The vinegar is used beginning from B.C.5000. Apple vinegar is also called as ‘sour wine’. It is used in many areas from skin care to health problems. The vinegars in the markets are refined but it should be fermented. So the best way is to make your own vinegar.

The different fields that vinegar is used are as follows:

-The vinegar kills bacterias.Especially in the treatment of problems like ear infections, wart, fungal injection and gem vinegar is used. Hippocrat used vinegar as disinfectant many years ago.

-The vinegar prevents acne formation. It is a natural tonic.Dilute vinegar with water and apply it on your face in treatment of acne and use it as tonic in skin cleaning.It tightens the skin. If you use vinegar for your skin, your skin will be soft and fresh. Also it has protective effect against wrinkles.Because of this, the vinegar known as anti ageing product.

-The vinegar fights against diabetes. It lowers blood sugar. In type 2 diabetes, it balances blood sugar. If you use medicine you shouls consult your doctor before using vinegar. During your meal if you eat a bit of bread by dipping into vinegar, this will balance your insuline.But do not forget to ask your doctor if you use medicine.

-The vinegar gives the feeling of fullness. It helps to lose weight. It makes you consume 300 calories more in a day. Especially if you use vinegar in your diet you will help to lose your fat around your belly and waist.

– According to the searches that were done by Harvard University, within the ladies who used vinegar in their salad sauce had a lower risk of heart disease. It also lowers cholesterol. And the vinegar has protective property against cancer. but using fermented vinegar is important. Here is a recipe for making vinegar at your home: – 1 kg of apple

-2 spoon of honey

-3 litres of water

-1 tea glass of chickpea

-1/2 tea glass of bulghur

Cut the apples into small pieces. Put them in a glass jar. Add honey, chickpea, bulghur and mix them with plastic or silicone spoon. Close the jar with gauze. Leave it in a cool and dry environment for twenty days. It should not take light directly. During this time, mix them once a day. After 20 days, wait more 20 days without mixing. Finally, take the main of vinegar out and filter it. You can use the main of vinegar in your next vinegar as a ferment.

-The vinegar ensures the activities of the intestine. It affects the liver directly. It metabolizes fats.

-The vinegar also used in hair care. It cleans the corpse cells on the head and this balances the PH level. The vinegar makes hair soft and shiny. It also prevents dandruff.

-It whitens your teeth.

-It also removes tea and coffee stains.

-It relax the skin which was browned.

-You can clean vegetables and fruits with the vinegar. Add 1 glass of vinegar to 3 glass of water. Put your fruits and vegetables in it. Leave them for 10-15 minutes to clean them. It prevents degeneration of food.

-It strengthens the immune system and it gives energy.

-The vinegar is good for coughing. Add 4 spoon of honey to 4 spoons of vinegar. Eat it 4 times a day. You will mention that your cough will be stopped. If you take this mixture before sleeping, you will sleep well. Also, you can use the vinegar as a mouthwash. Add a pinch sea salt and black pepper to the vinegar to use it as a mouthwash.

-If you add 2 spoons of vinegar to 1 glass of warm water and wash out your mouth, this will cure your gum problems.

-It is good for muscle pain.

-If you have a toothache, put vinegar on a piece of cloth and put this cloth on your cheek. This will help you.

-The vinegar is good for the eye infection. Mix 1 amount of vinegar with 4 amount of water. Wipe this with cotton on your eye.

-It is good for headache. Add 1 spoon of vinegar to boiling water. Smell this. This will be good for your headache. Rub your temple and brow with vinegar.

-The vinegar is also used against fever. But you should dilute it if you will use it to the child.

-The vinegar involves a high amount of folic acid, B12, and Ferrum. It is good for anemia. Add 1 spoon of vinegar to warm water and drink it every day.

The vinegar is very curative liquid. But you should be careful about using it. Do not take more than 8gr. per day because you will lose potassium. Pregnants should consult their doctors and also if you use medicine ask your doctor. Do your vinegar at home. You will feel the difference in your life when you begin to use it in different fields of your life.

Pomegranate seed oil  innovates the skin by moisturizing.Pomegranate is one of the functional food  amon foods  and  the importance of pomegranate seed oil is increased.

