Well Being Articles

Everybody knows that fresh fruit and vegetables are essential to a healthy diet. Those fruits and vegetables won't do your body good if they are covered with enough germs to make you sick. Here is an overview of problems to be on the lookout for.

Some foods should always be on the diabetic grocery list. Other foods should never be on the shopping agenda. Here are six simple suggestions that may make a huge difference in blood sugar control.

Many people don’t know this, but dark chocolate is made from a plant. This means that it contains many of the same health benefits of dark vegetables. There is a growing body of notable scientific research that documents the health benefits of chocolate.

Who doesn’t like being out in the sun? A nice sunny weather makes our spirits soar and fills us with an incredible sense of joy. Besides this, sun is necessary for our body to produce vitamin D.

Over-exposure to harmful UV rays may take years to manifest into skin cancer cells; that is why it is so important to protect your skin from an early age and all through your adulthood.

While many women go to the beauty parlor to help uplift there spirits, others go to simply improve on what they were born with. Don’t shrug this off as ‘another article about mud masks’-read on. You won’t believe what people are doing to stay pretty.

Summer is prime time for ticks. These tiny arachnids, relatives of spiders and mites, are exoparasites, living outside their hosts, supporting themselves by feeding on their hosts' blood ... until something or someone removes them.

When we see the images of the scores of supremely fit cyclists racing in the Tour de France, we see power. We see fitness. We see lots of Spandex and sleek, technologically sophisticated athletes riding sleek, technologically sophisticated bikes.

While the 1960's advertising slogan for Lay's Potato Chips was right, "No one can eat just one," everybody can find ways to control appetite. Here are five tips for controlling cravings for food without giving up all the pleasures tasty food can bring.

As summers are getting hotter and more unbearable, the siesta may once again emerge as a way to escape the heat. These daytime naps also, however, offer other tangible health benefits.