Most countries dietary guidelines aren’t based on good scientific evidence. Here are some suggestions to help people choose the best diet for them.
Probiotics can be a valuable addition to your diet. It’s important to understand what they do for you and how you should approach adding them to your diet.
So many women experience menopausal weight gain that it’s often considered par for the course. Fortunately there are ways to fight the bulge after menopause, ways that take it off and keep it off.
We often hear that processed foods are a problem for the modern western diet. Here are some of the fundamental issues with choosing processed food, and what you can do about them.
Monosodium glutamate or MSG is added to snack foods to enhance flavors. It has also been linked to obesity, and possibly to nerve damage in the brain.
The mucosal barrier allows nutrients to pass from our stomach and intestines into the body while blocking toxins and infection. The health of the barrier is vital to our overall health, since a breakdown in the barrier can open us to bacteria, viruses, parasites, and toxins.
Fibromyalgia affects muscles and tissues, causing fatigue, poor sleep, and chronic muscle pain. While conventional western medicine treats the symptoms, the goal of functional medicine is to understand the root causes and treat them directly.
A plant-based diet has numerous health benefits that cannot be understated. Diets heavy in plant components may help ward off disease including some forms of cancer. And while a plant-based diet obviously includes the vegan diet, it doesn’t have to be exclusive to plants.
The appendix has long been considered a vestigial organ that evolution has been trying to abandon. But research suggests it may serve a valuable function.
