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Cooking with a microwave oven is highly convenient, as it’s simple and incredibly fast. However, many people believe that microwaves produce harmful radiation and damage healthy nutrients. Therefore, you may wonder whether it’s safe to use these appliances. This article explains whether microwave ovens affect your food quality and health. What are microwave ovens? Microwave ovens are kitchen appliances that turn electricity into electromagnetic waves called microwaves. These waves can stimulate molecules in food, making them vibrate, spin around, and clash with each other — which turns the energy into heat. This is like how your hands heat up when...

Being on the receiving end of a massage can be thoroughly remedial, pain-relieving, relaxing, and even blissful. Thanks to the skill, energy, and passion of the massage therapist you typically come away feeling like a million bucks. But for purveyors of such relief — the therapists — it’s hard, hard work. Repeated treatments can generate overuse problems such as tendonitis and carpal tunnel, affecting the wrists, elbows, and shoulders, as well as problems with the hand and fingers. There’s fatigue as well from the draining exertion. Over time, the demanding nature of the work frequently contributes to burnout. A widely-quoted...

Antimicrobial fabric masks, clothes, and gloves have become necessities, since the COVID-19 pandemic started in 2020, people have been seeking protection against microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses. There are many different methods of antimicrobial treatments that can be infused into the fabrics. So how do you source the best antimicrobial fabrics to manufacture your products?  What is Antimicrobial Fabric (Antibacterial Fabric)? Most people have the idea that antimicrobial fabrics /antibacterial fabrics are materials that kill or slow the spread of microorganisms. Antimicrobial fabrics are the fabric that can be treated, infused, or coated with different types of antimicrobial compounds to inhibit the growth of bacteria or fungus. Bacteria...

Grounding, A Simple, Pleasurable Way to Reduce Inflammation and Chronic Disease with Dr. Joe Mercola Did you know the energy from the Earth can help you live a healthier life? The concept is known as earthing or grounding, which is no more complicated than walking barefoot. In "Down to Earth" — which received the IndieFEST Award of Excellence for a documentary short in January 2017 — I speak alongside other experts to shed light on this super simple yet commonly overlooked way to protect and improve human health. As cardiologist Dr. Stephen Sinatra, author of "Earthing: The Most Important Health...

If you’re tired yet unable to fall asleep, it could be due to your circadian rhythm being off, daytime napping, anxiety, or many other factors. Some days — no matter how much coffee you consume — it’s a struggle to keep your eyes open, let alone complete the tasks you need to do at home or work. Yet all too often, when you finally climb into bed, you find yourself wide awake. It’s frustrating. What the heck is going on? Before you reach for those sleeping pills, discover all the things that could cause you to be tired all day but...