Among people who are interested in having healthy skin, there’s a big trend for cutting up cucumbers and sticking them to your face. Sleep deprivation is common these days and one very smart person discovered an old Chinese legend, the legend that putting cucumbers on your face helps to reduce insomnia. Women in particular went […]
Before we get started you need to ask yourself the following questions. Number one: do you know what your zinc intake is? Two: do you eat any zinc rich foods and do you know what the zinc rich foods actually are? Three: do you actually know what zinc is? If you answered no to a
If you have read any health websites, acne forums, magazines or read any newspapers whatsoever then you’ll almost certainly be aware of the nightmare that is BPA. If not, then BPA is a chemical that is widely used in plastic products. It was first discovered all the way back in 1891, by a Russian chemist named Alexander
Potatoes are under attack from all sides these days. The new craze in the health world is the low carbohydrate diet, and potatoes do not conform to this. Paleo, primal, and Atkins followers frequently bash the potato for being too high in starchy carbohydrates, too good at raising blood sugar, too likely to cause diabetes
Resveratrol is a natural phytoalexin found in foods. Red wine is famous for its resveratrol content, but you can also find it in peanuts, red grapes, mulberries and dark chocolate. A phytoalexin is merely a specific class of antioxidants, one that has specific medicinal properties… …and it’s because of these properties that resveratrol has attracted
