7 Reasons to Grow Your own organic vegetable garden

During the last decades there has been a change towards mechanization and homogenization of farming, which uses pesticides, additives, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers, and mass-production techniques. All this is clearly affecting mankind’s health, and new diseases are spreading rapidly amongst humans and animals (bird’s flu being the most recent one).  The World Health Organization produces reports …


Nutrition & Healthy Lifestyle

The subject of nutrition is always controversial. It seems like every week there is a new study or diet in the news.  Yet despite diet controversies, there are many accepted principles of good nutrition where most experts agree. Most people who follow those principles as part of their lifestyle usually do just fine. If they …


Addictive Foods and their Harmful Consequences

Most of us are fond of at least one product that has the effect of a stimulant and that eventually becomes an addiction. These products include exercise stimulant drinks (they come in cans and look like cola), fizzy aerated drinks, tobacco, betel nut, betel leaf, strong coffee, strong tea, ma huang (an ephedrine-like compound consumed …