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Author :: Michael Bens  |
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| Article Title :: How Do We Determine Nutritional Need? |
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| Today, we must determine how much nourishment we need, how much physical exercise we need, and how best to accomplish those ends. Calorie needs, nutritional needs, physical needs, and education about those needs now is information we should all understand, at least as it applies to our individual self. If you will visit your local doctor, library, or fitness center, there is massive amounts of information available to help educate and to help you make good health choices, no matter what the age group.Nutrition refers to the nurturing of our body, in our ability to keep it healthy and functioning as it is supposed to do. Our ability to provide the body with all the necessary food, v (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Michael Bens |
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| Article Title :: Eating Habits: What We Learn as We Live |
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| It’s 7:00 am, and you’re late for work. You decide to just simply skip breakfast, and have a snack later, around midmorning. Your kids decide they don’t want breakfast, either.Lunchtime arrives and you’re just not that hungry. Maybe a quick snack bar, a diet soda, and back to work. Do you ever wonder what your kids are eating for lunch? Have they come to the same conclusion?Alright, time to prepare dinner, and time is short. You have three places to be in order to get everybody to practice, pickup the cleaning, and then on home. On the way to the cleaners you realize dinner is going to be a lite one if you fix what you have at home. Where to stop? How about pizza and (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Michael Bens |
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| Article Title :: Food Labels: Fact or Fiction |
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| It’s a proven fact that a manufacturer is in business because they make a profit off the items they sell to the consumer. This has been a known fact since the inception of manufactured food.And up until the last twenty years or so, manufacturer’s weren’t held accountable for their process, or the additives they put into your food. Then we began the health revolution, and suddenly everyone wanted to know what was in their food, and if what healthy for them to consume. In fact, had the consumer been aware of the level of sugar being added to manufactured cereals during the early part of the 20th century, they might have refused to purchase or eat something so poor in nutrition (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Michael Bens |
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| Article Title :: How to Eat Right in 10 Minutes |
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| It’s Thursday afternoon, you have thirty minutes to get from work, go by the house and pickup Heath, Jamie’s already at basketball practice, oh, and what about dinner? Does this scenario seem familiar? If you’re a working Mom, I can promise that it is a familiar scene.So how do you make healthy food choices, when you only have fifteen minutes to prepare your meals? Well, the first thing you should realize is that quite often, healthy choices do not necessarily equate to two hour meals. You can make healthy food choices that are as quick to prepare or pickup as the unhealthy ones.For example, sub sandwiches are a healthier alternative than pizza or burger and fries, but (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Michael Bens |
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| Article Title :: Lowering Your Calorie Intake, Eating Healthier |
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| The foods of the food pyramid are necessary for our optimal health. But in what quantities and which ones are the best? These are questions that must be tailored to our individual needs. And the answers will benefit our unique needs. Healthy for me, is not the same as healthy for you. Everyone’s nutritional needs are different, and everyone’s level of calorie consumption is differentAs you study the food pyramid published by the USDA, we can examine some of the better foods, and try to decide what particular formulas make us the healthiest on average. The average person needs an hour of physical exercise, six to eleven servings of grains, two to four servings of fruit, three to (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Michael Bens |
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| Article Title :: Nutrition and Eating: Friends for Life |
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| I’ll bet you’ve never even taken the time to consider what your nutritional needs might be, or the importance of that nutrition on your health. Did you know that if the brain doesn’t get enough protein, it doesn’t develop correctly, or if the healthy female body doesn’t get enough flax oil, omega-3 and omega-6 her body’s metabolism will not function correctly and she is more susceptible to weight gain? All these pieces of information and many more are contributing factors to our nutritional needs, and our nutritional needs are met through our eating habits, good or bad.Nutrition as it applies to our daily lives means that we take in what we need to maintain our body’s (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Michael Bens |
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| Article Title :: Eating Binges – A Fact of Human Life? |
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| The eating binge is something that’s well known to most of us – especially those of us who are struggling to lose weight. In extreme cases, binge eating is even a disorder – people seem to lose control of their eating, concentrating on a single food group and consuming literally thousands of calories in a very short period of time. Afterward, the result is a feeling of guilt, or that you have ‘blown it’ – and, of course, the intake of that many calories at a time is disastrous to weight loss.However, many experts have commented that dieting or restricting food intake can actually trigger binging for those who have that tendency already. It’s almost as though the restr (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Kirstine Pallette - |
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| Article Title :: Healthy Eating For Life |
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| We have all heard and read probably a thousand times about the importance of healthy eating. We have been encouraged time and time again to trade fast food meals for meals full of fruits and vegetables. For most of us, healthy eating is a matter of changing the habits we have carried for years. How amazing would it be if we did our children a favor and helped them to establish healthy eating patterns from the time of their birth?
I'm confident that the generation behind us would grow up much healthier and in much less need of major diet or fitness alterations in their adult years. The more we teach our children about the importance of healthy eating and the more we provide healt (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Gabe Mirkin, M.D. |
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| Article Title :: Healthful Diet Rule #1: Stay Close to Nature |
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| The human race evolved on the foods that were available - plants and animals that were gathered and hunted. Our bodies adapted to use the nutrients available in these foods. In the last few thousand years, humans learned to cultivate foods to make their supply more reliable and convenient, but domesticated plants and animals still contain all the nutrients of their wild predecessors. The healthiest diet for humans contains a wide variety of plants; usually has whole grains and beans as the staple foods (the ones that supply the most calories) and may include meat, fish and dairy products in smaller amounts.Our ancestors began to create nutritional problems when they found that they (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Gabe Mirkin, M.D. |
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| Article Title :: Minerals: Plants Need Most of Them, Too |
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| Most of the minerals we need are the same ones plants require for their own growth. We both need: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, sulfur, calcium, magnesium, iron, boron, manganese, copper, zinc, molybdenum and chlorine.Plants don't store minerals for our benefit — they use them for their own life cycles. If any of their 16 essential elements is not available, the plant withers and dies. If you buy a tomato or a red bell pepper, you know that the plant grew successfully and had all of the minerals it needed. When you eat a wide variety of foods from plants, and animals who eat plants, you will get plenty of these minerals.The minerals we need th (read full article) |
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