Natural Remedies: Nausea vs. Ginger

Ginger for Nausea Relief

Ginger has long been a popular cure for nausea, a sort of stomach upset that often results from motion sickness, morning sickness, chemotherapy, migraines, food poisoning, and the use of certain medications. Many people use ginger supplements when treating nausea, although fresh, dried, and crystallized ginger may also help soothe nausea when consumed as foods or spices.

While it's not known how ginger might ease nausea, some scientists suspect that certain chemicals found in ginger may influence the nervous system, stomach, and intestines to help ease nausea.

Ginger

The Science behind Ginger and Nausea

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) lists ginger supplements as "possibly effective" for preventing morning sickness and controlling post-surgery nausea.Indeed, a 2005 report

4 Superfoods that Fight Inflammation

Keep joints healthy and recovery on track with these superfoods. 

How can controlling inflammation lead to better muscle gains and increased fat loss? 

While most of us are done working out at the gym, outdoors, or even at home, we commonly experience soreness in our muscles afterwards. The soreness can last for several hours to several days. This is our body’s natural way of informing us to relax and so that it can repair itself to get bigger and stronger. Portion of this healing process is inflammation and it can take place all throughout the body.

One vital mistake that many lifters make is disregarding the inflammation process and the effects it has on the body. Inflammation is the immune system's protective mechanism against foreign substances, injury, and infection; it can be serious or long term. This inflammation is indispensable – we need it to restore our muscles, so we can come back and do it all over again. Conversely, if we have too much inflammation, it can be devastating to our body and actually breakdown the healthy tissues diminishing gains. 

So in lieu of prolonged rest - usually not an option for gym lovers - or an overuse of anti-inflammatory drugs, what can we do to keep inflammation at bay? Well, you can eat for it. There are foods that you can and should be consuming that can keep you build muscle while also lessening your body's inflammatory reaction.

SALMON

Packed with bulk-building protein and joint-nurturing healthy fats, salmon is one of the best anti-inflammatory foods that we should be eating. Salmon holds a healthy amount of

5 Foods You’re Eating Wrong

How to cut, cook, and sip for the most health benefits

 Vegetables

Your mistake: Boiling or microwaving them

The solution: Steaming

Why it works:

5 Foods That Lead to Inflammation

How your food may be putting you on the fast track to disease?

 

Joint Inflammation

Can your diet lead to your demise? People who eat foods that can cause inflammation, such as those high in fat and sugar, have a greater risk of acquiring a disease sooner than the people who stick with fruits and vegetables.

Prolonged low-grade inflammation can bring on cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or even death. A study found that people with diets most associated with inflammation were four times more likely to die of gastrointestinal tract cancers. 

Look out for these common, inflammation-causing offenders:

Facts about the Ebola Virus Disease

What is EBOLA VIRUS?

The Ebola virus causes Ebola hemorrhagic fever, a disease that is usually acquired once a person comes into contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected animal such as monkey or fruit bat.

 

Electron micrograph of an Ebola virus virion

How will the virus spread?

When infection of human happens, it can easily spread from one person to another.  Infection may result from direct contact with secretions, organs, blood, or other bodily fluids of infected individuals and through indirect contact with the environments contaminated with such fluids.  Spreading of the disease can also be from having contact with the bodies of people who died from the virus like during funeral preparations and burial ceremonies.  

What are the symptoms of Ebola virus?