What Are Superfoods? Top 10 Facts (and Myths)

It seems as though every week someone comes out with a new superfood that is the be all and end all of a healthy lifestyle. Superfoods are foods said to be able to improve your health and are sometimes touted as having abilities that so called “normal foods” do not. How can you know which foods really are essential to optimal health? Here are the top ten facts and myths about superfoods.

07-06-2009 by Drali @mesrahealth

Reasons Why We Must Drink Water

A person can live a few weeks without food. But without water, even the toughest person can only live just for 4 to 5 days.

Water has the following functions:

  1. To transport nutrition to the whole body through the bloodstream and the spleen system.
    Water is needed by our body to transport all the nutrients from the food we eat to our whole body. Without water the nutrients cannot be sent to where it is needed.
09-01-2009 by Drali @mesrahealth

Food Allergies – Symptoms, Treatment and Self-management

Food allergy is a condition where symptoms occur because of immune system’s reactions which are induced by certain type of foods. Allergic to food can be identified by the situations as:

  • Intolerants to food.
  • Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
  • Physical stress.
  • Food poisoning.

When allergy had happens, you must avoid those foods that cause the allergy to prevent it from becoming more severe.

Symptoms

  • Itchy throat.
  • Anaphylaxis (could cause death).
08-03-2008 by Drali @mesrahealth
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