Health-and-Fitness – Nutrition EzineArticles

January 10, 2010

  1. Eating Healthy on a Budget Can Be Surprisingly Simple by Rose Corteau

    Is eating healthy on a budget really possible? When most people think about health food, they often have an image of whole food stores with hefty price tags. Eating healthy is just a matter of making the right choices and adjusting your attitude. It doesn’t have to be expensive at all. The secret to eating healthy while staying on budget is all about having a plan in place that you control.

  2. Vitamin B12 Information For All by Aunindita Bhatia

    Vitamin B12 information is an important topic in health today. Many persons simply do not have the right knowledge about this vitamin because its functions used to be so obscure. However, it has been made clear by numerous research studies that Vitamin B12, or cobalamin, is an essential vitamin necessary in our body’s processes.

  3. The Symptoms of Low Vitamin B12 by Aunindita Bhatia

    A low Vitamin B12 level can be one of the trickiest things about the human body. Unfortunately, many people have this deficiency but fail to recognize it because its symptoms are so vast and varied. How does one know if he has a low Vitamin B12 level?

  4. Be Safe at Lunch and Dinner Buffets by Maureen Kurman

    The next time you decide that you are going to throw caution to the wind and pig out at a dinner buffet, you should think about whether it is worth it or not. There are a few things you should take into consideration if you decide you are going to dine at your favorite all you can eat.

  5. Grocery Shopping – What to Do Before You Even Leave the House by Michelle Lacroix Toro

    Hey, we’re at the beginning of a fresh new year and you’ve made a New Years’ Resolution to look and feel better. Knowing what to do before you go grocery shopping is as important as going and choosing the right foods.

  6. A Lemon a Day Lowers Your Body’s Acidity Levels, Helps Prevent Disease, and Indigestion by Bonnie Pollock

    You’ve all heard that “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Well, pucker up and drink your lemon water to keep the bugs away. I didn’t listen to my grandma years ago, but for the last 5 years I have been drinking 8 ozs of warm lemon water first thing in the morning.

  7. Beef Jerky – A Great Healthy Snack – Not a Junk Food by Dave Lyon

    Working in an office environment, hunger between meals, while inevitable, can pose a number of problems. Generally, the vending machine offers the main source of food in the office outside of standard meal times and the contents of the vending machines are normally high in saturated fat and low on nutritional content.

  8. Changing Your Mind About Food by Mariya Wordsworth

    Phentermine is Americas’ most popular weight loss prescription drug. But to call it a weight loss drug is a little misleading because Phentermine does not work on body fat. Rather it is a psycho-drug that changes how the mind is working. It causes the mind to think differently about eating and to give an opportunity for the user to change their behaviour into healthier patterns.

  9. Healing Power of Vitamins, Minerals and Herbs by Lady Jane Schwarz

    As new ailments and diseases challenge our complacency out our health, the role of complementary medicine is being pushed steadily into the front lines of the various battles against disease. In today’s world conventional medicine has fewer quarrels with alternative medicine than in the past. This openness to exploring new methods of healing is especially relevant to what I see as the most significant trend in alternative medicine: the dramatic increase in the use of vitamins, minerals, herbs and other nutritional supplements.

  10. The Importance of Eating a Balanced Diet! by Seighal Reven

    There are, we all know, certain foods groups that are good for the human body. Many modern dietary and healthy eating regimes, particularly those endorsed by celebrities, will tell us to cut out one particular food group in favor of another. The most famous example of this, of course, is the Atkins Diet, which encouraged followers to abandon carbohydrates wherever possible and focus instead on ingesting protein. The diet (which masqueraded as a healthy eating plan) had many followers, people queuing up to endorse its benefits and show off their new slimmer figures and healthier bodies.

  11. Why Aren’t You Enjoying the Benefits of Healthy Eating? by Suzy Staywell

    Since I spend a lot of time talking to friends, family and the occasional stranger at the grocery store or waiting room about healthy eating, I can tell you most of the reasons so many people are not enjoying the immeasurable benefits of a healthy diet. While all of these excuses have some validity, nothing trumps the way you will feel and the improved health you will enjoy if you make eating healthy a priority.

  12. Promoting Good Bone Health by Bill Bicknell

    Most people know that calcium is required in the body, but not many know if they are getting enough. Calcium is needed for strong bones and teeth. Lack of calcium in the diet at an early age may store up problems, as the body gets older.

  13. The Individual Nutrients – Minerals by Coltus G.

    Certain minerals are necessary for the proper functioning of the human body. They give strength and rigidity to certain body tissues and help with a number of body functions.

  14. The Individual Nutrients – The B Vitamins by Coltus G.

    All of the B-complex vitamins are vital to normal metabolism and good health. All the B vitamins are water soluble, like vitamin C, which means they are not stored in the body and must be taken daily. The Bs help metabolize carbohydrates and provide energy. Each of the B vitamins has additional special functions.

