Healthy eating means eating a variety of foods that you need to maintain your health, feel good, and have energy. These foods include fresh fruit and vegetables, protein, carbohydrates, fat, water, vitamins, and minerals. Healthy Eating is important for everyone. When combined with being physically active and maintaining a healthy weight, eating well is an excellent way to help your body stay strong and healthy. What you eat can affect
Follow our advice on healthy eating for vegetarians and vegans to ensure you have a balanced and varied diet. If you’re a vegetarian or vegan, you should eat a wide variety of foods and have a healthy balanced diet to ensure you get all the nutrients your body needs. Vegetarians and vegans don’t eat any meat, poultry, game, fish, shellfish or crustacea (such as crab or lobster) or animal by-products (such
SHAPE UP AFRICAN (SUPA) We all think African dishes are calorie bombs right? That is what I use to think before I was introduced to this amazing blog by an awesome lady originally from Cameroon called Zita Bernice Tiena. A Public Health Research Associate currently finishing her PHD in Public Health Nutrition. Her blog called ‘Inspiring Healthy Lifestyles, From Heritag (IHL)’ is a guide to healthy, science-backed African nutrition. She
Dr. med. Judith Kouematchoua, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist based in Hamburg, answers questions on uterine fibroids, the most common benign tumor of the uterus and one leading cause for a hysterectomy, especially among black women. What is a fibroid? A uterine fibroid is the most common benign (not cancerous) tumor of the woman’s uterus (womb). It is typically discovered during a woman’s middle and later reproductive years (25-50). The growths are
