11 Amazing Ways Eggs Can Improve Your Life

Not just tasty scrambled, eggs are a cheap alternative to beauty products, household cleaners and can even stop your cat sitting on the kitchen table.

Here are the uses for eggs you need to try out:

1. Shampoo
Washing your hair with eggs will make it super shiny and elastic, and is the best way to condition dry hair. Much cheaper than any other conditioning treatment, all you need to do is whisk up an egg yolk with a little honey, lemon juice and olive oil and smother your hair with it for 10 minutes or longer. When you rinse it out your hair with be beaut.

2. Glue
Egg whites are sticky as they dry and are ideal if you've got no glue in the house (because how many times have you needed glue and there's no glue in the house. It's not superglue mind, so stick to paper and card - ideal for a non-toxic glue for children's art projects.

3. Healthy plants
When you boil your eggs don't throw away the water. Let it cool down and water your plants with it. Eggshells are high in calcium, which plants love, and the added nutrients will keep them strong and healthy.

4. Compost
Eggshells decompose in compost and give it an added calcium boost. Wash them out first to avoid attracting animals and crush to speed up the composting process. This type of soil is perfect to grow squashes and tomatoes.

5. Snail and slug killer
Keep slugs and snails off your garden, steps and even indoors by scattering crushed egg shells that irritate their slimy feet.

6. Face masks
Nutrient-packed eggs aren't just healthy to eat, they're great for you on the outside too. To banish blemishes without drying out the skin, whisk up a couple of egg yolks and spread over your face for a few minutes. To tighten the skin and pores, reduce oiliness and get rid of blackheads you need the white. Apply in the same way.

7. Make coffee taste better

If your coffee's too bitter, try crushing an eggshell to powder and mix it into your cup of joe. It's an alkaline compound, while coffee is acidic so it will mellow out the flavor of cheap-o coffee.

8. Cake decorating

Eggs can be used to make edible paint that you can use to decorate cakes and biscuits. Mix one egg white with about a tablespoon of water and add your chosen food colourings. Then paint away!

9. Train your cat

Fed up of your cat walking all over the surfaces and falling asleep on the kitchen table ? Cats hate the feel of crushed eggshells on their soft paw pads so careful sprinkle will soon teach your kitty to avoid the areas you don't want her paws on.

10. They're really good for you

There's loads of things you can do with the shells but don't be throwing away the eggs themselves. They're a good source of protein as well as several of the B vitamins, vitamin A, calcium and zinc (and a few others) as well as choline, a nutrient many of us don't get enough of.

11. Shoe cleaner

Egg white is a good leather cleaner so it's perfect for shoes, boots, bags... and any other leather products. Rub it on with a damp cloth and wipe clean and it'll leave a lovely shine.

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Decaf or Regular: Coffee Is Good for Your Liver

Drinking decaffeinated coffee is just as helpful as drinking regular coffee is for maintaining a healthy liver, a new study finds.

Regardless of whether they drank decaf or regular, people in the study who drank large quantities of coffee on a daily basis had lower levels of abnormal liver enzymes, the researchers found. This suggests that a chemical in coffee other than caffeine may help the liver, the researchers said.

Other studies have found that drinking coffee is associated with lower risks of developing diabetes, cardiovascular disease, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, cirrhosis and liver cancer.

"Prior research found that drinking coffee may have a possible protective effect on the liver," lead researcher Dr. Qian Xiao, of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, said in a statement. "However, the evidence is not clear if that benefit may extend to decaffeinated coffee."

To answer the decaf question, Xiao and his colleagues used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which is a survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to assess the health of people living in the United States. In this survey, participants are not only interviewed, they also undergo physical examinations including blood tests.

The researchers looked at about 27,800 people age 20 or older who reported how much coffee they had consumed over the past 24 hours. The team also looked at their blood samples for several markers of liver health, including alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and gamma-glutamyl transaminase (GGT). Elevated levels of liver enzymes may be a sign of liver damage or inflammation.

The results showed that people who said they drank three or more cups of coffee a day had lower levels of all four of these enzymes, compared with people who did not drink any coffee. Surprisingly, it didn't matter whether a person drank regular or decaf coffee: the effect on liver enzyme levels was almost identical.

"Our findings link total and decaffeinated coffee intake to lower liver enzyme levels," Xiao said. Further studies are needed to identify what component of coffee is responsible for this effect, he said.

The study will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Hepatology.


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Meditation could help relieve migraines

Sufferers of migraines could find more than just solace but actual relief in meditation, says a new study.

“Stress is a well-known trigger for headaches, and research supports the general benefits of mind-body interventions for migraines,” says Rebecca Erwin Wells, MD, assistant professor of neurology at Wake Forest Baptist and lead author of the new small study. “But there hasn’t been much research to evaluate specific standardised meditation interventions.”

Those who meditated experienced fewer migraines with severity and duration reduced, says study. – AFP

The goal of the study was to examine the effects of a standardised meditation and yoga intervention on migraine sufferers called mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR).

The participant group of 19 was divided into a test group of 10, who received the intervention, and the remaining nine made up the control group who continued using standard medical care for migraines.

For a period of eight weeks, the test group reported for weekly training sessions and were instructed to practice 45 minutes on their own a minimum of five additional days each week.

Researchers evaluated participants using objective measures of how their migraines affected their health and quality of life before and after the trial and each subject logged migraine occurrence throughout the intervention.

The test group had made more progress toward overcoming migraines, having an average of 1.4 fewer migraines per month with reduced severity and duration.

“Secondary effects included headaches that were shorter in duration and less disabling, and participants had increases in mindfulness and self-efficacy – a sense of personal control over their migraines,” says Wells. “In addition, there were no adverse events and excellent adherence.”

Having concluded that MBSR intervention is safe and effective, further research with larger participant groups is being planned.

“For the approximate 36 million Americans who suffer from migraines, there is big need for non-pharmaceutical treatment strategies, and doctors and patients should know that MBSR is a safe intervention that could potentially decrease the impact of migraines,” Wells says.

The study was published in the journal Headache. – Relaxnews




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