पेट की प्राब्लम्स में रामबाण है ये देसी नुस्खा

उज्जैन। यदि आप को अक्सर गैस, एसिडिटी या पेट दर्द जैसी समस्याएं रहती हैं। यदि आप इन समस्याओं के लिए दवा खा खाकर थक गए हैं, लेकिन फिर भी थोड़े-थोड़े समय में ये समस्याएं आपको परेशान करती रहती हैं तो रोज योगा करें। भद्रासन इन समस्याओं में विशेष रूप से लाभदायक माना गया है। इन आसनों के नियमित अभ्यास से ये समस्याएं हमेशा के लिए खत्म हो जाती हैं।

भद्रासन की विधि- भद्रासन के लिए नीचे दरी या चटाई बिछाकर उस पर घुटनों के बल खड़े हो जाएं। अब अपने दाएं पैर को घुटने से मोड़कर पीछे की ओर ले जाकर नितम्ब (हिप्स) के नीचे रखें। फिर बाएं पैर को भी घुटने से मोड़कर पीछे की ओर ले जाकर नितम्ब (हिप्प) के नीचे रखें। घुटनों को आपस में मिलाकर जमीन से सटाकर रखें। पंजे को नीचे व एडिय़ों को ऊपर नितम्ब से सटाकर रखें। अब अपने पूरे शरीर का भार पंजे व एडिय़ों पर डालकर बैठ जाएं। इसके बाद अपने दाएं हाथ से बाएं पैर के अंगूठे को पकड़ें और बाएं हाथ से दाएं पैर का अंगूठा पकड़ लें। अब जालन्धर बंध लगाएं यानी सांस को अंदर खींच कर सिर को आगे झुकाकर कंठ मूल से सटाकर रखें और कंधे को ऊपर खींचते हुए आगे की ओर करें। अब नाक के अगले भाग को देखते हुए भद्रासन का अभ्यास करें। इस स्थिति में जब तक रहना सम्भव हो रहें और फिर जालन्धर बंध हटाकर सिर को ऊपर करके सांस बाहर छोड़ें। फिर सांस को अंदर खींचकर जालन्धर बंध लगाएं और भद्रासन का अभ्यास करें।

लाभ- इस आसन से शरीर फूर्तिला और फिट रहता है। याददाश्त बढ़ती है। कल्पनाशक्ति का विकास होता है। चंचलता कम होती है। पाचन शक्ति बढ़ती है। सिरदर्द, अनिद्रा, दमा, बवासीर, उल्टी, हिचकी, अतिसार, पेट के रोग और आंखों की बीमारी आदि रोगों में इस आसन से लाभ होता है।

गर्मी में इन फलों को खाने से कम होता है मोटापा, सनटैन से छुटकारा पाने के उपाय

उज्जैन। गर्मी के मौसम में आने वाले अधिकतर फल रस से भरे होते हैं। ये फल स्वादिष्ट ही नहीं उपयोगी भी होते हैं। कई सारे फल हैं जिनके सेवन के अनेक फायदे हैं। यदि आप गर्मी के मौसम में वेट लूज करने का मन बना रहे हैं तो गर्मियों में आने वाले कुछ रस भरे फल भी आपकी मदद कर सकते हैं। 

गर्मी के मौसम में वजन घटाना अन्य मौसमों के मुकाबले ज्यादा आसान होता है। आइए जानते हैं, आज ऐसे ही कुछ फलों के बारे में जो वजन घटाने में आपकी मदद कर सकते हैं। 

- संतरे में केवल 80 कैलोरी होती है। इसे खाने से या इसका जूस पीने से पेट जल्दी भर जाता है। यह गर्मियों में आपको हाइड्रेट भी रखता है।

- स्ट्रॉबेरी फैट फ्री और लो कैलोरी वाली होती है, इसमें सोडियम नहीं होता है। रोजाना डेढ़ कप स्ट्रॉबेरी खाने से आपको बाहर का कोई स्नैक्स खाने की ज़रुरत नहीं पड़ेगी, जिससे वजन नियंत्रण में रहेगा।

