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Exercising Prevents Metabolic Diseases

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Making Exercising a Top Priority Exercising should be a top priority in your life. It will help you sleep, keep your weight under control, reduce your risk for metabolic diseases, and help you to live longer. Most exercises consist of aerobics, anaerobic, and agility training.  Exercising Increases Your Lifespan Exercising adds years to your life, helps with weight loss, prevents cancer and heart conditions, improves your sex life, helps people sleep better, and improves your lung functions (Mayo Clinic). Exercise is proven to help you live longer, providing improved functioning inside your brain along with stronger bones and muscles - especially as you age (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Include Family and Friends Make exercise fun by including your family and friends in the routines, choose activities besides the gym like basketball, horseback riding, tennis, or even an evening stroll around the neighborhood (Robinson et al).  Sometimes including friends and family in t

Raw Food Diet Disadvantages

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The Disadvantages of The Raw Food Diet Raw food diets have disadvantages along with advantages. Whether one outweighs the other is debatable. It is very hard to debate facts and that is my intent with this post focused mostly on the negative effects of the diet.  A raw food diet has nutritional deficiencies like lack of B-12, low HDL cholesterol numbers, not enough nutrients like calcium or vitamin D to support good bone health, and low body weight due to lack of calories inside the diet ( Livestrong) . Iron and iodine are two nutrients lacking with this plan as well (Cleveland Clinic).  The diet weakens muscles due to lack of protein, almost 100% of the people experienced tooth erosion in one study, and another study found it to increase infertility in women with about 70% experiencing disruption with their menstrual cycle and a third developing amenorrhea (Petre).  The diet is restrictive, time consuming and puts people at a higher risk for food poisoning because of the raw uncooked

Remarkable Health Benefits of the Panax Ginseng Family

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Panax Ginseng Diet Aides and Health Benefits Image by Nguyen Cong by Pixabay Ginseng has many different varieties. The exact number of varieties comes with some debate. What is not a debate is the many health benefits ginseng provides for humans.  Image by KENNETH RODRIGUES by Pixabay Five Panax Ginseng Varieties A large study took 28 different Korean red ginseng studies and combined them into one, finding the plant to be very effective for treating erectile dysfunction (Ellis). A low cost (6 cents per 500mg) non-prescription natural erectile dysfunction treatment that costs way less than its prescription counterparts like Viagra, and still works well for sexual intercourse without any chemicals or unnatural ingredients circling inside your body (Price and Gazewood). Clinical study on healthy people proved KRG to provide immuno-enhancement due to an increase in T cells, B cells, and white blood cells (WBCs) (Hyun et al). KRG is definitely a great natural resource for your sexual hea