Cold and Flu Fighters

New twist on staying healthy.
Want to cut your chances of getting a cold or the flu this season? Eat breakfast. Profesor Andy Smith of Cardiff University directed a study of 100 peoples in Wales. He found that people who had fever colds were more likely to eat breakfast. And they weren’t just healthy because they got up early, he points out “breakfast is associated with a general healthy lifestyle, but we controlled for this and the breakfast effects”. Read more

Super Foods for Your Health

A super food is a food that is particularly rich in some nutritious elements and sometimes even in active principles that are useful in fighting health problems.

The various super foods that are available can be rich in different nutritious elements. Indeed, some super foods contain a good quantity of vitamins, while others are rich in vitamin A. Read more

Glycemic Index of Foods

Certain foods that we eat increase our blood sugar level quickly, whereas others increase it moderately, slowly or not at all. The glycemic index indicates the rapidity a food increases the sugar level (glucose) in the blood. So, a food has a low glycemic index is a food that does not increase the blood sugar level or that does not increase it much.

List of foods with a high glycemic index: Read more

What is Organic Farming?

Agriculture in North America has become an industry wherein any means that will increase production will be implemented with no consideration for the quality of the product. But this agricultural mass production is not without consequences. If the price of foods is lower, the resulting negative effects of modern agricultural techniques are numerous: mainly, these are the threats to the environment and the health, the nutritional quality and the taste of the foods produced.

The quality of the food produced by the agro-industrial complex raises many questions: Is beef treated with hormones good for the health? Read more

Food Combinations

Food combinations refer to the mixture of different foods during the same meal. The digestion of foods eaten during a meal varies from one food to the other. Certain foods, such as fruits, remain in the stomach for a very short time and are mainly digested in the intestine. Others, such as meat, are mostly digested in the stomach before entering the intestine.

The problem occurs when someone eats a food that needs to stay in the stomach for a short time, along with a food the needs to stay in the stomach for a long time. Read more

A Good Outlook Towards Weight

From the naturopathic point of view, the ideal weight of a person should be the weight that allows him/he to enjoy good health as well as maximum of physical activity. Therefore, your ideal weight should not be based on the standards dictated by fashion or on purely aesthetic criteria. These standards do not take into account the health, well-being, individual characteristics and the unique metabolism of each one of us. Read more

Beneficial Effects of B-complex Vitamins

The B complex is like a large family in which each vitamin is a distinctive member. Because B vitamins act together and complete each other, it is preferable to take them in compound form and not to take separately. It is important to understand that each of the vitamins from the B complex needs the others to be effective. In fact, the B-complex acts as a single vitamin, but with a multi-vitamin effect. Furthermore, the B complex is so important for health that it could be compared to the central part of a daisy, the other vitamins coming as the additions that surround it. Read more

Vitamins: Micronutrients or Miracle Drugs? (Part 2)

Vitamin D is the sunshine vitamin. Our body manufactures it when our skin is in contact with the sun’s rays.  It is the only vitamin to be produced by our body. Our system can manufacture large quantities of vitamin D and store them in the liver until needed.

Vitamin D is Essential For:

The absorption of calcium through the intestines and into the blood;
Settling calcium and phosphorus in the bones. Read more

Vitamins: Micronutrients or Miracle Drugs? (Part 1)

Vitamins are organic substances derived from living material-plants and animals. They are required in the diet in such tiny amounts-milligram or microgram quantities-that all the needed vitamins together add up to about an eighth of a teaspoon a day.

If you are lacking one or another vitamin in your diet, or if you consume it in insufficient quantity, characteristic deficiency symptoms develop. But because vitamins have such diverse roles, the deficiency symptoms of a particular vitamin may touch many different body functions, and different vitamins may produce similar deficiency symptoms. Read more

The Importance of “Good “Vitamins

Vitamins are absolutely essential to maintain health and even life. A lack of vitamins or a “deficiency” quickly leads a variety of problems. Having an excess of vitamins in our system or “hypervitaminosis” is rather rare and can only occur if we are taking artificially made condensed vitamins. In fact, it is impossible to get an excess of vitamins from our diet alone. The vitamins contained in our foods are not in a concentrated form as are the synthetically made vitamins or those made from a concentrate extracted from foods.

Both vitamins concentrates extracted from foods and synthetic vitamins combined with foods are of tremendous quality and are beneficial to health. Read more

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