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 […]
The Importance of Fiber
People tend to look past fiber. For most people, fiber is something you eat if you’re having trouble going to the bathroom or if your stomach is hurting. However, fiber does so much more than normalize bowel movements and maintain bowel health. Fiber is a type of carbohydrate, but it’s a weird one. Fiber isn’t […]
Frozen Food – Is it Healthy?
Frozen food is a controversial topic for many people. For some it’s a taboo, but for others it’s a regular meal. The convenience is undeniable. Just come home, take the meal out of the freezer, and heat it up. Quick, simple, and easy. Exactly what most people want to do after a long day at […]
