We may be surprised to know that high cholesterol levels that were initially associated with the middle-aged and elderly are now increasingly appearing in the younger generation. This is because many tasty foods nowadays are laden with cholesterol, no wonder that high blood cholesterol is a trend among our younger generation now. The American Heart […]
Understanding and Managing Cholesterol
I believe most people will associate cholesterol with heart disease, heart attacks and stroke, and regard cholesterol as something bad. The truth is, not all cholesterol is bad. In fact, cholesterol is a much-needed component in our body for the production of hormones and to help our liver get rid of waste products. It is […]
Reasons Why Understanding Basic Nutrition Can Improve Our Life
If you are serious about having a healthy body and want to live well and live long, then read on. Based on my studies and compilation, here are a few reasons why equipping ourselves with some basic understanding of nutritional stuff is important: Basic nutrition helps us to focus in regulating our blood sugars, which […]
The Health Benefits of Sunlight
Although excess exposure to Sunlight can cause skin cancer, however, not exposing ourselves to Sunlight at all can do no good to us either. Based on a medical experiment at the University of Southampton in southern England, Sunlight can alter the level of nitric oxide (NO) in the skin, dilating blood vessels that can help […]
Water and Brain Talk
If you like water-based activities, you may be surprised to learn that the activities are helping your health more than you think. A small but encouraging study by Howard Carter of the University of Western Australia School of Sports Science in Australia has revealed that water immersion to the level of the heart will increase […]
Soy Food Consumption and Coronary Heart Disease
Soy Food Consumption Is Associated with Lower Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Chinese Women (note 1). This article was extracted from “The Journal of Nutrition, jn.nutrition.org” Xianglan Zhang, Xiao Ou Shu, (note 2) Yu-Tang Gao,* Gong Yang, Qi Li,* Honglan Li,* Fan Jin* and Wei Zheng Department of Medicine, Center for Health Services Research, […]
