How To Ease On PCOS Symptoms

PCOS (Polycystic ovary syndrome) is a really uncomfortable and one of the most common endocrine disorders among females. It can cause a lot of terrible symptoms including female infertility and menstrual disorders, as well as metabolic syndromes and high levels of masculinizing hormones. 
The outer symptoms including too much hair on body parts where a female normally won't have hair and increased hair-growth throughout the body (facial hair for example). This is caused by the too much masculinizing hormones. Another symptom - caused by the metabolic problems - is that women with PCOS gain weight faster and having difficulties to lose this extra weight. 

Unfortunately there's currently not an exact cure and magic pill to cure and heal the PCOS. However there are ways to decrease the symptoms:
Reduce your insulin-level by maintaining a healthy and successful diet (this diet shall last life-long in accordance to minimalize and control PCOS).
Eat natural, non-processed food, lots of fruits and vegetables, but try

Benefits of Almond Oil

Benefits Of Almond Oil

Let's see why should you consider using almond oil and how:


Almond oil is very rich in B vitamins and in omega 9 fatty acids. These 2 amazing compositions of the oil, helps you:
- Soften your skin and restores its elasticity.
- Nourishes your skin and hydrates it, so it is a great elixir after tanning, after using the sauna and after a bath.
- It helps sooth the symptoms of eczema and fungus, by easing the inflammation and the itching
- Since it is very rich in vitamins and skin-nourishing composers, it is a frequently used carrier oil in massages (spas) and in baby-creams as well.

Other than being an amazing skin-carer, almond oil can also appear in our kitchen.
You may add it to salads, poultry meat and to cookies, but of course, these oils are made with different techniques than those to your skin.

Hair-care:
Heat some almond oil to semi-warm, then apply it onto your hair after first hair-wash. Massage it into your skin and all the way into your hair to its ends. It will help restore the balance of your hair's health and stops the threads tearing and splitting, meanwhile fighting away the dandruff. Let it absorb and release its nutritions for 10-15 minutes, then wash your hair again gently.

Skin care:
After a shower or bath, apply the oil throughout your body as a body lotion. You may apply it onto your face and wrinkles (do not massage it there, just apply with small gently tapping movements with your fingertips), to your neck, decolletage and cleavage. The almond oil contains vitamin E, therefore it can restore your skin's natural PH balance and hydration.

Guest Post From Darla Reed :)

Important Updates coming:

Hi Everyone :)

I have some news for you, that you want to hear and know of. First of all THANK YOU for caring about your health and thank you for being my loyal reader and subscriber!! I'm honoured!

I would like to share the following updates:

I will be breaking up with amazon and Kindle in the near future. I have quite a lot reasons for doing this so, and I assure you that it will be the best for YOU all as well!

This affects Supreme Legs & Bum, which I planned to

Physical Activity - How Much Is Needed?

Cheerleaders

When it comes to health, healthy living, keeping up a basic endurance level and also improve it, you should know about how much physical activity is needed on a daily basis.
 It is not only good for that, but ensures you'll either lose weight from the unwanted fat, or build muscles if you're underweight. 
For kids, it is also essential to keep them in shape - some kids are like a perpetuum mobile that never stops yet some kids need a planned activity time when they can meet up with friends and do some *workout*. It is fabulous if they can play rope jumping, biking or Ziking and the hula hoop is also a great way. Other than that, hide and seek, tag or just having fun on the playground, trampolines... Basically, the possibilities are endless, just be creative, your little ones are already creative! ;D

Let's see in numbers:

• Kids under the age of 5, normally need an average of 3 hours of physical activity daily.
• Kids above 5 and young adults need about 1.5-3 hours a day.
• Adults, above 18 and under 45 need about 1 hour at least - daily.
• Adults between 46 to 64, need a minimum of 30 minutes a day.
• Above 64, a minimum of 1 hour a week is essential.

