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Becoming a Vegetarian - Making a Case For the Vegetarian Lifestyle
Let's talk about becoming a vegetarian. First of all, let me tell you that I am a vegan so this is a subject that I'm passionate about. I know that being vegan seems extreme to many people so we can talk about becoming vegetarian but trust me the more you cl...
Author: Barry Lovelace, 11-08-08
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Eat Your Veggies and Cook Them Too
You are probably familiar with the importance of getting an adequate amount of vegetables in your diet, but recent research has shown that it is not only important how much you eat, but how your veggies are prepared.
For the average person who is maintainin...
Author: Brenda Mallett, 11-08-08
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Being a Vegetarian
Twenty to thirty years ago being a vegetarian was an odd thing to do for most people in the United States. Now more and more people, including children, are choosing to be vegetarian for a variety of reasons. One reason is people don't like to kill animals, ...
Author: Alice Lane, 01-08-08
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Nutritional Assessment
How much food in a day is too much? Am I overweight? What is my body fat content? Am I better off with proteins (Atkins diet) than carbs (Mediterranean diet)? No easy answers to these questions for many of us. Even if you feel good and you are happy with the...
Author: Constantine George, 01-08-08
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The Wonders of the Soy Bean - Their Essential Health Benefits
I was hungry the other day and started to munch on crunchy soy nuts - and wondered what gives with their health benefits. So I already knew and have read that they were healthy for woman and men, but especially women and wanted to know further what really gi...
Author: Leah Quinn, 01-08-08
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Unraveling the Locks Unharmed - How to Use Hair Protection Spray With Flat Irons
Meet the Metal Plated Hair Iron. With the introduction of the metal plated hair iron, women have immediately embraced this contraption. Those who want a fast and temporary hair change can easily do that with flat irons.
This device, though handy, actually h...
Author: Robert Diarioti, 01-08-08
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The Truth About Distilled Water
Growing up most of us thought nothing of drinking water straight from the garden hose; today most people would not consider drinking water straight from the kitchen tap, and with good reason. Over the years, increasing numbers of reports produced by governme...
Author: Martin Applebaum, 01-08-08
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Nutrition For the Brain
Ever heard of brain food? It's true that certain foods stimulate and exercise the brain, while others transmit signals throughout the body that make us feel sluggish. In fact, diets trigger all sorts of emotions in both adults and children.
This is all poss...
Author: Jeff A Wise, 01-08-08
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Drink Soda and Pay the Consequences
Many people drink soda. Some more than others. And even though many of the soda drinkers are probably aware of the health dangers from drinking it, they still tend to ignore the facts. But why, one may ask?
The answer is very simple. It's very tasty and it'...
Author: Steve Dimeck, 01-08-08
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Food Label Confusion
I went grocery shopping last weekend, as I usually do, and planned to pick up tortillas for my lunches during the week. The first thing I do with tortillas is check to make sure they are whole grain. The second thing I do is make sure each serving ...
Author: Rachel Lukasavige, 23-07-08
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Do Americans Know What Nutrition Is?
The state of your health depends largely on your lifestyle and the food that you eat. If you do not eat well, your body will not be able to function perfectly and you can easily become sick.
According to studies, more than 50% of the people in the United Stat...
Author: Brue Baker, 23-07-08
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Low Glycemic Recipes - Healthy Can Be Tasty
Meals that have high glycemic levels are responsible for a higher insulin output which would then store more glycogen and fat. As a matter of fact, meals that contain high glycemic levels will cause the blood glucose to raise two times higher than a low glycem...
Author: Shannon Pollock, 23-07-08
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Factors of Nutrition and Health
The adult man in full health recuperates daily by his food what he loses by his functions. In the normal state the two conditions balance one another but if by an internal or external cause an inequality is produced, the individual happens to lose more than he...
Author: Malcolm Blake, 23-07-08
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Digestion and Diet of Children
The digestion of healthy children of seven to fourteen years old is good; the period is one of great growth, demanding a gain of from five to twelve grams per day. Half the nitrogenous food may be of animal origin. Fat is absolutely necessary at this age, and ...
Author: Malcolm Blake, 23-07-08
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Cows Milk and Nutrition for Infants
It will be seen that cows' milk is not an exact substitute for mothers' milk, and if diluted it is still less so, since the proportions are not the same. The potassium salts which seem so necessary to the building up of the blood corpuscles and body tissue are...
Author: Malcolm Blake, 23-07-08
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Minerals - A Key to Good Health! Natural Sources of Minerals in the Diet
We hear so much about vitamins and antioxidants these days, I think that many people don't realize how very important minerals are in your diet, and also how many of our diets are severely lacking in minerals today. Minerals are catalysts for many reactions ...
Author: Karen Pijuan, 17-07-08
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Processed Foods - Why Are They Dangerous?
The quality of the food that you put into your body has a direct correlation to the quality of your health. The closer the food is to its original state of existence the better it will be for you. Processed food is usually so far from its original state of b...
Author: Dr. John Kosinski, 17-07-08
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Good Food, Good Health - Good Nutrition From Healthy Frozen Food
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Today for all of us the credit crunch is biting hard and we are all looking for ways to save money. Energy and food it seems top the list of things we want to cut back on to reduce ever increasing bills, so why not use good healthy frozen food to help ac...
Author: Sandra Wosko, 17-07-08
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Pure Drinking Water - Is it Really Good For Your Health?
If you are like me, you assume that when you open a brand new bottle labeled pure drinking water, that what you are about to consume is in fact just that: pure. But what does that label, especially for pure drinking mineral water, really mean?
Before I star...
Author: Hugh Harris-Evans, 17-07-08
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Healthy Diets - How Do You Choose?
There is so much confusion about exactly what a healthy diet really is these days. Eat carbs or avoid them? What about meat? There are so many fad diets available that it could even confuse a nutritionist. Today let's look at a healthy diet in general withou...
Author: Shannon Pollock, 17-07-08
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