The importance of Dill and Fennel

Is this plant called Dill or a Fennel?
This herb has been planted beside our house about three years ago. My sister has been constantly telling me that this plant is called Dill – a very popular culinary herb. I am not too much familiar with the actual properties of Dill. But we know that Dill and Fennel are resembled with each other.

Anyway, Dill is used for culinary and for medicine as well.

Best Sources of Vitamins

Are you taking multivitamins daily? Here is a selection of the most important life-and-health-enhancing nutrients and its best sources. But still, the most important key to be healthy and strong is to get nutrients we need from the food we eat.
Calcium
Calcium is vital for the formation and continuing strength of bones and teeth.
Best Sources of Calcium
Cheese
Canned sardines
Tofu
Seaweed
Sesame

How to maintain our bone health

To maintain bone health, we need to improve our diet, get regular exercise, avoid smoking, and limit alcohol intake. We also need to load up on calcium and other essential bone nutrients such as vitamin D, magnesium, and zinc, making bone regeneration more effective. Get these nutrients by incorporating a glass of milk to your daily diet.

We need to keep our bones healthy and strong because we

Tagihawat, Acne or Pimples

Looking in the mirror, it seems obvious that you have the ugliest and most noticeable pimples in your school. Before you get too discouraged, consider this: More than 70 percent of teenagers suffer from at least a mild case of acne and up to 25 percent suffer from severe cases.

While the exact cause of acne is still being studied, it is known that certain hormones and oils contribute to the

Filipino Hypertension

Here are the Top Facts on Hypertension for Filipinos. The information from the Philippine Heart Association.
Two out of 10 Filipinos suffer from hypertension. Thirty percent of them are unaware that they have the condition, because almost half of hypertensive people don't feel anything.
If your blood pressure is 140/90, you may be hypertensive.
Women with 31-inch waistlines are at risk of

Basic tips before working-out

One of the best thing to do before work-out or going to gym is to be prepared. I remembered when my sister suddenly fell down. He blacked out at the sight of blood or lose consciousness for a few seconds at the middle of her workout. She was running on threadmill for a couple of minutes when the incident happened. Then she realized that the last time she ate her meal was about more than 3 hours

Raw food or Cooked Food?

Which one do you prefer or usually eat? The raw or cooked?

According to the researched, humans discovered fire 400,000 years ago, but still most of them eaten their food raw. For millions of years before the fire was discovered, everything was eaten raw. Cooking changes the molecules in food and destroys many valuable nutrients and enzymes that break food down into components that can be used by

Tips to have a glossy hair

Everyone wants to look good in summer. Most of us are paying more attention on how to keep our skin looks good particularly the face. For me, it is also important to pay attention to our crowning glory – particularly our hair. Here are the most common and easy top tips for glossy-looking hair:
Great-looking hair also means you have a diet rich in nutrients. So keep on eating plenty of fresh

Top 10 foods to cut risk of heart disease

1. Olive oil - High in monounsaturated fats, it helps reduce bad LDL while increasing HDL cholesterol. Results from the five countries taking part in the 2006 ‘Eurolive study suggest that virgin olive oil has the best effect.
2. Fresh tuna - This oily fish is a rich source of omega-3 essential fatty acids, which can help lower cholesterol and reduce artery inflammation.
3. Oats - They’

Skin care

A good beauty routine should always start with skincare. When skin isn't properly cleansed and hydrated, it shows. A lot of factors play into how skin looks and feels. In addition genetics, you must pay attention to your diet, the weather, and how much stress you're under. This means that your skin's needs may change on a daily basis- one day your skin may feel very dry, and the next day it might

Ginger Chicken Soup or Chicken Tinola

Ginger chicken soup or Chicken Tinola is the Philippines healing soup. Soups are comforting, easy to digest and they can provide the nutrients your body needs to recover. Chicken soup is the ultimate home remedy for colds. Ginger chicken soup also used as a remedy for joint pain. Because ginger contains gingerol, a compound that blocks the action of prostaglandins, hormone-like chemicals that

Energy required by teenager

Did you know that teenagers have greater energy requirements than adults because they are still growing and are generally more active? It is vital for them to obtain the right amount of calcium as the majority of bone mass is laid down at this age. Iron is essential for both boys and girls but requirements for girls increase at the time menstruation begins. Three portions of calcium-rich food

The healing effect of garlic

When I was young, I was bothered why sometimes my father is chewing raw garlic or drinking the juice of stewed garlic. For me, the taste of garlic is undoubted distasteful and yucky. Now, I understand that this is one of his home remedies for the hypertension. According to him, one of his doctors prescribed dosage of garlic for his patients with heart and circulatory problems.

Garlic is the

The importance of an Olive Oil

In these texts, I will tell you how important an Olive Oil is. I have been using an Olive Oil ever since I learned how to cook. Olive Oil is expensive compared with other cooking oils i.e. vegetable oil, sunflower oil, canola oil, and palm oil. And if you are budgeted, Canola Oil can be a sufficiently substitute because it is also a heart-healthy oil.

Today, Olive Oil is the basis for any diet,

How to cope with an Eye Strain

I’ve got an eye strain a couple of days ago. I even went home earlier because I can’t continue to work anymore. Then I remembered that I often watched a movie several nights ago through the netbook. We all know that netbook has a mini screen and spending countless hours staring to it can possibly put your eyes in pain. If our eyes were overworked, they become doorways to pain, headaches and

Health benefits from eating pepper

My mother and my loving husband had worked together in planting herbs and vegetables in our backyard about a year ago. The plants generated an enormous harvest and we consumed the very fresh vegetables we ever had.

There are three varieties of Capsicum planted in our yard like Hot Chilli Pepper and not hot Chilli Pepper but one of my favorite is the Bell Pepper. These have large, sweet,

Tomato is in my super food list

Do you love tomatoes? Me, I really like it. Whenever my meal has tomato side dish or any viand accompanied with tomatoes, I eat more. Tomato stimulates my appetite. And it’s good, because tomatoes are extremely rich in antioxidants, especially carotenoids such as betacarotene and lycopene, as well as vitamins C and E, making them good protectors of the cardiovascular system and against some forms

Why we should eat less meat?

Meatless lifestyle is better for us. It is not true that we can only get the protein that our body's need from meat. There are millions of people around the world getting along just fine on plant protein diets. I found from the magazine some of the interesting advantages of eating less meat:
Decreased risk of disease.Vegetarian populations are remarkably free of the killer diseases that are

The importance of fish to our body

While I was reading the latest news on the internet, I came across to an environment news headline saying that fish can be radically end by the year of 2040. The reason behind this news is, if the global climate continues to warm at its present rate or with global warming disrupting, our planet’s weather systems supplies of freshwater are becoming increasingly unpredictable and most of the living

The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach

The Abs Diet: Keep You Lean for Life



Want to change and improve your body, your health, your looks, your athletic performance and your sex appeal?

This AT-A-GLANCE guide summarizes the principles of the Abs Diet: the 6-week plan to flatten your stomach and keep you lean for life.

Number of meal - Six a day, spaced relatively evenly throughout the day. Eat snacks 2 hours before larger