Body PH level

Our body PH level is the acid/alkaline level of our body and it is extremely important.
 

Our body digests, absorbs, utilizes, reproduces and eliminates in the presence of fluids. To maintain health and vitality, all of our body’s fluids should be alkaline, except in the stomach. Our body works best under alkaline condition. Almost all acid problems are caused by an acid/alkaline imbalance in our system.

The accumulation of acids in tissues causes an immune response called inflammation. As acidity is hot, it causes inflammation in tissues. Inflammation causes cellular weakness and an inability of the cell to transport nutrients across its membrane wall via cellular respiration, eventually leading to cellular death. On the other hand, alkalization is vital to tissue regeneration because it is anti-inflammation. It allows proper cellular respiration.

Many diseases have their root cause in an acid imbalance, If our body is too acidic, we may well suffer from constant indigestion, heartburn, fatigue and many other symptoms.

 

Today, we eat mainly acid-forming foods such as meats, grains and pasteurized dairy products. And so if our body is checked out to be too acidic, try to do the following:

1. Add more fruit to our diet such as watermelon, mango, papaya, grapefruit, limes as well as other fruit.
2. Add more vegetables such as spinach, broccoli and garlic.
3. Squeeze lemon in our drinking water.

In the meantime, we have to stay away from these items:

1. White flour
2. Pork
3. Beef
4. Shellfish
5. Cheese
6. Ice cream

Mindfulness

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way on purpose in the present moment and in a non-judgmental way (Jon Kabat-Zinn).

Mindfulness can take the form of nothing more than taking three successive breaths while remembering you are a conscious experience of body activity within mind. More formal way is practicing mediation. And keeping touch with our breathing is particularly helpful when it is difficult to establish a regular meditation practice.

The benefits of Mindfulness include the following:

• Reduced mind chatter
• Experience more peace
• Clarity of mind
• Less reactivity
• More acceptance
• Greater ability to listen, to be present
• Expanding awareness
• Greater attention span
• Improved ability to respond to external demands

As we loosen up our mental activity, patterns at deeper layers of consciousness can emerge. We will discover more about our true self. But to do so, we need to be:

• Non-judging
• Patience – allow things to unfold in their own time
• Having beginner’s mind – see as if for the first time
• Trust our own feelings, allow our experience to flow and more receptive to others’ experience
• Non-striving - allow us to step into who we are right now
• Acceptance - allow things to be as they are now instead of resisting
• Letting go of the need to control things. Letting things be.

The effects of Garlic

Garlic is anti-coagulant and antioxidant. It promotes fat metabolism and reduces its accumulation. It increases high-density lipoprotein HDL while decreasing low-density lipoprotein LDL. A Czech study found garlic supplementation reduced accumulation of cholesterol on the vascular walls of animals. And a 2012 meta-analysis of randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials looking at the effects of garlic on serum lipid profiles found garlic was superior to placebo in reducing serum total cholesterol and triglyceride levels.  Moreover, garlic helps regulate blood sugar levels and is effective in preventing diabetes.

Garlic is anti-parasitic. It is more effective than antibiotics in fighting against bacteria. fungal and harmful microorganisms. This is because garlic contains Allicin, which can even fight against Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections in humans.

In addition, it can prevent stomach and intestinal cancer and eliminate atherosclerotic embolization of up to 18%.

Risk assessment of burden of disease

Lancet, the world's leading general medical journal and specialty journals in Oncology, Neurology and Infectious Diseases, estimated deaths and disability-adjusted life years attributable to the independent effects of 67 risk factors and clusters of risk factors for 21 regions in 1990 and 2010. The following are the main risk factors for disease burden:

Risk factor for disease burden	Ranking in 2010	Ranking in 1990
High blood pressure	1	4
Smoking	2	3
Alcohol use	3	6
Household air pollution	4	2
Low fruit consumption	5	8
High body mass index (BMI)	6	10
High fasting plasma glucose	7	9
Childhood underweight	8	1
Ambient particulate matter pollution	9	7
Physical inactivity	10	-
High sodium diets	11	12
Low nut and seed consumption	12	13
Iron deficiency	13	11
Suboptimal breastfeeding	14	5
High total cholesterol	15	14

The contribution of different risk factors to disease burden has changed substantially, with a shift away from risks for communicable diseases in children towards those for non-communicable diseases in adults. These changes are related to the ageing population, decreased mortality among children younger than 5 years, changes in cause-of-death composition, and changes in risk factor exposures. Thus in 2010, the three leading risk factors for global disease burden were:

• High blood pressure
• Smoking
• Alcohol use

But ten years earlier, in 1990, the leading risks were childhood underweight,household air pollution from solid fuels, tobacco smoking, unimproved water and sanitation and childhood micronutrient deficiencies.
 

In addition, these risk factors varied depending on the location.

In most of sub-Saharan Africa childhood underweight, HAP, and non-exclusive and discontinued breastfeeding were the leading risks in 2010, while HAP was the leading risk in south Asia.

The leading risk factor in Eastern Europe, most of Latin America, and southern sub-Saharan Africa in 2010 was alcohol use. In most of Asia, North Africa and Middle East, and central Europe it was high blood pressure.

Despite declines, tobacco smoking including second-hand smoke remained the leading risk in high-income north America and western Europe. High BMI has increased globally and it is the leading risk in Australasia and southern Latin America, and also ranks high in other high-income regions, North Africa and Middle East and Oceania.

A powerful fruit - Mangosteen

Mangosteen contains a lot of nutrients, including antioxidants, folic acid, citric acid, pantothenic acid, and a variety of vitamins B1, B2, C4 and minerals. These can enhance our immune system. More important, mangosteen contains a large amount of  xanthones. It was discovered that of over 200 different types of xanthones, mangosteen alone contains more than 40 types.

 

Xanthones, with its more powerful anti-oxidants than vitamins C and E, besides acting as an anti-aging agent, helps in the prevention of cancer and tumor formation. Moreover, xanthones is an excellent inhibitor for myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction. It can lower blood pressure.

In addition, intake of mangosteen has the following benefits: 

• Preventing the hardening of the arteries
• Protecting the heart muscle
• Anti-Parkinson, anti-Alzheimer and other forms of dementia
• Anti-depressant
• Preventing and arresting fungus
• Preventing bacterial infections
• Anti-diarrheal
• Lowering fevers
• Eye care-preventing glaucoma and cataracts
• Energy booster - anti-fatique
• Weight loss
• Lowering blood fat and blood sugar.