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Author :: K.C. Craichy  |
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| Article Title :: You Don't Have to be Wealthy to Eat Well: The Truth about Your Grocery Budget |
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| 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 with them. If you were to keep a strict accounting of all the money you spent on soda, pizza, potato chips, pastries, etc., then the question is not so much how much things cost, but where the money is being spent.And the costs don’t just stop there. The health hazards of the fungici (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Charlene Nuble |
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| Article Title :: Calcium: the Miracle Mineral |
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| We’ve heard it not only once or twice or even thrice but a lot of times. If you want healthy bones and teeth then pack up on the Calcium intake. While it is true that calcium is absolutely necessary to the health and strength of bones and teeth, this essential mineral also serves several other important purposes in the body. Yet, many people still routinely fail to consume enough calcium in their daily diets.In addition to the benefits to teeth and bones, calcium plays a role in blood clotting, muscle functions, and the cell membranes maintenance. It is also important to the prevention of debilitating bone diseases, such as osteoporosis.Despite the known importance of cons (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Betty Hoeffner |
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| Article Title :: Brain Foods Make You Think Differently for Back-to-school |
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| Students might start thinking a little differently, once they learn about brain foods, and how they can help their concentration and make their school work easier.The most important meal of the day is breakfast. Kids who eat breakfast consistently do better on tests. Getting better grades is important, but making time to eat breakfast is tough. “If you don’t have time for a sit down breakfast, grab a handful of walnuts, a whole grain breakfast bar, yogurt, or some peanut butter stuffed inside a whole wheat pita,” advises Dave Grotto, a registered dietician, nutrition expert and director of nutrition educational services at Block Center for Integrated Cancer Care & Optimal Hea (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Lisa Barnes |
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| Article Title :: Buying Organic Produce: 6 Tips on How to Shop Wisely and Save Money |
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| Some say they don’t or can’t buy organic foods due to higher cost and less availability. Here are a few ways to make organics more affordable and easier to purchase for your family.1. Do not always assume organic is more expensive. Look at the prices of conventional and organic products and compare. You may be surprised that on some items, there is little or no difference in price, depending on where and when you buy.2. Buy in season. These items will be the lowest priced, whether you’re shopping at a specialty market or local farmer’s market.3. Grow your own. Even a small window box can yield some organic herbs or tomatoes. Larger areas can accommodate (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Andie Klein |
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| Article Title :: A Home Water Filter - Do We Need To Filter Our Drinking Water? |
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| Do we really need a home water filter? Can't we just assume the water that flows from our kitchen and bathroom tap is sufficiently treated for contaminants by our municipal water facility? In order to answer these questions, we need to obtain a little more background information.Next to air, water is the most important element for our survival.Water is an integral part of our life and we use it for many household tasks throughout the day, such as: drinking and brushing our teeth, steaming fish and vegetables, washing salad greens, face and hand washing, showering and bathing, feeding the pets and watering our plants.Most of us take it for granted that our tap water (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Brian Stewart |
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| Article Title :: What's The Truth About Fat? |
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| When I hear the word fat I usually think of a roll of it hanging over a persons belt, or that guy Milty, from the movie Van Wilder, doing a belly flop off of the top diving platform with the words, “save the swim team”, written across his backside. Sometimes, however, the picture of a big, juicy, double quarter pounder with cheese will slip its way into my mind. Although, if I were to eat more than the one per month that I allow myself now I would probably be sick for days, thanks to the health food lifestyle I’ve become accustomed to over the past few years. For the most part, the word fat has a negative connotation.Like a lot of people, I like to avoid fat. We’ve been (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Charlene Nuble |
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| Article Title :: The Benefits of Iodine |
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| Initially discovered as a new element in 1811 by Barnard Courtois, knowledge of this substance has come to include the host of benefits it brings to the body as an essential nutrient. For many years, getting enough iodine in the diet naturally was difficult in many geographic regions and remains so for an unfortunately high percentage of the world's population in the developing nations. With the introduction of iodized salt, meeting the daily iodine requirement became nearly effortless and inexpensive in the industrialized nations. In these nations, iodine deficiency is now rare. As developing nations are able to make the shift to iodized salt, their rates of iodine deficiency and the dis (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Mike Geary |
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| Article Title :: Post Workout Nutrition: Secrets to a Hard, Lean Body |
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| As you’ve probably heard before, your post-workout meal may very well be your most important meal of the day. The reason is that when you’re finished with an intense workout, you’re entering a catabolic state where your muscle glycogen is depleted and increased cortisol levels are beginning to excessively break down muscle tissue. These conditions are not good and the only way to reverse this catabolic state (and promote an anabolic state) is to consume a quickly digestible post-workout meal as soon as you can after training. The goal is to choose a meal with quickly digestible carbs to replenish muscle glycogen as well as quickly digestible protein to provide the amino acids nee (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Mike Geary |
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| Article Title :: Antioxidants - Add a Lean, Muscular Body to the List of Benefits! |
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| I’m sure by now you’ve heard all about the amazing health benefits of antioxidant rich foods in your diet. Not only do these free-radical fighting antioxidants help you look and feel younger by slowing down the aging process, but they also help to prevent cancer, heart disease, and loads of other degenerative diseases. But that’s not all. Antioxidants also help you to recover better from exercise...and that means more muscle and less fat on your body in the long run!The function that antioxidants play in aiding your recovery from exercise is the inhibition of free radicals produced during exercise. Any time you workout, free radicals are produced in the body that damage mus (read full article) |
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| Category :: Nutrition Articles |
Author :: Dr. Randy Wysong |
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| Article Title :: Fish Oil |
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| The research in support of dietary omega-3 fatty acids (such as in fish oils) continues to flood the scientific literature. This is perfectly predictable given our genetic roots. In the wild, eating natural raw foods, we would be consuming large amounts of omega-3 fatty acids daily. But today, on processed, grain-based diets, we get little.Instead, we have dramatically increased the consumption of omega-6 fatty acids. Although these too are essential in the diet, their excess results in a pro-inflammatory response that lies at the base of a mix of modern degenerative diseases such as arthritis, autoimmunities and heart disease. The natural diet should have a ratio of omega-6 t (read full article) |
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