Clearing up confusion over whole grains
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To help clear up confusion, here are 7 questions consumers often have about whole grains and whether they can be part of a healthy diet:
HEALTHY FOOD
No-nonsense healthy eating tips while traveling
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Travel – whether for business or pleasure - maintaining a healthy eating pattern can be challenging. No matter the mode of how we get to our destinations, our reliance on restaurants, convenience stores, airport food, or even vending machines all increase.
Read More45 ways to cut 100 calories a day
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Making small but significant changes in the types of foods you eat and the portion sizes you choose will add up quickly over the day by reducing the amount of calories you take in.
Read More8 best solutions to healthy weight loss
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Weight loss can be one of the most frustrating and challenging feats undertaken, especially when using fad diets that can be very restrictive with complex rules.
Read MoreThe sensational nutritional power of fruit
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13 percent of people in the United States actually meet the goal recommended by experts of at least 1 ½ to 2 cups of fruit a day. Including more fruit to one’s diet can be one of the best nutritional decisions to make for upping a health boost.
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9 things slowing down weight loss and how to fix that
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Consciously or subconsciously weight loss efforts can be influenced by your actions, feelings, and your environmental surrounding.
Read MoreGinger – invaluable to your health
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Ginger root can be consumed in various ways – fresh, candied, dried and ground into a spice, concentrated into an oil, or processed into tablets or capsules.
Read MoreWhy lemons and limes may prevent kidney stones
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Each year more than half a million people go to emergency rooms for kidney stones problems. It is estimated that one in ten people will have a kidney stone at some time in their lives.
Read MoreMake room for mushrooms on your plate
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Often categorized as a vegetable since they have a similar nutritional profile as produce, mushrooms are actually a fungi.
Read MoreAlmonds are always a winner
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The joys of almonds are endless. Fortunately for mankind, almonds have been around a long, long time nourishing and influencing us ever since.
Read MoreHow effective is intermittent fasting for weight loss?
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There is a growing body of research suggesting that cycling low-calorie days into your normal eating pattern may be good for not only losing weight but also our health.
Read MorePistachios – a powerhouse of nutrients
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Research has also suggested that pistachios have numerous health benefits including helping to support an active lifestyle and reducing the risk of nutrition-related diseases.
Read MoreHealing foods found in your kitchen
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Ginger has long been known and extensively studied for its potential in soothing nausea especially during chemotherapy and pregnancy.
Read MoreBe forewarned – black licorice may cause serious harm
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There are two types of people in the world – those you love black licorice and those who don’t. For all the black licorice lovers out there, be careful. Going overboard on indulging on your candy craving for this treat can backfire on you.
Read MoreBest foods to boost red blood cells
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The most abundant cells in human blood are red blood cells. These cells contain hemoglobin which is an iron-rich protein giving blood its distinctive red color and is responsible for carrying oxygen in the blood throughout our body.
Read MoreArtificial sweeteners linked to weight gain, heart disease, negligible health benefits
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The use of artificial sweeteners has been put under the microscope questioning their effectiveness in regards to curbing weight gain. This is in response to a new review of more than 11,000 studies finding that for individual who are overweight or have high blood pressure or diabetes, consuming these zero-calorie, “non-nutritive sweeteners” have little to any health benefits.
Read MoreGuilt-free guide to healthy grocery shopping
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Grocery shopping – you either love it, hate it or maybe you are somewhere in between. No matter how you feel about it, we have to eat in order to live so we might as well be good at it.
Read MoreThe Amazing Benefits of Drinking Tea
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Green tea helps block the formation of the plaques linked to Alzheimer's disease.
Read MoreFood and Drug Combinations to Avoid
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It's important with any prescribed medication that you understand all the side effects. One that is often overlooked is whether you should eat or not with the prescribed pill or if there are any foods to avoid. So much interacts with medicine and it's not just alcohol. There are a number of foods that can get in the way of how a prescription works in the body. Here are a few common combinations to avoid.
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