Posted by: Erineus on: March 30, 2012
With high blood pressure you want to have a diet low in sodium and fat, so here are the top foods you should really avoid. Pickles Pickles are low calorie, which is great, but they are loaded with sodium. One medium pickle (about 5 inches long) can have around 570 mg of sodium. That’s over [...]
Posted by: Erineus on: March 24, 2012
Seven surprising health and fitness figures From your BMI to your heart rate, healthy living often revolves around numbers. However, here are 7 surprising health statistics you may be unaware of. One in 10 parents think cola counts as fruit According to a survey of family eating habits by food company Green Giant, one in [...]
Posted by: Erineus on: March 24, 2012
10 guilt-inducing activities that actually boost your health Ever promised yourself that this year you were definitely going to give that bad habit the flick, only to give into your vice again after only a couple of hours? Well, the good news is that ‘bad’ habit may not actually be as harmful as you think. [...]
Posted by: Erineus on: March 24, 2012
Drinking water While we are probably all familiar with the advice to drink eight glasses of water a day, more recent research has suggested that there is actually no scientific evidence supporting this recommendation and that drinking excessive amounts of water can actually be dangerous by lowering the concentration of salt in your blood. [...]
