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- Food Additives Affect Behavior By Jane Oelke
On average 30% of foods in our daily diet are processed foods. These are foods that come in a box or a can and have many ingredients that are hard to pronounce, containing food starches, gums, preservatives, and colorings. Many processed foods have to be enriched, adding inorganic minerals and vitamins to compensate for the nutrition lost in the processing of the food. Some people believe enrich…
- Nuts To You... Just One Way to a Healthy Heart By John Rumberger, PhD, MD
Nuts are readily available and provide a highly nutritious food. In addition to protein, carbohydrate, and fat, nuts contain many other important nutrients: fiber, vitamin E, folic acid, potassium, and magnesium. Although on some food charts you may see nuts listed in the same food category as diary products, eggs, and red meat because of the fat content, new information calls into question th…
- Factors that Affect the Nutritional Requirements of an Individual. By Stewart Hare
The factors that affect the nutritional requirements of an individual are the quality and quantity of the food they eat, the efficiency of their digestive system in absorbing and utilizing eaten food and biochemical availability.The quality of food that we eat can vary depending on the soil and growing conditions of that food. Soil that has been overworked and chemicals added and also drugs and …
- Did You Start Your Life With Enough Probiotics? By Jeannie Crabtree
Why does disease begin in the digestive tract? Your
digestive tract is your first line of defense when it comes
to your health. This is because of the good bacteria that
resides there. That is why the use of Probiotics is so
importantThink of Probiotics - the good bacteria as guards against
incoming
invaders. Having a good number of these beneficial bacteria
in our digestive tract guards us agai…
- Fluoride Damages Children's Bones, Study Says By Paul Beeber
White-spotted or yellow splotched teeth may reveal more than needed expensive cosmetic dentistry.Children with fluoride-discolored teeth (dental fluorosis) are more likely to have bone damage, according to a study published in the journal "Fluoride."Despite living in a low-water-fluoride district, 132 Tibetan children, aged 8 to 13-years-old, developed dental fluorosis from dietary fluoride sour…
- Correct Your Acid / Akaline Balance by the Water You Drink: What the Experts Say By Stan Howard
In health circles there has been much recent talk about acid / alkaline imbalance. Let’s see if we can clarify how experts recommend we correct this imbalance.The problemYour body functions best when neither too acid nor too alkaline. Unfortunately almost all of us have become acidic due to diet, drinks and stress -- both psychological and from pollution. Acids can build up in the body's system …
- Meal Planning: Your Ticket to Freedom By Linda Dessau
It's 5:30 p.m. and you're heading home after a long, full day. All of a sudden your mind turns to the daily question, "What's for dinner?"Whether it's just you or whether you're preparing a meal for a whole gang, it's not an energizing prospect to imagine planning, shopping for or cooking a meal from scratch at the end of a long day.That's probably why the fast food businesses are booming and wh…
- Compulsive Eating Alternative: Learning to Eat With Pleasure By Annette Colby
Do you allow pleasure from food? Are your senses throughly engaged as you eat? Do you fuel your aliveness with each meal or eat to deaden and numb out? Do you eat foods that taste good in your mouth and feel good in your physical body - both now and later?Imagine eating in a manner that is passionate and filled with the pleasure of being alive. What exactly would pleasurable eating look like…
- Health and Nutrition By Colin Thomson
The Health and Nutrition Industry has come about as peoples awareness of the damage they have done to their bodies over the years becomes more apparent, both physically and through scientific evidence. Whats more they want to do something about-now!!I know, I've been there and as a Baby Boomer we, in our millions around the globe, are doing what we can to turn our health around for the better. H…
- Do You Know Your Body's ph And It's Relation To Your Health By Dee Cohen
Do you know your ph? By getting ph strips at a pharmacy, pool store or lab you can test your urine in the moring and see it's range. A good range is between 6.5 and 7.2. Most of are too acidic.When we are too acidic, the body takes minerals from important organs and our bones to neutralize the acid.These minerals can include calcium, sodium, potassium and magenesium. Though we may not notice it,…
- Beating Diarrhoea Naturally By Stewart Hare
Diarrhoea is an increase in frequency of bowel motion which is loose and watery. Whatever age, physiology, culture or diet an individual has, having bowel motions that consists of loose watery stools more than three times a day generally is considered abnormal and is classified as diarrhoea. Sometimes other conditions are associated with diarrhoea such as stomach cramps, nausea, and fever, lost …
- Can Chronic Pain Come From Food Additives? By Jane Oelke
It is always amazing to me when I find a food substance that when taken in excess can cause pain the body. And sometimes these foods, and food additives that are regulated by the government, are supposed to be safe. When I test clients and their supplements, or ask about their dietary habits, or chemicals in their work environments, we often discover chemicals or foods that are causing their chr…
- Power of Oatmeal By Allen Martin
