Health - This Week's Health Tips

Curb Hunger, Smell this:

There are plenty of tips and tricks for helping you eat less, a calorie-controlled diet and regular exercise remain the mainstays of weight control. However, if you follow your nose, you may lose some pounds!

Soothe stress with this scent:

Take some time to smell the roses -- and a whole horde of other lovely flowers, plants, and fruits that seem to zap stress.

Grab a spoonful of peanut butter to lower cholesterol!

Not only will you be enjoying rich and satisfying taste, but also you could be helping to lower both your bad cholesterol and your risk of heart disease. 

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Curb Hunger, Smell this:

There are plenty of tips and tricks for helping you eat less, a calorie-controlled diet and regular exercise remain the mainstays of weight control. However, if you follow your nose, you may lose some pounds!

A study suggests that inhaling the scent of peppermint every couple of hours helped people eat less overall and eat better, consume fewer calories and eat less fat, less saturated fat, and less sugar than the non sniffers. Peppermint is found to reduce feelings of hunger.

Just the smell of grapefruit may also help melt the pounds off from your body!

You might have heard about the grapefruit diet, but it seems that its smell too has great hunger curbing potential. The scent of grapefruit oil is believed to have an effect on the liver enzymes that reduce appetite and result in weight loss. However, eating a couple of grapefruit won't hurt your waistline, either.

Soothe stress with this scent:

Take some time to smell the roses -- and a whole horde of other lovely flowers, plants, and fruits that seem to zap stress.

Roses -- as well as lavender, basil, orange, grape, mango, and lemon -- all contain a special compound called linalool, the smell of which apparently reduces anxiety. The vapors of linalool are believed to induce calmness. Blood cells called neutrophils and lymphocytes, which change in response to stress, are brought into equilibrium by this aroma. In fact, the scent of linalool even appears to favorably affect the way the body is programmed to handle stress on a genetic level.

Grab a spoonful of peanut butter to lower cholesterol!

Not only will you be enjoying rich and satisfying taste, but you could also be helping to lower both your bad cholesterol and your risk of heart disease.

Nutrients in peanuts and nuts may help your heart in a couple of ways. They may minimize inflammation -- something your heart really could do without -- and they may help your body use insulin better. Because of this, women with type 2 diabetes probably aren't the only ones who can benefit from eating nuts and peanut butter. In fact, research suggests that nuts may lower heart disease risk for everyone -- regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, or health status.