What does heliotherapy mean and effects of using it?
With first warm sunny days, we intuitively want to spend much time outside and get a suntan. It’s no accident. From ancient times people used solar energy as therapeutic and preventive purposes, as the method climatotherapy. The name of the … Continued
What is spring depression?
In one of the previous posts, I was writing about the lack of sunlight during winter and health problems, which can arise, because of vitamin D deficiency. But it is spring already and the weather is warm and sunny. So … Continued
Can you overdose fat soluble vitamins?
As was told before, vitamins are very important for our body and health, and their deficiency can lead to serious problems. But sometimes people so afraid avitaminosis or hypovitaminosis, that begin to take overdoses of vitamins, get an excess of … Continued
Are synthetic vitamins good or bad?
Everybody knows that vitamins are necessary for the normal body activity. But not all time we have a possibility to take natural vitamins from fruit and vegetable to cover daily necessity. And it is a question for many people what … Continued
Is stress necessarily bad?
“Stress is the Spice of Life; the absence of stress is death” – Hans Selye. All of us, I guess, time to time get into the stressful situations: at work, at home or on the street and not all of … Continued
Energy expenditure and obesity
I guess many of you heard the assertion that people who are obese, have lower energy expenditure compared to those who have a normal body weight. That is, even during physical activity they expend less energy, which creates a positive … Continued
Healthy life or orthorexia – healthy eating mental disorder?
Recent years, I think, there is no more popular and hot topic for discussion as about healthy lifestyle and proper nutrition. Internet, television,newspapers and magazines are full of different information of it. At first sight, it looks very good because … Continued
Is a microwave dangerous to your health or it is untruth?
More than half of century a lot of people in USA in all the world use the microwave oven as the indispensable helper at the kitchen to save time of cooking food and making it warm and ready to eat. … Continued
The lack of sunlight leads to health problems
If you do not live near the equator, the problem of lack of sunlight during winter time peculiarly can be actual for you, even if it is not visible at first glance. Day of the person in modern world often … Continued
Is a diet soda bad for you?
Nowadays, many people prefer diet soda to reduce caloric intake do not grow fat or even lose weight. But it is believed that sugar substitutes which are used in them and diet drinks can be harmful to health. In my … Continued