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Snacking in between your meals is very common nowadays but how many of us know how much more calorie we are consuming in a day by snacking. How many of us actually give it a thought before making our snacks choices? Many of us don’t even know the amount of calorie contain in the snacks that we picked.

There are many circumstances at workplace which can create stress in our daily lives such as meeting tight deadline of a project, a boss who loves to nag, office politics, etc. and knowing how to deal with these stress is something that will stop you from damaging your health.

More often than not we end up consuming a lot more calories than needed in a day. We always try to cut it down by avoiding the obvious stuff such as full cream milk, whip cream, mayonnaise, rice, etc. but there are also a lot more other ways we can cut down on the calories.

This is one of the most common questions we receive, how do you succefully prevent acne. While some have it worse than others, there are a couple of things one can do to prevent these dreaded pimples from appearing and wreaking havoc on your social life.

Plastic food and drink containers have been linked to a number of health problems such as heart disease, liver problems and even cancer. However a new study now shows that the chemical bisphenol A that is used in plastic containers causes diabetes.

A study by the Stanford University Medical Center has found that running regularly slows down the aging process significantly. In addition to anti-aging benefits, the study found that runners were less likely to develop diseases such as cancer, neurological conditions and infections.

A recent study by the University of Barcelona Spain has found a link between virgin olive oil and breast cancer tumors.

Vision experts from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis US have stated that the ingredient resveratrol which is commonly found in wine, grapes and blueberries, hinders the rapid formation of blood vessels in the eye (called angiogenesis).

A recent study shows that adults who consumed 8 ounces of red wine per day (1/3 of a regular wine bottle) for 3 weeks in a row had a significant increase in a certain type of cell responsible for repairing the lining of arteries normally damaged from a heart attack or stroke.

A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association which consisted of 400,000 subjects showed that a high level of vitamin B6 and methionine in the blood stream reduced the risk of developing lung cancer. This even applied to individuals especially prone to the disease i.e. smokers and those who had quit smoking already.