Saturday, January 7, 2012
Approaches to Weight Loss
It’s not just calories…
An estimated 68% of American adults qualify as overweight or obese because they eat more calories than they burn. Although this assessment of weight gain appears logical, there may be several other factors that contribute to the preponderance of obesity in the United States.
Approaches to Weight Loss
Obesity has been a problem in the United States for quite some time now. Most health care practitioners view obesity as a prelude to a variety of conditions that range from osteoarthritis to cardiovascular disease. An increasingly serious health issue involves obesity being associated with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. However, it’s not clear if obesity or diabetes develops first and this question has been a focus of considerable debate and research in recent years.
7 flower remedies
Each of the seven products features seven ingredients. They are all designed with energetic principles, which bring the body back to balance. The name of each product affirms its purpose.
Flower Essences Emotional Remedies
What are flower remedies?
Flower remedies for emotional distress are liquid extracts made from carefully selected flowers. These emotional remedies have been used for several decades to help with emotional well-being.
The Importance Of Healthy Living
Establishing a pattern of healthy living establishes hope for a healthy future. Allowing your body to fall behind in one aspect of healthy living can negatively affect your overall health and happiness as every system in the body is closely interacting with the others. Take control of your health with the help of Nature’s Sunshine today!
Healthy Living
At Nature’s Sunshine, we are committed to promoting health and vitality around the world. In addition to providing life-changing products that deliver essential nutrients, we’d like to share our insights into how to live healthy. In this Healthy Living section you can find tips on how to improve your health for an active, healthful future.
Flower Essence Remedies for Emotional Health
This week Nature’s Sunshine released their newest product line: Flower Essence Remedies. These emotional remedies were created from carefully chosen flowers gown in certified organic gardens. These flower essence remedies were created to help combat basic emotional imbalances that so many people face.
As we face life’s problems on a daily basis, it’s easy to feel unnerved. Finding a natural, organic remedy to combat emotional distress provides a needed boost to live a happier life. These remedies have been a source of emotional support for centuries. Ancient history shows the Egyptians and Native Americans using flower essence therapy as an emotional health remedy.
Friday, December 23, 2011
NSP vs. The Competition - Product Comparison
More Testing Means A Better Product
Quality means giving you exactly what you want-and nothing else. Our raw materials and finished products undergo more tests than other companies’.
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
Digestive Health Process
The digestive system essentially converts the foods that we eat into the energy needed to support life.
Properly balanced diet
The digestive process and maintaining good health depends on a properly balanced diet. The digestive system essentially converts the foods that we eat into the energy needed to support life. The anatomy of the digestive system process involves a complex series of organs and glands that work in concert to break down our consumed foods into smaller molecules that can be utilized by the body.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Parsley (Petroselinum crispum)
Just about everyone is familiar with parsley as a culinary herb. It is often placed as a garnish on the plate and is used in salads, soups and other recipes. A member of the Apiacea family (which makes it a relative of celery, carrots and parsnips), parsley is easy to grow and harvest for home use. Native to Europe and the eastern Mediterranian, parsley is rarely found in the wild.
Parsley is a very nutritious herb. It contains vitamins A, C and E and is also a source of iron and calcium. The leaves also contain anti-inflammatory flavonoids and are a rich source of sodium and potassium salts, which is one of the reasons parsley is a good remedy for the kidneys. It also contains a volatile oil that is about 20% myristicin and about 18% apiole. Both of these compounds stimulate kidney function, giving parsley a mild diuretic action. This is why it is an ingedient in JP-X, Kidney Activator and Urinary Maintenence.
JP-X
We think of urine as being unsanitary, but the truth is that urine is sterile, that is, free of bacteria. In order to get a bacterial infection in the bladder or urethra, bacteria have to enter the urethra and travel upwards into the urinary system. Women are five times more prone to UTIs than men because they have much shorter urethra.
UTIs usually involve bacteria from the colon such E. coli and are typically treated medically with antibiotics. Unfortunately, frequent use of antibiotics disrupts the friendly bacteria in the colon, contributing to yeast overgrowth. This can weaken the immune system and make one more prone to future UTIs.
Kidney Activator
The kidneys are charged with the responsibility of removing waste material from the blood stream. Without this vital function, acid waste from metabolism would build up in the body, resulting in disease and eventually death.
When the body starts to retain water, the kidneys may need a little help in filtering waste fluid from the system.
Remedies that help to restore urine flow and remove excess water from the system are known as diuretics.
Herbs for the Urinary System:
A Primary Channel of Detoxification
We all know that cleansing is important, but most of the time we focus our cleansing efforts on the colon. We’ve probably all heard sayings like, “Death begins in the colon,” which reinforce the idea that keeping our bowels moving is primary.
While I agree that maintaining a healthy gastrointestinal tract is important to health, my own experience with using muscle testing to determine primary weaknesses in the body has revealed that the kidneys show up as a primary weakness far more often than the colon.
