Laurel on Health Food is a blog about nutrition, healthy eating, and health food. It summarizes articles in the news, lists healthy recipes, offers tips and personal feedback on healthy eating, and reports on nutritional research.
Mark’s Daily Apple wrote a great piece about the amazing nutrition of hot peppers. Here are some of the benefits they listed:
- Hot peppers are low in calories but high in vitamin C. They also contain carotenoids, lutein, lycopene, and zeaxanthin.
- Capsaicin (the compound that makes peppers hot) is anti-inflammatory and helps relieve headache [...]
Natural Awakenings magazine reports that new research from Taiwan proves capsaicin can reduce the growth of fat cells in your body. If you don’t already know, capsaicin is the natural compund that makes red peppers “hot”. This new research also discovered that capsaicin sets off a biochemical signal in your body that [...]
MSNBC.com reports that you can curb hunger, strengthen your muscles, increase your brain power, and boost your mood by adding some spices to your diet.
A study published in the British Journal of Nutrition found that women who added two teaspoons of dried red pepper to their food consumed less calories and fat at their next [...]
Dr. Andrew Weil wrote an article for Natural Awakenings magazine called “Nutrition & Prostate Cancer: Top 10 Risk Reducers”. He said that men can significantly reduce their risk of prostate cancer by changing what they eat and drink. Dr. Weil’s top ten prostate cancer risk reducers are listed below.
Laurel on Health Food is a blog about nutrition, healthy eating, and health food. It summarizes articles in the news, lists healthy recipes, offers tips and personal feedback on healthy eating, and reports on nutritional research.
