Natural Nutrition Tips and Articles
Raw whole eggs are a phenomenally inexpensive and incredible source of high-quality nutrients that many of us are deficient in, especially high-quality protein and fat.
The decision to purchase organic food over conventionally grown food is a personal one, and as you walk through the supermarket, many of which are now adding organic sections, you will likely ask the question: Is organic food really better?
The most health "Bang" for your buck
The six power foods that give you more.
Modify your diet so you feel terrific
Generally speaking, eating a meal that is right for your metabolic type should produce marked and lasting improvement in your energy, your mental capacities, your emotional well-being, and leave you feeling well-satisfied for several hours.
Why you should eat fresh garlic daily
Dr. Lenore Arab and colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill analyzed 18 studies looking at garlic eaters.
The notion that foods play an enormous role in your health is not new thinking as evidenced by Hippocrates’ statement from nearly 2,500 years ago, "Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food."
Folic acid as disease prevention
Is folic acid the ultimate functional food component for disease prevention?
Your health is the most important thing you own, so investing in it through the right foods is the best investment you can make. However, I realize that finding the "right" foods can be challenging for some.
Fish oils - the essential nutrients
There are good fats and there are bad fats. Artificially produced trans-fatty acids are bad in any amount and saturated fats from animal products should be kept to a minimum. The best fats or oils rather, since they are liquid at room temperature, are those that contain the essential fatty acids so named because without them we die. Essential fatty acids are polyunsaturated and grouped into two families, the omega-6 EFAs and the omega-3 EFAs.
Antiaging foods
The fountain of youth may be a myth, but certain foods are showing clout as age fighters extraordinaire
Eat well and keep your day job
Whole fresh foods should be the basis of what we all eat, whether your metabolic type is protein type, carb type or mixed type.
If you woke up this morning and ate what you considered to be a healthy breakfast: wheat toast, orange juice, and eggs cooked in vegetable oil, you’ve just succeeded in eating three of the five "health" foods to avoid.
Fresh food micronutrients and prevention
Evidence has emerged to show polyphenols--abundant micronutrients in our diet--can be used to prevent the spread of a number of degenerative conditions, including cancer and cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. The positive effects of polyphenols, however, depend on the amount one consumes.
Carbohydrates cause nearly all age-related diseases. Age-related diseases are thought of as unavoidable. Many people consider it normal to get one or more of these diseases as they age. They rationalize that they are simply unlucky or that others have "better genes," neither of which is true. Their health problems are most likely caused by their belief in the many popular myths and distortions about nutrition. Most likely they got hooked by the low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet craze and are now suffering as a result.
Raw Milk: Good reasons to support the farmer
For fifteen years the writer has employed the certified milk treatment in various diseases and during the past ten he had a small sanitarium devoted principally to this treatment. The results obtained in various types of disease have been so uniformly excellent that one's conception of disease and its alleviation is necessarily changed. The method itself is so simple that it does not greatly interest most doctors and the main stimulus for its use is from the patients themselves.
New American food system part 1
Nowhere in America is our economic and social disconnectedness more evident than in our systems of food and farming. