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By: Anne A. Jambora

The Rolls Royce of artificial turf is now here. Bonifacio Global City (BGC) in Taguig, the running capital of the Philippines, recently launched an all-weather turf football field produced by one of the world’s leading artificial turf experts, Limonta Italy.
Posted: February 7th, 2012 in Editor's Pick,Featured Gallery,Headlines,Photos & Videos,Wellness | Read More »
By: Mitch Felipe Mendoza

During exercise, you burn calories according to the type of exercise you do, the intensity and total duration. The good news about exercise is you still burn extra calories even after, though not as much. But, over time when you become consistent, the after-burn effect of exercise will help you manage your weight effectively as compared to dieting alone.
Posted: February 7th, 2012 in Editor's Pick,Headlines,Wellness | Read More »
By: Jaime Licauco
Quartz crystals seem to be in vogue again, after some years of relative silence. You see them now being sold in various malls, in Chinatown and even in Quiapo stalls. The most common use of crystals is for personal decoration and beauty, but there is more to crystals than meets the eye.
Posted: February 7th, 2012 in Columns,Mind and Body,Wellness | Read More »
By: Cory Quirino
Let’s run through the rest of the alphabet to save as our daily reminder. K—Ketosis is a condition in the body when carbohydrates are severely restricted from the diet. When the body uses more fats for energy than carbohydrates, the liver produces substances called ketone bodies. In extreme cases, this normal state of ketosis can deteriorate into ketoacidosis.
Posted: February 7th, 2012 in Columns,Mind and Body,Wellness | Read More »
By: Walter Ang

I don’t want to work with conventional medicine, pharmacological drugs and insurance companies,” said Jack Tips, a naturopathic doctor. “They have an agenda to keep people on drugs and dictate to doctors what treatments are supposedly right for the individual.”
Posted: January 31st, 2012 in Editor's Pick,Featured Gallery,Headlines,Photos & Videos,Wellness | Read More »
By: Mitch Felipe Mendoza
To live in moderation is not an easy skill to learn and apply. You still need to exert more effort to be able to live consistently in moderation, especially if we apply it to eating and exercise. But eating in moderation is the most effective way to attain long-term effective weight control according to numerous published studies. But what’s the best way to jumpstart your weight loss? When we talk about the best way, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s the fastest way to achieve something. Choosing the best strategy to jumpstart something like lifestyle change will primarily mean being able to sustain a strategy that you intend to start on, otherwise it will just be like something that never occurred at all—like fast weight loss and then fast weight gain.
Posted: January 31st, 2012 in Editor's Pick,Headlines,Wellness | Read More »
By: Corito Llamas

What does one do when one is doomed to die from avascular necrosis (cancer that causes death to the bone), her kids grown-up, and her husband, a US colonel, also dying of cancer?
Posted: January 31st, 2012 in Editor's Pick,Headlines,Wellness | Read More »
By: Alex Y. Vergara

Danilo Casimiro, the only Filipino scientist who was part of the team that worked on Gardasil, the world’s leading vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV), is now busy working with colleagues on a vaccine to help prevent dengue.
Posted: January 31st, 2012 in Headlines,Wellness | Read More »
By: Jaime Licauco
A third-year college student named Cindy e-mailed me the following questions: 1. Are my strange psychic experiences signs that I have a special gift?
Posted: January 31st, 2012 in Columns,Mind and Body,Wellness | Read More »
By: Cory Quirino
The alphabet system is not only for reading and writing. It’s also for living.
Posted: January 30th, 2012 in Columns,Mind and Body,Wellness | Read More »
By: Enrico C. Santos

Boy meets girl, they fall in love, they ward off enemies to prove love, then lush wedding ensues. Easy enough, tama? Mali!
Posted: January 24th, 2012 in Editor's Pick,Featured Gallery,Headlines,Photos & Videos,Wellness | Read More »