How Bad Are Carbs, Really?
Carbohydrates have a bad reputation nowadays. They’ve been branded as the problem child for weight gain, and many popular diets are either carb-lite or carb-free. However, this immediate dismissal of carbohydrates isn’t necessarily the best idea. It’s best not to follow trends in dieting, but to understand how different nutrients and components of foods interact […]
The Non-Negotiable Tips for Living a Long Life
With constant advancements and upgrades in technology, as well as improved understanding and circulation of traditional practices for ensuring a long and healthy life, we have all the tools necessary to sustain our health past previous life expectancies. All it takes is a little discipline, a little know-how, and a little awareness. However, this past […]
The Relationship between your Diet and Cancer
There are plenty of unknown factors and elements surrounding cancer. It’s a disease that is yet to be fully illuminated by science and research. While there’s no direct connection linking a specific diet to causing cancer, there is a correlation to eating healthy and lowering your risk for contracting cancer. The American Cancer Society has […]
How Physical Activity Affects the Brain
Everyone knows what physical activity and exercise does to your body. It helps you lessen fat stores and lose weight, as well as increasing muscle mass. This is what people go to the gym for, what they go on runs for, what they get on the stairmaster for – no matter how badly they don’t […]
Food as Information to have a Healthy Body
We need food to live. We need to eat to be healthy and have functioning bodies. This is common sense, but the hard part is keeping balance and not shifting into unhealthy eating habits. One way to look at this, as put forth by the University of Minnesota, is to look at each piece of […]
Is there a Limit to the Human Lifespan
As of this past February, there are now more than half a million people in the world over 100 years old, also known as centenarians. The United States has the largest number of confirmed centenarians in the world at 97,000, while Japan has the highest rate of centenarians at 0.06% of the population. According to […]
