Vitamin B5 is also known as Pantothenic Acid. This vitamin is said to be the most prolific of all the vitamins and is found in almost every type of food.

There’s no such daily requirements for this vitamin, as it is impossible for a person to consume less B5 vitamin than they need. According to health experts, everyone obtains more than enough from their normal food consumption.

Although there’s no recommended amount of Vitamin B5 intake, but it doesn’t mean that the B5 vitamin is not vital for a healthy body and mind. In actual, Vitamin B5 is essential for turning food into energy amongst other functions, majorly responsible for taking the fats and carbohydrates into energy.

Food plays a vital role in anti aging, ass aging means not only wrinkles but many other weaknesses like memory loss, joints pain, weaken bones etc. Below is the list of food that help you stay younger. So if you plan 2009 be a healthy year for you, do include the following in your diet:

• Fish: According to American Heart Association, eat fish twice a week. It’s rich in omega-3 fatty acids, that’s powerful anti-inflammatory food that offers a multitude of health benefits.
• Fruits and vegetables: Since they are powerhouses of antioxidants. Aim for a variety of colorful produce. Enjoy at least 5 servings per day for the maximum benefits.
• Whole grains: These provide soluble fiber to help lower blood cholesterol levels, and also have phytonutrient content equal to any fruit or vegetable. Maintain at least 3 daily servings.
• Yogurt: It has all the benefits of dairy foods, plus probiotics that help add healthy bacteria to the intestines.
• Nuts: Being a great source of B vitamins, nuts are great for your heart and your brain.
• Water: The essential one, helps your skin and body avoid dehydration, and so the skin, muscles, blood circulation, and all organs in the body stay hydrated and perform better.

Too much weight is dangerous for your health as well as for an active life style. It’s true that over eating accelerates the weight gain process, but it doesn’t mean that starving helps loosing weight and make you healthier, instead it creates fatigue and low energy level.

Being on dieting you may seem happy and feel that you are losing those unwanted flabs on your belly and thighs and so you might entitle ‘skipping meal’ as a best way for weight loss. One thing you must know that, it’s not long lasting, and your body cannot tolerate having insufficient food to fuel the energy that you use up everyday.

Skipping one or two meals a day, your stored calories will be used up instead of the energy that should have been provided by your meals, and so your body will get weaken and weaken.

Do lessen the food intake, but don’t stop it. Avoid faty food, use more vegetables and fruits, and you’ll find a great difference. And above all, make exercise a routine and have a lively and active life.

Yoga breathing exercises can help sufferers of mild asthma, and may help them having reduced use of low-dose drug inhalers in wheezing attacks.

Two simulated pranayama exercises have been tested by researchers, i.e. slow deep breathing and breathing out for twice as long as breathing in, and it helped the sufferers.

Actually, in Asthma, the airways become restricted and thus make breathing difficult. Yoga improves breathing and hence helps Asthma sufferers.

Although it helps a lot, but still Asthma patients should not stop their medication, they should experiment with breathing exercises, and reduce the medication depending on the result. Stopping medication suddenly will cause more severe problems.