When we eat, food gets broken down (digested) in the gut. Digested food is absorbed from the gut into the bloodstream, supplying energy and nutrients to the body. The body is made from organs and trillions of tiny, microscopic cells, which work together to keep us alive. Our health relies
Hearing that your illness cannot be cured is a devastating experience. Rather than using the dreaded words “terminally ill”, the Koreans describe it in a more compassionate way, namely as “running out of time”. As a matter of fact, all of us are all running out of time, and we
Flavor of the month diets seems to come and go, with social media trending specific foods to eat, or avoid altogether. Lately claims have been doing the rounds that vegetables in the nightshade family, such as tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, and potatoes, are bad for you and should be avoided. From
Trending diets seem to come and go, with the latest fad diet becoming flavour of the month. One of these trending diets is the carnivore diet, also known as the all-meat diet. True to its name, the carnivore diet implies that you only eat meat and other animal products for
Vitamins play a crucial role in the human body’s metabolism and these exotic molecules are essential for the proper functioning of cells in the body. Vitamins are organic chemicals that must be obtained from dietary sources, as the body does not make vitamins. Theory has it that somewhere along the
Proteins are the building blocks of life and every cell in your body contains protein. Protein is the glue that holds each cell in the body together, from your hair to your toenails, from your muscles and organs to the bones in your body. You need protein in your diet
“The smile is the shortest distance between two persons.” Victor Borge. The act of smiling has intrigued scientists over the ages. The best-known earlier study in this regard was a French study on smiling, whose findings were published in 1862. The French anatomist Guillaume Duchenne studied emotional expression by stimulating
Ancient man had quite a different lifestyle from us, being hunters for meat and gatherers of edible plant material. They were very fit, having to walk long distances in search of food. Out of necessity they were also fleet of feet, in those days you never knew when you’d
After abstaining from alcohol for nine long months during pregnancy, many new mothers can’t wait to relax again with a long overdue drink in hand. While the harmful effects of the use of alcohol during pregnancy are well known, much less is known about the use of alcohol while breastfeeding.
Vinegar has been around for thousands of years. The word vinegar is said to originate from the Latin words meaning “sour wine”, while other sources indicate it refers to the French phrase “vin aigre”, also meaning sour wine. Whatever the original source of the word vinegar may be, the history
