Children’s Whole Food Vitamins Can Insure Adequate Nutrition and Boost Immune Support

Children’s vitamins may be essential in today’s world as most kids don’t get adequate nutrition. If you have kids, you know that it can be difficult to get them to eat right and many parents lose the battle.

Who doesn’t worry about their children’s nutrition? In years past, the American diet came largely from home farms where the food was as close as the end of the driveway. This meant that the food that was consumed at home, came directly from the garden to the table. And while certainly, experts agree that consuming whole, fresh foods including fruits and vegetables along with healthy meats and grains is the best way to get adequate nutrition, we no longer eat this way.

Our food is grown hundreds or even thousands of miles away, picked before it is ripe, trucked, treated and frozen or canned – eliminating much of the nutritional value. To make matters worse, most Americans eat tons of fast or convenience foods which are devoid of nutritional value. This is particularly true for children as they tend to be picky and much prefer chicken nuggets with fries over fish and fresh green beans. Children’s vitamins have become an absolutely necessary tool in the management of nutrition. Continue reading “Children’s Whole Food Vitamins Can Insure Adequate Nutrition and Boost Immune Support”

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan – A Book Review

Title and Author: In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

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In Defense of Food Michael Pollan has given us the most important book on nutrition in this decade. He strikes back at the deluge of diet books and nutritionalism that has confused Americans now for two generations. He uses science to attack the “science” behind the nutritionalism that has so distorted the American attitude toward food and has left Americans as the most over fed and under nourished in the world.

After poking generous holes in the various theories and diet fads of the past 40+ years Pollan gives us some very decent guidance about what we should be eating and how we should be thinking of food. His fundamental thesis is simple: we should eat food, not too much, and mostly plants. By that he means: Continue reading “In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan – A Book Review”

What Do You Need To Know About Brain Cancer?

While data are inconclusive, those concerned about developing brain cancer may want to reduce their exposure to possible contributing factors, such as regular use of cell phones and consumption of aspartame (a synthetic sweetener sold under the brand names NutraSweet and Equal, and added to many sugar-free foods and beverages). Preliminary reports have indicated exposure to pesticides may increase risk of brain tumor, but these reports are not conclusive. There have also been reports of higher incidences of brain tumor in children with high exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs), for instance, those living near high-voltage power lines. However, more recent research discounts the link between electromagnetic fields and childhood brain cancer.

A whole food diet that minimizes processed foods and artificial ingredients is recommended. Eating organic foods will support overall health and may provide food-based nutrients that will support apoptosis of brain cancer cells. Aside from the data showing a potential link between pesticides and brain tumor as well as aspartame and brain cancer, no conclusive relationships between diet and brain tumor have been found. For now, avoiding consumption of pesticides and aspartame by keeping to an organic whole foods diet seems to be the best dietary advice. Continue reading “What Do You Need To Know About Brain Cancer?”

Vegetarian Diet Plan for Weight Loss You Need To Know

Consumption of fewer calories than you burn can lead to instant weight loss on any diet type. Most vegetarians who are keen on weight loss mainly focus on taking in whole foods and fresh vegetables. Nevertheless, in order for a vegetarian to quickly lose weight, moderate calories intake and body exercise is still required. Basically, a vegetarian diet should follow exactly the same healthy eating protocol as a diet that includes meat. It is quite difficult for a vegetarian to come up with a healthy meal plan. The most important thing is to ensure that you get enough nutrition with fewer calories. However, a vegetarian diet doesn’t always promise weight loss.

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All You Need to Know About Antioxidants – Making an Intelligent and Informed Choice For Good Health

What are antioxidants?

An antioxidant is either: 1) a chemical compound or substance that inhibits oxidation. Or 2) a (natural) substance, such as vitamin E, vitamin C, or beta carotene, thought to protect body cells from the damaging effects of oxidation.

Antioxidants can be found naturally occurring in whole foods where they are usually found in groupings; or they are synthetically manufactured and sold as supplements, usually featuring only one single antioxidant rather than several.

