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But what does "beauty" mean?

According to the stats, woman's breast is the second thing after the face men pay attention to at first encounter. That is why full and gorgeous breast can be considered an essential part of the pretty girl concept. And here is a real stumbling block to peace and happiness in the feminine soul: not all breasts are "full" and "gorgeous". Some women find their breasts start sagging after childbirth, others can't boast tempting curves by nature. To enhance their breast appearance women make all kinds of sacrifices, undergoing dangerous surgery procedures or spending money on expensive push-up bras. They try severe dieting, autohypnosis and no one knows what else, but most of these methods are rather unsafe, as well as useless. The nature dislikes when people interfere in its job using a scalpel and a couple of lifeless implants.

So, the only progressive way to improve breasts is to have a NATURAL breast enhancement program, such as BreastActives.

The program includes natural supplements, exercise techniques and enhancement cream meant to provide nutrients which your body may be missing. All ingredients of BreastActives have been known and successfully used for centuries and figure on the Food and Drug Administration's GRAS list of safe foods. Thanks to the healing power of herbs and other natural components, BreastActives is a quite effective - as well as absolutely safe - solution for enhancing your breasts. Women who had already tried BreastActives expressed their deep satisfaction with the program, and what is more exciting, they noticed the changes very soon.

Other benefits of buying BreastActives include discreet shipping and billing worldwide and a strong money back guarantee. Actually BreastActives is so sure in its quality that it even offers 2 free months of treatment.

To believe the doctors, basically woman's breast may start sagging and shrinking as early as at 25 years. So, it is quite reasonable to take measures beforehand, isn't it? BreastActives will make all heads in the street turn and give your lovely breast a second look.

When you decide to change something is your appearance - confide in Mother Nature, and she'll help you quickly and efficiently.

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Asep Komara Sanjaya is a freelance writer and webmaster of http://www.breastactive.net & http://www.pillsok.com

Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/health/weight-loss/the-miracle-of-green-tea.html http://www.articletrader.com/health/weight-loss/the-miracle-of-green-tea.html Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0500 green tea? The Chinese have known about the medicinal benefits of green tea since ancient times, using it to treat everything from headaches to depression. In her book Green Tea: The Natural Secret for a Healthier Life, Nadine Taylor states that green tea has been used as a medicine in China for at least 4,000 years.

Today, scientific research in both Asia and the west is providing hard evidence for the health benefits long associated with drinking green tea. For example, in 1994 the Journal of the National Cancer Institute published the results of an epidemiological study indicating that drinking green tea reduced the risk of esophageal cancer in Chinese men and women by nearly sixty percent. University of Purdue researchers recently concluded that a compound in green tea inhibits the growth of cancer cells. There is also research indicating that drinking green tea lowers total cholesterol levels, as well as improving the ratio of good (HDL) cholesterol to bad (LDL) cholesterol.

To sum up, here are just a few medical conditions in which drinking green tea is reputed to be helpful:

cancer

rheumatoid arthritis

high cholesterol levels

cariovascular disease

infection

impaired immune function

What makes green tea so special?

The secret of green tea lies in the fact it is rich in catechin polyphenols, particularly epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). EGCG is a powerful anti-oxidant: besides inhibiting the growth of cancer cells, it kills cancer cells without harming healthy tissue. It has also been effective in lowering LDL cholesterol levels, and inhibiting the abnormal formation of blood clots. The latter takes on added importance when you consider that thrombosis (the formation of abnormal blood clots) is the leading cause of heart attacks and stroke.

Links are being made between the effects of drinking green tea and the "French Paradox." For years, researchers were puzzled by the fact that, despite consuming a diet rich in fat, the French have a lower incidence of heart disease than Americans. The answer was found to lie in red wine, which contains resveratrol, a polyphenol that limits the negative effects of smoking and a fatty diet. In a 1997 study, researchers from the University of Kansas determined that EGCG is twice as powerful as resveratrol, which may explain why the rate of heart disease among Japanese men is quite low, even though approximately seventy-five percent are smokers.

Why don't other Chinese teas have similar health-giving properties? Green, oolong, and black teas all come from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant. What sets green tea apart is the way it is processed. Green tea leaves are steamed, which prevents the EGCG compound from being oxidized. By contrast, black and oolong tea leaves are made from fermented leaves, which results in the EGCG being converted into other compounds that are not nearly as effective in preventing and fighting various diseases.

Other Benefits

New evidence is emerging that green tea can even help dieters. In November, 1999, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published the results of a study at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Researchers found that men who were given a combination of caffeine and green tea extract burned more calories than those given only caffeine or a placebo.

Green tea can even help prevent tooth decay! Just as its bacteria-destroying abilities can help prevent food poisoning, it can also kill the bacteria that causes dental plaque. Meanwhile, skin preparations containing green tea - from deodorants to creams - are starting to appear on the market.

