There is a good reason that people put nuts in trail mix to take with them when they are hiking. Nuts provide sustained energy because, thanks to their mix of fat and protein, they are a slow burning food. For the same reason, they are friendly to your blood sugar. In fact Harvard researchers have discovered that women who regularly ate nuts were 20 percent less likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those that didn’t eat them as often.
Some estimates say that people get a billion colds a year, and there are more than 200 viruses that can cause them. Millions of people get the influenza virus each year. About 200,000 people develop complications from flu and have to be hospitalized, and it is estimate that nearly 36,000 people die from flu complications [...]
Healing medicine has some wonderful answers for arthritis pain. Taking a hot herbal bath or getting a massage with medicinal oils can go a long way toward easing pain and stuffness. Foods that Help Arthritis Pain:
Of all of the respiratory ills, asthma may be the most mysterious. What doctors know is that people with asthma have bronchial tubes that are easily aggravated by cold, dust mites, pollen, and a host of other triggers. When these sensitive airways are irritated, they clench down, making breathing a trial. And to make things worse, [...]
The word cataract has two meanings and neither one of them is pleasant to experience. The first meaning is a huge waterfall or deluge of water, and the second meaning – the one that concerns us now–refers to a medical condiition in which the lens of an eye becomes cloudy or opaque. More [...]
