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726. Eating the Australian Way By Chris Raynor
     Australians are often divided into the haves, and the have-nots.But they're not always talking about money.These days, it's often the haves (too much body fat), versus the have-nots (not overweight).We can't seem to make up our minds whether to eat at McDonald's, KFC, Pizza Hut, Krispy Kreme, Starbucks, and All-You-Can-Eat fast food restaurants, or whether to grab a protein snack, a freshly-squeezed fruit juice with wheatgrass and go straight to the gym.Women's Magazines have the same problem.…



727. Guerilla Health Tactics: 5 Snappy Rules For a Healthier, Happier You By Carson C. Day
     The subject of health care itself often seems plagued with conflicting advice, or even heated controversy. Witness the recent Cruise-Shields incident, which will doubtless occupy several chapters in future health and nutrition texts. So what to do about this advice-riddled and divisive field when you want to find out what you can do to better your own health? We suggest that you do a little research, read differing opinions, and the reasons given for them, and then go with what you feel confid…



728. Finding Your Reason Why to be Healthy By Dr. Jamie Fettig
     The most incredible thing you can do for yourself is have a big enough reason why that will totally light up your life and will remind yourself of that reason every single day. We are going to go through a process to help you create your reasons why to make it almost impossible not to be healthy. DO THIS NOW! PLEASE.Action Step: #1: Figure out what you want.Remember, you can want more than one thing, and you can change what you want. Everyone knows what they want, it is just some people are af…



729. Natural Help for Asthma By Stewart Hare
     Asthma is a long term inflammatory disease that affects the lungs and respiration in which inflammation and spasms of the bronchial passages slows the flow of air to and from the lungs due to increase amounts of mucus, the exact cause of asthma is unknown but it has been linked to an abnormal immune response in which attacks are thought to be brought on by stress, allergies, changes in environmental conditions, viral infections, emotions, exercise, food additives and airborne irritants. Indivi…



730. Avoiding Nutritionally Deficient Foods After Gastric Bypass By Kaye Bailey
     After WLS we must concentrate on eating nutrient rich food. Nutritionally void foods cannot be part of the regular diet after surgery because they can cause dumping, vomiting and/or weight gain. In addition, the body is taxed by the bypassed system and to put foods into it which are difficult to process and digest only taxes the body further keeping us from feeling optimum health.In traditional dieting we learn to avoid “unhealthy” foods – those that tend to least resemble their original natur…



731. A Heart Healthy Diet Makeover By Meri Raffetto
     Heart Disease remains the number one cause of death in the U.S. among both men and women. Part of the problem is it is truly a silent killer. There are few warning signs of a heart attack and the signs that are there don’t necessarily make us feel bad. The good news is there are many lifestyle changes you can make to significantly decrease your risk of heart disease. Here are 9 simple steps to make over your diet for heart health.1. Use the right fats: The good fats are found to preserve HDL…



732. Safely Transitioning Off Meal Replacement Plans By Jim Duffy
     Meal replacements have been part of the diet landscape for decades. They have helped numerous people lose weight, and more importantly, they have helped people learn the difference between healthy and unhealthy eating choices. Both quantity and quality of life improvements can be credited to the concept of meal replacement solutions.Those that have successfully relied upon a meal replacement plan can reflect fondly on how the plan helped address a fundamental diet obstacle: choosing what to …



733. Boost Your Immune System By Alfred Jones
     The Immune System is probably the most important system in your body. It was designed by nature, millions of years ago, to aid the body in recovering from injuries and illness. In other words “a natural built in healing system”.Your blood is composed mainly of red and white cells, the red ones carry the oxygen and nutrition to all parts of the body, the white ones are the defenders and scavengers of your body, during infection, they are immediately called upon to fight the infection and clean…



734. Set Your 'Fat Thermostat' at a Healthy Level By Serena Harstad
     Have you ever watched someone who appears thin and healthy eating a piece of chocolate cake and wondered how they stay thin? Part of the reason is that they have a set-point in their brain that keeps their body fat and weight from varying~ that is, until they do something that causes the brain to change its settings for weight control.That's what happened to me when I quit smoking. I'd been slender all my life until I stopped smoking and gained nearly 25 pounds! Quitting nicotine had trigger…



