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- The Importance of Phytonutrients in a Balanced Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Phytonutrients are the new buzz word in nutrition and diet, these compounds can be incredibly helpful, but just what are they, and how can they help? The colored skins of some fruits and vegetables contain a class of compounds known as Phytochemicals. The Food and Drug Administration, the FDA, are still investigating their benefits for human health, so have yet to issue any guidelines.
- How To Deal With Cravings While Your Dieting!
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The problem with a healthy diet is that is can fail to eliminate all the food cravings. The craving for a cappuccino or a big chocolate bar and all those other high-fat or high-sugar foods doesn't die down easily. But although cravings don't immediately go away they can be managed.
- The Importance of Omega3 Fatty Acids In A Balanced Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Diet and supplements are all the rage one year, and a flea market bargain DVD the next. This is because many of these diet and nutrition fads are just that, fad's. One that looks set to stay the course and not end up as yesterdays news is omega3 fatty acids.
- The Pros and Cons of Organic Foods
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Much of the writing on diet and nutrition is more than just informational. It often veers into the realm of values and ethics, recommendations about what you should (or should not) do.
- Why Not Just Stop Eating?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] One sure way to lose weight, it might seem, is simply to stop eating for a while. Simple as it sounds, that idea is fraught with potential problems.
- Adjusting Your Attitude to Lose Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] There is a basic equation for losing weight: use more calories than you consume. One of the easiest ways to do that, it is sometimes believed, is simply to eat less at least of certain foods and/or exercise more. And, it's true, that is fundamentally what all diets amount to. But how to do that to achieve natural weight loss requires a little more. In particular, it often requires a change in attitude.
- Diet Programs and Weight Loss Clinics
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Dieters today have it hard in one way, and easy in another. There are so many temptations for abandoning weight loss goals and enjoying all the tasty foods out there. In another way, they have it easy compared to dieters in the past: they have weight loss clinics.
- How the Zone Diet Works
[Health-and-Fitness:Popular-Diets] The Zone diet was developed by Dr. Barry Sears. The diet is one that follows the 40/30/30 plan. That translates into forty percent carbohydrates, thirty percent fat, and thirty percent protein. Dr. Sears advocates a balanced meal plan in order to avoid certain diseases and lose weight.
- How The NutriSystem Diet Works
[Health-and-Fitness:Popular-Diets] This diet has been all over the television. There is even one spokeswoman who says that she has lost weight twice with the program. People have lost as few as thirty-five pounds and as much as 125 pounds with the program.
- The Biggest Loser Club
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Most everyone has seen the show, The Biggest Loser, at least once. A small number of participants are chosen from a large group of overweight individuals to live at a ranch and compete for cash based on who can lose the most weight.
- How A Raw Food Diet Works
[Health-and-Fitness:Popular-Diets] Raw Foods diet sounds like a throwback to the early days of our society when everyone had a garden. The plan is similar to vegetarian diet plans in that most of the foods come from plant sources. Raw foods are thought to contain nutrients that are good for the body but tend to be lost in the canning and preserving process.
- Women and Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Women, to put it bluntly, are biologically different from men. Those differences imply some guidelines for diet, exercise and health matters in general.
- Natural Ingredients vs Synthetic - Which Are Better for Your Skin?
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Can you really believe everything you read? When it comes to selecting skin care products, the answer might surprise you. A debate rages on as to whether products containing all natural ingredients are really better than those containing synthetic ingredients. With both sides of this issue taking a firm stand, and publishing 'official' report after report, it is the consumer who most often becomes lost in the maze of unfounded marketing promises and supposedly 'guaranteed' results.
- Keeping Fit as You Age
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] It's a commonplace observation that as you age you have to work harder to keep the pounds off and to stay fit. One major reason is the inescapable biological fact that metabolism slows as we age. Inescapable for now, at least, until medical technology finds some safe way to alter it.
- Environmental and Lifestyle Risks for Breast Cancer
[Cancer:Breast-Cancer] Though still an area of active research, many lifestyle and environmental risk factors for breast cancer have been identified. Fortunately, almost all of them are controllable by an individual seeking to optimize his or her health. Yes, men get breast cancer, too, at about 1/133 the rate of women.
- Gift Baskets for Women
[Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Gifts] Maybe she likes a good romance novel, or she might swoon over chocolates. She'll love a great wine. She will appreciate those fine bath products. Whatever her tastes or interests, there's a great gift basket waiting.
- Common Health Risks From Obesity
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Nutrition and health science is constantly evolving, and it often seems as if the latest study contradicts earlier ones. It's hard to know what to believe. But, over the last few decades, a wide array of independent studies has tended to confirm some conclusions about the relationship between excess body fat and associated health risks.
- All About Leg Exercises
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] What kind of leg exercises you do will, of course, depend on your goal. Are you trying to build massive thighs or heart-shaped calves? Do you want to build strength, increase running endurance or improve balance and flexibility? Are you a weight-lifter, a jogger or a ballerina?
- Sensitive Skin Care In-Depth
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Contrary to what you might have heard, sensitive skin isn't considered a medical condition. When someone says he or she has sensitive skin, it typically means the skin has become irritated, red, swollen and/or itchy as a result of either an environmental condition or use of a certain product. The term is also used to describe changes to a person's skin in response to allergic reactions.
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