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3 Simple Steps To Maintain A Vegan or Vegetarian Diet Whilst Pregnant
An increasing number of people are now choosing to consume a vegetarian or vegan diet. Whilst vegan and vegetarian diets do have a number of health advantages they often lack nutritional value in a number of key areas. Whilst this may not be a problem for you personally, the reduced nutritional value can have a significant impact on your unborn baby. In this article I discuss how you can adapt your vegan or vegetarian diet and ensure your baby is getting adequate nutrition in just three simple steps....(Continue)
Insulin Resistance Has A Major Effect On Heart Disease
Insulin resistance appears to have a major effect on heart disease. Work at Stanford Medical Center, the University of Buffalo Medical Center, and other medical research facilities have pointed to the higher incidence of CHF (Congestive Heart Failure) amongst patients with insulin resistance. Congestive Heart Failure is a rapidly-growing healthcare problem in the United States, with over five and a half million people suffering from the consequences of an inefficient, enlarged heart. Many in later stages are unable to walk or even get out of bed.
CHF can come from many sources, but insulin resistance is an independent causative factor which does not depend on lack of exercise or obesity to cause its damage to the heart and circulatory system.
How does insulin resistance affect heart health? The answer is difficult, as it is tied to complex interactions between various hormone levels and the reaction of organs to chronically higher levels of insulin in the blood. Those who have insulin resistance tend to have other factors (or 'co-morbidities') which, taken on their own, also increase the dangers to the heart and circulatory system....(Continue)
Anti-Aging Hair Care: The New Frontier
Seeing a beautifully maintained smooth young looking skin in front of the mirror would be a great relief to all women in the world who dread almost the same thing, which is getting old.
Beauty or cosmetic companies, in fact, have earned millions of dollars in offering products that help delay the aging process of the beauty conscious women, which remain the most lucrative market of the cosmetic industry. But imagine sporting a youthful skin under a thinning grey hair. It does not only look odd but really far from the coveted young look....(Continue)
