A healthy gut is critical for good health as it promotes normal gastrointestinal function, protects against infection, regulates metabolism and comprises more than 75 % of our immune system. An unhealthy lifestyle, chronic stress, excessive use of antibiotics and bad nutrition such as a diet...
You are what you eat! Here are some tips for a beautiful skin. Your skin indicates how toxic you are and is a good indicator of your body’s overall health. Getting your body’s systems working optimally is crucial to addressing skin problems and nutrition is...
Lifestyle’ diseases – particularly heart attack and stroke, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes – have reached epidemic proportions in most countries around the world,” says President of the International Self-Care Foundation David E Webber Ph.D. “We are all at risk! But did you also know...
Johannesburg – Sugar is so highly addictive that it should be classified as a Class A drug, which are considered to be the most harmful and detrimental to a person’s health, said South African nutritionist, Vanessa Ascencao, on Thursday. Class A drugs include heroin, cocaine...
Three quarters of South Africans are believed to be deficient in magnesium, an essential nutrient that if lacking, will fuel diseases such as depression and psychosis, said nutritional consultant Vanessa Ascenacao in a statement on Wednesday. “Millions of South Africans suffer daily from magnesium deficiency without...
Fasting is a common practice for both health and religious reasons, but can be risky if you have pre-existing health conditions like diabetes. Watch nutritional consultant, Vanessa Ascencao, tell our host Jennifer Sanasie what you should be careful of when fasting....