  15. The Individual Nutrients – Vitamins by Coltus G.

    It is only within the last fifty years that man has started to learn about vitamins. They are essential to life and well-being. Moreover, we cannot manufacture most vitamins in our bodies. Fortunately, vitamins are vitamins, whatever their source-natural or synthetic.

  16. Why Does Alcohol Make You Put on Weight and Fat? by John Davenport

    I have a lot of friends who work very hard to lose weight and get fit. They go to the gym, run outdoors, and watch what they eat very carefully… but there’s one thing they just can’t give up and that’s their alcohol. Come the weekend and they’re gulping it down in the neighburhood bar like there’s no tomorrow.

  17. Grasses Are Good For You by Dr. Casey Adams

    Before our favorite grains go to shaft and seed in the field, the nutrient level of their tiny thin grass strands climax into perfection. This renders a family of nutrient-dense foods we call cereal grasses. The most popular of these are wheat grass, kamut grass and barley grass. Oat grass and other grains are also worth considering, although they are not as commercially available.

  18. Water For a Healthy Body and a Healthier You by Cemil Ozcelik

    The human body is made up of 55-75 per cent water. Water forms the basis of blood, urine and perspiration and is contained in fat, muscle and bones. Taking into consideration these facts, it is no surprise that the body can last weeks without food, but only days without water.

  19. Grocery Shopping When You Are Dieting by Michelle Lacroix Toro

    Many people think grocery shopping is just stopping in at your local grocery, grabbing a shopping cart on the fly, and cruising through the aisles tossing boxes of this and that and making a quick pit stop in the fresh fruit and vegetable aisle. Is that what it is to you?

  20. Vitamins – The Vital Element For Our Body by Methew Alyx

    We always keep listening from some or the other person about the importance of vitamins. But do we know what exactly the vitamins are? Or what is the role of these minerals in our body? These are the organic substances which are not synthesized in the body but can be acquired from an outer source. They are found in the foods we consume.

  21. Take Nutrition to Stay Healthy and Fit by Methew Alyx

    As our lifestyle is getting fast paced along with it our diets are also becoming more fast food based, requirement of nutrition continues to grow. Diet and nutritional products have helped many individuals to maintain their healthy lifestyles by providing essential minerals and vitamins in an otherwise poor diet.

  22. Good Nutrition is Important For a Healthy Body by Methew Alyx

    Nutrition is the science that covers all the various attributes of which food is composed of and the method in which proper nourishment is brought about. The average nutritional requirements of humans are fixed and depend on such quantifiable features like age, sex, height, weight, degree of activity and rate of growth.

  23. Ways to Increase Your IQ Using Nutrition by Kadra Adams

    The most obvious thing you can do to increase your IQ is to increase your consumption of healthy fruits and vegetables. Many of us understand the significance of this, but its probably true that only a few of us actually practise it.

  24. Fast Food – A Sure Path to Slow Death by Chris Strogilis

    I live a very healthy life. I have been training systematically for many years and my nutrition is almost impeccable.

  25. 3 Benefits From Soy That You Get in the Physician Developed Diet by Jenny M. Jamison

    As time goes by, individuals constantly search for food that can make them eat and live healthier. No one wants to die young so people are exerting more effort in making their food full of nutrients. Eating healthily ensures a stronger and leaner body. When you look at a physician developed meal closely, it will help you understand the meaning of keeping yourself healthy to avoid any sickness or illness.

  26. What is Xylitol? by Barb Hughesian

    So many people I’ve talked to have never heard of this fantastic substitute for sugar. It has so many benefits that could help people with diabetes, insulin resistance and in losing weight. Unfortunately, there isn’t much advertising about it so it remains virtually unknown to most people. It is so much better nutritionally than using artificial sweeteners.

  27. Feeling a Little Under the Weather? Maybe You Need a Prescription to Chocolate by Sandy Lacy

    No doubt you have heard someone say that Chocolate is good for you. It’s fun to believe that something we love to eat could actually be doing our bodies good — despite all the indications otherwise. Well, in this case it is true.

  28. Organic Chia Seeds by Kyle Wade

    Chia seeds are an organic whole raw food that boasts many health benefits that is essential for a good and healthy development. Should Chia seeds be a part of our daily diet or are they simply a fad?

  29. Ways to Increase Height – Foods That Boost Your Growth Potential by Amir Reiki

    Are you still spending hours browsing the internet just to gain an insight into ways that can make you grow taller? Most of the tips given on the internet require that you buy products to achieve your secret desire. Now there is a simpler and cheaper way to add the extra inches to your height.

  30. 3 Reasons Why Women Can’t Get Enough of Physician Developed Meal Plans by Jenny M. Jamison

    If you look around you, you will be able to see individuals in various shapes and sizes. Most are not happy on how they look. They have this uncomfortable feeling, which makes them want to lose weight. The battle for weight loss has started since time immemorial. The winner emerges when the person is able to finish the course and maintain it. The birth of physician developed meal plans came about when people started to patronize products that come along with their diets.

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