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Lose Weight Accordingly to Your Temperament

Men and women alike have weight issues at some point in their life. Whether you’re young or aged, losing weight or maintaining a healthy diet is always difficult. But it’s not so difficult if you eat in accordance with your own temperament.

For instance, a sanguine person is rather quiet, can easily cope with all kinds […]

Diet and Natural Tips For Lowering Bad Cholesterol

Cholesterol is present in every person’s body and is essential for the normal functioning of the body. But when the level of cholesterol increases it may get deposited in blood vessels and may cause serious health problems.
There are 2 types of cholesterol, Low density lipoproteins or LDL (bad cholesterol) and high density lipoproteins HDL (good […]

Red Meat Is Murder

Whether or not red meat can be included as part of a healthy diet is one of the most hotly debated topics in the nutrition field.
The definition of ‘red meat‘ varies with changes in time, place and culture. In culinary terminology, red meat is synonymous with meat which is red in color when uncooked. Nutritional […]

The Dangers Of Fasting

Fasting is said to be a multidimensional experience in which total body transformation occurs. Many religions, including Christianity, Judaism, and Eastern religions used and still use fasting as a healing process for spiritual purification and communion with God. Philosophers, scientists, and physicians have used it as a healing process to cure illnesses.
Nowadays, besides its religious […]

Are You too Skinny? Go on a Fattening Diet!

Most active persons try hard to maintain or lose weight. Well, there is another category of people: those who try hard to put on weight!
Rugby or hockey players, bodybuilders and sprinters try to increase their muscular mass, just as old persons try not to put on weight.
If you think you are too skinny and you […]

How to Fight Against Obesity

Obesity is a health problem that leads to serious medical complications, the shortening of life expectancy and a higher cost for society.
There is a well established treatment strategy for fighting against obesity according to the characteristics of each case. The first step is the evaluation of the medical background of each patient, the treatments he […]

Five Rules Against Constipation

Constipation is a frequent issue, especially for women. The main causes are the bad nutrition and the chaotic life style.
When Do We Suffer From Constipation?
It is said that the normal frequency of feces is between three per day and one time at three days. We suffer from constipation when the number of feces is smaller […]

The Ten Healthiest Foods

Bad diets and sever diseases are strongly connected. In order to avoid having cancer, ulcer, vascular disturbances, insomnia or milkleg, it is enough to eat some foods that should always be on a healthy daily diet. Mark Glen, a famous British dietitian, recommends the following ten healthiest foods:

Apples - an excellent source of pectin, fibers […]

Lemon Juice Diet

Cultivated in China since 3,000 years ago, the lemon tree is very well known thanks to the therapeutic properties of its fruits and leafs.

Lemon has two important properties: it’s an antibacterial agent with plenty of vitamin C, the juice from a fruit covers 50% from the daily recommended dose of an adult. It contains potassium […]

15 Myths about Diets

The land of slimming diets, is with no doubt the United States of America. New diets appear all the time; maybe because America has the greatest number of overweight and obese persons in the world, (almost 45-50 % of Americans are fat and obese).
In Europe, Britain is the fattest country. Figures show that 23% of […]

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