Toast The New Year With A Healthy Mocktail

If you are welcoming the New Year sans the alcohol, why not make a delicious mocktail? It will taste wonderful and look festive and keep your spirits high as you celebrate the New Years.

It is simple to make (and simple to convert back to a traditional cocktail as well) and is healthy as well.
What you’ll need:

1 sugar cube

1 1/2 ounces pomegranate juice

1 ounce currant juice

8 pomegranate seeds

6 ounces sparkling apple cider (use champagne if you prefer)

Place one sugar cube in the bottom of a Champagne glass. Pour in pomegranate and currant juice, add pomegranate seeds, and then the sparkling apple cider.

You can also make a Rumless Mocktail that will delight as you ring in the New Year

Coat a glass with mint leaves. mix 2 teaspoons sugar and 3 tablespoons lime juice. Pour in chilled club soda. Garnish with a slice of lime, and enjoy!

Opening That Bottle of Champagne Safely

Popping the cork on a bottle of champagne at midnight tonight? Keep an eye out for that flying cork–it can be dangerous especially to the eyes. It is estimated that a surprising 1,500 people visit emergency rooms during the holiday season for eye injuries resulting from flying champagne corks.

When a bottle of champagne is opened the wrong way, the cork can go flying at a high speed and cause permanent eye damage in a matter of seconds. Warm bottles of champagne are more likely to have corks go flying when they are popped, so keep your bubbly chilled.

Tips for opening the champagne bottles safely:

Chill the champagne bottle to about 45 degrees farenheit before it is opened.
Hold the cork down with your hand while removing the wire around the cork.
Place a towel over the top of the bottle and grasp the cork. Point the bottle at a 45-degree angle away from you and others, and begin slowly twisting the bottle while holding the cork in place.
When you feel the cork start to break free from the bottle, hold the cork and apply slight downward pressure to the cork as the seal breaks.

Happy and Safe Toasting!

Make Walking Your New Year’s Resolution

Happy New Years!

There is one resolution that probably outweighs just about any other when it comes to your health, except maybe to stop smoking. It is simple enough to do, free, and is so beneficial to your cardiovascular health. What is it? Walking.

Researchers have spent years studying the effects of weight loss on heart health, and have concluded that burning about a 1,000 calories a week through exercise was enough to make a significant decrease in the risk of heart disease in women who are obese.

If you get out and walk several times a week for about half an hour, you can probably burn about 125 to 200 calories. Of course, the exact amount will depend on your size and how hard you work out. And remember, exercise in any form is simply good for your heart. Exercise helps lower blood pressure and increases blood vessel function.

So even if you make no other resolutions this New Year’s Eve, promise yourself that you will get out and walk a few times a week. Aim to burn 1,000 calories a week for you and your heart!

Achieving Mental Health

We can achieve all things in our life whatever we wish. Yes, we can have all things what we want. All those successful people who have achieved success in their life, they all have one thing common in them. That is self-control. Yes…all successful people win their mind first. Then turn the mind in direction easily towards their way.

Achieving a sound mental health isn’t an overnight process. It is a continuous process. It requires a daily self examination. You need to support your mental health process by reading spiritual books. You can also read your favorite books. But those should be supportive for getting mental health. We have spiritual base by nature. We just need to develop it internally. It is a good way to have a sound mental health continuously.
As your internal spiritual base gets strong, you will be calm and all external disturbances will never make you unstable. Because you will have already known how to control mind.

Have a Cup Of Chamomile Tea!

Chamomile has some wonderful properties that are said to help relieve things such as menstrual cramps and skin blemishes. The flower infused tea is also commonly used to help soothe anxiety and promote a good night’s sleep. But now there is perhaps even more benefits of drinking a cup of soothing chamomile tea. In animal research conducted recently, chamomile was shown to possibly help keep blood sugar stable in the animals. Also, the extracted chamomile appeared to possibly help guard against the damage high blood sugar can do. Which could be very beneficial to people. More studies need to be done to see if drinking chamomile tea helps regulate blood sugar in people, of course. But since we all know that drinking tea is healthy in so many ways, having a cup or two of chamomile tea may be a nice way to end your day at any rate. You can read more about chamomile and it’s benefits and uses here.

