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Arjun is one of the best herbs for heart related problems. It is an ayurvedic herb that has a capability of improving the working of the heart. It has various agents like triterpine glycosides like arjunetosides I, II, III, IV, arjunine and arjunetein. The bark is rich in saponnins, natural anti-oxidants (flavonoids-arjunone,arjunolone,leteilin) gallic acid, ellagic acid, oligomeric proanthocyanidins, phytosterols, rich in minerals like calcium, magnesium,zinc and copper. These agents are extremely important not only for our heart but also for whole body. It besides from toning up of heart and its allied parts is also very beneficial for healing of wounds and also in improving the blood circulation.

Arjun is a tree that is found growing wild throughout the Indian subcontinent. The plant part used is the bark or the tree which is rich in substances like Arjunetosides, Arjunetein, Arjunone, arjunolone and leteilin.

Nowadays a product named arjun tea is gaining popularity due to its wonderful effects o the body. Belo are the effects of arjun tea on our body.

1 High cholesterol

2 Angina pectoralis

3 Blockage of arteries

4 High blood pressure

5 Coronary artery disease

6 Improves blood circulation

7 Natural antioxidant

8 Promotes healing

9 Strengthens cardiovascular system

Arjun tea is a herbal tea that is designed by ayurvedic experts after the great researches in that ancient ayurvedic texts. Arjun tea is composed of three prestigious herbs terminalia Arjuna, inula racemosa and cinnamomum zeylanica. These herbs are one of the finest herbs that are extremely beneficial in supporting the basic life functioning and providing strength to the heart. It is also very helpful in promoting healing. Hence live a great life with arjun tea.

SAN JOSE, Calif.

ON a recent sunny Sunday morning, Michael M. Honda was kicking back at his 90-year-old mother’s house here, some green tea and rice crackers within arm’s reach. She was off to church, and his younger brother had dropped by to fix the plumbing.

“Oh yeah, I ran across a buddy of yours — he says he golfs with you — a big-set hakujin guy,” Mr. Honda told his brother, using the Japanese word for Caucasian.

Mr. Honda, a Democratic congressman and third-generation Japanese-American, was wrapping up a weekend visit to his district here in Silicon Valley. After attending an event at a local high school, he would fly back to Washington, where his resolution calling on the Japanese government to unequivocally acknowledge its history of wartime sex slavery and apologize for it was steadily gaining co-sponsors.

The resolution was also drawing sometimes surprising reaction in , making Mr. Honda one of the most famous American congressmen in his ancestral land and riling Japan’s conservatives. They have accused a bemused Mr. Honda, 65, of being an agent of a Chinese government bent on humiliating Japan on American soil. During one television interview, an announcer asked Mr. Honda how he could back such a resolution when he has a Japanese face.

“I told her I could have a black face, a brown face, a white face — I could be Mexican, I could be Indian — it doesn’t matter,” Mr. Honda recalled.

He said he saw the resolution, which has received strong backing from Korean-American groups, as an affirmation of universal human rights. His foes in Japan view it through the prism of Northeast Asia’s stark divisions.

The House Committee on Foreign Affairs, led by Representative Tom Lantos, a Democrat from California, is expected to vote on the resolution later in May. Mr. Lantos supported a similar resolution, sponsored by Lane Evans, an Illinois Democrat who was forced to retire last year because of Parkinson’s disease, that wilted in the Republican-controlled Congress.

Although the resolution is not binding, the Japanese government, with the support of the Bush administration, has lobbied fiercely against it. The resolution drew little attention until Prime Minister , who has long pressed a revisionist view of Japan’s wartime history, denied that the Japanese military had coerced women into sex slavery, causing furor in the rest of Asia and the United States.

During his recent visit to Washington, Mr. Abe told House leaders and President Bush in carefully calculated language that he apologized for Japan’s history with the women, known euphemistically as comfort women, but he did not take back his initial denial. A news conference with Mr. Bush culminated in an odd moment when the president said he accepted Mr. Abe’s apology.

The apology, Mr. Honda said, was not Mr. Bush’s to accept.

MR. HONDA’S grandparents came from Kumamoto, a prefecture in southwestern Japan, in the early 1900s, part of the first wave of Japanese immigrants to the United States. His mother, Fusako, was born in San Jose’s Japantown in 1916 and grew up there. His father, Giichi, was also born and raised in California, but spent some years living in Tokyo.

