When you order a “fresh greens” salad at a fancy restaurant, or you peruse the salad bar at your favorite all-you-can-eat restaurant, do you ever see those stringy white and green things and wonder, “What ARE those?!” Chances are very good that what you are seeing are alfalfa sprouts! Full grown alfalfa is used primarily as a feed for livestock, but the plant in its sprout form has been consumed by humans for centuries as a food […]

The information at the end of this article refers to the current known physiology of how people 'acquire' the celiac disease (CD). The two sources clearly indicate that while specialists know that gluten causing the disease and the effects of the disease, there is no consensus on WHY celiac diseases exists in the first place. One of the best speculation that I have found is from a book called The Gluten Connection by Dr Shari Lieberman. While […]

Healthy breakfast foods are an essential for everyone as these are the ones that keep you energized during the day. Through the regular intake of healthy foods during breakfast, you are assured of feeling happy and more energized during the day. It is what keeps you going, and it is essential for you to meet your body's daily nutritional needs. By eating breakfast daily, you get to have the right amount of nutrients in your body which […]

Dry eye symptoms arise when your cornea is inadequately lubricated. The disorder comes about because of insufficient tear volume or substandard quality of the tears, which leads to too rapid evaporation or rapid destruction of the tear film. The tear film normally has three constituents: an outer layer of lipids secreted by the meibomian glands; an aqueous (water) middle layer produced by the lacrimal glands; and a mucous inner layer. A malfunction in any of these layers […]

For a good health you need to have a balance diet. A diet having different variety of healthy food can give your body a full range of nutrition as required. But the reality is something else. Do we actually get time or energy to make those healthy choices which we know we should be making? No, the reality reveals that we are totally ignorant towards our dietary habits. So, to make up for the deficits in the […]