Laurel on Health Food

Kauai Garden Island News reports that goat cheese and goat milk are a healthier choice than cow’s milk. In comparison, goat cheese is easier on our digestive system and lower in calories, cholesterol, and fat. Goat cheese also contains calcium, protein, vitamin A, phosphorus, vitamin K, thiamin, and niacin.
The Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine states [...]

MSN Health & Fitness reports that a simple strategy to alleviate and prevent allergies/asthma is to eat a nutritious diet.  Eating the right foods will help decrease inflammation and open up air passages, thin mucus in the lungs, and prevent food-allergy reactions. Include the following foods in your diet to get allergy relief [...]

We all know the calcium and protein in milk is good for us, but what about the harmful saturated fat? A reader of this blog recommended a new product to me and I figured I’d share it.
There is a brand of milk available called SunMilk™ that replaces the saturated fats in milk with mono- and [...]

CNN.com reports that a study from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that skim milk will help build almost twice the amount of muscle as soy beverages post-workout.  Whey and soy proteins are quickly digested and temporarily increase amino acid levels in the blood.  But, milk proteins, such as casein, provide a gradual and [...]

Vicki Koenig, MS, RD, CDN from Stonyfield.com reports that healthy nutrition and lifestyle choices can prevent or slow tumor growth in the early stages of colon cancer.  She says that colon cancer is the third most common cancer (for men and women) in our country, however, “70% of colon cancer is preventable.”
Some factors that reduce [...]