Food and Health
In addition to the diseases that come from nutritional deficiencies, a poor diet has a direct effect on health.
Some foods are poisonous while other help fight against infection ... Sometimes a disease is the direct result of poor diet. This is the case of arteriosclerosis that is the leading cause of death.
In fact all aspects of life are related to food: welfare, sleep, mood, and aging. The operation and maintenance of all organs - heart, liver, brain, bones, muscles - depends on what we put on the plate. Even the immune system can be strengthened through a good nutrition.
The goal of this section is to how to define a diet for a longer life... The choice of food is crucial for the health!
How to test online your health and fitness
A selection of sites providing online tools.
What food against cancer?
The results of the biggest compilation of studies and articles, by the WCRF.
Sleep and health
Lack of sleep is bad for health but excess is bad as much! So, how long should we sleep?
Food to avoid or relieve headaches.
A major cause of headache is in bad diet, looking at it in depth.
There is a trend that is now adopted by most stars, including Britney Spear and Tom Cruise. It is related to diet but this time it is neither capricious nor harmfull, it is good for health, this is detox.
Soda linked to pancreatic cancer.
Study reveals link between drinking soda and this almost mortal kind of cancer.
Ginkgo Biloba is a growing marked these days. This product has it all the effect that are claimed?
The perfect diet against the cardiovascular risk has been defined by the British Medical Journal under the name of Polymeal. It is an alternative to Polypill without side effects.
Maybe you wonder if food has some effect on sleep. Yes it has, it is not the sole factor but you can sleep better with a diet studied for sleep.
The usual food and specially industrial cookies commonly contain a poison: trans fatty acids. They cause 60000 death each year in USA according to a scientific study.
Several studies linked Internet with a better health.
Internet is good for the brain.
Google Doctor.
Search engines are perfect tools to help doctors to found a disease when symptoms are searched on the engine. Google itself discovered that the trends in searches may inform of epidemics, faster than governemental agencies!
A word about fast food: is it good or bad for health? The answer is in a study by searchers: it is very convenient on a practical viewpoint but on the long term, fast food increase the risk or Alzheimer.
Hydration if good for health, but on the contrary, too much quantities of water (or any other liquid) will cause severe diseases...
Diabetes and food. Some famous women suffering from diabetes.