Are you consuming the right cinnamon?

Cinnamon is one of those spices which everyone loves but through research & anecdotal evidence has been shown to have benefits far from your average spice! Cinnamon has been shown to raise the ‘good’ HDL cholesterol which helps to remove the ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol from the body.

Cinnamon may also help to treat Type 2 Diabetes by reducing blood pressure & insulin resistance. Cinnamon may also lessen the effects of high fat meals by slowing the increase of blood sugar levels after eating.

So picking the right cinnamon is important. There are over a dozen different types of cinnamon but there are only 4 varieties which are commonly used: Ceylon Cinnamon, Cassia Cinnamon, Saigon Cinnamon & Korintje Cinnamon. But which is the right type to use?

Ceylon cinnamon is the ‘True’ cinnamon & is known by two botanical names: Cinnamomum verum or Cinnamomum zeylanicum. This species is from Sri Lanka. Cassia Cinnamon is derived from a related species of cinnammon & is also known as Chinese cinnamon. Some research shows thats Cassia cinnamon can be toxic if taken in large doses.

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Why Laser Eye Surgery Is Ideal For All Competitive Sports Participants

Why Laser Eye Surgery Is Ideal For All Competitive Sports Participants

For any person who loves playing competitive sports, and who also has imperfect vision, the impracticalities of wearing glasses or even contact lenses whilst competing means that they often consider laser eye surgery. Apart from the inconvenience and cost of replacing broken glasses and lost contact lenses, there are also risks in playing sports whilst wearing either of those vision correction aids.

With glasses, there is a risk of them being smashed due to a blow to the face, and the glass cutting the person’s face, or worse, causing a severe injury to their eye. There is also the chance that an opponent is cut due to a piece of the broken glass coming into contact with their skin.

Contact lenses might not pose the same injury risk, but whilst playing competitive sports they could be dislodged or damaged due to an impact. In addition, there is always the perennial risk of bacteria attaching themselves to the lens due to playing in muddy or dusty sports fields, increasing the risk of an eye infection.

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Why Feeling Happy May Not Be Immediate When You Quit Drugs

Why Feeling Happy May Not Be Immediate When You Quit Drugs

Whenever someone embarks on the journey to break free from their addiction to drugs, the expectations they have of what they and their life will be like once they have achieved their goal will concern many aspects of their life. There will be thoughts about how their relationship with their partner will thrive, how they might build bridges with family and friends whom they have shunned during their addiction, and they may hope that their finances will improve.

Another hope they are bound to have is that their mental and emotional health will be augmented, and prime amongst that will be the expectation that they will be a happier individual once they have recovered from drug dependency. Unfortunately, it can be the case that the person’s happiness does not immediately hit the level they were expecting and that raises the question in their mind “Why not?”.

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Gingivitis, And 3 Simple Home Remedies That Can Reduce It

One of the oral health issues that dentists from dentalosogentle.com.au, have to treat often is gingivitis. Gingivitis is a periodontal disease that affects the gums and is often referred to generally as gum disease, it is not the only disease gums can suffer from.

There are two main types of gingivitis with one being caused by dental plaque irritating a person’s gums which then causes decolouration, inflammation and in the worst cases, pain. The second type of gingivitis is caused by infections from fungi, viruses, and bacteria, but not dental plaque.

Gingivitis Risk Factors And Prevention

Several risk factors exist that can make a person more prone to suffering from gingivitis than others. These risk factors include:

  • Smoking
  • Old Age
  • Poor Nutrition
  • Weakened Immunity
  • Hormonal Changes
  • Medical Conditions
  • Dry Mouth
  • Poor Oral Hygiene

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4 Actions Every Removalists Business Can Take To Support The Well-Being Of Their Employees

4 Actions Every Removalists Business Can Take To Support The Well-Being Of Their Employees

For owners of removalist businesses, such as Brilliance Removalists Melbourne, the list of duties and responsibilities is a long one. How each removalists owner deals with them all may be different, but almost certainly they will have prioritised each item on that list. One question we will have for you if you own or run a removalist business is how near the top of your list is ensuring the health and well-being of your employees?

We hope that is one of your top 3 priorities because it is a fact that those employers who place their staff’s wellbeing above most other matters, find that those employees have greater loyalty, work harder, are more productive and if ever called upon to do that little bit extra to support the business, they are glad to do so.

The alternative is to ignore your staff’s wellbeing or to give it scant regard. The result? Usually, it leads to employees who are demotivated, do the absolute minimum required of them, start looking elsewhere for employment and end up taking more than the average number of days of absence due to sickness.

Being an employer who genuinely places a high focus on employee welfare, can be done in lots of ways. However, we are going to highlight just four. Under these four main headings, there will dozens of smaller actions you can take. As your read through you will see that none of them requires any great investment of capital, although they may require an investment of time and effort.

