Nutrition Archives - Joyful Wellness

Beyond the ovaries: Why PMOS is becoming a modern women’s health warning

Joyful Wellness explores why PMOS is increasingly being viewed not only as a fertility condition, but also as a metabolic and women’s health warning shaped by modern lifestyle, stress, and inflammation.

Hair Loss, Melasma, Dark Circles: Beauty Tips for Mothers

A simple guide to hair loss, melasma, dark circles, and self-care for mothers - practical tips that support real beauty and wellness.

PCOS, Fatigue, and Chronic Pain: What Women Need to Know

This May, Joyful Wellness turns its focus to the women who so often put themselves last. In celebration of Mother’s Day next Sunday, we’re dedicating a full week to stories, insights, and conversations centered on mothers through the lens of health, wellness, and everyday living. From physical health to emotional well-being, we’ll explore what it means to care for others while learning, gently, to care for oneself. A small invitation, this time, is for mothers to be included in the care they so freely give.

What Doctors Wish You Knew About Preventing Disease

A physician’s perspective on what actually prevents disease, grounded in research and everyday choices that shape long-term health.

Eat Like It’s Summer (Part 2)

A Filipino table, observed. This photo essay explores how simple, seasonal food from sinigang to fresh fruit quietly supports health and wellbeing.

Eat Like It’s Summer

From sinigang to fresh fruits, the Filipino summer plate offers science-backed benefits for hydration, digestion, and overall health.

Backyard Wellness

Gardening is more than a hobby, it’s a powerful way to improve health, nutrition, and mental wellbeing. Here’s how to start simply and effectively.

Rising Fuel Costs Raises Prices of Healthy Diets

In Benguet this month, the story of nutrition did not begin in a clinic or a classroom. It began in a cabbage field. Reuters reported on April 7 that some farmers in the province were leaving vegetables unharvested because rising fuel, labor, and transport costs made it harder to earn back what they had spent. […]

Philippine Data Show Maternal Nutrition Shapes Child Health

New Philippine nutrition data show that a child’s health risks often begin before birth, as maternal anemia, poor nutritional status, and low birth weight continue to shape stunting, growth, and long-term health outcomes across generations.

Poor Diet in the Philippines: How It Drives Obesity, Diabetes, and TB Risk

As poor diet quality drives both obesity-related disease and undernutrition-linked TB risk, the Philippines is confronting a double nutrition crisis that is making illness more deadly at both extremes

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