A lot of people don’t take the risks of high cholesterol very seriously. After all, one out of five people have high cholesterol. Could something so common really be a serious health risk? Unfortunately, yes. Cholesterol is a direct contributor to cardiovascular disease, which can lead to strokes and heart attacks. “Despite all of the
Your liver is located just under your rib cage on the right side of your abdomen, it’s about the size of a football, weighs 3 to 4 pounds and performs hundreds of vital functions. Without it, you couldn’t digest food and absorb nutrients, get rid of toxic substances from your body or stay alive. Serious
Vitamin C, also known as ascorbate, is a major antioxidant component of our daily diet. Antioxidants like vitamin C are essential in an environmental where the disease processes almost invariably involve free-radical attacks, which only antioxidants can modify. One reason why vitamin C therapy has been so controversial is the fact that it does not
By Viv For years, Weight Watchers have been providing everyone with programs to help us slim down and they have been very successful at it. Though, it was always about looking slimmer and rarely touched on the aspects of a healthy diet, but they recently commenced a campaign, “Let’s get started”, touching on this, raising
Butter was the bad boy on the block with its infamous artery-clogging saturated fat and cholesterol. Then margarine slid smoothly in to take the place of butter in many homes. How did this happen? It was Emperor Louis Napoleon III of France who encouraged the invention of margarine as a substitute for butter. He had
Our scalp is one of the most important parts that we tend to overlook. It’s easy to forget if you’ve got a healthy scalp, but for those with common scalp issues, it’s an on-going concern. Somehow, we get embarrassed by scalp problems, whether it’s thinning, falling out, breaking off or growing slowly. One of the
Just like our bodies, not all nails are created equal. Our nails protect the nerve-rich fingertips and tips of the toes from injury. Nails are composed mainly of keratin, a type of protein, and grow at the rate of about 0.05 to 1.2 millimeters per week. The nail bed is the skin on the top
Yoga is an all encompassing way of life. It involves the practice of what is known as the eight limbs. They are yama (morals or principles of right living), niyama (personal attitudes and mind-body purification practices), asana (postures), pranayama (breath control and consciousness), pratyahara (sense integration), dharana (single-minded concentration or focus), dhyana (meditation) and finaly
Animals have been on earth way before man. However, man developed the art of taming beasts and used them for his daily needs and chores. Farmers used cattle and oxen. Hunters used horses, camel, donkeys etc. Animals like cattle, pigs, goats, sheep and chickens were bred as a source of food. Farmers used cattle in
Floating for an hour in a tank of salty water in total darkness and silence may sound strange or scary, but many who use a flotation tank say it can give them feelings of deep relaxation. Floating therapy was developed in the 1950s by American neurophysiologist and psychoanalyst Dr John Lilly, who was interested in
Wellington: They say you are what you eat, and growing numbers of vegans are shunning sex with meat-eaters because they see them as ‘a graveyard for animals’. New Zealand group of vegans claim meat eaters’ bodies are made up of animal carcasses, Annie Potts, co-director of the New Zealand Centre of Human and Animal Studies