"Sleep is that golden key that ties health and our bodies together."
― Thomas Dekker
The Different Stages of Sleep
According to the National Sleep Foundation, you may need to sleep for seven to nine hours per night. Despite having enough sleep, have you ever felt tired in the morning?
Low-quality sleep may be your cause.
During sleep, your brain goes into sleep cycles that alternate between non-rapid...
"Water is the driving force of all nature."
- Leonardo da Vinci
The Importance of Water
Ranging from 50 to 65 percent, water is an essential and abundant nutrient in your body.
The variations come from your unique body composition associated with your lean tissue amount.
To highlight its importance, here's a list showing water composition in the body.
90% of blood
70% of muscles
20% in bones
78% of the brain
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― Aristotle
The Three Forms of Carbohydrates
The three forms of carbohydrates are monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, and polysaccharides. To understand what each form is, let’s break them down into smaller components.
Monosaccharides are simple carbohydrates because of their simple chemical structure with one sugar.
They include glucose, fructose, and...
–––“Great things are done in a series of small things brought together.”
―Vincent Van Gogh
Micronutrients
Vitamins and minerals are micronutrients found in food that are essential for your optimal health and wellness.
The wide range of vitamins and minerals are the building blocks for your body’s physiological processes.
Foods Containing Vitamins
The best option to obtain vitamins and minerals is by eating nutrient-dense foods.
Here are...
“Skin care must be good enough to eat!”
― Joanna Runciman
The First Line of Defense
For healthy skin, I focus on eating nutrient-dense foods, exercising daily, and exfoliating weekly using the sauna.
I don’t use any skincare products.
Knowing my skin is my first line of defense, I do my best to protect it. It is the primary barrier between my...
“The perfect man looked after himself before looking to help others.”
― Chuang Tzu
Practice Self-Care
To take care of myself, I eat healthily, meditate, and exercise on a regular basis. In addition, I am proactive in my recovery.
For example, since I enjoy weightlifting and rock climbing, I oftentimes feel sore after my workouts. To help with recuperation, I invest in the following:
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“The first wealth is health.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Start with Health
At age five, I enrolled in kindergarten. Then I moved to elementary school, middle school, high school, and college. My times in college were fun coupled with working productively and playing hard as I had my first alcoholic drink during my freshman year.
But after years of social conditioning thinking formal...
"The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison."
– Ann Wigmore
History of Processed Food
Because processed food is inexpensive, it's a perfect fit for your busy and hectic lifestyle.
After its introduction in the early 1900s, processed food soared after World War I.
The new methods of processing food...