Top 10 Foods For Healthy Skin
July 17, 2009 by Linette Gerlach
Filed under Recipes
You are what you eat, so in order to have healthy skin you need to put healthy foods into your body. Some foods contain more vitamins and antioxidants than others. Your skin needs these powerful nutrients to look its best and stay healthy. The bonus is healthy skin is younger looking skin.
Free radicals from the sun and the environment around us can damage our skin. When we eat the right foods we can help minimize the damage done by our environment, and even help repair our skin from the damage of free radicals with important vitamins, essential oils, and antioxidants.
Here …read more
Treating Heart Disease With Dark Chocolate
April 10, 2006 by Lei
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Forty cardiovascular disease patients at Bart’s and The London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry may be treated with dark chocolate which has a high level of flavonoids. Flavonoids are anti-oxidants which may reduce LDL-cholesterol levels and reduce the hardening of arteries, blockages, and clotting.
Some tips for using dark chocolate to improve heart health:
Only a couple of squares of dark chocolate a day, approximately 25 grams.
Chocolate should be high quality.
Chocolate should contain at least 85 per cent cocoa.
Chocolate should not be high in sugar.
Finding heart healthy dark chocolate is a lot harder than you might think. …read more




