Saturated Fats, Healthy?
Is it possible that saturated fats aren’t the evil artery-clogging villains that we’ve made them out to be? In fact, could these unsavory bad boys actually be healthy?! That’s the controversial topic of an interesting article in this month’s Men’s Health magazine. You’ve heard all the evidence against saturated fats, so it’s only fair to hear their side of the story.
Here are a few revealing facts that may surprise you:
- We typically eat more than a dozen kinds of saturated fat. Some have zero effect on cholesterol. Some raise bad (LDL) cholesterol, but all of them raise good (HDL) cholesterol to a greater extent. That’s a net gain in heart health.
Your Dentist Can Help You To Stay Healthier
How important is Oral Hygiene to your health??
Good oral hygiene is in fact essential for good health. If your teeth and gums are in poor shape, you can not chew your food properly. This can lead to digestive problems and other health conditions. Gum disease can lead to tooth loss. Tooth loss can interfere with eating because you can not chew your food well. This means that your food is more difficult to digest because the primary part of the digestive process, chewing, has been compromised.
Based on some recommendations by the American Dental Association, here are the tips that you can help you to keep your teeth:
Prime Essentials - A Premier Multivitamin-mineral Dietary Supplement
To begin improving you nutritional status you need to take daily supplements, these are so critical to good health. Prime Essentials were created with this in mind, to get you started even before you test yourself using the Ideal Health’s PrivaTest. Originally only taken by “health nuts,” nowadays daily multivitamins or mineral supplements are taken as a norm. In the Journal of the American Medical Association, it was published in 2002 that vitamin supplementation was officially recommended for chronic disease prevention in adults and to quote the Harvard Medical School researchers in this study, “Pending strong evidence of effectiveness from randomized trials, it appears prudent for all adults to take vitamin supplements.”
10 Steps To Feeling Healthy, Happy, And Energised This Winter
One: Drink 3L of Water a day - not coke, coffee, or fizzy drinks
Two: Alkalise your body with Greens!! Such as Green Juices, Green Drinks (eg. Ultimate Greens from life stream) and Green Veggies - full of Chlorophyll which is a blood builder.
Three: Eat mostly alkalising foods such as fresh veggies, fruit, nuts, seeds, grains, sprouts, and complex carbohydrates. These foods will turn your body into a power house of energy and being consistently at your peak in performance.
Four: Reduce your intake of meat, pasta, dairy, wine, and fatty foods so your body will restore its balance – these are highly acidic to your body.
Varicose Veins
Varicose veins are abnormally enlarged, bulging, bluish and or lumpy looking veins that are caused by poor circulation and or malfunctioning valves inside veins. The veins return blood back to the heart. Valves within the veins prevent back flow. Pooling of blood within the veins can cause them to expand, bulge against the skin, giving it a blueish tint. Poor diet (high protein, fat and starch) tends to cause poor high cholesterol, high blood pressure, poor circulation, varicose veins, etc.
The heart pumps blood throughout the body via its vessels (arteries, veins and capillaries. Arteries moves blood away from the heart. Veins carry blood back to the heart. Capillaries irrigate the tissues, skin, hair, nails, etc.
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