- रसभरी में अन्य फलों के मुकाबले बहुत सारा फाइबर होता है। इसमें 64 कैलोरी होती है, जिसके साथ विटामिन सी, विटामिन के, होते हैं, जो कि वजन कम करने में मदद करते हैं।

- यदि आप कड़ी डाइट पर हैं, तो आपको यह फाइबर से भरा आडू बहुत अच्छा है। इसमें 60 कैलोरी पाई जाती है, जो कि वेट लास करने में मदद करती है।

- तरबूज में 96 प्रतिशत पानी होता है, जिसे खाने से आपका पेट भी भरता है और वेट भी नहीं बढता।

- माना जाता है कि आम में बहुत कैलोरी होती है, लेकिन ऐसा नहीं होता। आम को खाने से ब्लड शुगर नहीं बढ़ता और न ही मोटापा।

- अंगूर में बहुत सारा फाइबर होता है, इसलिए यदि आप अपना वेट कम करना चाहते हैं, तो अंगूर का सेवन करें।

गर्मी में सन टैन एक आम समस्या होती है। सनस्क्रीन लगाए बिना तेज धूप में बाहर निकलने के कारण त्वचा का रंग डल हो जाता है। यदि आप भी इस समस्या से जूझ रहे हैं तो आगे लिखे नुस्खों को अपनाएं। बिना ज्यादा मेहनत ही सन टैन की समस्या से छुटकारा मिल जाएगा।

- नींबू का रस, गुलाब जल और खीरे के जूस का मिला लें। इस मिश्रण को चेहरे पर लगाने से चमत्कारिक लाभ होता है।

- दही में कुछ बूंदें नींबू और टमाटर के रस की मिला लीजिए। इसे प्रभावित क्षेत्र पर लगाइए। आधे से एक घंटे बाद चेहरा ठंडे पानी से धो लीजिए। आप महसूस करेंगे कि आपकी त्वचा खिली-खिली और चमकदार हो गई है।

- बेसन और नींबू के साथ थोड़ा सा दही मिलाकर मिश्रण तैयार करें। इस मिश्रण को प्रभावित क्षेत्र पर नियमित रूप से लगाएं। कुछ ही समय में आपको सन टैन से मुक्ति मिल जाएगी।

- नारियल पानी चेहरे, हाथों और सन टैन से प्रभावित क्षेत्रों पर नियमित रूप से लगाने से सन टैन खत्म हो जाता है। 

- हल्दी और नींबू का रस मिलाकर सप्ताह में तीन बार चेहरे पर लगाएं। इससे आपकी त्वचा की रंगत हल्की होगी और साथ ही सन टैन भी दूर होगा। 

- बादाम को सारी रात पानी में भिगोकर रख दें। सुबह पीसकर पेस्ट बना लें। इसमें समान मात्रा में मलाई मिला लें। इसे सन टैन से प्रभावित क्षेत्र पर लगाएं। कुछ ही दिनों में आपकी रंगत निखर जाएगी। 

- पपीते को मैश कर लीजिए और इसे सन टैन से प्रभावित हिस्से पर लगाइए। पपीता त्वचा के लिए बहुत अच्छा होता है और साथ ही इसमें एंटीएजिंग गुण भी होते हैं।

- चेहरे पर मुल्तानी मिट्टी लगाने से टैनिंग को काफी हद तक दूर किया जा सकता है। 

- ओट्स और बटर मिल्क मिक्स करें और इन्हें त्वचा की ऊपरी मृत परत हटाने के लिए इस्तेमाल करें।

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E-cigarettes undoing anti-smoking efforts: Study

E-cigarettes undoing anti-smoking efforts: Study Health experts have claimed that e-cigarettes are next big smoking poison and their popularity is undoing the anti-smoking efforts made by several organizations across the globe in the past three decades. According to official figures, the number of people using the e-cigarettes in the US jumped significantly in the last couple of years. Data showed that number of calls to poison centres in the US relating to e-cigarettes has increased from just one in September 2010 to 215 per month in February 2014. The figures released by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that even the number of calls from people using conventional cigarettes has not shown such increase. The CDC statistics reveal that over 50% of the calls relate to children under the age of five. "This report raises another red flag about e-cigarettes -- the liquid nicotine used in e-cigarettes can be hazardous," CDC director Tom Frieden said in a statement. "The most recent National Youth Tobacco Survey showed e-cigarette use is growing fast, and now this report shows e-cigarette related poisonings are also increasing rapidly," Tim McAfee, director of CDC's office on smoking and health, was quoted as saying. The study comes at a time when speculation is rife that the Welsh government is planning to include e-cigarettes under the smoking ban.

