SPRING CLEAN YOUR SYSTEM

he sun is warming you from the outside, and your body seeks something different than a cup of coffee and a shrug..according to traditional Chinese medicine, spring is liver and gallbladder season. Just as buds and plants are getting ready to reappear, our bodies are wanting to regenerate as well. Spring energy is all about moving upward and outward, opposite to the contractile direction of winter that pulls our energy inward for storage, says the dietitians, and Chinese herbalists.

What Is Clean Eating?

In the language of nutrition, it’s very easy to get your wires crossed. Master cleanses, detox diets, low-carb diets, high-protein diets and the like usually lead to more questions than answers. So how do you sift through them all? This piece is the first in a series of articles where all must attempt to translate the prevalent beliefs or attitudes towards particular foods or diets. Today, we get up very close and personal with a hot new fad clean eating. In a nutshell, clean eating is less of a diet…

Keep your home clean

Find out how good home hygiene can help prevent the spread of infectious diseases such as MRSA, E. coli and Colostrum difficult (C. diff). Advances in vaccination and antibiotic treatment have made people complacent about hygiene, say public health experts. This is especially true in the home, where there has been a tendency to assume, wrongly, that the risk of infection is low. But scare stories in recent years about SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), avian flu (HAHN), food poisoning, the winter vomiting bug(rhinovirus) and hospital-acquired infections such as MESA and C. diffhave made hygiene a concern. Experience has also shown that as…