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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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Your Plan For Muscle Building Nutrition - How Much Protein?
If you are looking to build muscle, or lose fat, you have undoubtedly heard about the benefits of protein. It seems that nearly everyone seems to think that more protein means faster muscle gains. I am going to give you the straight truth on protein intake a...
Author: Tony Schwartz, 17-07-08
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What Are the Benefits of Eating Salad Every Day?
Eating a salad every day offers numerous health benefits. It is one of the simplest and healthiest food habits that anyone can commit to. Salads are easy to make and they bring us a few steps closer to our recommended daily serving of fruit and vegetables. S...
Author: Lauren S Johnson, 17-07-08
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Acai Health Benefit
The Acai berry is getting a lot of attention in the health arena... This little, dark, purple berry is loaded with all kinds of good things for your health.
In fact, the University of Florida scientists are even studying the positive health effects of the b...
Author: Candice Lee, 17-07-08
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The Best Foods With Vitamin D - And How to Make Sure We Get Enough of This Sunlight Vitamin
There are a number of readily available foods with vitamin d that will count towards our body's minimum recommended daily amount of 10mcg. However, the only foods that are naturally rich in vitamin d are fish and in particular, oily and fatty fish such as sa...
Author: Janet Clapham, 04-07-08
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How to Prepare Vegetables the Healthy Way
News flash: vegetables are good for you! That is easy enough to assume, however the real nutrition depends on how you treat or prepare them. If you like cooked vegetables as opposed to raw veggies, that is better than nothing. However, if you over cook certa...
Author: Lyla Feldman, 04-07-08
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The Critical Role of Sodium and Chloride (Salt) in the Diet!
If you look on the Periodic Table of the elements, you will see that sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium are alkaline earth metals. You can tell by their positioning how interrelated they are.
For example, sodium is number 11 on the Periodic Table indi...
Author: Dr. Robert Young, 04-07-08
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Real Acai Fruit Smoothies - Good For Health
Smoothies are all time favorite. People just keep trying new healthy combination that are not only nutritious but also very tasty. Before we move ahead and discuss about the different types of smoothies available in the market, lets us know what it is. Basic...
Author: Mohita Bhargava, 04-07-08
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Fast Muscle Building Nutrition For You
There are a lot of supplements out there claiming to help you lose weight or gain muscle. The problem is that most of these are completely ineffective, unsafe, or just cost too much money. So let's look at some alternatives to these over-hyped supplements.
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Author: Tony Schwartz, 04-07-08
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Is It Apposite That the Fruit and the Vegetables Do Not Protect From Cancer ?
According to the the result of a recent American study of epidemiology, realized by a team of School of public health of Harvard, the regular consumption of fruit and vegetables would make it possible to reduce the risks of cardiovascular affections but would ...
Author: Patrick Beaufay Beaufay, 23-06-08
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