Can an Alkaline Diet Prevent Cancer?

In the hunt for the cure for cancer, professionals in many different fields look at a variety of different solutions every single year. Some are radical; others more traditional, scientifically proven or scientifically sound, while still others enter the realm of the scientifically questionable, such as alternative medicine or traditional Chinese medicine, where results are [...]

Probiotics Research

Probiotics have only recently begun to be studied widely, but already emerging results are demonstrating the benefits that can be had from adding them to your diet. What are Probiotics? Probiotics are natural flora – in fact, millions of them already live in your intestinal tract, or gut. Probiotics, however, are administered from outside by [...]

The Importance of Zinc

When most individuals think about ways to address a cold, they undoubtedly turn to warm tea, throat lozenges, cough syrup, and various cold/flu medications. Unfortunately, the common cold is nothing more than a viral infection, most often caused by rhinoviruses, and is thus far incurable. However, the common cold is rarely – if ever – [...]

What to Know Before Trying a New Health Supplement or Meal Replacement

As with herbal therapies, nutritional supplements are unregulated by the FDA. Lack of regulation does not mean, however, that supplements are not beneficial or safe to use. Courtesy of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), the manufacturers bear the burden of ensuring the safety of dietary supplements, not the FDA. In [...]

Should You be Concerned About Whey Protein Powders?

As contemporary lifestyles are becoming ever faster and dubious fast food products ever more ubiquitous, many individuals are experiencing increasing difficulty in maintaining a healthy diet. Rising rates of obesity in both adults and children are one indication of these regrettable trends in modern living. There may, however, be fast food alternatives to those fat [...]

Vitamin K and How It Helps You

What is Vitamin K? Vitamins at their most basic level are organic compounds that are required as nutrients by most organisms. Generally when people speak of vitamin consumption they are referring to the role that they play in a normal diet; being the necessary components for healthy, balanced nutrition. There is a wide range of [...]

Lipoic Acid: The Wonder Antioxidant

Lipoic Acid Every organ of the human body comes under assault on a daily basis, but nature has kindly given us sophisticated defense mechanisms to guard against microscopic invaders, to prevent illness and to reduce the effectiveness of an attack; they are unfortunately not always 100% effective. There are also complex systems continually at work [...]

Are There Any Benefits to Meal Replacements Products?

Meal Replacements The 21st century has seen a rise in the popularity of a diet termed by many as a ‘liquid diet’. It is the concept of acquiring your daily nutrition in some liquid form, usually as a replacement for an actual meal. These are called meal replacement products, or MRPs. They are pre-packaged or [...]

The Benefit of Combining Calcium and Vitamin D

The Combination Calcium is one of the most important requirements for a healthy life because it is a mineral that is necessary for your body to perform at its peak condition. The National Osteoporosis Foundation states that, “Calcium plays an important role in building stronger, denser bones early in life and keeping those bones strong [...]

The Importance of Vitamin B12

Vitamin B12 Vitamin B12 is one of the key vitamins that work towards promoting natural function within the brain and nervous system, as well as the formation of blood cells. It is one of the eight B vitamins, which can cause confusion considering that it has goes by the acronym B12. Normally, it works with [...]

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