If you, like me, are struggling to eat less pre-packaged, colorant and preservative-filled food, but you also lack the hours and hours to prepare the wholesome meals you’d like, Catherine Newman offers a recipe for quick, easy loaf of homemade bread. “Quick” is relative, of course, as the bread does need time to rise, but…
If you want to live healthy you need to exercise, that is for sure. But there are so many choices of training available to choose from. Powerlifting is certainly one of the worthiest among them. Since in powerlifting you will be using free weights mostly, it is considered weight training. And we all know how…
Acid reflux is caused by the inability of the lower esophageal sphincter the effectively hold back irritating stomach acids from migrating up into the esophagus and the throat. Symptoms of acid reflux disease include heart burn, burning in the chest and throat, persistant throat clearing, coughing and feeling like there is a lump in the…
1. Decrease your saturated fat intake. Saturated fat is the fat found in animal products and also palm oil and coconut oil. This means decrease foods such as cheeses, cream, salami and other high fat processed meats, some higher fat take away foods, snack foods such as chips and commercially prepared biscuits, cakes and pastries….
Plant sterols have been shown to lower blood cholesterol levels, depending on how much you eat. They block the ability of the body to absorb cholesterol back into the body and as such it passes harmlessly out of your system. Plant sterols can lower total cholesterol by an average of 10 percent. You can get…
Women are simply healthier than men. Of the leading causes of death in most countries, men lead the way in the number of deaths – and on average they will die five years before their wives. The problem lies with men’s laissez-faire attitude to their health. They do not perceive health as a priority to…
Sex is much more than an issue of reproduction. With it comes different issues ranging from pleasure to pain, from life to death. Like the danger of sexually transmitted diseases that may result from a few minutes of sexual pleasure. Sexually transmitted infections have far-ranging effects in terms of reproductive health of the male and…
Lifestyle diseases, particularly cardiovascular disorders, are on the rise. Although a considerable number of congenital heart problems also arise, lifestyle-related conditions, primarily the possibility of suffering from a cardiac arrest, have become the bane of many countries worldwide. If people had only modified their lifestyles, or observed their proper health habits, these problems could have…
If you want to prevent diabetes and atherosclerosis, there is only one simple way to do it. Aside from physical exercise and the adoption of a non-smoking lifestyle, well, YOU SHOULD EAT LESS FAT! Like in many conditions, prevention is always the biggest and most effective way to ensure the health of the people. And…
Mental illness is often mentioned, but it is rarely confronted. When an arm is paralyzed, we feel sorry for the victim and we help him get well. But when it is the nerve in the brain that is paralyzed, we feel indifferent and we avoid them as much as possible, like they are hideous, full…
