Building Blcoks for A Healthy Diet

Building Blocks to a Healthy Diet

What are society’s rules to a healthy diet?

The American Diabetes Association says to eat regular meals so your blood sugar stays even. The National Research Council says to watch out for fats, sugars, and salt. The American Heart Association says to edit your consumption of fats, sugars and cholesterol. The American Cancer society says to eat more fruits and veggies. All while the Food police says if it tastes good, forget it!  The U.S Department of Agriculture and Health and Human Services have incorporated and virtually all these rules into the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010 and added some advisers of their own.
 

                             BUT IN THE END,

Creating and enjoying the food choices that make a body better is up to you!

What’s New as of 2010?

• Cut back on sodium.
• Lower the percentage of saturated fat in your diet.
• Don’t eat so many foods with added sugar.
• Get enough vitamin D, Calcium and potassium, iron, and vitamin B12.
• Eat 8 ounces of seafood a week.
• Investigate a vegetarian diet.
• Exercise enough to meet the standards set by the 2008 Physical activity Guidelines for Americans ( at www.health.gov/paguidelines )
• Keep food safe and clean.

Subtracting Sugar?

That’s right folks, you read that right! This means editing your diet to reduce foods to which sugar is added, such as cookies and cakes, but not from foods such as fruits with naturally occurring sugars. The guidelines specifically mention sugar-rich soft drinks, suggesting that you substitute water, fat-free milk, 100% fruit juice or unsweetened tea and coffee. Did you catch what drink is missing from that calorie-free list? That’s right! NO DIET SODA! Why? Because some studies suggest that rather than helping you lose weight, these drinks actually lead to weight gain, perhaps by leading you to eating things you wouldn’t otherwise have chosen.

RESEARCH!

In 2005, researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, released data from an 8-year, 1,550 person study showing that among people drinking soda sweetened with sugar, the risk of becoming overweight or even obese was

·        26% of those drinking up to ½  can daily

·        30.4% percent at ½ to 1 can daily

·        32.8% at 1 to 2 cans daily

·        47.2% at more than 2 cans daily

No surprise there. But look at the risk for people drinking diet soft drinks:

• 36.5% for those drinking up to ½ can daily
• 37.5 percent at ½ to 1 can daily
• 54.5% percent at 1 to 2 cans daily.
• 57.1% at more than 2 cans daily.

In other words, statistically speaking, the risk for gaining weight rose 41% for each can of diet drink a day. Water looks better and better, doesn’t it?

COME ON OUTSIDE OR TO A GYM AND BE ACTIVE!

When you take in more calories from food than you use up running you body system and doing a day’s physical work, you end up storing the extra calories as fat. In other words, you gain weight. You don’t have to be a mathematician to reduce this principle to two simple equation in which  E stands for energy (in calories), > stands for greater than < stands for less than, and W stands for the change in weight:

If E in > E out: E total= +W

If E in < E out: E total= - W

Guidelines and Where to Find Them

Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010 or the Executive Summary go to www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines.

The USDA is launching interactive programs on its web site to make it easier to plan healthy meals, as well as games and apps to promote healthy eating and exercise at www.appsforhealthykids.com

New Exercise

Mountain Climbers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Oe1t1IZdNY

Target: Butt/Hips, legs, thighs,

Equipment: No Equipment

Step 1

Starting Position: Come to a hands and knees position on the floor with your toes pointed toward the floor. Your hands should be slightly ahead of your shoulders and your fingers pointing forward. Bring your left foot forward and place it on the floor under your chest. Your knee and hip are bent and your thigh is in toward your chest. Lift your right knee off the ground, making your right leg straight and strong. Your right toes are tucked under, heel up. Brace your abdominal muscles to stabilize your spine. Pull your shoulder blades down and back.

Step 2

Keeping your hands firmly on the ground, your abdominals engaged and shoulders strong jump to switch leg positions. Both feet leave the ground as your drive your right knee forward and reach your left leg back. Now your left leg is fully extended behind you and your right knee and hip are bent with your right foot on the floor.

Step 3

Exercise Variation: If you have limited range of motion in the hips, place hands on a step or platform.

Keep your weight evenly distributed on both legs. Do not shift all your weight forward into your front foot.

