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  • Optimising Nutrition On A Vegetarian Diet  By : Jen the Veg
    What you need to know as a vegetarian to ensure you get the right vitamins and minerals
  • Is Coffee Good For You or Bad For You?  By : Royane Real
    Many of us drink a lot of coffee. Is all that coffee really bad for us? Should we be trying to drink less coffee? Or is coffee really good for us? Should we be drinking more coffee?
  • Discount fish oil – the facts  By : john
    Leading authorities on the subject of nutrition are now emphasizing the benefits of including fish oil in your diet.
  • About Omega 3 Fish oils  By : john
    What’s all the fuss about Omega 3 fish oils? What do they do for my body?
  • What's The Deal With Silver Water?  By : chester
    Pure silver has been used for hundreds of years in the prevention and treatment of illness from injury or toxic substance. During the Middle Ages silver goblets were used as drinking vessels in the belief that they prevented poisoning from bad wine or contaminated water or other liquid.
  • Minerals - Good For Your Bones, Organs and Tissue  By : chester
    Minerals act as catalysts for many biological reactions within the body, including muscle response, the transmission of messages through the nervous system, the production of hormones, digestion, and the utilization of nutrients in foods.
  • Ginko Biloba - The World's Best Selling Herb  By : chester
    Ginkgo's most powerful effect is on the circulating system. Ginkgo flavenoids directly dilate the smallest segment of the circulating system, the micro-capillaries, which increase both blood circulation and oxygen levels in the brain as well as in other critical organ tissues.
  • Let Go of Your Poisons  By : Stephen Adele
    Let Go of Your Poisons
    A Special Excerpt from The 21-Day Ultimate Energy Plan
    By Stephen Adele, Editor-in-Chief
  • DMAE - Good For Your Brawn and Brain  By : chester
    DMAE is a memory booster substance common to a number of drugs that are known to stabilize cell membranes. Cell membrane degradation has been proposed as one of the prime mechanisms of aging. DMAE is increasingly favored by medical practitioners for its role in boosting brain power.
  • Vitamins for stress - Beat stress with nutrition  By : john
    In the busy world that we live in today, stress can be a very real threat to your health.
  • Nutrients for brain health  By : john
    The brain is clearly one of the most important parts of our body.
  • Fight Free Radical Damage With Antioxidants  By : chester
    Antioxidants are a class of nutrients that protect the body from damage caused by different factors, most importantly oxidative damage caused by substances called free radicals. Free radicals are known as “reactive oxygen species”, or ROS.
  • benefits of the Soya Bean  By : john
    Soya is one of the oldest and most nutritious foods in the world.
  • Sleep, Nutrition And Exercise?  By : Jennie Winter -
    While some of us think that sleep is a total waste of time and is only necessary so we do not collapse, this is a mistake. Some of the latest researches inform us that sleeping less than six hours a day can cause diabetes. The researchers seem to think that lack of sleep affects a certain hormone that is responsible for depressing the appetite. What happens as a result of a diminished sleep is that the organism produces less of this hormone, hence – there is no stopping of ou...
  • The Benefits of Maintaining Your Body’s Healthy pH Level  By : Sylvain Deslongchamps
    Our blood’s pH level is perhaps the single most important measurement we should watch on. Healthy blood pH is around 7.4, which is slightly alkaline; this level must be maintained in order for our body to function well. The maintenance of our blood’s healthy pH level is essential to our body’s functions. Functions which are affected with your pH level are blood flow, cell function, fat accumulation, and bone density.
  • Yoghurt - The Coolest Sparkler  By : Sharon Hopkins -
    Yoghurt - The very word cools you down, especially in the warm summer months, when the heat is full on. Yoghurt is yummy, thick and creamy. It is a virtual treasury of zinc, calcium, Vitamins B1, B2, B6 and B12, protein and yeast. The wonderful nutrients and minerals in yoghurt protects your bones, fights off osteoporosis, battles cancer, cancer, diarrhoea, high blood pressure and yeast infection. It bolsters digestion, immune function and weight control. Besides, yoghurt add...
  • Healthy And Nutritious Benefits From Yogurt  By : Sharon Hopkins -
    It has been given different names but the nutritious value of yogurt makes it useful for our continuous and profoundly used up body. It should be part of your daily diet as it helps with increasing ways of creating a clean digestive system. The process of making yogurt must have developed somewhere in Asia or Europe as there is a huge supply of milk.

    In Europe and Asia, cow’s milk is very prevalent; buffalo’s milk is also used in India. In Russia goats and sheep’s milk ar...
  • What Can Honey Do To You?  By : Riana Lance -
    If you feel exhausted and want something fresh to release all your fatigue, why don't you take a teaspoonful of honey and add to your tea, then drink it. You are going to feel better then.

