Antioxidants and free radicals: How Enemies Have Become Friends
Antioxidant means antioxygen. Our life is full of paradoxes: we cannot live without oxygen. But it is the oxygen that launches the oxidation processes, which leads to destroying cells and finally to aging and death. How Did the Standoff Begin? People have early detected that air has a destructive effect. At first, no one has…
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Digital Detox: How Harmful Gadgets Are for Our Health and Do We Need a Break?
Notebooks, smartphones, tablets…Every day we spend many hours looking at our screens. According to the calculations of Nielson Company in the report, titled “Americans Devote More Than 10 Hours a Day to Screen Time, and Growing”, an average adult American had spent 10 hours 39 minutes with electronic devices each day during 2016-2017, and there…
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What Do You Eat and How to Make Your Diet Healthy?
What has the most impact on your health? Is it genetics inherited from your parents or your chosen lifestyle? The experts are unanimous on this point: the better and more useful your diet is, the more often you are exercising, and the more effort you make for early prevention of the diseases, the better your…
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Youth Protein: Where It Comes From and Why We Lose It?
It is popular to think that collagen is next door to a magic substance delivering youthful power to your skin and needing a continual replenishment and facilitation using various cosmetic products. While in fact, collagen is a quite normal, regular protein produced by your body throughout your lifetime and makes up the most in the…
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Long and Important: How to Take Care of Your Gut Health
Gastrointestinal diseases can be called a disease of large city residents. The morning stress, long working hours, commuting, and pollution do not contribute to our well-being. According to research “Increasing incidence and prevalence of the inflammatory bowel diseases with time, based on systematic review,“ up to 95% of city dwellers experience trouble with their gut…
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