Category: Healthy living
An Insight Into the Digestive System
In the whole digestion process, food is transformed by our body into a useable form that can be absorbed easily by the digestive system. Aliments in the oral cavity are mixed with saliva. This starts to dissolve what we have eaten, as the teeth chew, grinding the food and cutting it. The result of [...]
Prevention of Obesity at an Early Age
A study made on subtle lifestyle changes for children up to two years old and their families showed that obesity can be reduced starting from this early age.
Is the environment the main cause of obesity?
The Problem I recently read an article in the British Medical Journal that addressed this concern. It is a known fact that obesity and the complications that flow from it, such as diabetes, a higher risk of developing cancerous disease and a higher incidence of cardio-vascular disease, made this public health problem into a real [...]
The Acai Berry Diet: How does it work
The Acai Berry Diet is a fast-growing dietary trend, most acclaimed in North American, that got most its fame due to the promotion it benefited from, in shows like The Oprah Show or The Dr. Oz Show. Despite this, there are still lots of people who have heard of the Acai Berry Diet on different [...]
Detox – The Skin, The Barrier Against All Evils
Often, when talking about detoxification programs, people tend to talk of specific organs or systems inside us, or talk about toxins that come from the outside. But what’s in between? Yes, the skin. The skin is body’s largest organ. On one hand, it protects the body from lots of external aggressors, on the other hand, [...]
Detox – The Blood, The Fluid in Us
When talking about a full body detox, we tend to think about specific organs or parts of our body. But we rarely think about the thing common to all of these: the blood. The blood is the common link between everything in our body. It is the one transporting oxygen, bringing food and taking the [...]
Detox – The Lungs, The Vital Air-flow
When talking about detoxification, that usually implies that the damage is done by you to yourself, in various ways such as sloppy and unhealthy eating habits, consuming a large amount of unhealthy substances, not making enough physical activity, when it comes to the lungs things are a little different. Even though we can intoxicate them [...]
Detox – The Kidney, The Filter of The Body
Detoxification is a process that consists of removing toxins from your body. That means that toxins are inside your body. So, they affect different organs differently. But some of the most affected organs are the ones that act as filters, such as the liver, the lungs and the kidney. That’s why it is very important [...]
Detox – The Colon, Body’s Garbage Dump
The detoxifying process refers to eliminating the toxic substances in our body. And there are many ways toxic substances can be eliminated from your body: by the activity of the liver, through the job the kidneys are doing. But one of the most important ways of eliminating them is by defecating, which implies the colon. [...]
Detox – The Liver, Laboratory of the Body
Everyone is talking about detoxifying their bodies. It is a process lots of people are talking about and we should all do it once in a while, but no one is breaking it down to organs and systems in our body. Everyone is doing it, but no one really does it right. Few people know [...]
