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10 Best Probiotic Foods for Your Health
A healthy gut is more than just a happy stomach — it’s the cornerstone of your overall well-being. Your digestive tract houses trillions of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms collectively known as the gut microbiome. This ecosystem doesn’t just process food — it helps regulate your immune system, produce vitamins, and even influence your mood.…
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Blood Types and Your Health: What Your Blood Says About Disease Risk and Wellness.
Most of us know our star sign, but far fewer can name our blood type. That’s curious when you consider how central blood is to life itself — it transports oxygen, nourishes every cell, and protects us against infection. There are eight distinct blood groups — O, A, B, and AB, each of which can…
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Breathe right to achieve peak health
Proper breathing for better health Breath is akin to the free energy of the sun. Breathing is a proven way to regulate our emotional state and the energy is always accessible and easy to use. Some Eastern religions placed importance on the vital “qi” or ”prana” that flows through the body, a kind of energy…
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How to keep your eyes healthy
Tips for keeping eyes healthy Regular eye check-upsYour ophthalmologist and optometrist are your friends for the eyes. Go for regular eye check-ups as some eye diseases like glaucoma have no early symptoms. A comprehensive eye examination is worth your money and time – Global Wellness Digest
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Some best practices for your environment wellness
Environment Conscious Practices To promote environmental wellness, University of California, Davis recommends that we adopt some simple environment-conscious practices in our daily lives: 1. Be aware of our natural resources – look around you 2. Spend more time outdoors 3. Appreciate the beauty of nature 4. Connect with nature 5. Understand ecology – a good…
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Social Wellness Tips
Social wellness refers to your relationships with others. It involves developing and building close bonds of friendship, practicing empathy and effective listening, as well as caring for others. According to research, socially isolated people are more susceptible to illnesses and might have a higher death rate. Based on anecdotal evidence, people with strong social network…
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How to improve intellectual wellness?
To improve and maintain intellectual wellness, we must expand our creativity, curiosity and lifelong learning capacity. Here are some simple tips to live by and habits you could cultivate:
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Sex is good for health
For a normal adult, sex and health are inextricably linked and having a satisfying sex life can improve our overall well-being. Here are eight powerful tips: Benefits of having good sex with a partner you like include: (1) improved sleep, (2) improved immune function (3) release of oxytocin, (4) reduction in cortisol, (5) improved physical…
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Goji Berries for Physical Wellness
Goji berries are now a superfood. Also known as wolfberries, they are packed with antioxidants, According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, goji berries have high antioxidant levels, which alleviate oxidative stress and provide a range of protective benefits such as preventing free radicals from damaging DNA, lipids, proteins and boosting immunity. A top…
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The power of honey as medicine
The amazing power of honey as medicine! Honey has been used in medicine for over 5000 years, especially in Ayurveda science and in the Middle East eg ancient Egypt. What are the medicinal features of honey? 1. A natural energy booster 2. Raw honey contains plant chemicals that act as antioxidants to help protect the…
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5 Habits for Better Mental Wellness
5 Habits That Will Improve Your Mental Health Dr Guy Winch, the author of the well-regarded book “Emotional First Aid”, postulates certain critical habits which could improve our overall mental wellness: Protect Your Self Esteem. Self-esteem is the armour we wear to the “battle of life,” and yet when it is low, we often become…
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Occupational Wellness – More Tips
Occupational Wellness – The American Counselling Association provided some salient broad-based pointers on occupational wellness: • Know the signs of stress, burnout and fatigue eg depression, anxiety • Optimise work/life balance – devote scheduled time to work and self-care activities • Find a sense of purpose and meaning in your life, connecting with your values,…
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Simple things you can do for environmental wellness
Some ways to contribute to your environmental wellness:- 1. Conserve energy by using energy-efficient light bulbs 2. Print less 3. Unplug and turn off electronics 100% when they are not in use 4. Purchase in bulk when possible to reduce packaging waste 5. Use recycled and reusable shopping bags 6. Use toxic-free cleaning materials and…
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Wing Chun: The Martial Art of Balance, Health, and Mindful Movement
For centuries, martial arts have been embraced not only as systems of self-defense but also as pathways to health and personal transformation. Among the most elegant and efficient of these disciplines is Wing Chun — a Southern Chinese martial art celebrated for its economy of motion, internal awareness, and practical approach to combat. But beyond…
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How to avoid dementia
Dementia is expected to afflict about 80,000 people in Singapore by the year 2030. However, the National Neuroscience Institute Singapore estimates that about 150,000 people in 2018 have pre-dementia. What is pre-dementia? It is a condition where you have problems with memory, language, thinking and judgement that are more severe than the people in your…
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Natural or synthetic Vitamin-C?
Natural or synthetic Vitamin C? We need vitamin C for the growth and repair of tissues in all parts of our body. Vitamin C helps the body make collagen, an important protein used to make skin, cartilage, tendons, ligaments, and blood vessels. Vitamin C is also necessary for healing wounds and for repairing and maintaining…
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Green Tea for our General Wellness
The Natural Power of Green Tea All types of tea are made from the camellia sinensis plant. Green tea gets its name from the emerald green colour created when brewing these unprocessed, unfermented leaves. It is one of the most popular teas in the world. With origins dating back to 2737 B.C in ancient China,…
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Harness the power of the forest
Discover the power of the forest – Time spent in natural environments is linked to improved physical and mental health and the latest research from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin found that people who live near forests enjoy better mental health. The study covered people living near urban green spaces, forests…
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Mental wellness and your mental well-being
We should pursue mental wellness as mental well-being is important to all of us, whether we have a mental health condition or not. Mental well-being is not an event but a continuum and we need to know how to maintain and improve our mental well-being and resilience at work. Mental well-being is defined by the…
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Spiritual Wellness Tips
SPIRITUAL WELLNESS FOR ALL – How to improve spiritual wellness? Some simple tips for you: Learn to live in the present – we should strive to be happy and contented. We cannot change the past and we have no control over the future that is not here yet. Forgive and let go – holding grudges…
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Global Wellness Digest 