Archive for 'Nutrition Resources' Category
The New Food Pyramid: Another Attempt At Providing Easy Answers
6 July 2008The Food Pyramid, first introduced to the US in 1992, just experienced a major overhaul. Why? Perhaps proper education about nutrition isn’t as easy as picking out food from a colorful chart. Last month, The New England Journal of Medicine reported that childhood obesity was causing a retreat in average lifespan. That report seems to […]
Healing With Whole Foods - Defining Health By Relationships
21 May 2008Annemarie Colbin, in her book, Food and Healing, presents a chapter on altering diet to combat specific conditions. Her recommendations are based on her own experience as a student of macrobiotics and health food, and a teacher of natural healing and balanced eating. As well as her observations of those whom she treated in consultations, […]
Calcium
12 May 2008The need for calcium in our daily diet can never be overstated. Not only does it give us energy with all that it does for our bones and teeth, it is also an essential nutrient for our body’s routine activities, keeps the heart beating at a steady pace, and the nerves, muscles and blood in […]
Information on Calcium
14 April 2008Calcium is the most abundant cation in the human body, and a very important mineral for the maintenance of neuromuscular function. It constitutes 2% of the total body weight and 26% of the dry weight of bones and teeth, as phosphates and carbonates. About 0.5 g serum calcium is exchanged with bone calcium every day.
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Healthy Breakfast, Healthy Life
11 April 2008You should always have breakfast. It’s the one meal of the day you should never skip. The reason is that by the time breakfast comes around you have been fasting for around 10-12 hours. This was fine while you were resting and sleeping, but now your body needs to be re-charged with […]
The Importance of Nutritional Supplements
28 March 2008The subject of nutritional supplements is a broad and seemingly complex issue, do in great part to the system or systems that control, regulate and enable the dispensation of medicines, pharmaceuticals and if you will…supplements. In no way or shape am I attempting to butt heads with any organization, agency or protocols of their structures, […]
Soy: A Health Food?
27 March 2008So, how much soy did Asians eat?
Not much, even though we, as a society have been led by expert mass marketing to think otherwise. Soy has never, ever been a food staple in Asian history. The exception was that the poor often used the soybean to fill their empty bellies during […]