Principles of Health: The Mediterranean Health Blog

It's a plant with many beneficial properties, and it's widely used by athletes to relieve muscle soreness after exercise. When we bump ourselve...

Our bodies naturally contain bacteria. Some are harmful and can make us sick, but many are beneficial and necessary for a healthy life. Probiotic...

Fiber is essential because, in addition to facilitating bowel movements—fiber adds bulk and increases the water content of stool, making it softer—it helps the excretory system function efficiently, eliminating fats, toxins, and other normal waste products produced by our bodies. This, in turn, helps regulate our bodies, balancing cholesterol levels, preventing excessive mucus buildup in our respiratory system, and keeping our skin clearer, among other benefits.

If you've landed on this blog post, it must mean you want to start taking care of yourself. Congratulations! Taking care of your body will...

I love to travel, but I never eat airplane food. It never agreed with me, and since I stopped eating it, I arrive at my destination feeling lighter, without bloating, gas, or dehydration.

This is the healthy food I take for plane trips, although you can use it for train, bus or car trips - where, normally, you will have more opportunity to bring whatever you want.

I like to take care of my diet and that of my family, especially my children, but I am concerned about the so-called diet culture, and the idea that food is good or bad depending on whether it makes you fat or not.

I'm worried because even though we don't talk about weight at home, my children have already asked me if having big legs is a bad thing. Also, because we place a lot of emphasis on the importance of eating quality food as a source of our well-being, but I don't want them to confuse well-being with a specific weight.

After five days at the beach, doing water sports and playing in the sand under a very strong sun, none of us came home with sunburn. How is that possible? We followed the guidelines we always recommend: Prevention, protection, and treatment.

A bucket list is a list of things to do before you die. Using this idea, but thinking in terms of different seasons of life, you can make a list of things to do in the summer to make the most of it. Here are some tips for creating your own.

When a person feels good, they have more energy, and at least in my experience, more courage to do things they wouldn't otherwise think they were capable of. Let me tell you about my personal experience of how a basketball hoop has become an important lesson for my children.

If, like me , you feel you need to drink more water, I hope these tips that have already helped me will help you too. Drink enough water every day to feel good, and for your skin to look more radiant.

If you exercise at home, or go to a yoga studio, you probably have a mat. Have you ever washed it? I'm not going to judge you if you've never do...

Finding ways to move every day—beyond simply dedicating time to exercise—is super important to me. We'll give you ideas to stop being sedentary and get your body moving every day.