You don't need to spend all these hours in a gym. Combine it or substitute it with any form of workout you can do and your endurance level will improve and you'll yearn for more activities.





photo by Kirsten5400 on wiki

Natural Ways To Get Rid Of Ants

Zealous little creatures, ants are. But when they invade your home, you just don't like it of course. Below, we're sharing some natural, anti-ant ways to get rid of them:

1) Sprinkle around some lemon juice (or white vinegar). Add one part juice to two parts of water, then spray this concoction around the ants's home, around window and door frames.

2) Peppermint essential oil: Add a few drops (5-10) to two tablespoons of coconut oil. Apply this on their home's entrance.

3) Smoke: This one is a little tricky. Burn incense sticks very close to the ant home and its entrance. 

4) Electric cig: Ants are not a big fan to nicotine, so if you're smoking, you can get rid of ants by smoking your cig close to their homes.

5) Chalk (not crayons!): Just take a chalk - any colour would do it - and just draw a line around the ants's home and where ever you can see them coming into your house. They will not cross a line drawn by chalk! If you can get chalk-powder, that's the same result, but chalks are easier to get.

6) Mix powdered sugar with baking soda, and place this mix nearby their paths.

Further ideas to get rid of ants and bugs: 

Ant photo: Dawidl at the English language Wikipedia

How To Ease A Mosquito Bite

Here are our best 10 tips on 'how to ease a mosquito bite' - at home:


1. Parsley Leaves
Smash parsley leaves in a mortar, then apply the mush onto the bitten area.
Parsley has anti-inflammatory effects, so it's not only good to ease a mosquito bite, but also a great aid for healing smaller scars with.

2. Onions
Simply cut off a part of an onion, the rub its juicy flesh onto the mosquito bite.

3. Banana Peel
We thought this sounded awkward, but after we had a chance to test it (lucky victims of mosquitoes - lol), we agreed in its efficiency. So, to ease a mosquito bite with a banana peel, just put the peel's inner part onto the bite and rub it a few times.

4. Potato
Wash and

Metabolism-Boosting

Coffee

A known fact that fruits and their juices are helping you to boost your metabolism.
Coffee lovers also know that coffee (black coffee) can do this very same for you.

Although people can be so hard on consuming coffee, the truth is, that this black liquid gold has some pretty precious health-promoting attributions: it contains antioxidants and coffee may lower the risk of a cancer.
And the caffeine will boost your energy-level and metabolism too.

Moderately you can consume an espresso or a black-coffee.

Red Fruit Juice

Red Sweet Kiss (juice recipe)

Ingredients:

100g cranberries 

100g strawberries

1 pear

1/2 lemon or lime's juice

mint leaves (optional)

Blend the fruits and lemon juice with a blender.

Serve it with lemon or min-leaves decoration. 

Enjoy! :)

coffee pic wiki

Teeth Aid

Strawberry

Below, we're sharing 2 awesome teeth-aids:
One is for whitening, one is against bad breath and inflamed gums.

Strawberry Pasta:
Seems crazy, but the beautiful red fruit is an effective teeth-whitener and since it contains vitamin C, it is also a first aid for your gums. Take one strawberry and mash it with a fork. Add a bit of baking soda to it and "wash your teeth" with this mix after your normal teeth-wash. Rinse your mouth well with medium-warm water afterwards. You can use your mouth rinse after the strawberry-wash too.

Yogurt

Yogurt Wash:
Yogurts are full of good bacteria that is not only good for your tummy and digestive-system, but also helps you get rid of bad bacteria which ruins your teeth and gum, causing bad-breath.
After your normal teeth-wash, use a natural yogurt to wash your teeth with. Within 8-10 days, you'll notice the huge difference and your gums will heal.










yogurt pic wiki
strawberry pic wiki

About Quitting Smoking

Breath Easier - Live Better - Quit Smoking

You wish to quit smoking, but you have that little evil voice in your ears, that keeps on saying: "You are too addicted" OR "You will gain fat"?

Well, here are the benefits of quitting:

*But first, make up your mind for real.The fear of failing or weight-gaining is just a made-up excuse and cannot be as bad as the consequences that smoking does to your body. You KNOW it.*









1. The First Hour
Your heart-rate normalizes. 


2. The First 2-4 Hours
In the first few hours, your blood circulation starts to improve: you will feel warmth at your fingertips and toes.
This is when the first withdrawal symptomes would show up: craving, hunger, anxiety. Stay strong and keep your will. Eat an apple, or fruit-salad to ease the yearning and go for a short walk, to the local park to beat anxiety.

