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  • Everything You Needed To Know About CoQ10  By : chester
    Used for centuries in Polynesia as a cure-all, Noni is known to be effective for natural pain CoQ10 is a vitamin-like compound that is produced naturally in the human body and is also found in most living organisms. It is also called ubiquinone, a combination of quinone, a type of coenzyme, and ubiquitous, meaning it exists everywhere in the human body.
  • Super Green Foods - Have Some Today!  By : chester
    Super green foods are derived from young cereal grasses such as wheat, barley, rye, oats and alfalfa, as well as spirulina, chlorella, kelp, dulse and other sea vegetables. Perhaps the most nutrient-dense foods on earth, these grasses are richer in nutrients than spinach, broccoli, eggs and chicken in virtually all categories including protein, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium, zinc, copper, manganese, vitamin C, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B6, folic acid, vitamin B12, carotenoids and vitamin E.
  • Why Low Glycemic Foods?  By : Jean Bowler
    Low glycemic foods help control insulin levels and your weight
  • The Benefits of Mushrooms for Your Health  By : chester
    Mushrooms are valuable health food - low in calories, high in vegetable proteins, chitin, iron, zinc, fiber, essential amino acids, vitamins & minerals. Mushrooms also have a long history of use in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Their legendary effects on promoting good health and vitality and increasing your body's adaptive abilities have been supported by recent studies.
  • Elements of Good Nutrition  By : john
    With the amount of information that exists about good nutrition, you would think it was a big mystery.
  • Salt vs Sodium Chloride  By : john
    If there were a top-10 list of minerals that have gotten a bad rap, sodium would be close to the top of that list.
  • Are You Sick and Overweight? Your Diet Could Be the Problem  By : john
    Every five years or so there seems to be a new fad diet that becomes the craze. Low-carbohydrate diets currently hold that spot.
  • Buying Nutritional Supplements Online  By : Bruce Channers -
    If you are looking to purchase nutritional supplements, look no further than the World Wide Web. There are millions of businesses based both in the “real” and virtual worlds that hock any type of natural extract or supplement imaginable. These nutritional supplements can be anything from naturally building muscle and tone to ensuring your body has the proper nutrients at all times. Online sellers of nutritional supplements are just as reliable as the traditional brick and mor...
  • If Sugar is bad for you, Are Sugar Substitutes Better Instead?  By : Jim Oneill
    Most of us love the sweetness that sugar adds to so many of our foods. But we always hear reports that say sugar is not so good for us. So then, are there any good alternatives that we can use? This article looks at several kinds of alternatives and gives you a report on each one.
  • The Basics of Water Soluble Vitamins  By : john
    The human body uses two types of vitamins: water-soluble and fat-soluble.
  • 7 Ways to Make Alkaline Diet Benefit You  By : Mariad
    Discover 7 easy tips you can use in your daily life to help your body balance itself back to alkaline balance and experience better overall health.
  • The Role Magnesium Plays in the Plan for Good Health  By : john
    Following a diet consisting of a variety of healthy food choices is really all that is necessary to stay healthy.
  • The Role of Nitric Oxide in Bodybuilding  By : chester
    Everyone needs nitric oxide to carry out key physiological processes within the body. From a bodybuilder's perspective, nitric oxide supplementation may prove useful in increasing growth due to increases in blood flow to certain areas of the body. Further, men suffering from erectile dysfunction may also find supplementing with nitric oxide helpful.
  • Naturally Sweet and Healthy - The Wonders of Stevia  By : chester
    If you've ever tasted stevia, you know it's extremely sweet. In fact, this remarkable noncaloric herb, native to Paraguay, has been used as a sweetener and flavor enhancer for centuries. Stevia is a natural, non-caloric, sweet-tasting plant used around the world for its pleasant taste, as well as for its increasingly researched potential for inhibiting fat absorption and lowering blood pressure
  • Natural, Herbal Sexual Stimulants  By : chester
    Aphrodisiacs, named after Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of sexual love and beauty, the list of supposed sexual stimulants includes anchovies and adrenaline, licorice and lard, scallops and Spanish fly, and hundreds of other items. Here is a very partial list of some herbal ingredients commonly found in sexual enhancers/stimulants:
  • Pesticides, Can we avoid them?  By : annamaria
    Why, unfortunately, just washing vegetables is not enough to ensure produce clean enough for consumption
  • Popular Herbal Mood Enhancers  By : chester
    GABA or gamma-aminobutyric acid, discovered in 1950, is the most important and widespread inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain. Excitation in the brain must be balanced with inhibition. Too much excitation can lead to restlessness, irritability, insomnia, and even seizures. GABA is able to induce relaxation, analgesia, and sleep
  • Head-to-Toe Health and More with Selenium  By : john
    Like vitamins, minerals perform specific functions within the body.
  • The Benefits of Beta Carotene  By : john
    There is some merit to the old saying, "eat your carrots or you'll go blind."
  • Making Smart Choices With The Glycemic Index  By : Michael Brooks -
    The Glycemic Index (GI) has been around since 1981 and is a great blueprint for eating healthy.

