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Take your vitamin. Have we heard that a lot during our childhood. We are still bombarded with this topic by advertisments on tv or website.

Well, folic acid is a vitamin. It is the vitamin B9 or folate. Its scientific name is pteroylglutamic acid, but rarely hear it that way. It help to maintain and repair DNA and is important in creating new cells like blood cells. Deficiency in B9 is responsible of birth defect call spina bifida.

Pregnant women are strongly recommended by their doctor to supplement their diet with extra foliate.

Important for cancer

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Will I get cancer? This question makes us anxious. In our life span, we have a 50 % chance to develop cancer. It isn’t a question of how but more of a when. It isn’t a doomsday prediction though. We may be lucky with a 50% chance of living our life without cancer. With that kind of luck we better prepare. Call it an insurance policy. more…

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How much control do we really have over our own lives? Some say our life’s destiny is all written in our genes and we can’t do anything about this. Well, this isn’t true. We can do much about our life’s destiny.

Organisms evolve “consciously,” as our DNAs change in response to its environment. Our cell’s “consciousness” lies in its membrane which contains receptors that pick up various environmental signals. This mechanism controls the “reading” of the genes inside the cell.

We are an extension of our environment. Our environment includes everything we are in and what we do such as our exposure to sunlight, exercise and of course everything we choose to put into our bodies. It includes the food we eat, the air we breathe, the chemicals we lather on our skin and our exposure to toxic chemicals in some other ways. Hence, we control our environment. Further, if we can control our environment we take control of our lives and our destiny too. more…

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Being a rock star doesn’t protect us from Cancer. In 2006, Sheryl Crow, the rock star, was diagnosed with breast cancer at 44 years old. Instead of crying over spilled milk she was determined to get to the bottom of this. Cancer enlightened her on her perception of food.

An Eye Opener

As a rock star, she’d spend most of her days traveling and gobble road food- mostly meat and mashed potatoes. Being lean, eating well wasn’t a concern. Then cancer struck and drastically changed her unhealthy diet and eating habits. Cancer glaringly emphasizes our unhealthy lifestyles. It serves as a wake up call – albeit a rude one! more…