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Healthy Foods For Best Brain Health: Whole Grains, Green Leafy Vegetables And Fruits

The formula that improves brain health is the same as that for the body. There is nothing more basic and simple than feeding on whole grains, green leafy vegetables and fruits.

Whole Grain Foods

Truly, not very many foods do compare with a hearty whole grain bread by Liesbeth Smit. Besides the unsaturated fats, this bread is loaded with good carbohydrates, protein and fiber from 4 different types of whole grain flour: buckwheat, barley, rye and wheat; 3 types of seeds: flax seeds, sunflower, pumpkin and 2 other ingredients like rolled oats and wheat bran.

Since there are no hard and fast rules in making this bread, why not replace familiar grains with some ancient heritage ones for novelty and variety in your diet at the same time? Continue reading “Healthy Foods For Best Brain Health: Whole Grains, Green Leafy Vegetables And Fruits”

Healthy Food – Eating For Life – 6 Simple Rules

Finding healthy food, eating it, and living a long life because of doing so isn’t science fiction. It is, however, science. Everyone tries to give you advice on how to eat right, but the simple fact is that almost no-one understands what happens inside your body when you buy healthy food and eat it. Detail on the subject is available for the people who have to know. Those of you who want the simple rules with no fluff or details, read on.

1) Eat whole foods. People say “whole foods” all the time, but no one stops to think what that means about healthy food. Eating foods that weren’t grown in a lab and haven’t been taken apart and put back together, that’s what it means. So no dehydrated-rehydrated potatoes, no homogenized milk, no flour, no sugar, and absolutely no corn syrup, high-fructose or otherwise. Continue reading “Healthy Food – Eating For Life – 6 Simple Rules”

Healthy Foods to Eat on a Budget

If you are on a tight budget, finding healthy foods at the grocery store may seem like a challenge, but there are healthy and economical choices in every aisle of the store. As tempting as all that junk food out there may sound, it really can be cheaper to eat food prepared at home. And with a little imagination and experimenting with herbs and spices in the kitchen, it will taste better as well. The first key to healthier eating is to have more healthy foods available to eat at home. So stop going to the drive-through and don’t buy any more pre-packaged, over processed foods that you probably have in your kitchen now. Get yourself organized by creating a meal plan and a grocery list for the foods you need to prepare those meals. The next step is to go to your local grocery store and start buying whole foods that you can prepare at home with whatever kitchen resources you have there. Continue reading “Healthy Foods to Eat on a Budget”

Try a Slow-Carb Habit

Carbohydrates – found in grains, breads, pasta, and sugar, as well as vegetables, fruit, tofu, beans, and dairy – provide the body with the most efficient fuel for energy production and brain activity. They’re nutritionally essential, a principle currently downplayed by the “low-carb craze”.

What is important to understand is that not all carbohydrates have the same “fuel efficiency”. Many carbohydrates – termed “refined” or “simple” – cause blood sugar highs and lows which can result in a period of high energy followed by a period of extremely low energy, often leaving the person craving more of the simple quick release carbs.

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Splendiferous Whole Grain Foods: Whole Rice, Bamboo Rice, Foxtail Millet And Sorghum

Grains should be handled naturally and not tampered with so much as in processes like milling, par boiling, drying and re-parboiling to shorten cooking time. As it is, over-refinement of grains makes them lose much of their nutritive value.

Whole Grain Rice

You may wonder why most Asians never tire of eating the rice staple day in, day out. This is because the little grains can easily catch on to and off-set the flavors of vegetable side dishes, having little or a neutral taste of their own. Though they are very tiny, they contribute immensely to your satisfaction of what really makes a balanced meal. In other words, the teeny weeny grains will go down very well with whatever accompanying foods you choose to eat. Somehow, rice promotes healthy eating in harmony with all kinds of whole foods. Continue reading “Splendiferous Whole Grain Foods: Whole Rice, Bamboo Rice, Foxtail Millet And Sorghum”