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Diet, cheat, repent, repeat. Sound familiar?
Good Nutrition from Head to Toe
The food you eat affects every living cell in your body. From providing energy to padding organs, we need food for every part of our bodies. So, if you're looking for good health, try eating from head to toe...
A Few Thoughts on Defeating Cravings
Using willpower to try to overcome strong biological drives like hunger or being tired and needing sleep is unhealthy, but using it to improve the quality of one’s diet and sleep habits makes perfect sense...
Plants: So Many Great Parts to Try
While it may be tempting to toss the stems, leaves or flowers of plants, there's another great use for them... Cook them! In addition to reducing waste, you’ll also be improving the nutritional quality of your diet.
Don't Be a Food Bully
Dr. Harris advises that when healthcare professionals educate parents about feeding picky eaters, they should provide reassurance, instruction, and different behavioral methods to improve children’s exposure to a wide array of nutritious foods...
Green Tea: A Good Source of Healthful Antioxidants
Drinking green tea is associated with a lower incidence of cardiovascular disease and cancer where oxidative stress plays an important role...
A Clever Way to Help Toddlers Eat More Fruits and Vegetables
If your clients are tired of cleaning up the produce that got tossed during their toddler's lunch, the following article may have some insight for them...
Dietary Lifestyle Impacts Gut Microbiome in Himalayan Populations
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What is a Low-FODMAP Diet and Who Can Benefit from It?
People with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a disease of the intestines that results in stomach pain, bloating, gas, diarrhea, and/or constipation, often try various restrictive diets to get relief. The low-FODMAP diet helps approximately 70% of people with IBS live healthy, symptom-free lives.
For Good Health, Choose a Plant-Based Eating Pattern
It’s never too late to start making changes to include more minimally-processed plant foods in your daily food choices.
Lifestyle Change Cuts Need for Blood Pressure Medications
The results of the recent twin study showing the strong association between high sodium intake and elevated BP that is independent of central adiposity coupled with Dr. Hinderliter’s study of the DASH diet and exercise program described here confirm research conducted at the Pritikin Center 35+ years ago. Overall, it seems clear that most patients diagnosed with elevated BP could lower their BP sufficiently to avoid the need for BP-drugs.
Two Tools: Using MyPlate and Nutrition Facts Labels to Boost Health
When you use these tools to plan your meals, steer your shopping, and affect your eating, you will be building a more balanced eating pattern that will in turn promote good health. What's not to love?
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