Tag Archives: Health
Is Raw Food Diet Right For You?
Is the Raw Food Diet Right For YOU? You need to decide! The raw food diet is based on the belief that the most healthful food for the body is uncooked. Although most food is eaten raw, heating food is acceptable as long as the temperature stays below 104 to 118 degrees Fahrenheit, although the cutoff ...
Why Are So Many Allergic To Wheat Now?
Food allergies and intolerance aren’t just on the rise — they are reaching a dangerous crescendo. Today we stopped at a local café for a taco and asked for corn tortillas as opposed to flour. The cashier’s reaction was immediate: “Are you allergic? Gluten-free?” Gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye and barley. When someone has ...
4 Natural And Alternative Remedies Tips For Allergy Relief
Allergies can make you feel miserable and make life very difficult. But before you take that prescription drug or OTC - read this for natural relief without worry of a dangerous side affects! More people everyday are trying natural remedies verse a toxic medication. I find it very interesting and quite frankly bazaar that in many ...
Eating For Healthy Skin
Foods can be our medicine or our enemy and they affect every function of our body. I would like to focus on our skin and foods that are harmful to our skin. These foods could be causing you skin problems and other health issues. 1. Fried Greasy Foods & Trans-Fats: It is known that grease and ...
An Herb For Thought: Mulberries
MULBERRIES Mulberries are delicious and nutritious, people all over the world enjoy them. Mulberries are a product of the Morus alba tree. Its leaves, which also contain nutrients and are even used as food for silkworms, are thin, glossy and light green; the fruit, like grapes, is red or white and grows in bunches called “drupes.” 1. ...
Why Do Governments Recommend This Toxic Food Today When They Didn’t Over A Decade Ago?
If we analyze the food guide and government advice on nutrition over a decade ago and compare those advisements to what is recommended today, there is one big difference--one specific food crept up onto the radar of public health officials as if it had some kind of miraculous nutritional benefit for the public. The problem ...
PhytoNutrients – The Mighty Disease Fighters!
Phytonutrients or also referred to as Phytochemicals. Phytonutrients are certain organic components of plants, and these components are thought to promote human health and have been found to help with quite a few health problems. I feel that with all the recent information and studies that have been performed that this was something worth learning ...
Scientists Officially Link Processed Foods To Autoimmune Disease
The modern diet of processed foods, takeaways and microwave meals could be to blame for a sharp increase in autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, including alopecia, asthma and eczema. A team of scientists from Yale University in the U.S and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, in Germany, say junk food diets could be partly to blame. 'This ...
“Certified Organic”: The Conspiracy Against Natural Foods
What does the word "organic" really mean? or-gan-ic adjective \ȯr-ˈga-nik\ a (1) : of, relating to, or derived from living organisms<organic evolution> (2) : of, relating to, yielding, or involving the use of food produced with the use of feed or fertilizer of plant or animal origin without employment of chemically formulated fertilizers, growth stimulants, antibiotics, or pesticides ...
Important Information About B-12
B12 is essential to maintain good health, in fact a B12 deficiency left untreated could be fatal. I am going to give you as much information about B12 as I can mustard up. We certainly don't want any unnecessary health problems if we can avoid them. So keep you ears open and eyes pealed to ...
An Herb For Thought: Bitter Melon
BITTER MELON Parts Used: gourd fruit Constituents: glycosides: momordin, charantin alkaloids: momordicinothers: polypeptide-p oils (seed only): stearic, linoleic, oleic acids glycoproteins: alpha-momorcharin, beta-momorcharin, lectins Benefits and Uses of Bitter Melon The gourd-like fruit has a long history as a treatment for diabetes. Bitter melon improves the body's ability to use blood sugar and improves glucose tolerances. Also, at ...
The Benefits of Exercising Outdoors
While the allure of the gym — climate-controlled, convenient and predictable — is obvious, especially in winter, emerging science suggests there are benefits to exercising outdoors that can’t be replicated on a treadmill, a recumbent bicycle or a track. You stride differently when running outdoors, for one thing. Generally, studies find, people flex their ankles more ...
Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals: Disrupting Your Health and Environment
There are more than 800 chemicals capable of disrupting our endocrine systems and causing a host of health issues, including thyroid and adrenal disorders, hormone-related cancers, bone, metabolic and immune disorders, infertility, and attention deficit disorder in children. The chemicals are in our air and water, our food, our personal care products. They’re not only ...
Walking Speed Could Predict Life Span In Seniors
A new study conducted by the University of Pittsburgh that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association earlier this week found that the fastest walking seniors lived longer than their slower-walking counterparts. Of the nearly 35,000 seniors who participated in the study, only 35 percent of the slowest walking women 75 years ...
Heal Colds Naturally: Nature’s Medicine Cabinet
In today's society we are used to going to the doctor only when we are sick (sick care), instead, we need to focus on preventative care. Do you want to mask symptoms or get the underlying problem fixed? Treating problems before they surface is more effective and cheaper. Boost your immune system year round with ...
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