Feeling sluggish or out of sync? Having skin problems, aches and pains, or digestive problems? Straying from your healthier habits lately? Having trouble kicking off your weight loss? It might be time for a body detox. Practiced for centuries by many cultures around the world — including ayurvedic and Chinese medicine systems — detoxification is about [...]
How much salt do I need? Although our body must have some salt (or sodium), we often eat more than we need. Fresh foods such as cereals, vegetables, fruit, meat and dairy products contain plenty of sodium – there is no need to add extra salt to food. Less than 2300mg of sodium (equal to [...]
Table salt is made up of the elements sodium and chlorine – the technical name for salt is sodium chloride. Your body needs some sodium to work properly. It helps with the function of nerves and muscles. It also helps to keep the right balance of fluids in your body. Your kidneys control how much [...]
A new study published on January 3rd, 2012 in The Journal of Clinical Investigation shows that eating high fat foods can damage the hypothalamus and dramatically increase inflammation in this crucial part of the brain in rodents. The hypothalamus is a part of the brain responsible for maintaining homeostasis, your hunger, thirst and the body’s natural rhythms [...]
Fat is essential for the human body to function. Fat supplies calories and essential fatty acids, and it helps the body absorb vitamins A, D, E and K. The oversimplified notion that reducing or eliminating one’s fat intake will solve any health or weight problems is plain wrong. Our brains actually thrive on a high-fat [...]
Everyone knows that maintaining a healthy weight involves maintaining a healthy lifestyle, but who’dathunk that cookies, chips, puddings and beer could be healthy? Long before the dawn of agriculture, our ancestors spent 2.5 million years fine-tuning their metabolism and collective physiology to an opportunist’s diet that included everything from found or hunted meats and seafood [...]
There are a lot of people who do not have enough natural vitamin sources in their diet and therefore suffer from a deficiency of one or more vitamins. Obviously, it is possible to buy vitamin supplements to help overcome any deficiencies but for the majority of people it should be possible for them to obtain [...]
Sodium is a dietary mineral that is present in small quantities in most natural foods, but we get abundant supply of it as we manually add sodium chloride (common salt) while cooking and that too often in large amounts. Role of Sodium Sodium (Na) is the major positively charged ion (cation) in extra cellular fluid. [...]
Magnesium is an important Dietary Mineral and it aids in proper development of bones and formation of teeth. It helps the body in absorbing Calcium and Potassium. Calcium helps muscles to contract on the other hand Magnesium helps in relaxing the muscles. It plays an integral part in proper cellular metabolism and in generating energy [...]
Calcium is a very important dietary mineral which is needed for good bone health, for proper clotting of blood, and good muscle strength. The first thing that comes to mind when we talk about calcium is bones. Major component of bones are calcium, however most people think of bones as a static piece of the [...]
