Six Tips for Better Sleep

If you are having trouble sleeping, you aren't alone - about one-third of the adult population worldwide experiences insomnia at least occasionally. And for most of us, the quality of our sleep will decrease at some point in our lives. While different types of insomnia have different causes, most people can find relief through the following regardless of the source of their sleeplessness:

Establish a consistent bedtime routine, and try to go to bed at the same time every night.

Get plenty of exercise during the day. The more energy you expend during the day, the sleepier you will feel at bedtime.

Facts About Vitamin A

"Vitamin A" is the blanket term for retinoids, biologically active compounds that occur naturally in both plant and animal tissues. It is important for many functions, including these facts about vitamin A:

Supporting bone growth, reproduction and immune system health

Helping the skin and mucous membranes repel bacteria and viruses more effectively

Promoting healthy vision

Slowing declining retinal function in people with retinitis pigmentosa

Vitamin A is fat soluble, and has potential for toxicity if supplementing with retinols. The best natural food sources of vitamin A are their pre-cursors, the carotenoids, found in fruits and vegetables, including carrots, spinach, kale, butternut squash, cantaloupe, mangoes, pumpkins and sweet potatoes. In supplement form, I recommend 15,000 IU of mixed carotenoids daily. Look for products that contain beta-carotene, alpha-carotene, lycopene, astaxanthin, lutein and zeaxanthin as part of an antioxidant formula.

Facts about Prostate Cancer You Should Know

Early Stages of Prostate Cancer

The common cancer that affects men is prostate cancer. It is not talked extensively among male circles. Until now, one out of six men is affected with the medical condition. According to this medical condition, it begins to grow slowly in the society but today’s technology helps to reduce the number of deaths due to it. It is necessary that we should know regarding this disease and should take better preventive measures to fight against it. Patients suffering with the conditions are those having family history and those with current symptoms can stop the cancer disease in early stage by testing the volume of antigens causing prostate cancer in the blood. In this examination, a doctor inserts a finger in to the rectum and physically verifies the abnormality of the cancer by using digital rectal examination procedures. Instead of doing all these uncomfortable examinations, it is quite easy to conduct regular check up effectively cure the prostate cancer in the early stage.

Skin Diseases In Rainy Season

The months of July and August represent the rainy season. All the heat that accumulates in the body in the summer season is aggravated in the rainy season. There are a number of skin diseases prevalent in the rainy season.  In rainy season we need to protect skin from high humidity levels and infectious environment. The chances of getting skin infections and skin problems are high during rainy seasons.

Two of the main causes of diseases are wrong diet and lifestyle, which an individual follows either knowingly or unknowingly. Following a diet or life style that is against the season or the nature of a person, creates an imbalance in bodily energies, thus contaminating the body tissues to produce a skin disease.

Importance of Ayurveda in Life

The focus of Ayurveda is to integrate and balance the body, mind, and spirit, rather than focusing on individual symptoms. Ayurveda is mainly based on herbs, plants, flowers, fruits, vegetables and all vegetation that grows around us in plenty. It is our native system based on the peculiar Indian conditions. Further whatever is available on our own country is bound to be more suitable in creating good health to us rather than borrowed knowledge as well as materials.

Ayurvedic treatments are holistic in nature and along with medicine practitioner try to bring an overall change in the lifestyle of the patient. Ayurveda advises as to what type of food, exercise, routine, and work is best for that person, so that there is perfect harmony and balance.

Fairness Tips for Men

Are men concerned about their complexion? Do men worry about skin fairness?

If asked few decades back the answer would be a big 'no' as fairness creams and cosmetics were the personal properties of female race. But today alarming statistics reveal that cosmetics and fairness creams are equally sought after by men too.

You don’t have to go with the products that exaggerate your skin too much. Your skin needs freshness that you should provide on utmost basis. Just be simple in terms of skin caring and adopt following tips:-

Avoid shaving in the morning. If possible, let your skin wake up a while. This allows the "puffiness" you encounter from fluids collecting in your skin during the night to recede, thus allowing you to get a closer shave when you do begin the task.

Skin Care in Monsoon

It’s the sigh of relief after such hot and scorching summer. Monsoon has arrived and the shower of raindrops is bringing joy, happiness for everyone.

Everything is bright, beautiful and breezy, but your skin is not accompanying to enjoy this monsoon. Raincoats are surely out, but what you are doing to protect your skin in this rainy season.

Is your skin behaving bit strange? Is it making you irritated? Is it pouring anger on you?

Monsoon is the time when our skin behaves little bit different thus it is very essential that we should take care of our skin during the rainy season in order to look fabulous. The high humidity may not be allowing our skin to breathe and helps dust particles to stick to skin more.

Importance of Blood

Blood is a thick red liquid which transports the things required for our life to the body tissues and brings back things those which are rejected by the tissues. It is bright red in color but in veins it runs as a deep blue / purple in color due to being de-oxygenated. It is pumped through the body by our heart.

Chemically it is alkaline in nature. It is about one- twentieth of body weight. Its average volume is about 5-6 liters. It is actually made up of liquid and gas. Under a microscope small cell known as blood cells, or blood corpuscles: These are red blood corpuscles (RBC) and white Blood corpuscles (WBC) floating in a liquid called plasma. Plasma is 15% by volume of the total blood, the balance 45% being the RBC and WBC.