I had a Spike Shooter energy drink along with a can of Red Bull before a hockey game and I felt like I was going to die!
My mouth was super watery, my heart was racing, and I had a horrible stomache ache. I can honestly say that I will never have another energy drink in my life again! I prefer water now even over sports drinks. This stuff is garbage!
What are your view on energy drinks?
Do you think they should be banned?
What are your experiences with energy drinks?

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Chronic constipation can be hard to stop or elimination, since the colon have become weak. In most cases it will have to be retrained on how to have a bowel movement.

For those of you that have mild constipation, here is a morning smoothie that will help activate your colon. This smoothie is packed with nutrients that your body will use to regenerate your colon and body.

I have been making this smoothie for a few years. I make enough to drink right away and to put into my thermos to drink around 10am.

When I make this drink I just start putting things in the blender without measuring. You can do the same and make adjustments as you go.

” one peeled banana

” 4-5 strawberries or other type of berries, or fruits

” one tablespoon of lecithin granules

” one – two teaspoons of flax seed oil

” half and half almond milk and apple juice

” in a coffee grinder, grind up around a teaspoon or less of the following:

” Brown sesame seeds – are high in lecithin, vitamin C, E, and Calcium. They improve liver function and help in constipation

” Sunflower seeds – are high protein, Calcium, and iron. They are one of the best natural foods which feed the entire body.

” Flax seeds – are high in fiber and provide bulk for your stools.

” Almonds – use around 6-7 or more. They are high in Calcium, Phosphorus and have some B-vitamins. Only eat a few. They are high in calories.

After grinding the seeds, place them in the blender and blender everything for about 3-4 minutes. If you need a little sweetness, you can add a small amount of honey. I find this drink plenty sweet without any honey.

Sometimes I will add the powder of a few acidophilus capsules.

If I don’t add the almonds, I just put all the tiny seed into the blender without grinding them up. The blender will break them up.

This is a powerful smoothie to give you morning power and to activate your colon to get moving.

Rudy Silva
http://www.articlesbase.com/alternative-medicine-articles/a-morning-smoothie-to-help-you-stop-constipation-113719.html

Reiki healing treatments give many benefits. A total healing can occur and at times …there are amazing miracle recoveries. But traditionally, Reiki removes the old negative energy-layer by layer.

Reiki Benefits Those In Hospitals

1. It can be used as a complementary therapy
2. It enhances the healthcare the patient receives in the hospital or from other healthcare providers
3. Many nurses are becoming Reiki practitioners
4. Treatment reduces some of the side effects of drugs and helps the body’s recovery after surgery and chemotherapy.
5. Some hospitals invite Reiki healing into client care because it will provide the added energy needed to recover from illness.

The Reiki energy is a natural energy from the Universe. It’s unlimited and it seems to know what to do without any effort on the part of the practitioner except for them to start the flow by drawing the Reiki symbols in the air or just thinking… Reiki heal.

The client always feels refreshed after a treatment. When the healing treatment is combined with the sincere desire of the healee to do whatever it takes to get better, the results are very beneficial. Some times there is a healing crisis (a release of toxins causing some discomfort) because of the cleansing within their physical, emotional and spiritual body. When this happens, toxins are released within the body, and the client should drink plenty of spring water and take it easy for a few days. Further Reiki applications assist the body in cleaning itself and dissipating the released toxins.

Reiki healing is beneficial to the health of men, woman (even pregnant women), children, babies, pets, farm animals, plants, garden flowers and you can even bless your water and your automobile with this energy.

There is great respect among those in the Reiki (healing arts) community. Reiki people know and feel there is a common bond between them. They know that they are helping the world become a better and more peaceful place.

It’s wonderful that almost all practitioners feel the harmony and joy that flowing The healing Light brings to each one of us. It is a natural high without drugs.

When you are Reiki you are taught not to take on the problems of others and not to use your own energy for healing.

Reiki healing energy is an energy tool you take with you everywhere you go. It’s built into your body and hands for use at any moment, any time, anywhere for on-the-spot treatment for your automobile’s stuck starter, a dead battery, your friend’s stress release, pain relief from injury, and/or even to give yourself a quick burst of energy while driving on long trips.

Reiki Helps People With Negative Or Blocked Energy

Most people suffer a little bit from blocked energy flow. When your “Life Force Energy” is disrupted, weakened, or blocked the physical body can no longer do its maintenance work to keep the body going. Because the body is weakened … mental, emotional and physical problems tend to occur.

When the flow of good energy is blocked the person has a low vibrational frequency. They are often found in destructive relationships and lifestyles. They appear to be on a self-sabotage or self-destruct path by continually making the wrong choices. They neglect themselves in many ways. Plus they don’t (or can’t) love themselves or others. That causes a real strain on relationships. They push away and hurt the people who love them. This emotional turmoil can be helped by Reiki treatments.

Reiki raises the vibrational frequency of the client and the healer. It promotes, health, joy, and well-being for all.

