Understanding a Well Balanced Diet

A well balanced diet contains a variety of foods. Knowing about the different food types makes it easier to make choices about your diet. It gives you the strength to get through the day and help you be healthier and live longer. It is recommend that a ‘balanced diet’ includes foods from each of the five major

What are food that are good for the heart?

Which fruit is good for the heart? Avocado is abundant with lutein, a natural product which prevents muscular degeneration, thus, good for eye diseases. Beta-sitosterol helps to lower the level of cholesterol. Eating of Avocado is good for preventing cancers such as prostate, oral and breast cancer. Avocado contains folate, vitamin E, monounsaturated fats, and

7 Healthy Christmas Eating Strategy

Limit high calorie foods. Research has shown that when faced with a variety of foods with different tastes, textures, smells, shapes, and colors, people eat more―regardless of their true hunger level. Cutting down on your personal smorgasbord can decrease what you end up eating by 20 to 40 percent. Choose food wisely such as leafy

9 Brain Boosters to Prevent Memory Loss

Everyone has memory gaps from time to time — the word that’s on the very tip of your tongue, or the house keys that aren’t where you swear you left them. Memory gaps and errors refer to the incorrect recall, or complete loss, of information in the memory system for a specific detail and/or event. Try 9

Healthy Eating for Success

Set yourself up for success, think about planning a healthy diet as a number of small, manageable steps — like adding a salad to your diet once a day — rather than one big drastic change. As your small changes become habit, you can continue to add more healthy choices. Prepare more of your own meals. Cooking more meals

7 ways to a healthy you

Cut back on sugar – you’re sweet enough Try swapping sugary drinks for water. Sugar sweetened beverages are the largest source of sugars in the one’s diet and they can lead to weight gain and tooth decay – a person who has one 600ml sugary drink each day will consume 23kg of sugar by the

FHM : Familial Hemiplegic Migraine

A rare but severe form of migraine that causes temporary paralysis-sometimes lasting several days-on one side of the body prior to or during a headache. Symptoms such as vertigo, a pricking or stabbing sensation, and problems seeing, speaking, or swallowing may begin prior to the headache pain and usually stop shortly thereafter. When it runs

Basilar-Type Migraine

Mainly affecting children and adolescents, this includes Migraine with aura symptoms that originate from the brainstem, but without motor weakness. It occurs most often in teenage girls and may be associated with their menstrual cycle. Symptoms include partial or total loss of vision or double vision, dizziness and loss of balance (vertigo), poor muscle coordination, slurred

Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia. The word dementia describes a set of symptoms that can include memory loss and difficulties with thinking, problem-solving or language. These symptoms occur when the brain is damaged by certain diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease. This factsheet describes the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, how it is diagnosed, and

Prevent Vomiting during Nausea

When you begin to feel nauseated, you may be able to prevent vomiting by: Drinking small amounts of clear, sweetened liquids such as soda or fruit juices (except orange and grapefruit juices, because these are too acidic) Resting either in a sitting position or in a propped lying position; activity may worsen nausea and may