Rice

                                                        Botanical name : Orya sativa
Description
   Rice is much-revered oriental food and the most important tropical cereal. It is a staple food of about half the human race and often the main source of calories and the principal food of many million of people.
    Rice from which only husk has been removed. But layers of bran and most of the germ retained, is known brown rice. Rice from which husk, germ and  bran layers as almost been removed completely by power machinery is known as a milled rice.
     Rice milled to a high degree is known as White rice. Rice from which husk, germ and bran as been partially remove without the use of machinery is known as hand-pounded rice.
     Rice milled to a high degree and then coated with some foreign substance such as glucose or talcum is known as polished rice.  Paddy specially produced by steaming or soaking in water, then heated and dried, is called parboiled paddy. It can then be milled to various degree or home pounded. parboiled milled or parboiled home pounded.

Food value "Tomato"

Natural Benefit and Curative Properties
   The tomato is one of the most powerful deobstruents of the material medica. It remove diseases particle and open natural channel of the body, it is gentle natural stimulant for kidney and help to wash away the toxin which causes diseases and contaminate our system. They are at their best when they are fully ripe, their vitamin C content increase as they ripen.  Tomato juice is probably one of the most widely used juice. Fresh, raw tomato is most beneficial and has a alkaline reaction, when digested, in concentrate form. Tomato has an external application can be used as a cosmetic. Its pulp should be applied liberally on the face and left there for an hour and then wash with worm water. Repeated daily, it will give good complexion and remove ugly-looking pimple in a short time.

Tomato

Description
The tomato is one of the most important vegetable in most region in the world. Its short-lived perennial plant, has vigorous tap root, extensive fibrous roots, solid, hairy stems and spirally arranged, meanly oval leaves. The fruit is a fleshy, round or lobed, smooth or furrowed, red, pink or yellow berry with numerous flat, slightly curved seeds.
    The tomato originally has a small, wrinkle thick-skinned and seedy vegetable, much more smaller in shape and size and irregular in form. Many scientific method to bring it to its present shape and quality. It has now hundred of varieties. many of which are smoothly and globular, with almost solid pulp.

Barley

Description
Barley is the forth important cereal crop in the world, it is very nutritious and an excellent body-builder.
Barley resemble wheat in composition although it is less palatable. The barley grain, also called pearl barley, is prepare by removing the outer husk.

Origin and Distribution
Barley was the first cereal food to be domesticated in the middle east at 9,000 years and was probably the most important of the early cereals. Hulled barley was grown the ancient Egyptians. IT is now widely grown in Europe and region near the Sahara and the high plateau of Tibet. The world largest producer are Soviet Union, Germany, China and the United State.

Food Value
Barley is very nutritious and a rich source of protein and vitamin B-complex. Its protein content is superior to the protein of corn and beans.
    Most of the world's Barley is converted into malt. it is the most important cereal use in brewing of beer. Barley cannot be used for  leavened bread because of low gluten content. Its is more used in soup.
   Barley is also widely used as feed for live stock.

Good Health Practices

"Your food shall be your medicine" , said Hippocrates, father of medicine, several hundred years ago.

Never before has man and woman better fed and so poorly nourished. The progress of civilization has led to increase of population in the cities, metropolis and megalopolis. As a consequence man as become divorce from nature and its rich, beautiful bounty. Innumerable, time-assuring, preserved, refrigerated, treated, embalmed, processed, chemicalized and pasteurized food items are being promoted with all push and vigour for merely making them commercialized. Such food can never substitute wholesome natural food items.

Natural Cure #Orange

                                          Natural Benefit and Curative properties of Orange

Dyspepsia
The orange is an effective food remedy in chronic Dyspepsia it give rest to the digestive organs and supplies nutrition in a most assimilable form. It also stabilize the flow of digestive juice thereby, improving digestion and increasing appetite.  It create suitable condition for development of friendly bacteria  in the intestine.

Constipation
The orange is beneficial in the treatment of constipation. Taking one or two oranges at bed time and again on rising in the morning is an excellent way of stimulating the bowels action. The general stimulating influence of the orange juice excites peristaltic activity and helps prevent the accumulation of food residue in the colon, which leads to putrefaction and auto-intoxication.