Taylore Vance
http://www.articlesbase.com/religion-articles/understanding-reiki-healings-part-2-of-3-50337.html

If you are enjoying your morning drink containing caffeine, its time to shift to other alternatives before it is too late. Caffeine addiction begins as a result of following causes.

-In the work place it is a routine habit to serve caffeinated drinks to clients, employees etc. Also some people think that repeated intake may help them to be alert while working.

-At home it is common for people to start their day with a cup of caffeine drink. In addition when relatives drop in unexpectedly we take the drink to give company. Thus we consume more drinks in an effort to please others.

-The children are good observers and imitate elders by consuming the beverage.

The caffeine addiction can be efficiently dealt in regards with its prevention and recovery by following certain steps

1.Sudden withdrawal from caffeinated drinks is usually not advisable for people who are addicted for a considerable length of time. Such individuals should resort to gradual tapering from addiction under the supervision of both physician and psychiatrist. The role of psychiatrist is important because a person who is neck deep into addiction finds it difficult to tolerate the withdrawal symptoms and prefers to go back to addiction.

2.Certain children and persons who are not addicted to an extent of producing serious withdrawal symptom can gradually taper their intake. Simultaneously they should add healthy drinks to their schedule so that addiction can be easily over come.

3.Tyrosine, an amino acid is helpful in reducing the craving for caffeine. It helps to increase the level of neurotransmitter dopamine which is involved in addiction and pleasure.

4.Say no to caffeinated drinks at work place, home, parties, cafes and meeting spots.

5.Peer pressure and meetings with friends at cafes is an issue which has to be dealt with lot of cautious. Declining the offer for drinks from colleagues and friends is a sensitive issue. The best way to prevent such embarrassing situation in the initial stage of abstinence from the drinks is by avoiding such meetings. The outings can be resumed later on when you have gained confidence that nothing can divert you from the resolution of ‘no drinking’.

6. Some people cultivate the habit of drinking caffeine thinking that it relieves them of constipation or keeps them away from certain illness. But this is all a myth and has nothing to do with caffeine. Avoiding caffeine by itself may help you in staying away from certain illness.

Learn to use health drinks like herbal tea, juices and find yourself full of energy at the end of the day.

Barney Garcia
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/how-to-get-away-from-caffeine-addiction-80287.html

I’ll start this article by revealing that I’m not objective about the topic. In fact, I have an conflict of intense interest: I love green tea.

I start just about every day with two pieces of rye toast and pot of green tea, and I usually make myself a second pot around noon. (I eat a late lunch, around 1:30 PM.)

I’ve noticed that it does exactly what studies on green tea and weight control say it does: reduces appetite.

I’ve read dozens of those studies in the last year as I wrote my new book, The Natural Fat-Loss Pharmacy: Drug-Free Remedies To Help You Safely Lose Weight, Shed Fat, Firm Up, And Feel Great (Broadway 2007). You can find out more about this book, and all my books on health and healing, at my website, www.drugfreehealing.com.

The studies I read also show that the main ingredients in green tea can increase calorie-burning by as much as 180 calories a day. Maybe green tea is doing that for me: I weigh 158 pounds-just a few pounds over my weight in high school.

And the gentle level of caffeine in the tea helps power me through the morning without the extreme ups and downs that I tend to experience when I drink (okay: guzzle) coffee.

The most active health-ingredient in green tea is a powerful antioxidant called epigallocatechin gallate, or EGCG.

Each year, there are literally thousands of studies conducted on EGCG, with scientists showing it protects and strengthens just about every cell and system in the body.

It shields brain cells from damage, stopping Alzheimer’s in mice genetically programmed to develop the disease.

In the laboratory, it reverses many different types of cancer, and is being tested in clinical trials at the Mayo Clinic for leukemia and at the University of Arizona for bladder cancer.

It can lower cholesterol, strengthen the immune system and protect the heart.

And now a new study-published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association, in September 2006-shows that people who drink green tea aren’t just healthier. They live longer, too.

The study was conducted by a team of Japanese doctors. They looked closely at health statistics from a 10-year study of 40,530 men and women in Japan, aged 40 to 79. And they found that, as these people aged, those who drank the most green tea had the lowest death rates from any cause, and also the lowest death rates from heart disease. The specifics:

Men who 1 to 2 cups of green tea per day were 7% less likely to die during the years of the study than people who didn’t drink green tea. At a daily intake of 5 cups or more, they were 12% less likely to die.

Women got even more protection from green tea: an 18% lower death rate among those drinking 3 to 4 cups, and a 23% lower death rate among those drinking 5 cups or more.

When scientists looked at heart disease-which kills 1 out of every 2 people, here in America-they found the protection was even stronger. Women who drank 5 or more cups of tea a day had a 31% lower risk of dying from heart disease than women who didn’t drink green tea!

Tea also protected against stroke, in men and women.

Needless to say, I’m not planning to break my green tea habit. Based on this study, it might be a habit you may want to consider for yourself.

Bill Gottlieb
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/reduce-your-risk-of-dying-by-30-percentdrink-green-tea-104149.html