When the small intestine is inflamed — as it often is with Crohn’s disease — the intestine becomes less able to fully digest and absorb the nutrients from food. Such nutrients, as well as unabsorbed bile salts, can escape into the large intestine to varying degrees, depending on how extensively the small intestine has been injured by inflammation. This is …
Raw Food Diet is Beneficial to Your Health
The benefits advocated from eating a raw food diet seem endless: lowering cholesterol and triglyceride levels, eliminating cravings, preventing overeating, purging the body of accumulated toxins, balancing hormones, maintaining blood glucose levels and reversing degenerative diseases. Followers of a raw diet cite numerous health benefits, including increased energy levels, improved appearance of skin, improved digestion, weight loss and reduced risk …
Recipes are Healthy With These 4 Tips
Recipes for Health are Easy Recipes that are healthy seem too difficult and time consuming for many people. With some advance planning and some basic knowledge of nutrition, it is easy to create a week’s worth of healthy meals that you and your family will love. The key to creating delicious and healthy meals for the family is planning …and …
Mental Health Disorders Are Harming Many People
Statistics about mental health problems are now becoming more increasingly alarming. The key factors in the apparent rise in mental health cases have not yet been fully determined. In fact, authorities may have released inaccurate figures since people tend to hide mental illness or ignore them. This is also the reason why many mental health problems worsen. Perhaps, the only …
Eating Habits That Are Harmful to You
A client wrote, “Help me! I thought I was finally getting a handle on eating habits and weight issue but the sugar is killing me. I had an awful day. I won’t even tell you what I ate today because it is just so unbelievable. All I will say is that 90% of my food today consisted of sugar! I …
Processed Foods Are Harmful to Your Health
Have you ever seen a picture of your blood plasma after you’ve eaten a processed foods meal from McDonald’s or Burger King? It’s not a pretty picture. It looks thick and cloudy. Fast foods are loaded with fat and sodium. They use white bread and rolls, which means they’ve used white processed flour, with very few nutrients in them. …
Alkaline Diet Benefits Your Metabolism
The premise of an alkaline diet is that the nutrients found in supplements, alkalizing foods, and water can bring the body back to balance. These vitamins, minerals, and herbs infuse the body with new energy, vitality, and better health. Alkaline diet foods and water must be consumed in order to provide nutrients the body needs to neutralize acids and toxins …
Exercise Tips To Get You Going
With each New Year comes the determination to follow new exercise tips. Perhaps even you made a promise to add more exercise into your day. If your efforts at exercising are not going as well as you had planned, take a look at these tips. They might help get you back on track. Tip #1 Do Something You Enjoy Exercise …
Healthy Dinners Promote Long Term Fitness
Healthy dinners require some discipline. Ever wonder how you can possibly lose weight when the average dinner out contains over 1,000 calories? Well, don’t fret! Keeping yourself in shape when dining out is simply a matter of ordering the right menu. Below are 6 tips for having healthy dinners out (while still enjoying your meal like normal!): – Watch Your …
Age Defying Beauty With 6 Superfoods
Age Defying Beauty With Superfoods 1) Goji Berries Goji berries, Hollywood’s hottest new age defying food, are one of the most nutritionally dense foods on earth and house a staggering concentration of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, phytochemicals and essential fatty acids. With such an awesome constitution it is not surprising they are reputed anti-aging marvels. Originating in Tibet and greatly …