735. Easing the Symptoms of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Naturally By Stewart Hare
     Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease where the synovial membranes lining in certain joints and sometimes other parts of the body are attacked by the immune system. This causes the synovial membranes lining to become inflamed, thickened and become stiff, red, swell and painful due to the excess synovial fluid produced. The underlying bones of the joints that are affected by RA are affected by the inflammation as it spreads causing them to become distorted and worn. Some i…



736. Fasting & Enemas...For A Clean Body Detox By Philip G. Jones
     A hundred years ago, life was very different here on earth. The air was cleaner and the earth was rich in nutrients. Then, in our need to feed our ever-increasing population, we gradually changed the quality of the air we breathe and our once nutrient rich soil is now sorely lacking. We now live in world of chemicals and pollutants in our air, water and food.Our bodies, amazing as they are, were not designed to handle this kind of constant onslaught. Is there anything we can do about it? Yo…



737. Busy Mum's Guide to Losing Weight By Lucy-Ann Prideaux
     Hormonal changes during pregnancy, and quite normal fat gain often makes many women feel unattractive and sometimes quite depressed. Many women still believe that “eating for two” is the way to go during pregnancy. I am sorry if I disappoint some of you, but this really is not the case. If a woman eats to satisfy her appetite, her weight will usually increase by about 3.5kg (8lb) in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy and then by about 0.5kg (1lb) a week until the end of the pregnancy. The total w…



738. The Many Benefits of Green Tea Extract By Oktay Özadam
     The Benefits of Green Tea Extract: Anti-Aging, Anti-Cancer, Weight Control One of the great advancements in nutrition in the twenty-first century is the scientific confirmation of the many benefits of green tea extract. Here are just a few. Green tea: Lowers cholesterol Slows arthritis Prevents the growth of cancer cells Assists weight loss What accounts for the health benefits of green tea extract? Over 1,800 scientific studies have found that the active constituents in green tea are power…



739. Cranberry Juice To The Rescue By Jeannie Crabtree
     Cranberry juice was first made by American settlers in 1683. It is a love it or hate it beverage. For those who like it, it has a number of health benefits. Let me share some of those.Emulsifies Fat.This is for all of you that have some excess fat to lose. According to Nutritionist Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., C.N.S., Cranberry juice contains high levels of organic acids, which have an emulsifying effect upon fat deposits. She generally suggests it along with some flax seed or flax seed oil.Ur…



740. Antioxidants - Your Best Defense Against Disease and Aging By Brad Bahr
     Studies support the benefits of eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables. This is due to their high antioxidant value. Why are antioxidants so important? Because they have a proven track record of fighting free radicals.Your body is being constantly attacked by very harmful substances known as free radicals or oxygen radicals. Free radicals can destroy your cells, tissues and organs.Free radicals are highly unstable molecules that are naturally formed inside our bodies by the process …



741. Olive Oil -Not Just for Popeye By John Rumberger, PhD, MD
     Archeological records indicate that man has cultivated the olive tree for about 6,000 years; having been especially popular in the Isle of Crete (which as you recall, also appeared in the Seven Countries Study to be the site of the lowest incidence of heart disease). All oils that we use for eating and cooking contain "fat" and olive oil is no exception. However, it is mostly monounsaturated fat as opposed to saturated fat or hydrogenated fat. It can be used as a flavoring for cooking or…



742. How to Stop Bad Breath In 4 Refreshing Steps By Naweko San-Joyz
     OK, no more excuses. Here's how to stop making everyone laugh behind your back after getting a whiff of your noxious breath.Do you secretly fear that your breath is making people gag? Well you can stop the paranoia right now. Here’s how…Step 1: Scrape your tongue The first source of a rotten mouth is a tongue smothered in festering bacteria. If your tongue is fuzzy white, you can bet that that layer of filth is making your breath hideous. Scrap off that white coating with a soft toothbrush or …



