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76. The Facts About Salt in Our Childrens Diet By Vikki Scovell
    SaltThe stark message being delivered to parents and carers is that feeding children salty foods condemns them to high blood pressure in later life. According to Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) the upper safe limit for salt consumption is;6 grams for adults Children age 7-14 5 grams Children age 1-6 2 grams (Babies should have no salt at all)Recent surveys have shown that adults are consuming between 10 and 12 grams of salt a day, three times more than the body needs, and children,…



77. Green Tea, or not to Green Tea? By Kurt Hurley
    Wow! Is it just me or… Wait! Let me start again, I think it’s great that Oprah is the communicator to the masses that she is, without her or her influence, we would surely be less informed and less enlightened than we currently are, I can admit this, but there are certain things that exist that should not necessarily require the direction of Oprah or her throng of guests to bring to light there-well there mere existence…Green Tea is one such discovery…now there I go; it is not a discovery, alt…



78. Nutrition for Macular Degeneration. By Stewart Hare
    Macular degeneration is the deterioration of the macula retina, an oval shaped disc in the back of the eye which is used for fine vision such as recognizing faces and reading. Macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in the elderly, it affects about 20% of the over 65’s. Macular degeneration symptoms are painless, typically the peripheral vision stays in focus but dark and blurry areas appear in the centre of vision which distorts straight lines making doing activities such as re…



79. 7 Tips on Using Food Diet Remedies for Your Common Health Ailments By Sandra Kim Leong
    Making simple changes to your food diet can help remedy some of the common health problems. Increasingly, more health experts are acknowledging that natural food is a good alternative medicine against many diseases. The use of antibiotics or drugs may not necessarily be the “cure all” answer. Recent studies have shown that cabbage, garlic and apples, etc provide good nutritional remedies.If you are interested to find out more, there are quite a couple of health and nutrition books that are ava…



80. Discover How to Grow Your Own Source of Vitamins, Fiber, Proteins, and More By Emily Clark
    Sprouts not only taste good, but they are also a great source of vitamins, fiber, protein, anti-oxidants, and enzymes. A sprout is produced when a seed starts growing into a vegetable. Sprouts can grow from the seeds of vegetables, from grains such as buckwheat, and from beans. While Mung beans are perhaps the most common source of sprouts, you can also obtain good results from lentils, soybeans and chickpeas just to name a few.Sprouts can be grown almost anywhere and the best part is you only…



81. An Open Letter to Mankind By Zach Thompson
    In the last twenty years, a huge and growing body of research has been carried out into the role of the sugars that are an essential part of glycoproteins. These sugar-protein complexes are the building blocks of our immune system, and are the method by which cells “talk” to each other.Research now runs to over 80,000 papers in many established medical journals. The accompanying papers in this pack discuss various aspects of sugar metabolism, from the scientific research to case histories, alo…



82. Anti oxidants – Why Its a Must in Your Diet By R.G. Srinivasan
    While oxygen is the key to human survival, it is also responsible for maximum damage to the human body as ‘free radicals’. Free radicals form when oxygen is metabolized or burned by the body for its functions. Free radicals are also produced through environmental pollution and cigarette smokeTens of thousands of them are formed everyday in the body. These free radicals travel through the body causing immense damage to the cell structures and causes chronic disease, anti aging as well as oth…



83. Pineapples: The Healing Fruit Of The Tropics (Includes A Recipe For Pina-Banana Orange Smoothie) By Monique N. Gilbert
    For a natural and tasty way to improve your health and boost your healing capacity, add fresh pineapple and pineapple juice to your diet. Pineapples are nutritionally packed members of the bromeliad family. This delightful tropical fruit is high in the enzyme bromelain and the antioxidant vitamin C, both of which plays a major role in the body’s healing process.Bromelain, a natural anti-inflammatory with analgesic properties, encourages healing, promotes well-being and has many other health …



