What is red meat? Beef, veal, pork and lamb. Does eating red meat causes cancer and cardiovascular disease? For cardiovascular disease, the answer is obvious. Some red meats are high in saturated fats, which raise blood cholesterol levels. High levels of bad cholesterol increase the chances of cardiovascular disease. With regards to cancer and other […]
How Much Red Meat Should We Eat to Be Healthy ?
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Filed Under: Anti-inflammatory, Cancer Prevention, Cholesterol Lowering, Heart Health, Weight Loss TipsKeep Your Pantry Stocked with These 3 Antioxidant Rich Superfoods
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You need to eat healthy but it costs a lot of. Veggies, fruits, and whole meals generally are expensive and whenever you are attempting to nourish your family on the cheap, selecting nutrient dense eats without draining your budget may appear like an impossible assignment. But that’s not really the case. Actually, many of the […]
Can the Mediterranean Diet Help With Weight Loss ?
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The Mediterranean Diet can help with weight loss even though it is rich in calories, high in carbohydrates, and 35 to 40% of those calories come from fats. First, we must understand that the Mediterranean Diet is not really a diet as we usually think of them. It is more of a way of life. […]
How Much Fat Can We Have in Our Diets ?
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On average westerns consume 35-40 % of total calories from fat. Though fat is not the enemy, Westerners still need to monitor their consumption. There are animal-based fats and plant-based fats. Saturated fats and trans fats are mostly found in processed foods and animal foods (meat, cheese, dairy, cream, butter and some plants like palm […]
Filed Under: Cancer Prevention, Cholesterol Lowering, Healthy Eating Ideas, Heart HealthAre Plant Proteins the Same as Animal Proteins?
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A Grave Misconception: Protein is Meat and Meat is Protein An incredible researcher by the name of Ancel Keys (Which is considered the father of the Mediterranean diet) discovered something fascinating; the poor, lower class people of southern Italy were much healthier overall when compared to the upper-class, wealthy Italians. You see, my family hails […]
The Importance of Fiber
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Help Prevent Colon Cancer Fiber is an important aspect in our daily lives for our health. Studies have shown that a high-fiber diet can reduce the risks of disease and other conditions that affect our health and longevity, such as several types of cancers, diverticulosis, varicose veins and hemorrhoids [Reference]. In fact, scientists believe that […]
Filed Under: Blood Pressure, Cancer Prevention, Cholesterol Lowering, Heart Health, Weight Loss TipsDietary Fat: Friend or Foe ?
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If you’re like most western people, you’re carrying around more body fat than you or your doctor would like. Excess body fat is dangerous – it elevates your risk of high cholesterol, diabetes, stroke, heart disease, cancer and even death. You may think you can reduce your body fat by cutting down on dietary fat, […]
Filed Under: Cholesterol Lowering, Healthy Eating Ideas, Heart Health, Weight Loss TipsThe Only Word You’ll Need for Breakfast is “Whole”
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Breakfast cereals are not all created equal. To find the most nutritionally complete cereal, you need to become an ingredient list expert. The most beneficial word found on a cereal label is “whole.†You are specifically looking for the term “whole grain.†All other expressions like multigrain, bran, even 100% wheat are misleading because while […]
Chocolate: More Antioxidants Than Fruit to Give Many Benefits
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Sweet and winning. Chocolate and cocoa have more antioxidants than fruits, as they offer higher doses of polyphenols and flavanoids. The list was created by a search for the Hershey Center for Nutrition & Health, directed by Dr. Debra Miller and published in the Chemistry Central Journal. Dr. Miller and his colleagues have selected cocoa […]
Filed Under: Blood Pressure, Cholesterol Lowering, Healthy Eating Ideas, Heart HealthThe Lancet: Here is the map of the World’s big killers
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In just thirty years obesity rates have doubled in the world while have been observed decreased levels of blood pressure and total cholesterol. These are the results of three large studies published in the Lancet in recent days and created by an international team of researchers coordinated by the ‘Imperial College London and the Harvard […]
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