Mental Health Tips: These are the helpful health tips for mental/mind. Life is full of stress and tests. We have to balance our life to have peace of mind.

A. Eat right, Keep fit
A balanced diet, exercise and rest can help you to reduce stress and enjoy life.

B. Make Time for Family and Friends
These relationships need to be nurtured; if taken for granted they will not be there to share life’s joys and sorrows.

C. Give and Accept Support
Friends and family relationships thrive when they are “put to the test”.

D. Create a Meaningful Budget
Financial problems cause stress. Over-spending on our “wants” instead of our “needs” is often the culprit.

E. Volunteer
Being involved in community gives a sense of purpose and satisfaction that paid work cannot.

F. Manage Stress
We all have stress’s in our lives but learning how to deal with them when they threaten to overwhelm us will maintain our mental health.

G. Find Strength in Numbers
Sharing a problem with others who have had similar experiences may help you find a solution and will make you feel less isolated.

H. Deal with your Moods
We all need to find safe and constructive ways to express our feelings of anger, sadness, joy and fear.

I. Learn to Be at Peace with Yourself
Get to know whom you are, what make you really happy, and learn to balance what you can and cannot change about yourself.

When we extremely tired, sometime we get a difficulty sleeping between 9 to 11 am and between 7 and 9 pm. When were sleeping, a biochemical switch in the brain prevents the brain from ordering your muscles to move. If this switch did not work, according to the researcher who conducts a study that a person would walk, talk or even commit violent act while sleeping. This is one of the causes of sleepwalking. In a conditions known as a night terror victims physically act out their dreams while in a sleep walking state. Person should have the average of sleep at least 8 hours per night. The chimpanzee gets about 10 hours of sleep a day, researcher shown that if we are removed form the stress of modern world, we will sleep of average of 10 hours a day. Sleep depression has become a national malady because of other country like here in the Philippines there some so much night life and this will affect our performance at work or even at home. If you are have nightmare and cannot move, just blink your eyes or wiggle your tongue to break the paralysis.

Did you know that dreaming is often called a paradox because the body becomes inactive, almost corpse like, but the mind produces the sensation of unlimited freedom of movement? Aside from hallucination or insanity, dreaming is the only experience we have of living fully in a word without limitations.

We may have a dull, boring, routine life but when we dream we can partake of high adventure. There are many types of dreams. Some are simply “venting’ dreams that allow the mind to purge most of the countless images that bombard us daily. Bizarre dream that make no sense are often venting dreams. Another type of dream is the prophetic dreams, which tell us something about our future, often warning. Although scientist does not understand how dream can be predict the future, there are countless examples that suggest this occurs. One such example comes to us from history. Augustus Caesar was ill and resting in his tent. A friend had a troubling dream and persuades Augustus to leave his tent, which he did. Just few hours later the area was captured by his enemies and the bed on which Augustus had been sleeping was pierced with their enemies. The bible also has many examples of dreams prophecies, such as the impending famine of Egypt revealed to Joseph the dreamer about fat and lean cattle. Whether we believe in dram prophecy or not, it would not be a bad idea t pay a little closer attention to some of your dreams.

Did you know that melamine-tainted dairy products were pulled out from store shelves at Southern China more than a year after hundreds of thousand of children had been sickened in a massive milk safety scandals. The announcement calls into question the effectiveness of a crack down launched by Chinese officials to improve their products safety after a number of scandals, including the contamination of baby formula in 2008 and the recent study of the toxic metal cadmium in cheap jewelry. Frozen milk products and cartons of milk dating from early 2009 were taken off the shelves after health inspector tested them and found with melamine contain by Guizhou provincial government spokeswoman Ling Hu. She said that provincial health bureau was checking some store, they found out some products that have suspected melamine contain has not yet remove from the shelves.

An unhealthy lifestyle can add years to your face say researchers. Based on professional ratings of photos of identical twins, some of them could be mistaken for older sister. They conduct their research on 136 pairs of twins with their different lifestyle. They found out that smoking adds 2.5 years for every decade you puff, while an extra 30 hours per week of sun exposure can make you look two years older by age 40 and 3.5 years older 70. Emotional pressure takes toll too and divorce tacks on 1.7 years and also being widowed. Even weight has an effect when your under 40 excess pounds may obscure facial features giving you an older look, says lead author Bahman Guyuron M.D. chairman of plastic surgery at Case Western Reserve University.