Orange

Botanical name : Citrus aurantium 

Description

The orange in one of the finest gift of nature, It is the most popular wide-spread of the citrus fruits. It is very delicious and very nourishing fruit which is up to 12 cm, in diameter, though most common one are 6-8 cm, in diameter. The fruit grow on a every green tree, up to 12 m tall, with dark green leaves and fragrant flowers.

  They are many varieties of oranges. The more important ones are loose-skinned orange and sour orange, the loose-skinned orange is very popular in Britain and the tight-skinned are popular in the other part of Europe.

Importance of Fruit

Fruit are one of the oldest form of food known by man. in fact, Adam the first man ate an apple, " the forbidding fruit" of heaven. Their are many references to fruit in ancient literature. Vedas state that the fruit form the base of the food of Gods. According to the Quran, the fruit like Date, Grape, Fig, Olive and pomegranate are the gift and heavenly fruit of God.

Natural Cure

Potato:
Scurvy
The potato is regarded as an excellent food remedy in scurvy. It has been noted that scurvy in Europe has become more and more uncommon with the progress of potato cultivation and it make it appearance only when the crop fails. Dr. G.F. Still used "potato cream" curing cases of infantile scurvy, while Dr. A.F. Hess used ordinary mashed potato for the same purpose.

Rheumatism
Raw potato juice is regarded    as an excellent food remedy for rheumatism. one or two teaspoonful of the juice press out of mashed potato should be taken before meals. This will help eliminate an acid conditions and relive rheumatism. In some rural area in Great Britain, it is custom for rheumatic suffer to carry potato in their pockets, in believe that potato will absorb in itself  some of the acids in the sufferer's body. The old potato is thrown away and replace with another one after few days.
  The skin of the potato is also an excellent food remedy for  rheumatism. The skin is exceptionally rich in vitamins and minerals salt and the water in which the peeling have been boiled is one of the best medicine for the ailment cause by excess of acids in the system. The potato peeling should be thoroughly washed and boil for few minutes. The decoration should then by strained and glassful of the same should be taken three or four times daily.

Potato

Description 

Potato is one of the most popular and widely use vegetable in the world. it is an annual plat, producing swelling underground stem tubers. This vegetable forms an important and an  indispensable item of our daily food and is an important source of nutrition.

Origin and Distribution

The potato is a native of South America, where it as been cultivated for ancient times. It was introduce to Europe in the later-half of the 16th century. But nearly one hundred years, it was look upon as a poisonous tuber. Its food value was realize only in 1771, when a price was offer in the France for the discovery of an article of food which could be use as substitute for wheat in time of famine.

     In the United State, potato was introduced by Irish immigrant in 1719. The Spaniards took to Philippines at an early date. It came to India in the 17th century. The missionary probably introduced it to East Africa toward the end of the 19th century. In volume and value in world basis, the potato now exceed all other crops in the world.

Natural Cure

Apollo:  Get original Honey add little water to it  and use it as a eye drop before bed time.

Natural Text for Typhoid: Get roasted yam eat it with palm oil before bed time, the next day if your faeces is black it means typhoid. But if yellow it means you are fever free.

Bump Resistance: Add lime juice into Vaseline put small salt mix it together and use it before and after salon.

Lemon

Natural Benefit and Curative Properties

Throat Disorder
Lemon is highly beneficial in the treatment of throat disorder such as catarrh, choking sensation and itching sensitivities. A ripe unpeeled lemon should be roasted slowly until it begin to crack open. Then a tea spoon of the juice with little honey should be taken once every hour, or the same juice of the roasted lemon in a glass of boiled water should be taken flavored with honey. It should be sipped slowly.

Maize

Description
    Maize is the most important cereal in the world after rice. It is , unique among cereals. The grain are borne in separate inflorescence, which are completely enclose as a modified leaf sheaths, so that is is incapable of dispersing it sheets. The corn is at it best when it is well filled but yet soft and tender. The tender maize is chiefly liked for it's high sugar content. It has more sugar than any other corn. So the maize is called sweet corn.

