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- Good Eggs -- Rediscover The Simple Pleasures of Eggs! By Susan Rutter
Health food or heart attack on a plate? Eggs had a bad rep for a few years. We worried that they would elevate our cholesterol levels. But, that was then. Now, it turns out that eggs eaten in moderation might just do more good than harm. Long term research indicates that the dietary cholesterol found in eggs doesn't necessarily raise blood cholesterol levels.What's the skinny? Well, one large Gr…
- Antioxidants and Your Health By Glenn Beach
Get back to the basics - eat fresh at home and neutralize free radical oxidation, which is rusting away your body, by eating a variety of foods high in antioxidants every day.Why? Antioxidants, as the name implies, help prevent oxidation, may help increase immune function and possibly decrease risk of infection and cancer.A few of the better known antioxidants include carotenoids-- the substance…
- What Everybody Ought to Know About Food Additives By Christine Farlow
Every day we are bombarded with information about food products that are healthy, all natural, have no artificial ingredients, no preservatives, low fat, no fat, no cholesterol, sugar free, vitamin fortified and provide 100% of your daily vitamin requirements. Are these foods as healthy as the advertising tries to make us believe they are?Let's look at the facts. There are more than 3000 differe…
- Pain Management - Foods That Help Ease Pain By Meri Raffetto
Pain - something that no one wants to experience even once let alone daily and yet chronic pain is not uncommon. The Chronic Pain Association estimates that 50 million Americans endure chronic pain on a daily basis. Whether you suffer from Fibromyalgia Arthritis, or a Sports Injury, pain from the inflammatory response finds us and can make life miserable. Taking anti-inflammatory medications is …
- The Niacin Rush By David Snape
Your face turns flush and your skin starts to itch. Your
heart begins to beat faster. The itching may be felt all
across your face and extend down your arms to your
fingertips.What is going on? If you're like me you forgot what you
learned in school and had to call ask-a-nurse to be
reminded.You may have taken a little too much niacin, or vitamin B-3.
It's ok, you'll be fine, it will probably we…
- Foods to Fight Disease By Jon Wickham
When it comes to food, we can't ignore the facts - or the science. You need a healthy diet for a healthy life.Research shows a healthy diet could help or prevent a number of health problems, including cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and obesity. And that number keeps growing as researchers learn more about how nutrition affects your health.What You Should KnowAdopting a disease-fighting diet is…
- Nutrition For Healthy Skin – A Simple Guide By John Gibb
In this day and age, many people are concerned with not only their health, but their looks as well. In the aesthetics-worshipping twenty first century, healthy skin is a definite desire among a large cross-section of the population. What few people know is that nutrition for healthy skin is the basis for achieving this desire. Healthy skin and good nutrition generally go hand in hand. While it i…
- When Fat is Phat By Julia Kalish
phat (f t) adj. Slang phat•ter, phat•test Excellent; first-rate: phat fashion; a phat rapper.Want to increase your overall health and energy level? Interested in preventing heart disease, cancer, depression, and Alzheimer's? Or perhaps you'd like to treat rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, ulcerative colitis, or Raynaud's disease?If you answered yes to any of these, then get fat!No, I don't mean "g…
- Soy Ruled No Health Food By Dr Joseph Mercola
The Israeli Health Ministry recently issued a health advisory strongly recommending that soy foods be eaten only in moderation. They also recommended that soy formula be avoided altogether by infants.A Host of DisordersThere are hundreds of studies linking soy with such disorders as:Digestive problemsThyroid dysfunctionADD and ADHDDementiaReproductive disordersCancerPhytoestrogens are the Culpri…
- The Glycemic Index and Dieting By Jim Duffy
The field of nutrition is awash with charts, tables, diagrams, models, acronyms, and abbreviations; more than the average person can memorize. As such, one often comes across someone who has simply burnt out trying to keep track of how much to eat, when to eat it, how to find the calories from fat, the RDI, the DV, and so on. There is an overkill of useful information within the nutrition fiel…
- How to Beat Low Blood Sugar (Hypoglycaemia) Naturally By Stewart Hare
Low blood sugar (glucose), also known by its medical name of Hypoglycaemia can sometimes in it’s self be dangerous but it can also indicates an other serious medical condition such as liver or pancreas problems. Typically though, when someone is refer to as “Hypoglycaemic,” it means they are suffering from a collection of symptoms that occur after eating when the body overreacts to the rise in b…
- You Are What You Eat: Triglycerides and Diet By Greg Post
I must confess that I am a Steve Martin fan. Like me he studied philosophy in his earlier days. He plays a banjo like I wish I could. And he is funny. In 1987 he was in a movie entitled “Roxanne”. He played a small town fire chief with an enormous nose who fell in love with a beautiful astronomer played by Daryl Hannah. The only problem was she had an eye for a younger fireman with a relatively …
- Beans - The Perfect Food? By Claire Raikes
Beans. Legumes. Pulses. Whatever you call this plant group, they are all edible seeds in a pod. The majority of them are packed with complete plant protein and contain almost no fat. They are also a good source of healthy complex carbs.Beans helped me turn the corner with my illness, the worst part of which was actually when I was on the mend - though it certainly didn't feel like I was mendi…
- Healthy Cakes – How to Adapt Recipes and Enjoy Healthy Cakes By Elizabeth Martyn
Eating cakes as part of a healthy diet isn't a problem, but it’s virtually impossible unless you make your own cakes. That way, you know exactly what's in them and can enjoy them, knowing there are no unhealthy fats or additives lurking. There's nothing unhealthy about a cake made with wholewheat flour, organic butter, free-range eggs - as long as you don't eat the lot at one sitting! The taste …
- Omega 3 Fatty Acids: What are They, Really? By Ruth Bird
"The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine."
