Healthy World Digest, #27, June 2011

"Healthy nuggets of information to keep your motor humming."

Welcome to the 27th issue of our newsletter.

In this issue:

* Herb & supplement for energy

* Herbal remedies to help prevent diabetes

* Make it dark roast, please

* How to store your produce

* You exercisers! Don't neglect the triceps.

* It's hot out there. Stay hydrated!

* Vitamin for sun over-exposure

One of the biggest complaints heard from medical patients is low energy. Here are a few things you can take to increase energy.

The supplements magnesium and tyrosine (taken 3x daily) boosts energy.

Another good herbal drink, wheatgrass, seems to increase energy. This is true even if you get the powdered kind.

* Herbal remedies to help prevent diabetes

Here's a pleasant surprise. Coffee may help diabetics by stabilizing blood sugar.

Here's another surprise. The use of vinegar may also help prevent diabetes.

This is good for me because I freely use both coffee and vinegar. For more on diabetes, visit our pages on herbs for diabetes and our page on the link between exercise and diabetes

* Make it dark roast, please

Herbs never cease to amaze me. Back to coffee again.

Did you know that the deeper, dark roasted coffee lends more health benefits than regular roast?

Here’s why. Dark roasting brings out more of the antioxidants in coffee.

Antioxidants, we know, improve cells throughout the body. That means that antioxidants have a beneficial effects throughout your entire body.

* How to store your produce

Lots of confusion about how to store produce. There are storage strategies to help keep produce nutritious and delicious. Some tips.

Store cucumbers, onions and tomatoes on the counter or a cool spot in the pantry. Store lemons and limes in the fridge. Oh, and store potatoes on the counter too.

I've always messed up produce storage and paid for it with over-starchy potatoes and soggy tomatoes.

* You exercisers! Don't neglect the triceps

Poor triceps. You know, those muscles in the back of your arms, around the corner from the sexy biceps.

So many exercise enthusiasts just ignore them. In a way, because they are situated in the back of your arms, they are like the butt of your upper body.

You just don't notice them but trust me everyone else does.

Nice triceps are not only beautiful but can help improve performance in sports and even make day to day activities easier.

So don't neglect them. For more, visit our page (with its' many other links) on the benefits of triceps exercises

* It's hot out there. Stay hydrated!

Now, as the weather heats up and you spend more time out there, it is vital that you drink lots of fresh, coll, healthy water. And remember, don't just drink when you're thirsty. By then it's too late.

Stay hydrated by drinking before and throughout exertions. For more visit our page on healthy hydration

* Vitamin for sun over-exposure

Summer is about to start and for many of us, that means a lot more exposure to healthy sunlight. Great. Do go out and bask in those healthy rays.

But, if you think you might get a little too much sun, be sure to take vitamin E to help stave off negative effects of over-exposure. It’s the antioxidant effect in vitamin E that makes it helpful.

And, I recommend taking vitamin C and the precursor of vitamin A, beta carotene.

Better yet, eating citrus fruits, cantaloupe and carrots can also counter sun over exposure.

Oh, well it's on to summer. A great time to get in your best shape & health. Don't blow it. After all, how many summers do we get anyway?

Comments? Ideas? Feedback? I'd love to hear from you. Just reply to Healthy World Digest and tell me what you think.

See you next month!

Sal

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