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Best Foods to Jumpstart your Weight loss Journey
Healthy bodies come in a variety of shapes and sizes. While weight loss is not a cure-all for health, and not everyone needs to lose weight, it may be something you want to work toward in order to feel your best. According to Lisa Wartenberg of Healthline, if coupled with regular movement, your diet can…
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Know your Ten Kumainments for a Healthier Way of Living
As the National Nutrition Council (NNC) launched its popular version of the revised Nutritional Guidelines for Filipinos (NGF) called the “10 Kumainments”, it aims to promote positive nutrition practices to prevent malnutrition and encourage the adoption of a healthy lifestyle. Also, this intends to address and prevent diet-related NCDs such as cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular…
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Does Peeling a Carrot Result in any Nutritional Loss?
One of the healthiest vegetables and a top supplier of carotene are carrots. Compared to most vegetables, carrots have 30–40 times more carotenoids. Natural antioxidant beta-carotene is commonly employed in pharmaceutical and healthcare goods. Carotene is a precursor to vitamin A, which is essential for maintaining healthy vision, boosting the immune system, and reducing the…
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Eating a Larger Portion One Day Influences Your Portion Size Choices the Next Day
The huge quantities we frequently receive at restaurants and fast-food outlets have expanded significantly over the past few decades, and they do not appear to be getting any smaller. Long is believed to have distorted our perception of what a portion should be because of the enormous servings we are fed, according to nutrition and…
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How Healthy is using an Air Fryer?
Because of the continued demand for fried meals and increased health consciousness, air fryers have recently become more and more popular. Americans consume more potatoes than any other vegetable, and French fries and other frozen goods make up 40% of this total. Manufacturers did not build air fryers to take the place of conventional, beneficial…
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The Side Effects of Taking Too Many Vitamins
Did you know that taking too many vitamins can harm your health? To improve the immune health, many people resorted to buying different kinds of vitamins especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Taking more than what is recommended has also become a common practice in some Filipinos. Consumers are bombarded with health information telling them that…
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What You Need to Know about Goiter
Your thyroid gland enlarges as a result of the condition known as goiter. Your thyroid may develop one or more thyroid nodules, which are small lumps, or it may totally grow. Simply put, a goiter is an abnormal enlargement of the thyroid gland. It’s critical to understand that a goiter does not always indicate a…
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Understanding High Density Lipoproteins
High-Density Lipoproteins (HDLs) have long been thought to be “good cholesterol,” beneficial to the entire body and cardiovascular health. However, because HDLs are complex particles that undergo dynamic remodeling because of interactions with various enzymes and tissues throughout their life cycle, a complete understanding of their functions and roles is more complicated than initially expected.…
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Liver Cancer and Viral Hepatitis in the Philippines: What You Need to Know
The ninth most frequent cancer in women and the fifth most common cancer in males both occur in the liver. There were roughly 840,000 new cases in 2018. According to the World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer’s Continuous Update Project Panel, the Philippines is ranked 23rd out of the Top 25 nations…
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What Health Benefits Come from Eating Sprouted Beans?
Beans that have sprouted or germinated are known as sprouting beans. This indicates that the bean has been submerged in water till a little sprout appears. In many parts of the world, sprouted beans are a common food item and are frequently consumed as a component of a balanced diet. Eating beans that have been…
