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India offers their visitors access to some of the world?s highest-qualified professionals and top-class biomedical facilities, offering world-class health care in facilities that vary in size from small, specialized clinics to large hospitals. Britain?s “The Telegraph? newspaper reported that 150,000 medical tourists travel to India each year, and that in response, authorities there are in the process of introducing a system of medical visas to streamline visitors? entry. The Confederation of Indian Industry released a study in August 2006 forecasting that medical tourists will contribute $5 billion to the country?s economy.

Those in search of advanced medical care find that, in India, health care prices are competitive with world markets, and that it?s easy to schedule procedures. As the CII study asserts, “heart surgery in the US costs $30,000, while it costs $6,000 in India.? While each patient?s charges differ, in general, the difference in costs varies between one-fifth to one-twenty. Certain surgeries and orthopedic procedures (such as hip resurfacing) not provided in North American hospitals, are available in India.

Travelers interested in wellness find many reasons to journey to India, such as the ancient Ayurvedic therapies. Health tourism includes spa visits and yoga meditation, as well. Agencies offer specialized travel packages for those who consider health maintenance alongside surgical intervention.

Before or after their treatment?or both?medical travelers can enjoy India?s many popular tourist destinations. Whether they enjoy heritage tourism, or viewing wildlife, a beach vacation, or rounds of golf, India has a great deal to offer.

Lets all start making some simple changes to our diet for many health benefits. I will show you how to replace such dangerous foods that many take for granted like white sugar white bread, salt and margarine.

Just making some small changes in your eating habits can make a huge difference in your daily life. We will take a look at some ideas to help you live longer and feel healthy.

Salt: So many people use so much salt in their diet. In fact I once read that most people eat two large sacks of salt throughout the year more than they need. That is a lot of salt and there has been a lot of evidence in recent year that points to over indulgence in salt causing lots of nasty side affects on out health. Instead of eating that horrible nasty cheap salt you buy at the supermarket replace it with a good quality natural sea salt or try using kelp to give your meals that extra bite. It takes some time to wean yourself of salt so just gradually decrease the amount you eat day and before long you will hardly ever use it and you will feel so much healthier. We all need a little salt in out diets but no where near what we eat. In fact nearly all processed foods, snacks and meals you buy when out will have loads of salt.

White Sugar: White sugar is very nasty and one of the worst things we eat. It is one of the most over consumed foods in the world today. It is like salt, abused and found in nearly every processed and man made foods. Avoid eating white sugar at all costs, it is nothing more than trash, chemicals in a lab would most likely have more nutrition than white sugar.

Replace white sugar with a good quality organic raw sugar and still go easy on it. Even better is to use honey since it has some great health benefits. Honey has been known for thousands of years to be a wonder food, with the pollen and goodness of fresh honey comb. Eat an organic honey that has not been heated and filtered, buy direct from the honey farm or from a good organic produce outlet. Avoid supermarket honey as it has most likely lost all its nutrition and goodness due to all the filtering, heating and processing.

White Bread: White bread has absolutely no nutritional value; it clogs arteries and makes people overweight. Replace it with fresh organic wholemeal bread and make sure you read the labels as even the bread that is sold as wholemeal can have so many chemicals, additives and preservatives added that it can be very deceiving. The best idea is to make your own and that can be as simple as buying some organic flour and mixing some of that with some water and kneading it in to some balls and then rolling it out and throwing it under the grill to create flat bread. One of my favorite ways is to do the above but add a tiny pinch of sea salt & a little extra virgin olive oil to the water & flour. Make it quite wet so it is easy to mix everything. The oil will help get rid of any lumps. Now add some more flour slowly as you mix it in a bowl. Once you have a ball then let it sit for 10 minutes or more so all the water is absorbed into the mix. Once it has absorbed together, knead the dough with your washed clean hands.
Now you can heat your grill or pan with olive oil while you roll it out into thin sheets. The bread only takes a little grilling or frying (in olive oil) and it is very healthy and tastes supreme.

