Breast cancer, the most common cancer in women is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women. In the U.S., the estimated new cases of invasive breast cancer expected to be diagnosed in 2017 are 252,710 in women and 2,470 in men and about 40,610 women are expected to die from it. Breast cancer […]
Heavy metals such as lead, mercury, aluminium, arsenic, cadmium, are natural metallic elements (with high atomic weight) but over the years, multiple and intense use of these metals in agriculture, medical, cosmetics and other industries have caused high concentrations of these in immediate human surroundings. This accumulated environmental pollution is now part of our everyday […]
You probably use ginger in some of your recipes, but do you know that ginger is more than food or spice? Ginger is an aromatic and spicy rhizome that is a darling of Asian cuisine used in many types of dishes including stir fries. The underground stem has a brownish skin and yellow or whitish […]
Artificial sweeteners or sugar substitutes are synthetic chemicals that offer the sweetness of sugar to your food without adding calories. Though, generally thought as safe or even healthy, consumption of these food additives for long period of time is found associated with weight gain, impaired glucose tolerance and development of type 2 diabetes. In diabetes, […]
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers and third leading cause of cancer death in American men. Estimates from the American Cancer Society suggest that about 1 in 7 men will get diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime. Prostate is a walnut sized gland found just beneath the bladder in men. It […]
Magnesium is one of the most important minerals for human health. It is in fact one of the essential minerals that the human body needs for survival. Other essential minerals include calcium, potassium, sodium, phosphorus and chloride. Magnesium is involved in hundreds of body functions. For this reason, its deficiency can lead to many health […]
Weston Price, DDS, redefined the approach to dental health and directly associated it with human dietary patterns. In his book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Price states that, it is possible to control dental caries through nutrition. He goes on to say that nutrition can provide effective control of up to 95 percent of dental caries. […]
Winner of the Nobel prize in medicine in 1908 and founder of the field of immunology, Elie Metchnikoff, PhD said “death begins in the colon”. Similarly, health begins in the colon. Did you know that your gut is home to 100 trillion living microorganisms? These microorganisms, weighing about 3 pounds, share the food you eat […]
Throughout most of the 2 million years of human history, inadvertent fasting was the norm. Food was not readily available until farming of wheat (around 8000 BC) the canning and drying of food. Still, humans are not built to be eating often. We are built for intermittent fasting. By eating 3-5 meals/day, we drown our […]
Nutritional differences between standard white potatoes in western cuisine and pigmented potatoes According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the most commonly eaten “vegetables” in America are catsup, french fries (potatoes?), and onion rings. None of these foods are real vegetables. We could spend an afternoon talking about the disadvantages of deep fried white […]
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