84. Eating On the Go: Healthy Choices While You Travel By Tony Hale
    If you have a business trip tomorrow morning, you’ve probably already booked your flight and hotel room, arranged for transportation to the airport, set up meetings, planned your presentations, packed your clothes, and maybe even arranged for someone to feed your pet lama while you’re away (lamas eat more than you think).But what if instead you just woke up and left the house. No ticket, no reservation, you don’t even know where the airport is or where you’re going. I think you’ll find this …



85. Sprouting Good Health By Stephanie Raymond
    At age 22, Colleen Allison was diagnosed with cervical cancer. Facing the possibility of undergoing painful surgery and intensive radiation treatment, she decided there had to be a better option and set out to find it.Her search led her to Florida where she found the Hippocrates Health Institute. Here she checked herself into a three-week intensive cleansing treatment that included a sprout-filled detoxification diet.After her stay at the institute she returned to her home in Toronto,without a…



86. 10 Disciplines of Effective Nutrition By Kurt Hurley
    Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.- Jim RohnRealistically, I could write a complete book on discipline… Hey wait, that’s a good idea… Anyway, discipline is such an exciting concept to me, I am so motivated by the thought that with each and everyday we can exact discipline in our lives and one day master the concept entirely. I have always been fairly good at putting my mind to something and eventually getting what I wanted. It wasn’t until a few years ago that I could …



87. 5 Tips To Lower Your Cholesterol By Tony Newton
    Cholesterol has been around for thousands of years. It's a natural function of the human body. Unfortunately, most people aren't even aware they have high cholesterol until they have a heart attack or stroke. It is possible to have up to 80 percent closure of the arteries without ever feeling a single symptom! Here are 5 tips you can use straight away to start lowering your cholesterol today:1. Reduce fat in your diet.Buy the leanest cuts of meat you can find. Regularly substitute poul…



88. Take Back Your Life 7 By Stephen Ayers
    In parts 1-6 of this series of articles titled "Take Back Your Life", we discussed what could be considered the four wheels of the human wellness vehicle. We discussed the importance of proper cell function, the necessity of having and maintaining a balanced endocrine system, and the role of vitamins and minerals, including certain trace minerals as they relate to wellness, the value of antioxidants, the necessity of consuming plenty of enhanced water and what roles lactoferrin (Lf) and prolin…



89. You Are What You Eat? By Daniel Sitter
    Your magnificent machine is, in fact, a symbiotic collection of diverse, yet related sub-systems, coordinated and operated by a three pound mass of wrinkled gray matter known as your brain. Yes, our bodies are a true miracle, a wonder to behold. Every minute chemical change in one body system can adversely effect or benefit any or every other system. A small electro-chemical imbalance in our brain, our control system, can mean a near shutdown of our entire body. Precision balance is the stand…



90. Free Radicals - Should I Be Concerned About Them? By Paul Wallace
    Free radicals are unstable molecules with extra "free" electrons looking for a connection. They can latch onto a cell membrane or blood vessel lining and create constant inflammation, leading to eventual damage, serious disease, and even to an early death.Free radicals are atoms or groups of atoms that contain at least one unpaired electron that attack healthy cells. If an electron is unpaired, another atom or molecule can easily bond to it, causing a chemical reaction.Damage caused by …



91. Inactive Alert: Essential Proteins for Sedentary People By Jim Duffy
    The importance of protein in diet has been clearly established by nutritional scientists, and widely accepted by athletes. Among other vital functions, protein is indispensable for creating muscle. Just as important is protein’s essential ability to repair damaged muscles after training[i].While the value of protein in diet has been accepted and promoted within the athletic community, it has been less well disseminated within the very large sedentary population. Currently making up about 25% o…



92. Attaining Healthy Nutrition Habits: How You Can Do It By John Gibb
    Question: What nutrients does my body need to maintain healthy nutrition habits?Answer: There are plenty of nutrients that can help your body become the picture of health. Vitamin A is a key nutrient that can be found in fruits and vegetables. Aiding cell reproduction, Vitamin A helps vision, promotes bone and tooth development, and helps to maintain healthy skin, hair, and mucous membranes. A lack of this vitamin can cause such woes as night blindness, poor bone growth, dry skin, and weak to…



