Nutritional Health Healthy Choices The term Nutritional Health, implies that our health status is in someway reliant on our nutritional intake. There is a very well known saying “you are what you eat”. In other words if you eat healthy nourishing food you will heave a healthy well nourished body, but if you eat junk [...] Read more »
Vitamin C
Vitamin C Vitamin C – otherwise known as Ascorbic Acid is an essential nutrient for human beings. A lack of vitamin C can cause a deficiency disease called scurvy, which is characterized by pale skin, sunken eyes, tender gums, muscle pain, loss of teeth, and internal bleeding. Vitamin C is water soluble and is not [...] Read more »
Antioxidant
What is an Antioxidant? An antioxidant is basically something that reverses the effects of oxidation. Although oxygen is a vital nutrient needed by every cell in the body every second of the day, it is also chemically reactive and highly dangerous. In normal biochemical reactions oxygen can become unstable and capable of oxidizing neighboring molecules. [...] Read more »
Vegetables
Vegetables Encouraging people to eat more fruit and vegetables is seen a top priority by the organizations around the world who are promoting a healthier diet. Many serious illnesses are caused by nutritional deficiency due to a diet made up of poor quality food. Research indicates that nine or ten servings of fruits and vegetables [...] Read more »
Natural Health
Natural Health With so much information in the media about junk food and drink that is detrimental to our health, many people are starting to realize that natural health is the only way forward if we are to be fit and healthy into our 3rd age. With so many baby boomers currently becoming OAPs there [...] Read more »
Detox Health
Detox for Health Embarking on a detox is usually our attempt to make up for the times when we have abused our bodies with fast foods, alcohol, too many chocolates or simply not enough health promoting foods. And so we detox for health!! Although this is very commendable, many people fall into the trap of [...] Read more »
Detoxify for Improved Health
Why do we Need to Detoxify? We live in a polluted society, where exposure to toxins is inevitable. Our food is sprayed with toxic chemicals and we breathe in toxic fumes as we walk or drive along our busy roads. This is just an example of two of the many ways in which our bodies [...] Read more »
Anti-Inflammatory Role
Inflammation and the Role of Anti-inflammatory Products What we can Understand from the Inflammatory Response According to Wikipedia, the word inflammation comes from the Latin word inflammation meaning to set on fire, (anti-inflammatory meaning to put out the fire) Inflammation is a necessary part of the healing process without which wounds and infections would never [...] Read more »
Antioxidants Health
Antioxidants and Health Oxygen is the basis of all plant and animal life. It is a vital nutrient for our bodies and is used by every cell every second of every day. Oxygen is needed to release the energy in the foods we eat so that we can perform our bodily functions and go about [...] Read more »
Healthy Choices
Healthy choices are not always easy to make. We live in a society that values fast food and immediate gratification. Changing how we think about our body and the things we put into it can be challenging, especially if you really like the taste or texture of a particular food. Starting with one or two [...] Read more »