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- Simple Easy Health and Home Fixes From The Days Gone By By Alfred Jones
How did we cure ourselves of many aches pains and illnesses in the past?Most of the remedies worked very well, were cheap and could usually be found in most homes.Did you know that? Drinking two glasses of Gatorade can relieve headache pain almost immediately, without the unpleasant side effects caused by traditional "pain relievers."Did you know that? Colgate toothpaste makes an excellent salve…
- List of High Fiber Foods and Fiber Content By Olinda Rola
A list of high fiber foods helps you know which foods to include in daily meal planning. Obtaining adequate fiber is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. However, too many people do not obtain sufficient fiber each day, which results in poor bowel function and constipation. Whether obtained from the list of high fiber foods or from fiber supplements, the recommended daily fiber consumpti…
- Vitamin D - The Sunshine Vitamin! By Lorna Mclaren
Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin like A and E. This vitamin is hard to
obtain from food. Luckily, sunshine is a significant source of this vitamin because UV rays from the sun trigger Vitamin D synthesis in the skin.Vitamin D is tasked with the crucial role of maintaining normal blood levels
of calcium and phosphorus. By promoting calcium absorption, the vitamin
helps to form and maintai…
- Feeling Tired? Can't Lose Weight? Tap Into Protein Power! By Kim Beardsmore
You're always hungry right? The last thing you have time for is to plan meals ahead. Don't despair, you body was designed to be refueled continually. We are not camels and we are unable to work in tip top condition without the essential nutrients our body requires. Your body was designed for a regular supply fo good quality food throughout the day.If you are a woman who eats less frequently th…
- Fish Oil Data-some new facts about Fish Oil By A.M. Wilmont
According to the renowned research scientist and inventor of the Z one Diet Plan Dr. Barry Sears, studies are increasingly focusing on high dose fish oil. Actually, fish oil has been studied for some time. However, it has been looked at with more intensity ever since the Greenland Eskimos were analyzed by Danish and other European doctors in the 1970's. They wanted to know why the greenlanders …
- Fibromyalgia: How Simple Sugars Turned Fatigue into Energy By Doug Grant
Several years ago, Marilyn M. couldn’t even spell fibromyalgia.Now she can spell it backwards, sideways and every other way...along with the term ‘chronic fatigue’. Both became a devastating way of life for her.Hardly a moment passed without her being aware of the debilitating advance of the disease. Even the smallest activities, such as holding a pen to write, became impossible for her.Doctors …
- The Importance of Protein By Bill Nadraszky
Protein is one of the basic building blocks of the body so it is an essential part of your diet and can influence your strength but probably not your energy. Your muscles are built with protein and in fact protein is made up of 20 amino acids. Amino acids are the building blocks of protein and 9 are essential, they cannot be created and must be eaten meaning the other 11 amino acids can be creat…
- Ginger 4 Spleen - A Love Story! By Claire Raikes
For all I prefer to buy my fresh produce at a farm shop or farmers’ market, I do appreciate the role that supermarkets have played in improving the variety in our diets, not to mention the convenience. Ginger, the root, is one of those foods that not too long ago, you would have to have hunted high and low for. Now it’s available in every supermarket and if you are lucky enough to live in a cu…
- Summer Sun Cures By Heather Dominick
With summer comes more sun and with more sun comes an extra desire to be
outdoors and with spending additional time outdoors comes … you guessed it,
sunburn.We all know the major importance of using sunscreen these days. However, even the
best of us find ourselves with moments of TOO MUCH SUN. In these cases here are a
couple of the best, natural summer sun remedies:1. Lemon juice - the le…
- Common Sense for Optimum Health By Debra Augur
Nutrition is always a hot topic. People are interested in finding ways to obtain optimum health. There is a barrage of information, some of it confusing and misleading. Every year seems to bring a new join-the-bandwagon diet, offering promises that soon fall flat.So, what should we eat to secure optimum health?It's possible that what you eat on a daily basis has little to no nutritional worth. H…
- Eating On the Go: Healthy Choices While You Travel By Tony Hale
If you have a business trip tomorrow morning, you’ve probably already booked your flight and hotel room, arranged for transportation to the airport, set up meetings, planned your presentations, packed your clothes, and maybe even arranged for someone to feed your pet lama while you’re away (lamas eat more than you think).But what if instead you just woke up and left the house. No ticket, no res…
- Protect Against and Combat Osteoporosis Naturally By Stewart Hare
Osteoporosis is on the whole a largely preventable condition that decreases the bone density which in tern causes them to become brittle; this increases the risks of spinal vertebrae compression and fractures, particularly in the hip, wrist, and spine. Caucasian and Asian postmenopausal women are the most affected group from osteoporosis. The hormone oestrogen protects women against bone loss be…
- What To Eat When You Are Sick By Edwin John
Did you know that the food you eat when you are ill can help your body to recover? Or succumb to the full-blown illness?What foods should you AVOID?And what should you be eating if you have a cold or colitis or cancer?Learn more at: http://www.XTherapist.com about what diets you should be on -- to increase your energy levels, alleviate your pain and speed your recovery.Also find out:* find out w…
