Posted in Health & Fitness on Mar 12th, 2008
Fiber - Think what it would be like to live in a house where you couldn’t take out the garbage. It would just keep piling up in one room after another. Or imagine a city that had no wind to blow away the air pollution. It would just keep getting thicker and thicker. Well, your [...]
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Posted in Health & Fitness on Mar 5th, 2007
Put some energy into maintaining it
When we’re feeling tired and stressed, it’s easy to reach for a “quick fix” - strong coffee in the morning, chocolate in the middle of the afternoon, a caffeine-based energy drink to keep us powering through the night.
There’s no doubt these provide the immediate perception of a lift, [...]
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Posted in Health & Fitness on Feb 4th, 2007
It is very common to think that high consumption of dairy or high-calcium products such as milk, cheese and yogurt will reduce the risk of developing osteoporosis. However, a recent study showed that milk consumption and high calcium diets were not associated with a lower risk of osteoporosis - related hip fracture.
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Posted in Health & Fitness on Jan 29th, 2007
Thank goodness for fiber, a carbohydrate the body cannot digest. Nature has provided us with these foods with so little absorbable calories that it may take more energy to digest them compared with the calories they actually contain. With these negative-calorie foods, the theory is that you can stuff yourself with them and not gain [...]
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Posted in Health & Fitness on Nov 14th, 2006
Ginkgo - An extract made from the leaves of the Ginkgo Biloba tree; helps relieve memory loss and depression
Boron - A trace mineral that may positively affect the brain’s electrical activity; found in nuts, fruits, legumes, and leafy vegetables
Thiamin - Vitamin B1, known as the nerve vitamin; low levels have [...]
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