How Eating chocolate makes you high !!!!!

Do you crave for a cup of coffee early in the morning? And a chocolate bar makes you feel good when you feel low? Now a study from Ohio University tells you why certain foods affect your moods. 

Just like alcohol or drugs, food and spices can excite, calm or rattle the brain. 

"The distinction of what is a drug and what is food is blurring completely. Natural things are also drugs," The New York Post quoted Gary Wenk, a professor at the Ohio State University and Medical Center and the author of the new book 'Your Brain on Food', as saying. 

Different foods stimulate different regions of the brain, releasing chemicals like dopamine and serotonin that promote well-being. On the flip side, a lack of certain amino acids can cause depression and, in severe cases, madness. 

The glow created by chocolate and coffee isn't just caused by caffeine, but also by a rush of dopamine that triggers the brain's pleasure receptors, Wenk said. 

Chocolate also releases a form of opiate that causes that la-la feeling, along with a small amount of a substance akin to marijuana. With all that pleasure packed into a Hershey bar, it's a miracle the feds don't regulate the stuff, he joked. 

Potatoes calm people down by releasing glucose into the blood, as does milk, especially in babies. 

The downside is that the brain always wants too much of what is bad for the body, like sugar, to communicate with other neurons and is particularly ravenous for it in the morning. 

"Things that are often good for the brain aren't good for the body. You can't just live on Twinkies and doughnuts and beer," said Wenk. 

What different foods do to your brain: 

Nuts, eggs, milk : 

These produce the amino acid tryptophan, which produces the happy-inducing substance serotonin. Without enough tryptophan, you tend to feel depressed and angry. 

Fava beans :

In high doses, they enhance mood by helping to produce dopamine, the brain's reward chemical. 

Nutmeg, saffron, fennel, dill, cinnamon, and anise : 

They contain properties that are chemically similar to mescaline. In big quantities, the spices can cause feelings of euphoria. 

Sugar : 

This is vital to feed your brain, and helps you pay attention and learn new things. Its absence causes sensations of craving and desire. 

Chocolate : 

It Contains compounds that contribute to a good mood, while also soothing and mellowing.

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Eat Fruits Before Meal !!!

We all think eating fruits means just buying fruits, cutting it and just popping it into our mouths. It's not as easy as you think. It's important to know how and when to eat.

What is the correct way of eating fruits? 

IT MEANS NOT EATING FRUITS AFTER YOUR MEALS! * FRUITS SHOULD BE EATEN ON AN EMPTY STOMACH.
If you eat fruit like that, it will play a major role to detoxify your system, supplying you with a great deal of energy for weight loss and other life activities.

FRUIT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FOOD. Let's say you eat two slices of bread and then a slice of fruit. The slice of fruit is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines, but it is prevented from doing so.

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What Is Sleep?

Every night, nearly every person undergoes a remarkable change: we leave waking consciousness and for hours traverse a landscape of dreams and deep sleep. When we wake, we typically remember little or nothing about the hours that have just passed. Except in rare instances, we never contemplate and appreciate that we are sleeping while we are asleep. Thus, although everyone sleeps, most people would be hard-pressed to precisely define sleep. All organisms exhibit daily patterns of rest and activity that resemble the daily sleep and wakefulness patterns seen in humans. From observing changes in behavior and responsiveness, scientists have noted the following characteristics that accompany and in many ways define sleep:

• Sleep is a period of reduced activity.
• Sleep is associated with a typical posture, such as lying down with eyes closed in humans.
• Sleep results in a decreased responsiveness to external stimuli.
• Sleep is a state that is relatively easy to reverse (this distinguishes sleep from other states of reduced consciousness, such as hibernation and coma).

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Foods and Tips to look younger

Most of us want to look young and great, don't we? The truth is that aging not only affects the way we look, but also our overall health. The process has an impact on all vital body functions. But diseases like osteoporosis and atherosclerosis that commonly accompany old age are not an inevitable part of aging.

