You may have smoked pot over the weekend to relax or take some illegal narcotics. However, the company you are working in says that everyone in your department needs to undergo drug testing. This ensures that your company is following federal laws and that everyone working for them is in good health. You can quit worrying...
We all know how our body becomes burdened with digestion of difficult and unhealthy foods and toxins that constantly enter into our body through water, food, hygiene products. Now, it is the time to “clean”, with the help of a few easily available ingredients … The following foods are an excellent choice to cleanse our body...
Detoxification, or detox for short is the removal of toxic substances from the body. Certain approaches in alternative medicine claim to remove toxins from the body through herbal, electrical or electromagnetic treatments. It may be confusing to know which products are good and which ones are false. Therapies include contrast showers, detoxification foot pads, detox foot...
Do you take a mineral supplement? I hope you so, minerals are some of the most important nutrients that you can consume. In fact, minerals are vital for a healthy life. They are found in every cell of your body, which shows how important they are. That being said, most people (especially in the United States)...
Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, cranberries-it seems as though much of our world is designed to have a berry within reach from the first warm days of spring to the last cool days before frost. And a good thing, too. Berries may help protect your body from cancer, urinary tract infections, viruses and inflammatory diseases such as...
Kidneys are arguably the most important organs essential for our overall health and vigour. Kidney filter approximately 200 litres of blood daily to produce about 2 litres of waste (urine). Kidney function also includes the regulation of the metabolic minerals, sodium, potassium, and phosphorous. We filter everything: the air in our ventilation systems, the oil in...
Christmas is the time for giving – and food. A dinner fit for a king with roasted turkey, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce, yams, fruit cake, boiled custard, eggnog and apple cider. Gathering around the Christmas tree in the morning with rich hot chocolate and gingerbread to munch on. Leftovers for lunch and more treats...
There’s a whole array of health benefits that may be possible from taking certain nutrients. “We used to think of vitamins strictly in terms of what you needed to prevent short-term deficiencies”, says Simon Nikbin Meydani, chief of the Nutritional Immunology Laboratory at the Research Center on Aging. “Now we’re starting to think about what the...
