What is Detox? Body detox, also referred to as cleansing is a type of alternative medicine treatment. The premise of body cleansing is to rid your body of harmful toxins, chemicals and impurities that, if left to build up over time, can cause chronic pain, illness and a variety of life-altering ailments. While several forms…
Balanced Diet: What Is It? A balanced diet, often known as a healthy diet, is one that includes the recommended serving sizes of all the food groups. Fruits, vegetables, wholegrain, healthy fat, and proteins are all included. It doesn’t contain too much or too little of any food kind. Your body receives the nutrients it needs to function properly from a balanced diet. Without balanced nutrition, your body is more prone to disease, infection, fatigue, and low performance. Why is Balanced Diet Important? The nutrients from diet provide nourishment which is ‘fuel’ and ‘medicine’ to the body. A good diet choice contributes to the quality of…
Importance of Staying Hydrated Staying hydrated is of paramount importance to health. We get about 20% of our total water intake from the food we eat. Fruits and vegetables are particularly good for hydration as they contain 80% of water. Water is necessary for your body to function, it plays a vital role in digestion,…
Glow From Inside-Out Beautiful and glowing skin starts within the body and adding anti-ageing food to your diet support a healthy lifestyle including good-looking skin. What you consume in your body system plays a crucial role in your ageing process and how the skin responds to it. The skin being the largest organ of the…
What is Calorie? Similar to a teaspoon or an inch, a calorie is a unit of measurement. Calories are the units of energy used by your body during food metabolism. The more calories a food has, the more energy it can provide to your body. Any extra calories can be stored as body fat. Your body accumulates excess calories as body fat when you consume more calories than you need. Why Does Calorie Get Much Attention? Calories are essential to the human body. Cells in the body need the energy to survive. Vital organs need the energy to carry out basic processes needed…
Let the food be the medicine or the medicine becomes the food is the usual saying, the food you eat have effect on your health, it either influence your health positively or negatively. If you eat right, your body system also respond in a positive way by keeping you fit and healthy, and reducing the…
The foods you eat have an impact on your health. Alkaline diets make our body less acidic and are loaded with antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. Diseases cannot survive in an alkaline state, that is why it was speculated that alkaline diet help in the prevention and fighting of diseases. Above all, a healthy diet improves…
Cabbage scientifically called Brassica oleracea var. capitata belong to the group of leafy vegetable with cross-like shape of flowers hence called “Cruciferous” e.g kale, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels and spouts are other vegetables belonging to the same group. They are loaded with protein, fiber, vitamins, minerals which inhibits growth of certain cancers, aid in weight loss,…