Woes in Pregnancy and Honey Remedies

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"pregnancy and honey" in hope that there would be some easy ways to get out of pains such as heartburns, colds and morning sickness during pregnancy? Read on to find your relief...

Heartburn During Pregnancy
Heartburn during pregnancy is one of the most common side effects of pregnancy. Hormones released during pregnancy allow the softening of the sphincter between the esophagus and stomach.

     When this happens, stomach acids back up into the esophagus, causing a burning sensation. This may also occur in the latter months of pregnancy as your baby pushes all of your organs upward. You may experience heartburn as a burning sensation in your throat or chest. Other women experience heartburn as a large lump like feeling in their throat or upper chest. Fortunately there are ways to minimize your heartburn woes during pregnancy and honey with milk recipe is one of them.
Mixing some honey with your milk is very good for helping neutralize the excess of stomach acid. Drink a glass of milk every night before going to bed.

Honey Nutrition Facts

      How can we miss these important honey nutrition facts when trying to understand what honey is made of and its benefits? Here I have the information:
   Nectar itself is composed mainly of sucrose and water. Bees add enzymes that create additional chemical compounds, inverting the sucrose into fructose and glucose, and then evaporate the water so that the resulting product will resist spoiling.

Minerals we have in Honey.

Hence, honey is a source of carbohydrates, containing
* 80% natural sugar -- mostly fructose and glucose. Due to the high level of fructose, honey is sweeter than table sugar.
* 18% water. The less water content the honey has, the better the quality of honey.
* 2% minerals, vitamins, pollen and protein.
The vitamins present in honey are B6, thiamin, niacin, riboflavin, pantothenic acid and certain amino acids . The minerals found in honey include calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, sodium and zinc.

Honey And Its Health Benefit

      Honey is a sweet, thick sugary solution made by bees. The composition of honey consists of varying proportions of fructose,
glucose, water, oil and special enzymes produced by bees.
(Glucose and fructose are types of suger)

Health Benefits of Honey
The 3 key health benefits of honey are related to the fact that:
1. Honey is nature's energy booster
2. Honey is a great immunity system builder
3. Honey is a natural remedy for many ailments

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Tips to Stop Snoring

Try singing
A recent study found that singing exercises could strengthen throat muscles and alleviate snoring, and even sleep apnea. Snoring and sleep apnea can both be the result of weak muscles in the soft palate
and upper throat. The research found that daily singing exercises reduce the severity, frequency andbloudness of snoring, and improved quality of sleep.

Lose weight
Sometimes adopting a healthy lifestyle and losing weight can diminish snoring. Of course, even thin people can snore, butbit’s another reason to motivate you to lose weight.

Unemployed? Joblessness May Age You More Quickly

      That aging is evident in their DNA, the British researchers reported. More specifically, it is found in the length of the gene tips or caps, referred to as “telomeres.” The shortening of telomeres has long been seen as an indicator of aging.
“Shorter telomeres are linked to a higher risk of age-related conditions, such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes,” said study author Jessica Buxton, a research associate in the department of medicine at Imperial College London. “It seems that long-term unemployment is the latest example of a stressful life experience that may trigger permanent changes to the cell’s DNA.
  

By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter

“It’s important to note that other studies have shown too much work can be as harmful as too little,” she said. “Work-related exhaustion and the holding of multiple jobs have also been linked to shorter telomeres.”
The report was published Nov. 20 in the online journal PLoS One.
Constant stress over a long time changes the hormones in one’s body, said Curtis Reisinger, a clinical psychologist at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, N.Y. This may be what is causing these changes in telomere length.
“You see the same thing with depression and high stress levels,” he said. “The consequence is that you wind up looking and feeling older.”
Reisinger said seeing a mental-health professional can help relieve stress. But having a positive attitude also is important.
“This is not the end of the world,” he said. “You have to stay focused and have faith that if you keep at it and have a positive outlook, chances are you will be more likely to get a job than if you’re down in the dumps and pessimistic.” For the study, Buxton and her colleagues examined DNA from more than 5,600 men and women born in Finland in 1966. Specifically, they looked at telomere length in DNA samples collected in 1997, when the participants were 31 years old. The researchers found that men who were unemployed for more than two out of the previous three years were more than twice as likely to have short telomeres compared with men who were employed.
To be sure their findings resulted from unemployment alone, the researchers accounted for other social, biological and behavioral factors that could cause shortened telomeres.
“It’s interesting that unemployment itself appears to have a negative effect on health, even after accounting for the potential effects of smoking, physical-activity levels, weight, illness, education and marital status,” Buxton said.
Buxton’s team found this effect among men and not women, which might be because there were fewer unemployed women in the study, she said.