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Miracle Drink for the Diabetic

My wife was diagnosed with diabetes last year. In the first few months, her blood sugar level was high, and in spite of the medications, it fluctuated on the higher end.

Recently, her blood sugar level has come down dramatically with a miracle drink recommended by her friend.

Here is the recipe for that miracle drink for the diabetic:

1 bitter melon (obtainable at any Chinese supermarket).
1 cucumber.
1 green pepper.
2-3 stalks of celery.

Chop all ingredients, and put them in a powerful blender. You may juice them. But I prefer to add one cup of water, and place them in a powerful blender. You get the fiber as well.

This potent drink is excellent for diabetes.

She drinks 2 cups a day, and her blood sugar is now normal without any drugs. Bitter melon is such a potent vegetable that its extracts are now available in supplement and sold over the Internet. My wife has not tried the supplement. I think the natural vegetable drink is much better, especially the celery for controlling high blood pressure (often a symptom of diabetes).

For more information on diabetes, go to The Diabetes Miracle Breakthrough.

Stephen Lau

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Lose Weight Without Losing Health

The recent obsession with dieting can have a devastating effect on your longevity health. This is particularly true in the Western world, where body image is of utmost importance, as evidenced by the billions of dollars spent on keeping fit and slim.

Are these millions of people improving their health through their weight loss efforts?

I don’t think so! Many individuals simply jump on the band wagon, oblivious to the fact that drastic weight loss can have detrimental effects on every part of the body, and can even be fatal.

Weight loss should be a health-related endeavor, but, unfortunately, this may not be the case. Even many medically supervised weight loss programs seem to brush aside the detrimental effects with the rational that the end justifies the means. A case in point is that high-risk patients are commonly subjected to high-risk treatments just to reduce their body weight. Maybe this has everything to do with the mentality of the general public – everybody wants a quick fix with immediate results. This mentality is further fueled by the powerful weight loss industry that preys on the gullible public, and its entrenchment with policy makers. The result is an array of every method imaginable aimed at weight loss: pills, surgery, diets, starvation, and purging.

But there is little research to support the effectiveness of these methods at weight loss. And why would money be spent on these research studies when the public are ready and willing?

There are certainly safe ways to reduce fat and lose weight. Try Fat Loss Secret,  and Yoga Weight Loss Secrets to lose weight without health risks.

Stephen Lau

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Why Routines Are Important to Longevity Health

Routines are an integral part of longevity living, and hence critically important to longevity health.

Why is that?

Routines put you in a positive state of mind: it makes you not only more mindful of what you are doing, but also more likely to become more disciplined. Without discipline, it is difficult in this day and age to have a healthy lifestyle leading to longevity, given that we are living in a society of excess and indulgence.

When you wake up in the morning, what do you do? And how do you spend your time? Be mindful of what you do. If you have no real control over the various things you do regularly, you most probably have poor time management.

Learn to organize your daily routines, making doubly sure they contribute to your longevity health, such as exercising and having a nutritional breakfast. Other things like reading the papers and checking your computer are not important to your daily routines, especially in the morning.

Changing your habits is setting good routines for longevity health. Routines prepare your mind for what is ahead of you in the day. Depressed individuals often lack routines in their lives. Learn to control your mind in order to control your body. Rethink your thinking to become younger and healthier for longer!

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Green Tea Makes You Younger and Healthier for Longer!

Scientific studies have shown that polyphenols in green tea, in particular EGCG and ECG (which are naturally occurring compounds in plants to protect them from damage due to free radicals, bacteria, disease, and insect), help you look younger for longer. Green tea is loaded with polyphenols.

 Looking younger requires healthy skin. The sun, the gravitational pull of the earth, free radicals from the environment, and a poor diet may affect how your skin may look. The beauty and health of your skin is determined by collagen, a protein substance in your skin responsible for giving structure and support of the outer layer of your skin.

 As you age, your skin produces less elastin, a substance that controls your skin’s elasticity and smoothness.

 To keep you forever younger, drink green tea daily – and make you own green tea. Remember, not all green teas are created equal. Go to Green4Tea, where you will get everything you need to know about green tea (including weight loss, healthy heart, cholesterol and blood pressure control etc.) to make you younger and healthier for longer. Green tea is loaded with antioxidants and polyphenols – the Chinese have been drinking it for thousands of years to keep them younger, just as they have been using ginseng to make them healthier.

 To keep you younger and healthier for longer, you need knowledge, and knowledge is empowering. Go to: Younger and Healthier Super Store to get digital information on every aspect of health – physical health, mental health, emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health –  to make you younger and healthier for longer.

 Stephen Lau

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Tips on Buying Ginseng

Ginseng is readily available in drug and health food stores all over the United States. However, finding the right ginseng may be challenging.

