There is no doubt that cooking food adds physical and chemical benefits to it, facilitating mastication, improving digestion and increasing the absorption of various nutrients, not to mention the enhanced…
Dark chocolate is associated many health benefits, particularly with significantly lower cardiovascular disease risk and stroke, all-cause mortality factors and cardiovascular related mortality. (1, 2, 3, 4) Studies show that…
Dark chocolate is a solid product made of roasted cocoa bean mass, with or without the addition of extra cocoa butter and with or without some form of sweetener (whether…
There are many causes of constipation. The range of constipation symptoms varies slightly, depending on the underlying cause. This article describes the most common causes of constipation and focuses on…
The following table shows a list of diseases and related deaths in developed countries in 2012. The table is based on mortality statistics provided by the World Health Organization (WHO).…
A milk allergy (also called dairy allergy or cow’s milk allergy) is an adverse immune response to the protein in cow’s milk. A protein called casein (αs1-, αs2-, β-, and…
Lactose is a sugar found in milk and dairy products. It is a disaccharide sugar, meaning that is composed of two simple sugars (monosaccharides): glucose and galactose. Our bodies normally…
To understand why cholesterol is not causing the atherosclerotic plaque it is important to understand the process of plaque formation. There are various causes of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease (CVD)…
Metabolic syndrome is a medical condition, diagnosed when any three out of the following five risk factors occur together (1): Metabolic syndrome indicates a high risk of heart disease, type…
Fructose metabolism is significantly more harmful than other sugars. Fructose and glucose are the most commonly consumed simple sugars. They have the same amount of calories per gram, but differ…
The following is a list of the most important characteristics of cholesterol in order to understand why there are so many myths about it. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,…
One misconception about cancer is that its cells are acidic and/or cancer thrives in acidic environments resulting from an acid-forming diet. The alkaline diet supporters claim that by increasing the…