After the outbreak of war between the United States and Japan in 1941, his family, like other Japanese-Americans, was sent to an internment camp in Colorado. They spent a total of 14 months there — an experience that would later influence Mr. Honda’s politics.

“It taught me that if governments make mistakes, they should apologize,” he said.

The family returned to San Jose a few years after the end of the war. At home, the father spoke in English to Mr. Honda and his younger brother and sister; his mother addressed them in Japanese. To this day, Mr. Honda has retained the habit of sprinkling his English with some Japanese words when he speaks with relatives or Japanese-Americans. Japanese food was served at home.

“The only American food I remember eating was Spam,” he said.

His parents struggled, working as strawberry sharecroppers, though his father eventually found more stable employment in the post office. His mother cleaned houses.

“As I went into politics, people would say, ‘I know you from someplace,’ because I used to go pick up my mom from different places,” Mr. Honda said. “All the places she would clean were homes of prominent people. 1 /n /n

Casserole of Lamb and Mushrooms





Any lean lamb may be used in this casserole, but knuckles are my choice because they have a few bones, which add to the flavour, and very little fat, and become tender with slow simmering.





Ingredients


25ml oil


1kg lamb knuckles in 2,5cm slices


Salt and milled black pepper


1 large onion, chopped


2 cloves garlic, crushed


300g mushrooms, wiped and sliced


1 sprig fresh rosemary needles, chopped


35ml flour


250ml seasoned stock


100ml red wine


5ml Worcester sauce


25ml tomato paste


1 bay leaf







Method


Heat oil and brown lamb slices on both sides, then remove to baking dish and season. To pan drippings add onion, garlic, mushrooms and rosemary. Fry over low heat until soft and beginning to brown, then combine with meat in baking dish. Add a nut of butter to pan, if necessary, then stir in flour. Cook 1 minute, stirring, then slowly add stock and wine. When thickened add Worcester sauce, tomato paste, bay leaf and a good pinch sugar. Stir well and then pour over meat and mushrooms. Cover and bake at 180ºC for 1 hour. Remove from oven and stir to mix meat with the gravy. Reduce heat to 160ºC and continue baking, covered, until meat is very tender. Adjust seasoning, remove bay leaf, and ladle over portions of rice. Baked pumpkin and green peas make good, old-fashioned accompaniments. Serves 4.

Crumbed Lamb Chops with Herbs





Dipped in yoghurt and herbs, crumbed and then slowly baked until tender, this is a delicious way of preparing loin or thick rib lamb chops.





Ingredients


1kg chops


200ml plain drinking yoghurt or buttermilk


5ml dried thyme


5ml dried marjoram


10ml garlic salt


10ml prepared mustard


375ml toasted crumbs or 6 wholewheat breakfast biscuits, crushed







Method


Trim chops of excess fat. Mix remaining ingredients, except crumbs. Coat chops with yoghurt mixture, then roll in crumbs, patting on firmly. Chill for at least 2 hours to set crumbs. To bake, preheat oven to 160ºC. Brush one large or two medium shallow baking dishes with oil and heat for 5 minutes in oven. Turn chops once in hot oil, then cover and bake for 45 minutes. Uncover and bake for a further 30 minutes or until browned and tender. A potato and onion casserole goes well with this dish. Serves 6.

Your kitchen is one of the most important areas of your
home. Doesn't it make sense that you should design it for maximum comfort and
efficiency? Quite simply, if you are unhappy with your current kitchen layout,
you should definitely consider redesigning it to suite your tastes (and your
budget).

What's one of the most forgotten, yet crucial elements to
having the kitchen you've always wanted? The lighting fixtures. Most people
spend all their time focusing on the rest of the kitchen, such as the sink,
cabinets, and counters. As a result, they forget about this important, yet
often forgotten element.

When searching for the right lighting fixtures, first
decide on the kind of atmosphere you want your kitchen to have. Kitchen lights
come in an endless number of varieties, and this is why it's so important to
know what you are looking for before going shopping.

If you begin your search without any idea of what you are
shopping for, you will end up hopelessly lost and confused. Below are some
ideas for the type of kitchen lighting you should look at when starting your
search.

One of the most popular kitchen lighting fixtures is the
ceiling lights. While these are certainly considered your more traditional
lighting, there are many different varieties that can make this popular option
anything but ordinary.

The best part about these light fixtures is that they are
generally the most affordable kitchen lighting available. If you are
redesigning your kitchen on a budget, this would certainly be a good place to
start looking.