- Seafood and Ten of Its Health Benefits By Coleen Panetti
Who says there is something fishy on fish oils, shellfish, and other seafoods when it comes to health benefits? That is absolutely a fishy story.Nowadays, people have come to realize the importance of seafoods in our diet. Various studies and researches have proved that the best sources of good fats, vitamins, and minerals to promote good health can actually be found on different seafoods. The o…
- Unhealthy Foods: How To Become Disgusted By Junk Foods That Make You Fat By Ian Mason
With today’s time constraints, stressful jobs, and “thin is in” mentality, the bottom line is that many people become overweight simply because they have no time to exercise. By the way, you already knew that. I need to tell you something about improving your diet overall… but first you must know something about diet pills:What's Wrong With Diet Pills?Appetite suppressants such as Phentermine 37…
- Feeling Tired? No Pep & Zing? Tap Into Breakfast Smoothies! By Kim Beardsmore
I'm 40-something years old, and for 40-something years breakfast has been a pain. Some of my earliest memories are getting ready for school with my mother insisting I eat a bowl of cereal. It just never interested me. Once high school started I was skipping breakfast and grabbing two apples on the run for lunch. All my life breakfast simply wasn't something I got interested in or thought about…
- Feeding Your Body By Melissa Allen
While I am not a registered dietician, I would like to just give you some general guidelines and tips to help you improve your diet. Now keep in mind that this is geared towards the average person, not the competitive bodybuilder, athlete, or any person with health problems or disease. The following will give you some easy-to-follow tips to help you get your dietary habits under control.First of…
- Learn About Food Nutrition Facts By Rolf Rasmusson
Food nutrition factsFinding food nutrition facts and dietary nutrition used to be almost impossible because of the mountains of facts scattered all about in libraries and books. Lets face it most of us aren't going to cuddle up to a book on vitamins and minerals. Fortunately with the growth and popularity of the internet and the computer the fact finding process has been much simplified. Finding…
- Adding to Your Level of Health is the Key By Dr. Jamie Fettig
Here is a continuation of the light and darkness metaphor: a bucket of water. The bucket represents you. The water represents your level of health. What happens is that we all come into life with unique buckets. Written on the inside of your bucket is a list of all the symptoms and diseases that you are predisposed to.When you were born you had a certain level of water in your bucket. Any sympto…
- Colloidal Silver - Natures Best Antibacterial Source By Ross Bridgeford
Benefits of Colloidal Silver'Colloidal Silver is an inexpensive healing agent and disinfectant that has a myriad of applications' Prescription for Natural Healing (Balch, PA and Balch, JF, ) What is Colloidal Silver?Colloids are the smallest biological form of any matter. They are small enough to pass through membranes and therefore they skip past the digestive process and are easily absorbed b…
- The Importance of Calcium in the Diet By Stewart Hare
Calcium is absorbed in the small intestine; this process is dependent on vitamin D. To provide the rigid structure of the skeleton calcium is vital, around about 3lb of the body’s weight is calcium, 99 per cent being in the teeth and bones. It is important in growing children to help bones grow and the elderly as the ability to absorb calcium becomes impaired with age. Together with magnesium it…
- Your Einstein Inside: Releasing Your Energy and Creativity Through Foods By Kevin Gianni
(Part 2 of a 5 Part Series on Body Awareness)If I were to tell you there is an energetic, vibrant and creative person inside of you and all you needed to do was eat certain foods to let that person out, would you believe me?Each and every one of us, at our very core, is each of these three things. Vibrant, Energetic, Creative. We each have a wonderful capability to accomplish many great things a…
- How to Help Your Picky Eater By Jessica Setnick
One of the most common questions I am asked is how to help a picky eater. If you’re worried that your child won’t get enough nutrients from a limited selection of foods, the good news is that because the American food supply is super-fortified, nutrient deficiencies are rare.If your child is growing normally according to your pediatrician, you can almost always assume that he or she is well-nou…
- Food Nutrition Labels: Six "Catches" You Need to Know By Brian Vaszily
Most foods are required to carry nutrition labels to provide, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says, "distinctive, easy-to-read formats that enable consumers to more quickly find the information they need to make healthful food choices."But despite being regulated by the FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, food manufacturers can, and do, get away with …
- The Unbelievable Nutritional Value of Wheatgrass Juice By Amy Orr
What is wheatgrass? According to the Fall 2000 edition of the Creative Health Institute's newsletter, "Wheatgrass is a plant that is grown from the Red Wheatberry, a special strain of wheat." Wheatgrass is frequently referred to as a "complete" food because it contains significant amounts of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and enzymes--many of the nutritional components needed daily by the human…
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