Omega-3s are "fatty acids" that help build other fats in the body. They derive their name from their chemical structure -- the "omega" end of the molecule has its first double bond in the "3" position.
Know what that means? Do you really care what that means? Isnt fat just fat?Scientists have found that historically the Eskimos…
- Magnesium Deficiency Causes Personality Change and WLS Patients are at Risk By Kaye Bailey
Have you ever felt like you were completely losing your mind? Like the world was swallowing you up and little things were out of your control and unmanageable? Like you were confused, tired, out of sorts and simply wanted to collapse? Has everyday noise become intolerably loud in your head?That’s how I was feeling a few months ago. I was confident I’d lost my mind and suffered a serious change o…
- 5 Ways to Get the Best Out of Radishes By Emily Clark
They sit left behind on relish trays. They’re often by-passed in
grocery store refrigerator shelves. Dad and Grandpa usually eat
them but later complain of belching them up. The poor radish has
gotten a bum rap. There are at least five different varieties;
but for now, the popular, red globe variety will be spotlighted.
They are a great source of vitamin C and an excellent low calorie
snack (onl…
- You Don't Have to be Wealthy to Eat Well: The Truth about Your Grocery Budget By K.C. Craichy
Many people complain that organic foods are more costly than conventional. In many cases, organic foods are priced higher. However, people aren’t weighing the costs of eating healthy against the costs of eating poorly. Americans spend millions of dollars each week on “coffee house foods”—fatty lattés and sugary frappucinos, not to mention the white-floured, trans fatty pastries that go along wit…
- Eggs For Balance By Heather Dominick
The egg, the symbol of birth, of life and, therefore, of spring has been celebrated by
numerous cultures at this time of the year. Eggs were given as gifts at spring
festivals in ancient Egypt, Greece, Persia and Rome. They were often dyed red to
symbolize the power of the womb. Eggs, of course, still play an important role in
our springtime holidays, but the real power comes from handling …
- Reasons to Eat Organic Food By Arabella Greatorex
Your healthOrganically grown fruit and vegetables are not covered in a cocktail of chemicals – even after washing, a conventionally grown apple may have 20 chemicals on its skin.Conventionally grown fruit and vegetables contain more water and less vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants than organically grown produce.Even processed organic food is better for you as manufacturers are banned from usi…
- Engineered Phytonutrients By Dr. Linda Posh
Research studies worldwide have recently begun to uncover the wide array of phytonutrients contained in fruits and vegetables. This factor alone make it even more important than we thought that you include a variety of fruits and vegetables as part of your daily diet.Phytonutrients offer many benefits with regard to human health, some known and some yet unknown. Did you know the widely touted “v…
- How Much Water Should You Drink Per Day? By Marc David
I’m always amazed at how many people seem to know the answer to this question yet in practice they fail. Everybody I’ve talked to seems to know that 8-12 glasses of water a day is the recommended standard. But if I ask them how many glasses of water have you consumed today? The answer is usually none. Or the other standard answer at a corporate environment “does coffee count?”While 8-12 glas…
- Magnesium and Calcium By Stewart Hare
The human body needs magnesium for the metabolism of calcium, vitamin C, sodium, potassium and phosphorous. It contains approximately 21g of magnesium. Adults require between 300 to 400 mg per day and pregnant and lactating women need a little bit more. Magnesium is vital for effective muscle and nerve functioning, it is known as the anti-stress mineral. It is used for converting blood sugar int…
- 16 Quick Tips for Eating at Restaurants or Work By Paul Jerard
Most of us eat at restaurants for a variety of reasons; time and convenience are the most common motives. Below is a prepared list of quick tips for eating out of your home.If you eat healthy food or sensible portions, that you like, you can stick with eating healthy for life.Your portions should be spaced out over the course of the day. Water should be a part of every meal.After you eat, your …
- Fluoride: A Plot to Dull the American Mind By Charlotte Colby
During the Second World War, the Germans used fluoride as a tranquilizer in the Russian prison camps. At the same time, American members of the Communist Party met to discuss adding fluoride into the water supply, in order to bring about overall lethargy and thus ease the introduction and eventual dominance of Communism in America.Over time, the cumulative effect of drinking water laced with sod…
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