BLISSFUL 100 YEARS / HEALTHY NUTRITION AND LIFESTYLE

     4 WAYS TO GET RELIEF FROM                   VARICOSE VEINS Dear friends, our veins help us to carry our blood back to heart. These veins are elastic and work with the pressure of muscles. But due to certain reasons, these become distended and get swollen. The valve in the vein allows the blood to go up against gravity and then it closes and doesn’t allow the blood to come down. So the veins become blue or purplish and acquire a snake like appearance. The blood circulation becomes sluggish. The blood pools in the veins, which then become distended. This is how normal veins turn into varicose veins. These are found in lower legs, thighs or in feet. We feel pain and heaviness in the legs. These can cause skin ulcers on ankles. Varicose veins are found in both man and woman. But generally woman suffers varicose veins more than man. Woman and elderly person suffers more. Woman at the time of puberty, pregnancy or menopause is more suscept

5 THINGS TO KNOW FOR A SMARTER                                                  BRAIN Dear friends, our brain is doing so much of work for us. Day and night it is helping us to breathe, digest food, learn and memorize new things. It is so powerful that it can help us to do many wonderful things. But only strong and powerful brain can only provide us powerful results. Recently it has been proved by many researches that diet and mood has close link. What we put into our mouth has direct effect on our thinking and learning capabilities.  Food can immediately affect how alert or dull we are, and if we are prone to any diseases of the brain like Alzheimer, dementia, depression or any nervous disorder.  We need to eat nutritious diet to maintain proper levels of certain chemicals in our brain. Disharmony of these chemicals or neurotransmitters will result in mental illness. These are serotonin, epinephrine, acetylcholine and dopam