Control High Blood Pressure With These 5 Everyday Foods

Hypertension is one of the most common lifestyle diseases today, with every fifth person we meet suffering from it. A critical step in preventing and treating high blood pressure is making the right lifestyle choices. These lifestyle changes can help reduce your blood pressure along with the use of prescribed medications. Many of us become excessively dependent on allopathic medicines, which can have side effects if taken in the long term. Instead, a holistic approach to wellness and comprehensive coaching can ensure you a better quality of life. A little…

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Using Supplements in the Legal Way and with Precaution

When you buy a steroid or a supplement you need to abide by the laws of the state. One needs to know how to but the solution without the legal intervention. In case there is the necessity to buy steroid one has to abide by the existing laws of the state. In this case, to buy the medicine you need to have a prescription from the physician. One cannot buy a supplement without the permission of the doctor. However, supplemental laws in the USA are not so easy and due…

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Young women with high-fibre diet may have lower breast cancer risk

“Teenage girls who get their five-a-day cut breast cancer risk by up to 25 per cent,” the Daily Mirror reports. A US study suggests teenagers and young women who eat a high-fibre diet based on eating plenty of fruit and vegetables have a reduced risk of breast cancer in later life. This large and lengthy study tracked around 90,000 US female nurses over 20 years. It found that women whose dietary habits during adolescence and early adulthood placed them in the top fifth highest average fibre intake group (top quintile) were around…

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How to go easy with these diet snacks

The demand for healthy diet snacks has gone up as people have become quite fitness conscious. But if you gorge on them mindlessly, even these healthy snacks can cause trouble in your weight loss plans. Nuts All nuts are good news so eat your walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, cashew or pistachios raw or dry roasted. They are rich in fiber and protein, and help control blood glucose and lipids. However, they are loaded with calories, so grab a handful each time. Also avoid fried or packaged nuts as they are often…

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Healing with food

The next time you’re eating something, chew on this: the nutrients that are present in food help the cells in our bodies perform their functions. Nutrients are essential for growth, development and maintenance of our bodies as well as for instructing our bodies about how best to work. To that end, absence of nutrients is absence of health. The connect is really quite simple. While we’re on the topic of our body’s functions, healing is an essential body function. The process of recovering from illnesses — both major and minor…

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Food with avocado extract could prevent bacterial illness

A recent study has found that extracts from avocado seedscan potentially be used as a natural additive incorporated into ready-to-eat foods to control microbes that cause Listeria. The study has been published in the Journal of Food Science. Listeria is a food borne bacterial illness that can be very serious for pregnant women and people with impaired immune systems. Food products formulated without synthetic additives can be harmful for health therefore, food scientists are looking for ways to replace synthetic additives with natural ones. Researchers from Tecnologico de Monterrey in…

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