26, May 2014

Tips to stay fit on a vacation

Staying healthy during a holiday period isn’t as tough as it seems. Just a few simple steps can make all the difference.

International nutritional therapist Natalie Lamb has shared advice to keep your body healthy from inside out, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

Planes and air-conditioning can help in spreading germs, with many suffering from colds after flying. Taking some zinc, Vitamin C and probiotics during the flight could help give the immune system a little extra support.

Fancy a flat stomach for the beach this year? Bloating can be due to an imbalance of bacteria in the gut. Probiotics have been shown to increase levels of beneficial bacteria that do not produce as much gas in the gut leaving you feeling slimmer and less bloated.

Reduce simple sugars and refine carbohydrates in your diet, chew food well and eat in a quiet and relaxed environment.

Increased alcohol consumption and foreign foods can affect your digestive system and keep you from running as smoothly as you’d like. To ease the symptoms of digestive issues, it’s a good idea to take a daily gentle fibre supplement to keep things moving.

Antioxidants are believed to protect the skin from damage by reducing the harmful effects of the sun’s ultra-violet rays. Eat a wide variety of raw or lightly cooked fruits and vegetables in a rainbow of different colours. 

Source: www.thehealthsite.com

26.05.2014

Eating antibiotic-fed animals can cause health problems in humans

After a WHO report highlighted that use of antibiotics in animal farms poses a danger to the health of humans, an animal rights group launched a campaign to stop the proliferation of animal farms.

The campaign was launched by the Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations (FIAPO) Friday due to the way poultry, sheep, goats, pigs and other animals are reared for commercial purposes, such as churning out meat products. The animals are fed antibiotics regularly which creates health problems for them as well as the humans who consume these food products.

Puja Mitra, campaign manager, said: ‘WHO’s report highlights that antibiotic resistance in both animals and people leads to increased vulnerability to diseases and bacterial infections. 

‘The risk of developing antibiotic resistance is greater in commercial production of animals raised for food.’

FIAPO said that such occurrences are high in poultry farms where poultry is reared in the thousands in confinement and fed antibiotics to control the outbreak of any disease.

The continuous non-therapeutic use of antibiotics leads to a build-up of resistance in the birds and that eventually passes into humans when they consume the meat/eggs.

‘Further, these factory farms treat animals as inanimate products denying them the freedom’s essential to their mental and physical well being.

‘FIAPO has launched a national campaign to combat the increase in (animal) factory farms across the country and to protect human health as consumption of food from commercial products is harmful,’ Mitra added.

Source: www.thehealthsite.com

26.05.2014

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