Healthy Eating...
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A Little Thing Called Lecithin
Lecithin is a fat-like substance called a phospholipid. The liver produces it daily, if the diet is adequate. Approximately 30% of your brain is composed of...
Avoiding Digestive and Gastrointestinal Disorders
Millions of people in Britain suffer from gastrointestinal symptoms. Other common digestive disorders include heartburn, peptic ulcers, colitis...
Choline Prevents Homocysteine Build-up
Getting enough choline in your daily diet can help to prevent high homocysteine levels in your blood. Increased homocysteine levels are known...
Cooking Healthily to Keep Your Family Slim
In today’s face-paced world, the temptation to order an Indian take-away, buy a ready-meal or pop down to the kebab shop can be overwhelming. Few...
Daily Nutrition: Optimal Allowances
Recommended daily allowances (RDAs) are guidelines used to set the standard for daily nutritional amounts required by a healthy person. However, the designated amounts...
Dietary Nutritional Values of 8,000 Foods
When dieting it is important to understand the foods you are eating. To help you we have published data for around 8,000 foods and food types...
Eating Healthily to Lower Blood Pressure
What you eat – and how often you exercise - can have a real effect on your blood pressure, and can even lower it. High blood pressure can be a...
Findings About Chocolate
Are you a chocolate lover who finds it hard to resist the temptation? Do you feel guilty about your cravings for the sweet stuff? Well now maybe you can ease your...
Fruits Are Your Friends
Fruit and vegetables are full of healty benefits. The ones that studies show to produce the most effective results, included, cabbage, bok choy, Brussels sprouts,...
How to Curb Your Cravings
Do you crave pancakes for breakfast? When you eat out do you find you can't get through dinner without succumbing to a decadent dessert? If you eat one cookie are the...
Is a Vegan Diet Healthy?
Many people at some stage in their life choose to become vegetarian, either for moral, ethical, environmental or health reasons. Some reckon that eating meat is...
Maintaining a Healthy Diet When Breast-feeding
Many women mistakenly believe that when they give birth, their careful eating habits can go out the window. But if you are planning to b...
Meat Free Diet and Iron
Probably the most important of iron's functions in our bodies is the production of haemoglobin and myoglobin (the form of haemoglobin found in muscle tissue. Iron is the...
Nutritional Support for Allergies
While some allergic responses are little more than a nuisance, others affect the entire body. It is believed that allergies and can develop, if untreated, into more...
Six Tips for Healthy Weight Loss
Whilst dieting and exercise will undoubtedly help achieve weight loss, we should be aware of other lifestyle factors and chemical reactions in our bodies, which each...
Slimming Effects of Caffeine
Women everywhere are trying to find new ways of losing weight. Some of these methods are safe and approved by specialists whilst others are dangerous and even...
Ten Easy Changes You Can Make to Lose Weight
Many of us want to lose weight, but don’t really know how. Some of us start strict diet plans, then find them impossible to follow and give up....
The Soy Story
Soybeans and soy foods are definitely good for your health. Hundreds of clinical studies to date have shown that soy foods have major potential for fighting disease. In...
Zinc and Exercise
Do you become out of breath or tired very easily when you exercise? If you do, studies show that you may be suffering from zinc deficiency. Scientists have been aware...
