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Rubella is an infection caused by the rubella virus and is commonly called German measles. This condition is not very serious and the symptoms are never as severe as in the case of regular measles. This condition affects children mostly, although older people may also contract the disease. They usually recover in a week or so. It can, however, prove serious for pregnant women especially if it occurs before the twentieth week of pregnancy. The chances of spontaneous abortion become high and the child may also be born with congenital rubella syndrome. A vaccine has been developed for rubella, reducing its incidence. Those at risk are only those who have not been immunized.

The disease is airborne, in other words, it spreads through the air and people are liable to contract it if they breathe in the air that an affected person has sneezed or coughed into. Once the virus enters the body, symptoms are likely to develop after an incubation period spanning 2 to 3 weeks. A fine, pink rash which looks like a tiny lesion usually appears on the face and is similar to the regular measles rash. It then spreads to the chest, hands and feet. The rash disappears soon after barely leaving a scar and other symptoms include mild fever, inflamed eyes, splitting headaches and a runny nose. As regards treatment for this condition, once the disease is contracted, there is no treatment possible and it must be allowed to run its course. The treatment involved is not so much to cure it, rather to relieve discomfort for the affected person, particularly if the patient is pregnant. While this will require medical intervention, those affected by the virus must take every precaution to stay away from pregnant women. As regards home remedies, the leaves of the margosa tree are beneficial for the body and can be soaked in to a bucket or better still a tub of water for a few hours before using it for your bath. You may also boil the leaves in water and use a towel to dab the water onto the face and other parts of the body. Care must be taken to not scrub the face as it will worsen the lesions. Drink plenty of orange juice and lemon juice throughout the day and mix a little freshly dried and ground turmeric powder with honey and the juice extracted from bitter gourd leaves. Consume the mixture twice a day for best results.

Due to health and beauty reasons, many people start to concentrate on doing body detoxification. The main reason is because toxin in our body will cause the whole body’s cells to damage faster than they are supposed to be.

Toxin may stack in our body for a long period of time. Early aging and cell degeneration is only some of disturbance that is caused by toxic and dehydration process in our body.

Detoxification it self can be defined as the process of getting the toxic substances out of our body

According to some articles that I read, there are some benefits of doing detoxification.

Some among them are :

• detoxification will regenerate skin’s cell
• detoxification will increase our body’s immunity, because the toxic has been pushed out, and this means our organ will improve too. Our organ here comprising liver, kidney, lymph circulation, cleaning our urine canal,  accelerating intestine’s flora & cleaning intestine’s channel,  smoothing the casting-out process of mucus, etc.
• soothing blood circulation and improving our body’s fluid balance.
• detoxification is also one important key of body weight reduction.

Hm… so many benefits that we can get right ? To have our body detoxification, there are some methods that can be taken.

Natural method like fasting is one among some choices. Another popular way of detoxification is by consuming herbal supplement.

Preparation Before Detoxification

Along with detoxification, most energy of our body is focused in cast-out process. It is  no use of doing detoxification if we’re still tight-up with activities that takes energy and thought.

Doing detoxification must be done in relaxed. That is why, it is very important to determine the right time for that.

Detoxification with juice fasting takes 7 to 40 days, it depends on each person’s condition.

For those who isn’t used to fasting, it will be better of practicing first, and doing it three days in the row.

You must please remember that three days fasting is just a practicing, because the fact is, the cast-out has just begun by the third day. And for those who’s interested in doing the detoxification for 7 days, a consult with doctors and therapist is better suggested.

To make it easier to adapt with detoxification therapy, you may practice these written bellow :

• reducing fatty food like fried dishes, milky food, high-carbohydrate food especially the ones with floury ingredients and sugar, and soft drinks
• reducing consuming salty food
• avoiding alcohol, caffeine and unnecessary medicine
• avoiding all kinds of fast food / instant food

The hepatitis C virus lives in your liver. It inflames liver cells, which, over time, affects the way your liver functions. The effect of the hepatitis C virus varies from person to person. There is no way to predict how your body will react to it. There are, however, some things that are known:

You can live with hepatitis C for many years without experiencing any major symptoms, or you might simply feel tired. Symptoms can come and go over time. Their presence or absence does not tell you the degree to which liver damage may or may not be occurring.

Chronic, long-term inflammation of the liver can cause liver cell damage and result in fibrosis (liver scarring), or even cirrhosis. This damage can occur in as little as five years, or as long as 30 years.

About 20% of chronic hepatitis patients develop cirrhosis within 10 to 20 years.

