By Elizabeth Renter
Nutrition
Simple Steps to Heavy Metal Chelation, Preventing Damage from Heavy Metals
Heavy metals can do significant damage to your body over time. Luckily there are completely natural ways to expel these metals from your body and therefore prevent the damage they are capable of causing.
An Incredible Superfood: The Many Benefits of Coconut Oil
If you haven’t noticed lately, the western world is on a bit of a coconut oil kick. It’s in all the popular blogs—from nutrition to hair care—and it’s no longer difficult to find a few different varieties of the oil in normal grocery stores. This is a good thing. Coconut oil should have never been demonized, as it was, and deserves a top spot in the natural health world.
Goat Milk vs. Cow Milk: The Milk Battle
Many people don’t believe in drinking milk at all, but much of the world drinks more goat’s milk than cow’s milk, so what’s up with the American addiction to the cow? In this match of goat milk vs. cow milk, which will come out on top?
Zinc Boosts Body’s Immune Response, Fights Inflammation
A recent study attempted to determine just how zinc can help fight infections, and its results offer some promising data supporting zinc as a non-Big-Pharma health booster. A research team from Ohio State University discovered that zinc “gently taps the breaks” on an immune response, helping to prevent damaging inflammation.
3 Studies Linking Beans with Cancer Prevention
Beans are both rich sources of protein and fiber, and contain valuable antioxidants. It’s these characteristics that are tied to the cancer-preventing properties of the foods and that should motivate you to add more to your diet. Numerous studies have linked beans and legumes with cancer prevention.
Red Grapes, Red Wine Could Prevent Hearing Loss and Cognitive Decline
Yet another study has recently been released which again affirms red wine’s place on the roster of healthful food and drink, finding that a compound in red wine and red grapes is capable of preventing hearing loss and cognitive decline.
Juicing: The Simplest Way to Pack in the Nutrition
Over the past several decades, the popularity of juicing has come and gone, and come again. But it will always be around. There are several ways juicing could help save your life and even more ways in which it could simply make your life more enjoyable. It does this by…
Kale: A Green Nutritional Powerhouse Everyone Should Eat
A delectable green nutritional powerhouse, kale is one of many superfoods that is a must-have in any kitche. Like other superfoods like blueberries and green tea, kale provides a wealth of nutritional benefits from cancer prevention to anti-inflammation. But what else can kale do for you?
Study: Apple Extract Kills Cancer Cells, Outperforms Common Chemo Drugs
In recent research, compounds in apples known as oligosaccharides were found to kill up to 46% of human colon cancer cells. Further, the compound outperformed common chemotherapy drugs while leaving the toxic side effects behind.
Amazingly Healthful Antioxidant in Onions Offers a Wealth of Health Benefits
The health benefits of onions are unmistakable – onions are loaded vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, in particular something called quercetin. Quercetin is a compound that has led some to say the layered bulbs are even better for you than so-called “super fruits” like goji berries and blueberries.
