Best home care for mild acne

Gentle cleansers and skin care. The best at-home treatment for mild acne is gentle cleansing and skin care. Never pick or squeeze pimples. Playing with or popping pimples, no matter how careful and clean you are, can cause scarring and nearly always makes bumps stay redder and bumpier longer.

Foods that can help lower cholesterol

The American Heart Association has developed diet guidelines to help lower cholesterol levels. It may be a challenge to read the nutritional contents on food packaging and on restaurant menus or to do the math, but the benefit will decrease the risk of heart attack and stroke.

• Limit total fat intake to less than 25% to 35% of your total calories each day.
• Limit saturated fat intake to less than 7% of total daily calories.
• Limit trans fat intake to less than 1% of total daily calories.
• The remaining fat should come from sources of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats such as unsalted nuts and seeds, fish (especially oily fish, such as salmon, trout, and herring, at least twice per week) and vegetable oils.
• Limit cholesterol intake to less than 300 mg per day, for most people. If you have coronary heart disease or your LDL cholesterol level is 100 mg/dL or greater, limit your cholesterol intake to less than 200 milligrams a day.

Type 1 diabetes

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that affects blood sugar regulation. A person's immune system makes antibodies that destroy the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. Without insulin, blood sugar increases and cannot be delivered to the muscles and brain where it is needed. Over time, high blood sugar can lead to a number of complications such as kidney, nerve, and eye damage, and cardiovascular disease. Moreover, cells are not receiving the glucose necessary for energy and normal function. As mentioned, type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, which means there is no cure for type 1 diabetes - yet. Because people with type 1 diabetes can no longer produce their own insulin, they must inject doses of insulin. They must match the amount of insulin they inject with their diet. Keeping blood sugar in a normal, healthy range (what doctors call "good glycemic control") is the key to preventing long-term complications.

Where does cholesterol come from?

The liver is responsible for managing the levels of LDL in the body. It manufactures and secretes LDL into the bloodstream. There are receptors on liver cells that can "monitor" and try to adjust the LDL levels. However, if there are fewer liver cells or if they do not function effectively, the LDL level may rise.
Diet and genetics both play a factor in a person's cholesterol levels. There may be a genetic predisposition for familial hypercholesterolemia (hyper=more = cholesterol + emia=blood) where the number of liver receptor cells is low and LDL levels rise causing the potential for atherosclerotic heart disease at a younger age.
In the diet, cholesterol comes from saturated fats that are found in meats, eggs, and dairy products. Excess intake can cause LDL levels in the blood to rise. Some vegetable oils made from coconut, palm, and cocoa are also high in saturated fats. 

Asthma

Asthma results from complex interactions between an individual's inherited genetic makeup and their interactions with the environment. The factors that cause a genetically predisposed individual to become asthmatic are poorly understood. The following are risk factors for asthma:

• Family history of allergic conditions
• Personal history of hay fever (allergic rhinitis)
• Viral respiratory illness, such as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), during childhood
• Exposure to cigarette smoke
• Obesity
• Lower socioeconomic status

Hasta Mudra

Hasta Mudra

The body is made up of 5 elements – Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space. When these 5 elements are not in balance

we get various physical and psychological ailments. The energy from the body radiates out mainly through the tip of

the nose, lips, finger tips and toes. When the thumb gets in contact with the other fingers, energy is directed back to

vitalise various parts of our body. This is called as circuit bypass. Mudras and Bandas go hand in hand. Banda help

in locking in the energy and whereas mudras help in redirecting the energy.

In our puranas, we see our Gods and Goddesses expressing in different Mudra. Mudras are the expression of our

inner feeling. In the Tantra shastra Mudra is defined as the one which gives happiness. Mudras are part of Yoga and

it is also called as Yoga Mudra. Mudras done using hands are halled Hasta Mudra.

The 5 fingers represant 5 elements (tatvas):

Thumb: Fire

Index Finger: Air

Middle finger: Space

Ring Finger: Earth

Small finger: Water

Fire element is the important one and when fire element goes weak,Various ailments come to the body and death sets in when the fire element dies. Joining the fire element (thumb) with other elements (other fingers) vitalises the other elements also.

Abdominal pain facts

      Abdominal pain is pain that is felt in the part of the trunk below the ribs and above the pelvis.

• Abdominal pain comes from organs within the abdomen or organs adjacent to the abdomen.
• Abdominal pain is caused by inflammation, distention of an organ, or by loss of the blood supply to an organ. Abdominal pain in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) may be caused by contraction of the intestinal muscles or hyper-sensitivity to normal intestinal activities.
• Symptoms associated with abdominal pain may include:
  • Bloating
  • Gas (flatus, farting)
  • Indigestion
  • Pain in the upper left or right; middle; or lower left or right abdomen
  • Constipation
  • GERD (gastro-esophageal reflux disease)
  • Heartburn
  • Chest pain
• The cause of abdominal pain is diagnosed on the basis of the characteristics of the pain, physical examination, and testing. Occasionally, surgery is necessary for diagnosis.
• The diagnosis of the cause of abdominal pain is challenging because the characteristics of the pain may be atypical, tests are not always abnormal, diseases causing pain may mimic each other, and the characteristics of the pain may change over time.