On Healthy Living

I like iVillage. No, really, I do; regularly enough, they have interesting articles regarding nutrition, health, exercise, weight loss, and various other topics of interest for a better way of living. Like what Sue Gilbert and Fran Clinton have to say about dairy. See, I also really like dairy. Milk, cheese, yogurt - name it, it’s probably one of my favorite kinds of foods, and I’d be very sorry if I were to be told one day that I can’t eat some anymore for whatever reason. Right now, it’s good to know that there are many benefits in consuming - moderately, as usual - these foods, and that I’m not necessarily shooting my way down to the tomb through them.

So, what can be counted among these benefits? Gilbert and Clinton list ten good reasons.

• High quality protein in milk
• Milk being a superb source of riboflavin
• Our body’s better source of calcium
• Vitamin D
• Helps reducing the risk of certain cancers
• May prevent high blood pressure
• Yogurt boosts immune functions

And now, I’m also glad that they tell us about twenty low-fat ways to incorporate it to one’s diet - because, let’s get honest, we also don’t want to overeat it, right?

Yzabel wrote this on June 29th, 2005 and filed it under Healthy Living, Healthy Eating, Health Foods |