Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 | Food and Beverage
Now let's take a look a the basic food elements in your perfect
dietary plan; fruits and vegetables group, bread, cereals, rice
and past groups, meats and beans group and dairy group. Each has
different characteristics or helpful nutritional value for your
dietary needs.
Fruits and Vegetables ' Fruits have very little if any protein
and fat. Instead, they have carbohydrates, generally fruit sugar
or fructose and glucose. As Florida commercials tend to
announce, fruits offer us vitamins, C and ...
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 | Food and Beverage
Whether it's the Christmas holiday season or the middle of
summer, the necessity of having to shop for a birthday or
anniversary present is inevitable. While it's always a thrill to
find just the right gift for a friend or associate, sometimes
issues such as lack of time or the difficulty of trying to find
a unique gift: how many ties can you buy your brother in law,
make the buying experience stressful and a hassle. Unique
gourmet gifts: salmon, lobster, crab and steak
There's really no need ...
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 | Sports and Fitness
Most of us don't eat the perfect diet and we have struggles with
food, same as everyone else. Having an awareness of this and
knowing a little bit about our health and food nutrition can
help when it comes to making wise decisions.
Many people struggle with food "cravings." Studies tell us that
it's fairly common for food cravings to happen quite often at
around bedtime. Your guard may be down, you may have had an
unusually hard day, and off you go on your not-so-merry way to
find that tasty ...
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 | Sports and Fitness
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Drive down any suburban or city street and you will witness an
overload of fast food marketing. Brightly colored signs, cheap
value meals, happy cartoon logos, and a familiar smell will fill
your senses. Fast food restaurants have established themselves
as a leader in our nation's daily menu. What is the net affect
fast food and its ingredients have on our health? What, if any,
moral and social obligations do fast food companies have to
their ...
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 | Sports and Fitness
b>Nutrition Basics for the Exercising Adult
Food is necessary for all humans to sustain life. For our
bodies to properly function at rest, calories are needed from
food to provide the energy needed to breathe, help our heart
beat, allow our blood to flow and aid in hundreds of other
functions that occur involuntarily and not necessarily at a
conscious level. This energy requirement for basic human
function is called Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). [For an excellent
discussion on metabolism, ...
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 | Sports and Fitness
A high fiber food chart helps you know the foods high in dietary
fiber. Adding more foods high in dietary fiber from the high
fiber food chart can help you obtain the recommended 25-30 grams
of fiber each day. Sufficient daily fiber intake is important,
not just because of helping the bowels function, but to provide
nutrients to friendly bacteria in the digestive tracts.
Low-fiber diets have been connected to numerous diseases and
conditions such as colon cancer, constipation, Crohn's ...
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2011 | Sports and Fitness
Food labeling is an essential way of protecting your health.
Although you do not realize it every time you pick up a jar of
peanut butter, someone has had to determine just what is in that
jar and what it will do to you if you should consume it. For
most healthy people, eating anything they like seems fine. They
don?t feel bad and nor do they think twice about it. But, the
problem with this is that people can become sick overtime based
on the foods that they eat. The food labeling?s job is to ...
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 | Sports and Fitness
Whether you're concerned about cancer, cardiovascular disease,
diabetes, or simply losing weight, you want to eat a healthy
diet and focus on foods that are high in vitamins, minerals, and
phytonutrients, and balanced in fats, carbs, proteins.
There is only one way to incorporate healthy foods into our diet
and that is to make the decision to do it! Practical information
about the nutrition and safety of the foods we consume is
absolutely vital in making this decision.
One way to learn more ...
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 | Sports and Fitness
Food intolerance is a pharmacological reaction to the
consumption of certain foods. In many cases, food intolerance
may appear to be the side-effect of pharmacological drugs, but
in fact, it is generally caused by the consumption of natural
foods products, additives, or the combination of both.
The majority of food products that commonly cause food
intolerance are high-protein.
As a low carb dieter, you will have abnormally- high exposure to
high-protein food, including dairy products and ...
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2011 | Sports and Fitness
You will never know what kind of food you're allergic to if you
never had reaction on food you have eaten. Not everyone is
allergic to food they have eaten. But there are some who suffer
this kind of situation. What about you? Do you have any allergic
to something you eat?
Are you vomiting after eating peanuts? Or are you itching after
taking only a little amount of seafood? Well, there's a great
possibility that you suffer from food allergy...
Yes, a person can be allergic to certain foods, ...
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