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This JAPANESE WATER THERAPY IS THE KEY TO LOSING WEIGHT AND STAYING HEALTHY

Highlights

• Water is an essential part of our lives
• It is often advised that one must drink at least eight to ten glasses
• Japanese Water Therapy helps kick-start your metabolism

Water is an essential part of our lives and it is one of the basic elements required for human survival. It is often advised that one must drink at least eight to ten glasses of water every day to flush out all the toxins and to help it to function properly. Some nutritionists also advise that is great to start you day with a glass of warm water, lime and honey. It kick-starts your metabolism and does wonders for your overall health. In fact, people in Japan take this advice quite seriously and practice a certain kind of water therapy that is known to help with weight loss and fitness. A simple practice when done methodically and consistently may help in fighting various health problems. The objective of this therapy is to use water in your daily life to balance and regulate your health.at i

What is the Japan Water Therapy?

Most of the ailments begin with a weak stomach. The Japanese Water Therapy helps in cleaning your stomach and boosting your digestive system. Japanese traditional medicine recommends drinking water right after waking up early morning. These early morning hours are considered to be 'golden hours'. Drinking water during this period not only promotes weight loss by smoothing your digestive system, but can also help in treating various health problems.

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What Does the Japan Water Therapy Suggest?

Here are five things that the Japanese Water Therapy suggests you must do:

1. As soon as you wake up in the morning, drink four to six glasses of water, each of 160-200 milliliters, on an empty stomach. Water should ideally be consumed at room temperature or lukewarm. You can also squeeze some fresh lemon juice in it.
2. Brush your teeth after drinking water. Avoid eating or drinking anything for at least 45 minutes, after which you can continue with your daily routine.
3. After every meal of the day, do not eat or drink anything for at least two hours.
4. Elderly people, those who are suffering from any serious health condition or even those who have just started out should begin the therapy with one glass of water every day and gradually increase the number of glasses.
5. If you are unable to chug all four glasses of water in one go, wait for a couple of minutes between each glass of water so as to give your stomach a break.
6. The Japanese water theory claims to cure diseases and give you a fit and healthy life. The therapy recommends that you make the above tips a part of your daily routine.

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The Japanese theory also states these important points:

• Walk quietly every day for at least an hour. This will help in fastening your metabolism.
• Every night, before going to the bed, gargle at least 4-5 times with warm water mixed with salt.
• Avoid eating and drinking while you stand as it hinders the digestion process.
• Chew your food properly before gulping it down as it helps in better digestion of food.

Benefits of the Japanese Water Therapy

Japanese water therapy helps relieve stress, promotes weight loss and ensures a strong digestive system. Most of all, it keeps you energetic throughout the day and a healthy body leads to a healthy mind. Ayurveda experts also suggest that you must drink water first thing in the morning as it plays a key role in boosting your health.
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Near Death Experiences and Reanimation: Scientific “Proof” of Life After Death?

A “tunnel”, “bright light”, or lives “flashing” before their lives… many who have faced death report incidents of near death experiences (NDE); some even claim to have an out of body experience where they were “floating” above their bodies, watching their doctors fight to revive their dying bodies.

On one hand, some individuals claim that this is proof of a life after death.

On the other hand, skeptics claim that NDEs do not exist and are physiological and psychological reactions to intolerable stress and pain, or hallucinations brought on by a dying and failing brain.

But what if there was scientific evidence to prove or disprove either of these viewpoints?

Today, I stumbled upon an article titled “German Scientists Prove There is Life After Death” written by World News Daily Report, citing and summarizing a recent study conducted in 2014 at Technische Universität of Berlin by a team of researchers led by Doctor Berthold Ackermann.

The study claimed to have medically induced and supervised NDE in944 volunteers for a time period of four years, using epinephrine and dimethyltryptamine to allow the body to survive clinical death and reanimation without damage. Various other drugs were used to place the individuals in a comatose state, from which they were “reanimated” from approximately 18 minutes later.

A cardiopulmonary recitation (CPR) machine called the AutoPulse was used to reanimate people who had been declared clincally dead anytime from 40 to 60 minutes.

Participants reported feelings of detachment from the body, overwhelming light, levitation, securiy, sereniy, warmth, and “absolute dissolution”. 

As soon as I read the lines about an “induced” comatose state, I knew there was something wrong with this supposedly “scientific” study.

Before I explain my reasons for being skeptical, I’ll show you the disclaimer written on the “news” website that this article was initially published on.

“World News Daily Report is a news and political satire web publication, which may or may not use real names, often in semi-real ormostly fictitious ways. All news articles contained within worldnewsdailyreport.com are fiction, and presumably fake news. Any resemblance to the truth is purely coincidental, except for all references to politicians and/or celebrities, in which case they are based on real people, but still based almost entirely in fiction.”

