Antioxidants and free radicals: How Enemies Have Become Friends
Antioxidant means antioxygen. Our life is full of paradoxes: we cannot live without oxygen. But it is the oxygen that launches the oxidation processes, which leads to destroying cells and finally to aging and death. How Did the Standoff Begin? People have early detected that air has a destructive effect. At first, no one has…
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Losing Weight in a Healthy Way: How to Avoid Vitamin Deficiency
Vitamins and minerals are essential for the normal and active functioning of our body. These are the organic compounds as well as microelements, indispensable amino acids, and fats, which, to a greater or lesser degree, regulate practically all processes in our body, from metabolism and producing hormones to forming tissues and generating energy. Most of…
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Modern Tendencies in Nutraceutics
During the last 10 years, people have considerably changed attitudes to their health. We are no longer comforting ourselves that there are some pills to help us. We don’t want to get sick anymore, which is, by far, a different approach to life. Physical activity, right diet, and nutraceuticals make three pillars of the new…
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WHY FASTING IS NOT A SILVER BULLET
Do I need to abstain from sugar full time? What if I eat only in the morning and afternoon? Does “detoxification” help lose weight? Let’s turn to science and figure out together what is a myth and what is truth. Cutting out certain products Meat, milk, butter and those treacherous desserts — a great deal…
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Global Diet: Nutrition Trends and Triggers Worldwide
According to experts from the World Health Organization, sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy diet are still the main reasons why we are losing health . They are responsible for the development of the cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, as well as a number of cancerous diseases, which contribute massively to premature deaths in most countries around the world.…
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Food supplements – obvious or questionable?
It puzzles many of us, doesn’t it? Yet this question often receives either wrong or ambiguous answers. Many of us just know the name, we have heard about them from various sources but we seldom understand really well what they are, what are they for, what supplements exist and, finally, how to choose the quality…
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