The more colorful your diet, the better, according to Dr David Heber MD. Take few minutes to ponder what is the color of your food that you consume daily? Dr Heber recommends that a diet with fruits and vegetable across the spectrum of color. Fruits and vegetables are briefly divided into seven color categories
Categories: Healthy Food Tags: colorful healthy, diet, Disease, food, free radicals, vitamin A
Organic food is better and safer? Why waste money on organic foods? This post shares 12 foods that you do not need to buy organics.The Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit organization that advocates for policies that protect global and individual health, produces the Shoppers' Guide to Pesticides in Produce. It is based on the results of nearly 43,000 pesticide tests.
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1. Stop eating when your stomach is 80% full. Eat slowly and chew the food well. Do ever binge yourself.
2. Consume fried and salty food in moderation as salt affects the excretion function and helps the fat to accumulate inside the body.
3. Use as little oil as possible when cooking.
4. Avoid snacks and late suppers. Do not eat anything 3 hours before going to bed.
5. Eat at regular intervals. Never never skip breakfast.
6. Eat as less meat and more vegetables. Do not eat the skin of chicken.
7. Do aerobic exercise (jogging and swimming) at least 3 times a week and at least 20 minutes each time.
Categories: Healthy Living Tags: principle, slim
Eye mask is important to those who has eye bags, dark eyes circles. This post shares about some easy way to prepare eye mask by using some home remedies.
We know that we are exposed to free radicals and we cant actually avoid it. Free radicals are everywhere, generated by air pollution, sunshine, X rays, pesticides, car exhaust and even breathing and exercise. However by increasing our intake of free radical fighters – antioxidants, we are able to defend our cells from free radicals.
USDA measures the raw power of antioxidants by measuring the Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC). It measures how well the antioxidants mop up the free radicals. The USDA recommends that we need to get about 3,000 to 5,000 ORAC units daily, preferably from fresh vegetables and fresh fruits.
Chart entitled Top Antioxidant Foods, on page 48 of Discovery of the Ultimate Superfood by Gary Young ND, Ronald Lawrence MD, PhD, Marc Schreuder; Essential Science Publishing; © July 2005 listed dried wolfberries as one of the natural fruits with high ORAC unit ( about 20200 units). All antixoidant capacity measures are estimated by Ferric Reducing Power and are expressed as micromole Trolox equivalent (TE) per 100 grams or 3.53 ounces, accurate to ±5%.
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We are what we eat...eating meat is not life threatening, but not those processed food... Lean meats from a clean source can provide benefits to us humans, is a good source of protein. BUT.... PLEASE be sure of what you are putting in your body. The following link will take you through a 'mystery meat' "expose'" if you will, and shed some very serious LIGHT on the subject.
Categories: Healthy Food Tags: cancer, food, meat, vegan
Chemicals chemicals...The U.S. is one of the most progressive countries in the world. We are one of the leading industrial nations, our citizens drive tens of millions of cars, our homes are insulated, we have central air conditioning and indoor heat, we produce more food than any other country in the world and store it in refrigerators, our floors are carpeted and our lawns are weed-free.
Categories: Healthy Living Tags: cancer, chemicals, Disease
This post shares about some facts about cancer, what cancerous cells feed on. The more you know about cancer, the more confident you can overcome it.
Categories: Disease Tags: cancer, immune system, sugar, supplements, vitamin
Do you drink soft drinks? Soft drinks are popular beverages consisting primarily of carbonated water, sugar, and flavorings especially among younger generations. Nearly 200 nations enjoy the sweet, sparkling soda with an annual consumption of more than 34 billion gallons. Soft drinks rank as America's favorite beverage segment, representing 25% of the total beverage market.
Categories: Healthy Food Tags: green tea, obesity, osteoporosis, soft drink, sugar
This post shares about 10 facts on cancer. Do you know everyone of us has cancerous cells in our body? Keep reading it to know more about cancer, our enemy.