Health
Seven Medical Myths
Ask your doctor how much water you should drink or why you couldn’t keep your eyes open after Thanksgiving dinner, and you’re likely to get the same misinformation your mother-in-law might dispense
Water: an element in healthy weight loss
The amount of water you drink plays a key role in healthy weight loss as well as water retention in the body. All living things require a lot of water to maintain normal life processes, and also must maintain its water supply near normal, or death will occur. If the body loses more than 20% of its normal water content, a painful death will occur.
Top 10 Protein Options in a Vegetarian Diet
Protein is needed to help the body build strong muscles, repair tissues and maintain an effective immune and hormonal system. If you have a physically active job or are involved in rigorous sports training, you may need more protein in your daily diet. Excellent sources of protein are meat, poultry, fish, eggs and dairy products followed by soya products, pulses, grains, nuts seeds, vegetable and fruits.
Top 10 Tips for Lowering Your Blood Pressure
It’s one of the scariest diseases around and it affects one in four adults. It’s high blood pressure, the infamous silent killer.
Are Household Cleaners Harmful?
It’s no secret that almost all conventional household cleaners contain some toxic ingredients. Many contain carcinogens or suspected carcinogens, as well.
Fruit-vegetables and bone health
Without proper nutrition, bones can become weak and brittle and joints can become damaged.
The Health Hazards of Drinking Soda
The chemicals in soda fall under the categories of artificial flavorings, artificial color additives and dyes, acidifying agents, buffering agents, viscosity-producing agents, foaming agents, and preservatives.
Dealing with Sleeplessness
A lack of quality sleep may lead to love handles and double chins. Doctors at the University of Chicago found that not getting enough sleep altered basic bodily functions such as regulating blood-sugar levels, storing away energy from food and the production of various hormones.
How to Read a Vitamin Label
Labels on natural vitamin supplement bottles present a challenge to manufacturers: a great deal of information about a complex product must be squeezed into a tiny space. Through necessity, they resort to abbreviations and verbal shorthand to communicate, and it can be a bit daunting to the uninitiated. Here’s a guide to sorting it all out:
3 Reasons to Eat Turmeric
Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is a culinary spice that spans cultures – it is a major ingredient in Indian curries, and makes American mustard yellow. But evidence is accumulating that this brightly colored relative of ginger is a promising disease-preventive agent as well, probably due largely to its anti-inflammatory action.
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