Good nutrition is the bedrock of lifelong health and should ideally start right from infancy. A balanced diet is essential to get all the nutrients needed for growth. It is also critical if one wants to maintain optimal health. Some basic foods that you should include in your daily diet are:
Grains - Prefer whole grains [...]
Filed under: Dietary Health Tips, Digestive Health on January 29th, 2010 | No Comments »
Life is a continuous struggle and better to realize early that one has to meet its challenges; the better it is for everyone. Coming to terms with the changes that death of a special person may bring about, becomes difficult to handle by many individuals. A long period of sadness and sorrow during which interest [...]
Filed under: Mental Illness on January 28th, 2010 | No Comments »
Thyroiditis literally means inflammation of thyroid gland due to autoimmune attack. It refers to Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, the most common cause of hypothyroidism in U.S, believed to run in families and associated often with diabetes and celiac disease.
Symptoms include fatigue, depression, modest weight gain, intolerance to cold, excessive sleepiness, dried coarse hair, constipation, dry skin, muscle [...]
Filed under: Dietary Health Tips, Digestive Health, Sleep Problems on January 25th, 2010 | No Comments »
Bacteria, viruses, and toxins are common foreign substances that the body’s immune system considers as harmful. The system reacts with biological defenses to avoid infections. Inflammation is the first automatic responses of the auto immune system.
An anti inflammatory diet is based on the theory that the body does not need fat and therefore reacts with [...]
Filed under: Dietary Health Tips, Nutrition on January 18th, 2010 | No Comments »
The apple cider vinegar diet is not a proper diet plan. It is a diet that is supplemented with adequate amounts of apple cider. The diet, is actually based on the weight loss properties of only one item. This diet does not prescribe any menu. There are no allowed or disallowed foods too. The diet [...]
Filed under: Dietary Health Tips, Digestive Health on January 15th, 2010 | No Comments »
A child’s brain has not fully developed to understand the future implications of certain life events like death and is liable to build theories in the mind that are far removed from reality. Death of a loved one often sends waves of emotional upheavals in the young mind that fails to properly understand the direct [...]
Filed under: Mental Illness on January 12th, 2010 | No Comments »
Kidneys are a pair of organs that filter waste products from blood. Certain chemicals in our body react to form stones in kidneys called kidney stones. While small kidney stones pass through urinary tract system without signs or symptoms, larger kidney stones cause trauma to ureters and urethra while passing through the urinary tract.
Kidney stone [...]
Filed under: Natural Remedies on January 9th, 2010 | No Comments »
Cellulite is the formation of unsightly ‘orange peel’ on upper legs, thighs and stomachs of both women and men. It is mainly caused due to inappropriate fat storage from micro vascular damage with enhanced fluid and lymphatic retention. Most anti-cellulite creams used for treatment have either caffeine or aminophylline (both dehydrating) and retinal or DMAE [...]
Filed under: Natural Skin Care on January 6th, 2010 | No Comments »