    With a growing population of diabetics and overweight individuals, eating within GI guidelines, meaning that you take into account how much a particular food raises blood sugar and over stresses insulin production, is gaining interest among the medical community and the public.

    What is the Glycemic Index (GI)?

    The Glycemic Index indicates how quickly 50 grams of a food’s c...
  • Healthy Food Choices When Eating At A Restaurant  By : Jordi Shoman -
    With our increasingly busy lifestyle many families are choosing to eat out more often. While it may be rather expensive, for some it is the only logical choice. However, if you’re trying to watch your weight, it can be difficult making the right food selections while eating out at restaurants!

    This is a simple guide to some kinds of popular foods that people often choose when they eat out.

    Chinese (and Asian food generally) offers a wide variety of broth-based soups, st...
  • Your Best Key To A Healthy Diet: Variety  By : Joan Winthorp -
    It has been said that variety is the spice of life, and that is certainly true when trying to eat a healthy diet. No one likes to eat the same thing day after day, and boredom is the enemy of a healthy diet.

    Fortunately for those trying to follow a healthy diet, there is plenty of variety to be had in healthy foods. In addition to the hundreds of varieties of fruits and vegetables available at the average grocery store, there is a wide variety of beans, lentils, nuts, meat...
  • "Drinking Water Scams Revealed"  By : Stan Howard
    Read this article before you consider paying for your drinking water.
  • The Benefits And Perils Of Vitamin A  By : VitaMan -
    Why You Need Vitamin A

    Vitamin A plays an important role in vision, reproduction, and bone development. It encourages the growth of health surface linings in the eyes, lungs, intestines, and uninary track.

    Vitamin A is a fat soluble vitamin. This means that excess amounts are stored in the liver or in fat cells. Because of this you must be careful not to take too much Vitamin A, as it can become toxic.

    The recommended daily allowance (RDA) of vitamin A is 5,000 Inte...
  • Should A Kid Start Dieting?  By : Grace Palce -
    A “diet”, strictly speaking, refers to a certain collection of food that a person chooses to consume. In this sense, we can consider everyone to be on a diet. But the accepted connotation of the term “diet” today, is a collection of food that is meant to help a person lose weight. This diet is closely linked to the amount of calories that a person deposits in his body. The basic idea is this: if a person eats less calories than his body uses, he will become thinner; and if th...
  • Caffeine Addiction - A Problem To Be Solved As Early As Possible  By : Sharon Hopkins -
    We all have this pre-conceived notion that only coffee contains caffeine but that is not the case. Beverages like cokes and chocolate products contain caffeine. A hot cup of coffee with the morning sunshine sounds so tempting and revitalizing.

    It has the ability to keep you awake and help burn that midnight oil in time of dire need. Coffee becomes a matter for social gathering. It helps you socialize by letting you bump into one of your colleagues in the office which other...
  • Addictive Foods and their Harmful Consequences  By : Linda Giles
    An article discussing common addictive foods with their harmful consequences on our health.
  • Give Your Immune System a Boost!  By : chester
    As we age, we notice it takes us a little longer to fight off a cold or flu, we become more vulnerable to disease, our energy and enthusiasm lessen, our skin loses its elasticity, we gain unwanted weight and lose muscle tone. After maturity, we gradually lose the immune and growth factors in our body.
  • The Wonderful Health Benefits of Echinacea  By : chester
    Echinacea increases the "non-specific" activity of the immune system. In other words, unlike a vaccine which is active only against a specific disease, echinacea stimulates the overall activity of the cells responsible for fighting all kinds of infection.
  • Selecting Nutritional Supplements  By : Bruce Channers -
    Nutritional supplements can help compliment a diet that could be missing some necessary nutrients. But nutritional supplements are only as good as the ones you select, and how you combine your nutritional supplements with healthy food so that none of the nutrients are cancelled out.

    An estimated 50 percent of American adults use nutritional supplements regularly. But some doctors suggest that half of these adults aren't using these nutritional supplements correctly.

    So...

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