Archive for July, 2012
Can You Get Too Many Vitamins?
Getting too many vitamins from food is almost unheard-of, but if you’re taking individual supplements as a backup, use caution. “At megadoses of up to 10 times what’s recommended, some nutrients behave very much like drugs,” says Lora Sporny, a professor of nutrition at Columbia University. Some examples: Too much calcium may inhibit iron absorption. [...]
Muscle Activation Technique Targets Weak Muscles
How To Spot Food Poisoning
Food poisoning is fairly common and it occurs when foods are not processed, prepared or stored properly. We’ve had a lot of different foods recalled in the past couple of years – like spinach, peanut butter, eggs, ground beef and ground turkey. When a food is recalled, the grocery stores remove it from their shelves [...]
Does Dealcoholized Wine Have Health Benefits?
Dealcoholized wine is regular wine that’s had almost all the alcohol removed. There may be a tiny amount left, but it’s less than half of one percent by volume. That’s small enough to officially be called alcohol-free. So even though it doesn’t have all the alcohol of regular wine (around 13-14 percent), it should have [...]
Black Pepper May Help Fight Fat
The same ingredient in black pepper that makes you sneeze may help keep you slim. A preliminary new study suggests that the pungent component in black pepper known as piperine fights fat by blocking the formation of new fat cells. If further studies confirm these effects, researchers say black pepper may offer a natural alternative [...]
The Superfoods of Summer
Blueberries: The Indigo-Colored Antioxidant Why: These berries—one of the few foods that are naturally blue—have sky-high levels of antioxidants, which combat the damage done by inflammation. Anthocyanins, the natural plant compounds that give blueberries their deep color, may have antidiabetic effects as well. Red Bell Peppers: A Sweet, Crunchy Punch of Vitamin C Why: While all peppers [...]
How to Choose a Multivitamin
There are lots of good reasons to take a multivitamin. Even the best eating plans can fall short of meeting all of the 40-plus nutrients you need each day. Most Americans fail to meet dietary recommendations for many reasons, including strict dieting, poor appetite, changing nutritional needs, or less-than-healthy food choices. Taking a once-daily multivitamin [...]
Why To Exercise Today, Even If You Don’t Lose Weight
Some people who start an exercise program have trouble losing weight, and then get discouraged and quit. That’s a serious error: according to a study published recently in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, regular exercise protects your health even if you don’t lose weight. The study found the reverse is also true: [...]
How to choose a healthy breakfast cereal
Added sugar vs. natural sugar Increasingly, breakfast-cereal makers are offering more nutritious, low-sugar options. The trick is trying to find them amidst the Cocoa Puffs, Frosted Flakes, Lucky Charms and all the other sugary concoctions on grocery store shelves. Even cereals that seem healthy — if you’re to trust the front-of-the-box labels on many brands [...]
Vitamin D, Calcium, and Omega-3 Supplement Benefits
Nutritional supplements are made to do just that — supplement the body with nutrients that are missing from your diet. But your best bet when it comes to supplements like vitamin D, calcium, and omega-3s, according to recent studies, may be to stick to what’s in your food. One finding from a US Preventive Services Task [...]
