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A Clean Approach To Eating

Eating clean is a simple approach to nutrition, health and weight loss that produces positive effects on your physical and mental health. It is focusing on food that is organic, whole and naturally nutritious and simplifying your diet.

The Anti-Inflammatory Diet

If you goal is not only to lose weight, but to eat to ensure that you optimize your health, the anti-inflammatory diet is a smart decision. It is a practical eating guide that anyone and everyone can (and should) use as a means of being as healthy as they can possibly be.

Kideny Stones In Children On The Rise

Children dealing with the oftentimes excruciating pain of kidney stones are becoming increasingly more common around the world.  There have been some reports showing an increase of 500 percent in the United States over the past several years.

Supplements For Digestion Problems

Digestive problems are one of the most common ailments today and they affect millions around the world.  The main reason behind this is our diet. Humans only used to eat what was available to them from the Earth-fresh fruits & vegetables, herbs, and meat that had no antibiotics or hormones it it.

3 Tips to Age Gracefully

Aging gracefully is a goal of many, yet it seems to be one that is hard to achieve without resorting to plastic surgery or other drastic measures. Fortunate for those who are not excited about being poked, prodded, or spending copious amounts of money to alter their body

List of Best Carbs for Working Out

If you are going to be working out you need energy. Energy enters our body mostly in the form of carbohydrates, and as anyone who has seriously trained to bring his or her body up to peak performance will tell you, you can’t keep moving if you aren’t getting them.

Living Food is Good For You

Digestive enzymes are what help us digest food. Our bodies produce 22 of them with each one working specifically on one type of food. Usually, our bodies are able to connect with the enzymes that exist in the different foods we are eating, and together they work to get the digestion process going, but in cooked foods the structure of enzymes is altered and digestion becomes difficult.

Empty Calories and Bad Carbs

Brief Description: 

Though they may taste great and make you feel good, albeit for a brief moment in time, there is nothing good about a bad carb.

Though they may taste great and make you feel good, albeit for a brief moment in time, there is nothing good about a bad carb.


Body: 

1. Sugars can be disguised using names such as corn syrup, honey, maple syrup, maltodextrin, sucrose, dextrose, glucose or any other ingredient ending in "ose."

2. Brown sugar sold at the stores is actually white granulated sugar with added molasses. Yes, brown sugar contains minute amounts of minerals but the mineral content difference between brown and white sugar is insignificant.

3. Eating processed foods fills the body with empty calories and creates imbalances in our blood sugar and hormone levels, which causes sugar cravings. All processed foods, sweet or not, acts like sugar in the body and is converted and stored as fat.

4. Each 12-oz (355 ml) serving of a carbonated, sweetened soft drink contains the equivalent of 10 teaspoons of sugar and 150 calories. Consuming one drink per day increases a child's risk of obesity by 60 percent.

5. Meals comprised of improper carbohydrates (i.e. white bread) can cause us to feel less energetic. These carbs help elevate serotonin, the precursor to melatonin, also known as the sleep hormone.