This Saturday is Stress Awareness day, and as most of us know, in daily life, a certain level of stress is almost unavoidable. We’ve long been told of the negative effects this can have on our health, but recent studies suggest that stress and how a person views it can actually have positive effects body …
Guess what is rapidly becoming the new status symbol…. sleep!! Whilst we use to brag about not having enough of it, we are now starting to wake up to the vital importance it in terms of our physical & mental wellbeing. As such, we have seen a raft of gadgets and apps all designed with …
The fast food generation has its advantages: Meals are eaten quickly during hectic everyday life and burgers and co. Taste good thanks to a lot of fat. But fast food and ready-made meals have little in common with a healthy diet. A healthy diet does not only mean eating healthy foods, but also eating a …
Everyone knows the tiresome struggle for those extra pounds and only a few seem to win it permanently. Magazines react to this problem almost every week with new and strange diets that promise perfect dimensions in record times. But this can sometimes be very dangerous if you don’t follow certain rules. Any diet that is …
Would you like to lose a few pounds again? These diets are all the rage right now: The Dukan DietCame to Hollywood from France, where stars like Gisèle Bündchen and Jennifer Lopez successfully tried out the new trend. The nutritional concept was developed by the French doctor Dr. Pierre Dukan, it is said to have …
Everyone strives for their ideal weight, but what actually is “the ideal weight”? First of all: There is no absolute ideal weight. This is a very vague term, the content of which is probably defined differently by everyone. A physician would not tolerate excess weight that is harmful to organisms, but neither would they tolerate …
As part of my weekly routine, I browse through recently published studies and reports about health, nutrition and exercise. You might imagine that it gets a little repetitive — the studies show that it’s important to eat right, And exercise is good for you. We get it. But what if you don’t want to exercise? …
I know you love summer, which in addition to the sun and holidays comes with a lot of fresh and fragrant fruits.Because we are in high season, today I urge you to eat strawberries as much as possible. During this period you can trust that they are from Romania, and those you have in the …
Breakfast is a very important meal – it can either make or break your day.I know, you’ve heard that breakfast has to be rich in everything, to eat like a king, you’ve heard that it’s good to eat cereal with milk and you’ve heard that it’s good to eat fruit… what else do you think? …
What habits are associated with a lower likelihood of weight gain over time? It is clear that certain dietary and exercise habits contribute to our likelihood of weight gain. In a prospective study following hundreds of thousands of non-obese, healthy nurses’ diet and exercise patterns over 12-20 years, several statistically significant associations arose. Dietary habits …
