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Tuesday, 10 May 2016
12 Diseases Caused by Smoking | Infographic
Each year, the American Cancer Society encourages smokers to quit smoking on the third Thursday of November. Known as the Great American Smokeout, the event helps smokers understand that quitting, even for just one day, is the first step in becoming healthier. With tobacco use remaining the largest preventable cause of disease and premature death in the United States, the health benefits of quitting begins immediately.
The diseases caused by smoking...
Sunday, 21 September 2014
Butter, Margarine and Heart Disease
Shortly after World War II, margarine replaced butter in the U.S. food
supply. Margarine consumption exceeded butter in the 1950s. By 1975,
we were eating one-fourth the amount of butter eaten in 1900 and ten
times the amount of margarine. Margarine was made primarily of
hydrogenated vegetable oils, as many still are today. This makes it one
of our primary sources...
Sunday, 14 September 2014
Health tips: To eat or not to eat
Eating
regularly is one of the best ways to keep energy high and fuel metabolic
processes. However, choosing junk food as a quick fix will cause brain
sugar to rise suddenly and then crash. It is just a temporary fix that
generally lasts no longer than an hour. While it's tempting to reach for
a chocolate bar, fruit is absorbed more slowly into the body and will
provide...