Recipe: WATERMELON   SORBET

Makes 12 servings

A frozen watermelon treat

Ingredients:

½ cups sugar

¾ cup water

4 pounds seedless watermelon cut into chunks

2 tablespoons of lime juice

                                                

Recipe Directions for Watermelon Sorbet

1. Combine sugar and water in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature, about 45 minutes. Cover and refrigerate until chilled, about 1 hour.
2. Place watermelon and lime juice in a food processor; process until smooth. Set a sieve over a large bowl and press the puree through to remove tiny seeds. Whisk in the sugar syrup.
3. Pour the watermelon mixture into a shallow metal pan and freeze until ice crystals form around the edges, about 30 minutes. Stir the ice crystals into the center of the pan and return to the freezer; repeat every 20 minutes until all the liquid is frozen.
4. Serve immediately or transfer to a storage container and let harden in the freezer for 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Serve in chilled dishes.

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“You just have to start putting one foot in from of the other, making an effort to get healthy everyday.”   - Ali Vincent

Next Month: We will be learning about the Food Pyramids and Nutritional Labels.

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For The Love of Nutrition

FOR THE LOVE OF NUTRITION

The Power of Protein

Protein is any of various naturally occurring extremely complex substances that consist of amino-acid residues joined by peptide bonds, contain the elements carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, usually sulfur, and occasionally other elements (as phosphorus or iron), and include many essential biological compounds (as enzymes, hormones, or antibodies). (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

How Does Your Body Use Proteins?

Your body is a wonderful piece of machinery! It works with all its parts to work and do wonderful things. Proteins are only one of so many sources you need to keep all your parts running properly! Proteins help to build new cells, maintain tissues, and synthesize new proteins that make it possible for you to perform basic bodily functions.

• Proteins also help with your hair, nails and outer layers of your skin. The outer layer of your skin is made of keratin, a scleroprotein or a protein resistant to digestive enzymes, so if you bite your nails, you can not digest them.
• Your muscle tissue contains myosin, actin, myoglobin and a number of proteins.

• Bone’s Outer Layer is hardened with minerals such as calcium, while the rubbery inner layer is protein and bone marrow; the soft material inside the bone is also rich in protein.

• Red Blood Cells contain hemoglobin, a protein compound that carries oxygen throughout the body. Plasma, the clear fluid in your blood, contains fat and protein particle know as lipoproteins, which ferry cholesterol around and out of the body.

About half the dietary protein that you consume each day goes into making enzymes. Your ability to see, think, hear and move requires your nerve cells to send messages back and forth to each other and to other specialized kinds of cells, such as muscles cells. Sending these kinds of messages requires chemicals called neurotransmitters. Making neurotransmitters requires PROTEINS!

HOW DOES THE PROTEINS YOU EAT GET TO YOUR CELLS?

Proteins from foods are broken into their component amino acids by digestive enzymes which are of course, specialized proteins. Then other enzymes in your body cells build new proteins by reassembling amino acids into compounds that your body needs to function. This process is called protein synthesis. During the protein synthesis the Amino Acids hook onto fats to form lipoproteins or they may even join up with carbohydrates to form the glycoproteins found in the mucus secretes by the digestive tract.  Proteins combine with phosphoric acid to produce phosphoproteins, such as casein, and a protein in milk. Nucleic acids combine with proteins to create nucleophlasm, the living material inside each cell. 

High and Low quality proteins

An animals body is similar to ours, its proteins contains similar combinations of amino acids. That’s why nutritionists call proteins from foods of animal origins. Meat, fish, poultry, eggs and diary products re considered high quality proteins. Our bodies absorb these proteins more efficiently. The proteins from plants such as grains, fruit, vegetables, legumes (beans), nuts, and seeds often have limited amounts of some essential amino acids, which means their nutritional content is not as high as animal proteins.

Complete and Incomplete Proteins

Another great way to describe the quality of proteins is to say that they are either complete or incomplete. A complete protein is one that contains ample amounts of all essential amino acids, an incomplete protein does not. A protein low in one specific amino acid is called a limiting protein because it can build only as much tissue as the smallest amount of the necessary amino acids. You can improve by eating it along with one that contains sufficient amounts of the limited amino acid.  If you wanted the values of protein in literally thousands of servings and foods check out the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard References.

Fun Fact

Do athletes need more protein than the rest of us? Recent research suggests that the answer is yes, but athletes easily meet their requirements simply by eating more food, not necessarily increasing the amount of any specific food.