3. 12 Hours Later
The carbon-monoxide level decreases in

Supreme 6 Pack - Book Review

Supreme 6 Pack by Darla Reed

Well, to be totally honest, this will be a compact review, meaning that we will talk about everything about this book in a nutshell. 

Our first impression about 'Supreme 6 Pack' is that it might be a cliche in the jungle of workout and fitness book that are always full of the same old (and sometimes boring) advice, diet tips and exercise models and 12 makes a dozen of these books. But there was something about the description that grabbed our mind, leaving a constant and permanent stamp that we couldn't take out of our heads. That something was that this book did not seem to promise results in 'no time' and that it was talking about *meditation* as well as physical and spiritual well-being which is incredibly awesome from a 'workout' book.

Book Description
Publication Date: April 24, 2014
*A book for you, for your friends and siblings, for anyone who wishes for a flatter belly and those abs to appear. A compact yet full guide that works and shows you the way for you to reach your goal to nicely toned abs. If you need to lose weight or you want to strengthen your core - You will find this book really helpful. 

Pills - To Take Or Not To Take

Vitamin supplement

As you, our dear readers already know, we are against the processed food, and vitamin supplements (not including the herbal and 100% natural pills of course). There are natural ways to keep up and improve your healthy vitamin and mineral levels in your body. However, there are cases, when not for the comfort, but for practical and health-reasons are beside the vitamin and mineral supplements intake. Please don't rush to the local drugstore though.
For example on when to take these supplements, let's say you need omega 3 fatty acid to lower your triglyceride levels and blood pressure, or you'd take it to prevent a cardiovascular disease. So, if you would do a bit of research, you'd find that the omega 3 fatty acid can mostly be found in seafoods.

Spring Cleaning

herbal tea - liver cleansing

To gain great health and get things done easier. To boost your immune system, your digestive system, your metabolism and to chase the toxins out of your body, it is essential to cleanse your kidneys and your liver.
You can choose to follow a detox-diet, fasting or drinking herbal-teas, or other programs, once you've done it, you're 70% healthier than before, but of course we would suggest you to please try not to go back to the unhealthy lifestyle.
Other wonderful benefits of a clean and healthy kidneys and liver:
- The symptoms of the allergies fading
- The pains throughout your body eases
- More energy
- Better mood / The fading of depression
- Healthier and cleaner skin - decreasing spots 
- Shinier, stronger hair

If you're not impressed by now, we would like to add a bit more info about your kidneys and livers, and about the things they do for you:

Herb: Horehound

Horehound

Why do we love Horehound and why do we suggest to you to use it?

This wonderful healing plant, that grows on roadsides, in meadows and forests, origins from Europe and Asia. 
Horehound tea is a very effective cure for a sore throat, coughing and a cold. It improves digestion, appetite and metabolism. The blooming endings are used to cure and sooth bile problems.
The tea is also used to heal a wound even if it's inflamed and purulent.

Sweet Woodruff

Horehound is use to meade out as candy. It tastes like a mixture of Liquorice and Anise. The Horehound candy is also a great way to enjoy the healing benefits. You can buy the candy anywhere today.
In Hungary, the Horehound candy or Medical Horehound Candy is made by

Electronic Cigarettes: Go "e" Today!

e-cigarette

When it comes to good health, it is obvious that you think about smoking and whether you should quit. Whilst the decision is easy - 'cause you might have made a New Year's resolution a few weeks ago, or you might have promised it to yourself, or to others, that you will quit - keeping yourself to it is the tricky part.
There are hundreds of thousands of warnings all around online and offline, about possible health risks, diseases and other side-effects of smoking (such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, high blood pressure, asthma, bloodshot appearance in the eyes, loss of eyesight, swollen gums, losing of teeth, impotence, infertility, nicotine stains on the fingers, bad smell etc.), it seems that these

The South Beach diet

The South Beach diet is a diet plan, created by Arthur Agatston MD. and Marie Almon dietitian, to give an alternative to the low-fat diets. 
Originally, the South Beach diet was made on the purpose to prevent heart-diseases, however it achieved big popularity all around the world among dieters since it's very easy to lose weight and gain great health with the diet.

