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Author :: Stephanie Shank  |
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| Article Title :: Stairway To Heaven: Step Up To High Fiber Health |
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| The food pyramid is not a new concept. However, for the first time in more than a decade, the USDA has updated the food pyramid based on the latest scientific findings on how to treat your body to better health. Awareness of the benefits of healthy food choices, like high fiber foods, has been more and more prevalent in our proactive American quest for wise nutrition.Fiberlady has continually emphasized a fruitful (one must learn to appreciate the pun) diet for her high fiber imperative. The undeniable truth is that vegetables, fruits and whole grains are needed for daily vitamins, minerals and fiber.The first step (orange) of the new food pyramid recommends eating 5-8 ounce (read full article) |
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Author :: Glenn Freiboth |
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| Article Title :: Six Ways to Improve Your Health Using Soy Products |
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| Soy and most soy-based products are nutritional dynamos. Soybeans are the only plant food that has all of the essential amino acids our body requires, making it a complete protein. Soy based foods do not have any cholesterol, and most are high in fiber. In addition, soy has many vitamins, minerals, and phytochemical compounds, like isoflavones that work together to create numerous health benefits for your bodies.Research in several areas of healthcare has shown that consumption of isoflavones may play a role in lowering risk for disease. Isoflavones can fight disease on several fronts. The isoflavones atom are found in soy nuts and tempeh.Numerous Research studies have s (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Analeese Burnabaker - |
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| Article Title :: Considering Becoming A Vegetarian? |
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| I have many friends in the past few years that have decided to become vegetarians. I saw friend after friend jump onto the bandwagon that being a vegetarian had become, and I'll admit that I almost jumped on the wagon myself without giving the choice much thought.
After nearly two months of research and some pretty serious self-evaluation, I decided to become a vegetarian. There is no part of me that is against people deciding that being a vegetarian is right for them. My only frustration is that too often people make that choice without taking even a moment to think about the reasons why or the consequences that being a vegetarian will have on their lives.
So, my a (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Riana Lance - |
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| Article Title :: Why Do You Need Raw Juice Therapy? |
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| When I was a kid, my mom used to make me different kinds of juices like orange, tomato, and carrot juices. I always like them until now as they do increase the appetite.
But, I wasn’t sure about the benefits until one day, when I got older; I saw my aunt consumed so many juices everyday.
I noticed that this was part of her cancer treatment. She got better after an intensive course of consuming 13 glasses of juices each day. An example of her juice combinations is orange, carrot, and dark leafy greens.
Thanks to the juice therapy she is still with us until now.
Today, there are more and more people consuming fruit and vegetable juices as p (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: J. Brian Keith |
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| Article Title :: Eating the Right Way |
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| When you think about weight loss, what do you think of first? Which aspects of weight loss are important, which are essential, and which ones can you take or leave? You be the judge.
Once you begin to move beyond basic background information, you begin to realize that there's more to weight loss than you may have first thought.
It probably comes to you as naturally as breathing—the art of eating. However, you might never have been taught to eat well. This is critically important because, unless you learn to eat well, you may never master the art of dieting. In our society, certain inappropriate eating habits have become routine. By attacking these habits, you ca (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Kim Beardsmore |
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| Article Title :: How to Find The Healthy Foods When Grocery Shopping |
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| What is really Healthy?We all try and stick to choosing healthy items when grocery shopping or eating out, but how well do we really know our foods? Discover how to find out about reading between the lines, what to look out for in labels and how to dine out healthily.When shopping in your local supermarket, it's very easy to be attracted to colourful aisles filled with crisps and chocolates. It can sometimes take a lot of will power to resist grabbing a few treats...especially if you are food shopping on an empty stomach!So the logical choice is to head for the aisles that sell 'healthy' food. But how genuinely healthy is the food that you are buying? It lo (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Dan Ho |
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| Article Title :: Discover DHA Essential Fatty Acids |
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| Omega 3 Fish Oil Pill...What are DHA essential fatty acids....?DHA is arguably the most important of all the omega 3 fatty acids.The human brain, for example, is made up of approximately 60% fats by weight. And about half of that fat is DHA!That should tell you just a bit about how crucial this omega 3 fatty acid is for our brain, and mental well-being.Of course, omega 3 fatty acids benefit much more than just the brain. They also benefit cardiovascular health tremendously.Indeed, the American Heart Association states: "Omega 3 fatty acids benefit the heart of healthy people, and those at high risk of -- or who have -- cardiovascular (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Dan Ho |
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| Article Title :: Discover Flax Seed Oil Omega 3 |
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| Omega 3 Fish or Flax Seed?Flax seed oil omega 3 is one of the best plant based choices to obtain essential fatty acids in our diets.But most of us have also heard that fish oils are also a great source for omega 3's, which has led some people to question which one they should take. Omega 3 Fish or Flax seed?The answer is that fish oil is the best choice to get your omega 3's, as long as you're taking a high quality purified fish oil supplement that has used molecular distillation to remove all potential contaminants that are found in fish nowadays due to pollution in the Ocean waters.However, for strict vegetarians -- vegans -- who, for personal reasons, (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Jean Bowler |
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| Article Title :: Something That Tastes Good and Is Good For You |
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| One good thing about a lot of the new medical research being reported is that things once considered forbidden for any health conscious individual are now okay again.Of course some people might question why substances like wine, beer, coffee or bread which were perfectly acceptable foods to countless generations that came before us, suddenly turned into such sinister things. That question is beyond my ability to answer.So let’s look at the latest good news. Researchers in Italy studied the effects of chocolate on health and came to the conclusion that rich dark chocolate is actually good for you.It seems to have some of the same affects that vitamin C exhibits, name (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Paul Haughney |
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| Article Title :: The Truth About Poor Memory And Bad Nutrition? |
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| Its been long accepted that if you begin to develop a poor memory you would have to live with it. Memory loss can start occurring from our thirties so don't believe it's just old people who can suffer. However, there is no reason why we shouldn't have a good memory into our old age if we take the right
vitamins and minerals.So why the reason for memory loss in the first place?
There are lots of reasons why our memory can fade in the first place. This ranges from poor concentration on what it is we are trying to remember to having additional ailments such as stress, high cholesterol, allergies and poor circulation to the brain.How can memory loss be improved?
Ther (read full article) |
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