The nursing school catalog has just put out “57 Health Benefits of Going Vegan”. Here are some highlights: Antioxidants. For protection against cell damage, antioxidants are one of the best ways to help your body. Many researchers also believe that antioxidants help protect your body against forming some types of cancer. Protein. That protein is [...]
Keep Reading » 0Kale, the lovable dark leafy green vegetable that almost no one wants to eat. (Not true, I know many people mainly vegans that love kale). But if you were to ask your average person living on the Standard American Diet what they thought of it or how to cook it they would probably want to [...]
Keep Reading » 0Navigating the Aisles The typical American consumer hits the grocery store at least twice a week. Why, then, does it feel like we never have anything to eat at home? Follow the advice below to make sure you not only have a well-stocked pantry for healthful eating, but are buying the right products at the [...]
Keep Reading » 0I’m starting on a detoxification formula just as a general +1 to my health. After some research I found ZeoForce. I doesnt taste as bad as many other detox powders I have taken before. Ill let you know after I finish the bottle. Here is a description of the main active ingredient: “Zeolites are microporous, [...]
Keep Reading » 0Nutrition experts have analyzed the food depicted in some of the best-known paintings of the biblical Last Supper and found that the portion and plate sizes depicted in them increased substantially from older paintings to those painted more recently. The findings suggest the trend of bigger plates and portions that has been noticed recently and [...]
Keep Reading » 0Why does a salad cost more than a Big Mac? Part of the reason is that a huge proportion of our food subsidies go to meat while only 0.37 percent go to fruits and vegetables. That makes meat and dairy artificially cheap, so we end up consuming more of it than we should, and getting [...]
Keep Reading » 0“They’re much more than a tailgating staple. In a new paper, the American Academy of Pediatrics says hot dogs are also a choking hazard to children and should come with a warning label. About 17% of food-related asphyxiations in those younger than 10 are caused by hot dogs, according to a 41-state study cited in [...]
Keep Reading » 0“A calorie is . . . A unit of energy. First described in the 1800s, a calorie is technically the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius. But in the health and nutrition world, a calorie is the potential energy in food and the amount [...]
Keep Reading » 0Sadly, in the next 18 minutes when I do our chat, four Americans that are alive will be dead from the food that they eat. My name’s Jamie Oliver. I’m 34 years old. I’m from Essex in England and for the last seven years I’ve worked fairly tirelessly to save lives in my own way. [...]
Keep Reading » 0“Foods go in and out of fashion. Sugar, a dietary pariah not too long ago, is making a comeback as a natural food – in large part as a backlash against high-fructose corn syrup, which has been subject to widespread criticism as a cause of rising obesity because it’s inexpensive and ubiquitous. But in fact, [...]
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