How can we cure common cold?

Trying to get over a cold? There are lots of things you can do to ease the symptoms as you get better. Here some easy ones.

Turn Up the Heat
When a cold strikes, chicken soup and hot tea can ease your symptoms. The reason: heat. As the warmth moves down your throat toward your stomach, it helps loosen mucus, making it easier to cough out.

Steam works the same way. Sitting in the bathroom with a hot shower running can relieve your stuffy nose and head.

Stay Hydrated
When you have a cold, your body makes more mucus. Making mucus uses up your body's moisture.

Getting extra fluids thins out mucus and makes it less sticky, which makes it easier blow or cough out. Limit drinks with caffeine and alcohol, as they can be dehydrating.

 
Soothe Your Skin
You blow your nose a lot when you have a cold. The result can be red, chapped skin on and beneath your nose. Add a dab of petroleum jelly to the raw area, or use facial tissues that contain lotion.

Gargle Salt Water
If you have a sore throat, make a salt-water gargle by mixing a teaspoon of salt in a small glass of warm water. The salty-warm combo provides short-term relief.

Consider Supplements
Some supplements have been found to shorten -- but not cure -- colds. Ask your doctor about zinc, vitamin C, and echinacea.

Tell your doctor before starting any new supplement or medication. Your doctor will make sure it won't interact with any other drug you're taking.

 
Prevent the Spread
You should stay home while you're getting over your cold. If you have to go out, try to limit the number of people you come in contact with.

Cover your mouth with the inside of your elbow when you cough or sneeze to keep from getting germs on your hands. A little courtesy goes a long way.

Hang in there. The common cold usually goes away in about a week, so take it easy, take care of yourself, and you’ll be back to normal before you know it.

Cure for Asthma

With all the new findings on alternative medicine and natural remedies, you may wonder if there’s a natural cure for asthma. Unfortunately, there is no cure for asthma at this point. In fact, it’s highly advisable to avoid any asthma treatment or product -- natural or otherwise -- that claims to be a "cure" for asthma.


Can Natural Therapies Help to Manage Asthma?
Some natural therapies may help to manage symptoms of asthma. For instance, a negative response to emotional stress can cause an asthma attack. Some natural relaxation remedies like deep abdominal breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, guided imagery, and biofeedback can help relieve stress.

Other findings suggest that diet plays a role in alleviating asthma symptoms. For example, it’s thought that omega-3 fatty acids found naturally in high-fat fish such as salmon, mackerel, or cod enable the body to make more products that tend to decrease inflammation. Whether or not this may be of benefit to those with asthma is still unproven.

Pros and Cons of Natural Asthma Remedies
As you consider the different types of natural asthma remedies available, it’s of utmost importance to cautiously balance your desire to breathe easier with the possible dangers of the treatment, which may be unknown. Never use any natural dietary supplement without checking first with your health care provider or asthma specialist. Some natural herbal products, such as bee pollen, may trigger an asthma attack if you are allergic to the specific plant. Also, never stop using your asthma drugs without your health care provider’s knowledge. The result of not following your health care provider's prescribed medical regimen to treat your asthma can be very serious, even life threatening.

If you are uncertain about the claims on a natural dietary supplement product label, call your health care provider before taking it. A health care professional can assess the product to let you know what it contains.

Goals of Managing Asthma
Even though there’s no natural cure for asthma, your symptoms can be treated and controlled with several asthma medications. Your goal in managing asthma is to:  

• - Get an accurate asthma diagnosis.
• - Work with your doctor to develop an asthma action plan.
• - Monitor your peak flow rate daily and take appropriate measures when it drops.
• - Keep an asthma diary so you can track all your symptoms and medication use.
• - Avoid asthma triggers or causes of asthma, including outdoor irritants such as smog.
• - Seek medical advice and treatment for coexisting problems that can worsen asthma symptoms, such as GERD, allergic rhinitis, and sinusitis.
• - Exercise daily to maximize your aerobic fitness.
• - Prevent exercise-induced asthma by medicating before exercise.
• - Eat nutritious foods to maximize your immune defenses against viral and bacterial infections.
• - Maintain a normal weight.
• - Get plenty of restful sleep.
• - Call your health care provider at the first sign of asthma symptoms.
• - Check in with your health care provider regularly for breathing tests to make sure your asthma is managed and your medications are working optimally.

