Category: Health

5 Sneaky Eating Tips to Help You Lose Weight

5 Sneaky Eating Tips to Help You Lose Weight

Dieting is out – smart eating for weight loss is in. Some of those changes are downright sneaky—you can slip them into your daily eating plan without any stress and they’ll help you lose pounds as well as keep the weight off.

Awesome Beauty and Health Tips for 2012

Awesome Beauty and Health Tips for 2012

Looking good means feeling good. Feeling good translates to doing great.  So, following our style resolutions for 2012, here are the basic health  must-dos that will hopefully see through this challenge.

Arab Women’s Metabolism – Work it Out

Arab Women’s Metabolism – Work it Out

Arab women have something in common with a socio-economic group that many of us would find hard to imagine. They along with the women of the Midwest of the United States share the highest overweight/obesity rates in the world. Below is a table of varying studies. OVERWEIGHT/OBESE 2005   Egypt – women 79.8% 2006  Saudi [...]

Women Advised to Avoid ZEN Bust-Enhancing Supplements Because of Possible Cancer Risk

Women Advised to Avoid ZEN Bust-Enhancing Supplements Because of Possible Cancer Risk

Bust-enhancing dietary supplements containing the mycoestrogen zearalenone (ZEN), a naturally occurring toxin that widely contaminates agricultural products, could be increasing their risk of breast cancer. That is the warning from breast health experts in a paper published online ahead of print publication in the January issue of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice. “No [...]

Egyptian Scientists Developing Diabetes Drug From Bitter Fruit

Egyptian Scientists Developing Diabetes Drug From Bitter Fruit

Photo Credit: ©matsuyuki / Flickr A national pharmaceutical company and the National Research Centre (NRC) signed a contract last month for the manufacture of a drug based on an extract from the fruit, which is also known as balsam pear (Momordica charantia). The plant traditionally grows in hot, sandy areas, which makes it ideal for [...]