ScienceDaily (Dec. 13, 2010) — Primary school children who don't like eating fruit and vegetables are 13 times more likely to develop functional constipation than children who do, according to a study in the December issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing. Drinking less than 400ml of fluid a day also significantly increases the risk. Dr Moon Fai Chan, assistant professor at ... Continue Reading
Foods That Aid Your Digestion
Digestion is one of the most complicated processes in the human system. It has to deal with all that we care to put in our mouth. A brief idea of what digestion is all about will tell us a lot about foods that aid digestion and the why’s and how’s of eating. The food we eat has to be broken down into small particles so that our system can absorb them and send them on to do ... Continue Reading
Raw Food Diet: The Good and The Bad (Part 1)
Raw foodism, also known as rawism, is a lifestyle that promotes consumption of unprocessed, uncooked, and organic foods as part of your diet. The advocates of raw foodism for a long time have presented it as an alternative and a superior dietary approach, relative to other diets. Obviously, the supporters of raw foodism claim that this approach brings about multiple benefits ... Continue Reading
Role and Benefits of L-Arginine
Arginine or L-Arginine is considered a semi-essential amino acid that is obtained from the diet and is necessary for protein synthesis in the body. It helps the body get rid of ammonia, helps in making compounds such as creatine, L-glutamate, L-Proline and Glucose. Arginine is a pre-cursor to nitric oxide, which is a biological gas required for intra-cellular communication and ... Continue Reading
Foods that Prevent Headaches and Migraines
More than 100 million people suffer from different types of chronic headaches, such as tension headaches caused by stress, sinus headaches caused by sinus infection, hunger headaches, cluster headaches sometimes caused by alcohol or smoking, migraines, etc. The migraine itself is usually described as a throbbing, very intense headache. Often there will be blurred vision, ... Continue Reading
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