1. Set some goal- makes chart or program list. Fill in your current weight, then a pounds list of your desire weight. Jot down the numbers of weeks that will take to reach your goal.
2. Don’t expect dieting is easy- there will be hungry days, while doing some diet, don’t get into crush diet make it gradually, adjust it to the smaller amount of food, then most of all lesser your sugar and fatty intake.
3. Never on crush diet- crash diet usually depends on change in water balance for rapid weight loss. Just remember you just lose the fat not the water.
4. Never skip meal- skipping meal will make you hungry that will lead you to long for more food.
5. Take a little bite and eat slowly- you will think you are eating more don’t be alarm our stomach have time to signal when we are full.
6. When you go out to eat try Chinese food- many of their dishes are low in calories.
7. Take a long walk each day after dinner- plan to go bowling, play tennis and strolling instead of watching movie.
8. When you lost five or ten pounds, get a girdle to make yourself shapelier.
9. Get enough sleep so that you will have more will power if you are well rested.
10. Don’t forget to fill up some liquids like tea, water, and lower-calorie soda drink; it can help you fill an empty stomach.
11. Make a note that had help you in your diet. Make them a daily habit.

Perform this exercise twice a day, preferably when you get up in the morning or before going to sleep.

- Stretch your legs, feeling tension in all muscles. Stretch them tighter; hold for a few seconds. Then let go, and feel relaxation spreading through all the muscles of your toes, feet calves and thighs. Repeat with your arms, chest, stomach, and back to your face.
- Take a very slow deep breath exercise, and hold for about 12 seconds, slowly let it out, feeling tension and anxieties pouring out as you do. Repeat it twice.
- Think of pleasant scenes, events and things that make you feel calm and relaxed, feeling relaxation throughout your body. Feel the sensation of relaxation that the scene aroused. Repeat to yourself as you see and experience the scene. I feel calm and relaxed.
- Recall a scene or events that makes you feel tense or angry, and see and feel it as vividly as you can. Switch to calm, relaxed scene immediately. Let yourself feel calm and relaxed, repeat twice. As you remain relaxed, see your tense, angry scene-but this time, don’t let it bother you.

This exercise method helps me a lot, when I’m feeling stress or exhausted in work.

The cause of many defects remains a mystery doctors do understand what cause many others and how to prevent them. The Minnesota department of health says before and during pregnancy should do.

- Eat food with a high foliate content or foods enriched with folic acid. Good dietary choices are green leafy veggies, dried beans, oranges and fortified breads, pastas and cereal.

- Before pregnancy and while you are pregnant take a daily multivitamins that include at least 400 micrograms of  folic acid.

- See your doctor for check-up before you are pregnant, and get regular pre-natal care throughout your pregnancy.

- Stop drinking alcohol while you’re trying to conceive and never drink alcohol during pregnancy.

- Make sure the medicines you take are safe during pregnancy. Check with your doctor.

There is no fountain of magical water that can reverse the effects of aging. There are huge number of supplements available on the market that claim to slow down the process of aging. In fact, that it’s hard to know which ones, actually work. Exercise, diet and getting enough sleep is the most reliable factors in staying healthy and feeling younger. Another important factor in living longer is keeping our heart healthy. Aspirin in regular, low doses can help not only can reduce the risk of a heart attack or a stroke by keeping blood from clotting, but it can also save our life in the midst of a heart. Fish oil is another supplement that helps the heart. It is rich in omega-3 fatty acids that may help prevent heart disease and keep blood flowing much the same way as aspirin does.
1. Quit smoking – To stay young the best things you can do for your skin may also be the hardest quit smoking. Smoking has serious effects on the appearance of the skin. It damages the collagen found in the dermal layers, which provide pliability and elasticity to skin tissue.
2. Put good food in your belly _ some foods may actually combat the aging process because of the nutrients they contain.
3. Beware of the sun – Too much UV radiation can accelerate the appearance of wrinkles and other signs of aging by destroying collagen and elastic. The sun’s damaging effects on the skin is a specific form of external aging called photo aging.
4. Lift weight – Perhaps one of the most obvious signs of aging is the stooped posture and trembling limbs of the elderly. It’s the result of a loss of muscle mass, which results from the death of motor neurons that control muscle fibers. Do some exercise or light lift weight to avoid bad posture.
5. Chill out (reduce your stress) – Since stress can lead to a premature aging. To reduce stress in life is be happy always and contented what you have. Reducing stress also leads to better sleep, which reduces the appearance of age, like wrinkles and the bags under the eyes most physicians recommend taking up an exercise regimen as a fundamental method of reducing stress. Exercise can boost self-confidence, release pleasure-inducing chemicals in the brain and a sense of well-being, all of which combat stress.

This is a “kalamansi” or “lemonsito” tree.  It’s like a lemon in a small version, full of vitamin C and can cure some viral diseases like colds and cough.  I had these 30 newly planted trees and can’t wait bearing them fruits and sell it.  It is very expensive and you can sell it by hundreds in pieces.