February 12, 2021 Category :General Wellness 0
A cataract is a clouding of the lens inside the eye which leads to a decrease in vision. The lens inside the eye works focusing light onto the retina for clear vision and eye focus. This lens is primarily made of water and protein. However, some of the protein cluster together as people age to create cloud like areas in the lens. This is called senile cataracts and it grows larger until it gets in the way for letting light in making it harder and harder for a person to see. Hence, cataract is the most common cause of blindness.
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February 1, 2021 Category :General Wellness 0
Constipation is a condition characterized by infrequent bowel movements wherein stools are characterized as dry, hard and difficult to pass. Constipation can affect a person’s health because excreting body waste is an important regular activity for human else, the waste and toxins in it can contaminate or poison the body in the long run. A person suffering from constipation however need not worry because there are many herbal remedies for constipation.
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January 30, 2021 Category :General Wellness 0
Calamansi or golden lime is a small citrus fruit popular in the Philippines and primarily used as condiment. It is usually added to soy sauce or fish sauce as well as directly to dishes to provide sour taste or flavour to food. As a citrus fruit, calamansi is also used to make juices.
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January 26, 2021 Category :General Wellness 0
Fiber is one of the most important nutrition that we can get from natural food. It can help lower blood sugar for diabetics, cut cholesterol for hypertensive and obese individuals, and may even prevent cancer in general. For many people, fiber is especially important for attaining a lean, slim and sexy body. Here under the top 20 high fiber food. » Continue Reading
January 5, 2021 Category :General Wellness 1
Founded in 1984, the Makati Medical Center Diabetes Care Center or MMC Diabetes Care Center, is the first diabetes educational clinic in Asia to help people with diabetes live fuller lives.
The MMC Diabetes Care Center was conceptualized amidst the growing diabetic population in the Philippines. Inspired by Dr. Joslin’s principle that in diabetes “he who knows the most lives the longest” Dr. Augusto D. Litonjua, opened the first diabetes education clinic in coordination with Dr. Raul G. Fores who provided the home of the clinic in Makati Medical Center. The Diabetes Education Clinic Staff, Ms. Susan Trinidad R.N., Ms Victoria Santiago,R.N., and Ms. Imelda Cardino R.N.D., were the first diabetes educators in the Philippines which focused on diabetes foot and wound care, nutrition counselling, insulin pump installation, computerized glucose monitoring record, and ankle brachial index measurement. Through the years, the clinic expanded its program to provide not just education but total diabetes care providing access to diabetes care products.
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December 3, 2020 Category :General Wellness 0
Ballroom Dance is a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world. There are different types of ballroom dances such as tango, bolero, cha-cha, foxtrot, hip hop, hustle, jive, meringue, paso doble, rumba, salsa, samba, swing and waltz among others. Each type of dance involves a complex and specific movement and rhythmic pattern of the feet and body that is accompanied by music.
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absorption of calcium, bad cholesterol, cardiovascular, Heart Rate, strenuous activity, sugar control, workout
December 2, 2020 Category :General Wellness 0
Caci Clinic Philippines or Caci Face and Body Care Centre is a wellness clinic haven that integrates Dermatics Skin Health System with its Computer Aided Cosmetology Instrument (CACI) that delivers an all-in-one anti-aging science and a luxurious treatment for Face and Body Skin Regeneration in a soothing environment.
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October 29, 2020 Category :General Wellness 0
Diabetes disease is a plague that affects approximately 15,000 children every year. Because of this more and more children are suffering from diabetes, which can disrupt the conduct of their regular lives. The key to motivating young diabetics is to achieve a sense of self-efficacy or confidence among them so that that can attain self-care especially relating to their food choices.
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October 4, 2020 Category :General Wellness 0
Obesity is a common yet neglected disease especially among children because of the local culture and common misconception that a tubby child is cute and healthy. Obesity only becomes a concern for adults primarily for aesthetic purposes and not for health reasons.
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September 26, 2020 Category :General Wellness| Healthy Recipes 0
Banoffee, banoffi, or banoffy pie is a popular dessert pie originally from England made from bananas, toffee and cream from boiled condensed milk (of leche flan) placed on a pastry or crumbled biscuits and butter. Accordingly, it was invented by Ian Dowding, a chef at The Hungry Monk restaurant in Jevington, East Sussex in 1972. It was inspired by the American dessert “Blum’s Coffee Toffee Pie”.
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