5 ways to spring clean your eating habits
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The more you are able to make healthy eating choices automatic and a part of your lifestyle, the healthier you will become in both mind and body.
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HEALTHY FOOD
How to stop binge eating
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To eat too much on occasion can happen but if the pattern is to overeat consistently with feelings of being unable to stop, this may be a sign of binge eating disorder.
Read MoreCould you be getting in too much caffeine?
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Here is a listing of not just foods and beverages but also medications you may be taking contributing to a little more caffeine than what’s good for you:
Read MoreStock up on allium veggies – a source of powerful phytochemicals
/Allium foods are a family of vegetables of the genus Allium, which include garlic, onions, shallots, leeks, scallions and chives. Many of us may use them daily in cooking but without realizing the robust nutritional bang they are providing due to their subtle, less charismatic manner.
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 More10 reasons why you should give kefir a try
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Kefir (pronounced kee-fer and referred to as “the champagne of milk”) is a cultured milk product similar to yogurt with a pleasantly tart, almost sour taste. It’s fizzy effervescence and natural carbonation gives kefir a light, foamy, creamy texture you have to try to really understand what kefir has to offer.
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Carrots – always an outstanding choice
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Read MoreThe sensational season of strawberries
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Let’s count the wide range of ways strawberries promote health and why you should add more of them to your diet:
Read More8 unexpected foods packed with plant protein
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Even though animal products are our best sources of high-quality protein, the good news is plant protein sources can be just as healthy in providing the necessary protein you need.
Read MoreIs your job making you gain weight?
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It happens to the best of us – weight gain. It wasn’t like you went to bed one night skinny and the next morning you woke up plump. No, the weight gain was gradual and you may be blaming everything under the sun except for one thing – your job.
Read MoreSeven no-nonsense strategies for successful weight loss
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Weight loss – it’s a constant battle for many and even when a person does lose some weight, the other struggle is keeping the weight off. How do some people successfully lose significant amounts of weight and maintain the loss while others lose and then regain weight in repeating cycles?
Read MoreExotic and ever enjoyable edamame
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Edamame – ever eaten it? There was a time when very few people knew what edamame even was. But ever since Americans took a strong liking to sushi back in the 1980’s when Japanese restaurants in California served them with Japanese beer, the popularity of eating edamame has steadily grown over the years. It was in 1994 when packaged ready-to-eat edamame appeared in a supermarket for the first time.
Read MoreEgg Whites? Or the Whole Egg?
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Is there any advantage to making your omelet with only egg whites, and not the whole egg? It does seem like a popular enough option at most diners, so there must be something to it. But how much is legitimate nutrition science, and how much is just a marketer’s attempt to make you feel better about paying more for the same thing?
Read MoreTumeric – the spice of a healthy life
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Tumeric – a spice spanning several cultures has a long history dating back about 4, 000 years ago. Native to areas such as India, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia, turmeric has been used to treat a variety of conditions over the centuries and is still revered as a time-honored medicinal seasoning to this day. Over 1 billion people worldwide regularly consume turmeric as part of their diet.
Read MoreIs there a link between diet soda, dementia and stroke?
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For anyone who likes their diet soda, a new study may cause you to pause on slurping down your favorite drink. An analysis of more than 4,000 participants in the Framingham Heart Study Offspring cohort, found that those who drank at least one artificially sweetened beverage a day were almost three times more likely to develop ischemic stroke and 2.9 times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease over the course of 10 years than those who drank artificially sweetened beverages less than once a week.
Read MoreCancer’s connection with the food we eat
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Not only do our daily food choices play a substantial role on the influence and specific type of cancer that may develop but our food choices may also provide a protective role in reducing our risk of this deadly disease.
Read MoreNature’s brain foods
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It’s the little things like forgetting someone’s name or needing to constantly write yourself reminder notes. For the time being most of us just chalk it up to getting older but those common lapses of memory we all tend to share could also signal a future cognitive decline. What most of us fear is dementia, a catch-all term for a wide range of symptoms associated with a decline in memory or other thinking skills severe enough to reduce a person’s ability to perform everyday activities. We fear the cognitive decline could be a symptom of the worst of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease.
Read MoreHeart attacks, stroke reduced after banning trans fats
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It appears the ban on trans fats that began in July 2007 in certain areas of the nation are doing what it was meant to do – reduce heart disease. A new study led by a team at Yale University and published in the journal of JAMA Cardiology, has found since that ban, heart attacks and stroke have fallen by more than 6 percent three years after New York City and some counties within the state banned them.
Read MoreGet gorgeous skin by summer with these 7 foods
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Here are 7 foods that if consumed regularly, may help give your skin a more natural glow, smoothness and with fewer breakouts getting you ready to face the season ahead:
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