High energy levels through Healthy Digestion

"When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion."

Mason Cooley

Catchy quote eh?  This site respects the process of digestion. This article describes the healing wonders of fruits, this article on digestion describes the "timing" on consuming fruits.

Did you know that actual digestion starts when you look at food that you want to eat? Many do not realize that the visual attention we place on a particular food gets the digestive juices flowing from within and starts the process of digestion.

Be careful of your Soy Sauce!

Try to find the cost of soy beans in this website before reading this article. While shopping one time, I decided to share with Pinoy health talk readers, my observation on the different kinds of soy sauces that are available and their impact on our health.  This article describes the top causes of death among Filipinos, and in this age and time of costly healthcare, we may as well avoid too much processed ingredients.

The Healing Wonders of Fruits

I found this article from this site. Pinoy Health Talk believes in the power of our tropical fruits. There are a lot of fruits found in the Philippines which can be discovered here.

SINCE time immemorial, fruits—whether fresh or dried—have been a natural staple diet of human beings. Replete with minerals, vitamins and enzymes, they are easily digestible. In some parts of the world, fruits serve as medicines and can treat ailments. Fruits, eaten raw or consumed as fresh juice, are excellent ways to retain and balance the moisture level in the body. The low level of sodium in fruits plays an important role for people who would like to avail of a salt-free diet.

You gotta love that Coconut

You gotta love that Coconut oil from the Coconut fruit. Before delving into this topic, much controversy has been had regarding the true value of this oil, to read further explanation about fats and oils, click HERE. Coconut oil despite it's bad reputation in western nations is beginning to rise out of the ashes. For a full explanation about Coconut oil, you can click this.

Are FATS good for you?

There is always this notion nowadays that fats are harmful to health. But I bet that you know someone that has been slim without that muffin top or beer-belly that is either sick or has suffered an early demise.  Fats has always been the blamed medical culprit but surprisingly Filipinos continue to eat fatty filled foods coupled with a very salty diet.

Pregnancy opinions

Recently, my sister-in law just go pregnant with their first baby.  This is an exciting thing in any family, at the same time can be an alternate period of anxiety and relief.  There are many factors to consider like the diet, the appetite, the pre-natal check ups, getting ready financially for the delivery and among other things, taking those OB-prescribed vitamins.

Running- a great exercise

There is a lot of hype about Running lately and for good reason- it is a great exercise to keep fit, to stay mentally alert and to have fun.  We get to see running events almost scheduled monthly coupled with the support from shoe manufacturing companies, consumer and pharmaceutical companies as well.