    It's not difficult to find honey as it is easy to get and available everywhere in the market. In fact, honey has been a part of the commodity in the ancient century. They used honey for different purposes such as for health treatment, food and beverage, and other useful matters.

    Nob...
  • Reduce Free Radicals: Antioxidants And The Health Benefits Of Olive Oil  By : James Zeller -
    Nutrition used to be something like: “eat fresh food and stay away from potato chips”… now we are told beware of ‘free radicals’ in the body. Antioxidants are supposed to be good for you, but how do we encourage one and fight the other?

    “If I’d known I was going to live so long, I’d have taken better care of myself.” -- Leon Eldred

    We live in an age where we are beginning to see an awareness developing between eating habits and good health. Several buzz phrases like low...
  • Dietary Therapy: High Fiber Diets  By : Davin Michaels -
    Can high-fiber diets really do all they claim to do? Studies have looked at the relationship between high-fiber diets and many diseases, including colon cancer, coronary heart disease and diabetes.

    Proven benefits of a high-fiber diet include prevention and treatment of constipation, hemorrhoids and diverticulosis. In addition, certain types of fiber help decrease blood cholesterol levels.

    Dietary fiber comes from the portion of plants that is not digested by enzymes ...
  • Harmful Chemicals in the Meat You Eat?  By : Mike Sullivan
    Many people may not realize it, but much of the meat we eat contains synthetic growth hormones and other chemicals that may be harmful to us. Learn why these chemicals are added and how you can protect yourself without giving up meat.
  • Brazilian Superfruit Found to Kill Cancer Cells  By : Jim Allen
    Brazilian superfruit kills cancer cells adding to the buzz surrounding the Brazilian acai berry.
  • Lowering Cholesterol Through The Foods You Eat  By : Kathryn Whittaker -
    If you have high cholesterol and you are thinking of lowering your cholesterol level, don’t worry because you can do it yourself and a lot of other people are also experiencing the same problem. This may be a tough job but it will be worth it in the end. There are several ways and steps to be healthy. If you want to be serious, you must closely follow each step.

    Actually, there are two kinds of cholesterol in your body, HDL and LDL. The difference between the two is that ...
  • Atkins Destroys The Competition  By : Jeff Dorrian -
    Nutritionists agree, today’s dieters can lose weight on many of the popular diets prevalent throughout the diet industry. The trick to dieting success is keeping the weight off once the dieting part of the plan has ended. Figures from the CDC show that the percentage of dieters who able to maintain their weight loss for five years after accomplishing their goal weight is a very disheartening 5%. Some research shows the figure to be less than this. So the greatest challenge fo...
  • The Importance Of Fruit And Vegetable Juices In Nutrition  By : D. David Dugan -
    A man’s health is a very important aspect of his life. To say that “health is wealth” is not only to utter an old, used up mantra, but to mean that for most human beings, staying fit and healthy is parallel to being wealthy, for a person’s everyday life is influenced mainly by the state of his mind and body, especially by the presence and absence of certain diseases.

    Many people go through various efforts to stay fit, maintain good health, and ensure their longevity. Examp...
  • 7 Reasons Why You Should Be Using Coconut Oil  By : Dianne Ronnow -
    It is a common misconception that coconut oil is bad for you. People all over the world are experiencing the healthy benefits of using coconut oil. It is actually one of the healthiest oils you can consume. Here are the top seven reasons why you should use coconut oil as an alternative to other common cooking oils.

    1. Coconut oil doesn't turn to fat in your body.

    Unlike many other common oils, like soy (vegetable) and corn, coconut oil won't make you fat. Coconut oil co...
  • Junk Food Bans In Schools - The Practical Side  By : Rick Hendershot -
    In the face of what many see as an exploding obesity epidemic among both adults and children, a growing number of state and regional legislatures are passing laws that prohibit the sale of junk foods in school vending machines and cafeterias.

    The new regulations differ from region to region, but the general drift is to reduce the availability of sugar, salt, and fat laden foods and snacks, and replace them with more nutritious healthy foods and snacks.

    The money issue
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  • Why Your Diet Might Be Working Against You  By : Ken Snowie -
    Jennifer is a middle-aged single mother with a young daughter. She has been avoiding sugary foods for a few weeks. And she has also been faithfully watching her portions. She has been exercising for an hour 4 times a week as well. However, she has not lost any weight, and doesn’t know why.

    This is not uncommon. You might be doing everything you can to lose weight, but can’t seem to make any progress. Consequently, you are frustrated or depressed and are ready to give up.
    ...
  • You Say Tomato - I Say Superfood  By : Shari Hearn
    Want to help your body stay healthy? Eat a tomato!
  • Do We Know What to Eat and What Not to Eat?  By : Dick Derrick
    Nutrition affects not only the condition of our bodies, but also, and perhaps more importantly, our minds.

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