by Nona D. Andaya-Castillo, IBCLC
The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF recommend that infants should be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life to achieve optimal growth, development, and health and should receive nutritionally adequate and safe complementary foods using indigenous foods while breastfeeding should continue for up to two years or beyond.
What [...]
by Adrian E. Cristobal
IT wasn’t until the US Food and Drug Administration issued an alert that I realized that “melamine” wasn’t a misspelling of a female character in “Gone With the Wind.” (My knowledge of chemistry is no more reliable than some Cabinet members’ knowledge of human rights.)
The FDA alert was in response to reports [...]
Joseph of Tondo is 10 and entering sixth grade this school year. Lately, he’s had trouble with schoolwork; his grades were 76 percent in Math and 75 percent in English. He’s also become inattentive and unable to concentrate.
Mariquita Montoya Moreno, a nutritionist at the Don Bosco Tondo Feeding Center who has observed Joseph, said his [...]
by Joy Angelica Subido
One has to find time. One has to treat the person as a complete human being — not as a disease or as an ailing organ alone. My cardiologist mother still chides us when we grumble over the lengthy time she takes with her patients. “Healing entails more than treating the illness,” [...]
by Aleli Gana
If you’ve ever wondered about how antioxidants work and how they fit into a healthy lifestyle, you’ve just taken a crucial first step to wellness that could drastically improve your health and prevent the onset of disease and signs of aging.
Understanding the ways antioxidants work can help you appreciate the importance of a [...]
A Filipino scientist is promoting the use of dragon fruit as an ingredient in functional foods, such as power drinks, because of its high antioxidant properties.
Dr. Eufemio Barcelon, a Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Balik Scientist Awardee (1996 to 1998) who is based in Australia, said the dragon fruit can be used in functional [...]
by Ching M. Alano
Now, here’s one more life-and-death reason why breast-milk is best: Powdered infant formulas are not sterile products and may be contaminated with microorganisms that can cause serious illness such as meningitis, necrotising enterocolitis, sepsis, and even death. Fact is, a powdered milk product was traced as the source of the infection related [...]
by Tyrone M. Reyes, M.D.
Is fruit juice healthier than water? Are diet soft drinks better than regular? Do coffee and tea prevent or cause disease? Do you need milk at all? Should you drink eight glasses of water a day? Aside from the occasional ad campaign singing praises for orange juice or green tea or [...]
Avoid eggs. Drink 8 glasses of water a day. Eating carbs will make you fat. Nutritional such as this has been touted for years – but is it accurate?
Not necessarily, according to Wendy Repovich, an exercise physiologist at Eastern Washington University in Cheyenne, Washington, who did her best to dispel several common nutrition misconceptions during [...]
Women who eat low-fat dairy foods may have a higher risk of infertility than those who treat themselves to the fullfat ice cream cheese, surprised US researchers said.
They found that women who ate two or more servings of low-fat dairy foods a day had an 85 percent higher risk of a certain type of infertility [...]