When you are doing your shopping, make sure to scour the
internet along with your local hardware stores. Often times, you can find
better deals online than offline. Very few people take advantage of these
opportunities, and thus miss a diamond in the rough.

In addition to ceiling lights, another option is hanging
lights. These generally come in two different options, chandeliers or
pendants. Pendants are fixtures that hang down, often a foot or more from the
ceiling.

Chandelier lights, on the other hand, are a mixture of
hanging lights that are all grouped together. Chandeliers can give your kitchen
an elegant and expensive look, even though you can often find very good deals on
them. Remember, you need to have a plan on what kind of atmosphere you want
before deciding which light fixtures to go with. Before purchasing a
chandelier, make sure that it will go with the rest of your kitchen's theme.

Also, you need to consider under-cabinet lights. These are
ideal when you are looking for a snack or another item in the middle of the
night, and it's pitch dark inside.

No matter which design you choose on, the most important
factor in making the choice is the current style of your kitchen. While you may
want the elegant look of a chandelier, if it doesn't go with the theme of your
current kitchen design, you will not like the results. Make the determination
based on which lights will go the best with your current kitchen, and go from
there.

These are just a few simple tips that will push you in the
right direction in your search for kitchen lighting. Remember, the most
important step is first determining what kind of atmosphere you want your
kitchen to have; without knowing this, you will no doubt get lost with all the
different options available to you.

Also, don't forget, no matter how many great deals you may
find at your local hardware store, to search the internet. The internet often
has cheaper prices than offline stores, and not nearly enough people utilize
this great resource in their search for their

kitchen lighting design.

Wu long tea is also known as oolong. Basically, there are studies which have shown that there are a lot of benefits that come from drinking wu long tea.

Some of the benefits of wu long tea include its ability to reverse one's aging, help in losing weight, promote one's wholistic wellness.

Wu long tea is made of what?

Basically, all teas contain properties which include catechin, caffeine, teaflavin, polyphenals among others.

All these provide the body with benefits. These benefits basically depend on the quantity percentages of oxidation that occurs during the tea's production.

The benefits of wu long tea that are fermented actually differ from green teas due to the latter's short processing time as well as black tea's long process in oxidation.

The following are just some of the benefits that one could experience when drinking wu long tea.

Wu long tea helps one lose weight

Believe it or not, scientists and researchers from the School of Medicine of the University of Tokushima in Japan have discovered that those people who consume regular oolong tea actually experience more results when it comes to burning calories as compared to those who ingested green tea.

A study that has been published in the Medical Investigation Journal claim that those women who are able to consume wu long tea just right after eating a meal was able to expend increased energy by as much as ten percent.

Compare this result to a four percent expenditure of energy for drinkers of green tea and zero percent for those who drink water.

Meanwhile, studies conducted in Osaka, Japan particularly at the Research Center in Suntory have found those drinkers of wu long tea a few short fifteen minutes before taking in foods that have high carbohydrates content actually curb the rise of insulin, therefore reducing the fat effects of taking in carbohydrates.

Wu long tea and skin condition that is enhanced

Another study done from the Medical Science University of Japan in Shiga also claim that drinking wu long tea every day actually help clear up problems in one's skin in as little as a month.

Wu long tea and free radicals

Another study conducted by the University of California have discovered that those who drink wu long tea everyday experience a reduction of free radicals in as short as fifteen days.

Free radicals are basically substances that damage the body and actually contribute to aging, the production of dark spots, wrinkles as due to rays from the sun, additives from chemical food, stress and pollution.

Wu long tea and clean teeth

Another study in Japan, specifically the Dentistry Department of Osaka University has found out that regular intake of wu long tea cause the teeth to become strong thereby preventing the decaying of teeth and halting plaque build-up.

Wu long tea and the immune system

In a published study in the journal of Redox Signaling and Antioxidants show that those who took in wu long tea have immune system that is stronger. The risk of these people catching infections are also reduced.

All in all, drinking wu long tea actually has more benefits than disadvantages. However, though it is considered as a wonder tea for most, it is always best to first consult with your doctor on drinking wu long tea prior to adding it to your regular diet.

Today, tea is produced in over 40 countries and consumed in scores more. Yet, the flavors of this exquisite drink was unknown to the majority of the world till the late 19th Century when it started to be exported on a mass scale from its birthplace, China. Nearly, ninety percent of the world's tea production comes from Asia and all the tea bushes around the world have their origins, either directly or indirectly, in China. Almost all the major tea producing nations have their own unique methods to process the tea leaves. Tea leaves which have been processed using methods practiced in Mainland China are known as Chinese tea.

