Health Food, Healthy Eating, and Nutrition
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Cooking Light Magazine wrote that whole fruits and vegetables are so important to include in our diet because they have: vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, high fiber, and low calories. Fruits and vegetables help our bodies fight heart disease, stroke, cancer, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, blindness, and gastrointestinal problems.
Research from Harvard’s Nurses’ Health Study and [...]
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Publix’s Green Wise magazine writes why magnesium is such an important nutrient to maintain a healthy body. Besides keeping our bones strong, magnesium may help control blood pressure, relax bronchial passages (relieving asthma), and control blood glucose levels (influences insulin release).
Daily magnesium needs:
Adults: 310-420 mg
Children (age 3): 80 mg
Boys (14-18): 410 mg
Girls (14-18): 360 [...]
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ChefMD™ has some wonderful recipes created for health and taste. The site also features Food as MedicineSM news that show how eating the right foods can be your best medicine. Check out their yummy recipe for a “Watermelon & Feta Salad with Pine Nuts”. Their site even features videos about making the recipes [...]
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With a high content of omega-3s, flaxseed oil is a great alternative for fish. WHfoods.org reports that flaxseed oil can lower blood pressure in men with high cholesterol. In a three-month study of 59 middle-aged men, those who took daily flaxseed oil supplements (with eight grams of the omega-3 fats, alpha-linoleic acid) experienced significantly [...]
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A recent CNN article said that a new study from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that “healthy women who drank upwards of six cups of coffee per day were no more likely than abstainers to develop high blood pressure over the next decade.” For the men studied, “the risk of high blood [...]
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