Use of recreational drugs or alcohol can speed up inflammation and the development of fibrosis or cirrhosis.

There is an increased risk of liver cancer in people with cirrhosis.

The good news is that current drug treatments can be very effective for people with hepatitis C. Combined with proper nutrition, plenty of rest, and avoidance of recreational drugs and alcohol, these treatments help many who have the virus lead relatively healthy lives.

Natural Weight Loss

These days more and more people are getting intellectual instead of physical jobs. Sitting in office chairs all-day long has become a norm for many of us. Stress, busyness and rush make us forget about regular food and we stuff our stomachs with cheeseburgers and sodas, which don’t do anything good for our bodies.

As a result of such crazy life rhythm, we rarely find time for exercises, gyms or balanced nutrition. As a matter of fact, it’s one of the reasons why more than 60% of U.S citizens are overweight. However, it is possible to change your lifestyle and lose weight if you are willing to.

These 7 day-to-day life tips provided below will help you to drop your extra pounds, become more energetic and healthier.

1. Drink More Water

Our bodies need a lot of water. Water removes waste from our organism and carries various nutrients into all our organs and cells. Your body also loses water by using it for various ways. For this reason you have to replace it and drink water more often than you are used to.

Start your day with a glass of water in the morning. Drink a glass of water before any meal. Take a bottle of water with you when you go to work. Your body needs approximately 3-5 liters of water during one day. So don’t hesitate to drink plenty of water wherever and whenever you can.

2. Eat Fruits and Drink Fruit Juices

Eating fruits and juices helps you eliminate toxins from your body. Eating a variety of fruits also helps you get enough fiber, vitamins, and antioxidants. That’s why you should eat fresh fruits and drink natural fruit juices as often as possible.

Fruit juices from stores are often sweetened. If you want to drink juices, make fresh juices yourself. If you think it takes too much of your time, then look for juices with labels that say “100% fruit juice”. These are much healthier for your body because they contain much more vitamins.

3. Eat Lots of Vegetables and Vegetable Salads

When it comes to losing extra pounds, vegetables are a great choice. They are natural and contain different vitamins, minerals and tons of other useful chemicals known to provide benefits to your body. Vegetables are low in fat and calories, they help control blood glucose levels, reduce blood cholesterol and reduce the risk of colon and other cancers. All these features also help control your weight effectively.

If you feel that eating vegetables alone isn’t a great choice for you, then make some salads. Mixing vegetables together gives you even more different vitamins and health benefits. There are tons of tasty, healthy salad recipes on the internet. You can also use your imagination to make some great salads.

4. Eat Only When You Are Hungry

How many times have you been to a party where you saw lots of different and tasty looking meals, which you were offered to try.

Don’t eat, because you are offered to. Eat only when you want to.

Many people like snacking in between meals or when they have nothing to do. Quit snacking. Most snacks contain a lot of fat and calories. Replace your usual snacks with vegetables or fruits. These are healthy for your body and you’ll never get fatter, only thinner.

5. Carry Healthy Food with You

Many of us work in busy office jobs and don’t have the time to eat regularly. In such a case, bring your own home-made food with you. Instead of bringing sandwiches with meat, take vegetable salads, carrots, chicken salads. Any low fat food will do. This way, you won’t have to wait for a break to fill your stomach. You’ll be able to have fixed times when eating food.

It’s also important to try to eat about 5 times a day, rather than 3 or 2. Eat in smaller quantities, but more often. This helps you to increase your metabolism.

6. Work Out When You Can

Working out in a gym is not only a great way to grow some muscles, but also to drop a few pounds. Exercising helps you burn your calories instead of storing them in your body as fat. Our bodies were made to be active, so exercising slowly and easily can actually help you get more energy and make you feel much better.

At the end of the week, try to lose all the stress and burn your calories in a gym or having some kind of physical activity at home. If you have time, then try to do easy exercises everyday.

7. Don’t Lie Down or Sit When You Can Move

Many of us like to watch TV lying on a couch or sitting in a comfortable chair. Of course, when you come home after a hard working day, you’re tired, and all you can think of is a couch and a remote in your hand. But such laziness won’t help you lose weight. On the contrary, it will make you grow some more pounds.

So don’t lie or sit, when you can walk and move. Instead of staring at TV, like a goofy, go ahead and work out in your garden for example, clean your garage, fix your car, go to walk in the park or on the beach. Breathe fresh air and move more often. Not only does it help to reduce stress after work, but also ups your mood and makes you more energetic.