Healthy eating
How to keeping your bones healthy and strong?
Think you know everything about keeping your bones healthy and strong? Check out the information below. You may be surprised.
The Hidden Life of Bones
Bone is living tissue that is continuously being renewed through a process that breaks down our old
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8 Tips for healthy eating and lifestyle habits
We are what we eat, so why not eat the best? Healthy eating and lifestyle habits are a strong defense against the disease. Experts agree that we need an adequate but not excessive number of calories per day and that the bulk of these should come from
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How to Control Weight and Avert the Freshman Fifteen
The freshman fifteen is a term used to describe students’ weight during their first year of college and is based on the claim that first-year students typically gain fifteen pounds. Although most students do not gain the freshman fifteen, a rec
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The B Vitamins Complex Benefits and Dosage
The B vitamins formerly were thought to be a single vitamin, but further research showed that they are distinct vitamins that often coexist in the same foods. Generally the term B vitamins refers to the eight different types of vitamin B that, taken
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The Basic of foods and nutrients you need to know
Food is energy for life. We need food to provide the fuel that enables us to move and keep warm. Food also provides the essential materials that we need to build, repair, and maintain our body tissues and organs, and keep us healthy. The substances i
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Food Sources of Some Phytochemical Compounds
Fruits, vegetables, beans, and wholegrain bread and cereals are typically rich in phytochemicals. Although these plant components are not considered essential nutrients in the diet, many of these substances provide significant health benefits. The ph
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Six Nutrients the Body Needs
We need enough food to live and the right assortment of foods for optimal health. Foods provide energy (calories), nutrients, and other substances necessary for growth and health. People eat foods for many different reasons. The most compelling reaso
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Glycemic Index Chart: Glycemic Values of Foods List
It is now known that some simple and complex carbohydrates in foods elevate blood glucose levels more than do others. Carbohydrates and carbohydrate-containing foods are now being classified by the extent to which they increase blood glucose levels.
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What is dietary fiber and why we need it?
Health benefits from the dietary fiber may include a decreased risk of death, and lower coronary heart disease; physiological effects include laxation, attenuation of blood glucose, normalization of serum cholesterol. There are over a dozen significa
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How to eat healthily? You need a lifestyle change
A good diet is essential for a body’s healthy growth and development. Through a reasonable diet, rich nutrition can have a healthy body. Switch up a few daily habits – like replacing white bread with whole grains – and you’ll unlock the s
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Think you know everything about keeping your bones healthy and strong?
Bone is living tissue that is continuously being renewed through a process that breaks down our old bone and replaces it with new. Our bones start growing in the womb and reach peak mass in early adulthood. Then, in our mid thirties, both men and wom
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Whole Foods – Your best bet for improving health and preventing disease
Whole foods are plant foods that are unprocessed and unrefined, or processed and refined as little as possible, before being consumed. These include fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and soy products in their natural, unrefined, unproc
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