Ciri's Life Coach

In home based remedies, the idea is to use substances naturally present in spices, herbs and other foods to deal with minor ailments and infection instead of cleansing the body with strong prescribed drugs. Though essential for chronic conditions, drugs are not always necessary and are best avoided. Home remedies are gaining a lot of attention due to its nature of cure: inexpensive, no side effects, simple plus the satisfaction of being able to cure yourself!  Sounds to good to be true? well, read on to equip yourself on how people are using these home made remedies in their daily lives to stay fit and healthy. To hold in your appetite all day long, eat sweet potatoes for breakfast. Bruises: If you shut your finger or foot in a door or bruise it in any way, put it in water as hot as you can bear, then in cold water and hot alternately. Sleepless nights? Drink a glass of warm milk with one teaspoon of honey dissolved in it half an hour before bedtime. Fish bo...

If you have your mind set on a vacation this coming holiday, the question of foreign exchange arises. Apart from paying your way through your vacation by cash, there are other forms of money available which are safer and ultimately cost less in terms of converting to stronger foreign currency. Cash Apart from being risky to carry around is that you will spend more because you will be charged to exchange local currency into the currency you need. A small amount of cash is however recommended for small payments such as buying items like drinking water and taxi fares. Local debit cards For a stay of several days or longer especially in self-catering accommodation, a debit card in the currency of the country you are staying in the least costly option. Your bank at home should be able to set up a debit card in the country you are visiting and ATM withdrawals, as well as other transactions will be at local rates that are fair Traveller's cheques These are cheques of fi...

Just as people like milk for nutritive value, bacteria that cause milk spoilage also do. Milk has nutrients that make it suitable for the rapid multiplication  of bacteria that cause spoilage. Milk from the udder of a healthy cow contains very few bacteria. To ensure that milk remains fresh for a longer time it is necessary to practice good hygiene. Below is some advice that farmers and milk traders should follow to ensure good quality: Maintain clean and healthy cows Keep a clean milking environment Wash hands with soap and clean water before milking Wash the udder with a clean cloth and warm water Dry the udder with a clean dry cloth Make the first draw into a strip cup to check for mastitis and throw away from the milking area even it appears clean Use clean containers for milking Cows with mastitis should be milked last and their milk discarded Milk from cows under antibiotic treatment should not be sold until 3 days after last treatment or advised by the veterin...

What you eat has a direct effect on how you feel. Eating the right foods can improve mental health, lessen mood swings, anxiety and even depression. Cutting down on food 'stressors' such as sugar, caffeine, alcohol, chocolate, additives, dairy products and saturated fats and increasing the amount of 'supporters' such as vegetables, water, fruits, oil-rich fish, nuts, lean protein and whole grain food have a beneficial effect on ones mood. For this much, you should be putting healthy wholesome meals on your table. Many however, consume foods like fast foods, more sugar than necessary to cereals and beverages like tea and juices. No wonder during cold and wet weather, more people than usual can not fend off viruses and bugs in the air because their bodies are low in immunity. Tips to improve your mood and sense of emotional well-being Cut down on white bread, cookies, crisps, margarine and butter, and other snacks. Foods that release energy at a sl...

We recognise that perfumes should be the final touch in getting ourselves to feel and look to face a new day, but our shopping experience for fragrance entails walking into a shop, sniffing two or three tester bottles, settling for one and buying it. We also don't know how to find the scent that best expresses our personality and lifestyle and we do not consider factors like climate and skin type to make good choices. How to wear your perfume right     Perfume rises when applied, so it is vital that it is  applied on pulse points such as the elbow bend, ear lobes wrist, in between the breasts and behind the knees. Sweat and heat can cause a fragrance to be more pronounced so use a light scent on a hot day and on a day when you will be doing heavy physical work. When it is cold, the skin is drier, giving the perfume no base to cling to which means that it evaporates faster. The best option on such a day would therefore be a heavier scent. Tips on h...

Have you ever noticed when you go to a supermarket to pick just one item, and by the time you get to the check-out point you have more than five things in the basket and a bill bigger than you had expected? The reason this keeps happening is because supermarkets or retailer stores use a range of methods to get you to pick those items up. How you are tricked to get spending In most supermarkets, shopping carts are placed right at the entrance and although you may have wanted to buy only one or two items, you find it handy to have the trolley so you can lean on it while moving around and putting stuff in it. Psychologically, it becomes easy to toss in an item you do not need. After all there is room for plenty more. You may also have noticed that the items you are likely to buy on impulse are placed at the check-out points.This is where you will find the latest DVD releases, lifestyle magazines, along with over-priced beverages and candy. Most retail chains locate the most e...

It takes approximately 500 shrubs of calliandra calothyrsus ( Kalibwambuzi in Swahili) to feed a cow for a year. For 3 kg of calliandra and 1 kg of dairy meal, a farmers can get an extra two litres of milk for his/her cow. With the plant maturing in approximately 12 months, calliadra can be pruned and fed to livestock for up to 20 years. The shrubs can be grown in hedges around the farm perimeter or along the contour ridges to reduce erosion. The major advantage of this fodder shrub is that farmers do not have to stop growing other crops to make room for them.It is best to prune the shrubs to a height of about one metre to avoid shading nearby food crops. With lack of inexpensive high protein animal feed, grazing land in short supply, and because of periodic drought, raising animals in Kenya is a risky business that can easily defeat the most skillful farmer. Fodder shrubs such as calliandra (milk shrub) could be the solution to these plagues. Produce more milk Fodde...