Interestingly, the process of aging is still a mystery. One theory is that when we are young, we produce plenty of active cells to meet our needs. But, during late adolescence and adulthood, cells inevitably age and die. In fact, free radical cell damage has been significantly associated with aging.

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Foods for great Skin

      Getting great skin is now within your reach without spending oodles of money in the parlour. Here are some food and beverages to help boost your skin's vitality

Cocoa

The bean has high levels of flavanols, plant compounds with antioxidant properties that help protect skin from sun damage. Apart from sipping it in the morning and evening you can also use it as a bath soak - add 1/8 cup ground cocoa powder and 1/3 cup fat-free dry milk in your bathtub.

Curd

The calcium and phosphorus in it helps strengthen tooth enamel and protect your teeth from cavities. It is also

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Foods that help fighting fat !!!

Fat Burning Foods can help you burn fat, lose weight, and get in shape in no time. Some foods require more calories to digest than they contain. Also, some foods boost your metabolism thus causing you to burn fat faster than just diet and exercise alone. The following list of foods consist of fruit and vegetables that are easy to digest and do not product harmful toxins, starch or fat thereby giving the body ample time to start detoxifying the excess fat.

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Too Much Coffee Leads to Hallucinations

May be you are missing the aroma of coffee beans or having mug of coffee with friends. You take coffee to get rid of your wrinkles and unavailability of tea in Mall culture or the instant making coffee force you to have coffee. However, Coffee is simply beneficial, but excess of coffee can hallucinate you.

If you are having coffee during stress, working extra hours in night, studying and unable to start your day without coffee, then may be chances of being addicted to caffeine are more.

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Drinking coffee is not that bad after all !!!!

 Many of us might have heard our parents, doctors saying drinking coffee is not good for the health. Did you know that drinking coffee is not all that bad? There has been much debate over the benefits of coffee, but the good outweighs the bad when it is used in moderation.

It is important to understand that while coffee has many health benefits it is not a substitute for an otherwise healthy diet and a natural health lifestyle. It simply means that it is a fantastic supplement and an enjoyable treat for many people.

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What good chocolate can do to us?

          Healthy chocolate sounds like a dream come true, but chocolate hasn’t gained the status of health food quite yet. Still, chocolate’s reputation is on the rise, as a growing number of studies suggest that it can be a heart-healthy choice.

Chocolate is good for your heart. A small bar of it every day can help keep your heart and cardiovascular system running well. 

Health benefits of chocolate :

The smell of chocolate may increase theta brain waves, resulting in relaxation.

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Asanas for Back Pain

       Most people tend to suffer from lower or upper back pain. Barring a few cases of slipped disk, the majority tend to collect stress and tension, which results in week abdominal muscles and eventually, back pain.

Regular yoga practice will go far in relieving the stress and tension and also, strengthen the abdominal muscles that sometimes cause back pain. In fact, there is no medicine to cure back pain and studies have shown that Yoga is the most effective way of relieving back pain. Then again, not all Yoga poses relieve back pain. Some can even aggravate existing pain. This is why it is best to do these practices under the supervision of a certified Yoga instructor. Even just one or two sessions with an instructor will help.

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Benefits of Sun Salutation - More than Weight Loss!!!

Did you know that Sun Salutation is not just physical exercise for weight loss? This beautiful set of yoga postures work not only on the body but also on the mind and at the spiritual level.

If you have been doing Sun Salutation so far only to shed off those extra inches, here’s some food for thought. This wonderful gift of yoga, if practiced regularly, can work wonders for every part of the body – from head to toe! Yes, Sun Salutation (also known as Surya Namaskar) is a set of 12 yoga postures that helps improve overall health and well being.

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Food and Yoga

‘Isn’t it enough just to practice the Yoga asanas/ poses, do I have to regulate my food?’ wonder many. In itself, practicing Yoga asanas is one of the most beneficial regimes, but when complemented with the right food, it can really create wonders. In fact, eating the right food is an essential part of living a Yogic life.

