Healthy World Digest, June #27

* Herbs to manage diabetes

* Herb & supplement for energy

* Make it dark roast, please

* Supplement for sun over-exposure

* Storing produce

* You exercisers! Don't neglect the triceps.

* It's hot out there. Stay hydrated!

* Herbs to manage diabetes

Here's a pleasant surprise. Coffee may help diabetics by stabilizing blood sugar.

How about another surprise? The use of vinegar may also help prevent diabetes.

This is good for me because I freely use both coffee and vinegar.

For more on diabetes, visit our pages on herbs for diabetes and our page on the link between exercise and diabetes

* Herb & supplement for energy

One of the biggest complaints received from medical patients is low energy. Here are a few things you can take to increase energy.

The supplements magnesium and tyrosine (taken 3x daily) elevates energy.

Another good herbal drink, wheatgrass, seems to elevate energy. This is true even if you get the powdered kind.

* Make it dark roast, please

Herbs never cease to amaze me. Back to coffee again.

Did you know that the deeper, dark roasted coffee lends more health benefits than regular roast?

Here’s why. Dark roasting brings out more of the antioxidants in coffee.

Antioxidants, we know, improve cells throughout the body. That means that antioxidants have a beneficial effects throughout your entire body.

* Supplement for sun over-exposure

Summer is about to start and, for many of us, that means greater exposure to healthy sunlight. Great. Do go out and bask in those healthy rays.

But, if you think you might get a little too much sun, be sure to take vitamin E to help stave off negative effects of over-exposure. It’s the antioxidant effect in vitamin E that makes it helpful.

And, I strongly urge taking vitamin C and the precursor of vitamin A, beta carotene.

Better yet, eating citrus fruits, cantaloupe and carrots can also counter sun over exposure.

* Storing produce

Lots of confusion about how to store produce. There are storage strategies to help keep produce nutritious and delicious. Some tips.

Store cucumbers, onions and tomatoes on the counter or a cool spot in the pantry. Store lemons and limes in the fridge. Oh, and store potatoes on the counter too.

I've always messed up produce storage and paid for it with over-starchy potatoes and soggy tomatoes.

* You exercisers! Don't neglect the triceps

Poor triceps. You know, those muscles in the back of your arms, around the corner from the sexy biceps.

So many exercise enthusiasts just ignore them. In a way, because they are situated in the back of your arms, they are like the butt of your upper body.

You just don't notice them but trust me everyone else does.

Nice biceps are not only beautiful but can help improve performance in sports and even make day to day activities easier.

So don't neglect them. For more, visit our page (with its' many other links) on the benefits of triceps exercises

* It's hot out there. Stay hydrated!

Now, as the weather heats up and you spend more time out there, it is vital that you drink lots of fresh, coll, healthy water. And remember, don't just drink when you're thirsty. By then it's too late.

Stay hydrated by drinking before and throughout exertions. For more visit our page on healthy hydration

Oh, well it's on to summer. A great time to get in your best shape & health. Don't blow it. After all, how many summers do we get on earth anyway?

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