If this isn’t convincing enough for you that the article is fake, let me explain some reasons why you shouldn’t believe everything you read on the internet, especially this article:

1. Ethical Issues: I cannot think of one institutional review board (IRB) at any university that would grant funding and permission to conduct an experiment that placed its participants in a drug-induced state of clinical death– even if only for 18 minutes.
2. Dr. Berthold Ackermann: The non-existent doctor that was the head researcher of the university. One google search shows that all the proof for the existant Dr. Ackermann are from World News Daily Report or other websites that have shared or summarized the article.
3. Population Sample: Would you volunteer for a study that claimed to be able to kill you and bring you back to life, just to record the memories that you had of the event when you were supposedly brought back to life?
4. Immeasurable Variables: There is no statistical data to prove or disprove the existence of an afterlife in this study. The fundamental parts of a scientific experiment (independent and dependent variables, control group, hypothesis…) were not present, and even if this experiment was real, correlation does not prove causation. Also, there are many ways to die– not just from the usage of drugs, which could also have affected the outcomes.
5. Publication: Where was this scientific study published? There are no citations for a scientific journal that the study was supposedly published in, and no specific details stating the statistics for the experiment (with the exception of the number of participants and the length of the study– four years!)

Despite the (very) fictional nature of this article, NDE is a widely reported phenomenon worldwide.

However, due to the very subjective and unpredictable nature of NDEs, it is very difficult to establish any scientific evidence– especially through an experiment that claims to kill its participants and bring them back to life.

So don’t believe everything you read– question the validity of scientific findings, and don’t take everything at face value.

Think about the research procedures, the validity of the experiment, and most importantly: the source of the information.http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nde.png

http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/german-scientists-prove-there-is-life-after-death/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-89926/Scientists-discover-near-death-evidence.html

Sun set for 11-year magnetic pole flip

NEW DELHI: A special event is about to occur in our sun, and it could impact our lives. The magnetic poles of the sun — which are like the ends of a giant bar magnet — are about to flip, that is, the polar north will become the polar south and vice versa. According to scientists at the Wilcox Solar Observatory at Stanford University , the sun could be barely two to three months away from this magnetic field reversal. The change is periodic, taking place once every 11 years or so. The flip also corresponds with peak activity during the 11-year solar cycle. This is when sunspots — intense magnetic field flu ctuations that appear as dark spots on the solar surface — are highest in number. "When the number of sunspots is highest, a time known as the solar maximum, the sun's large-scale dipole magnetic field starts reversing. This reversal is akin to sun's magnetic poles flipping. It's almost as if a giant magnet inside the sun was turned upside down," said Dibyendu Nandi, an a strop hysicist at Kolkata's Indian Institute of Science Education and Research. Why does this flip take place? Nandi said that the periodic reversal was linked to the motion of plasma flows inside the sun. The flow of this hot, electrically-charged material tosses and turns one component of the magnetic field into another, eventually changing the sun's dipole field. "This process is technically known as the solar dynamo mechanism and can be studied using computer models which we do in our laboratories," Nandi said. Changes in the sun's magnetic field ripple through the solar system and beyond, a region known as the heliosphere. The weather in space is expected to be most hazardous in the next few months as the flip begins to take place, Nandi said. "The chances of solar magnetic storms occurring are also high. These storms carry a vast amount of charged particles and magnetic fields through interplanetary space and can pose a threat to satellite operations , telecommunications , air traffic on polar routes and power grids in countries at high latitudes ," the scientist said. Scientists are watching the event closely to fully understand the changes that take place. It's also of special interest because the current solar cycle — the 24th since 1755, when sunspot activity began to be recorded — is one of the weakest in 100 years. A strong solar magnetic field also acts as a shield against cosmic rays coming from outer space. "Due to the current weak cycle, we have been recording high cosmic ray influx since 2009," said B N Dwivedi of IIT-BHU. In India, solar magnetic fields are being observed from the solar observatories at Udaipur and Kodaikanal. Then there are theoretical astrophysicists such as Nandi who build computer models to study and predict solar behaviour. TOI

