Gout is a form of arthritic disease in which uric acid crystela are deposited over the joints, causing inflammation and excruciating pain. Food items rich in purine and high in protein content have been known to increase the risk of gout. Gout is induced by ingestion of foods that contain somewhere between 150 to 1,000 milligrams of purine in each ...

Personal care products became an interest to me because of our brick and mortar hair salon business. All hair and beauty salons carry a selection of hair, skin and scalp products in what we call retail centers. They can be small or large depending upon the size of a salon. When you study the industry of personal care you realize ...

There are many different homeopathic remedies for anxiety that you can try, to heal your mind as well as your body. The first thing to do before you begin is to figure out what type of anxiety you have. This article will discuss some of the most common types and offer some natural treatments for each. Educating yourself about the ...

There is a link between successful weight loss and energy balance. Generally speaking, as the amount of food consumed rises, calorie burn needs to become greater for successful weight maintenance. If the amount of calories consumed rises, but the calorie burn declines (for instance, because of lack of exercise, or the natural decrease in metabolism as we age), increase in ...

Manage indigestion with these 5 common digestion-friendly super foods. Each of these foods for indigestion has its own special properties that are beneficial to your digestive system. If you’re looking for answers on how to cure indigestion, start by including these foods regularly in your diet so that you’ll be regular too! Digestion Superfood 1: Papaya Papaya, also known as ...

Foods to Avoid You need to make sure that the calcium to phosphorus ratio in any of the foods you eat is as low as possible – this is because excess phosphorus will increase the loss of calcium from the body and worsen the condition. The more phosphorous-containing foods you eat, the more you need to supplement with a good ...

There is no shortage of terms when describing natural or alternative medicine. Of course you have natural and alternative but then there are herbal, homeopathic, and holistic. The confusion is sometimes so great it just might make a normally conservative natural health advocate scramble to catch that pesky beetle and send it down the hatch; all in the name of ...

According to the World Health organization, sexual health is defined as “the state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being related to sexuality.” Therefore, mere absence of dysfunction, disease, and infirmity does not describe sexual heath in its entirety. Good sexual health is more than just having safe sexual experiences which are pleasurable. Sex should be free of discrimination, coercion ...

How does heredity affect our weight? Part of the answer seems to be described in set-point theory, which proposes that each person’s body has a certain or “set” weight that it strives to maintain. The body tries to maintain its weight near the set-point by means of a thermostat-like physiological mechanism. When a person’s weight departs from the set-point, the ...