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  • 10 Steps to Remember When Eating at a Chinese Restaurant  By : Emilia Klapp, R.D., B.S.
    You may think Chinese cuisine is healthy because it contains large amounts of vegetables and it seems to be low in fat. That it’s true of Traditional Chinese cuisine; however, it may not be the case of the food served at many American-Chinese restaurants.
  • 21 Times a Day  By : Simon Evans
    TV ads, junk food makers, fast food restaurants, school cafeterias and snack-ridden sporting events are making our kids fat. Who's job is it to get them back on track and set them up for successful futures.
  • 3 Tips to Effectively Use Probiotics After Taking Acne Antibiotics  By : Naweko Nicole Dial
    After getting acne under control, the first thing on your mind is probably socializing, shopping and generally leaving your skin related health woes behind. But if antibiotics were apart of your acne axing regime, you may want probiotics to be apart of your acne-afterlife.
  • 3 Ways To Balance Your Blood Sugar Level  By : Graham Rowan
    Three easy ways in which you can balance your blood sugar level and reduce the risk of hypoglycaemia.
  • 5 Foods That Will Generate Power In You  By : Chester Ku-Lea
    Don’t weigh yourself down with processed foods, simple carbohydrates, and junk. Get back to the basics and see your energy levels rise. Find the superhuman in you! Decide to munch on the following empowering superfoods - you’ll get a good dose of vitamins and minerals as well as a whack of health benefits.
  • 5 Health Tips for Dining Out  By : Chester Ku-Lea
    People who eat out often can fall into the bad habit of ordering their favorite dishes without concern for its nutritional value. This can obviously vary from person to person. For example, many people order French fries with every meal, or others may insist on having a beer each time they order, or maybe they order meat every time to make sure they get 'bang for their buck'.
  • 7 Superfoods for Weight Loss  By : Sylvia Riley
    This article examines seven superfoods for weight loss. Together with supreme health benefits, these foods are ideal for any healthy weight loss regime.
  • A Diet Primer For Health Food And Vitamins  By : Deborah Prosser
    Quite often, we want to eat healthier but don’t know exactly how to start. Sometimes food you think might be good may in fact not be right for you, and vice-versa. This article looks at some simple diet changes you can start to make right away that will improve your overall health.
  • A Gluten Free Diet Can Affect Autism!  By : Andrew Van Vooren
    Special diets and various other treatments that researchers have discovered that can be a tremendous help to those that suffer from autism. Families of children that suffer from autism may become very frustrated while trying to find the proper treatment for their child. One treatment for children with autism is to change their diet to a gluten free diet.
  • A Healthier Body  By : Alden Witte
    3 Ways To Easily Improve Your Body’s Health Condition.
  • A Practical Approach To Healthy Eating  By : Nehemiah Maxwell
    Our physical bodies have laws that are governed by proper nutrition. Nevertheless people have a hard time sticking to a healthy diet. By applying the principles of how a habit is formed we can develop a healthy diet that lasts a lifetime.
  • A Raw Food Vegan Approach to Getting Your Greens  By : Carmellita Brown
    Getting your greens are very important to your overall health. Studies support the well established, health-enhancing effects of green foods.
  • ADHD – is fish oil better than prescription drugs?  By : David McEvoy
    Fish oil continues to receive a lot of media publicity regarding its positive effect on our mood and behaviour and has been reported as having therapeutic value for the treatment of many conditions including ADHD, but is it better than prescription drugs?
  • Alkaline and Acidic Food  By : ashu
    There are 2 main types of food: acidic food and alkaline food. Examples of acidic food are meat, fish, prawns, chicken, bread and flour. Alkaline food are vegetables, milk, seaweeds, fruits and egg white.
  • American Diet - More Processed Foods, Less Natural Foods  By : Nitin Chhoda
    The impact of food processing and refining on the American diet.
  • An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away’ but what about Apple Cider Vinegar?  By : Melanie Simcock
    With growing concern over prescribed medication, people are looking for natural remedies which can work just as well without the adverse side-effects. Apple cider vinegar is a natural product used over hundreds of years in the treatment of Arthritis. It can also be beneficial for those seeking to lose weight and is an excellent cleaning agent.
  • Anti Aging Digestion Enzymes Are Essential For Life  By : Jennifer Kays
    Function and benefit of digestion enzymes.