Hearty lunch not breakfast king of meals

Here's why hearty breakfast stands to lose its 'star meal' status to wholesome lunch You have been told for long to 'eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper' for optimum health. You may want to give your diet chart an overhaul. It is argued that the concept of 'eating breakfast like a king' was coined by the profit-driven cereal industry. "It had nothing to do with health, or the need of the body," says nutritionist Anju Venkat. "Our body cycle comprises three functions — appropriation, digestion and elimination — for maintaining life. These three functions, which work in eight-hour cycles, are constantly going on in the body." Natural functions Here is how the founder of Worli's Health Awareness Centre explains the body's cycle: noon to 8 pm is for digestion. This is the time to eat, so that the body can most efficiently break it down into nutrients. The time between 8 pm and 4 am is for assimilation/ absorption — when the body does its building and repair work. "This is the time when nutrients received during the day are utilised to make new cells and tissues. This is the time to rest or sleep, (and certainly not eat) since the body is hard at work anyway," adds Venkat. And, between 4 am and noon it is time for elimination. "At this time, the body is getting rid of the waste debris. All that the body cannot utilise is thrown out," says Venkat. "The best time to eat foods that take time to digest (cooked food) is between noon and 8 pm." Prescribed by tradition For centuries, Ayurveda has prescribed different norms for dincharya (daily regimen) and ratricharya (night regimen). "These norms are based on an approach to keep the balance between the biosphere, as represented by the body, with that of cosmic-sphere, represented by the movement of sun, moon and the air. The cosmic phenomenon is functionally represented in human body in terms of vaat (air), pitta (fire) and kapha (earth)," explains Dadar-based Ayurvedic physician Dr Narendra Bhatt. According to Bhatt, the digestive fire is associated with the pitta constitution, which is related to the sun. So that is the time when a full meal will be optimally digested — when the sun is the strongest. Hard to digest A full meal, like a cheese omelette along with butter toast, with side vegetables, occasionally sausages, in the first quarter of the day, is hard to digest for the body. Venkat says, "Milk, for instance, takes six hours, a cheese omelette with toast takes 36 hours, and a cup of tea or coffee takes 24 hours to digest." She adds, "When we eat the wrong food at the wrong time and in the wrong combination, digestion gets prolonged and functions of cleaning and repair slow down too." The ideal first meal Since fruits are pre-digested and supply the body with enough nutrition, they can be consumed in any quantity and at any time. They can be in the form of whole fruit, fresh fruit juice, fruit pulp or dried fruits. Aside from their high water content (needed for cleansing), Venkat points out that fruits leave no acidic residue in the body and demand zero energy for digestion. This makes them an ideal meal for mornings, when the body is in cleansing mode. Having cereals for breakfast is not a good idea, warns registered dietician Pooja Singhania, as they are carbohydrate rich with very little fibre and protein. "The food industry has indeed cashed-in on claims about importance of breakfast," says Singhania. "Cereals like corn flakes are processed grains, loaded with sugar, sodium and artificial flavours and have little fibre and protein. Moreover, the ironfortified cereals discourage absorption of calcium from milk," she says. Minimally processed foods in the form of chapatti, theplas, idli, contain higher nutritive value and make for a healthy breakfast. "However, with our urban lifestyle where the day begins and stretches late into the evening, it is better to have a slightly fulfilling meal like poha for breakfast, followed by a wholesome lunch and a light dinner," says Dr Bhatt.

3 Exercises To Melt Away Love Handles

Wednesday, September 11, 2013 8:31 pm Written by: ThePostGame Staff

While there are no secrets to melting away your love handles, there is definitely a right and a wrong way to attack them. "Too many people spend all of their time focusing on abdominal exercises without burning the fat on top. If you want to get rid of love handles fast, then you must strengthen your obliques, get your heart rate in the weight-loss zone -- 60 percent to 75 percent of your max heart rate -- and eat clean," says Coach Joshua Kozak, founder of HASfit. This six-minute workout contains four rounds of three exercises and can be done from home without equipment. Oblique Burpees 4 x 30 seconds: Standing with your feet shoulder width apart, squat down putting your weight in your butt while reaching your hands toward the floor. Jump with your legs and feet out to one side, land with both feet while keeping your core tight and one leg stacked on top of the other, jump back to center, and then jump straight up bringing your hands overhead. Repeat in the opposite direction. Side Plank Dips 4 x 30 seconds: Lie on your side with your legs straight and one leg stacked directly on top of the other. Bend your elbow and place it directly under your shoulder while you raise your hips off the ground. Lower your hips and then raise them back to the starting position. Repeat for 15 seconds and then switch sides. To increase the difficulty, rise up off of your elbow and straighten your arm while performing the same movement. High Knee Crunches 4 x 30 seconds: Start standing with your feet shoulder width apart and reach up high to one side. Next, simultaneously bring your same side knee up and out while pulling down. Bring your elbow to your knee and contract your oblique muscle at the same time. Allow your arm and leg to return to a relaxed position as you begin to repeat this movement on the opposite side. Alternate sides for the prescribed time.

Drinking tea reduce risk of prostate cancer

Drinking five or more cups of tea a day lowers the risk of advanced prostate cancer, scientists have claimed. Men who drink five or more cups daily have a lower risk of developing stage IV prostate cancer, scientists found. They also have a 25 per cent reduced risk of reaching stage II, compared with those who drink just one cup a day. Scientists in the Netherlands analysed data on 58,279 men and found 3,362 cases of prostate cancer, including 1,164 advanced cancers. “We had data on tumour stage for most cases which made it possible to stratify data against the stage of the disease,” Dr Milan Geybels, lead researcher at Maastricht University, said. Stage II is where the tumour has grown inside the prostate gland but not spread. By stage IV the cancer has typically spread to the lymph nodes, bones or liver. It is believed naturally occurring compounds in tea called flavonoids inhibit cancer cells from forming tumours. One cup of tea provides about 150-200mg of flavonoids.