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Alkaline antioxidant water has many benefits such as lowering high cholesterol, and helping prevent chronic disease. The ability to lower cholesterol is not what antioxidant water is most known for, but it can definitely help you improve your cholesterol profile.

This water is made from tap water filtered through a water ionizer which can be either an undersink or a countertop model. These devices use a form of electrolysis to make “reduced” or alkaline water, when can then be consumed as you would regular water.

To lower cholesterol naturally one of the things you must do is promote the proper PH levels in your body. Many of the foods that are noted for raising cholesterol levels are also acidic as well. You can help promote good cholesterol levels by drinking alkaline antioxidant water on a regular basis, and absorbing the free electrons this water provides.

High cholesterol invariably has an adverse effect on one’s heart. Heart disease can be traced back to large amounts of high or bad cholesterol flowing in the bloodstream. High cholesterol may be hereditary and is also certainly the result of consuming the wrong foods. Lowering cholesterol naturally can be accomplished by eating natural foods and adopting a daily exercise program together with other lifestyle changes.

A low cholesterol diet comprises foods that are high in fiber. These foods absorb high cholesterol and remove it from the bloodstream and out of the body via excretion. Foods such as apples, oranges, berries, apricots, raisins, prunes, peas, beans, broccoli, grapefruit and ground provisions are high fibrous foods to name but a few. Soluble fibers also comprise a whole range of vegetables, particularly green leafy vegetables.

A common and popular way to stop smoking is the one we have all heard of, and the one some of us fear, the dreaded “cold turkey”.
The phrase cold turkey means to stop a bad habit immediately and usually to go through withdrawals, mood swings, nasty cravings and a touch of the sweats. Some doctor or other coined the phrase while observing drug addicts going through withdrawal symptoms, when in this state of stress the body diverts blood to the internal organs and the skin becomes white with goose bumps, making it look like turkey skin.

Luckily for the person quitting smoking this withdrawal phase does not last forever, usually between one and two weeks, sometimes three for a heavy smoker. It is one of the most common ways to quit but is it a good way? It definitely has a lower success rate than other methods, hypnosis for example, but I believe it is a very good way to quit.

Are you a Mom who wants to know more about how you can use herbs internally to improve your own health or that of your children and families? If so, you are my kind of Mom, so pull up a chair. First of all, let me explain how herbs work: Herbs contain “active constituents” that create physiological changes within our body. These active constituents are called all kinds of standoffish-sounding names, like tannins, alkaloids, saponins, glycosides, bitter principles, etc. Let’s ignore all the scientific jargon for now. For now, let’s call these active constituents, “goodies,” and all a Holistic Mom needs to know is that in order to take advantage of the health benefits of herbs, these “goodies” have to be extracted and taken into the body somehow. So how do we do that?