Yoghurt – The Coolest Sparkler
Skin Care, Skin Care at Home, Skin Nutrition, Yoghurt, Skin Care Tips
Yoghurt – The very word cools you down, especially in the warm summer months, when the heat is full on. Yoghurt is yummy, thick and creamy. It is a virtual treasury of zinc, calcium, Vitamins B1, B2, B6 and B12, [...]
Calcium: When You Take It, It Works
Calcium: When You Take It, It Works
Calcium has been recommended and widely accepted as an essential mineral for bone and skeletal health and numerous body functions-regulating heartbeat, conducting nerve impulses, stimulating hormonal secretions and clotting the blood. Now, some conflicting and potentially misleading research is threatening to negate the [...]
Pure Water and Fine Tea
fine tea, oxygenated water, tea brewing, tea infusion, tap water contamination, EPA, FDA, municipal water, well water
April 13, 2006
Tea originated in China 5,000 years ago and the selection and brewing of tea has been refined to an art with health and spiritual aspects emerging as part of the process.
Experienced tea drinkers [...]
Beginners Guide To Healthy Nutritional Eating
Along with the failure to exercise, many forget the problems this life style can have on our health and wellness.
We get run down a little over weight and sometimes worse.
This is just a reminder for the need for many to return too and learn the necessity of better eating Habits.
eating, [...]
Whole Versus Enriched Grains: What’s The Difference?
Whole Versus Enriched Grains: What’s The Difference?
Many say today’s consumer is overwhelmed with information on whole and enriched grains. With all the conflicting information, it can be difficult to understand what to eat to maintain a healthful and balanced diet.
First, it is important to understand grains. Grains come from [...]
How To Make Better Food Choices
How To Make Better Food Choices
Current trends and statistics show that people are making healthier decisions at the grocery store. In fact, according to a recent survey by the Grocery Manufacturers of America, “73 percent of primary grocery shoppers reported they were buying more nutritious and healthy foods and beverages [...]
Plough or Not to Plough
genetically, modified, food, biotechnology
A couple of years ago, fresh from college and struggling to venture into science writing, I attended a seminar on crop biotechnology in Nairobi, Kenya. I vividly recall one guy from a multinational biotech company extol participants who included resource poor farmers, agricultural extension officers, the media, members [...]
Which Diet Suits You Best?
dieting, diet loss, diet drugs, herbs, yo-yo dieting, diuretics, stimulants
The hallmark of a modern developed society seems to be people with those ugly bulges. And lots of dieting ads! Okay, let’s face it. We will have to live with dieting. The question then is how to do it effectively and safely.
Dieting [...]
Selecting Nutritional Supplements
So…
nutritional supplements,vitamins
Nutritional supplements can help compliment a diet that could be missing some necessary nutrients. But nutritional supplements are only as good as the ones you select, and how you combine your nutritional supplements with healthy food so that none of the nutrients are cancelled out.
An estimated 50 percent of American adults use [...]
The Inportence of Health and Nutrition as you Age
diet,Nutrition,diseases,elderly,foods
Nutrition is know to interact with the process of aging in many ways. Nutrition problems of the older population are increased due to susceptibility to chronic disease, decreased organ function which may affect digestion and absorption, metabolism, and excretion of nutrients. Eighty percent of people over 65 [...]