Importance of blood to our body

As we all know that blood is essential to live. We get oxygen, nutrients and other necessary things through blood. It provides vitamins and medicines to the various cells and tissues of our body. Therefore it is most essential to have enough blood in our body.

Without having sufficient blood proportion, we can face sever damage of our body. Because good supply of blood or quality blood makes us healthy. There should be continuous blood supply to the brain. If someone’s blood stops to reach at brain, that person will die within short time or can have brain ham rage.

Blood circulation is most important of our body. Doing daily exercise keeps blood circulation well. All nutrients, vitamins … we can get via blood. So, its circulation should be smooth. Otherwise, poor circulation can absorb harmful substances. Therefore, having a good diet program, daily exercise help keeping blood circulation in excellent condition.

Diet Soda

A few months ago at my yearly physical, my doctor told me the dangers of diet soda. She told me that diet soda has artificial sweeteners, which turn to formaldehyde in the body. That really grossed me out. Can you imagine? I had been drinking diet soda forever. Luckily I can drink either diet or regular soda, so changing did not bother me.
But then my when I told two of my sisters who drink diet soda, they were both like, so what? Every thing these days is bad for you. Don’t drink this, don’t eat that. So that kind of changed my mind again. NO matter what I drink, some doctor will say it is wrong or harmful. I still drink diet and regular soda, but not as much as I used to. So I guess moderate is fine. If I can limit myself to only having a few pops a week, than I should be ok.

Looking For Healthy New Years Eve Party Snacks?

If you are hosting a New Years Eve party and are thinking about what snacks to have on hand, try a snack that is delicious and has some great health benefits. One such party food is a veggie platter with a tasty bean dip. The veggies and beans provide the important cancer fighting flavonols–an antioxidant that research has shown might help prevent colon polyps from returning in a more advanced state. In a study of 2,000 adults who had been treated for colon polyps — little benign tumors that have a chance of becoming cancerous, the people whose diets were highest in flavonols were 76 percent less likely to have a recurrent polyp in an advanced stage than those with the lowest intake. The best veggies to have on that platter? Those would be onions, celery, radishes, cucumbers, and peppers.

Healthy Buffalo Chicken Salad

Eating healthy can still be delicious–just check out this spicy recipe that uses skinless chicken breasts!

You will need:

2 boneless and skinless chicken breasts
4 tsp. cayenne pepper hot sauce
2 tsp. olive oil
6 cups chopped romaine lettuce
4 stalks celery, sliced
2 tbsp. crumbled blue cheese

To Prepare:
Cut chicken breast into 1/2 -inch strips. Mix hot sauce and oil in a small bowl. coat chicken with mixture, place on baking sheet and broil for about two minutes each side, or until chicken is cooked through.
Place the veggies in a bowls, and put the warm chicken on top. Use a low calorie dressing of your choice (light blue -cheese dressing tastes great on this!), and sprinkle on some of the crumbled blue cheese on each salad.

Don’t Throw Away Those Candy Canes!

Do you have lonely candy canes left over from Christmas? Instead of tossing the striped Christmas candies in the trash, you may want to eat one or two a day. New studies show that Peppermint may do more good than we knew–everything from fighting germs to helping digestion problems. In fact, some researchers say that having a tablespoon or more of fresh peppermint a day can be a healthy habit. Candy canes contain peppermint oil, which is said to help with irritable bowel syndrome. And researchers say that one day peppermint oils and other oils may be used to help prevent bacteria growth on food. It appears those long time symbols of the holiday season may have some health benefits as well as make a festive decoration on Christmas Trees and in bowls. Just be sure to brush after eating one-they do have sugar and are a candy, after all.
But it may be time to rethink about those candy canes before getting rid of them. Maybe a candy cane a day will help keep the doctor away!

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