Harmful Effects?

To date, the only negative side effect reported from drinking green tea is insomnia due to the fact that it contains caffeine. However, green tea contains less caffeine than coffee: there are approximately thirty to sixty mg. of caffeine in six - eight ounces of tea, compared to over one-hundred mg. in eight ounces of coffee.


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Asep Komara Sanjaya is a freelance writer and a webmaster of Health Product Price Comparison.

Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/health/weight-loss/60-minutes-report-on-hoodia.html http://www.articletrader.com/health/weight-loss/60-minutes-report-on-hoodia.html Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0500
Now along comes hoodia. Never heard of it? Soon it'll be tripping off your tongue, because hoodia is a natural substance that literally takes your appetite away.

It's very different from diet stimulants like Ephedra and Phenfen that are now banned because of dangerous side effects. Hoodia doesn't stimulate at all. Scientists say it fools the brain by making you think you're full, even if you've eaten just a morsel. Correspondent Lesley Stahl reports.

"Hoodia, a plant that tricks the brain by making the stomach feel full, has been in the diet of South Africa's Bushmen for thousands of years."

Because the only place in the world where hoodia grows wild is in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa.

Nigel Crawhall, a linguist and interpreter, hired an experienced tracker named Toppies Kruiper, a local aboriginal Bushman, to help find it. The Bushmen were featured in the movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy."

Kruiper led 60 Minutes crews out into the desert. Stahl asked him if he ate hoodia. "I really like to eat them when the new rains have come," says Kruiper, speaking through the interpreter. "Then they're really quite delicious."

When we located the plant, Kruiper cut off a stalk that looked like a small spiky pickle, and removed the sharp spines. In the interest of science, Stahl ate it. She described the taste as "a little cucumbery in texture, but not bad."

So how did it work? Stahl says she had no after effects - no funny taste in her mouth, no queasy stomach, and no racing heart. She also wasn't hungry all day, even when she would normally have a pang around mealtime. And, she also had no desire to eat or drink the entire day. "I'd have to say it did work," says Stahl.

Although the West is just discovering hoodia, the Bushmen of the Kalahari have been eating it for a very long time. After all, they have been living off the land in southern Africa for more than 100,000 years.

Some of the Bushmen, like Anna Swartz, still live in old traditional huts, and cook so-called Bush food gathered from the desert the old-fashioned way.

The first scientific investigation of the plant was conducted at South Africa's national laboratory. Because Bushmen were known to eat hoodia, it was included in a study of indigenous foods.

"What they found was when they fed it to animals, the animals ate it and lost weight," says Dr. Richard Dixey, who heads an English pharmaceutical company called Phytopharm that is trying to develop weight-loss products based on hoodia.

Was hoodia's potential application as an appetite suppressant immediately obvious?

"No, it took them a long time. In fact, the original research was done in the mid 1960s," says Dixey.

It took the South African national laboratory 30 years to isolate and identify the specific appetite-suppressing ingredient in hoodia. When they found it, they applied for a patent and licensed it to Phytopharm.

Phytopharm has spent more than $20 million so far on research, including clinical trials with obese volunteers that have yielded promising results. Subjects given hoodia ended up eating about 1,000 calories a day less than those in the control group. To put that in perspective, the average American man consumes about 2,600 calories a day; a woman about 1,900.

"If you take this compound every day, your wish to eat goes down. And we've seen that very, very dramatically," says Dixey.

But why do you need a patent for a plant? "The patent is on the application of the plant as a weight-loss material. And, of course, the active compounds within the plant. It's not on the plant itself," says Dixey.

So no one else can use hoodia for weight loss? "As a weight-management product without infringing the patent, that's correct," says Dixey.

But what does that say about all these weight-loss products that claim to have hoodia in it? Trimspa says its X32 pills contain 75 mg of hoodia. The company is pushing its product with an ad campaign featuring Anna Nicole Smith, even though the FDA has notified Trimspa that it hasn't demonstrated that the product is safe.

Some companies have even used the results of Phytopharm's clinical tests to market their products.

"This is just straightforward theft. That's what it is. People are stealing data, which they haven't done, they've got no proper understanding of, and sticking on the bottle," says Dixey. "When we have assayed these materials, they contain between 0.1 and 0.01 percent of the active ingredient claimed. But they use the term hoodia on the bottle, of course, so they -- does nothing at all."

But Dixey isn't the only one who's felt ripped off. The Bushmen first heard the news about the patent when Phytopharm put out a press release. Roger Chennells, a lawyer in South Africa who represents the Bushmen, who are also called "the San," was appalled.

"The San did not even know about it," says Chennells. "They had given the information that led directly toward the patent."

The taking of traditional knowledge without compensation is called "bio-piracy."

