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Ten tips to lose weight
Weight loss is an excellent resolution in spite of how difficult it may seem. Although there are many diets and fads that come and go, even a 10-pound weight loss can improve your health and your risk for dis...read more
The basics of good nutrition
Your body is a biochemical organism. The chemicals you add into this system dictate how efficient it functions. Or in other words: You are what you eat!Your food intake helps dictate yourThe brain and ageing
No organ is more critical than our brain, which means the wear and tear of ageing will show up first in thought function; we begin to get slower in our movement and manners, easily muddled, more forgetful and...read more
The declining quality of our diets
Eating a balanced and healthy diet seems to be getting more difficult in the 21st Century. Your body needs lots of ‘bang’ for its nutritional ‘bucks’ and this means eating the best qua...read more
The foods you eat determine your health
Somewhere caught up in your busy lifestyle, between your Palm Pilot or Blackberry, day planner, lap top, the kids sports, piano lessons, traffic, and household duties, being healthy got deleted from your agen...read more
The importance of a healthy diet for ms patients
The importance of a healthy diet cannot be overemphasized, especially in people dealing with a chronic, energy-taxing, debilitating disease. People with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) are faced with...read more
The importance of combining nutrition and exercise for weight management
There are a number of key elements to achieving weight management goals. The major two are correct nutrition and relevant exercise. Weight loss is achieved by consuming fewer calories than your body uses and ...read more
The key to preventing osteoporosis
ARE YOU AT RISK? All men and women have some risk of developing osteoporosis as they get older. However, the following situations increase the risk. If you: have a small bone structureread moreThe mighty blueberry
Health benefits of blueberries One of nature's most amazing and powerful anti-oxidants, blueberries offer a variety of health benefits, from to lowering cholesterol to building up urinary tract health, impr...read more
The nutritional role of fats, oils and the polyunsaturates
Polyunsaturates form a component part of the fats and oils in our food. Such fats and oils are a combination of substances called fatty acids and glycerol (also called glycerineread moreThe recovery route
The route to recovery of an illness of this kind can only be described as performing an uphill obstacle course. Do not be disheartened by this though, as it is worth it. All involved will turn out better people in the end....read more
Tips for people with diabetics
Summer barbecues, picnics and family reunions can stir up thoughts of good, down home cooking. If you have diabetes, these events can pose special challenges. How can you stay healthy and still enjoy those tr...read more
Tips to get more fiber in your diet
Recent studies found that a healthy diet containing enough fiber can reduce the risk for developing cancer with 40%. So what is fiber? What are the best sources of fiber? Basically, the term ...read more
Tough love tips if you have 10 pounds to lose
Is it true…there's no gain without pain? The article here explains how small steps can make a big difference. My sales manager used to tell me "You must learn to walk before you can run." At first I was offen...read more
Understanding depression
Depression is a disturbance in mood characterised by varying degrees of sadness, disappointment, loneliness, hopelessness, self-doubt and guilt. Most people tend to feel depressed at one time or another, but...read more
Use kinesiology to test your muscles
Food, as we know, can be positively good for us (called Biogenic), it can be problematic (Biocidic), or it can be neutral (Biostatic). Some indications are c...read more
Vegans: one step further
What is a vegan? Vegetarians do not eat meat, fish, or poultry. Vegans, in addition to being vegetarian, do not use other animal products and by-products such as eggs, dairy products, honey,...read more
Vegetarian cheese?
Update on Vegetarian Cheeses Our last survey of cheese manufacturers in Ireland took place about 4 years ago – here in this article, we present a newly updated list of vegetarian cheeses available to t...read more
Vegetarian foods
Common vegetarian foods: macaroni and cheese, spaghetti, cheese pizza, eggplant parmesan, vegetable soup, pancakes, oatmeal, grilled cheese, bean tacos and burritos, vegetable lo mein, French toast, French fr...read more
Vegetarians and vegans need protein too !
Vegetarians Plant protein can meet requirements when a variety of plant foods is consumed and energy needs are met. In more restrictive diets, where variety and energy intake is limited, greater atten...read more
Vegetarians: who are they and what do they eat
What is a vegetarian? Vegetarians do not eat meat, fish, and poultry. Vegans are vegetarians who abstain from eating or using all animal products, including milk, cheese, other dairy items, ...read more
Watch out for dietary supplements
A lucrative industry It seems as if everyone knows at least one person who uses dietary supplements or herbal remedies religiously. Did you know that Americans spend over billion on dietary supplements rang...read more
Water: a necessity, a controversy
Why is water important? Water is heavily involved in every major bodily function including, but certainly not limited to temperature control, digestion, and waste and toxin removal. Water lossread moreWhat are you eating?
High fattening foods (even only once a day) can destroy any weight loss that may have occurred during your low fat eating. Fast foods, fried foods, foods and sodas high in sugar are detrimental to weight loss...read more
What do you know about vitamins and minerals?
Vitamins A sensible, varied vegetarian diet will provide all the necessary vitamins and minerals, as you will see from the following table. Vitamin A Most red, green and yellow fruit and <...read more
Where to look for Vitamin B12
The need for Vitamin B12 Vitamin B12 is needed for cell division and blood formation. Neither plants nor animals make vitamin B12. Bacteria are responsible for producing vit...read more
Why can't I lose weight ?
Eating too much I am a strong believer in sound nutrition and preach that nutrition is not just how much you eat but when, what, and why? These three words determine if you lose weight or gain weight. Let&rs...read more
Yin foods, yang foods
There are four factors that determine whether a food is yin or yang: How the food grows (including speed and direction). Where the food was grown (in northern or southern climates). The sodium-potassi...read more
You are what you eat
Every day we are bombarded with information from advertisers or the media and celebrity endorsed fad diets are never far from the news. It can be hard to know who to listen to when it comes to eating the right foods. Eating a...read more
Your brain needs food too
Background The human brain is unique within the animal world in that it forms a greater proportion of our body weight than in other species. It is also unique in that the process of formation is largely complete shortly afte...read more
Your guide to fats
These days supermarkets and food outlets spoil us for choice with their enormous range of foods, but a hidden danger lurks among those tantalising products: trans fats. Made during the process where vegetable...read more
