States as a valuable system of healing. Today many doctors combine Ayurveda and Western medicine in a harmonious blending of East and West.
The principle behind Ayurveda is balance. Ayurveda is used in two ways: as a preventive health care system by keeping the body balanced, and as a responsive health care system to bring the body back into balance. While Western medicine looks at an illness and seeks to rid the patient of its symptoms, Ayurveda looks at the whole patient and seeks to bring him or her back into a state of balance, thereby creating a natural state of health.
In Ayurveda, balance not only takes place at the physical level, but at the levels of mind, body and soul. There are three operating principles of nature, or doshas: Vata, Pitta, and Kapha. While we cannot see these doshas, we see the effect that they have on our mind and body. They operate as "metabolic principles." Each person is born with a unique combination of each of these three doshas, which make up his or her mind/body type. The goal is to find your particular mind/body type and keep it in balance for optimum health and happiness. This balance is achieved through diet, exercise, and lifestyle.
Every person is born with a unique balance of each of the three doshas. Generally one or two of the doshas will dominate, and this will determine the Ayurvedic routine for your individual mind/body type.
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