Foreign research shows that 95 percent of women with breast cancer survive. When detected early, the chances of surviving for five years is 99 percent. However, the cancer journey does not end when the doctor declares you cancer free. It is a lifelong journey in order to prevent the recurrence or...
What comes to your mind when the word vegetarian comes up? Salads, healthy, inadequate protein, not filling and unsatisfying, unpalatable? Did you know thatOctober is not only breast cancer awareness month but also vegetarian awareness month? I find this fitting because plant-based...
We cannot avoid stress. We cannot always be in control of the circumstances around us. Sometimes we even become a casualty of other people’s actions and decisions in life. Other times we are innocent victims of injustice, persecution, natural disasters, and sin. We cannot expect ourselves to be...
How would you describe a malnourished person? Growing up, I only equated malnutrition to lacking nourishment resulting to looking like skin and bones. A malnourished person for me looked gaunt and emaciated. The lack of muscle mass and body fat is evident due to lack of food intake and proper...
“You will go to the grave at a ripe old age, like a sheaf of grain harvested at the proper time!” – Job 5:26 The body ages every second. Aging is something that is inevitable. It precedes death. I don’t know about you but I prefer to be able to walk, have a sharp mind, and feel well...
Almost a decade ago, I found myself in the emergency room writhing in pain. Within 24 hours I had undergone two invasive medical procedures. One of which was a major surgery to remove my gallbladder. I was in shock. I asked my doctor what happened? I ate my fresh produce every day, I had...
A person may seem physically healthy yet have trouble making sense of his or her surroundings. This happened to my maternal grandmother in her early sixties. She looked perfectly fine but we noticed that she kept repeating questions and had difficulty recalling recent memories and information. The...
Albert Einstein once said, “Nothing will benefit human health and increase our chances of survival for life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” If the genius Einstein said that a diet based on plants is beneficial to health, then coffee must be healthy considering that...
As of 2022, the World Health Organization reported that one out of eight people globally were living with obesity. That is approximately 890 million adults our of 2.5 billion individuals above 18 years old that are considered overweight. This data was released two years ago. Just imagine the added...
Diabetes is everywhere. Almost everyone knows someone who is inflicted with this non-communicable disease. If diabetes mellitus isn’t contagious, then why is it affecting so many lives? Diabetes can be caused by a faulty immune system resulting to an autoimmune disease known as Type 1...
HEALTHY EVER AFTER Exercise is medicine. Unfortunately, for one too many reasons, a lot of us don’t get to benefit from this important aspect in our lifestyle. Are you a couch potato? Perhaps you want to start exercising but you have no idea how to begin. Are you on a tight budget and...
You underwent a calorie restricted diet, you worked out heavily, you took a lot of supplements and yet, the numbers on the weighing scale haven’t significantly dropped. Where did you go wrong? We’ve all heard this: Calorie in and calorie out. The idea of burning the equal amount of calories you...
