Diet & Nutrition
Eating and Healing with Traditional Food
Written by Sevcan Gast, MD & Tara Conrad from Verita Life Thailand Food is one of the most important parts of our everyday lives, culture and community. It brings people together and is used in times of celebration and festivals. Traditionally, food was not as abundant as it is today. More often than not, food …
EGCG: Unleashing The Power Of Green Tea
Over the centuries, green tea has been known for its benefits on human health. A traditional drink in several Asian cultures, it has a rightly earned reputation for increasing longevity, brain function and sexual drive. The appreciation for it goes as far as a centuries-old tradition in Japan, where its preparation is a ritual. Benefits …
Fight Cancer with These Super-Foods
These days, many Cancer patients succumb to the disease due to the side effects of chemotherapy treatment and not because of cancer itself. Although the process can effectively destroy cancerous cells in the body, moreover, it also harms other healthy cells. Chemotherapy compromises a person’s immune system, which is the most essential line of defense …
How do cruciferous vegetables help against cancer
By Melissa Rivera, Nutritionist, Verita Life Mexico. The healing power of phtyonutrient-rich vegetables have been researched for the treatment and prevention of many chronic diseases, including cancer. Cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli and broccoli sprouts are known due to their high content of glucoraphanin, a precursor of sulforaphane, a compound that has even been called …
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How Does Ketogenic Diet Complement Cancer Therapies?
While many cancerous tumours can be managed with conventional therapies such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, these treatments are often ineffective against metastatic (one that has spread to other organs) disease. That means it fails, in many cases, to slow down cancer progression that a need for substantially novel therapies effective against metastatic cancer are …
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Ketogenic Diet: 5 Things You Should Know About It
What is the Ketogenic Diet and How does it Work?The ketogenic diet is also known as the low carb diet, and is based around placing the body into a state of ketosis. When we eat foods high in carbohydrates, such as sugary cereal, cake and bread, the body produces glucose and a specific hormone. Glucose …
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Women and Nutrition
Written by Tara Conrad, Nutritionist and Diet Consultant. Verita Life Thailand. It is not easy navigating the difficult world of women and nutrition. Trying to manoeuvre through the incredible sea of information that is presented to us through media, friends, family or culture can be overwhelming, daunting and at times discouraging. The first thing we …
Beating Cancer By Starving It
Starving cancer to death may just be the new front in confronting one of mankind’s most enduring enemies. The abnormal growth of cells that we call cancer (grouping together more than 100 types of the disease) has been ravaging the human race for millennia. The earliest recorded instances of the disease go back to the …
Depriving Cancer Cells of Sugar
Previously, research has demonstrated that rapid cancer cell division demands higher levels of sugar than healthy cells and so the question is often asked, does sugar cause cancer? The characteristics of a healthy cell compared to a cancer cell is the sugar dependency that the cancer cells desires, making sugar reduction an appropriate treatment for …
The Importance of Nutrition in the Fight Against Cancer
We all know that nutrition, eating the right foods and maintaining a good diet over the long-term is a key component of staying healthy throughout life. Indeed, a good diet helps significantly reduce the risk of certain conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer. For individuals that have been diagnosed with a medical condition …
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The Ketogenic Diet and Cancer | VeritaLife Australia
While the use of “ketogenic diet” has hit peak buzzword in health and fitness circles around the world, most people are still unaware of its origins and how it was initially developed back in the 1920s, as powerful method for treating epilepsy. In recent years however, these findings have further evolved to encompass many other …
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Vitamin C Versus Cancer
There has been a recent focus drawn to the health benefits of Vitamin C. It has long been an interest of researchers to view the “super-nutritional” properties of Vitamin C, for those who are fighting conditions aside from Scurvy- cancer being a topic of great interest. A clinic, Riordan, is a large non-profit, nutritional based …
Vitamin C: How It Helps In The Fight Against Cancer
Vitamin C is one of the most well-established traditional antioxidants known to man and its potent health benefits, especially for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases have been clearly demonstrated over time. Research has also shown that Vitamin C is selectively cytotoxic to cancer cells when administered intravenously (IV) in high doses, and has …
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Can Green Tea Reduce The Risk Of Prostate Cancer?
A recent study shows that Prostate Cancer can be prevented from developing by using some of the active components commonly found in green tea. As simple as it may sound, one of the most popular drinks in human history may contain one of the most potent types of medication for combating this type of tumour. …
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