Healthy Living Guide with Diabetes
November 30, 2018 Category :Healthy Recipes 0
Grilled vegetable sticks make for a festive side dish instead of the traditional barbecue. Play around with the vegetables you use by adding seasonal vegetables available, from young corn or even portabello mushrooms. Enjoy it with a different blue cheese dressing or go Filipino with a touch of barbecue flavored sauce. Use lemongrass sticks for a different flavor.
October 30, 2018 Category :Healthy Recipes 0
For vegetarian lovers out there, this pasta is for you. Another simple dish to create, just blanch all vegetables before preparing the final sauce. Vegetables you can use can range from broccoli and cauliflower to asparagus and mushrooms. Adjust the sauce if you are using more vegetables.
August 16, 2017 Category :Healthy Recipes 0
It is widely and commonly known that vegetables dishes are guaranteed to be healthy and nutritious. There are a lot of vegetable dishes in the Philippines that are not only healthy and nutritious, but also easy to cook and not to mention less expensive.
December 6, 2015 Category :Diabetes Research 0
Seafood is a great addition to your meal plan. Apart from being so delicious, seafood also has a lot of health benefits that surely both those who are trying to keep fit and healthy and those who have certain conditions can value. Like for those who have diabetes, fish is a great lean protein source, apart from the fact that it is low in fat and also contains certain vitamins and minerals that are essential for the body.
August 9, 2015 Category :General Wellness 0
Nowadays, people are so active when it comes to doing things. They are focused on doing the things that they want. These people are so enthusiastic in achieving the things that they want to have. This concept applies to the young adults who keep on working for themselves. Young people tend to work more because of the ideas that they have in mind. Being an active person is an understatement of what they do and who they are. It is simply because they do more because this is what they think that they should be doing. But then, working must not the only thing that they must do in the world. They must also have the things that would challenge them as well. This challenge can be called ‘relaxing.’ To relax may be hard to do. But, young adults are required for this will surely give them enough will to carry on other tasks.
July 12, 2015 Category :Healthy Advocacy 0
Over 10 million Filipino Adults are either overweight or obese. It is considered a silent killer because it a major cause of other deadly diseases yet is quietly plaguing the whole world. Obesity is the abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may lead to health consequences such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders and even cancer. Obesity is basically caused by increased intake of foods that are high in fat, salt, and sugars but are low in vitamins, minerals and essential nutrients as well as decreased physical activity due to the sedentary nature of many forms of work, changing modes of transportation and increasing urbanization.
May 31, 2015 Category :Diabetes Research 0
Dasheen is a variety of taro which is used as vegetables for its several parts such as its corms (underground stems), leaves and leaf-stems. It is a perennial, tropical plant but is widely adaptable to a variety of climates such as in the arid regions of Africa. This type of taro is believed to have originated from South India and in Southeast Asia. Aside from its origin places, it is also very popular in other places of the world such as in Africa, the Carribean and in the Pacific. In the Philippines, it is locally called “gabi”.
August 30, 2014 Category :Health Watch 0
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a hormonal disorder among women in which the woman develops several cysts on their ovaries, mainly due to irregular menstruation or amenorrhea (absence of menstrual cycles. Common symptoms included obesity/ weight gain, acne, hirsutism (increased growth of corporal hair), male pattern baldness (hair loss), insulin resistance, skin tags, high cholesterol and even a strong appetite for sex (promiscuity). If left untreated, this ailment can lead to serious health conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease and endometrial cancer.
March 22, 2014 Category :Healthy Advocacy 0
A vegan diet does not treat diabetes but it will definitely help in managing the disease and prevent its complications from occurring. A key to managing diabetes is proper diet and the vegan diet is ideal to help diabetics in controlling weight, avoid diabetes-associated complications and even help make the body to become more responsive to insulin.
March 7, 2014 Category :Healthy News 0
Goulash is a soup or stew of meat usually beef with noodles and vegetables and seasoned with paprika and other spices, which originated from Hungary. Goulash was derived from “gulyas” which means “herd of cattle” or “herdsman”. The dish was traditionally made by the “herdsman” in Hungary. Today, Goulash has different variations. There is the classic European Tex-Mex Goulash, All American Skillet Goulash, Baked Goulash and even the Drunken Beef Goulash which uses beer instead of water. What makes Goulash unique is the use of paprika which is basically powdered chili or sili.