Laurel on Health Food

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 [...]

Eating Fabulous recommends eating pistachios for a heart-healthy snack. A Penn State study showed that eating pistachios significantly lowers LDL (bad) cholesterol levels and reduces the risk of heart disease. Pistachios also reduce the body’s stress response and therefore decrease the risk of hypertension.

You’ve probably heard that you need more fiber in your diet.  It helps reduce cholesterol levels, lowers the risk of cancer, and absorbs harmful toxins in your intestines.  But, how does it do all that?  Natural Awakenings magazine reports that a study from the Medical College of Georgia helps explain how fiber is [...]

Cooking Light Magazine writes that 26 of the 30 grams of fat in an avocado are heart-healthy, unsaturated fats that can increase your levels of HDL (good) cholesterol. These healthy fats help the body absorb vital fat-soluble nutrients such as vitamins A, E and beta-carotene.

Ref: Cooking Light Magazine, May 2007, p. 30

MSNBC.com reports on some common food myths exposed by exercise physiologist Wendy Repovich. Read on.

“Eating eggs will raise your cholesterol.” - Although eggs have a concentrated amount of cholesterol, if you eat them in moderation, you won’t consume enough cholesterol to put you at risk.
“Eating carbohydrates makes you fat” - Removing carbohydrates from [...]