Lactose intolerance

Inflammation is a good thing. It is the natural way your body responds to threats such as infections or wounds. We have all seen inflammation at work when we have pain and redness at an injury. We say it looks inflamed, and it literally is, because injury activates the inflammatory response. When is inflammation a problem? When inflammation lasts for long periods of time, we call it chronic, and it can cause problems. Some common causes of chronic inflammation include allergies, autoimmune…

Crohn’s Disease Symptoms – Is There a Way to Manage Them? Crohn’s disease symptoms vary from one patient to the next. Depending on how mild or severe the condition is, the signs could be anywhere from mere nausea to bleeding. There are extraintestinal manifestations which are rarely present. The disease can also affect different parts of the body such as the skin, liver, joints and the eyes. Kids can present delays in growth development. About a third of Crohn’s patients develop the perianal…

has no meats nor products from any animals. However there are some conditions that add on the all humans are vegans theory. This would be Milk and Egg Allergies. Milk allergies are a lot of times confused with lactose intolerance,lactose intolerance is where the body can’t break down a lactose in milk that can only…

You Should Not Hold in Gases. The Unbelievable Health Benefits of Passing Gases Have you ever been ashamed because you have passed gases or someone else did? Now, it is time to remember that this is healthy. Passing gas can help us improve or observe the health of our digestive tract. Gases show us that our digestive systems are healthy and functioning properly. It also shows that the levels of gut bacteria are well balanced. Gases consist of: • 21 percent hydrogen • 9 percent carbon…

Even if you eat a healthy, balanced diet, you can be lack of calcium if you: - Follow a vegan diet - Have osteoporosis - Have lactose intolerance and limit dairy products - Consume large amounts of protein or sodium, which can cause your body to excrete more calcium - Receiving long-term treatment with corticosteroids - Some certain bowel or digestive diseases can decrease your ability…

Studying human remains dating back more than 5,000 years ago is typically quite difficult. Although Otzi’s, also known as “iceman”, remains are over 5,000 years old, archaeologists are able to perform an autopsy him due to to the fact he was frozen in ice. When Otzi died he had fallen down the Italian Alps landing him in an advancing glacier. The glacier had preserved his body in ice so well that archaeologists were able to extract DNA, pollen, and tissue samples to find out about his origin,…

Vredenburg 1 Amber Vredenburg Professor Green ENG 170-03 3 December 2014 Industrial Dairy Production Misconceptions “Major problems exist with the theory that higher or greater intelligence grants us the right to dominate and consume others though because it provides us with the argument that it is all right to eat human babies and people with mental disabilities because they potentially lack the same intelligence we possess” (Keegan par.18) Most people assume that dairy consumption is cruelty…

Macaulay Culkin, the former child star best known for the Home Alone movie franchise, was thrust back into the spotlight in 2013 when word of a parody band he was playing with broke. The Pizza Underground plays medleys of Velvet Underground parodies, substituting the actual lyrics for ones about pizza. Though Macaulay Culkin and the band have amassed some controversy by fans of VU who feel the band is marring VU’s legacy, the music is all in good fun and completely non-serious. In fact, the band…

Poday, gluten ingestion has been linked with a variety of clinical gluten-related disorders, with an estimated 5% of the population worldwide affected by these disorders. Source http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07853890.2017.1325968?journalCode=iann20 Celiac disease, wheat allergy and non-celiac gluten sensitivity are the three primary gluten-related disorders that have received much attention. These three conditions share similar symptoms, yet, they are entirely different in how they…

Recent scientific findings are beginning to lend support to a new personalized approach to dieting. The article, “A Personalized Diet, Better Suited to You” written by Kate Murphy earlier this year, discusses the topic of using genetics to personalize a diet based on the individual. Dr. Eran Elinav, an immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel believes that because we are all different genetically, our diets should be modified accordingly. He and his team found that…