Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts

Importance of Health and Media Literacy

Although research suggests that children's eating habits are formed even before they enter the classroom - children as young as two may already have dietary preferences based on their parents' food choices - health education can play a vital role in helping establish lifelong healthy patterns early. Research shows that health education has a positive impact on health behaviors as well as academic achievement, and that the most effective means of improving health literacy is ensuring that health education is included in curriculum at all levels of education. U.S. schools educate 54 million...

How Ginger Can Improve Your Health

Ginger is not only a delicious way to spice up your dinners, but it has been used for centuries as a natural medicine to treat ailments ranging from migraine headaches to menstrual cramps. Ginger is native to Southeast Asia, but these days it is grown and harvested in Fuji, South America, Jamaica, Indonesia and Australia. There are several different varieties available, and the flesh of ginger can be white, yellow or red depending on the variety. Ginger has long been used to treat nausea and flatulence by naturopathic doctors and it is now becoming more widely used for its ability to treat...

Health Benefits of Activated Carbon Air Filters - They Can Do More Than You Think

There has been a lot of discussion lately regarding whether activated carbon (charcoal) air filters really do provide any measurable health benefits. Well, the answer according to research is definitely 'yes', but for the sake of our health, we'd better take their word for it and err on the side of caution. Why? The type of indoor air pollutants that activated carbon removes are of the chemical, gas, and odor nature, and it's those types of pollutants that can cause a range of problems, both in the short term and over time-problems such as allergies, asthma, COPD, heart disease, cancer...

Avocado - A True Health Food, Especially for the Liver

We love to find foods that are inherently healthy, especially when they are also a delicious addition to your meals. Also, we are always on the lookout for liver-healthy foods, because as we know so much of our health, and our ability to keep our weight in check depends on a well-functioning liver. Foods such as turmeric and other herbs and spices, as we have pointed out on our website, provide liver health, and in this article we would like to point out the benefits of another: avocado. So for those who have yet started to use the avocado in their diet plan, let's introduce...

Health Benefits of Using a Gourmet Finishing Salt in Your Food

For many years, researchers have published negative aspects of salt, but they usually fail to leave one very important thing. We need salt in our diet. Just as nutrients are taken out of foods when they are processed and put into a box, same thing happens when salt is recycled. Trace elements, salts, and what makes it an integral part of our nutritional essence is removed and put us in the form of table salt. Sea salt, like the banana or apple can be found untouched the produce section of your grocer, has been left in its natural state. Although salt is sodium chloride, two chemicals...