·Eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables. These contain antioxidants that reduce your cancer risk. Consuming fewer animal fats will reduce your exposure to organic pollutants and saturated fats. ·Reduce the number of man-made perfumes or deodorants you apply to your body. They all contain chemicals in small amounts but regular heavy use can lead to the accumulation of these chemicals in the body. ·Get your tap water independently checked to see what kind of chemicals are in your drinking water. Use some kind of filter system for your drinking water to remove the trace chemicals from your water ...

It is commonplace for several people to suffer at least an occasional night of almost non-existent sleep. The causes of insomnia differ from person to person. What made a student insomniac varies from what caused a shift worker or a traveler or an employee to acquire such sleeping disorder.

Insomnia, which is the inability to sleep satisfactorily or to have any sleep at all, is one of the most common sleep disorders. It is characterized by restlessness, sleep interruptions, decreased sleeping time than the usual, or sometimes complete wakefulness.

Aside from the annoyance that insomnia can cause to its sufferers, ...

I distinctly remember my mom telling me to drink my daily rations of milk – one glass in the morning and another at night. I also remember loving it and my sister quite the opposite – she would surreptitiously pour her milk into the sink or water the plants with it! I guess I should thank my mother for making us drink a lot of milk during those formative years. Why? Because of its calcium content. Today, calcium deficiency is one of the main concerns for women in their 30s or even early 20s. The great fear is ...

When one first decides to get back on the health track, everything seems so positive and one feels so optimistic about being able to do it. The excitement is palpable, you make a plan and you intend to follow it to the dot. Yet as time goes by, other things crop up, other priorities get in the way. I am no exception to this, shall we say, phenomenon. I suppose it is part of life. At a certain point, you just seem unable to sort through the muddle of daily life. When I first visited my trainer weeks ...

One of the most commonly known vitamins is vitamin C. We all know we need this vitamin. That is why we’ve always been told by our parents to eat our veggies and gobble up fruits for snacks as well as drink fruit juice instead of soda. Why do we really need vitamin C? The most advertised health benefit of vitamin C is that it helps boost our immune system. Now who wouldn’t want that? Here’s more good news to smokers, though. Studies have shown that taking vitamin C supplements may help improve blood circulation ...

In the last post I started talking about dietary supplements, which is really an umbrella term for more specific kinds of supplements. Perhaps one of the most common – and widely accepted – supplements are vitamin and mineral supplements. Even as children, our pediatricians would recommend these. Of course, with time and age, the nature of vitamin and mineral supplements has changed. Vitamin and mineral supplements are a way to make up for possible deficiencies in our diets. That means whether or not you are trying to lose weight, you may need vitamin and mineral supplements – ...

Health, or dietary, supplements are not a new thing. However, with people’s eating habits now tending to focus on convenience and ease, dietary supplements are making a quick come back. The concern is that people are not able to take measures to ensure that what they eat supplies their daily nutritional needs. Hence the need for dietary supplements. Yet the question remains – are dietary supplements really necessary? The whole idea behind dietary supplements is that the act to ADD to our food’s nutritional value and not to replace food. As the name implies, they merely assist ...

Being healthy is not simply about exercising or working out. More than physical activity, we should also take a look into our eating habits. If you are like me, I tend to overdo it on one aspect and slack off in another. What I mean is, sometimes, I watch what I eat really conscientiously while not exercising at all. On the other hand, there are times when I engage in a lot of physical activity and yet do not watch what I eat – talk about imbalance. Yet what we are aiming for is an overall sense ...

This is the last installment for our brief series on the workout routine. Just to recap, we talked about the warm up and the cardio. At the end of each session, the best practice would be to cool down. In between the warm up and cool down, there may be other exercises aside from cardio but we can look at them later on. So why do we need to cool down at the end of each workout session? First, a cool down helps our heart beat slow down and reach its normal pace gradually. The same thing goes ...

One of the elements of a good work out routine is to have cardiovascular exercises. Though this is a commonly known thing, not everyone has something specific in mind when they say cardio. What exactly is cardio and why do we need it?

At its simplest, cardio is any physical activity that aims to burn fat. There are different ideas on cardio routines. Some think that a low intensity workout is better while others prefer high intensity workouts. The idea behind the former workout is that you get your ...