Origin and Distribution
The Maize is derived from an Arawak-Carib world. 'Mahiz' , The early American civilization was based on this corp, which make settled life possible in Mexico and central America. within a comparatively short time of the discovery of America, Maize spread widely throughout the world and became an important source of carbohydrate for a poorer countries.

Lemon

Natural Benefits and Curative Properties
The various part of Lemon are used for medical purposes are rind of the ripe fruit, essential oil of the rind and expressed juice of the ripe fruit. a pale yellow volatile is derived either by distillation or by squeezing from fresh outer parts of the pericarp of the fruit. though the oil is bitter yet it is highly valued as a medicine in flavoring agent. Carminative  that relieves flatulence for treating gastric discomfort and stomach that increase appetite. Rind is also both stomachic and carminative. Lemon juice , the expressed and the strain juice of the ripe fruit, is valuable  as anti scorbutic and refrigerant. It destroy   the toxin in the body. The detoxifying properties arise from high potassium content, the germs of diphtheria, typhoid and other deadly diseases are destroy by it use. The juice also encourage bile secretion and is valuable in jaundices and gravel - a condition of small stone in the urinary tract.

Lemon

Description
The lemon is an important fruit of citrus  group. it is rank high as a health food. it is sometimes mistakenly for lime but lime is a smaller species and the lemon form a bigger variety with a rough, thin and lose rind.
     Lemon is oval in shape and light yellow in colour, with thick, rough skin. When ripe is has pale yellow pulp, abundant juice and a small number of seeds.

Health Benefits and Curative Properties of Grape

Digestive Disorder
The fruit is valuable in relieving constipation. The pulp. when wholly taken, supply healthy bulk to avoid bowel action. It is beneficial in maintaining the health of intestine and regarded as a preventive food item against dysentery, diarrhea, enteritis, typhus and other effective diseases of the digestive tract.

Grape

 Description

     grape are one of the most valuable fruit, they are delicious, highly nutritious and easily digestible. They are one of nature precious gift for the revelation of human system
spherical ovoid in shape, the grape is a form of berry. they are of innumerable varieties differing in size, shape, colour, aroma and taste the sizes varies from as big as plums  to a small as peas. They are found in various colour such as green, black, red and blue.

Natural Benefit and Curative Properties of Banana

Constipation and Diarrhea 
banana have  great value both in constipation and Diarrhea as they normalize colonic function in the large intestine to absorb large amount of water for proper bowel movements.  Their usefulness in constipation is due to their richness in producing pectin, which is water absorbent and this gives them a bulk producing ability. They also possess the ability to change the bacteria in the intestine - from harmful type of bacelli to beneficial acidophyllus bacilli.

Dysentery
Mashed  banana together with little salt is a very valuable remedy for dysentery. According to Dr. Kiriticar, a combination of ripe plantain, tamarind and common salt is most effective in this case. He claim to have cured several cases both acute and chronic dysentery by this treatment. Ripe bananas are also very effective in the case of children, but they should be roughly mashed and beating to cream before use in these case.

Banana And It Uses

                                                                                                      
                                                                                                      Botanical Name: Musa Paradisiaca

Description 
    The banana is on of the oldest and best know fruits of the world. It is deliciously seedless and it is available in all season at a affordable price which is within everybody's reach. It is very hygienic fruit as it come in a germ-proof package.  Its thick covering provides an excellent protection against bacteria and contamination. The mature fruit vary in size and may be green, yellow or reddish in colour.

Cancer

According to World Health Organization, 20million people suffer from cancer today. In thirty years time, 30million will suffer from cancer, are you among them? Let see

Arthritis

Arthritis has become an increasing sickness among women. The reason are as follows

• Women lose blood every month through menstruation and this begins at an early age of about 11 to 12 years and till they are forty. This blood contain calcium,

• When women get pregnant, the baby stay for 9months developing in her womb. the baby uses the calcium in her bloody to form his or her own bone. This blood contain calcium that why the baby's bone can form easily(pregnancy).

