Sugar - What Are The Nutritional Benefits?

With most food, there's good and bad; with sugar, there's bad. Sugar is addictive, the more you eat, the more you want. Refined sugar is completely depleted of nutrients and life-force, and all that remains is pure, refined carbohydrate.

Water Water Everywhere - But How Much Of It Should We Drink?

The body uses water to transport vitamins, minerals, and hormones around the body, to pass on messages from brain to nerves, and to help the digestive processes. Without sufficient water intake, these processes can become disrupted, which, in extreme cases, could prove fatal.

It's Not Easy Being Vegan

It's not easy being vegan. I don't mean that it is a difficult lifestyle, I embrace it and love it and would never consider living any other way. What I mean is that often we are made to feel like either an outcast or a target.

Top 10 Secrets to Alkalizing for Radiant Health

This article gives you the golden nuggets on how to raise your body from an acidic state (acidosis) to a balanced (and optimally) an alkaline state where the body thrives and disease cannot live.

Awaken to the Benefits of Natural Food Supplements

Awaken to the Benefits of Natural Food Supplements. This article creates awareness of the benefits of food supplements. Food supplements are supposed to be natural solutions for dietary deficiencies in human beings and its overall benefits include - weight loss, natural cures, healthy lifestyle and weight control.

Benefits of Becoming a Vegetarian

Numerous studies have shown that those who follow a vegetarian diet have a reduced risk of certain health problems. In particular a vegetarian diet has been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease, colon cancer, diabetes and strokes. The consumption of many vegetarian foods such as grains, pulses, fruit and vegetables have health promoting properties such as helping to reduce the risk of cancer. On the other hand consumption of meat, especially red meat can increase the risk of certain diseases such as coronary heart diseases.

Spring Into Health

How to stay in balance and eat in the spring time.

How to Get Your Vegetables Easily

What are these mysterious green powders, you ask? Well, quite simply green powders are vegetables, fruits, micro-algaes, wild grasses and other supplements that come in a powder form. All green powders contain chlorophyll, the substance that makes plants green. Green foods alkalize the body and help relieve these symptoms.

Detoxification - 5 Vital Foods for Effective Detox

Detoxification or detox for short is one of the liver's most important functions. It relies on two complicated phases involving enzyme reactions to break down toxins and render them safe for excretion. Research has shown that specific foods and nutrients have an inhibiting effect or enhancing effect on these detoxification enzyme systems. Plenty of these foods should be used for the most effective liver detoxification diet. These same foods and nutrients can even be used to treat some common toxicity and immune system disorders.

Garlic - Nature's Natural Anti-Biotic And Wonderful Food

Garlic, in ancient times, were used in tombs when burying the dead. Little did they know that this wonderful herb also had healthful benefits to cure. It also makes a wonderful food!

Liquid Nutrition After Surgery

Against a background of widespread obesity among all US and UK age-groups, and the relative failure of conventional weight loss methods, doctors are increasingly resorting to gastrointestinal surgery in order to curb the rise of weight-related disease, and associated costs and strain being placed on the health service providers.

Detox - Does Detoxification Really Work?

There has been a lot of media reports recently of researchers finding that detox diets are a waste of time and do not get rid of toxins. Is there any evidence that detoxification does work?