Laurel on Health Food

The most recent “Smart Fuel” on Mark’s Daily Apple is eggs. One egg has 5.5 grams of protein, only 68 calories, and 9 essential amino acids. But, that’s just the beginning. Read on for all the benefits of eating eggs:

Choline - Your body only produces a limited amount of this B vitamin, and [...]

MSNBC recently posted a great article on how you can improve your health in 90 seconds. I organized their tips in the following table.

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Fight cancer - Research from Cornell University found that natural chemicals in apple peels can inhibit breast, liver, and colon cancer cell growth. A four-year study from Creighton University found [...]

Men’s Health Magazine produced a list of “The Ten Best Foods You Aren’t Eating“. Here are their choices for the superfoods that rarely make it into our shopping carts-but should. The article also contains helpful information about how you can include each of these foods in your diet. Read more here.
1. Beets - contain lots [...]

Men’s Fitness magazine featured sweet potatoes as their “fit food” for October 2007.  The following list gives you six reasons why you should add sweet potatoes to your diet.

Carotenoids - plant compounds help fight cell damage that happens in everyday life and during physical activities like a work out
Vitamin E - prevents free radicals from [...]

Cooking Light Magazine reports that a cup of cooked frozen spinach has 29,811 micrograms of lutein and zeaxanthin (carotenoids that keep your eyes healthy by lowering the risk of AMD and cataracts).  The amount of carotenoids found in spinach is the highest found in any food.

Ref: Cooking Light magazine, April 2007, p. 106