It can get a little monotonous listening to health professionals and other experts telling us we need to eat more healthily. I’m sure everyone knows that by this point. The trouble comes with converting that knowledge into action. There’s a popular perception that eating healthy food is more difficult than dining exclusively on junk food. […]
It’s one of the simplest things you can do as part of a healthy lifestyle, and one of the things with the severest consequences if you don’t do it enough. I’m talking about drinking water. Well, not even just water. Any liquid, and even some types of food, can help make sure you’re properly hydrated.
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The purpose of supplements is pretty self-explanatory. They’re supplemental. They’re not a replacement for a healthy, balanced diet with protein, carbs, vitamins and minerals, but they may make a useful addition if you need topping up. There are a lot of reasons someone may need to take a supplement. Perhaps they have a medical condition
Your body is made up of a long list of elements. The big ones you probably know about – oxygen, carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen. That accounts for about 96%. The remaining 4%, however, is a bunch of different minerals that your body can’t produce on its own. It needs to find them elsewhere, generally from
Any discussion of healthy eating is going to involve a lot of talk about “eating your vitamins” but might not explain their importance. That’s not really surprising considering that between them, vitamins are involved in making sure pretty much every part of the body runs properly. Trying to explain the details without plenty of time
From a niche corner of the market to an industry worth billions of dollars, organic food has seen a surge in popularity over the last few years. Fans cite its health and environmental benefits, while skeptics criticize its price, practicality and, in some cases, whether all those claims are really true. Most scientific research into
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Every move you make and every thought that passes through your head is fueled at least in part by what you eat. Without nutrition, or the process by which the body takes food and turns it into muscle and energy and everything else we need, humanity couldn’t function. Nutrition is obviously an important part of
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Organic food has become more and more popular in recent years, a natural extension of a more general push for people to live more sustainably. Proponents claim that organic food is healthier, tastier and better for the environment. Now science has been testing whether that’s really true. Every country has its own standards when it
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Is there any area of health that seems more complicated than nutrition? There seems to be a never-ending parade of experts and fad diets that claim to be the solution to all your problems but often just end up causing new issues. The most basic nutritional advice actually tends to remain the same. You need
There is nothing wrong with using the latest products to keep your skin looking and feeling good, but it’s not all about moisturizing and exfoliation. Some of the most important ingredients for healthy and therefore good-looking skin are vitamins, most of which come from the diet, particularly fruit and vegetables. Take vitamin A, for example.
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