Healthy articles

Breast milk is the best nutrition you can offer your baby, even when you are out and about. What does the law say about nursing in public, and what can you do if you encounter harassment while breastfeeding your little one in a public place?

Nutrition labels can be confusing – calories, macronutrients, micronutrients, additives and ingredients – it’s a real minefield. Even if you can decipher the labels though, there could be things you’re not being told.

Sometimes when you finish work you just don’t have the energy to grab your kit bag, get back in the car and head off to the gym. So why not exercise in secret at work?

The United States west of the Mississippi has always been a dusty place, but over the last 20 years it has become even dustier. Frequent clouds of dust in the sky have multiple effects on health and quality of life.

Would it surprise you to know that there are about 300- 500 different kinds of bacteria living in your gut right now? Would it surprise you even more to know that there are about 10 times more bacteria in your gut than your own cells?

If you’re having a hard time at work, getting grief in your home life and just generally feeling stressed out and tired, while you may want to skip the gym, performing more cardio may actually be the best thing for you.

Cleanse and detox diets are all the rage, with every celebrity and magazine cover model seeming to be subjecting themselves to days or even weeks of extreme diets to rid the body of toxins. But is all this hassle really worth it?

We have received several questions about diet for lupus. It's true that eating green leafy vegetables every day usually results in improvment in lupus symptoms and longer remission between flareups of the disease, but not for the reason you would expect.

White bread makes up a surprisingly large portion of the average diet — especially when you take into account that it was stripped of all its valuable nutrients to create a food that increases your risk of diabetes and heart disease.

Protein is a key part of any bodybuilder’s diet, with standard protein sources being chicken, beef, eggs and shakes. But there’s a whole ocean of fish out there, just waiting to be discovered.