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7 Of The Most Common Dental Problems And How To Prevent Them

7 Of The Most Common Dental Problems And How To Prevent Them

If you were to ask one hundred people to name a dental problem which they have experienced, we are certain that the vast majority of them would mention a cavity needing to be filled or tooth extraction. Given that these are the two most common treatments which dentists have to administer that is hardly surprising.

However, and we are sure you know this already, other dental problems exist, and for those that suffer from them, they can not only be extremely painful but in the worst cases, totally debilitating. You might be lucky enough to have not suffered from these yourself, but it is still useful to be aware of them, to try to avoid them.

Tooth Decay

The number one dental problem people experience, tooth decay is what leads to cavities, toothache, and in the worst cases, the need for a tooth to be extracted. The main cause is bacteria called plaque building up on the teeth due to the sugar in food and drinks, and compounded by poor oral care, such as not brushing or flossing daily.

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How to Know You Need Cataract Surgery

How to Know You Need Cataract Surgery

The only way you truly know you need laser eye surgery from Insight Eye Clinic is after an appointment, or more than one, with an eye specialist or surgeon. However, that’s not to say you don’t already have an inkling that such a surgical procedure could be on the cards for you.

If you’re curious or concerned, some of these signs below could signal that it might be time to make an appointment with your eye doctor.

You Are in the High-Risk Group

While you may not show any other signs of needing to have cataract eye surgery, it can be worth knowing what puts you more at risk than others of eventually needing this surgery.

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Why Over 60s Should Consider Dental Implants

There are some who might regard dental implants as a treatment that is only suitable for younger people. By ‘younger’, we mean those who are below 60 years of age. The reason for this assumption is likely to be the fact that dental implants are often viewed as a cosmetic procedure rather than a medical one.

As such the desire within certain age groups, to maintain their appearance is regarded as much higher than it might be in retirees and grandparents, for example. Therefore the theory is that the improvement of one’s appearance following the fitting of dental implants is bound to drive the popularity of them in this younger age group.

Whilst this might have some mileage with regards to younger people wanting to look good to attract a partner, the point that it completely misses is that all the benefits that dental implants provide apply every bit as much to the over 60s, as it does to the under 60s. Here is a list from dentists to explain to why anyone aged 60 or higher should consider any of these benefits from dental implants.

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Why we need slow food

Why we need slow food

The art of traditonally made foods such as cultured butter is making a comeback. Cultured butter is made by adding live cultures to cream before it is churned to make butter. The advantages of cultured butter over regular butter is that the added cultures aid digestion. The cultures also add lactic acid which can give the butter a tangier taste as well as producing a higher fat content which gives the butter a silkier texture and richer flavour.

Before the industrialisation of food production most handmade butter was made with a natural active culture. Fresh cream straight from the cows would be allowed to sit at room temperature overnight so that the cream would rise to the top and the milk settle to the bottom. This would allow the natural cultures to ferment the milk, creating a nutty and tangy cream which was then churned by hand.

Once pasteurisation of dairy products began the natural cultures were killed and our taste for tangier nuttier style butter went with it. Interestingly, in Europe the practice of adding live cultures following pasteurisation became standard practice and this is what food manufacturers (and health foodies!) are now rediscovering.

Traditionally made food such as cultured butter is something that is encouraged by a global movement called Slow Food. Slow Food was founded in Italy 1989 by Carlo Petrini and a group of activists who were concerned that local food cultures and traditions were rapidly disappearing due to massive food production. Starting small at a grass roots level, Slow Food has now grown to over 160 countries.

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How To Ensure Your Medical Centre's Ranking Improves With Great Website Design

How To Ensure Your Medical Centre’s Ranking Improves With Great Website Design

When it comes to improving the ranking of your medical centre’s website on Google, it is imperative that you appreciate just how much the design of a website plays a role. As the website design experts at  www.slinkywebdesign.com.au will tell you, as much of the work that goes into building a website is about optimising it for rankings, as it is to make that website look good.

As the owner or manager of a medical centre who might be thinking, either about a new website, or about how you might improve your current website, you should know what elements of the website design need to be optimised for SEO. After all, there is no point in focusing purely on making your website look better than any other website if no one ever gets to see it because it is ranked on page 10 of Google.

So, to help you to ensure that your website has the qualities that are needed for good SEO and good ranking, here are the more important ones you should be paying attention to and implementing.

Your Website Needs To Load Quickly

Nothing will kill your ranking quicker than a website that does not load quickly. In this fast-moving world of handheld devices and mobile internet access, people want everything to happen ‘5 minutes ago’. In other words, they want quick and immediate action and that means if your website loads slowly, they are going to click away or ‘bounce’ immediately. Bounces are identified by Google and are one of the factors that will lower your ranking.

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