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Enhanced water: not best method to get vitamins

Q: I have seen a number of bottles of water containing vitamins in the supermarket. Should I buy these for my family?
A: The simple answer to your question is no. There are better ways for your family to get their vitamins. Foods based on Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide provide the best source of [...]

What Are The Effects Of Anger And Stress On Your Health

A test was performed on subjects at UCLA with anger and response. Those subjects who kept their anger inside experienced a decrease in immune system activity, but those who expressed their anger showed no chemical change in their bodies. Pent up anger is not the only kind of anger that is dangerous to your health, [...]

Calcium-rich foods protect bone health in adults

Every so often a report is published that claims a miracle food has the potential to prevent cancer, halt heart disease or increase energy levels. Yet, research has consistently proved that a balanced diet and moderate physical activity is the best approach for the average healthy adult. People with special health situations should follow their [...]

How Sugar destroys human health

Sugar is addictive and is a low grade poison like any other addictive substance.
Refined sugar in particular provides only “empty” calories and lacks natural nutrients which are present at least in some degree in the whole sugar beet or whole sugar cane.
Such sugar is a refined and therefore incomplete carbohydrate. The body cannot utilize refined [...]

Tired All the Time? It May be Sleep Apnea

Repetitive blockages of the airway, called obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), can reduce airflow or cause breathing to stop. When this happens, frequent brief awakenings can leave a person feeling excessively sleepy during the day, even though they believe they have had a full night’s sleep. More serious consequences, including obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and diabetes [...]

Take Herbal Supplements to Retain Youth

These herbs are quite difficult to take alone. So the best way to take them is in form of Herbal Nutritional Supplements. Some of the herbal supplements are mentioned below:
• Bilberry Extract Supplements: These supplements improve eye health and night vision. Clinical tests confirm that the herbal nutrition supplement bilberry is effective in treating eye [...]

Biotechnology can improve health

In its broadest sense, the history of food and nutrition is that of biotechnology. The current fascination with advanced genetic and production technologies has tended to obscure the fact that biotechnology has been critical to the food industry and to human health for millennia.
Preservation techniques using live organisms (such as yeast for brewing or bacteria [...]