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Lower Your Cholesterol Levels Through Your Diet
Your cholesterol levels can have an effect on your health. High cholesterol levels that go unchecked can cause certain health problems. Having an increase of bad cholesterol levels can lead to narrow blood vessels as they pile up into the vessel walls over time. While there are certain instances where this condition may be a […] -
Which Is More Fattening: Fats or Carbs?
Several types of diet has been made available for everybody. Most of them actually focuses on cutting down or in fact even stop consuming fats or any carbohydrates. Is it true that carbohydrate when consumed easily turns and stored in our body as fats. The fat from food also has the same effect.The calorie from fat that one will get will cause any person the similar amount of weight when they consume calories from eating carbohydrates. The issue on whether one can be fuller when eating carbohydr... -
Vitamin D for Strong Muscle
Many of us grown ups do not mind or rather do not include the vitamin with the label D in our diets. Little do we know that this specific vitamin can help us in growing healthy and fit as we have to have it in order for us to make use of the other vitamins related to it.We all want to have a good and healthy bone structure. Having healthy bones will make us look younger, firmer, and attractive. Good looking muscles to add will make us look more fabulous. To bag package of having strong bones and... -
The Wonders of Whole Grains
Whole grains now have become a popular health food among the fitness conscious crowd. Aside from being a staple for most of the global population, whole grains have been looked upon differently by people who wish to stay healthy and keep in shape. There is good reason why whole grains have become important in the diet of most people today. Whole grains are one of the most nutritious food group to add in one's diet. There are quite a number of benefits that eating whole grains can provide the bod... -
Low-Calorie Summer Cocktails
No girl likes to diet, but we all like to fit into our bikini as well!Refreshing cocktails are bound to be part of the festivities in the summer. But if you're not careful, you could add up to hundreds of hidden calories.Here are four smart solutions from Hungry-Girl.com's Lisa Lillien for cutting down on cocktail calories. Mojito6 oz. diet lemon-lime soda12 mints leaves¼ lime, sliced1 ½ oz. Rum5 to 8 ice cubesPulverize mint and lime in glass.Add soda and rum.Stir well.Add ice.Garnish with mint ... -
Nutritional Benefits of The Strawberry
Strawberries were first propagated in Rome before it became the most popular fruit berry worldwide. This berry is which is really not a berry but a flower being a member of the rose family is not just some aphrodisiac. Strawberries is rich with many nutritional benefits.Just like cabbage, cauliflower, mango, red peppers, watermelon, squash and papaya, the strawberry provides Vitamin C which is even more than an orange. It consists of a lot of vitamins such as manganese and potassium, fiber and a... -
Healthy Food to Beat Depression
When one is having a constant change with regard to their appetite and sleep patters, often sad without any reason, often feeling guilty and worthless, becoming such a pessimist, often thinking of suicide or death and feeling odd pain then he or she might be suffering from Depression. When indeed having Depression issues mind that you really do not need a shrink nor be dependent on drugs. Start using food to beat your problem.Food functions like a drug and it is a drug. The food alone just like ... -
How Much Red Meat Should You Eat
Anything in excess can give a bad effect. Several studies has been made with regard to Red Meat and its effects to our body. Not to mention that is has been long suspected for being the cause of having bowel cancer.According to the study of EPIC or the European Study Into Cancer and Nutrition wherein it monitored the diets of men and women for five years within ten different countries it has been concluded that red meats like ham, bacon, lamb, beef, pork and veal are factors that increase the ri... -
Is Your Drink Making You Fat?
Many people seem to be asking whether what they drink can make them fat. The simple answer to this is a yes. But it will depend on what kind of drink that you usually take that can make you fat. Taking on weight has been long known to be caused by consuming more calories than what the body can burn as energy. The excess calories eventually becomes fat that is stored in the body for later usage. This results in added weight that one can see and even feel. If you think that it is the food that so... -
When Fat-Free is Not Zero Fat
Rows and rows of fat-free products are displayed on grocery shelves. This selling point has lured millions of consumers into a fat-free lifestyle, but is there any truth about foods being "fat-free"?When is it called fat-free?For a product to be fat-free, it should contain less than half a gram of fat per serving. The problem, however, is when more than one serving is consumed. In that case, you do not have a "fat-free" diet anymore as those fractions of a gram would count towards your daily fat...