"You have said, and I'm going to quote you, 'that the San felt as if someone had stolen the family silver,'" says Stahl to Chennells. "So what did you do?"

"I wouldn't want to go into some of the details as to what kind of letters were written or what kind of threats were made," says Chennells. "We engaged them. They had done something wrong, and we wanted them to acknowledge it."

Chennells was determined to help the Bushmen who, he says, have been exploited for centuries. First they were pushed aside by black tribes. Then, when white colonists arrived, they were nearly annihilated.

"About the turn of the century, there were still hunting parties in Namibia and in South Africa that allowed farmers to go and kill Bushmen," says Chennells. "It's well documented."

The Bushmen are still stigmatized in South Africa, and plagued with high unemployment, little education, and lots of alcoholism. And now, it seemed they were about to be cut out of a potential windfall from hoodia. So Chennells threatened to sue the national lab on their behalf.

"We knew that if it was successful, many, many millions of dollars would be coming towards the San," says Chennells. "Many, many millions. They've talked about the market being hundreds and hundreds of millions in America."

In the end, a settlement was reached. The Bushmen will get a percentage of the profits -- if there are profits. But that's a big if.

The future of hoodia is not yet a sure thing. The project hit a major snag last year. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, which had teamed up with Phytopharm, and funded much of the research, dropped out when making a pill out of the active ingredient seemed beyond reach.

Dixey says it can be made synthetically: "We've made milligrams of it. But it's very expensive. It's not possible to make it synthetically in what's called a scaleable process. So we couldn't make a metric ton of it or something that is the sort of quantity you'd need to actually start doing something about obesity in thousands of people."

Phytopharm decided to market hoodia in its natural form, in diet shakes and bars. That meant it needed the hoodia plant itself.

But given the obesity epidemic in the United States, it became obvious that what was needed was a lot of hoodia - much more than was growing in the wild in the Kalahari. And so they came here.

60 Minutes visited one of Phytopharm's hoodia plantations in South Africa. They'll need a lot of these plantations to meet the expected demand.

Agronomist Simon MacWilliam has a tall order: grow a billion portions a year of hoodia, within just a couple of years. He admitted that starting up the plantation has been quite a challenge.

"The problem is we're dealing with a novel crop. It's a plant we've taken out of the wild and we're starting to grow it,' says MacWilliam. "So we have no experience. So it's different? diseases and pests which we have to deal with."

How confident are they that they will be able to grow enough? "We're very confident of that," he says. "We've got an expansion program which is going to be 100s of acres. And we'll be able - ready to meet the demand.

This could be huge, given the obesity epidemic. Phytopharm says it's about to announce marketing plans that will have meal-replacement hoodia products on supermarket shelves by 2008.

MacWilliam says these products are a slightly different species from the hoodia Stahl tasted in the Kalahari Desert. "It's actually a lot more bitter than the plant that you tasted," says MacWilliam.

The advantage is this species of hoodia will grow a lot faster. But more bitter? How bad could it be? Stahl decided to find out. "Not good," she says.

Phytopharm says that when its product gets to market, it will be certified safe and effective. They also promise that it'll taste good.

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dodo jakaria is an independent reviewer of herbal products available on the internet. For more information about hoodia product visit this site http://www.hoodia-weight-loss-supplement.com

Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/health/weight-loss/a-guide-to-hoodia-cactus-plant-extract.html http://www.articletrader.com/health/weight-loss/a-guide-to-hoodia-cactus-plant-extract.html Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0500 Hoodia Gordonii products have quickly ascended to become one of the fastest growing segments of the 'diet supplement market'.

Before choosing a Hoodia product you should know that there are many kinds of Hoodia plant, but only the Hoodia Gordonii type has an astonishing 'appetite suppressing' quality. These properties have been known about for centuries by a primitive tribe known as the 'Sans Bushmen'. During mid 1990s an institute called the C.S.I.R. 'Council for Scientific and Industrial Research' was conducting a study of native plants eaten by the 'Sans Bushmen'. Basically, the study was to see what foods, the 'Sans Bushmen' were taking that protected the toxic compounds. When the C.S.I.R. studied Hoodia Gordonii, they found it was not only non-toxic, but also it helped to suppress the appetite of animals it used to feed to.

Hoodia Cactus PlantFinally, the C.S.I.R. isolated the active ingredient responsible for the 'appetite suppressing' effects and called it 'P57'. This is the 'Hoodia cactus extract'. They then sold the rights of 'P57' to a British pharmaceutical company called 'Phytopharm'. You may be wondering how it can be there are so many Hoodia products on the market if only 'Phytopharm' has the rights to 'P57'. The answer lies in the patent laws. You know that, only 'Phytopharm' can extract the active molecule called 'P57' from Hoodia Gordonii and use it in their product line. But a whole natural plant - in this case the Hoodia Gordonii plant- cannot be patented. As a result, other companies' can very well produce supplements or products made from Hoodia Gordonii and sell them legally.