The discovery of Chinese tea is an interesting one. The story as it goes in China is that Emperor Shen Nung in 2737 B.C. went on a long trip. When he stopped to rest, a servant went to get him boiling water. From a wild tea bush, a dead leaf fell into the pot of boiling water. Unnoticed to the eyes of the servant, it was presented to the Emperor who drank it and found the drink to be very refreshing. And thus, tea was born!

Then, as time progressed, so did a transition take place in the production of Chinese tea. The earliest mention of widespread drinking of tea in China was during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.). Then Chinese tea was processed in a way which many would find unbelievable today. Tea leaves were plucked, dried and then compressed in the form of cakes. The tea leaves in this dried cake form were then ground in stone mortars. The powdered cakes were in boiled in earthenware vessels and consumed as a hot beverage.

Later, during the Song Dynasty (960-1279 A.D.), the method to process Chinese tea underwent a change. During this period, the tea leaves were plucked, steam dried immediately and then ground to a fine powder. This powder was immediately put into wide bowls. The beverage resulting from this powder was iridescent white in color and highly regarded by the Song Court. Chinese tea during this period was mainly white tea and new varieties such as the 'Silver Silk Water Sprout' and 'Palace Jade Sprout' were developed by Emperor Huizong.

For decades, the process of steaming was the primary method of preparation of Chinese tea. However, during the fourteenth century, the method of producing Chinese tea underwent another transition. The tea leaves were roasted and allowed to crumble, rather than being steamed. This was the origin of modern day loose teas. However, what prompted this change on a mass scale was a decree by the Ming court in 1391 that only loose tea was to be accepted as tribute.

The processing of Chinese tea developed vastly in the seventeenth century. A process, known as 'fermentation' was introduced. Though technically, this process was not 'fermentation', but rather an enzymatic oxidation of the tea leaves. This process could be manipulated to get the desired result by changing the rate of drying or steaming the leaves. In fact, in southern China, the leaves were sun dried and half fermented to produce Oolongs. Further development of Chinese tea led to the production of present day white tea in 1796 during the Qing Dynasty. Finally, mass export of Chinese tea started in 1891, with the export of the Silver Needle.

Today, the consumption of Chinese tea is prevalent in most parts of the world. Chinese green tea is the more popular one in the Americas, though the consumption of white tea is increasing at a fast pace, especially after studies detailing its health benefits have been published. Who could have thought that the wild leaf discovered unintentionally more than 4000 years ago would become one of the most popular beverages of all time!

Numi tea is a part of the Numi company founded in 1999. Much of the company's policy and set up has to do with a deep respect for the environment, leading to one of the first globally sustainable and environmentally responsible tea companies. Every step of the process, from the farmers end to the packaging, is done in such a way as to promote responsible action and sustainable development, and every opportunity is used to make use of eco-friendly material and product ingredients which are free of any artificial component, flavoring or oils.

The difference of Numi tea is found in every cup. Numi uses no artificial flavors or oils in its components, and makes sure that only natural methods are used to provide the best blends of tea and teasans. Numi also supplies only full tea leaves, even in its tea bags, ensuring that the highest quality tea is thus marketed, as opposed to dust and fannings which often constitutes the contents of teabags. Loose leaf tea retains as much as possible of the inherent benefits of tea, such as high antioxidant content, and the taste of the tea variety is not compromised in any way as it retains the flavor and body associated with brewed tea leaves. Such careful processing and packaging also ensures that the best of the tea is released when it is brewed, thus helping in a wide variety of health benefits such as improved cardiovascular health and less risk of stroke, reduction of bad cholesterol, promoting oral health, arthritis relief, immunity booster, diuretic and kidney-helping properties, and reduced risk of osteoporosis in women.

Numi tea uses bio degradable material as much as possible, for example in the natural filter paper used for making their tea bags. The tea bags are recyclable and are oxygen bleached as opposed to chlorine bleach, thus reducing the use of chemicals.

Numi tea is sourced directly from tea growers worldwide, and is guaranteed organic, Kosher, and Halal. Numi also uses only real ingredients in its teas and teasans, and makes no use whatsoever of natural flavorings or oils. Pure herbs are used for teasans.