Trendy diets come ang go. The juice diet was one of them and, during its golden era, it arrived under various guises such as juice detox, cleansing detox or juice fasting. Libraries filled their shelves with juice books, restaurants and bars adapted their offer to satisfy insatiable customers’ demand. Juices, juices and more juices. Juices…
Humans are designed to move, no question about that, exactly the same as all wild animals. Without the capability to walk, jump or run we wouldn’t be in this world. The capacity to move allowed us, millions of years ago, to evolve into the smartest beings on the planet – the homo sapiens. The technological…
The 10,000-step campaign has become very popular recently. Its popularity grew almost at the same time with “healthy” apps, smartwatches and smartphones. Apparently, completing 10,000 steps on a daily basis should improve your health by reducing risk of diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular diseases, among others health conditions. But the reality and science offer a different…
Confusion! That seems to be the best marketing strategy for some food companies, to increase their profits and to make people sicker at the same time. Packaging labels regulation lacks the unique, unified and common message, code or symbiology, to assist the population to buy healthy products. It varies from one country to another and,…
Uses? Underactive thyroid Iodine deficiency Weight loss Joint pain Arthritis Obesity Goiter Who? Almost everyone Who can’t? People under any type of medication. Check with doctor Pregnant and nursing women People under 18 years old How long? There is insufficient reliable evidence available to determine time Side effect? Increase risk of thyroid cancer Iodine allergy…
Everyone knows that junk food is harmful for health. However, unhealthy fast food chains are spreading here and there as a plague every day. As a consequence, the world is becoming sicker and sicker and health care systems are collapsing. In this scenario, the most worrying situation is that newborns can have greater predisposition to…
