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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Dietary sources of vitamins and minerals
- Whenever possible, we should try to get our antioxidants and other essential vitamins and minerals through our diet. A proper diet is necessary to offset the signs of aging and the foods listed here tend to be healthier than a burger and fries.However, it is not always possible to eat enough of the foods in the proper form, e.g. raw, and we never know if the food in question has enough of t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Introduction to detox diets
- Detoxifying the body has become an apparent key preventative measure to all kinds of health problems. Since most of us are busy, and unable or unwilling to maintain a strict diet in order to completely eliminate all the toxins from our body. We have chemicals building up in our bodies day after day. Since these chemicals are not harmful in small amounts, only in larger accumulated amounts, we don'...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Introduction to cocaine addiction
- Coke, more commonly known as cocaine is a highly addictive stimulant which instantly affects the brain after introducing it to the body. The effects of this drug are extremely pleasurable and give a false sense of euphria. Like caffiene, coke makes the user feel awake, and energized. Cocaine addict's usually experience a sense of well being and feel 'powerful', combined with restlessness and anxie...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The secrets of the centenarians: how to live to 100!
- When Helen Boardman was still a girlish 99, she fell in love again--with a younger man."I robbed the cradle," laughs the trim centenarian, who married a man twenty years her junior for "companionship," she says slyly. "Bill was lonesome---I wasn't!--but I enjoyed his company and we had the same interests. So we fell in love."It didn't hurt that Bill Boar...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Ocular nutrition and eye health food
- Understanding ocular nutrition and eye health can be one of the ways to support your vision. As early as in our 30's, our eyes and vision can begin to deteriorate. Wind, dust, chlorine fumes, automobile fumes, smoking, freezing temperatures and physical injury are examples of threats to healthy eyes and good vision. Long hours spent at a computer screen and the vibration from driving have a cumula...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why fad diets don?t work
- Fad diets have been around for more than 50 years and no matter how many come and go, we are always intrigued and excited by the next one feeling almost sure this will be the one to work. And they do work...for a while and then we bounce around like yo-yo's going up and down in weight over the years.Fad diets generally ask us to remove certain foods and often whole food groups from our diet...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Chocolate splendor: food for the gods; bodybuilding nutrition
- A fictional overheard conversation at a Thelma's Fine Dining.Hi, I'm your waitress, Flo. How are you two doing tonight? Just come from the gym? Whew, one of you needs a shower. Here's our menu. Our specials include a 3lb cheeseburger with mega fries, a foot long chili dog that is deep-fried and covered with cheese. Or we have a this new health drink called Chocolate Splendor. What? How in t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Chocolate is good for you!
- Great news on the chocolate front! Chocolate is good for you. Under certain circumstances.Katherine Tallmadge, spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, says, in the February 9, 2005, WASHINGTON POST, that "cacao, or cocoa beans, contain 'flavanols,' naturally occurring plant compounds also found in tea, red wine, and apples. Their properties have been studied as heart diseas...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Pineapples: the healing fruit of the tropics (includes a recipe for pina-banana orange smoothie)
- For a natural and tasty way to improve your health and boost your healing capacity, add fresh pineapple and pineapple juice to your diet. Pineapples are nutritionally packed members of the bromeliad family. This delightful tropical fruit is high in the enzyme bromelain and the antioxidant vitamin C, both of which plays a major role in the body's healing process.Bromelain, a natural anti-inf...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What is a balanced diet for losing weight and good health?
- The total calories that you should be consuming depend on whether you are a women or a man. It depends on your body structure and your activity level. So you need to make some adjustment on the numbers I present.If you have been eating around 1800 calories per day you can slowly move your intake down to 1600. Work down from this level over a month's period to 1400 calories. Don't go below 1...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Lesser of two evils: splenda or equal?
- While packages of the artificial sweetener Splenda claim, "made from sugar, so it tastes like sugar," one competitor argues that this statement is nothing short of false advertising.In fact, this rival, Equal manufacturer Merisant Co., has filed a lawsuit against Splenda stating the advertisement should read something a little more like, "made from dextrose, maltodextrin and 4-chloro-4-deox...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Can a child thrive on a vegan diet? yes!
- Can a child thrive on a vegan diet? The answer is yes! Far more studies show that a typical 'Western Diet' has deleterious effects on health compared to the risks of a vegan diet. In fact, vegetarian diets are associated with disease resistance and even higher I.Q.'s in children. (1-5)With proper planning and a bit of self-education, parents should feel confident in giving their child a die...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Is it possible to follow a strict diet program and still have a normal lifestyle?
- Following a diet program of any sort can sometimes be restricting depending on different circumstances. A Strict diet program can be hard to stick to and the best diet programs are the diet programs that you can definitely stick with for the rest of your life.The best advice for a diet program is a healthy balanced diet using all food groups, drink plenty of water and exercise very regularl...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Four important nutrients - vitamin e, selenium, sodium and potassium ? for good health
- Vitamin EThere has been a lot of controversy about vitamin E lately. In the news last month, the news media was pushing a story that "Vitamin E can cause you to die." This story came about from a study that was made by certain researchers. In the alternative medicine group, they determined that this study was flawed. Most of the people in the study were already sick with serious illnesses....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Changing your eating habits
- Because all of us have been brought up eating junk food, well most of us, it is not easy to change our eating habits. Your eating habits have developed since childhood based on what your mothers or fathers cooked and what your psychological make-up was during that time.The foods you eat and crave help keep pass trauma and present anxiety in check. Food helps make you feel good when you star...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Do you eat breakfast?
