Not all fats are bad fats. Initially, our body needs these healthy fats for several reasons.

Fats are popular as the main cause to weight gain and obesity. Alas, many people thought so. However, that is not always the case. Our body still needs certain essential fatty acids to form part of the cell’s membrane [...]

There’s only two types of vitamin that are water soluble like what have been mentioned in the vitamin introduction post. One of it is Vitamin B. It is easy for our body to absorb vitamin B, just as easily as emitting it out of our system. Vitamin B can also be lost in the process [...]

How many times do you eat out at fast food restaurants within a week? Have you asked yourself this question before? If you are the type who didn’t care too much about what you eat and couldn’t care less on applying healthy eating plans in their daily life, maybe it won’t come across you that [...]

It is not only the hot flavor that it gives, but the many benefits to the health of humankind as well. Capsaicin is a natural antioxidant that exists in chilies, which is the perfect shield and fighter against toxin that got through out every other day. This is also the exact reason and cause to [...]

Never listen when you are told not to eat papaya at all in order to lose weight, and especially when you are all healthy, young and active. It coincidentally happen when a person went to a slimming center and were told to avoid fattening fruits such as papaya, avocado etc once and for all but [...]

Did you know that harmful chemicals could enter our food supply resulting from accidents, carelessness, and environmental pollution or during production and processing? However, little that we realized, that these harmful chemicals can also enter our system naturally. Perhaps it is because we rarely imagine food as something that is made up from a group [...]

There are two categories of nutrients that our body needs in a very little amount, which are vitamins and minerals. Going beyond the daily recommendation is not advisable because oftentimes, the excess of certain minerals and vitamins can be the main cause of several severe health hazards. For example, excessive intake of sodium, or commonly [...]

Less sodium means only one thing, a much healthier body and mind. But salt isn’t at all entirely bad. This is because salt indeed is part of the minerals that our body needs – but only in a very small amount.
What happens when we cross that small amount borderline?
Well, that is when many kinds of [...]

The next but least on the of healthy eating plan pyramid chart is none other than minerals. Minerals are often off the list of mentioning when we talk about healthy dietary habits and plans. Nevertheless, minerals are important and should not be forgotten.
Minerals are indeed inorganic substances or elements occurring in nature, mined from the [...]

Vitamins can be classified as one of the most supplied and important supplement, where each described has its own unique strings of functions. It was in the early 1900s that a Polish scientist named Casimir Funk proposed the term vitamine for a group of substances, which he had discovered. It literally means vital amine, where [...]