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The Whole Food Plant-Based Beginners Guide
Eating a whole food plant-based or vegan diet has never been this popular, and that’s for good reasons. For example, to improve your health because you want to lower your cholesterol levels and high blood pressure. Or because you heard that you can lose weight and boost your energy on a plant-based diet. Besides these motivations, you might care about the environment or want to end animal suffering for meat consumption. Likewise, you watched some documentaries on Netflix that made an impact on you, such as Game Changers, Forks over Knives, What the Health or Cowspiracy. If you haven’t watched these, please do so, they are very informative and it…
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Everything You Need To Know About Inflammation, Leaky Gut, Immune System and Allergies
Today’s post is a long one, so bear with me. Why? Because I’m very passionate and concerned about this topic and I feel that there’s a lot of confusion surrounding our health today and more people need to understand these specific matters better. So I would like to share about the topic of: auto-immune disease allergies immunity inflammation I want to specifically talk about these topics because it’s one that’s coming up more and more. It’s something that really affects everyone. I think the immune system can come across as something unclear and complicated. The immune system is something we can’t see and yet it’s defending us at all times,…
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What is Intermittent Fasting?
In-ter-mit-tent fasting. I see it everywhere, Instagram, Youtube, so I thought what is this all about. Right before my holiday to Hong Kong and Taiwan, I started my journey in Intermittent Fasting (IF). After four weeks, four whole weeks, I can say that I am loving this new way of eating. In the scene, they call it IF. At first, I thought why are you capitalizing the word ‘if’? Only reading IF for a couple more times I realized that it stands for Intermittent Fasting. Like anything else, you need to do your thorough research before trying something new, especially if it has to do with your body. I did…
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10 Signs You Are Gluten Intolerant
More than 55 diseases have been linked to gluten, the protein found in wheat, rye, and barley. It’s estimated that 99% of the people who have either gluten intolerance or celiac disease are never diagnosed. It started when I got a stomach ache every night after dinner as a teenager. The pain was not unbearable, but sufficiently enough to take stomach drops and other forms of medication for gastric problems. The pain continued and after reading all kinds of scary stories online I went to the GP. She could not figure out what I had and sent me to the hospital for a stomach test that had to show whether…
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You Can’t Detox Your Body. It’s a Myth
The popularity of the so-called Detox and Cleanses have been steady for a while. From the first time it emerged, it was a hype among the healthy living enthusiasts, including myself. Until today, it’s not yet proven whether all the process one must go through to validly do detox and cleansing really does flushes out all toxins from your body. If done wrong, it can even be a boomerang for your overall health. What is Detox? There are two commonly known styles of detox and cleanses; you’re either fasting (not eating for a period) or making liquids the dominant part of your daily life and just eating fruits and vegetables.…
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9 Tips Of Clean Eating
According to American author and activist Michael Pollan: don’t trust nutrition labels with more than five ingredients. Or if you can’t pronounce the ingredients. Eat food, mostly plants, not too much is the philosophy Michael Pollan lives by. This message is what Pollan has preached in the US. His books about healthy eating are number 1 best sellers. Pollan says we don’t have a clue what we are eating today. Nutritionist often contradict each other and health claims are constantly withdrawn. No wonder we, the consumers, are left confused about what is wrong or right to eat. For a long time food experts agreed that it’s important to cut as much as possible…
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Why You Can’t Lose Weight On A Diet
Your jeans are slightly too tight around your waist and you are already preparing your new year’s resolution. How much your boyfriend says he loves you the way you are. In fact, it’s his favorite thing in the world to do: holding to your muffin top. Still, you want to lose that stubborn extra weight you are carrying. It’s that time of the season again. Diet season it is. You start off right with a positive attitude and encourage yourself to try the ‘apple diet’. When it’s getting tough after one week you quit, this diet simply doesn’t do it for you. So let’s move over to the low carb…
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7 Tips For A Better Immune System
Having a good immune system will prevent you from catching a cold or flu. But the question really is how to get a good immune system? Or better yet how to maintain one? The best remedy would be a ‘staycation’ on a tropical island (hello Bali!) fuzz and stress-free. Unfortunately, this is not the reality for all of us, thus my seven tips to stay healthy and sane 🙂 1. Sex. Lots of it At least one or two times per week sex will boost up your immune system, according to the research of the University of Pennsylvania. People who regularly have sex, have an ideal functioning immune system compare…
