Healthy Diet Plans - Why The Vegetarian Diet Will Help You Reach Your Health Goals

Are you tired of feeling lethargic and tired throughout the day? The Vegetarian diet will help you feel energetic and help you to live a long and healthy life.

Raw Food Boston - Resources for Eating a Raw Food Diet in Boston

Raw food in Boston? Boston has a number of raw food options, raw food restaurants, and raw food support groups. Discover how you can easily eat raw food (and love it) while living in Boston.

Glycobiology - A New Field of Science

If you graduated from college more than ten years ago, you have probably never heard of the field of glycobiology. Initiated in the mid to late 1980’s, glycobiology is the study of glycolipids and glycoproteins. The first conference on glycobiology did not occur until 1989, when 180 scientists from all over the world convened for the UCLA symposium on Glycobiology. The convention was “dedicated to one of the most rapidly growing field in cell biology, a field that will certainly have a major impact on medical research and practice in the future” (Welply and Jaworski, 1990, xiii-xiv).

Vitamin B-6 A Forgotten Nutrient

Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) is a widely overlooked vitamin, but it is involved in more bodily functions than almost any other single nutrient. It is important for both physical and mental health.

What's So Special About Green Tea?

We continue to hear about green tea in the media- new green tea drinks are constantly being released on the market- so what’s so special about green tea?

Healthy Diet Plans-Finding The Right Diet To Help You Achieve Your Health Goals

Many people today suffer from a lack of poor health. Common reason cited include bad genetics and just plain bad luck. Actually, just about every health ailment known to man can be prevented by maintaining good eating habits.

The Facts About Your Cholesterol Level

Understanding cholesterol level and its implications on health can save a life. At the very least, the information can help a person make conscious decisions about their health and what they can do to improve it. Heart disease is a silent killer, but there are warning signs. Cholesterol level is a rather loud and clear sign.

Healthful Cooking and Eating Primer

There are three main steps to maintaining a routine for healthy cooking and eating. It really is not difficult to eat more healthily, but it does involve some planning before hand and a little bit of dedication. The first step in learning to eat more healthfully is to analyze, the second is to make your purchases, and the third is simply to cook healthily.

Why Starvation Diets Don't Work

Gullible people have a simplistic view of starvation diets. Since eating made them fat in the first place, they believe that starvation would result in shedding that fat. Since they cannot go into complete starvation, they choose a starvation diet comprising perhaps a cup of coffee (preferably, without milk or sugar) for breakfast, a carrot and celery for lunch and a piece of brown bread for dinner. Maybe in the first week they may lose some weight but by the end of the second week, the loss tapers off.

Eliminating Processed Foods From Your Life

Why should you eliminate processed foods from your life? What is wrong with them? Processed foods are full of harmful fats, avoidable chemicals, refined starch, and white sugar and so on. More than 6000 chemicals, some of them possessing cancer-producing properties, are used in the processed-food industry. Many processed foods are produced through procedures involving overcooking under high heat, undermining their nutritional value in the process. When toxic agents, food additives and other foreign ingredients enter the body, the human immune system tries hard to throw them out. If the task is too difficult, the immune system suffers, leading to several complications for health.

Diet Pills - The Dangers

For many kinds of health reasons, to physical insecurities, to types of common psychological disorders, weight loss is very important for many people. Sometimes people buy diet pills for the right reasons and sometimes they take them for the wrong reasons, but despite your physical condition - typical diet pills are almost always very dangerous. Risks such as pulmonary disease, strokes, and heart failure are all too common side effects for someone trying to treat a weight problem (real or imagined) with fast-acting diet pills.

Detection of Candida Albicans

A review of common testing and detection methods for candida infections. Provides information on popular tests including drawbacks and interpretation of results.

Raw Food, Less Water

Recent studies show that eating raw food helps quench the thirst, mainly because raw fruits and vegetables have higher water content that foods that are cooked. And by consuming raw food, your body will get the much needed water it requires from the raw food that you ate, thereby, quenching one’s thirst.

Doctors May Be Contributing To Your Confusion On RDA's

In relation to doctors and nutrition there is probably more disinformation given to the public in relation to RDA's than anything else. You need nutrients in optimal amounts to prevent chronic degenerative disease like cancer, heart disease and arthritis. We are not seeing too much scurvy these days...

Not All Proteins Are Created Equal - Part II (Soy Proteins - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly)

Soy Proteins -The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Studies show that soy offers benefits that casein and whey don’t provide. Learn both sides of the debate.