  • Anti aging HGH  By : Sudhani
    Anti aging HGH is here in safe, convenient and affordable supplement doses to help you revive the magic of younger years (or older ones if you are one to plan ahead). The anti aging HGH enhancers of today are packed with a judicious mix of anti aging HGH boosters that will restore healthy sexual excitement and desire, improve mood, memory and wound healing and keep crow's feet on the black winged creatures negotiating the skies- not around your eyes!
  • Anti-Aging Regimen: It Pays Off  By : Barbara Morris, R.Ph.
    Being in control of the aging process is easy with a daily anti-aging regimen. See what I do and start a regimen of your own.
  • Anti-Inflammatory Foods  By : Lambert Klein
    As with most health problems, inflammation can be brought under control by being in balance with nature. It's clear that the percentage of illnesses today is far greater than past generations. This is due to convenient fast foods, processed food and pollutants in our food and water, as well as all the prescriptions we take for diseases that didn't even exist 50 years ago.
  • Antioxidants and Free Radicals - The Good and the Bad  By : Carol Stack
    Free radicals are produced within the body every single day from the different chemical reactions which happen in each individual part of our bodies. Free radicals are produced outside of the body as well, reaching us through sunrays, toxic chemicals in our drinking water, second-hand as well as first-hand smoke, unhealthy foods, bacteria, viruses, radiation, and pollution in general.
  • Antioxidants, Free Radicals, and Sports Nutrition  By : Smith Chen
    Contrary to popular opinion, free radicals do not circulate throughout the body. The half-life of most free radicals varies in a range of a few nanoseconds to about 7 seconds duration.
  • Antioxidants: Combating Aging and Disease  By : Sylvia Riley
    This article explores the role of antioxidants in neutralising the hazardous free radicals that damage cells and procure aging and disease. Antioxidants, free radicals, the Free Radical Theory of Aging and antioxidant rich foods are all examined.
  • Apple Juice Antioxidants, Dieting, Nutrition Facts And More  By : ashu
    Apple juice is a great way to kick-start your day or quench your thirst on a hot summer day.The juice is produced by crushing apples, the extraction of which is then filtered to give you a clear juice and is then pasteurized.
  • Are Eating Disorders Related To Bad Habits (Part 2)?  By : Keith Crovatt
    What are 5 important steps to take control of your eating disorders? In "Are Eating Disorders Related To BadHabits (Part 1)" we discussed the various types of eating disorders and some examples that will hit home with many readers. In this article, we want to explore 5 ways to break an eating disorder habit.
  • Are You Drinking Too Much Coffee? Or Not Enough?  By : Royane Real
    Many of us drink a lot of coffee. Is all that coffee really bad for us? Should we be trying to drink less coffee? Or is coffee really good for us? Should we be drinking more coffee?
  • Are You One Of The One In A Hundred Who’s Properly Nourished?  By : Steve Smith
    As long ago as 1936 the US Senate reported that 99% of Americans’ diets were deficient in vital minerals because of intensive farming methods and the depletion of agricultural soils.
  • Asthma Diet - Taking Control Of Your Asthma  By : ashu
    Foods to eliminate and included in asthma patients diet. Useful tips regarding diet for asthma patients
  • Atkins Diet  By : Bakhru
    If you live in the western world then there’s a better than good chance that you’ve at least heard about the Atkins diet. If you haven’t, you’ve either been living on Mars or with your head buried under the sand. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing either, since you might not really want to be following the trials and tribulations of all the latest fad diets to hit the market.
  • Ayurveda and Food  By : Ashish Bhattachrya
    According to Ayurveda, digestion is the foundation of health. Eating a proper and balanced meal according to your dosha or constitutional type, can not only keep you healthy but also cure you. Depending on our dosha, some foods can be favorable, while others should be avoided.
  • Ayurveda for Sleep Problems  By : Juliet Cohen
    Yoga and Pranayama is an important measure to reduce work place negativity, tension, anxiety and so many other problems. Sleep problems are some of the most common problems parents face with their kids.
  • B-Complex Vitamins  By : Juliet Cohen
    Vitamin B complex actually refers to a selection of nutrients with some very similar properties, but they are separate nutrients, although most of them work in synergy.