You hold the key to living well with asthma. Trust your health care provider to give you guidance, and then take daily responsibility for your breathing with proven self-care measures.

Cancer can be healed.

Cancer is caused by numerous factors. The causes could be preventable and non preventable. Nothing can be done for the genetics cause but many, such as smoking and physical activity, are cancer risk factors you can drastically influence you
Diet is one factor which is completely under your control. Physical inactivity, poor nutrition, obesity renders you prone to many cancers.

You’ve probably already heard the advice to eat lots of fruits and vegetables, or at least five servings a day, to help fight chronic illnesses like cancer. But, just as important as knowing which foods to eat to help prevent cancer is knowing which foods to avoid.

The Top Cancer-Causing Foods to Avoid
In order to use your diet as a strategic “weapon” against cancer, one of the easiest things you can do is make sure the following foods are not a part of your regular diet.

1. Processed Meats
You may love hot dogs, lunch meat, bacon and sausages, but these meats are among the worst of the worst for your health. When you eat processed meats, you’re almost assuredly consuming sodium nitrite (or sodium nitrate), which is added to processed and cured meats as a preservative, flavoring, color fixative and antimicrobial agent.

Unfortunately, nitrites can be converted into cancer-causing nitrosamines in your body, which may explain why numerous studies have linked processed meat consumption to cancer. For instance:
• People who eat a lot of processed meat are likely to develop colorectal cancer than those who eat the least.
• Increased consumption of processed meat is associated with an increased risk of stomach cancer.
• Eating a lot of processed meat is linked to a higher risk of pancreatic cancer compared to eating only a small amount.
2. Red Meat
While some red meat can safely be included in your diet (for instance, grass-fed beef, which contains conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) that may help to fight cancer), there is evidence that eating a lot of red meat can increase your cancer risk. One such study found that eating red meat daily for 10 years (in an amount equivalent to a quarter-pound hamburger) increased men’s risk of dying from cancer by 22 percent, and women’s by 20 percent.

Separate research has also linked red meat consumption to an increased risk of breast, colon and prostate cancers.

3. Charred and Well-Done Meats
The way you cook your meat may actually make a big difference in the cancer risk it poses to you, with well-done and char-grilled meats among the worst offenders.

Many studies have shown a correlation between eating well-done meat cooked at high temperatures and an increased risk of cancer, and at least part of that risk is likely due to toxic cooking byproducts.

For instance, when amino acids and creatine (a chemical found in muscle meats, including beef, pork, chicken and fish) interact with high cooking temperatures, heterocyclic amines (HCAs) are formed. At least 17 different HCAs have been identified that may increase cancer risk, including colon cancer, stomach cancer and others.

4. French Fries and Potato Chips
Potato chips and other snack chips and French fries may contain high levels of acrylamide, another carcinogenic substance that forms when foods are heated at high temperatures, such as during baking or frying.

Animal studies have shown the substance increases the risk of several different types of cancer, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer states that acrylamide is a "probable human carcinogen."

Generally speaking, acrylamide may be found in any food heated to a temperature above 248 degrees Fahrenheit, but potato chips and French fries have been found to contain the highest levels among foods tested….Kids be aware!!!!

5. Sugar -- Especially Fructose
You may have heard the notion that sugar feeds cancer cells, and although all cells, even healthy cells, use glucose to grow, cancer cells use sugar more efficiently, and in greater quantities, than healthy cells. Research shows a strong connection between sugar consumption and cancer, so much so that you may want to limit or at least moderate your intake to reduce your cancer risk. For instance:
• Women who ate the most high-glycemic-load foods were close to three times more likely to develop colorectal cancer.
• High blood sugar levels, caused by health conditions like diabetes along with eating too many sugary foods, have been linked to cancers of the pancreas, skin, uterus, urinary tract and breast.
• Women with the highest carbohydrate intake were more than twice as likely to develop breast cancer than those with a lower carb diet.
One recent study also found that fructose -- found in soda and many other processed sweets -- may feed cancer cells even more than glucose.
The researchers “fed” both glucose and fructose to pancreatic cancer cells in lab dishes and found that although the cells thrived on glucose, they used fructose to divide and increase proliferation. The researchers even suggested that limiting the intake of refined fructose may disrupt cancer growth.
Again, eliminating cancer-causing foods is only one way to use your diet to lower your cancer risk. Stay tuned for more information on cancer…….