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…

Discussions on proposals on whether or not junk foods and sodas should be taxed are getting hotter. A study just recently said that 18 percent hike on junk tax would lead for some people using five pounds a year.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina said that a study of the eating habits of some 5,115 adults between ages 18 and 30, over a 20-year period, resulted to 7-percent decrease in soda consumption and 11.5-percent decrease in pizza consumption once tax was increased to 10 percent.

When it comes to soda, the researchers found out that a $1 increase on its tax will result to 124 less calories a day. With…

Telling someone they are fat will never be polite enough. There’s just no good way to say to someone that, “hey, you’re gaining weight.” According to etiquette guru Mary Mitchell, there’s also such a thing as etiquette when it comes to telling someone they are fat.

It is also not polite to suggest to someone how to lose weight, Mitchell said. In a column in Reuters, Mitchell said that it is important to consider the needs of obese persons if, say example, they are invited to a social gathering at your place.

“Good manners are based on kindness, respect, and consideration for every human being. They often depend on our ability to…