FACING FATS AND CHOLESTEROL

Another name for Cholesterol is lipids, from the Greek word Lipos which means fat. Liquid fats are called oils; solid fats are called, well fat and the fat in food is called dietary fats.  Dietary fats are sources of energy that add flavor to foods. The characteristics on sizzling steak so to say.  Sadly, this tasty nutrient may also be hazardous to your health. The trick is to separate the good from the bad. A healthy body needs fats to build the body tissues and manufacture biochemical’s, such as hormones. Some of the adipose (fatty) tissue in your body is plain to see. For example, even though your skin covers it, you can see the fat deposits in female’s breasts, hips thighs, buttocks, and belly or on the male abdomen and shoulders. Foods contain three kinds of fats…. Triglycerides, phospholipids, and sterols.  All fats in foods are combinations of fatty acids. Depending on how many hydrogen atoms ate attached to the carbon atoms in the chain. The more hydrogen atoms, the more saturated the fatty acid. Depending on which fatty acids predominated, a food fat is likewise characterized as saturated, monounsaturated, or polyunsaturated.

Healthy Bodies need cholesterol. Look carefully and you will find cholesterol in and around your cells, in your fatty tissue, in your organs, in your brain, and in your glands.

Cholesterol

·        Protects the integrity of cell membranes

·        Helps nerve cells to send messages back and forth

·        Is a building block for vitamin D

·        Enables your gallbladder to make bile acids, digestive chemical that in turn enables you to absorb fats and fat-so

·        Is a base on which you build steroid hormones such as estrogen and testosterone

Cholesterol and Diet

Most of the cholesterol that you need is made right in your own liver, which churns out about 1 gram a day from the raw material in the proteins, fats and carbohydrates that you consume. But you also get cholesterol from food of animal origin: meat, poultry, fish, eggs, and dairy products. Although some plant foods such as coconut and cocoa bean are high ion saturated fats, no plants produce cholesterol.

New Exercise

Squats:  How to Do A Squat?

The Bodyweight Basics

1. Place feet a little wider than shoulder-width apart, hips stacked over knees, knees over ankles.
2. Roll the shoulders back and down away from the ears. Note: Allowing the back to round (like a turtle’s shell) will cause unnecessary stress on the lower back.
3. Extend the arms out straight so they are parallel with the ground, palms facing down (like your hands are on someone’s shoulders at a 7^th grade dance). Or, if it’s more comfortable, pull the elbows close to the body, palms facing each other and thumbs pointing up.
4. Initiate movement by inhaling into the belly, and unlocking the hips, slightly bringing them back. Keep sending hips backward as the knees begin to bend.
5. While the butt starts to stick out, make sure the chest and shoulders stay upright, and the back stays straight. Keep the head facing forward with eyes straight ahead for a neutral spine.
6. Let the hip joint squat lower to the ground than the knees, if comfortable. Pro tip: Try squatting onto a box or chair.
7. Engage the core, and exhale while driving through the heels to return to standing. Imagine the feet are spreading the floor (the left foot to the left, right foot to the right) without actually moving the feet.

Quote

By Edward Stanley. "Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness."

Question for reader: How can you improve “your health”?

Recipe: Strawberry Shortcake

Ingredients

·   1 Tablespoon Calorie Free sweetener

·         1 tablespoon cornstarch

·         1 cup orange juice

·         1/4 teaspoon vanilla or almond extract

·         1 1/2 cups sliced fresh strawberries (about 1 pint)

·         6 spongecake dessert shells (5-ounce package)

·          

Preparation

Combine sweetener and cornstarch in a small saucepan. Stir in orange juice. Bring to a boil; cook, stirring constantly, 1 minute or until mixture is thickened and bubbly. Remove from heat, and stir in extract. Cool completely.
Combine orange juice mixture and strawberries in a bowl; stir gently. Cover and chill 30 minutes.
To serve, spoon sauce over dessert shells.
Tip: This luscious sauce is also good spooned over no-sugar-added ice cream, angel food cake, or fat-free pound cake.

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Lavender: (Lavandula angustifolia)

Lavender: (Lavandula angustifolia)

A refreshing note to a tired mind, Lavender has been named as one ot he most useful of the essences for the relief of anxiety and stress. In a world of complete an utter anxiety and stress this miracle flower/oil can be used to sooth the nervous system. It can also be beneficial to the respiratory tract in partyicular to coughs, colds, and influenza. It certainly eases breathing when the lungs and sinuses are choked with Phlegm.

 ( Phlegm- Thick, sticky, stringy mucus secreted by the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract, as during a cold or other respiratory infection.) Lavender is also good for aches and pains and muscle stiffness and may also help with rheumatic discomfort and joint stiffness.  The essential properties of lavender oil are beneficial to healing of wounds including burns and can even treat eczema,dermatitis, scabies, and psoriasis. It is recommended to not use it during pregnancy, epilepsy, and fever.