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20 BENEFITS OF WALKING

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Social groups can help ease depression

Researchers have suggested that building a strong connection to a social group helps clinically depressed patients recover and helps prevent relapse.

For the paper, (CIFAR) Senior Fellow Alexander Haslam, lead author Tegan Cruwys and their colleagues at the University of Queensland conducted two studies of patients diagnosed with depression or anxiety. The patients either joined a community group with activities such as sewing, yoga, sports and art, or partook in group therapy at a psychiatric hospital.

In both cases, patients responding to survey questions who did not identify strongly with the social group had about a 50% likelihood of continued depression a month later.

But of those who developed a stronger connection to the group and who came to see its members as 'us' rather than 'them,' less than a third still met the criteria for clinical depression after that time. Many patients said the group made them feel supported because everyone was "in it together."

While past research has looked at the importance of social connections for preventing and treating depression, Haslam, a member of CIFAR's Social Interactions, Identity and Well-Being (SIIWB) program, says it has tended to emphasize interpersonal relationships rather than the importance of a sense of group identity.

This paper is in press at the Journal of Affective Disorders. 

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Happiness not valued equally across cultures

The research is the first to review the concept of aversion to happiness, and looks at why various cultures react differently to feelings of well-being and satisfaction."One of these cultural phenomena is that, for some individuals, happiness is not a supreme value," said Mohsen Joshanloo and Dan Weijers from the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. The researchers believe that being raised in a culture that does not value happiness could encourage a person to back away from it.

However, an aversion to happiness exists in both Western and non-Western cultures, although happiness is more valued in the West, researchers said.

In American culture, it is almost taken for granted that happiness is one of the most important values guiding people's lives. Western cultures are more driven by an urge to maximize happiness and minimise sadness, they said. Failing to appear happiness is often a cause for concern. Its value is echoed through Western positive psychology and research on subjective well-being. In non-Western cultures, in contrast, it is a less valued emotion. The ideals of harmony and conformity are often at odds with the pursuit of personal happiness and the endorsement of individualistic values, researchers said. For instance, studies have shown that East Asians are more inclined than Westerners to think that it is inappropriate to express happiness in many social situations. Similarly, Japanese are less inclined to savour positive emotions than Americans, said researchers.

The review points out that many cultures shy away from happiness as they hold the belief that especially extreme happiness leads to unhappiness and other negative consequences that outweigh the benefits of such positive feelings. In both Western and non-Western cultures, some people side-step happiness because they believe that being happy makes them a worse person and that others may see them as selfish, boring or shallow. "Many individuals and cultures do tend to be averse to some forms of happiness, especially when taken to the extreme, for many different reasons," researchers said. The study was published in Springer's Journal of Happiness Studies.

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Shorter stroke treatment delays tied to more healthy days

Shaving even a minute off the time between the onset of a stroke and initial treatment may add to the amount of "healthy" days people have afterward, suggests a new study.

Researchers found that stroke patients gained about two days of healthy life for every minute spared between the onset of their stroke and when they first received treatment, on average.

"Every 15 minutes you wait, you lose a month of life," Dr. Atte Meretoja told Reuters Health.

Meretoja is the study's lead author from the Melbourne Brain Centre at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Parkville, Australia.

The exact ratio of saved treatment time to healthy days varied by patient, he and his team found.

Although it's well known that early treatment for strokes is best, the new study helps highlight how significant even small delays can be, researchers said.

"We developed that measure so it's easy to remember and that the general public will understand it," Meretoja said.

He and his colleagues summarized their findings in the journal Stroke as, "Save a Minute, Save a Day."

