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06 12th, 2010

Green tea has become a popular drink for those who want to shed some pounds. There are compounds within the tea that promote weight loss by increasing your metabolism. Aside from weight loss, green tea promotes a healthier body by killing bacteria present in the food you take in. Further studies show that green tea can also rid your body of bad cholesterol. It is a way to live with a healthier heart and a leaner physique. Although how tea influences cholesterol levels has never been explained in detail, studies have shown that certain compounds in green tea play a vital role in reducing the amount of unhealthy cholesterol absorbed.

Knowing that your body cannot process unhealthy food as well as it once did when you age, green tea helps you cope with the limitations your body now has. How does green tea help a person lose weight? It raises metabolic rates and speeds up fat oxidation. It also helps you with weight loss by suppressing your appetite and regulating your blood sugar. If you are a coffee addict, green tea makes a wonderful substitute. Although there is less caffeine present in the drink, so you will be just as energized.

Fact is, there are antioxidants present in green tea. For one thing, it has polyphenols. This is a powerful antioxidant that helps fight aging and disease. It also has one particular catechin that is very potent. This catechin contains more antioxidants than vitamins C and E. This helps you fight the free radicals present in your system. It removes the toxins that cause aging and disease. When taken regularly, green tea actually has the ability to lengthen your life.

People in Asia have been drinking green tea for well over 4,000 years. Medical research has recently confirmed what the Chinese have been saying for centuries now: that green tea contains catechins that help you lose weight and keep you feeling active and refreshed. Aside from that, green tea has L-Theanine. This is an amino acid that has tranquilizing effects in the brain. It helps diminish stress and anxiety from your life. It also gives you the ability to focus and concentrate better. Just because it helps you relax doesnt mean that you will eventually get drowsy. It simply calms you by increasing electrical brain activity commonly present when you are relaxed.

The biggest perk is in the fact that those who drink green tea often demonstrate a lower mortality rate. Could green tea stimulate the immune system? Very likely so, if the assumption were to be made based on the results of the study alone.

If you are suffering from any of health problems, start drinking green tea and see just how much it helps you. You will be amazed at the results. Just remember to purchase the freshest one you can find. Those found at the supermarket are good, but the better ones are available online. Where else will you find a drink that helps with weight loss, the prevention of diseases, and lowering cholesterol? Make it a habit to drink a cup or two everyday and see if you agree with the people who swear by it.

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11 26th, 2009

A cure for cancer exists through the use of yoga, a San Antonio, Texas, cancer specialist said during a seminar in Oklahoma City in the 1980s.

But physicians refused to acknowledge the cure, said Col. Hansa Raval, M.D., a pathologist with the United States Army. Dr. Raval said her work in cytotechnology _ a diagnostic branch of medicine designed to pinpoint early stages of cancer _ was fruitless until she began researching the use of non-conventional methods of treatment.

The specialist said she witnessed the use of Raja yoga and meditation cure crippling arthritis, headaches and even cancer.

And even though Raval offers proof, which she said was collected during two years of study at the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University in India, she has been dismissed by other members of the medical profession as a kook.

Yoga’s success as a treatment method is due to another hypothesis Raval proposes that 98 percent of all cancer is psychosomatic.

This is not chanting or mantra reciting, the physician said. It’s not based on scriptures. It’s not a cult. It’s not biofeedback. It’s deeper than that. This is a full-proof method of meditation, a detailed understanding of what the soul is.

Raval maintains that medical schools belittle the study of non-conventional methods of cancer treatment in favor of conventional methods such as radiation, chemotherapy, and treatment through machines.’

Medical schools teach students that the human being is only a body. But the mind has the power to cure the body. By definition, psychosomatic means a combination of mind, or soul and body.

The soul creates the disease, but the body suffers. If the psyche creates the disease, the only way to cure it is through the psyche. It’s a very simple formula: treating the seed of the problem.

Further, studies in parapsychology all point to the treatment of illness through treatment of the soul.

The World Spiritual University, which has branches in 30 countries, teaches peace and perfection for health and happiness through the use of Raja yoga. The university gained status as a non-governmental member of the United Nations and has offices at the U.N. building in New York.

Raja yoga teaches students to search their soul world for answers on where they came from and why the cancer entered their body. They learn what role religion, stress, family and lifestyle played in the cancer.

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