What we eat, not only influences our physical well being, but also our emotions and thoughts. Yoga, does not dissect food into proteins, carbohydrates or fats, instead it classifies them according to the effect they have on the body and mind, into three types – satva, rajas and tamas. Tamasic food is the kind of food which makes us lethargic

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Tips To Prevent Hair Loss, You can try at Home !!

In modern day, a common problem for almost every body around us is Hair fall. We might have seen many of our friends under going hair loss treatments and using many product available out there, emptying the pockets and wasting of so much time. But is n't better to use few natural tips and products to stop hairfall than to go in for expensive parlour treatments, that may not help the problem.

Try the following easy tips at home and see how effective they are in reducing hair loss!

1. Hot oil treatments: Take any natural oil - olive, coconut,

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Tricks to Activate or Use Both Side of Brain

Generally in every human on side of a Brain is dominant.Though one side of your brain is dominant, a few tricks can activate both hemispheres so you can be both creative and logical

A man paints with his brains, not with his hands. When painter Michelangelo said this 500 years ago, he did not know how far science would take this idea. The theory of lateralisation says that the human brain is separated into two cerebral hemispheres, the left and the right brain, both of which execute different functions. And painting is to do not just with the brain, but in fact, with the right side of it.

While several theories on the left-brain and right-brain dominance abound, the basics are easy. The right hemispherecontrols your body's left side, and vice versa. When you use the left or logical side, you are being analytical, attentive, objective

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How to Keep Your Knee Healthy ?

Few tips to keep your knee healthy.


1. Warm-up and stretch before exercising. Warming up and stretching can help the knee joint in many ways, including increasing the circulation of the blood and lymph fluid into and out of joint structures and the adjacent soft tissues and ensuring that the muscles and the ligaments attendant to the knee joint are not too tight. As a result, tension on the tendons is reduced, and pressure on the knee is relieved.

2. Develop muscle balance. Strengthen the muscles of the lower body to reduce the amount of force that goes through the knees. Make sure that you maintain an appropriate muscle balance between the quadriceps and hamstrings (i.e., a 3-to-2 strength ratio is recommended) to provide an improved level of stabilization and strength for the knee joint.

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Lasting weight loss via muscle-building

The standard advice on losing weight is simply to eat less. The body’s fat stores are, in fact, surplus energy that a person has accumulated by eating too many calories.

“So basically it’s not wrong to eat less, but starving down the body’s metabolism won’t bring lasting results,” according to Ingo Froboese, a professor at the Health Centre of the German Sport University in Cologne.

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Five easy steps for climbing over a weight loss plateau

Nothing is more frustrating while on a weight loss journey than plateauing at a particular weight. You can keep pushing your body to the limits in the gym and even cut more calories, but without help you aren't likely to see the results you were hoping for. Sometimes getting back on track is as simple as refocusing your efforts with these helpful tips.

1. Remember, getting there is half the battle

Anyone who has tried to lose a significant amount of weight knows that most of the time just getting to the gym is the hardest part. But don't let that deter you. When combined with a balanced diet, exercise can not only give you the day to day boost you need, but it also increases the likelihood that you will lose more weight, faster. You're also more likely to be motivated and push yourself harder if you are surrounded by individuals who are always working on attaining their goals.

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Feet Accupressure

Acupressure is derived from Acupuncture, which brings about the balance in Yin & Yang, Five Elements and QI. This is achieved by the judicial application of finger pressure on acupuncture points relating to the energy channels instead of using acupuncture needles.

Acupressure is effective in relieving the stagnation of body fluids caused by improper lifestyle habits and stress metabolites like lactic acid.

Acupressure is more effective with appropriate lifestyle changes.
Acupressure has profound effect in Pain Management, Stress Management, Relaxation, Tension Headaches, Migraine, Energy balance, Insomnia, and Fibromyalgia.

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