Sunday, March 25, 2007

Healthy diet and an exercise program

Getting on a healthy diet and an exercise program is the most important thing you can do for yourself and family. Get the whole group working together and support each other .

Having a healthy weight for your height is important. Being overweight or obese increases your risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, breathing problems, arthritis, gallbladder disease, sleep apnea (breathing problems while sleeping), osteoarthritis, and some cancers.

Having a healthy diet is easier said than done. There are so many good foods available to entice you. You have to have will power and be able so say no to those snacks, cookies, cakes and ice cream. It becomes easier the more you do it

Friday, March 16, 2007

American Diet can cause Hair Loss?

Another unfavorable condition caused by the typical American diet is hair loss. American's high fat high-animal protein and high-salt diet damages the kidneys and creates acidic blood, thereby leading to hair loss. It is also low in vitamins, which then leads to vitamin deficiency which also causes hair loss.

If you eat healthy then you need to use the process of elimination to determine why your hair loss. Maybe you die your hair or treat it with other chemicals . This is a big reason why the hair loss. There could be even more than one issue that needs to be addressed.

Pregnancy, menopause, or birth control are 3 big reasons in female hair loss, but hormone imbalance is arguably the most common. " Pregnancy, menopause and sometimes birth control pills can create hormone shifts, according to The Doctor's Book of Home Remedies for Women. In fact, according to Dr. Neal Barnard's Eat Right, Live Longer, "Childbirth almost always causes some degree of temporary hair loss, sometimes occurring after a delay of a few months"

If your hair loss is cause by something you are doing such as chemical hair die then stop. Also vitamin supplements,