Home Remedy for Acidity

What is Acidity?

Digestive acid which is created by stomach is essential in digestive process. But when this acid is produced in excess it creates problem which is normally known as acidity. When the gastric juice is released in abundant quantity, it is known as Gastric Hyperacidity. There can be several reasons behind acidity/hyper acidity.

Causes of Acidity:

Acidity may happen due to abnormal food intake, spicy food, oily food and other metabolism issue in the body. Mostly acidity comes into picture because of wrong food intake. As per normal requirement of the body, at least 80% food should be of alkaline in nature. Like green vegetables, fruits, salads etc. and at most 20% from acidic food like, oily food, spicy food and all non-vegetarian food. When this balance is disturbed, acid secretion increases in the stomach resulting in acidity/hyper acidity.

Not only food, rather study says, negative emotions like anger, stress etc is also a major reason of acidity problem. That’s the reason a cool and calm personality seldom has the need to face any disease.

Home Remedy of Acidity:

1. Avoid all types of fast food, non-vegetarian food and oily/spicy food.
2. Take as much fruit as possible. This will help to increase alkaline in the body, neutralizing the acidity affects. Banana, Water Melon and cucumber are few recommended fruits which are proved helpful in acidity.
3. Drink sufficient water (At least 3 ltr). Take water more frequently.
4. Almond helps in quick control over heart burn. Whenever you feel like heart burn, take few pieces of Almonds.
5. Jaggery(gur) is a proven home remedy for acidity. Put one piece in mouth and suck it slowly.
6. Green coconut water is very helpful in acidity.
7. Sleep sufficient. Do not work till late night.
8. Fresh mint juice helps in reducing the side effects of acidity. You can have a glass of mint juice after food for a fast relief.
9. Take a small piece of raw garlic; this is a very good digestive element. But don’t take overdose, or else it will have negative effect on acidity.

Sound Sleep Naturally for a Healthy Life

Lack of sleep is a common problem for the modern people. Extreme mental work and pressure and lack of physical work and modern life style is the main reason behind sleep disorder.

Symptoms:

Insomnia or sleeping difficulties has several symptoms. If you are facing the below symptoms of insomnia, you should be careful from the beginning.

Sleep should bring energy in your body. If you are feeling tired after sleep, you might be a victim of insomnia. Because of Insomnia, you might feel sleepy throughout the day. Loss of concentration and getting irritated easily are few more symptoms of insomnia.

What to do?

Insomnia is a curable diseases, so there is no need to worry. Just you have to change your life style for a better future.Follow below discussed points to avoid lack of sleep.

1. Morning should start with regular exercise. Little physical work daily will keep your body active during day time and at night it will bring a good night sleep.
2. Try all kinds of alcohol and tobacco etc. If you can’t live without it, don’t take 4-5  hours before sleep.
3. Go to bed in time daily. Don’t go to bed too early or too late than your planned time or go to bed immediately when you are feeling sleepy and tired at night.
4. Cool temperature and silent environment encourage a good sleep.
5. Don’t over eat at night.
6. Do not watch TV, work on computer at night just before going to bed.
7. Do not sleep during day time.
8. Never worry about lack of sleep. It will only make the situation worse.
9. Never try hard to sleep.

Healthy Diet

What is a Healthy Diet?

The opinions of doctors and nutritional experts vary widely, leading to a huge amount of conflicting data and statistics. In frustration most people give up trying to diet, or lean toward one of the ‘official’ low fat, high carbohydrate diets.

For some basic guidelines it is wise to listen to and observe what other people or populations have done in the past. There are several that exist in which the population in general reaches a ripe old age, at the same time maintaining a record of good health both physically and mentally.

The Hunza people are such an example. They live in the Kashmir valley in Pakistan and are known for their extreme longevity, living up to between 120 and 140 years of age. The main causes of death are old age, disease or poverty, and not degenerative diseases as is the case in the West.

The traditional Hunza diet consists of unprocessed whole foods which are rich in fibre: 40% calories from whole grains, 30% calories from vegetables, 15% from fruits, 10% from beans, 4% nuts and seeds and only 1% from animal products. The Hunza people eat 80% of their vegetables and 100% of their fruit raw. A combination of their low-fat diet and the fact that they are very active, a result of living in the rugged mountains, means that the Hunzakuts are not obese.

And ... they are happy! They have a certain relish and passion for life - perhaps brought on to some extent by their daily rigorous exercise and simple lifestyle.

What can we learn from the Hunzakuts? Three things:
• eat raw fruit and vegetables, whole grains, nuts and seeds
• exercise daily
• have a positive outlook on life

In our hectic lives it sometimes pays to give the body a rest and to follow a cleansing diet for a couple of weeks. The simple guidelines below will help you to feel the difference.

Basic Cleansing Diet

Breakfast:
1 glass of lemon water or water with apple cider vinegar (1Tbsp)
Fruit salad with sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and a few almonds
or
1 bowl of porridge
or
1 slice of sour-dough bread with avocado or a little butter
Herbal tea
No coffee or dairy products

Mid morning: 1 glass of fresh fruit juice (apple, pear, grapefruit..)

Lunch:
Salad (Lettuce with celery, tomatoes, cucumber or anything else that you want) or a
salad sandwich with or without a small can of tuna (in spring water)

Dinner:
Any vegetarian meal, for example vegetables with brown rice or brown noodles, chickpeas, beans, lentils, vegetable bakes, stir fries or soups.
Dishes can be made with any vegetables except potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn.

No alcohol, dairy products, coffee or refined carbohydrates (white sugar, white flour, soft drinks etc.)

Drink at least 2 litres of water a day

Snacks in between meals are allowed, and can include fruit (no oranges) or dry crackers with avocado, humus or tahini.

After 2 weeks you may introduce chicken or fish 2 times a week.

Supplements:

Vit C 2000-3000 mg with meals
Vit.E 500-800 mg with meals
Lipoic Acid (at the health food store, aids fat metabolism)
Taurine 500 (at the health food store, supports your liver)