In the structure of promegranate there is punicic acid. Punicic acid has powerful anti-oxidant effect and this is used in anti-aging and wrinkle creams. It also involves poliphenollers and Vitamin E. And also pomegranate seed oil involves conguge oil which prevents skin cancer.

According to investigations pomegranate seed oil eliminates cancer cells in breast cancer. And also it is seen that people who had hyper tension problem have lived decline 5% in their blood pressure. According to investigations of scientists pomegranate seed oil is safe and protective agent against skin cancer.

Pomegranate seed oil is naturel cosmetic for dermotologic use. It is rich from Vitamin E and poliphenol so it can be used in skin care directly.

It also meets the needs of skin and renovates skin with its regenerative characteristics. With this feature pomegranate seed oil protects skin against free radicals. This contributes  the apperance of wink and elasticity in skin. Your skin can be damaged because of age, air pollution, environmental factors and lack of care. For emergence solution pomegranate seed oil is used. This is important for innovation, nutrition, moisturizing and elasticity of skin.

The usage of pomegranate seed oil is as follows. For internal use, 7-8 drop of pomegranate seed oil is enough. Put 7-8 drop of pomegranate oil in a glass of water and drink it. For external use, drop the oil on your finger tips and massage it to your skin. It does not mentioned about the harmful effect of  pomegranate seed oil. But it does not recommended to be used during the first three months of pregnancy because it involves natural ostrogen and also if allergic reactions are seen give break to the usage of pomegranate seed oil.

Cinnamon is very important spice for throat and nose. If you have problem like sinusitis, quinsy and hoarseness cinnamon should be in your natural pharmacy in your kitchen.

Cinnamon involves cineol and cinnamaldehyde which are preventative against quinsy and hoarseness.These two effective materials need cuminaldehyde  to be functional. Thus, cinnamon is very important for its involvement of these three materials.

It is very effective for nose-throat infections. Cinnamon tea is very useful especially for people who use their voices like teachers,singers and speakers. The tea of shell cinnamon is useful for these diseases: – It is preventative for diabetics. It activate glykosil transferas enzyme and stops serintreonine protein kinas enzyme. This increases insuline sensibility.

– It decreases blood sugar. But it is not medicine for decreasing blood sugar. It is factor in decreasing blood sugar.

– It is preventative for rheumatism

– It is protective against quinsy

– It decreases the risk of attacking high blood pressure

– It is fatigue remover

– It is tranquiliser

– It prevents the forming of nitrozamine in lugs

– It is natural anti-bacterial

– It is preventative for headaches which is caused by busy business tempo

– It is stomach friendly

– It is good for mental fatigue

– It is protective against cancer.

– It strengthens the immune system

– It involves different structured molecular antioxidant. It is most powerful anti-oxidants. It involves at least 9 anti-oxidants.

– It is good for stress

– It is preventative against migraine

– It is very rich from potassium. If you have kidney failure or dialysis problem stay away from cinnamon.

– If you have hypoglisemy stay away from cinnamon

– It controls cholesterol. High cholesterol has negative effect for insuline sensibility. If you drink cinnamon tea  it helps to control total cholesterol and LDL.

– It is protective against pimple

You can drink cinnamon tea 4-5 times a week. Do not consume it too much because if you addict your body to herbal tea, you cannot use its benefits. Leave time lag for 15-20 days while drinking this tea.

Cinnamon Tea: Boil 150-200ml. of water. Put one cluster of cinnamon in it and boil for 5 minutes. Drink after filtering.

Resource: The article of Prof. İbrahim Adnan Saraçoğlu

The latin name of almond is Prunus dulcis. It ir rich from protein, calcium, and iron. It has two kinds as sweet almond and sour almond.The benefits of almond are as follows:

– It is good for headache, liver ache and kidney ache.

– It strengthens the immune system.

– It cures wounds

– It cures kidney and breast diseases

– It eliminates constipation. Mix the same amount of almond oil and honey or pectin. Give babies 2 small tea spoon of this mixture with 4-5 hour break. But consult your doctor.

– It has comfortable effect in sunburns

– It increases milk of pregnant women and helps the development of babies.

