Tips to Reduce Your Bad Cholesterol

1. Decrease your saturated fat intake. Saturated fat is the fat found in animal products and also palm oil and coconut oil. This means decrease foods such as cheeses, cream, salami and other high fat processed meats, some higher fat take away foods, snack foods such as chips and commercially prepared biscuits, cakes and pastries. [...]

Caring For Your Heart

Lifestyle diseases, particularly cardiovascular disorders, are on the rise. Although a considerable number of congenital heart problems also arise, lifestyle-related conditions, primarily the possibility of suffering from a cardiac arrest, have become the bane of many countries worldwide. If people had only modified their lifestyles, or observed their proper health habits, these problems could have [...]

Friendly Reminders Before and After Donating Blood

Before Donating Blood: * Have enough rest and sleep. * No alcohol and medicine intake for at least 24 hours. * Eat light meals, avoid fatty acids. * Maintain a healthy body. * Drink plenty of fluids like water and juice. After Donating Blood: * Increase fluid intake like water and juice. * Avoid stooping [...]

Blood Donation and Its Benefits

Blood is a vital fluid. It is important treatment of: * accidents * hemorrhages * burns * anemia * major operations * bleeding after childbirth * leukemias * thalassemias * bleeding diathesis * hemolytic disease of the new born Do you know that: * Blood has no substitute. * Blood cannot be manufactured in any [...]

Words of Advice for the Diabetic People

One of the greatest lessons one has to learn from this condition is to find out everything about diabetes. Knowledge is power particularly with this disease. Because people do not know much about it, the usual notion is to consider it as a grave disease. But if you dig deeper, it only becomes dangerous because [...]

Make Your Own Healthy Sandwich Tips

Have your own field day in the kitchen with this guide to preparing healthy sandwiches: 1. Choose the right bread. The bread of your sandwich may be more beneficial to your body than white polished rice, which is basically filled with empty carbohydrates. You can use a crusty baguette, whole wheat and whole grain bread, [...]