Nutrition...
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Benefits of Soy Food
Benefits of Soy Food
Soybeans and soy foods are definitely good for your health. More than 500 scientific studies to date confirm the disease-fighting potential of...
Calcium Benefits
There is more calcium in the human body than any other mineral. The average male carries about 1.5 kg of calcium, the average female, about 1 kg, 99% of which is present...
Eat Your Way to Healthy Bones
Osteoporosis literally means 'porous bone'. It is a degenerative disease that gradually causes changes in the posture. Because of physiological, hormonal and nutritional...
Eat Your Way to Lower Blood Pressure
Of all the illnesses that make up cardiovascular disease, such as heart attack, stroke, angina pectoris, atherosclerosis, and arteriosclerosis - high blood pressure,...
Eating For a Powerful Workout
You may have heard conflicting stories about whether to eat before or after a workout, or even whether to eat at all. While your buddy at the gym may be training on an...
Eating Fruits and Vegetables Can Reduce Stroke Risk
Every year, over 150,000 people in the UK have a stroke. That's one person every three minutes. Most people affected are over 65, but anyone can have...
Ellagic Acid's Effect on Abnormal Cells
Ellagic acid is a remarkable antioxidant. It is contained in found raspberries, walnuts and strawberries. Clinical studies in humans have shown that...
Flax Seed and Arthritis
Arthritis is a chronic joint condition. It can be either inflammatory or sometimes more degenerative. Around 387,000 people in the UK have rheumatoid arthritis - roughly...
Food For The Skin
There is no single food within your diet that is responsible for maintaining healthy skin. What you must ensure is a totally balanced and healthy diet. However there are...
Foods That Fight Cancer
No one particular food can insure your immunity from cancer, but there are simple changes that you can make to your diet that will dramatically reduce your risk of...
Grapeful Health: The Facts About Resveratrol
For some time now grape seed extract has been known to strengthen and repair connective tissue, and promote enzyme activity, but grapes are currently...
Green Tea and Cancer Prevention
The Japanese custom of drinking green tea began about 800Ad, when Buddhist monks returned from China, bringing the herb with them for medicinal purposes. Thus green tea...
Green Tea: Digestion and Metabolism
Green tea has been growing in popularity over the past couple of years, mainly because of the increasing number of studies that show the wonderful health benefits of...
How Fish Oils Can Reduce the Risk of Heart Disease
Fatty Acids
Fatty acids are the basic building blocks of fats and oils. Contrary to many popular dietary myths the body does need fat; however it...
How Garlic Can Help Your Heart
Garlic (Allium sativum) was is popular worldwide. It will grow in virtually all parts of the world and can be found throughout Europe growing wild in fields and...
Keeping your Liver Young and Healthy
The liver has as more than 500 vital functions, though not all of them are fully understood. Its primary function is the detoxification of the whole body. Everything...
Lutein Keeps Your Eyes Bright and Sharp
Lutein has been found to play an important role in protecting our eyes and vision. It appears to work in two ways; acting as a natural sun block and...
Nutrients May Prevent Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's disease is a form of dementia, which means a serious deterioration in several mental functions, such as memory, language, orientation and...
Nutrients to Keep You Younger, Longer
It's a tough world out there. You're constantly battling the enemies: pollutants, additives, toxins. It's a tough world inside your body too, where...
Nutrition Bars: When and How to Use Nutritional Snacks
Nutrition bars go by many names including meal-replacement bars, energy bars, protein bars, and sports bars. Walkers, runners, cyclists, marathoners...
Nutrition for Healthy Hair
Nutrition is extremely vital for in order to keep hair healthy. Some of the important nutrients for keeping your hair strong, shiny and silky are water, Vitamin A,...
Probiotics: Healthy Cultures For the GI Tract
Though you may not be aware, the intestinal tract is inhabited by more than 500 types of micro organisms. Though some of these live bacteria can...
Repairing Sports Injuries with Nutrition and Herbs
Sports injuries fall into two general categories. First, there's the repetitive-motion type of trauma, such as tennis elbow, which is caused by...
The Benefits of Black Currants
A study carried out by the Journal of Science Food and Agriculture has recently found that the ordinary British blackcurrant is jam-packed with not just vitamin C but...
The Cleansing Effects of Wheatgrass Juice
Wheat grass, a variety of grass akin to barley and oats and is grown outdoors whereas wheatgrass is grown indoors, from wheat berries, in trays for...
The Functions of Fibre
Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers with a prevalence of more than 12,000 women and 15,000 men in the UK alone. After lung cancer,...
The Healthy Breast Feeding Diet
During pregnancy and breast feeding your nutritional requirements increase, this is in order to help your body support your growing child and to keep you strong and...
The Right Vitamins for a Healthy Heart
Vitamins are organic compounds found in low concentrations in food. Their functions within our bodies are vital and specific. Without them our bodies...
Vegetarian Pregnancy and After
With some thought and careful planning, a vegetarian diet during pregnancy can provide all the necessary nutrients that you and your growing child need.
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