It wasn’t so long ago that fats were thought of as completely terrible for you to eat and that avoiding fats in your food entirely was the best way to live. In modern times this has adjusted to be focused more on the truth: There are fats that are good for you eat, and fats […]
Everyone is on a diet. That usually means that we are staying away from our favorite foods. As a consequence, we hate every minute of it and we give up too soon to have any long-term effects. It is just too hard to live like that. Some foods, like almonds, are on everyone’s no-no list […]
Protect your eyes, God only gave you two of them, we’ve all heard that one before right? Well it’s true of course, we only have two and we should take every precaution to protect them, whether it’s wearing sunglasses when outside or wearing safety glasses to protect them from flying debris when we are working […]
Statins, such as popular Crestor, are well known drugs for lowering cholesterol. But, it became quite obvious that the drug has side effects, and they are not in the range of “upset stomach” or “nausea”. Some people who were taking statins developed diabetes. So, would you take statins to prevent heart attack caused by your […]
This is not another research about the benefits of chocolate, although those are always popular. Scientists found that some foods contain ingredients that are very similar in their composition to the drugs containing valproic acid, commonly used by people with mood swings as mood stabilizers. One of those foods is, no surprise there, chocolate. But […]
According to the World Health Organization Factsheet, cancer is a main cause of death worldwide, killing 7.6 million people in 2008. The biggest killers were lung, breast, stomach, liver and colon cancer. While cancers can attack anyone, regardless of economic status, race or ethnicity, about 70 percents of cancer deaths in 2008 were in the […]
Here in the United States, one of the wealthiest countries in the world, there are still children that do not get enough to eat. This is sad, but it is a fact, and sometimes, even when a child gets enough to eat, they aren’t eating the right things or eating them in the right amounts.
The importance of immunization in this country is becoming a more commonly asked about subject as the media paints the picture of an overly healthy country. There has been a flaunting of the strength of vaccines by the media and thanks to this flaunting most of the populace has developed false impressions about immunization.
According to the CDC, childhood obesity affects 17% of children and adolescents in the U.S., triple the number from a generation ago. I blame video games myself; and parents that let their kids sit in front of them all day. A generation ago was when I was a kid we ran outside all day long […]
Breastfeeding is as natural as childbirth itself, and it’s good for not only the baby but the mother as well. The very term mammal comes from the fact that mammals breast feed from mammary glands. According to The American Academy for Pediatrics, breastfeeding should be done exclusively for the first six months and continued on […]
