This is something I already knew, but it never harms to get another insight into it after a while: nuts are good for the health. Well, alright, no need to eat five pounds of them per day, else we may just end up with unwanted pounds elsewhere, like with any kind of food excess. Regarding…
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From WebMDHealth, in Fitness Level Predicts Likelihood if Death: “Having a good fitness level for one’s age predicts better survival,” Gulati tells WebMD. “If you are below the fitness level for your age, you are more likely to die.” Indeed, Gulati finds that women double their risk of death if they can’t exercise at 85%…
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So we always hear how we should eat fiber, that it’s good, and that unfortunately, most people don’t eat near enough of it. If you’re however like me, who wants or even needs to know “why” before doing something (is it a good or bad habit, I don’t know…), this article published on the Mayo…
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PORTLAND, Ore. – The path to better health and lower blood pressure may be paved with cobblestones. When people over 60 walked on smooth, rounded cobblestones for just a half-hour a day over four months, they significantly lowered their blood pressure and improved their balance, a study showed. Behavioral researchers from the Oregon Research Institute…
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Dr. John Briffa at The Observer takes a look at how eating proteins can be good for the bones: Yet while this phenomenon is traditionally explained through the potential for protein to leech calcium from the bone, research shows that protein in the diet increases the absorption of calcium from the gut. This provides an…
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I spotted this article in the California Aggie, describing a few choices and solutions that can be made in order to eat more healthy foods at a lessened cost. It reminded me very much of a problem I had to face myself when I overhauled my awful style of eating, a few months ago, and…
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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,…
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…Turn into a miracle product? Perhaps not, but flaxseeds and flaxseed oil can no matter what be counted among these healthy fats that we all need, namely for their richness in EFA and particularly in alpha-linoleilc acid (known as one of these blessed “omega-3″ we’ve all heard about one day or the other). These essential…
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Not very different from brown rice regarding its cooking method (rinse it first, then cook it for ten to fifteen minutes in two measures of water for one measure of grain), quinoa is a usually unexpected source of proteins as well as of complex carbohydrates, that looks like a grain but also contains many nutrients…
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