- It is not a myth. Eating breakfast is an important part of attaining and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The morning meal enables your body to refuel itself after enduring a nightlong fast or 10 hours or more. It assists in re-energising your body's metabolism and providing sufficient amounts of energy and nutrients for you to survive the earliest part of the day. Remember breakfast is the first ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to use flax seed
- You can eat whole flax seeds but you need to chew them good to break them up. Your stomach will not dissolve whole flax seeds and many of them will come out in your stools. Chew about a tablespoon in the morning. Then drink 8 oz of water. Make sure if you chew flax seeds that you drink water since the seed expand and become gelatinous.There are brown and golden colored flax seeds. The golde...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Do you know what you are eating?
- With all the news about Splenda of late and the FTC, I had a client ask me the other day, "so what's the deal with Splenda, it's just sugar that has been processed!". I asked him if he knew what Splenda was and he said no.The chemical name for Splenda is:"4,1,6-trichlorogalatosucrose" or TGS another name is:"1,6-dichloro-1,6-dideoxy-beta-D-fructofuranosyl-4-chloro-...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Anti oxidants ? why its a must in your diet
- While oxygen is the key to human survival, it is also responsible for maximum damage to the human body as 'free radicals'. Free radicals form when oxygen is metabolized or burned by the body for its functions. Free radicals are also produced through environmental pollution and cigarette smokeTens of thousands of them are formed everyday in the body. These free radicals travel through the bo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The magic in food: love
- Remember the old adage, you are what you eat? The simplest magical ritual that you can do is to cut open a fruit or vegetable and eat it while thinking of your magical intention. Below is a compilation of common foods and their metaphysical associations.Apple: Draws a lover, erotic experiences to you. Increases attraction. Apple compote with cinnamon is thought to speed up the arrival of a ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Blood type and diet
- Eating right to suit your blood type" is a subject that is come up a lot in the chat rooms lately, so as promised, here is more information about the topic.First of all there are two bibles on this subject written by Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo. The first is "Eat Right 4 Your Type" and the second, "Cook Right 4 Your Type". If you are really interested in pursuing this lifestyle, I STRONGLY recomme...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Foods can lower cholesterol and c-reactive protein
- If you have high cholesterol, the American Heart Association's low-cholesterol, low-saturated fat diet will fail you. Even when applied conscientiously, it achieves a disappointingly modest reduction in LDL cholesterol of approximately 7%. Starting at an LDL cholesterol of 150 mg/dl, for instance, you would drop to 139. It's no surprise that many people turn to alternative diets (Ornish, Pritikin,...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Minerals, minerals, minerals
- You are a mineral bodyEvery part of you is made from minerals - your bones, cell structure, lymph liquid, arteries, organs, tissue, muscle, hair, and so on. You cannot live without minerals. Your body does not produce minerals.Where do you get your minerals? You get them from vegetables and fruits and good supplements. Since only 10% of the people eat enough fruits and vegetable, the...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Getting more minerals from your fruits and vegetables
- Before the thirties, people knew the importance of mineral. Their soil was rich in minerals and they ate plenty of vegetable grown in these soils. When vitamins were discovered during this time, people began to forget about the important of minerals and started their fascination with vitamins.Today because the soil is highly depleted of minerals, our vegetables are lacking in these life-giv...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Grains that cause illness
- Eating grain products - breads, cakes, cereals - have long been consider a healthy choice. If you look at the RDA recommendations, grains, at the bottom of the pyramid, are what you should be eating the most of to maintain a healthy body.The RDA's recommendations do not consider any food to be harmful for you. You must remember that the RDA's recommendations come from a government agency an...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Milk soy protein intolerance: a mothers perspective
- I first learned of Milk Soy Protein Intolerance (MSPI) in the office of a pediatric gastroenterologist's office with my seven-week-old son, Max. After the first week of his life Max lost weight and was labeled "failure to thrive." As an educated mother and nurse I was devastated that this could happen.That day in the GI specialist's office, he performed a proctosigmoidoscopy and biopsy on M...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Diet and eczema
- Much controversy and argument surrounds the idea that food may play a role in triggering eczema. It has only been in recent years that doctors and health professionals have become aware of the significance of diet on eczema.It is now generally acknowledged that some 10 ? 25 percent of people are affected by food sensitivity, and it has become much more widely accepted that food intolerance ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Go nuts!
- Nuts of all kinds (I am talking peanuts, cashews etc) have a mixed reputation. They are high in fat, but have no carbohydrates. Many people I know will not eat any type of nut because of their high fat content. Nuts have a very important role in a healthy weight loss plan.First, the fat in nuts is 90% percent unsaturated, which means it helps keep your arteries clean of cholesterol. Remembe...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Pharmaceutical grade fish oil -- why is it different?
- A flood of scientific evidence about fish oil points to a startling conclusion that taking high-dose fish oils, which are very rich in Omega-3 Fatty Acids, helps support a healthy heart, a healthy brain, a healthy immune system, healthy joint movement, healthy kidneys and much more.Each grade of fish oil is distinguished from the other by its purity and concentration of long-chain omega-3 f...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How you can support your immune system
- Media coverage of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has incited fear among the American public, emptied Chinatowns all over North America and stopped much of the travel between the U.S., Toronto, Canada, China, Taiwan and southeast Asia. While SARS is an urgent concern for the World Health Organization, a larger worry on the horizon for the world health agency is the flu-the long awaited in...