Go Organic: Healthy Body, Healthy Planet
The last two decades, healthy eating and organic foods have become nearly synonymous with consumers’ appetite for better health, and a chance to save the plane. The call has been growning increasingly voracious. But should you go organic? On one…
Preventing Breast Cancer
For so many women, there is no more dreaded disease than breast cancer. Breast cancer elicits fears related to loss of body image and sexuality, surgery, and death. As is the case for most cancers, the exact cause of breast…
Diet, Weight loss, and Common Misconceptions…
In recent years, there has been a great deal of confusion and misconceptions about health and fitness. There is too much information floating around, conflicting opinions, and debates on what constitutes to be right and wrong. This could be a…
MythBUSTers: Can wearing bras cause breast cancer?
Is it merely an urban legend? A controversial study by Singer and Grismaijer in 1995 made history when it was revealed that wearing bras can indeed cause breast cancer. These are their statistical findings: Women who wore bras 24 hours…
Garbage Enzyme: Saving the Earth with your Kitchen Waste
This may come as a surprise, but did you know your garbage waste can actually reduce global warming? What hogwash! Well, can’t blame you. We’ve been warned that garbage is hazardous and poses great risks to the environment if improperly…
Can Your Deodorant Kill You?
If there are two much-dreaded letters, it would be BO – body odour. Everyone would have suffered from it at one time or another, either by being a ‘producer’ of the pungent smell or a recipient of it especially while…
Staying Motivated to Exercise
Exercise is always a do-it-yourself venture. No other person or machine can do it for you. Hence, it is important to have those motivating factors so that a person who is into exercise in order to lose weight will hang…
Zest Up After 25!
It’s the time of life to strengthen the foundations of your health By the age of about 25 years, the body systems have fully developed and the body should be at its peak. At this age young adults have total…
Under Pressure?
Checking your blood pressure is a routine medical assessment that you may not have paid much attention to. What these blood pressure readings really say about us, and how important are the readings to your health and well-being? Be warned…
What’s Your Water Footprint?
“Hello, is this the water supply department?” “Yes, can I help you?” “My taps are dry since this morning… lah, no water.” “…the water flow is so low in this area” was another complaint of a consumer from a different…
