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Apr
29
Drink Your Juice—It’s Nutritious
Filed Under Health, Health News, Nutrition, Tips & Tricks | 4 Comments
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by Stacey Colino
Fruit juices have been slammed for being high in carbs and low in fiber. But get ready for a surprise: They do have redeeming qualities for your health.
Fruit juice has become the Britney Spears of the grocery store, typically scoffed at by those old enough to remember a time before ultra-low-rise jeans. Between being called liquid sugar by the anti-carb crowd and being blamed for the rising obesity rate among kids, it would seem that juices are simply not worth swallowing. (In fact, their sales dropped 1.4 percent between 2002 and 2003, the first decline in more than 6 years, according to a recent report by www.marketresearch.com.) And mainstream nutritionists promote the whole fruit over juice for its fiber and pulp. But the truth is, some fruit juices do deserve a place at your table because of their nutrients and powerful disease-fighting properties.
Apr
29
Chocolate, Cheese, Meat, and Sugar — Physically Addictive Foods
Filed Under Health videos, Healthy Eating, Healthy Food, Nutrition | 3 Comments
Neal Barnard MD discusses the science behind food additions. Willpower is not to blame: chocolate, cheese, meat, and sugar release opiate-like substances. Dr. Barnard also discusses how industry, aided by government, exploits these natural cravings, pushing us to eat more and more unhealthy foods. A plant-based (vegan) diet is the solution to avoid many of these problems. Neal Barnard is the founder of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)
source: VegSource Interactive, Inc. - www.vegsource.com/
Mar
29
Truth About Chocolate - Health Food, Junk or Drug? Nutrition
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You constantly see news articles promoting health benefits of chocolate such as antioxidant content.
This video discusses both the health benefits and risks.
Is Chocolate a super food, fast junk food or a drug?
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Mar
26
Foods That Digest Quickly
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Food In The Order Of Digestive Difficulty
Individual digestive weaknesses and allergies depends on what kind of food we eat and how easy it is for our system to digest. The easier it is to digest, the better for the bodies system. Easy to digest - I mean the foods that require less energy for the digestive system to digest. Below are the list of foods on which food digest quickly and which one not.
Hard To Digest:
Meat, fish, chicken, eggs (if cooked), all legumes including soy products, peanuts and peanut butter, beans, split peas, lentils, chick peas, dairy products such as cheese, milk, butter milk, nuts and seeds and their butters.
Dec
31
WATCH OUT FOR HIDDEN SUGARS
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Finding out whether a food product contains sugar requires more sleuthing today then it once did. Only a few manufacturers currently include the word “sugar” in the list of ingredients of their sugar-containing products. Instead, wanting to avoid the sugar stigma that could negatively impact sales, many food producers hide the sugars behind a host of chemicals synonyms. Take a note that any product listing any of the following ingredients really does contain sugar:
- Dextrose
- Glucose
- Fructose
- Core Sweetener
- Maltodextrin
- Malt
- Sorghum
- Modified Cornstarch
- High-Fructose Corn Syrup
- Fruit Juice Concentrates
Dec
30
Do You Have A Problem With Sugar?
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Diagnosing problems with insulin function and sugar imbalances takes several steps. First, you need to evaluate what you eat, how various foods make you feel, and what these eating patterns may reveal about your insulin. If you are unable to manage your weight and think it could be related to an insulin or sugar then;
Suggest asking yourself the following questions:
- Do I eat when nervous?
- Am I intensely hungry between meals?
- Do I feel little shaky when hungry?
- Does my fatigue disappear after eating?
- Do I faint or have heart palpitations if meals are delayed?
Nov
4
Darker Side Of Life
Filed Under Nutrition | 5 Comments
It’s been a fashion staple but you may want to consider adding black to your plate. Black-coloured foods are a sign of health on some parts of the world, and may be the next big nutrition tend. The black-food craze red-hot in Asia particularly Japan. Black food have always played a prominent role in Japanese cuisine ,but now they’ve reached new heights thanks to health claims. ”
Black foods have been eaten in for hundreds of years in Japan for their rich taste, but now people are buying them for their nutritional value.” In Japan, Black ingredients are added to all types of beverages including vinegar drinks that are being promoted as a tonic to lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Other black items include black rice, black sesame biscuits and cereal, black soy milk and black soybean coffee.
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