– It lowers the cholesterol and lowers the risk of having heart attack 50%

– It balances the level of blood sugar and lowers the risk of attacking cancer.

– It has effect of expectorant and tranquiliser

– It cures the wounds on lips. You can use 1-2 drops  of almond oil.

– Sour almond, opens the pores of liver, kidney and spleen.

– It  removes  body and mental exhaustion

– It involves Vitamin B and protein so it renovates the nerves.

– If you eat a handful of almond eveyday, this decreases the risk of having heart attack.

– It strengthens the stomach if you consume it with milk.

– If you drink 1 dessert spoon of almond oil every day, this softens guts and good for kidney stone.

– It softens the skin and nourishes the hair.

These are benefits of almond, Do not forget to add almond in your daily menu for healthy living.

Fruits involves vitamins, minerals and fibre which are most important constituent of body, Here are some fruits which are beneficial for our body.

        APPLE lowers the cholesterol and tension. If you consume it regularly it has effect of anti-aging,  regulates the sugar rate in the blood and prevents early aging which is result of diabetics. It strengthens  the immune system. It stops joint and rheumatism aches. It prevents constipation and stops diarrhea.

       JAPANESE PEAR  is a kind of apple which gives the taste of pear. It has qualified minerals and low calorie.

       ORANGE  is rich from Vitamin C. It has enough calcium and has anti-cholesterol fibres. Do not forget fruit is the best dessert.

      PLUM strengthens the heart veins. It is diuretic and softens the guts. It is rich from minerals and source of anti-aging.

      BERRY  protects capillary. It supports blood stream and it has anti-aging effect.

      PINEAPPLE  has low calorie. It has enzyme which is called bromelain. This enzyme balances blood cloging and protects the heart. And also it involves enzymes which prevents the combination of cancer causing materials and protects stomach.

       WATERMELON involves high amount of water and keratine. It is rich from fibre and anti-aging. It is effective in protecting from cancer and cardiological diseases.

      LEMON strengthens blood veins because of vitamins and flavonoids that it involves. By blood stream lemon gives power to our cells like benzine and provide vital vitamins to our body. And also it has important place in protecting people from cancer. You can use its benefits by adding lemon juice in your meals because it lowers sugar rate in blood and blood presure.

AVOCADO has high calorie but it is good candidate to  add it in your daily menu because its oils are very beneficial. They are as good as olive oil. It is friend of heart. It involves fibres and Vitamin E which is anti-cholesterol and very good anti-oxidant.

GOO-FO has very low calorie. It is rich from vitamins and fibres. It lowers sugar rate in blood. Its biting taste is helpful for digestion system. It is ideal for beauty and health.

RESOURCE: Dufuor, Anne.’ Okinawa Diet’.

Green tea is obtained from Camelia Sinesis. It is not fermented so its substance which contains anti-oxidant does not ruined. More than 400 years it is used in medical world in China.

While drinking green tea do not boil green tea,  add warm water on it and wait for 5-6 minutes before drinking it. Do not add sugar in it  if you want, you can add honey but the water should not be very hot. If you drink it in the morning and at night before sleeping on an empty stomach it will be very useful.

Green tea has protective effect against some cancer types and heart diseases. Other benefits of green tea are as follows:

– It hasten the metabolism so it is effective drink especially in diet menus.

– It makes the skin more beatiful and protects gum.

– If you drink it with fennel  after meals it ease the digestion.

– According to searches of South Florida University, anti-oxidants in green tea eliminates effects of Alheimer.

– The poliphenolic substances in fresh green tea have important effect in reducing the risk of cancer.

– Green tea which is drunk sugar free balances the body’s fluid.

– Green tea contains the substance of EGCG  which has protective effect against lung, stomach, colon, and  skin types of cancer and also some heart diseases.

– If you drink green tea regularly you will get great help in curing rheumatism.

– In China the ratio of prostate patients is very low and green tea is traditional drink of China. The experts believes that green tea protects people against cancer.

– People who drink green tea are protected from skin cancer but also the patients who had skin cancer also use green tea mixtures for curing.

– There is no known side effects of green tea but it contains cafein so it should be consumed by the advice of doctor.

Source: Article of Ebru Nevzat ‘ Green tea reduces the risk of cancer’