Down to the cellular level, the way that we nourish (or fail to nourish) our bodies is often times looked to as the single most important determinant of most everything attached to health. Even in the womb, the mother’s diet influences the child’s development on a genetic level. Yet the time we spend performing the actual act of eating is quite finite: roughly one of our 24 hours…
Fasting is a recent trend that is gaining popularity, but is it really healthy to abstain from all or some particular foods and beverages for certain periods of time?
Fasting is often referred to when talking about various religions, but nowadays it is becoming a fad diet for the everyday layman. Is the hype all it is cut out to be, a quick fix to the bulging waistline or a scheme to detoxify the body?
When we get sick, we trust the guy in the white lab coat behind the counter. Yet as we take over-the-counter prescriptions and other drugs to alleviate our symptoms, we are doing our bodies more harm than good. The chemicals that make these quick fix drugs possible are hard on organs throughout the body, leading to more serious problems in the future. Before pharmaceutical drug companies ruled the world and teamed up with doctors to push their prescriptions on us, we used nature's resources along with our body's natural responses to fight off disease.