We’re the country that has more food to eat than any other country in the world, and with more diets to keep us from eating it.~Author Unknown For hundreds of years the biggest threat to our survival was hunger. Starving and dying was the worst possible scenario our ancestors could have dreamed of. Famine would […]
Tag Archives: health problems
Preventing Childhood Obesity Causes thru Neck Size
July 7, 2010
Studies show that by measuring neck circumference doctors can better determine if a child is obese or overweight. The new method gained the attention of researchers when confronted by the problematic results used in spotting childhood obesity by calculating the kid’s BMI ( Body mass index). The problems arise because children are still growing and […]
Obesity Epidemic Confirmed by Growing Obesity Rates
July 7, 2010
Over the past year obesity rates in 28 US states have increased proving that Americans are still getting fatter and fatter. Executive director for the Trust for America’s Health, Jeff Lewis confirmed that "More than two-thirds of states now have adult obesity rates above 25 percent," Proving that the obesity epidemic is on the rise […]
Study Show that Obesity Health Risks are Cancer Causes
July 6, 2010
A study performed on 401,215 subjects from Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, New Zealand, Thailand, Australia and South Korea showed that obesity health risks are cancer causes. For some time now obesity has been regarded as a health risk and in the west it has been viewed as a cancer cause, but there haven’t […]
3 Stress Signs and Symptoms
February 22, 2010
You rested well during the night, but in the morning you barely manage to get out of the bed and go to the office. The way seems endless, and when you finally get there it is like you want to make yourself invisible. Not because you are not conscious, but you actually do not feel […]
Green tea and heart and circulatory diseases
February 22, 2010
Stress also plays a role in these "management diseases" and green tea combats stress. Therefore, a diet that is rich in tea is helpful in cases of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, if a heart attack or an apoplexy stroke have already occurred, angina pectoris and heart failure. In essence, all these diseases are consequences […]
Drinking Green Tea Can Help Cure Some Health Problems
February 22, 2010
It is a property of EGCG to prevent the amylase enzymes to convert starch into simple sugars. The latter will come, so significantly slower in the blood and the body will not be flooded with sugar. As a result, the pancreas is spared, and glucose is compensated. Instead, green tea does not affect the digestion […]
Digestive Disorders Treatments with the Help of Green Tea
February 22, 2010
Green tea should be drunk with food, slowly and in small sips, because this way it acts best against stomach acidity content. After a meal that was high in fat, for example, heartburns may occur because of the acidity that comes back into the esophagus. Since green tea is classified as having an alkaline effect, […]
The health benefits of Green Tea: green tea and infections
February 22, 2010
If the body has enough vitamin C, it will react with free radicals and will pull them out of the fight. Green tea does not only provide vitamin C, but it also contains flavones, which take over other functions of the vitamin, so it can be efficiently mobilized against free radicals. In the treatment of […]
July 20, 2010
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