743. The Ugly Truth About Food By Karen Walker
     At any grocery store in North America right now, there are shoppers cruising the isles, making thoughtful choices about their family's nutrition. Armed with the latest information about health, choosing foods high in nutrition is a primary goal. Unfortunately, no matter how carefully one shops, there is often little nutrition in the foods we consume. In fact, it is nearly impossible to consume adequate nutrients through diet alone in our modern world.What causes our foods to be devoid of nutri…



744. You Don't Have to be Wealthy to Eat Well: The Truth about Your Grocery Budget By K.C. Craichy
     Many people complain that organic foods are more costly than conventional. In many cases, organic foods are priced higher. However, people aren’t weighing the costs of eating healthy against the costs of eating poorly. Americans spend millions of dollars each week on “coffee house foods”—fatty lattés and sugary frappucinos, not to mention the white-floured, trans fatty pastries that go along with them. If you were to keep a strict accounting of all the money you spent on soda, pizza, potato ch…



745. 9 Tips to Stop Food Cravings and Help You With Your Diet By Emily Clark
     Most of us are "regular" people. We don't eat the perfect diet all the time and have our struggles with food, same as everyone else. But having an awareness of this fact and knowing a little bit about our health and food nutrition can help when it comes to making wise decisions.Many people struggle with food "cravings." Studies tell us that it's fairly common for food cravings to happen at certain times, quite often at around bedtime. Your guard may be down, you may have had an unusually hard …



746. When Fat is Phat By Julia Kalish
     phat (f t) adj. Slang phat•ter, phat•test Excellent; first-rate: phat fashion; a phat rapper.Want to increase your overall health and energy level? Interested in preventing heart disease, cancer, depression, and Alzheimer's? Or perhaps you'd like to treat rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, ulcerative colitis, or Raynaud's disease?If you answered yes to any of these, then get fat!No, I don't mean "get fat" as in "get bigger!" I mean stop thinking that all fat is bad for you, and start including he…



747. Factors that Affect the Nutritional Requirements of an Individual. By Stewart Hare
     The factors that affect the nutritional requirements of an individual are the quality and quantity of the food they eat, the efficiency of their digestive system in absorbing and utilizing eaten food and biochemical availability.The quality of food that we eat can vary depending on the soil and growing conditions of that food. Soil that has been overworked and chemicals added and also drugs and antibiotics that have been given to livestock and crops to aid growth are all factors that affect nu…



748. Bye Bye Holidays and Holiday Eating By Deborah Caruana
     Bye Bye HolidaysHoping everyone had a fun, fantastic, exciting and relaxing mix of Holiday eventfulness or lack thereof. Whatever it was that you did, that it most suited your moods and needs. Since the holidays were shortened into one compact week, Saturday to the next weeks Sunday, there was no time to languish. You had to seize that holiday time with both hands and feet to get the most out of it.Holidays for me mean visiting family, since they live in another country (Canada) this is onl…



749. How To Fit More Fiber Into Your Day By Lee Dobbins
     Looking for a way to help your heart, protect yourself against disease and relieve constipation?Then you’ll want to try getting more fiber! Studies have indicated that eating a high fiber diet can help reduce the risk of certain cancers, alleviate digestive disorders and is even good for your heart, but most Americans do not eat nearly enough. It is recommended that you get at least 35 grams a day, and it is far better to get this from natural foods like fruits and vegetables than from suppl…



750. Omega 3 Fat is Good for Your Heart and for Your Brain By Simon Chobod
     Scandinavian fishermen are a healthy bunch. It had long been known that they live longer and have much less heart and blood-pressure related diseases than their European counterparts.Their diet of cold-water fish, while not known for variety or sophistication, had been suspected to fortify their health. Now the scientific research gives additional credit to this claim.Eating fish high in fats like sardines and salmon might help to prevent Alzheimer's disease. Such fish contains Omega 3 fatty a…



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