Autism, Probiotics And The Lowly Sandwich

My son has autism and like many autistic individuals his diet had been a major issue. It is getting better though.

Try This Healthy Eating Diet Plan

How many times have you decided the time had come to loose a few pounds but everything you tried left you frustrated and feeling deprived. Have you ever considered a healthy eating diet plan?

Test Your Calorie Smarts - Part 2

Its a well known fact that restaurant fare tends to be high in fat and calories, all in a very generous portion size. How well can you pick out high calorie foods? Try this quiz to find out.

Not All Proteins Are Created Equal - Part One

Protein, protein, protein: Believe it or not, all proteins are NOT created equal! So, What is the Difference?

Healthy Living - 25 Life Saving Health Secrets

Healthy Living is the number one goal among North Americans. However, 80% of the population do not know that eating healthy foods such as fruits and vegetables, and making healthy choices can mean the difference between life and death.

Doctors May Be Contributing To Your Confusion On RDA's

In relation to doctors and nutrition there is probably more disinformation given to the public in relation to RDA's than anything else. You need nutrients in optimal amounts to prevent chronic degenerative disease like cancer, heart disease and arthritis. We are not seeing too much scurvy these days...

Raw Food, Less Water

Recent studies show that eating raw food helps quench the thirst, mainly because raw fruits and vegetables have higher water content that foods that are cooked. And by consuming raw food, your body will get the much needed water it requires from the raw food that you ate, thereby, quenching one’s thirst.

Why Children Everywhere Are Giving Goji Juice Straight A's

Goji berries have a number of vitamins, and minerals that are packed into this tiny red raisin sized fruit. This berry also contains selenium and germanium. These two chemical compounds can mean the difference between life and death for someone that is fighting cancer.

Tips For Raising HDL Cholesterol

HDL cholesterol is known for its cleaning properties. This form of cholesterol actually helps protect the body from heart disease. It has been shown to help clean out the walls of blood vessels and tends to carry the bad kind of cholesterol out of the body. When levels of HDL are low, doctors tend to get a little worried.

Diet to Strengthen Immunity

The immune system is filled with protective cells called white blood cells. There are many and all work to kill bacteria, pathogens, eat harmful cells, and neutralize toxins including metabolic waste. Some even make antibodies. Our bodies must constantly regenerate and build new white blood cells, especially when harmful toxins enter. Eating healthy will keep your body ready to defend itself anytime the “bad guys” come to visit.

Oily Fish Reduces the Risk of AMD (Age Related Macular Degeneration)

Eating oily fish on a regular basis can dramatically reduce the risk of developing AMD (age related macular degeneration) according to two separate research studies, one conducted by Sydney University, Australia, and one by Harvard Medical School in the USA

Eliminating Processed Foods From Your Life

Why should you eliminate processed foods from your life? What is wrong with them? Processed foods are full of harmful fats, avoidable chemicals, refined starch, and white sugar and so on. More than 6000 chemicals, some of them possessing cancer-producing properties, are used in the processed-food industry. Many processed foods are produced through procedures involving overcooking under high heat, undermining their nutritional value in the process. When toxic agents, food additives and other foreign ingredients enter the body, the human immune system tries hard to throw them out. If the task is too difficult, the immune system suffers, leading to several complications for health.

Why Starvation Diets Don't Work

Gullible people have a simplistic view of starvation diets. Since eating made them fat in the first place, they believe that starvation would result in shedding that fat. Since they cannot go into complete starvation, they choose a starvation diet comprising perhaps a cup of coffee (preferably, without milk or sugar) for breakfast, a carrot and celery for lunch and a piece of brown bread for dinner. Maybe in the first week they may lose some weight but by the end of the second week, the loss tapers off.

Negative Calorie Foods

Negative calorie foods are those that need more calories to metabolize than the calories they have. For example, if you eat an apple, which has about 65 calories, your body spends about 100 calories in digestion. That is, the body loses about 35 calories in the process and results in weight loss to that extent. Therefore, the apple you have eaten is a negative calorie food. Normally, when you eat any food, your body burns anywhere between 150 and 250 calories, on an average, for its digestion. So if the food you eat has more than 250 calories, say 350 calories, then your gain in weight is equivalent to 100 calories, which represent the excess calories contained in the food eaten over the calories used up in the digestion of that food. Negative calorie foods result in net loss in terms of calories for the body and, naturally, cause weight loss.

Vitamin B - The REAL Benefits

The Benefits of Vitamin B - What's the Real Story?