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Herbal Teas: Their Benefits -- Herbal Teas from Plants Around us and Their Benefits To Our Health

Fitness Tip

Do You Manage Your Stress Levels Adequately?
We have only recently begun to appreciate how important stress is as a risk factor for heart disease. Stress increases your levels of two hormones -- cortisol and adrenaline -- both of which contribute to high blood pressure and type-2 diabetes. Exercise is a wonderful way to lower your stress level, obviously. But it may take more than that. You can learn breathing exercises, take a stress-management class or seek counseling. People should really focus on stress reduction. Many studies have shown that chronic high levels of stress can increase heart disease by as much as 50 percent. If you're suffering stress and it's problems, try Dr. Approved Super Stress Formula and replace your necessary nutrients depleted by stress.

Nutrition Tip

Pesticides and Fruit
Most uses of most pesticides on foods do not leave residues that raise any public health concern. Only 15 to 20 of the most hazardous pesticides, each used on a handful of foods, are responsible for the vast majority of dietary risk. Groups like Consumers Union and the Environmental Working Group, have used sophisticated computer analyses to estimate how often which fruits carry residues of the least and most dangerous pesticides. Using their data, there is one simple rule to follow: Try to buy organic apples, cherries, grapes, peaches, pears, raspberries and strawberries. Those are the fruits most likely to contain harmful pesticide residues. Canned peaches, for example, are among the least contaminated fruits. So are fresh bananas, blueberries, kiwis, mangos, watermelon and canned pineapple. Don't let pesticides scare you away from fruit. Ultimately, you are better off eating fruit with pesticides than not eating fruit.