  • Balance is the key Tips for a healthy balanced diet  By : Lac Tran
    Keep up to date on modern nutrition and get tips for a healthy balanced diet. What foods to eat, what foods to avoid, and how food can be a medicine to achieve optimum health
  • Beating The Free Radicals: Why Your Diet Alone May Not Be Enough  By : Steve Smith
    Modern Western diets are highly likely to be deficient in the anti-oxidant nutrients that are crucial to counter-acting damaging free radical activity.
  • Benefits Of Carrot Juice  By : Juliet Cohen
    Carrots are well known as the universal vegetable for juicing. Carrot juice has benefits for us at a very young age. Carrot juice has a number of health benefits.
  • Benefits of fresh fruit juices  By : Rachel Broune
    The best way to consume fruit is raw, with its skin or with the skin peeled off on an empty stomach or 20 minutes before other meals.
  • Berry Goji Juice - Learn How Goji Berries and Their Extract Benefit Your Health  By : ashu
    Berry goji juice is one of the world’s best-kept health secrets, a natural age defying healthful juice made from the goji berry, a fruit native to the Asian continent.
  • Boosting Metabolism  By : Joy Bauer, MS, RD, CDN with Carol Svec
    Clients -- and just about everyone I meet who learns I'm a nutritionist -- ask me this question all the time: How can I boost my metabolism?
  • Can Meat be a health hazard  By : Craig Burton
    Picture this: you are standing at the shelf of your local supermarket looking at the chickens and thinking "which one shall I buy?". Does it really make a difference? You could buy two of those normal chickens for the same price as that free range organic one? In the following article I wish to outline some reasons as to why I recommend paying extra for a higher quality and ethical product.
  • Can You Live Without Chocolate?  By : Eva Moffat
    Eating chocolate can be an addiction. Eaten in moderation it can be good for you. Too much can cause obesity and heart problems.
  • Can You Really Lose 10 Pounds In 7 Days With Fat Burning Soup Diets?  By : Joseph Cole
    Claiming to help you lose anywhere from 10 to 17 pounds of weight in just a week, fat burning soup diets like the cabbage soup diet have been referred to as the ultimate fad diets. How honest are these fat burning soup diets and do they live up to their claims?
  • Carbohydrates - What Are These Good For Anyway?  By : J Lance Curtis
    Carbohydrates are either a nutritional blessing or curse, depending on to which "diet guru" you listen. But carbs are neither good or bad. Discover for what your body uses carbohydrates and the role these play in your healthy nutrition.
  • Carrot juice the Benefactor  By : Rachel Broune
    Carrot juice contains many healthful benefits. Carrot juice is widely used in the diet. Carrot juice is very effective for the health and contains the body essential vitamins. Now a day carrot is used as treatment for the specific diseases.
  • Cellulite Diet  By : Juliet Cohen
    Cellulite is fat that has been trapped in fibrous pockets close to the skin. Cellulite is hardened fat cells that have been trapped in the body’s network of muscle tissue and fiber.
  • Chocoholics Rejoice..Chocolate is Healthy?  By : Danna Schneider
    I've always considered chocolate to be one of the most decadent, satisfying and unquestionably addictive foods on this earth (along with countless other women, I'm sure). It's been there for me as a pleasure-producing comfort food through rough times, blue moods and trying times on the job. So, how could something that elicits such feelings of bliss be “bad” for me?
  • Cholesterol: Good, Bad or Ugly?  By : Simon Evans
    Cholesterol has a bad reputation for hindering your health, but is it deserved? Many researchers and physicians say no. And now there is new evidence to fuel the fire. Studies show that reducing cholesterol may do nothing to prevent death and might even increase the odds of getting Parkinson's disease.
  • Choline - Benefits, Deficiency Symptoms And Food Sources  By : ashu
    Choline is indispensable for a number of fundamental processes in the body. Choline is a water soluble member of the Vitamin B complex. It is not a true vitamin as it is synthesized in the liver.
  • Choosing Healthy Foods Easily  By : Ambrose Hutson
    You are what you eat. It's more than an adage, it's the truth. If you want to get the most out of your body, you've got to know which foods to choose, and have the dedication to follow a smart diet every day.
  • Choosing the Correct Tea  By : Dennis Brown
    How to choose the right tea for you and some information about each type.
  • Cocoa Tea - When a Tea Is Not a Tea  By : Korbin Newlyn
    Cocoa tea originated long ago in Soufriere St. Lucia, in the West Indies in the Caribbean. The drink was made to fit more than just peoples desire for a beverage. Read on to learn more.

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