Fiber is one of those dietary needs that always seems to be the last on the list. Part of the problem is that its just darned difficult to eat the amount of fiber you need every day. The typical diet has a person taking in about 10 grams of fiber a day. The USDA recommendation is…
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How to Enjoy a Big Meal Guilt-Free
Food will always bring us together. Its no secret that we love to eat. Unfortunately, this sometimes leads to a bit of middle-aged spread (or worse) and there comes a time that we have to reel it in and cut back on our love of food. you’re probably already familiar with our post on what it…
Learn how to cook for better health
When you cook for better health, its not just what you eat but also how you cook it. You probably know you should eat more fruits and vegetables and less red meat, especially processed red meat. A large study of people aged 50 to 71 found that about one-third more of those who ate the most…
Introduction to Kombucha Tea for Weight Loss
Kombucha diet health tea is nothing new, in fact it has been around for centuries. There are reports of Kombucha tea being used as a health drink or folk medicine as far back as 200 BC in China. Despite its long time use in the east, Kombucha has not caught on as quickly in the…
What is Gluten?
It seems that everywhere you go there is talk about gluten. There is gluten-free bread, gluten-free pasta, and even gluten-free pizza. Many people have found that they have intolerance to gluten so they try to stay away from it. There is an actual condition called Celiac disease that results in serious reactions if gluten is…
What Are Gluten Intolerance Symptoms?
More and more people have found themselves unable to tolerate gluten. Gluten is a protein that can be found in most wheat products, including breads, baked goods, and pasta. The substance actually helps proteins adhere to the wheat giving it more elasticity and texture. But many people have a reaction after eating foods that contain…
What Is the Leptin Diet?
The Leptin Diet is a relatively new addition to the dietary community, tracing origins back to as recently as 1994. While explaining how the Leptin Diet is alleged to work is simple enough, the actual process by which leptin is supposed to work is a bit more complex. Leptin is a hormone, which means that…
Looking at High Fat Diets
In contradiction to the best information that science and nutrition has to offer, it is now shown that some patients can lose weight following high fat diets. The basic structure of the high fat diet is an 1800 calorie diet with up to half the calories coming from fat.The list of acceptable fruits and vegetables…
Reviewing Jay Robb’s Fruit Flush Diet
Jay Robb, the author of The Fruit Flush 3 Day Detox, yields a slightly higher mark of approval among some in the medical community in comparison to other “detox” diets. As a rule of thumb, any diet with the word “flush” or “detox” in the title will not be held in high esteem by anyone medically…
What Is the Healthy Kidney Diet?
The Healthy Kidney Diet, like the Healthy Heart Diet, is not an official diet plan but rather provides basic information intended to help a dieter make informed food choices that can benefit kidney health. Kidney disease is a very serious and chronic disease which can be treated and reduced in severity but never be completely…
Why Diet Soda Can Get You Fat
Diet sodas carry the promise of youth. By giving up those sugary-laden drinks for a cup of aspartame and carbonated water, you’ll shed those pounds, get ripped and look sexy. Buy you should know that If dieting and losing weight are among your fitness goals, diet drinks are a sure-fire way to slow results.Diet Soda MythsThe…
The Cabbage Soup Diet: Does It Pass the Test?
When the only positive thing that experts have to say about the cabbage soup diet is that it encourages people to eat more vegetables, it is clear that this diet is one with more than a few short coming.This restricted food, restricted calorie diet consists primarily of a bottomless bowl of cabbage soup, select vegetables…
Are Cheerios A Healthy Cereal?
The “healthiness” of cereals and foods is often relative. Same goes for Cheerios. For example, if you are regularly skipping breakfast and then grabbing a bagel and cream cheese at the office, a bowl of Cheerios with skim milk would be a much better option from a nutrition standpoint than your usual choices in the morning….
Does Water Make You Lose Weight?
drinking water and weight loss just seems to be one of those things that always get lumped together, although a lot of diets don’t really explain why you should drink more water to lose weight. They just tell you to do it.While water has all kinds of health benefits, and can certainly be part of…
14 Anti-aging Foods To Increase Health and Longevity
What is Aging Aging is a natural phenomenon associated with every living being. The first signs of changes are visible on the skin. Wrinkles, lines, dryness, dullness in skin tone, and thinning epidermis layer are some of the external symptoms. Shrinking muscles, fatigue, and reducing immunity could be the other internal symptoms. Awareness of these symptoms…
The Many Benefits of Avocado Oil
When you think of avocados, you typically think of guacamole. Or, if you are me, you think of Kriste at the office who (in her own words) is “totally obsessed” with avocados and will eat them sliced, diced or on the “half-shell” when given the chance. Once shunned because of their high fat content, avocados have…
Health Benefits of Cottage Cheese
It’s 9 pm and you’re getting the those evening snack cravings. You feel like breaking out the nacho chips, but your fitness sense tell you to find something healthy that will carry you through the rest of the evening. What do you do? You reach for the cottage cheese. There’s a good reason that the refrigerators of healthy,…
What’s The Highest Protein Content Food?
