Added March 26, 2012, Under: Diets, Diseases, Drugs, Health
We tend to think of our livers as being affected by drinking too much alcohol but you might be surprised to read that sugar can be equally damaging.
For background on this aspect, back in May 2009, Robert Lustig gave a lecture called “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” which was posted on YouTube where it has received millions of viewers. This is quite astonishing for a university-type lecture of some 90 minutes on the nuances of fructose biochemistry and human physiology when ...
Added March 25, 2012, Under: Children's Health, Diseases, Doctors, Drugs, Health, Nutrition
TB or tuberculosis is still a world wide health problem in spite of medical advances. But the biggest enemy of TB is fresh air. This airborne disease is spread in crowded places such as too many people living in one small home, travelling tightly packed together in public transport systems and even working in hospitals and clinics where the air supply is not constantly being changed or refreshed. So much better to be cold and draughty than warm, snug and ...
Added March 24, 2012, Under: Diets, Diseases, Environment, Health
It is spring in the northern hemisphere and, wherever they are allowed to grow freely in meadows and grassy gardens, dandelions, buttercups and daisies are starting to appear. Where I live in the southern hemisphere, it is the start of autumn (or fall) and such flowers are not likely to be found anyway – we have other varieties instead. When I think of dandelions, buttercups and daisies it always takes me back to last May and the little old churchyard ...
Added March 23, 2012, Under: Diseases, Exercise, Men's Health, Nutrition
The age old problem of baldness has been the source of jokes, the subject of magazine articles and featured in TV sitcoms for decades and still, those affected carry on searching for ways to halt or prevent baldness. Now according to a report on BBC Health site, a biological clue to male baldness has been discovered, raising the prospect of a treatment to stop or even reverse thinning hair.
The BBC reports that in studies of bald men and laboratory mice, ...
Added March 19, 2012, Under: Children's Health, Diseases, Environment, Health
Vitamin D is not a vitamin at all but a feel good hormone that is probably the single most important factor in human health and, unfortunately, much of the world's population is deficient in this vital vitamin (hormone).
According to D*Action, every tissue in our bodies needs vitamin D and will not work correctly if we do not get enough. In its most extreme forms, vitamin D deficiency produces rickets in children and osteomalaccia (bone softening) in adults.
For some background ...
Added March 17, 2012, Under: Books, Children's Health, Diseases, Parents
Anyone who was brought up on Beatrix Potter books will know about chamomile tea. In the story of Peter Bunny when he had a traumatic day escaping from Mr. McGregor's vegetable garden, and did not feel very well that evening, his mother put him to bed and made some chamomile tea. She gave a dose of it to Peter, saying: 'One table-spoonful to be taken at bed-time.' His sisters Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail had bread and milk and blackberries for ...
Added March 15, 2012, Under: Children's Health, Diets, Diseases, Health, Nutrition
As a child in England, we used to have a game where you would hold a buttercup under your chin and if there was a golden reflection on your skin, it meant that you loved butter. I never needed a buttercup to tell me that I was, am and always will be a butter lover.
When I saw a photo on the internet the other day showing a plate with 2 types of margarine and 1 knob of butter and how ...
Added March 14, 2012, Under: Children's Health, Diseases, Health, Skin Conditions
There is a viral skin condition that is appearing more often and which has rather a strange name – it is called molluscum contagiosum. As its name suggests, the virus is very contagious and easily spreads both from person to person and from one part of the body to another part of the same body. A virus is a small infectious agent that can only replicate inside the cells of another organism. The word is from the Latin ''virus'' referring ...
Added March 12, 2012, Under: Diseases, Exercise, Health
Although we can often benefit from a little stress to get us going, too much stress is known to damage or destroy our brain cells while seriously affecting our ability to think clearly or focus on what is really important. Fortunately you do not have to resort to prescription drugs or over the counter medications (with all their adverse side effects) to counteract the downside of too much stress – it is possible to use natural methods to reverse the ...
Added March 11, 2012, Under: Children's Health, Diets, Diseases, Health, Nutrition
Peppers come in such wonderful vibrant colors, making them so attractive to eat whether raw or cooked and with a good chance that children will be attracted enough to those colors to actually give them a taste. By including a variety of different colored fruit and veggies in your daily diet, you are guaranteed a healthier and diverse amount of all the essential vitamins and minerals.
The marvellous mix of red, green, yellow and orange of peppers adds a rainbow of ...
