Your Healthy Body...
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Antioxidants in Your Diet
Antioxidants consist of a group of vitamins, minerals and enzymes that capture free radicals and neutralize them by binding to their free electrons. Your body makes...
Dieting and Gallstones
What are Gallstones?
Gallstones form when liquid stored in the gallbladder hardens into pieces of stone-like material. The liquid, called bile, is used to help the...
Dieting and Your Heart
A diet high in saturated fats, especially from red meat, will raise your cholesterol and that is a risk factor for heart disease. Obese people are more likely to have...
Food Allergies and Diet
Most people have a bad reaction to a food at some point, and some may worry that an allergy may be responsible - one in five people think that they have a food allergy....
Looking After your Circulatory System
What's Going on?
Your circulatory system is made up of over 60,000 mile of blood vessels and pumps around more than 2,000 gallons of blood each...
Maintaining a Healthy Pregnancy Weight
Pregnant women often hear the old adage that they’re “eating for two”. But while it’s true that pregnant women need to eat a healthy diet that...
Metabolism Explained
All of the bodily process we experience throughout our lives all generally carried out through chemical reactions within our organs, tissues and fluids. Metabolism is a...
Reducing Fat and Building Muscle
Fat and Muscle
Our bodies use fat for energy storage. Fat consists of molecules called triglycerides. Three chains of carbon and hydrogen, connected by a glycerol...
Stress Busting
Do you ever have that feeling that there are not enough hours in a day? A towering pile of things-to-do is growing in every corner of your life. You are watching the...
The Dangers of Being an "Apple" Shape
The majority of British women are “pear-shaped”, meaning they have large thighs and bums but small waists and abdomens. Many women complain about...
The Skinny on Fats
Cholesterol can be both good and bad, so it's important to learn what cholesterol is, how it affects your health and how to manage your blood cholesterol levels....
Your Body Mass Index
The human body is comprised of water, fat, protein, carbohydrate and various vitamins and minerals. If you have too much fat -particularly if you are carrying a lot of...
Your Digestive System
Mouth: The digestive process begins in the mouth. Foodstuffs are broken down mechanically by chewing and saliva is added as a lubricant. Most of the digestion of...