For the skin lavender helps abscesses, acne, allergies, athletes feet and fungal infections, boils, bruises, burns, cold sores, cuts, dermatitis, eczema, hives, inflammation, insect bites and stings, lice, psoriasis, rashes, ringworm, scabies, scars, shingles, stretch-marks, sunburns and wounds.

Circulation, muscles and joints aches and pains, helps reduce cellulites, heart palpitations, high blood pressure, Lumbago, reduces swelling and pain, relaxes tight muscles, joint pains, rheumatism, and sprains.

Respiratory Asthma. Bronchitis, coughs, colds, congestion, flu, laryngitis, throat infections, whooping cough, and sinus infection.

Digestion colic, improves digestion, nausea, gas, and is soothing to the intestines.

Nervous System balances the emotions it's calming and uplifting. It just makes you feel better. It also helps with convulsion and epilepsy, delusions, depression, insomnia, headaches and migraines, nervous tension, trembling, panic, relaxing, stress, shock, and vertigo. IT CAN EVEN HELP WITH PMS!

BE CAREFUL WHEN USING ESSENTIAL OILS, EACH ONE IS DIFFERENT AND MAY NEED TO BE USED WITH A CARRIER OIL!

30 Ways to use Lavender oil: 

 1.) Rub Lavender oil on the feet for a calming effect on the body.

2.) Rub a drop of Lavender oil on your palms and then apply to your pillow to help you sleep and for insomnia.

3.) Put a drop of Lavender oil on a bee sting or insect bite to stop itching and reduce swelling.

4.) Put 2-3 drops of Lavender oil on a minor burn to decrease pain and help prevent scarring.


5.) Drop Lavender oil on a cut to stop the bleeding.

6.)  Mix several drops of Lavender oil with olive or coconut oil and use topically on eczema and dermatitis.

7.)  To alleviate the symptoms of motion sickness, place a drop of Lavender oil on the end of the tongue, around the navel or behind the ears.
 
8.)  To stop a nosebleed, put a drop of Lavender oil on a tissue and wrap it around a small chip of ice.  Push the tissue covered ice chip up under the middle of the top lip to the base of the nose and hold as long as comfortable or until the bleeding stops (do not freeze the lip or gum).

9.) Rub a drop of Lavender oil over the bridge of the nose to unblock tear ducts.

10.) Rub Lavender oil on dry or chapped skin.

11.) Rub a drop of Lavender oil on chapped or sunburned lips.

12.) To reduce or minimize the formation of scar tissue, massage Lavender oil on and around the affected area.

13.)  Rub 2 drops of Lavender oil over the armpit area to act as a deodorant.

14.) Rub a drop of Lavender oil between your palms and inhale deeply to help alleviate the symptoms of hay fever.

15.) Rub several drops of Lavender oil into the scalp to help eliminate dandruff.

16.) Place a few drops of Lavender oil on a cotton ball and place in your linen closet to scent the linens and repel moths and insects.

17.) Place a drop of Lavender oil in your water fountain to scent the air, kill bacteria and prolong the time between cleanings.

18.) Place a few drops of Lavender oil on a wet cloth and throw into the dryer which will deodorize and freshen your laundry.

19.) Put a drop of Lavender oil on a cold sore.

20.) Diffuse Lavender oil to alleviate the symptoms of allergies.

21.)  Spritz several drops of Lavender oil mixed with distilled water on a sunburn to decrease pain.

22.) Drop Lavender oil on a cut to clean the wound and kill bacteria.

23.) Apply 2-3 drops of Lavender oil to a rash to stop the itching and heal the skin.

24.) Apply 1-2 drops of Lavender oil in your iron to freshen your clothes.

25.)  Apply 1-2 drops of Lavender oil on a wet cloth and place in the dryer for an all natural dryer sheet.

26.) Rub Lavender oil on the back of your neck, chest, and in between your eyes to alleviate sinuses, sinusitis, allergies.

27.) Add Lavender oil to your recipes.

28.)  Add drops of Lavender oil to your favorite beverage:  tea or lemonade.

29.)  Rub a drop of Lavender oil on your temples to alleviate a headache.

30.)  Rub a drop on the base of the neck to relieve stress and anxiety.