Come on, guys and gals. Those Trix are for kids.And don't follow your nose. Toucan Sam? He never knows.The sugary cereal you pour into the bowl every morning before drowning it in an ocean of milk is hardly the ideal way to start the day. That's right, no matter what that silly tiger says, those flakes are anything but GRRREAT!Next time you're in the aisle full of colorful logos and wacky cartoo…
- Nutrition - It's What's Eating You That Counts By Othon Molina Ph.D. c LMT
“It's not what you eat, it's what's eating you that counts.”Before we talk about food, the most important nutrients we put in our bodies are air and water. Forget about air if you live in Los Angeles, or now Kona, it’s bad there. Also pure tap water is now next to impossible to find in most cities. Even in beautiful Hawaii most people drink purified or filtered water. Our bodies being a high per…
- Alkalize Your Way to Better Health By Bill Marshall
Today we're shifting our focus from wealth to health. First of all, I am not an expert. If you have a health condition, you should go see your doctor. What I'm going to discuss in this post is something I was first exposed to at a Tony Robbins seminar.First let me set the stage. It was day for of the Tony Robbins "Unleash the Power Within" seminar in Pasadena, CA. I had been to the seminar…
- 10 Easy Food (and Life) Ideas to Increase Your Focus and Energy By Heather Dominick
Changing seasons, especially summer into fall, is the ideal opportunity to use your food to increase your focus and energy (It’s time to get back to school, right?). By changing your food (and the way you live) to adjust to the season, you build energy, while boosting immunity and managing your weight.While I'm sure that sometimes you have tons of focus, I bet other times you find
yourself star…
- Change Your Diet and Eat the Mediterranean Way By Dave Saunders
Are you studying the principals behind a better diet? Mediterranean food diets are increasing in popularity because they are not based on popularized fads but rather a model which comes from literally thousands of years of use. The Mediterranean diet is inspired by the traditional dietary patterns of the Mediterranean area, particularly Italy, Greece, and Spain. Understanding how the Mediterrane…
- Choosing Fruits and Vegetables For A Healthy Diet By Dave Saunders
The new food guidelines issued by the United States government recommend that all Americans eat about nine servings of fresh, raw fruits and vegetables each and every day. This is important to provide your body with the minimal levels of essential nutrients and antioxidants needed by each and every cell in your body to support optimal health. When you first hear that number, it may seem like a l…
- Your Target of Health is Easy By Dr. Jamie Fettig
Many of us, probably even you, want this thing called health, yet have no idea what it would look like if we had it. We are going after this elusive thing, but we really have never stopped to think about what it was. We have never thought about what having health would be like, what our world would be like.Now is the time to do that. Figure out the target for how much bazuji you want. You can ch…
- Seafood - the Healthy Alternative By Coleen Panetti
Most red and white meats are very fatty and are not a healthy way to eat. Seafood on the other hand offers you a great tasting alternative. When cooked correctly you couldn’t ask for a better tasting meal.Seafood can be purchased either fresh or frozen. By freezing the seafood fresh it can be shipped all over the world so everyone can have the opportunity to enjoy fresh seafood that they may not…
- Mangos: Treat Your Skin and Your Taste Buds By Danielle Sims
Mango is my favorite fruit next to pineapples. They’re sweet, juicy and delicious. This extraordinary fruit contains high amounts of vitamin A (contributing to it’s meaty bright orange color). It also contains Vitamins B, C , calcium, potassium and cartonoids (helps protect against cancer, common cold, and heart disease). They are also high in fiber and low in carbohydrates, making it an excell…
- Not All Protein is Created Equally By Jim Duffy
America’s focus on nutritious eating began to receive national attention in the 1940s when President Roosevelt introduced the RDA, or Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) model. This model, which took on the shape of a pyramid in the 1980s (and hence now goes by the term “food pyramid”), has gone through a number of iterations since its inception more than 60 years ago[i].This change and evolution …
- Eating to Gain Mass By Anthony Ellis
This is usually the forgotten element of most mass programs. Food. The truth is, no one will gain muscle without food. It seems so simple and basic, yet most don't get enough of it to build muscle.Dieting for muscle gain is simply a matter of eating. You must eat more calories than your body burns off. Now, when I say eat, I do not mean just anything. All calories are not created equal. In other…
- Beverages Boost Calorie Intake, But Many View Fluids As Calorie-free! By Susan Rutter
Beverages - and not just alcohol - are a significant if little recognized source of calories in North American diets. Yet many people seem to believe that if a calorie is ingested in fluid form, it's a freebie."They just don't put it in the same category - they're not eating, they're quenching a thirst," says Richard Mattes, a nutrition professor at Purdue University in Indiana who
has done ext…
- The Portfolio Diet: The Solution to Heart Disease By Marjorie Geiser
What if there was a combination of foods that were as effective at lowering LDL cholesterol as prescription drugs? Would it be worth adding some new foods to what you eat each day to avoid medication?This is what the latest in a series of research studies Dr. Jenkins from the University of Toronto shows. Studies have previously shown that various foods, such as nuts, soy protein, oat bran, and p…
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