The Benefits of Green Tea for your Health

"Red tea" is the name the Chinese use for what we in the west call "black tea." All true tea comes from the same plant, Camellia sinensis. The differences between types of tea result from different methods of processing the leaves. For green tea, the tea leaves are steamed, rolled and dried, a method that preserves the content of polyphenols, antioxidant compounds that confer the well-known health benefits of tea. For black tea, the leaves undergo a process of oxidation that changes the color and flavor and reduces the content of polyphenols. Oolong is intermediate between green and black tea in color, flavor and polyphenol content.

You may also have heard of "white tea," imported from one region of China. This is the least processed form, with an even greater antioxidant activity than green tea. It produces a very pale infusion with a very delicate taste.

Walk for Health:

There is nothing better than walking. Walking a mile everyday, or taking reasonable exercise three times a week, promises to reduce the risk of heart disease, as well as strengthens bones and keeps them strong.
Buy a blood pressure instrument to monitor your B.P. before and after the walk.

Eating Healthy while On the Run

Many of the best tricks to eating healthy when you are away from home have to do with planning ahead. When you know you will be having a busy day, you simply must prepare for it or the entire situation will be out of your control. If you do not give yourself the time or options for a healthy lifestyle, you will not so easily make the decisions that are already difficult.

Think of it this way: if you are driving somewhere and you find that you want to eat or just nibble something, and you have a bag of carrot sticks in the car with you, what will you choose to do? Find a place and stop at the drive-thru to get French fries or eat what is right next to you? The thing you must always remember to do is to make the hard choices easy and the easy options inconvenient.

Tips to Help Prevent the Spreading of Flu Virus

* Use Soap and warm running water and rub your hands together for at least 15 seconds. Wash the front and the back of your hands, as well as between your fingers and under your finger nails.

* Keep an alcohol-based hand sanitizer (gel or wipes) handy at work, at home and in the car. You may never know when you'll need to do a quick wash!

*Cover your mouth and nose when you cough -- if you don't have a tissue, cough or sneeze into your upper sleeve, not onto your hands.

* Put used tissues in the wastebasket immediately.

* Try not to touch eyes, nose or mouth -- this is a common way to spread germs.

It is also important to wash up:

* Before, during and after preparing and eating meals.
* After handling animals or animal waste.
* When someone at work or home is sick.

Wahsing hand

Washing your hands daily is just one part of keeping yourself healthy this flu season. With all of these terrible flu epidemics going around it's hard to avoid simple tasks like these to keep yourself in tip top shape.
It may seem like common knowledge but it's very easy for us to forget to cough into our shirt and then shake someone's hand and pass germs on.