The important thing for consumers right now is to make sure that they are buying a product that contains genuine South African Hoodia Gordonii.


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Dodo jakaria is a herbal medication consultant and a reviewer of numerous herbal products on the market. Visit his site for more information http://www.hoodia-weight-loss-supplement.com

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In the six-week study, 76 men and 79 women with hypercholesterolemia, aged 25 to 73, completed a four-week lowfat diet prior to baseline. At the beginning of the trial, test subjects were randomly allocated to one of four treatment groups or a control group and assayed for blood lipids and other cardiovascular disease (CVD) biomarkers. During the course of the study, test groups were administered 3 g and 5 g doses of low molecular weight (LMW) or high molecular weight (HMW) barley beta-glucan (from Cargill) twice daily, in cereal and juice.

Posttreatment assessment of blood lipids and other CVD biomarkers revealed improvements in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, triglycerides, markers of glycemic control(glycosylated hemoglobin, HOMA model) and a key marker of inflammation (hs-CRP).

The researchers concluded both doses of LMW and HMW barley beta-glucan improved blood lipids over a six-week treatment period.

For more information visit: http://www.theoptimumdiabetics.com

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Dodo jakaria is a diabetic health consultant. Visit his site about optimum diabetics herbal.

Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/health/beauty/breast-enlargement-through-natural-herbal-supplements-is-it-safe.html http://www.articletrader.com/health/beauty/breast-enlargement-through-natural-herbal-supplements-is-it-safe.html Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0500
You have two options if you are interested in breast enlargement. First off, you can pay thousands of dollars for a plastic surgeon to help you out. While this may seem like a good idea, it can be quite pricey. Not to mention the fact that there are many risks involved.

Your other option is to look into breast enlargement through natural herbal supplements. Many people are a bit put off by this because they do not think that it works. Additionally, they feel that this is not a safe option. But when it comes down to it, breast enlargement through natural herbal supplements is actually quite safe. After all, many women have tried this process, and in turn ended up with larger breasts without having to pay thousands of dollars or go under the knife.

Breast enlargement through natural herbal supplements is very safe. As the name implies, this is done by the use of natural supplements that your body will respond to. And since you are only using natural herbal supplements, you never have to worry about putting your health at risk.

If you are still a bit worried about breast enlargement through natural herbal supplements, get in touch with your doctor. Tell your doctor what you are interested in doing. They will then be able to give you a detailed report on what to expect, etc.

All in all, breast enlargement through natural herbal supplements is safe. If you are tired of your small breast, you should look into using natural herbal supplements to your advantage; you will be glad that you did in the end.

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http://www.breastactive.net/ sells a non-silicone, non-toxic, herbal breast enhancement online. This natural herbal supplement designed to produce larger and rounder breasts. "Have larger, rounder, more perfect breasts in as little as 30 days!"Thousands of success stories worldwide.

Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/health/alternative/breast-enlargement-through-natural-herbal-supplements-benefits-over-surgery.html http://www.articletrader.com/health/alternative/breast-enlargement-through-natural-herbal-supplements-benefits-over-surgery.html Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0500
Generally speaking, there are two reasons that breast enlargement through natural herbal supplements is on the up and up. First off, you do not have to pay a lot of money if you are going to use this option. In fact, you can save thousands over having a breast enlargement surgery.

Additionally, with breast enlargement through natural herbal supplements you do have to undergo surgery. When a woman elects for breast enlargement via plastic surgery they have to be given anesthetic, and then cut open. While this can be done successfully, what is the point in doing so if you do not have to?

Finally, when you rely on breast enlargement through natural herbal supplements you can save plenty of money. Instead of paying thousands of dollars for plastic surgery, you can instead buy a natural herbal supplement for much, much less.

If you are not sure of the benefits of breast enlargement through natural herbal supplements, you will want to get in touch with your doctor. They will be able to give you advice on taking these supplements as well as having surgery. Remember, this is not a decision that you should take lightly. If you are not comfortable with taking breast enlargement through natural herbal supplements you should ask your doctor first.

Over the next few years, breast enlargement through natural herbal supplements is only going to continue to increase in popularity. If you have ever given this the slightest bit of thought, you will want to look into buying what you need today. With breast enlargement through natural herbal supplements you will never have to worry about the cost and complications of surgery. You owe it to yourself to consider this ever popular method of breast enlargement.

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http://www.breastactive.net/ sells a non-silicone, non-toxic, herbal breast enhancement online. This natural herbal supplement designed to produce larger and rounder breasts. "Have larger, rounder, more perfect breasts in as little as 30 days!"Thousands of success stories worldwide.

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