How to buy your ginseng

You need to determine the type of ginseng: American, Chinese, Japanese, or Korean?

You need to decide on the form of ginseng: root, tablet, powder, or tincture?

You need to know what you are getting for the money you pay: the quality or the grade.

Asian ginseng is the classical ginseng, which is most effective as a restorative tonic for long-term health and wellness: it regulates blood pressure, enhances mental health, control diabetes, suppresses stress, and counteracts alcohol and drugs. Asian ginseng is anti-aging.

American ginseng balances the body metabolism and reduces stress. American ginseng does not have the reputation for revitalizing the body and enhancing overall health and wellness as the Asian counterpart does.

Korean ginseng is well regulated by the government, so the quality is comparable to that of Chinese ginseng. The best Korean ginseng is red ginseng.

Japanese ginseng is of average quality compared to that of Chinese and Korean ginseng.

When you buy ginseng, consider the following:

Age: The older the root of the ginseng at the time of harvest, the more expensive it is. The age can range from 6 to 12 years. Anything younger than 4 years is not recommended. Ginsenosides, the most important ingredient in ginseng, are accumulated in the root over time. The age of the root is determined by the number of ridges or scars in the root.

Color: Only better-quality ginseng roots are selected for steaming to enhance the medicinal value of the roots. When they are steamed, the color turns from white or pale yellow to reddish.

Texture: Good-quality ginseng is hard and brittle, and the texture is dense.

Taste: Ginseng has a bitter, robust taste, with a tinge of sweetness.

Shape: A good ginseng root has the shape of a man: straight with intertwined rootlets or branches. Curled roots are inferior in quality.

The first choice in buying ginseng is to buy the whole root. Other than that, you can get standardized ginseng extract in tablets, capsules, or tinctures. Standardization is a way of processing ginseng that guarantees a certain fixed amount of ginsenosides in every dose. Buy products with concentrations of 4 to 7 percent of ginsenosides.  Tinctures are concentrated alcohol extracts, and therefore are readily absorbed by the body.

Remember, getting top-quality ginseng makes you younger and healthier for longer.

Stephen Lau

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Sex and Ginseng - Making You Younger and Healthier for Longer

Good sex holds the key to your longevity health. Sex makes you younger and healthier for longer. Ginseng is known and valued as an aphrodisiac and sexual aid in many different cultures worldwide.

According to ancient Chinese herbal medicine, any plant that looked like a part of your body would have the healing power for that body part. In this respect, ginseng resembles a human form, with arms, legs, and even the phallic parts. For this reason, the Chinese have long considered ginseng as a potent plant for enhancing sexual desire and maintaining sexual health.

However, it should be mentioned that the Chinese focus more on the tonic quality of ginseng in enhancing overall energy, including sexual energy, rather than viewing ginseng as an aphrodisiac.

Science says that ginseng may not stimulate sexual performance or solve your erectile problems, except in a psychological manner. But sex is something in the mind and of the mind. If one believes that ginseng enhances sexual performance, then it probably will because confidence may boost one’s virility and enhance one’s sexual responses.

In several scientific studies, ginseng demonstrated its capability to accelerate the development of sex organs in mice; that is, mice given ginseng reached puberty much faster and their prostate glands were 50 percent larger than those untreated with ginseng. The fact is that ginseng contains compounds with sex hormone activity that may delay the decline of male sex hormones due to age. Ginseng is anti-aging.

So, even if ginseng does not literally increase your sex drive, it definitely increases your overall energy and wellness, which are important to your sexual health.

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Stop Aging with Ginseng!

Take ginseng regularly to retard aging. In addition to providing energy needed for old age, ginseng prevents disabling disorders, such as arthritis, and heart diseases.

As one ages, the stiffness of joints and inflexibility of muscles are contributing factors to falling, which is the Number One killer among the elderly. The more one is afraid to fall, the more one is prone to falling.

How to use ginseng to help you stop aging:

First of all, take ginseng regularly. In China, ginseng is the best gift for an elderly individual.

In China, it is not uncommon for people to buy the best ginseng roots, put them in bottles soaked with brandy to be used in old age. If properly preserved, ginseng can retain its potency for many years.

To reach the maximum potential lifespan of 100 years or more, one must overcome the vulnerability to diseases and infections, which naturally increase with age. Ginseng may be the elixir of life. The explanation is that ginseng not only acts like a hormone (hormone decline in human is responsible for aging), but also stimulates the body to produce its own hormones. As such, it is anti-aging.

Given that ginseng has hormone-enhancing effect on the body, it can reverse male impotence.  Research studies indicated that mice given ginseng reached puberty much faster than untreated mice.  In human, sexual health holds the key to  longevity health.

