If you are experiencing continuous episodes of stress, your body ends up suffering more than you realize. Over time, several organs and systems start to fail and your body’s ability to function becomes severely compromised. In fact, even your bladder health is significantly affected, along with your body’s natural ability to detoxify hazardous substances that you are exposed to on a regular basis.
The benefits from fruits and vegetables in our diet include lowered risk of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and more. A new UK study has found a strong link between eating more fruits and vegetables daily and increased longevity.
A couple of years ago, following the whole avocado toast thing, there was a trend of eating the pit (technically a seed). People would dry them out, chop or blend them into a powder, and treat them basically as a supplement, full of fiber and antioxidants. Now, research indicates that the avocado pit has some other impressive properties.
Every year, an estimated 600 million people (almost one in 10 globally) fall ill after eating contaminated food and about 420 000 die, explains Prof Buys.
In the 1990s, some researchers observed that French people—despite eating lots of saturated fat—tended to have low rates of heart disease. Dubbing this phenomenon the “French paradox,” the researchers speculated that regular wine consumption may be protecting their hearts from disease.
The novel coronavirus took the world by storm this entire year. And although most people that were infected had a mild or moderate case, many were less fortunate.
