How to Prevent Back Pain?

Certain safety measures, especially, for people in sedentary occupation, are necessary to relieve and prevent backache. The most important of these is exercise which improves the supply of nutrients to spinal discs, thereby delaying the process of deterioration that comes with age and eventually affects everybody. Safe exercises include walking, swimming and bicycling.

The latter should be done keeping the back upright. Controlling one’s weight is another important step towards relieving backache as excess weight greatly increases the stress on soft back tissues.

Those with sedentary occupations should take a break to stand up every hour. Soft cushioned seats should be avoided and position should be changed as often as possible. 

Persons with back problems should sleep on a firm mattress on their sides with knees bent at right angles to the torso. They should take care never to bend from the waist down to lift any object but instead should swat close to the object, bending the knees but keeping the back straight, and then stand up slowly.

Anaemia - Prevention is Better than Cure.

Anaemia is much more easily prevented than corrected. A liberal intake of iron in the formative years can go a long way in preventing iron-deficiency anaemia. Diet is of the utmost importance in the treatment of anaemia. Almost every nutrient is needed for the production of red blood cells, haemoglobin and the enzymes, required for their synthesis. 

Refined food like white bread, polished rice, sugar, and desserts rope the body of the much-needed iron. Iron should always be taken in its natural organic form as the use of inorganic can prove hazardous, destroying the protective vitamins and unsaturated fatty acids, causing serious liver damage and even miscarriage and delayed or premature births. 

The common foods rich in natural organic iron are wheat and wheat grain cereals, brown rice and rice polishings, green leafy vegetables, cabbage, carrot, celery, beets, tomatoes, spinach, fruits like apples, berries, cherries, grapes, raisins, figs, dates, peaches and eggs. It has been proved that a generous intake of iron alone will not help in the regeneration of haemoglobin. 

The supplies of protein, too, should be adequate. The diet should, therefore, be adequate in proteins of high biological value such as those found in milk, cheese and egg. Copper is also essential for the utilisation of iron in the building of haemoglobin.

Morning Sun Good for Diabetes Patients

Morning sunlight has a lot of benefit for the human body. Sunlight before 9 am can reduce blood cholesterol levels, improve the quality of breathing, make the body become more fresh and can be quite healthy for the bones. Not only that, it is also quite beneficial for diabetics. Vitamin D in sunlight can help improve blood sugar levels.

A recent study found that vitamin D which the body gets when exposed to sunlight in the morning can help people with type 2 diabetes to improve their blood sugar levels. Adequate vitamin D could actually help the cells in the body in charge of producing insulin to work well.

Researchers from Iran involved 90 people with type 2 diabetes for 12 weeks by giving vitamin D and one group was given vitamin D plus calcium. Researchers found that participants who took vitamin D with or without calcium had blood sugar levels that are significantly better.

The same thing also expressed by Esther Krug, MD, a endocrinologist from Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, who said that vitamin D has an active role in regulating pancreatic beta cells which functions to make insulin, according to Menshealth.

In fact, another study published in the Diabetes Care showed low levels of vitamin D that can make adults at risk of prediabetes and prehypertension. Besides that, taking supplements containing vitamin D and calcium can slow the progression of type 2 diabetes. Because of this relationship, the screening of vitamin D deficiency in people with type 2 diabetes could be done.

Know the Benefit of Seeds, Nuts, and Grains

Seeds, nuts and grains are the most important and the most potent of all foods and contain all the important nutrients needed for human growth. These foods contain the germ, the reproductive power which is of vital importance for the lives of human beings and their health. 

Millet, wheat, oats, barley, brown rice, beans and peas are all highly valuable in building health. Wheat, mung beans, alfalfa seeds and soya beans make excellent sprouts. Sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, almonds, peanuts and soya beans contain complete proteins of high biological value.

Seeds, nuts and grains are also excellent natural sources of essential unsaturated fatty acids necessary for health. They are also good sources of lecithin and most of the B vitamins. They are the best natural sources of vitamin C, which is perhaps the most important vitamin for the preservation of health and prevention of premature ageing. 

Besides, they are rich sources of minerals and supply necessary bulk in the diet. They also contain auxones, the natural substance that play an important role in the rejuvenation of cells and prevention of premature ageing.

Avoid Overeating!

A fundamental teaching of Ayurveda is that the common cause of all diseases is the accumulation of waste and poisonous matter in the body which results from overeating. 

Every disease can be healed by only one remedy – by doing just the opposite of what causes it, that is, by reducing the food intake or fasting.

The majority of persons eat too much and follow sedentary occupations which do not permit sufficient and proper exercise for utilisation of this large quantity of food. 

This surplus overburdens the digestive and assimilative organs and clogs up the system with impurities or poisons. Digestion and elimination become slow and the functional activity of the whole system gets deranged.

The onset of disease is merely the process of ridding the system of these impurities. By depriving the body of food for a time, the organs of elimination such as the bowels, kidneys, skin and lungs are given opportunity to expel, unhampered, the overload of accumulated waste from the system. 

Thus, fasting is merely the process of purification and an effective and quick method of cure.