Your immune system plays a very important role, that of defending you from disease causing germs, viruses, parasites, fungi etc. It always does its best, but can sometimes overpowered, causing a germ to invade successfully and make you sick. How can one prevent this? The best way is by making the immune system stronger. If...
Category - Nutrition
A healthy diet is not just good for your waistline, but also for your heart. The food that you consume can influence all aspects of your heart health, right from blood pressure and inflammation to cholesterol levels and triglycerides. Eating foods in their natural form, including fresh fruits and vegetables is beneficial for heart...
A food diary is a useful tool that helps you to log what you consume daily. The simple act of writing down what you eat daily helps you to understand what you eat and drink, helps you to identify the good and not so good foods that you consume. You can be someone trying to lose weight, or even just get healthier, but keeping a food journal helps...
Emotional eating is when a person uses food to help them deal with stress. Many people experience emotional eating at one time or another. It could show itself as eating a bag of chips when bored or eating a chocolate bar after may be a bad day at work. People who emotionally eat reach for food several times a week or more to suppress and soothe...