93. Lawsuits on Foods and Diets By Laura Ciocan
    The dangers of processed foods and diets Why is that the business of food processing is not strictly regulated by law so as to prevent health problems generated by an inadequate diet? Unhealthy products encourage an unhealthy diet.They appeal to the consumer by their availability and invasive advertising. If food producers are controlled by health officials, then regulations must be too lax in as far as marketed foods are concerned.It is well-known that hydrogenated oils and partially hydrogen…



94. Ever Hear of This Fruit? By Garry Gamber
    I want to tell you about the most healthful and most delicious tropical fruit that you’d ever want to taste. It’s called the mangosteen, and the reason you’ve probably never heard of it is because you can’t buy it in the United States. However, you can buy the juice of the fruit and I’ll tell you how you can do that at the end of this article.The Mystique The mangosteen is a lovely tropical fruit that grows well in SE Asia. It cannot be imported into the U.S. because of laws that prohibit the…



95. Reasons to Eat Organic Food By Arabella Greatorex
    Your healthOrganically grown fruit and vegetables are not covered in a cocktail of chemicals – even after washing, a conventionally grown apple may have 20 chemicals on its skin.Conventionally grown fruit and vegetables contain more water and less vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants than organically grown produce.Even processed organic food is better for you as manufacturers are banned from using many of the most harmful additives such as hydrogenated fat, MSG and artificial flavourings and c…



96. Food Selection for Gastric Bypass Patients By Jim Duffy
    Dieters who dejectedly complain they are figuratively “stuck” with their excess fat may be surprised to learn there is a scientifically-accurate truth to their statement. Fat cells -- which are created when the body is unable to convert excess calories to energy -- are permanent. Fat cells cannot be removed by any diet known to humanity [1]. They can, however, be reduced in size. This is the experience enjoyed by people who lose weight [i].There is, however, an increasingly popular – and co…



97. Color Your Meals For Optimal Nutrition By Dave Saunders
    As you learn more about nutrition you may find the issue of eating an appropriately balanced meal to be a bit confusing. There isn't any, single super food that provides the body with all that it needs. Instead we need to nourish the body with balanced amounts of good, whole foods which provide a variety of nutrients and other beneficial nutritional components to promote good health.Amazingly enough, nature was designed to give us some clues. Many fruits and vegetables are color coded to help …



98. Crave Sweets? On the Weight & Mood Roller Coaster? Perhaps It's More Than You Think! By Christina Winsey-Rudd
    The sugar industry and the food manufacturers are capitalizing BIG TIME on the addictive nature of carbohydrates (sweets, breads, deserts) in the human body. Blood sugar-handling problems promote arteriosclerosis (plaque in the arteries), adult-onset diabetes, mood swings, weight problems, chronic fatigue, PMS and much more. Additionally, there is evidence that sugar addiction has a component of alcoholism!Consider that there actually is speculation about a Syndrome called “Gut Fermentation”…



99. HIV Aids and Glyconutrients By Kerry Greening
    If you or a loved one is suffering form HIV or AIDS, you need to review this information thoroughly.The AIDS epidemic is affecting millions of lives of young children and adults in Africa and around the world; the average life expectancy in Africa is 47. This is a tragic situation and soon the world will find out what they can do to help. If this epidemic continues no one will even know what an old person looks like in Africa.On October 15th 2005, the term glyconutrients will enter into the pu…



100. Childhood Epidemic Rises 6,000% What Can Be Learned About Autism? By Karen S
     The latest tallies show that over three million people in North America alone carry some type of autism diagnosis. With this increase the biggest question people are asking is why. Over 20 years ago the incidence was estimated to be 1 in 10,000. Now it’s a whopping 1 in 166 according to the U.S. Center for Disease control and is still expected to rise. With the life long care of someone with autism costing approximately 2.2 million per person according to the MIND Institute, we need to sta…



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