Acupuncture can provide a lot of health benefits and here’s an interesting article about using electronic acupuncture (acupuncture without needles) to help people with respiratory allergies: Aculife Electronic Acupuncture and Allergies. If acupuncture could be used as a natural allergy cure, people would suffer less and require less over the counter drugs. Sounds like it’s worth trying. Do you have any experience with acupuncture? Please share!
Eating the right vitamins and minerals will give you health, wellness, and longevity. So, short of seeing a nutritionist to help you balance your diet perfectly, what else can you do? A lot of people take a multivitamin but the truth is, when your vitamins come from food rather from pills, you’ll get the optimal health benefits. As a positive side effect, following a nutritious diet will also help you manage your waistline by default. How can you balance your diet?
Journal Your Food Intake
Fitday is a great free calorie and nutrition calculation tool for helping people journal their food to see whether they’re getting the right nutrients or not. At the end of each day, there’s a graph that can show you what % of daily recommended intake you’re getting. By assessing the deltas, you can tackle the issue. You can target foods that you might be missing.
After analysing the area that you’re missing, try adding foods rich in that vitamin or mineral to your diet. RealAge has a free tool that lets you click on a vitamin or mineral and see a list of foods rich in that vitamin or mineral: RealAge Vitamins and Minerals Tool. The tool also tells you what that nutrient will do for you and seeing that could help you improve areas of your health that are currently plaguing you.
For example, if you were vitamin K deficient, the tool would suggest some of the following foods: spinach, asparagus, kiwi, blueberries.
If you wanted to increase your zinc intake, it would suggest: turkey, sunflowerseeds, shiitake mushrooms, almonds
And looking at the above suggestions you can see that there are foods in most categories that can literally be eaten by the handful rather than being difficult to incorporate into your diet. So fitting in your daily recommended intake of Vitamin K and Zinc could be as simple as tossing some blueberries and almonds into your morning oatmeal.
The more you know about your health, the happier, healthier, and more youthful you’ll continue to be. Nutrition is the foundation of health and paying attention to what goes into your body can make a big difference.
There are many pain relief acupoints, or meridian points, located on the wrist, palm and fingers of the hand. Stimulating these acupoints is not the only way to diagnose and treat pain, but it is one of the easiest and most accessible. Traditional Chinese acupuncture is performed anywhere on the body while reflexology concentrates on the meridian points found on the soles of the feet. For the home user, the hands are preferred and make identification of key acupoints much simpler.
Acupuncture and acupressure rely on accessing the body’s meridian points. This refers to the flow of energy throughout the body. Each meridian ends at twelve spots; there are three on each hand and three on each foot. The balance of energy, or the yin and yang, is what determines health and wellbeing. An imbalance of energy along any of the meridian paths results in illness or ailments.
Locating Pain Relief Acupoints Read more at: Identifying Hand Acupoints
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