Tuesday, July 14, 2009

BENEFITS OF CONSUMING COCONUT WATER

Coconut s a very important fruit to the Indians. The use coconut daily to worship god and as well as its fruit is used as a offerings by the priest.

Coconut has a lot of medicinal values.

I would like to share my knowledge on the goodness in consuming coconut water. If you are suffering from high fever, it has been said that by consuming a young Coconut water it will reduce your high temperature immediately.

Coconut water also helps to cool your body.Those who have increased body heat, should consume this coconut water to bring down your body temperature.
It is very good to drink this especially during hot climate.

However it is often said that we should drink this during rainy days and those who are having cold.This is because its cooling effect may worsen your situation.

Young coconut water is also recommended to pregnant mother because it is believed to have healing properties to protect the baby from getting jaundice when the baby is born. Further it is also helps to reduce the body temperature for pregnant women especially during their third trimester which is about seven months and above.

In Asian countries, the chinese believe that if a pregnant mother consumes coconut water, it helps the baby to have a smooth and beautiful skin. However, the elderly people always advise pregnant mothers to consume this coconut water before noon.
In Asian countries, pregnant mothers are advised to drink this cooling fruit before noon when the wheather is still hot. It is believed that if you consume this in the evening when the day is cooler, the pregnant mother my experience back ache or other joint pains due to the cooling effect on the body.

The Indians also use this coconut water to feed those who have chicken pox to cool their system. I still remember when I has chicken pox my grandmother made all of us to drink young coconut water to reduce our body temperature.

It has been reported that young coconut water also helps to reduce body heat and also to cure urinary infections.

In India everyone drinks coconut everyday since it has many medicinal benefit.

Changing bad eating and drinking habits!

Do you always find it difficult to kick bad eating and drinking habits?

If yes, then what you should do is to try to cultivate new habits.One of the easiest way is to remove junks, sweets, chocolates from being stored in our house.Studies shows that those who always store this fattening and dangerous items always end up eating them.

Try storing good foods like nuts such as cashew nuts,almonds, sunflower seeds, pistachio.All this a wonderful food helps to protect our skin because it contains lot of Vitamin E.

Everyone should also change their drinking habits.We should also try not to drink too many cold beverages. This is because it cold drink increases body heat and causes unnecessary gas formation and as a result contributes to stomach bloatedness.

Too much of carbonated drinks, alcohol and coffee also increases body heat as we live in a hot climate. It is best if we could practice new habits like preparing our own healthy beverages which provides lots of benefits to us.

One of the healthy drinks a barley and pandan drink. Too make a healthy barley drink is very simple. One has to soak the barley overnight and then boil the barley and add brown sugar. On the other hand, to prepare pandan leaves, all that you need is to extract a fresh pandan leaves from your garden, clean it and then boil it with little brown sugar.

Barley helps to clean our body toxic and has the power to reduce heat from our body.This is why barley if often prescribed to those who always have heaty body.

In Ayurveda tradition pandan drink is often recommended to help patient reduce their cholesterol in their body, to reduce their weight and also to assist in increasing the patients blood flow.