Ginseng is anti-aging! It keeps you younger and healthier for longer.

Stephen Lau

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Ginseng - the King of Herbs in the Herbal Kingdom

Ginseng, with its branched roots in the shape resembling that of the human form, is called “man root” in Chinese. The word “ginseng” literally means crystallization of the essence of the earth, “shen”, in the form of a man, ”jen.” The name itself attests to the importance of ginseng among herbs.

Ginseng is the king of herbs in the herbal kingdom due to its holistic-healing potency. In other words, it treats the body as a whole. As such, it is used to keep the body balanced and healthy. The potency of ginseng has long been recognized. In fact, as far back as 1800 B.C., ginseng was declared in the East as the king of herbs among more than 200 superior herbs recognized as “medical wisdom” for balancing and harmonizing the body for overall health. 

A testament to its efficacy as a medicinal herb, wild ginseng can be worth thousands of dollars in price. If stored in a tight container, ginseng can retain its potency indefinitely. Today, ginseng is widely grown in different parts of the world. However, wild ginseng is still exclusively sought.

Even in the West, ginseng has been well respected as a medicinal herb. Many American tribes used ginseng for childbirth, fever, aches and pain. In fact, ginseng was listed in the official book of medicine, the U.S. Pharmacopoeia, in the 19^th Century as a stimulant and a digestive aid.

Ginseng is safer and more effective than synthetic drugs or vitamins available on the nutrition market today.

Use herbal remedies as a way of life, and use ginseng to overcome your daily ailments, such as lack of energy, high blood pressure, stress,. Ginseng is an immune system enhancer. If you wish to be younger and healthier for longer, ginseng holds the key because its potency addresses the body, the mind, and the spirit. Ginseng is a wholesome herb.

Stephen Lau

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The Power of Herbal Medicine

Herbal medicine is the essence of health in that, unlike Western medicine which bases on a "cure-all" concept, iit focuses on the overall wellness to maintain optimum health. Western medicine often uses powerful drugs to treat symptoms of diseases, while herbal medicine uses the mildest herbs to keep an individual free from disease (only when everything has failed then stronger and more powerful herbs may be used).  As a matter of fact, an ancient Chinese herbal doctor would not be remunerated fore treating his patients when they had fallen ill:  the explanation is that he was at fault in not being able to maintain their health.

Herbal medicine or herbal pharmacology aims at maintaining the body in optimum conditions. It targets not just one specific body organ, but the whole body, including the mind. Herbal medicine addresses the balance and harmony of the human body, which is fundamental to good health. If the body is healthy, it will be more resistant to disease. Herbal medicine focuses on health, not sickness. It achieves balance and harmony of the Five Elements.  The Five Elements are wood, fire, earth, metal, and water, which not only are fundamental to the cycles of Nature, but also correspond to the different organs of the body.  Accordingly, herbal medicine aims at balancing each of these Five Elements to attain balance and harmony for overall well-being.  For this reason, it is common to combine herbal remedies, such as  using different parts of the same plant or different parts of different plants in treatment. If a strong plant is used, it is often balanced by other herbs, which are milder and less potent. Herbal medicine ingeniously uses control and restraint to achieve balance and harmony for ultimate good health.

Natural Herbal Cures and Remedies is your herbal medicine.

Stephen Lau

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The Role of Herbs in Chinese Medicine

Initially, traditional Western medicine had negative view of the Oriental herbal remedies, dismissing them as nothing more than folklore and superstition. Until recently, Western medicine has begun to look into Oriental medicine with a more positive and open mind, assessing it through valid scientific methods and investigations. Nowadays, Western medicine has looked more closely into the health benefits of plants, such as aloes, garlic, feverfew, and licorice, just to name a few.

For one reason, some Oriental medicine has a history of over thousands of years. For example, for centuries, the Chinese have investigated into different plants for different medicinal purposes, and different combination for different types of people. For another reason, plants are a part and parcel of life: most of human food comes from plants, or has some relationship with plants (such as animals eating plants). Accordingly, plants play a pivotal role in human health.

Many plants are used exclusively for medicine, while others are used for both food and medicine, such as garlic, licorice, and mint. It is interesting to know that the Chinese do not make a distinction between a food and a medicine, when it comes to plants. What is edible and nutritious is good for the body.

Modern Western medicine has opted for dangerous chemical drugs, instead of living plants, to treat diseases and ailments. Remember, pharmaceutical drugs are chemicals, while herbal remedies are living plants. treat all your health-related problems with herbal remedies, which are safe, inexpensive, and they work!

Stephen Lau

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YOUNGER AND HEALTHIER FOR LONGER - A Handbook for Both Men and Women