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December 2007
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Know the Truths about Your Nutrition
These are some of the nutritional non-truths that might be hurting people.
Fiction – Skipping meals helps you lose weight, and does it faster.
Fact – When you skip a meal, your body slows down your metabolism in order to conserve energy. Also, you are more likely to eat more at your next [...]
Orange Foods: Your Premier Source Of Beta Carotene
For this week in the ‘Health Foods’ section of this blog, we will talk about the different nutrients that the body needs, why we need them and which foods are considered to be the best sources of these essential nutrients.
First up, we have Beta Carotene. Orange-hued fruits and vegetables like papaya, carrots, apricots, melons and [...]
Easy Cruising With Drive Medical’s Daytona 4 Scooter
If you find shopping or buying your groceries in open-air markets a little too tiring for your weak knees and legs then you will definitely have a use for Drive Medical’s Daytona 4 Scooter. This home medical equipment has flat free tires and can be used both indoor and outdoor.
Parks are a good place for [...]
Is The Lemonade Diet A Fad Diet?
After reading this article, decide for yourself if you think the lemonade diet is a fad diet.
The lemonade diet doesn’t have any complicated menus because you don’t get to have anything to eat. No…not even a little bit. This is definitely a liquid diet, and not the party kind.
As well you will be drinking salt [...]
What The Zone Diet Is And The Added Benefits Besides Weight Loss.
The Zone diet is a regimen of eating meals with low carbohydrates with balanced proteins. This way the dieter uses more energy from carbohydrates instead of proteins or fats.
Eating lots of carbohydrates produces too much insulin in the body. Too much insulin tells the body to make those carbohydrates into fat and store them in [...]
Non-Truths about Nutrition
It sure seems that with all of the interest that Americans are showing these days in being healthy, there are a great many contradictions in the information out there.
There are some “experts” that state as fact, what is actually only their personal opinion. Every person is entitled to have their own belief, but when they [...]
Salmon: Good For The Body, Good For The Heart
Essentially, white meat is healthier than red meat but both are equally important in your diet. Fish, in particular, should be the main ingredient in your daily home menus since it is a good source of protein. Salmon, herring and mackerel all come from the same group of fish that thrive in cold water, and [...]
Do You Know The Answers To These Questions?
A few tidbits of trivia that may take you by surprise, and have you looking at your vegetables with a new eye.
1. Do the leaves and roots of beets have any nutritional value? If so, what are they?
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Manage Your Diabetes With Hypoguard’s Advance Micro-Draw Blood Glucose Monitoring System
Diabetes is a serious illness but it is manageable. How you live your life now that you know you have Diabetes will determine not only your lifespan but also the quality of life you will have. Using a home medical equipment like the Advance Micro-Draw Blood Glucose Monitoring System will help you manage your Diabetes [...]
It’s All In The Legume Family
Wellness – and staying fit and healthy is all the craze these days. If you want to join in, one way for you to do so is by welcoming members of the ‘legume family’ into your kitchen. Legumes are basically plants which have seed pods that split in two. Examples of the legumes that we [...]