An old ad said that “prevention is better than cure”. But how important is prevention really? What are the risk factors for the most common diseases, among the serious ones, that can worsen your condition or increase the chances of you getting sick? Prevention is better than cure for various reasons, not least the total […]
There is a lot of talk about “healthy eating”, “balanced” and “beneficial”, but in a nutshell what are we talking about, who decides it and why? Every nutrition professional relies in his work on the knowledge he possesses, acquired during training, which in turn is based on scientific evidence. From these evidences, built on the […]
Getting to sleep isn’t easy. In a not very recent but still significant survey, 9 million Italians declared that they could not sleep. The sleep cycle is set in motion in a natural way by the body that releases certain hormones that act in conjunction with other chemical reactions involving nutrients, enzymes, amino acids. Not […]
Losing weight by making smart choices is possible, but you can’t hope to do it quickly. Crash diets can achieve results in the short term, but they are not sustainable for years. So the work must be done at levels of eating habits and behaviors, day after day, adopting a healthy point of view not […]
Iron is one of the mineral salts most present in our body and is defined as essential, since its possible deficiency could cause damage to the health of the person. Iron is involved at various levels in human metabolism and one of its most important tasks is linked to the formation of hemoglobin and myoglobin: […]
With this article we continue to review the most popular diets, at least on the web. Today, let’s talk about the Plank diet. I’ll be honest, I had to do some research on the subject. Do you know how many scientific studies I found on the “Plank diet”? None . Let’s start with the name. […]
The word detox has become a trend in recent years. I think it depends on the unconscious desire to clean up our body and our mind from the excesses of a lifestyle that is not exactly lenient. It is as if we were looking for a reset or restart key, which cancels all previous actions. […]
