Few of us realize the tremendous influence the invisible world has on our everyday life, because we are so focused on the visible physical world. We have been brainwashed into thinking that only the visible, palpable and sensory world exists. Everything else outside of it is nonexistent or purely imaginary.
Like some privileged women, artist-businesswoman Maria Victoria “Marivic” Rufino learned to ride a horse while she was still in diapers, and fell madly in love with these animals in her young adulthood.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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?
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.
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