Health

Can you remember the last time you said “yes” to life? Look around you. Can you see the effects of saying “no” to life? You can easily see a ‘no,’ when you read the news, witness destruction, or experience unhappiness, illness, conflict, fear, or failure. When you habitually say “no” to life, your relationship with life, inevitably becomes one of discomfort, struggle, and void of meaning. It is filled with resistance. Saying “no,” allows you to remain stuck in your comfort zone, and prevents you from reaching your full potential. ‘No’ validates your state of fear, whilst ‘yes’ liberates you from it.
Saying “yes” to life, is a life changing attitude. One of the strongest attributes of great achievers, is their ‘yes’ attitude. They have demonstrated, the benefits of, being open to possibilities, flexibility of mind, and courage in taking risks. In response to their positive attitude, life opens many doors of learning, growth, opportunity, and success.

As a healer and therapist, I often meet people who have unceasing upsets, which control and determine their lives. A great percentage of people, are often not consciously aware of how their past hurts, grievances, and unresolved grief recreates emotional history in their lives over and over again. These emotional wounds result from events in your life such as rejection, abandonment, abuse, neglect, insecurity, manipulation, isolation, unacceptance, being unheard, or through controlling attitudes.  Emotional wounds are unhealed hurts, which exist today, even if the occurrences took place a long time ago. They are open wounds, which continue to fester and flare up, causing emotional pain and suffering, physical discomfort and illness, anger and frustration, disruption of peace and happiness.

Smoking which has been portrayed by its sellers as a manly, masculine habit, linked to health, happiness, fitness, wealth, power and sexual success, but in reality smoking is injurious to health causing sickness, premature death and sexual problems.
Although almost one billion men in the world smoke- about 35 percent of men in developed countries and 50 percent of men in developing countries- trends in both developed and developing countries show that male smoking rates have now peaked and slowly but surely are on the decline.

 This is, however, an extremely slow trend over decades, resulting in the death of millions of men from smoking, but in general, the educated men are giving up the habit first, so that smoking is becoming a habit of poorer and less educated males.

Washington, May 11 (IANS) Consuming more nuts seems to be linked to lower blood cholesterol levels, says a new study.
Recently, consumption of nuts has been the focus of intense research because of their potential to reduce coronary heart disease risk and to lower blood lipid [fat and cholesterol] levels based on their unique nutritional attributes. Nuts are rich in plant proteins, fats (especially unsaturated fatty acids), dietary fibre, minerals, vitamins and other compounds, such as antioxidants and phytoesterols.

Joan Sabaté, Loma Linda University, California and colleagues pooled primary data from 25 nut consumption trials conducted in seven countries and involving 583 women and men with high cholesterol or normal cholesterol levels. All the studies compared a control group to a group assigned to consume nuts; participants were not taking lipid-lowering medications. Participants in the trials consumed an average of 67 grams of nuts daily. This was associated with an average 5.1 percent reduction in total cholesterol concentration, a 7.4 percent reduction in low-density lipoprotein (LDL-C, or "bad" cholesterol) and an 8.3 percent change in ratio of LDL cholesterol to high-density lipoprotein (HDL, or "good" cholesterol).

London, May 9 (IANS) Forget long-term diets - the best way to lose weight and keep off the pounds is to do it quickly, scientists have found.
New research shows the key to achieving and maintaining a slim figure is to shed the weight rapidly, at a rate of one pound a week, reports express.com.