Current Health Articles

There’s a secret the kitchen pro’s know. When you work in a professional kitchen every day, you have to watch your weight, and that can mean dieting. That is difficult if you work in a professional kitchen day in and day out creating the world’s most delicious cuisine. Here’s the trick that involves fresh juiced [...]

You are probably familiar with the Food Guide Pyramid which has been the major source of identifying specific food groups.  This pyramid also served as a guideline on healthy foods that you should eat. The traditional food pyramid however is being challenged by the Harvard School of Public Health.  The prestigious institution has been advocating [...]

Green Tea is one of those things that sounds too good to be true. On the one hand it is a miracle cure-all capable of helping fight everything from bad breath, through obesity, to cancer and on the other hand – well, its a cup of tea. Just like you’ve been drinking every day since [...]

There are dozens of Chinese weight loss teas in the market today. One of these teas is the wu yi tea. This tea is a powerful fat burner and has the capability of burning excess calories in form of fats. The wu yi tea also has a property that helps it boost the metabolism of [...]

Individuals who drink plenty of tea or modest amounts of coffee have been found to be less likely to get attacked by heart diseases, as compared to abstainers of coffee or tea. However, there is no research that has such an effect for strokes. The research involving 37,000 Netherland study participants over a time period [...]

Cooking chicken dishes in a healthier way is very popular nowadays. There are numerous recipes on how to cook healthy chicken dishes that create appetizing and entirely distinctive variations. Both young kids and adults take pleasure in having chicken whether in their salads, sandwiches, pasta, as full meals or as appetizers. On the positive side, [...]

We have all heard the expression, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. And to a large extent this is true. The more fresh fruit and vegetables we consume, the more vitamins and minerals we get, and the healthier we shall be. There are a variety of health benefits we can get from preparing [...]

Digestazon Plus from the Amazon Rainforest The Amazon Herbal Company, found by Amazon John Easterling, is a company that sells and harvests herbs from the Amazon. The herbs they harvest are meant to cure diseases such as diabetes, cancer, heart disease. The company also claims that their herbs do not have any side-effects, therefore making [...]

Damiana, a fruit-bearing plant native to the southern United States and Mexico, has been used for natural remedies for centuries. It is not the fruit, however, that provides the benefits, but the dried leaves and branches. The shrub is also used as a flavoring, and is a part of many different foods, beverages and liqueurs. [...]

You probably know a few people who take vitamins every day. Perhaps you are wondering if it actually does anything for them. Are they healthier? Do they feel better? The effects may not be terribly obvious but there are plenty of great reasons to take multivitamins. The top reason most people say they take vitamins [...]

In this modern day and age, many of the fruit juice products sold on the shelves of supermarkets are not at all as natural and organic as they appear to be. Even fruit juice that is labeled to be 100% natural will likely have gone through a mild refining process that may lower the original [...]

Any search on the internet or quick scan through a health book or magazine will undeniably give you some sort of  list of the top fat burning foods, but the problem is usually every list is different and incomplete. However, by stepping back and looking at the items on every list, its easy to determine [...]

Cholesterol is an important number for one to monitor, especially if they have heart problems or a family history of such an illness.  Monitoring cholesterol levels is an important task to manage one’s health.  However, visiting the doctor to do so can be a hassle.  Cholesterol home monitors are a useful tool to save many [...]

The acai berry has become a famous addition to a group of foods called ‘super foods’. Super foods are basically foods that contain a wide diversity and dense concentration of nutrients and phytochemicals – plant compounds that are powerful antioxidants. So lets break down the acai berry into its component nutrients. Vitamin Profile The fresh [...]

Semi-skimmed milk is similar to normal milk in terms of content of carbohydrates, proteins, minerals and water soluble vitamins, but it is low in fat and fat-soluble vitamins. The skimmed milk has a low content of fat and calorie intake, but some types are fortified with vitamins A and D. Note, however that skimmed milk [...]

Probiotics are one of the biggest trends in new age diets, but unlike many of the fads that abound, there is mounting scientific evidence that probiotics are an effective treatment for many common conditions. So what exactly is a probiotic? Probiotics are living organisms, usually bacteria but also technically including yeasts and viruses. The body [...]

Making use of sublingual vitamin B can be a very good thing, especially if you are getting a bit older and do not have the energy you used to have. Supplements of sublingual b 12 can be bought in liquid form and also in pill form and can boost that energy level and help you [...]

This will come as a surprise for most women. Using raspberry leaf tea pregnancy herbs to increase the odds of success? Most women has known the wonder tea as a tea to drink during pregnancy not before pregnancy so it will come as a surprise that this is one of the most effective and beneficial [...]

Everyone at one point or another has heard, and perhaps subscribes to the fact that generally speaking, when you eat out, you’re likely not eating healthily.  This obviously isn’t always the case, but it holds true across most fronts.  Patrons of fast food joints aren’t the only ones eating poorly.  Sure, there may be a [...]

The common fruit juicers that you normally find in a store are nit usually suitable for making wheat grass juice. Normal power juicers are not very suitable for taking out wheat grass juice as wheat grass has tough fibers which are more difficult to process. The wheat grass juicer operates much more slowly which reduces [...]