The South Beach Diet has 3 phases: each becomes more liberal.

Phase 1:

This is the first 2 weeks of the diet. This is the part of the program, where a lot of dieters would *run away scared* :) but please, don't give up, we believe in you!
"In phase 1 - as a friend said - the diet is focusing on and boosting weight loss and 2 weeks later, you must buy new clothes that won't fall from you."

In this pase you have to cut out all sugar, fruits, high G.I. veggies and processed carbohydrates from your diet. In this 2 weeks time you can lose approximately 8-14lbs!

Alkaline diet

Alkalinizing foods

The Alkaline diet has been created to change the body's pH level. Originally the pH level is more alkaline than acidic, but the foods nowadays are full of unnatural and unnecessary contaminants (such as flavour enhancers, food colourings, presticides and preservatives), that are acidizing the body. By minimizing the intake of the acidizing foods, you can gain better health, increase your energy-level, treat a cardiovascular disease and reduce the cellulite...

Medically, the alkaline diet proved that it helps prevent kidney stones. Recently a hypothesis said, that the too acidic environment in your body can increase the risk of osteoporosis and causes several damages to our body system. However, more tests haven't been made clinically about the diet's effects, it became quite popular among dieters.

Laughter

Well, surely you've heard it before: "Laughter is a medicine". But did you know that laughter is a very effective antidote against pain, stress, conflicts and it can also help you to find relief after a hectic day? Well, laughter releases endorphines (happy hormones), relaxes your body whilst it also boosts your immune system and protects your heart! 
This is the best medicine that can improve your mental and physical health, it's totally free and you can laugh basically anytime. :)
Laughter connects you to others and when it's about humour it also bonds relationships and builds friendships.

Besides boosting your health and uplifting your mood,

Emotional Eating

  Sometimes, when you have had a very bad day, that emotionally brought you down, you are searching for a way to find a relief from this burden. Your spouse or love, kids or a friend that can give a shoulder and listen to you as you tell your day's happenings and helps you to put this burden down from your soul: by giving you love, care, comfort, support, hugs and laughter.
  Unfortunately, sometimes it happens, that it's either not enough, or you're in total lack of these comforting minutes that you could spend with your loved ones, or even you are in constant lack of this... So you have to find another way to find relief 'cause you're yearning for comfort. Then you find out that chocolate helps you to feel better, since eating chocolate releases endorphins. So you sooth your soul with chocolates. 
Lets say that these days are happening to you often and eating sweets slowly becomes a habit. Chocolates, bonbons, ice-creams...

Cottage Cheese Dessert

A tasty dessert that can easily be your favourite. ;)

Ingredients:
250g Cottage Cheese (natural)
Birch sugar or sweetener 
100g Sour Cream
Lemon zest or -juice

Cover: 200g Dark Chocolate (melted)

Mix the ingredients in a bowl and keep on tasting it and add sugar and lemon as you like it. Place a piece of baking paper on a plate. When the cream is ready, take out small portions by hand, or with a teaspoon and form little rolls about 0.5x3 inches and place them about 0.5 inches from each other on the plate. 
When you're ready, melt the dark chocolate and pour it on top of each roll and cover them fully, or if you prefer cover only parts of the rolls and make stripes or other patterns on them.

PureFormulas Review

Photo by PureFormulas

We at Spring Of Health always aim to give you the best ideas and always show you the best ways on how to improve your health and how to have a succesful and healthy diet.
This is what PureFormulas do too.
PureFormulas is an American retailer, which is highly professional and dedicated in health and wellness. They provide a wide range of high quality brands and you can find everything in their repertoire: Find the best health supplements and vitamins, through minerals and elixirs, to men's health, women's and baby's health.
PureFormulas's staff are great and very efficient!
They hand pick every item in their inventory. PureFormulas only work with the most reputable, trusted manufacturers out there and they will do their very best to treat you as a v.i.p.