Problems of the Digestive Tract

January 28, 2010 by admin  
Filed under Health & Nutrition

People who do not digest their food well tend to get bloated, to suffer from an excess of acidity and sometimes to have pains n the stomach. When you suffer from problems of the digestive tract, the first thing you should do is to check your diet, and also the way in which you eat.

Food Combining

Often it is the combination of foods that is to blame rather than any individual foods. Some food combinations can be very unhealthy, causing acidity, flatulence and discomfort. Read more

What’s in Your Diet?

December 11, 2009 by admin  
Filed under Vitamins & Supplements

What’s in your diet? What you eat is useless to you unless it can be broken down into vitamins, minerals, nutrients and healthy fats that can be absorbed by your body. A great deal of the work of your gastrointestinal system carried out by digestive enzymes. The use of digestive enzymes is usually warranted when digestion is disrupted by a lack of enzymes.

Digestive enzymes decline with advancing age and supplemental enzymes help to restore good digestion. Read more

Good and Healthy Diet

December 8, 2009 by admin  
Filed under Diet & Weight Loss

Good and Healthy DietEating good quality foods is not everything; we must also know how to combine our foods. Indeed, the digestion of a perfectly healthy food can be slowed down or even disrupted by the consumption, during the same meal, of another food, as healthy as the other one, but requiring a different digestive effort.
The following naturopathic healthy diet will allow to achieve the most effective food combination, while providing the system with the whole range of nutritional substances it requires. Read more

Foods Are Not The Only Thing

November 25, 2009 by admin  
Filed under Health & Nutrition

Foods are not the only thingIt is undeniable that the foods we eat have a crucial effect on our level of health. If we eat healthy foods, each cell in our body benefits from it. A good diet is an essential element of health. If we easily recognize the importance of healthy eating, very few among us succeed in putting it into practice in our daily lives.

Cooking methods

The way we cook the food that we eat has a decisive effect on its quality. Basically vegetables are excellent foods: rich in vitamins, minerals, trace elements and enzymes. Cook them for 30 minutes on high heat in a saucepan filled with oil. After this treatment, not only will the nutritious value of these foods be highly reduced, but they will also be hard to digest because they are drenched with hot oil. Read more

A Healthy Liver: An Essential Key

November 23, 2009 by admin  
Filed under Health & Nutrition

Healthy liver: an essential keyLiver has a cleansing action in the body and is one of the organs protecting body. Whenever the liver malfunctions, the body’s defences are weakened and pert of the toxic substances absorbed pass directly into the blood stream. It fixes or transforms toxins: poisons contained in food (coffee, nicotine, chemical additives, refined sugar, etc.), eliminates wastes left by the primary digestive cycle and enables the digestion and the use of fats.
 
Bad eating habits, a bad lifestyle and a lack of physical exercise all have a cumulative effect over the weeks, undermining the liver. Read more