Are Herbs Nutritional Fuel? - Nutrition
It may surprise you, but most herbs (except for garlic) are not intended to be part of your nutritional fuel. Although herbs can be beneficial and healing (I generally prefer them over medications), herbs are not nutrition. They're medicinal. If ... [... more]
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Hidden Sugars - Nutrition
Many companies consistently look for new ways to hide more and more high glycemic sugar in commercial products. Why? Because it's addictive. So be on guard for hidden insulin spiking ingredients with new names. Some of the products that contain ... [... more]
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Garlic Health and Medicinal Benefits - Nutrition
Studies show that consuming garlic and other allium plants with allicin, such as onions, leeks or chives, on a regular basis offers a whole list of extraordinary health benefits. Plus, garlic is a tasty condiment and growing garlic is extremely easy. [... more]
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Online Glycemic Index List of Foods - Nutrition
This online glycemic index list of foods is based on the latest, most up-to-date research for optimum nutrition and blood sugar levels by Arianna Carughi, Ph.D., C.N.S. and Gene Spiller, Ph.D., C.N.S., Consultants to the Stanford Center for ... [... more]
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Margarine or Butter - Which to Choose? - Nutrition
This was the great debate at my house. Margarine was created during the Second World War as a cheap substitute for butter. My father was Scotch and preferred cheap. He claimed there was no difference. But Mom was committed to quality and had no ... [... more]
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Honey Coated Hype - Nutrition
A hundred years ago, the average sugar consumption was five pounds a year and heart disease, cancer and diabetes were practically unknown. Today, Americans eat 158 pounds of sugar a year and heart disease, cancer and diabetes are our number one ... [... more]
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The "Refined" Sweet Kiss of Death - Nutrition
Definition: refined (ri-find') 1. Free from coarseness or vulgarity. 2. Purified. So I ask you, what is so "refined" about white flour, sugar and other processed foods? And, what is so coarse and vulgar about whole foods? Plus, how did " [... more]
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Veggies & Vitamins For Vim, Vigor and Vitality - Nutrition
Veggies with less vitamins? Yes, I'm afraid it's true! According to recent research published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, fruits and vegetables today contain much less nutritional value compared to produce grown back in ... [... more]
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Seven Sweet Steps To Shirk Sugar - Nutrition
The pay off for a sugar-free life is great - you can feel like a million bucks, look years younger and have an abundance of natural balanced energy. Know this to the depths of your soul or you will get sucked back into the "just this once" ... [... more]
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Vitamin D and Lack of Sunshine - Nutrition
Vitamin D and sunshine go together. Among other ailments, a D deficiency increases the risk of "adult rickets" or osteomalacia, a painful bone disease that can lead to muscle weakness, bone pain and bone fracture. Osteomalacia, according to Dr. [... more]
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Vegetable Weight Loss Breakthrough - Nutrition
To reach your perfect weight and stay there easily, joyfully and permanently, one of the most important things you can do is to change your relationship with vegetables. You don't have to learn to love them, although that would be great. You just ... [... more]
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Hidden Obstacles In Your Food - Nutrition
In the 18th century, Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote, "The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray." And that's certainly true when it come to our plans to live a long, happy, healthy life. On the road to good health, most people go ... [... more]
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