Imagine you’re 17 years of age, standing in the lunchroom and idly minding your own business. Suddenly, someone points an accusing finger at you and alerts everyone to the fact that you are losing your hair. How would you feel? What would that do to your psyche? Suffice to say, you’d be absolutely devastated.
A healthy workplace complements by supporting the health and wellbeing of employees. Public health strategies place increasing emphasis on opportunities to promote healthy behaviours within the workplace setting. Productivity at work can get greatly affected
As we grow older, we are likely to stop drinking this nutritious beverage, perhaps because we associate it too much with childhood and want to move on to more “grown-up” drinks like coffee and tea. However, milk is important in dietary intake for both children and adults.
If you want to boost your health in 2019 but resolutions seem too daunting, then read on for five easy ways to improve well-being each day and throughout the new year.
Pneumonia is an infection that affects one or both lungs. The disease can range from mild to severe and can be fatal. It is typically
If you visit local hospitals or doctors’ clinics, you will see that there is a record rise of some illnesses like diabetes, heart diseases and
As looking after our wellbeing is becoming an increasingly holistic experience, including not only diet and fitness but also mental health, use of natural and eco-friendly products, and time for rest and relaxation, here we round up the variety of wellness trends that look set to be big in 2019.
Whatever your New Year’s resolution, a healthy and balanced diet will provide many benefits into 2019 and beyond. What we eat and drink can affect our body’s ability to fight infections, as well as how likely we are to develop health problems later in life, including obesity, heart disease, diabetes and different types of cancer.
Reach for these super foods to supercharge your odds of staying ahead of cancer and maximising your health.
Have you ever thought about the diseases that come around every winter season? Living in this cold environment three to four months of every year, we tend to get used to the various winter ailments circulating around us. Here are some tips to help you stay away from these ailments.
With the onset of winter, patients with asthma often experience some sudden attack. During an asthma attack, also called an asthma exacerbation, the airways become swollen and inflamed. The muscles around the airways contract, causing your breathing (bronchial) tubes to narrow.
Nowadays social media has taken the human race by storm. Throughout the world Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc. are now used by 1 in 4 people. Such activity may seem harmless but scientists advocate this can affect our health (especially mental) and happiness.
Diabetes is a metabolic disease that occurs due to absolute insulin deficiency (type-1 diabetes) or inadequate insulin secretion or action (type-2 diabetes). Insulin is needed for entry of glucose into the cells after food metabolism which is hampered in diabetes, resulting in increase blood glucose level.
Cinnamon is a highly delicious spice. It has been prized for its medicinal properties for thousands of years. Modern science has now
Yesterday I got a very interesting case. According to a mother, her son is okay in all respect. His intelligence, dietary habit, social relationship, school performance are good.
To achieve a happy and healthy life, it's important to include heart-healthy foods in one's daily routine so as to keep diseases at bay.
From the title it might seem like I am going to speak about some sort of tree hugging philosophy, not really. This article is about what the title means literally. We all know food is nourishment for our body. Good food for good health is very important.
The rainy season may have its charms: the cool weather and the magnified pleasure of a cup of hot coffee. But it has dangers primarily in the form of diseases