Upside Down Food Pyramids

As a result of turning food pyramid upside down, we have so many chronic diseases.
What are chronic diseases? these are those diseases that we might not escape before we die. i.e natural death.
This happen to us earlier than normal as a result of poor diet, some of this chronic diseases are:

1. Diabeties
2. Hearth diseases e.g 

• High Blood Pressure
• Hypertension
• Heart attack/ cardiac arrest

Good Food Pyramid

Fat and Carbohydrate
 Eat little because it is dangerous to health, the  and product of carbohydrate is sugar.

Protein
Eat little because protein has a high level of cholesterol which is dangerous to health

Fruit and Vegetable
Eat more because it contain vitamins and minerals essential for good health and this help to prevent sickness and diseases

Friendly Fruits

Uses of Coconut

• The water is use to stop migraine (sodium headache)
• The water inside coconut removes acne, pimple
• Coconut is reach in vitamin D and iron minerals for the body.

Better cola and it's uses
Bitter cola purify the liver to perform very well and prevent liver diseases

Burns And Scalds

When there is a fire accident and there is a victim, get the victim in a stable position, firstly pour water on the affected part of the body.
If the cloth are charred by fire leave for hospital staff to remove. Remove the shoes wrist watches e.t.c

Stay Healthy Always

1. Disinfect your home to kill wall geckos, cockroach, mosquitoes, spiders, rat, snake and scorpions.
2. Please sleep with mosquito treated net to avoid malaria
3. Treat your water and keep in clean condition

Electric Shock

The first thing to do is to switch off the circuit. Do not touch the affected person until this is done.
If possible to disconnect the supply ' use insulated object like dry stick or news paper to remove the person

 Simple fact about repair.

Good Health Practices

1. Drink more water in the morning than night
2. Reduce the amount of oily foods that you consume
3. Always wash your cloth regularly as the case may be 
4. Use a clean towel to clean your nostrils to avoid dirty congestion and maintain a healthy breath
5. Do not abuse drug without  a doctor consolation, abuse of drug can hamper health badly 

Artificial Respiration

Close the nostril of the person who is in need of the help with you finger and thumb.
Take a deep breath, then breath into the patient's mouth until chest raises. Remove your mouth and repeat

Fainting

Fainting or Collapsing :  loosen clothing at the neck and wrist of the affected person and put him or her in a sitting position.
lower head between knees and give cold water when faintness as passed.

Medical Terms You Need To Know

Words description                                                                                                  Medical terms
A diseases affecting many persons at the same place and time                                      Epidemic
A disease confined to a particular district or place                                                         Endemic
A disease widely scattered group of people                                                                Sporadic  

First Aid Kit

First aid kit is a special bag or box containing medicines and other medical equipments to treat people who are injured or who become ill suddenly. 
Here are some of the things you may find in a first aid bag/box.

Introduction "Health Talk"

I'm a trained Nutritionist from GNLD an organization that sell health care products and also educates people on how to live a healthy live.
This is because  your health is your greatest wealth.

According to World  Health Organization (W.H.O), every individual passes through three zones of life
these are:

Exercise

Exercise is another important factor that contribute to a good health. it include climbing the stairs, jogging, running, bicycling, skipping, press-up, playing football and dancing is a part of exercise.

Benefit of Exercise :

Good Health Tips

Good health is a way of doing things differently from the way it use to be done in-order to have a great healthy body and also to save our love ones from danger and unknown side effect.

This include: 

Apple

Apple is one of the many fruit in the world, it should not be left out of our daily diet because it has many health benefit.
This includes: It keeps the cardiovascular system, help by stabilizing the blood sugar and lower blood cholesterol.

DIET

Diet is very important because it contribute about 80% to good health, we need to eat balance diet in order to be healthy.

What is a Balance Diet: a balance diet is a meal that contains all the food nutrient in the right and adequate proportion. This include carbohydrate, fat and oil, protein, mineral salt, vitamin, lipid and sterol and water.
all the different classes of food give different kind of nutrient, this is why it is important to take balance diet.