Homeschooling Teen Magazine Column Piece

Kate’s Health Corner

 I want to teach you about health and Fitness. In today’s society we do not always look at how we are taking care of our bodies. We are busy with everyday events that it is just not something we think about. With obesity in America quickly rising we must take action now to have a happy and healthy life. My mission is to teach you how to do that. TAKE THE WORD DIET OUT OF YOUR HEAD! This column is going to teach you HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE. Many times diets are not life changing in fact they are just a quick and simple way to lose weight. We are going to learn the safe way to stay healthy and fit.

WHAT IS NUTRITION?

Nutrition is the process of nourishing or being nourished, especially the process by which a living organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and for replacement of tissues.

Nutrition

Have you ever heard someone say “You are what you eat?” Well that is true but there is more to it then just that. You are what you eat. You are also how you eat. And when you eat.  That is way eating the right things for you body is so important. Nutrition is the science of how your body uses what you eat. So when you look at it way nutrition equals life! Every living thing on the face of the earth needs food and water to live. You need good food that nutritious the body with the proper nutrients, to live a healthy life. When not getting the proper nutrients your bones may bend or break from not enough calcium. Your gums may start to bleed from not having enough vitamin C. Your blood may not carry enough oxygen to every cell from not having enough Iron.   Eating the right things will also help your digestive system. The digestive system is a collection of organs designed to turn complex foods into basic nutrients during the process called digestion. Your food first starts in your mouth, goes to your stomach (or the bottomless pit!) Making its way to the small intestine. Then finally to the large intestine. Nutrients are absorbed not in the order of which they went in, but in the intestine according to how fast they’re broken down. Starting with the Carbohydrates, proteins, Fats, and then the vitamins.

·        Fun Fact: Finding your small intestine

Open your hand and put it flat against your belly button. With your thumb pointing up to your waist and your pinkie pointing down. Your hand is now covering most of small space into which your 20-foot-long small intestine is neatly coiled. 

NUTRIENTS IN ENERGY DRINKS?  I  THINK NOT!

Tip: The Boost in the Bottle

It all started with Gatorade. In the summer of 1965, a football coach at the University of Florida asked a team of University physicians to explain why so many players wilted in the heat. The answer: Loss of fluid and electrolytes when sweating. The result: A thirst –quenching hydrating fluid replacement beverage called, yes, GATORADE! That soon had the Florida Gators walking over their opponents to end up with a winning season and a won at the Orange Bowl in 1966. Nothing succeeds like success, of course. Soon other Universities began ordering up some Gatorade for their teams, pro teams, and by 1983, Gatorade was the official sports drink of the NFL- a title still held today. Eventually, the hydrating liquid for serious athletes turned it into an “energy drink” for amateur athletes with nutrient-packed beverages promising to increase performance and, sometimes just to keep a person awake. No surprise, one of the most common ingredients in these drinks is the original awake and alert substance berry native to Brazil and Venezuela. Other ingredients are taurine, amino acids and B vitamins. Then there are also many sugars to sweeten a normally bland cocktail.

Three cautions to look at on these energy drinks. First, Sugar is fattening. Second, adding vitamins to a daily diet via energy drinks might trip a person who is taking other supplements into overdose territory. Third, you need to watch the caffeine level. Yes, Caffeine keeps you awake and alert. But too much caffeine, whether from coffee, tea or energy drinks, can lead to not so good results. A nervous, irritable rapid heartbeat and maybe even high blood pressure. That is mild compared to what the 2003 report from the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association reported that at least four cases reported of caffeine- associated deaths and four documented cases of seizures associated with energy drinks.

Anyone here want a bottle of water? ~  Nutrition for Dummies

Statistical Fact:

According to the Dietary Guidelines in 2010, in 1970 about 15% of all Americans were obese. By 2008, that figure had more than doubled to 34%, and in 32 of the 50 states, more than one in every four people were obese. The national survey of Children’s Health (2007) says that more than 12 million American Children and adults are obese, and the National Center of Health Statics says that the number of obese 6- to- 11 year old has quadrupled since 1970. ~Dietary Guidelines for Americans (USDA)

New exercise

Lie face down resting on forearms. Push up onto toes, keeping the body as straight as possible. Draw the belly button toward the spine, squeeze your glutes and abs and hold for 30 seconds. Rest one minute, then do the move again. (Repeat once.) As you get stronger, tack on more time in 15-second increments.

