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7 Ways To Keep Your Hormones On Your Side

Hormones help to regulate many functions in your body and are vital for your health. Hormones change as we age as well as in response to external influences like stress. Hormones are also vital for your body to function optimally like maintaining a healthy weight and allowing the calcium to be absorbed into your bones.…

A Gene Sequence Which Determines If Coffee Is Good for Your Heart

A gene sequence may be the answer to the debated topic whether coffee is healthful or harmful for your heart. Those with the sequence on gene CYP1A2*1F are not able to remove the caffeine quickly from their body while those with the sequence CYP1A2*1A are rapid metabolizers of caffeine. A study found that those who…

4 Good Reasons to Get Back in Your Kitchen

With the ability to deliver fast food pretty much anywhere at any time you may wonder why bother using your kitchen at all? Here are four good reasons to keep cooking a part of your lifestyle: Cost. You do pay for convenience and cooking at home will save you money. Saving can increase further if…

Gym Goers Take Advantage of this Performance Enhancer

If you exercise at the gym for 20-70 minutes at a time you will want to read this. Endurance exercise is meant to make you feel puffed, get your breathing rate up and make you feel hotter, but did you know rinsing your mouth with peppermint can help reduce these symptoms during exercising? Unfortunately for…

Immediate Benefits of Eating your Veggies

Let’s face it, it can be difficult to eat enough veggies a day to look after your health. The desire to get through the last few brussel sprouts, kale or broccoli can be low if the consequence of eating them is going to be seen in many years to come. Good news is recent studies…

This time of year, you are almost guaranteed to catch some form of cold. The amount you suffer from this is down to recovering well with sleep, drinking plenty of water and of course optimal nutrition. Have you considered the power of olive leaf extract? There are compounds called phytoalexins which are like the…

You are not alone if that time of the month leaves you feeling cranky, bloated and reaching for chocolate. You may already know some strategies to help make this time of the month suck a little less like exercising but do you know ways your diet can help make this time a little easier? Tame…

20-30% of your lifespan is determined by your genes. The rest can be controlled to a large extent by optimising your environmental and individual behaviours. Positive changes to the way you eat, exercise and behave may keep your telomeres which act as buffers to the end of the chromosomes of your DNA and protect your…

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Category Archives: Nutrition

7 Ways To Keep Your Hormones On Your Side

A Gene Sequence Which Determines If Coffee Is Good for Your Heart

4 Good Reasons to Get Back in Your Kitchen

Gym Goers Take Advantage of this Performance Enhancer

Immediate Benefits of Eating your Veggies

Olive Leaf Extract to Kill a Cold

Nutrition to Tame Your Period Beast

A Lifestyle to Increase Your Lifespan

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