There is currently only one treatment approved by U.S. regulators for ischemic strokes, which are caused by blockages in blood vessels going to the brain. Usually, the blockage is a result of clotted blood or fatty deposits known as plaque.

Thrombolysis is the use of a drug known as tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, to break up the blockage and allow blood to flow to the brain. Restoring blood flow prevents the death of brain cells and improves people's recovery.

The treatment is time sensitive, however. The 60 minutes from the onset of a stroke is often referred to as the "golden hour" for treatment, because people treated during that time have much better odds of completely recovering.

Approximately 800,000 people in the U.S. have strokes every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 87 percent of those are ischemic strokes.

For the new report, the researchers compiled data from two studies to find how time to treatment is related to how patients fare after a stroke.

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The studies, from Finland and Australia, included 2,258 stroke patients.

On average, the researchers found that

Those with big waists might die young

A new study has found that a healthy body mass index is not enough to save people with large waist circumferences from untimely death resulting from various diseases including heartdisease, respiratory problems, and cancer. 

The researchers pooled data from 11 different cohort studies, including more than 600,000 people from around the world. They found that men with waists 43 inches or greater in circumference had a 50 percent higher mortality risk than men with waists less than 35 inches, and this translated to about a three-year lower life expectancy after age 40. Women with a waist circumference of 37 inches or greater had about an 80 percent higher mortality risk than women with a waist circumference of 27 inches or less, and this translated to about a five-year lower life expectancy after age 40.

Dental cavities are contagious

The disease can cause pain, inability to chew food well, and distraction from play and learning.

Mothers with cavities can transmit caries-producing oral bacteria to their babies when they clean pacifiers by sticking them in their own mouths or by sharing spoons, scientists say.

According to Liliana Rozo, assistant professor, University of Louisville School of Dentistry, tooth decay can have a detrimental effect on a child’s quality of life, performance in school and success in life.

The disease can cause pain, inability to chew food well, embarrassment about discoloured or damaged teeth, and distraction from play and learning. Often, Rozo said, parents do not make the connection between oral health and overall health, but they are related. The mouth is an open door for many microbial infections to enter the bloodstream, she said.

Poor oral health may be a risk factor for systemic disease. Oral health manifestations, such as bleeding or dry mouth can indicate the presence of a systemic disease or exacerbate the effects of an existing disease such as diabetes and heart disease. So parents, too, should make their own oral health care a priority in order to help their children stay healthy, said Rozo.

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7 health benefits of broccoli

Broccoli is known to be hearty and tasty vegetable which is rich in dozens of nutrients. It is said to pack the most nutritional punch of any vegetable.

Here are some of the benefits of broccoli:

1.Cancer prevention: Broccoli shares these cancer fighting, immune boosting properties with other cruciferous vegetables such as cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and cabbage.

2. Cholesterol reduction: Like many whole foods, broccoli is packed with soluble fiber that draws cholesterol out of your body.

3. Reducing allergic reaction and inflammation: Research has shown the ability of kaempferol to lessen the impact of allergy-related substances on our body. Broccoli even has significant amounts of omega 3 fatty acids, which are well know as an anti-inflammatory.

4. Powerful antioxidant: Of all the cruciferous vegetables, broccoli stands out as the most concentrated source of vitamin C, plus the flavonoids necessary for vitamin C to recycle effectively. Also concentrated in broccoli are the carotenoids lutein, zeaxanthin and beta-carotene, other powerful antioxidants.

5. Bone health: Broccoli contains high levels of both calcium and vitamin K, both of which are important for bone health and prevention of osteoporosis.

6. Heart health: The anti-inflammatory properties of sulforaphane, one of the isothiocyanates (ITCs) in broccoli, may be able to prevent (or even reverse) some of the damage to blood vessel linings that can be caused by inflammation due to chronic blood sugar problems.

7. Diet aid: Broccoli is a good carb and is high in fiber, which aids in digestion, prevents constipation, maintains low blood sugar, and curbs overeating.

Furthermore, a cup of broccoli has as much protein as a cup of rice or corn with half the calories.

Source..timesofindia