Margarine: Have a look at your margarine label, notice how many chemicals and pesticides are in it? Yes it shocked me too as I found lots of preservatives are in it. Now throw it all out and go to the shop and buy some unsalted butter and some extra virgin olive oil as I will show you a much healthier alternative.

What you do is mix a small part of butter with lots of olive oil, you may need to put the butter in a warm room for 20 minutes first but try not to melt it. Now mix the olive oil and the butter until you get it all mixed in. Believe me this is so much healthier than that horrible margarine and yes even the margarines you think are healthy like the ones made of olive oil are full of preservatives and chemicals. Put your new extra virgin olive oil butter in the fridge and it will be ready to use in no time and it takes great too.

I hope all these healthy eating tips will help you all to live longer and better.

About the Author

Lucy Denim writes part-time mainly about nutrition and is in charge of the Health & Beauty Discount department at DiscountSaver.net - http://www.discountsaver.net/coupons.asp?save_discount=health_beauty -

It seems there’s always a new diet treatment hitting the market, or talk of a magic pill that will eliminate fat. Whether you choose to partake in any of these new treatments or not, it’s wise to remember the basics of healthy eating.

Just what is “healthy eating?” Is it only fruits and vegetables? Is it never eating sugar? It is eating only organic foods? Well, to some people, that is healthy eating. But, for the purposes of this article, when I refer to healthy eating I’m referring to balancing the food you eat to stay healthy. By keeping your diet balanced, you’ll find you are giving your body the vitamins and minerals it needs to stay strong. This in turn gives you energy and helps you maintain a healthy weight.

What are some basic tips for healthy eating?

1. Don’t skip any meals

That might sound odd to some people who believe you can only lose weight when you eat less. But, in fact, skipping meals is not healthy, and can actually keep you from maintaining your desired weight. Why? Well, one reason is that your metabolism increases when you eat. And, when the metabolism is increased, you burn more energy. Eating 3 meals with snacks in between is the ideal way to maintain both energy and a healthy weight. What’s that, you say, a snack in between? That’s right; a snack in between smaller meals is actually good for you. First, it can help you not feel so hungry at meals. And, when you don’t feel so hungry at meals, you tend not to eat as much. And, second, eating 5 smaller meals a day helps prevent the large spikes and drops in your blood sugar associated with fewer meals a day.

2. Chew slowly

This advice may seem a bit corny, but it makes sense. When you wolf down your food you aren’t giving your brain time to register when you?re full, which takes about 20 minutes. By the time you finally get the signal it’s too late and you’ve eaten far more than you needed to. Therefore, if you chew your food slowly it slows down your eating.

3. Learn how to prepare foods

Instead of deep frying, try grilling, stir frying, microwaving, baking, boiling and, in the case of vegetables - raw. And, if you really insist on using butter for cooking, try a butter substitute. I use a yogurt butter which is half the fat of regular butter, but tastes the same as real butter. If you use butter to add flavor to food, try something else for a change, like lemon, vinegar or dried herbs and spices. Before you eat any type of meat, be sure to trim it of fat and skin.

4. Avoid alot of sugar

If you can eliminate sugar, good for you, but, if you can’t, at least cut down. Drinks that contain sugar are a major source of empty calories. If you plan to drink sugary drinks, don’t go overboard - limit yourself to one a day.

5. Skip the diet foods

If you follow healthy eating guidelines, there’s really no need to buy prepared diet foods. A good number of these foods contain chemicals and additives that can be counterproductive to a healthy diet. A healthy portion of “real” food beats a heaping of prepared diet food any day, and doesn’t leave you feeling deprived.

Eating healthier doesn’t have to be difficult. The key is to be mindful of what and how you?re eating. Noticing is the first step in changing behavior.

About the Author:

Shari Hearn is a writer and creator of websites, such as http://www.myjuicer-reviews.com and http://www.dnapaternitytests.net