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“Our Eyes are placed in front because it is more important to look ahead than to look back.” ~ Unknown

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Hi! My name is Katelyn Hall. I am 20 years old. I was home schooled for 8 years (5^th grade to 12^th). I love the beach. I enjoy learning about health and fitness. I have four sister and two brother. I was adopted in the 1^st grade. I enjoy meeting new people and learning about them. My mission is to tell other about living a health life style. To take care of the body God gave us. I enjoy working in my garden and planting flowers! I also have a blog and a Facebook page for those wanting to learn about health and fitness.

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A Nutritional Study!

Good morning Everyone! I hope that your health is well and you are trying your very best to stay fit! I am currently going to be writing to you about Nutrition for a while. I am doing an in depth study of nutrition. I hope you learn with me all about nutrition. Have you ever heard the phrase " You are what you eat?" Well this wise saying is true! I am going to be teaching you how to manage your diet so you to can become health in a healthy way. Now this may take longer then those diet pills but in the end it will be a life long health change. Lets come together and encourage each other to go that extra mile!  This study will give you the know- how to put together a shopping list, prepare healthy foods, and easily cut calories.

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Tea Tree Oil

Tea Tree Oil

Scientific Name(s): Melaleuca alternifolia Cheel. Family: Myrtaceae
Common Name(s): Tea tree oil , melaleuca oil
Tea tree oil is derived from the leaves of the tea tree. The tea tree was named by eighteenth century sailors, who made tea that smelled like nutmeg from the leaves of the tree growing on the swampy southeast Australian coast. Do not confuse the tea tree with the unrelated common tea plant that is used to make black and green teas.

Tea tree oil is applied to the skin (used topically) for infections such as acne, fungal infections of the nail (onychomycosis), lice, scabies, athlete’s foot (tinea pedis), and ringworm. It is also used topically as a local antiseptic for cuts and abrasions, for burns, insect bites and stings, boils, vaginal infections, recurrent herpes labialis, toothache, infections of the mouth and nose, sore throat, and for ear infections such as otitis media and otitis externa. Tea tree oil is LIKELY SAFE for most people when put on the skin, but it can cause skin irritation and swelling. In people with acne, it can sometimes cause skin dryness, itching, stinging, burning, and redness.

Applying products to the skin that contain tea tree oil along with lavender oil might not be safe for young boys who have not yet reached puberty. These products might have hormone effects that could disrupt the normal hormones in a boy’s body. In some cases, this has resulted in boys developing abnormal breast growth called gynecomastia. The safety of these products when used by young girls is not known.

Tea tree oil is UNSAFE when taken by mouth. Don’t take tea tree oil by mouth. As a general rule never take undiluted essential oils by mouth due to the possibility of serious side effects. Taking tree tea oil by mouth has caused confusion, inability to walk, unsteadiness, rash, and
Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Tea tree oil seems to be safe when applied to the skin. But it should not be taken by mouth. Ingestion of tea tree oil can be toxic.

Some people add it to bath water to treat cough, bronchial congestion, and pulmonary inflammation.
Tea tree oil is toxic when ingested orally. Some case studies of accidental and intentional poisoning exist; however, no deaths have been reported to the American Association of Poison Control Centers through 2006 -webmed

20 uses for Tea Tree Oil

For Health

1. Use a dab to treat acne.
2. An anti-fungal for treating Athlete’s Foot, eczema, various yeast infections, etc.
3. An antiseptic to be used on cuts and burns.
4. An anti-viral: it may lessen the symptoms of colds and flu. Try using a few drops in the bath.
5. Add to a vaporizer to loosen chest congestion.
6. Add a small amount to shampoo to destroy head lice.
7. A small amount added to your bath can help with persistent body odor.
8. Treating sinus infection.
9. For dandruff and dry scalp.
10. In the form of aromatherapy, tea tree oil is used to treat colds, persistent coughs, acne, toothaches, and sunburn.

For Cleaning

11. To create an all-purpose cleaner, combine 2 teaspoons of tea tree oil in 2 cups of water in a spray bottle.
12. Another version would be 14 ounces of water with 1 ounce of Murphy’s oil soap and 10 drops of tea tree oil.
13. Mix the above solution with kosher salt to scrub bathtub and bathroom tiles.
14. Add a few drops to dishwasher dispenser, then fill with a green dishwashing soap.
15. A few drops added to each load of laundry leave your clothes smelling cleaner.
16. Control mold with a tea tree oil/water spray.
17. Remove mustiness with that same tea tree oil/water spray.
18. To keep germs at bay, spray it on high chairs, car seats, and other high traffic spots.
19. 15 drops in a quart of water can be an effective insect repellent.
20. Be sure to take some with you when hiking and camping to put directly on insect bites or blisters.