First, let’s understand exactly how we are determining “highest protein content” of a given food. To determine how much protein content a food has, you have to look at the percentage of total protein in relation to the rest of the macro-nutrients in the food (carbohydrates and fats) and things like fiber, water and vitamin and…
Herbs and Spices: The Secret Spice To Clean Eating
Healthy, whole foods get a bad rap when it comes to flavor. “Eating clean” often gets associated with eating “bland” — especially among fitness buffs, bodybuilders and athletes who think that a good “training diet” consists of meal-after-repetitive-meal of oatmeal, boiled chicken breast, yams, steamed broccoli and green side salads with some kind of fat-free liquid…
10 Best Foods To Eat For Healthy Life
Cleaning up your diet and eating healthier is often just a matter of knowing where to start. Unfortunately, many people think that a healthy diet is only about removing foods, not adding them in. This list of the 10 Best Foods to Eat focuses on what you should be eating, not on what you shouldn’t eat. All of…
Salad Spinners: Spin Your Salad Healthy
Most kitchen gadgets are purchased on impulse, used once for the novelty of them, and then quickly buried in a cabinet or drawer. You know that drawer: The land of Misfit Kitchen Gadgets filled with everything from fancy garlic peelers, apple corers, electric can openers to the Miracle Chef veggie chopper. But one addition to your kitchen…
How To Build A Healthy Pantry … For Busy People
We’re all busy, so making healthy choices with the many activities that stake claims to our time can be a challenge. We’re told to exercise, get enough sleep, eat healthy and minimize stress. With all the responsibilities we have, attempting to do all that can be daunting, but it can be done. The trick to conquering…
Who Needs An Omega-3 Supplement?
In the drug store, the pills come in many types: Fish oil, krill oil, and general omega-3 supplements. While there are many names and types of omega-3 supplements, many are often left wondering if these purchases are right for them.Omega-3 risks?Several years ago, an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association studied omega-3’s…
5 Really Yummy Foods That Will Make You Look Younger!
Believe it or not, completely flawless skin is nowhere near as difficult to pull off as a lot of people are led to believe it to be. In fact, you might not even have to use any weirdo (or expensive) skin care products to get the kind of blemish free and crystal clear complexion you’re after…
12 Foods That Can Help Cure Diabetes
many doctors and organizations around the world do believe today that there are Foods that can help cure diabetes and diabetics are advised to consume those kind of foods that can alleviate/reverse their condition for a better healthier life. Here is our pick forFoods That Can Help Cure DiabetesAvocadoAvocados have a lot of health advantages for…
The Amazing Benefits of Coconut Oil
More and more people are waking up to the powerhouse health boosting benefits of coconut oil, and frankly, it’s about time! Considered to be one of the true “super foods” out there on our planet today, this oil has the potential to completely transform your life.Sounds too good to be true?Like marketing hype?Like everything you’ve ever…
What Is Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP) And Where Does This Mysterious Vegetable Protein Come From?
What Is Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP) And Where Does This Mysterious Vegetable Protein Come From? We Unlock The Secrets of This Common High-Protein Food IngredientWhat Exactly Is Textured Vegetable Protein and Where Does TVP Come From?Textured vegetable protein is generally used as either a meat substitute or meat extender. It’s actually not made out of…
What Is a Complete Protein? Complete vs Incomplete Proteins
A complete protein is a protein source that contains all eight essential amino acids in the sufficient proportions to support normal biological functions. In adults, the eight essential amino acids are: Phenylalanine ValineThreonineTryptophanIsoleucineMethionineLeucineLysine These amino acids are called “essential” because the body cannot make them, so they have to be supplied through diet. Recently, histadine…
Crash diet – is it possible to lose lots of weight in a day or two?
Lets start with saying that – Fast Weight Loss Is An Illusion I’m not naive enough to believe that there aren’t crash diet techniques (which are very popular among anorexics, by the way) or pills out there that could cause you to drop another five pounds of scale weight in the next day or two. But remember,…
Dietary Fat: Five Myths About Fat That You Should Must Realize
Navigating the sometimes contradictory research and information around dietary fat can make a person’s head spin. Should I eat more fat? Less fat? A different kind of fat? Here are the five most common myths around dietary fat:Myth 1: Eating more fat makes you fatterNot true. Eating more calories than you burn makes you gain fat. Whether…
Is Instant Oatmeal Good For You?
Given the choice between eating no oatmeal, and eating instant oatmeal, I would say the instant oats are still a good breakfast choice (with some caveats.) Maybe not ideal, but eating healthy is a matter of degrees.The reason oatmeal consistently makes my top 10 list of clean eating foods is two fold: It’s high in…