The Many Benefits Of Olive Oil

Benefits of olive oil are abundant. The olive tree was originated in Asia and was grown for over thousands of years in the Mediterranean countries where most of the oil is made.
The olives are pitted and crushed to a thick pulp. The olives are then pressed to remove all the juices and are placed in a sieve to remove the water from the oil.

Spain, Greece, and Italy widely consume olive oil and in those countries they have a low cardiovascular disease the oil has a beneficial effect on cholesterol and protects the digestive system.
Taking olive oil for the digestive system can relieve an upset stomach as well as heartburn. It also aids in constipation mixing with lemon juice and taken on an empty stomach.

It is used for earaches, dry skin and stretch marks. Olive oil is also an excellent moisturizer and is added to soaps for its anti-aging effects.

Olive oil can help prevent hair loss by massaging it into your scalp every evening leave it on overnight and wash out in the morning.
This marvelous oil has a therapeutic effect when taken orally it stimulates the metabolism and helps aid the digestion by lubricating the mucous membranes.

Olive oil can help strengthen your finger nails by soaking your nails in a bowl of the oil, with lemon juice and warm water. Wear a pair of gloves overnight so that the oil can penetrate your nails.
When choosing olive oil look for labels that say extra virgin. This assures you that it has been cold pressed from fresh olives and does not contain chemicals.

Extra virgin means the best flavor and it is a golden yellow color that is a higher quality.
The essentials in olive oil have 77 percent of monounsaturated fatty acids, 9 percent polyunsaturated fatty acids,14 percent saturated fatty acids and vitamin E .
 

Olive oil also contains vitamin E an antioxidant excellent for the skin and helps with anti-aging. Vitamin E helps fight against free radicals which can harm the skins cell membranes.



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Ginger's Health Benefits

Ginger is one of the most important digestive herbs in the world and has many health benefits. It can be used for a nauseous stomach, morning sickness, motion sickness, and other intestinal problems.

Ginger is a good remedy for patients who are going through chemotherapy by helping with stomach discomfort and nausea.  This herb can ease stomach upset because ginger has a  warming and blood moving effect that is helpful for people with poor circulation.

Drinking ginger tea with a splash of lemon can help flush out inflammation triggering toxins, reducing joint aches, and also as an extra bonus can trim up to four pounds of trapped fluid in our body, an easy way to lose that excess fluid.

Just drink daily three cups of ginger tea with a little lemon and soon you will see and feel the results.

Ginger can be taken in extract form, capsules, or tea. I personally

have experienced the results from drinking ginger tea.

 

 

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Many Benefits Of Green Tea

Green tea has been popular in China and other Asian countries and the people of China have been drinking green tea for thousands of years for its medicinal purposes. This tea has been shown to provide many therapeutic benefits.
Unlike Black tea, which is fermented, green tea is steamed and dry roasted. The dried leaves are not allowed to ferment and research has discovered that process possibly is why green tea preserves the cancer preventative ingredient in the tea. The least amount of processing gives the tea its green color and gives it a flowery flavor along with maintaining the active ingredients that produce the green tea’s benefits. Green tea comes from the Camellia sinensis plant and the leaves in green tea contain essential oils, polyphenols, caffeine, minerals, vitamins, and fluoride.

This growing research on green tea has shown that drinking the tea for a long period of time has a preventive effect on cancer in the digestive tract, stomach, and colon.
Caffeine is an active ingredient in green tea and although it has its many benefits it does have a high level of caffeine. Depending on the length of time it brews a 6 oz. cup can have as much as 10-50 mg of caffeine. This stimulant helps improve concentration and it also raises alertness. However it also increases the heart rate and can keep you up at night and can cause irritability and stomach upset.
Green tea’s medicinal benefits are numerous. Green tea can prevent tooth decay; the fluoride in the tea hardens the tooth enamel and makes them more resistant to decay. The tea helps with high blood pressure, and several forms of cancer. The polyphenols, a natural chemical in plants that prevent cellular damage, inhibit the growth of cancer cells and any development of tumors. This tea also kills bacteria, lowers Cholesterol, and helps combat the influenza virus.

During menopause drinking green tea will provide women with the extra nutrients that are needed drinking it on a daily basis.
Green tea is known to melt fat for dieters. Its cholesterol lowering effect has no calories and is considered as a supplement when drank daily.

The most common types of Green tea are:
Sencha. It is widely used in Japan and the most common tea available.
Bancha: Contains a low amount of caffeine and the tea is similar to Sencha but has a bitter taste...
In India: Green Darjeeling tea is gentle on the body and is grown in the Himalaya Mountains.
China: Gunpowder tea, the leaves are rolled tight and look like gunshot pellets. They unfurl when placed in water.
Jasmine Tea: a flowery tea which is actually made from jasmine flowers, some varieties are combinations of Black and green teas.
Green tea has a bitter flavor that coffee drinkers will enjoy and the caffeine content which is less than coffee will help keep the caffeine withdrawal headaches away.
Green tea has become so popular that many flavors have been added to the leaves to give it a fruity taste.





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Benefits Of Cayenne

The red pepper or cayenne is a small perennial shrub that is a native of South America, or any other warm of the world. This plant has white flowers, then green, and then eventually red or yellow pods.

Cayenne can be taken in capsules, extract form, or powder by just sprinkling it over your food, just go with a light hand unless you can take the heat.

The benefits of taking cayenne are very effective for treating a cold, poor circulation, or a weak digestion. In some of the tropical climates cayenne when taken actually cools the body by promoting sweating.

The health benefits are many there are prescription creams and liniments that can treat be shingles, arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, and even sore muscles. The reason it is so effective is that there is an active ingredient called “capsaicin” which effectively blocks the transmission of the pain impulse in the body.

The burning sensation that you may feel after ingesting cayenne is normal and won’t hurt you, and in fact cayenne can help heal an ulcer rather than aggravate it.

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