Most people, especially young people, perceive a healthy body to mean a thin and light body. But that’s not the case. Anorexic people are commonly seen as sexy or what not but the truth is, they are the unhealthiest breed you can find.

A healthy body means having the right perception of your size, and feeling confident and good about it. What becomes negative in dieting is when you begin to compare yourself to others thereby making you self-conscious about your body.

Here are three steps to a healthier body image:

1. Respect your body
2. Focus on what matters
3. Stop comparing yourself

Some of the most important things to understand with dieting is you…

Sneaking more nutrients to your lunch or dinner is important since this is one way to get to a healthier lifestyle. Vegetables such as kale, mustard greens, bok choy and swiss chard are the things that we should incorporate in our meals, however, we cannot always find recipes for these kinds of vegetables.

What should we do? Cook dishes wherein you can out a little bit of these vegetables. Here’s what you should do: take in a good amount of these greens, chop them finely, put them into a blender and then pour it together with onion. After that, pour the mixture to the tomato sauce soup and partner it with…

Our work schedules most of the time put a strain on us, and it’s no surprise that a recent study found out that the irregularity of our work can negatively affect our bowel schedule.

Published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, the study said that scientists examined the effect of rotating schedules, dayshifts, nightshifts and lack of sleep to the bowel syndrome of nurses.

Here are the results of the experiment:

* A total of 214 worked straight days, 110 worked straight nights, and 75 rotated between day and night shifts.
* 48% of nurses on rotating shifts had IBS related problems; as did 40% of those working straight nights, both high figures when…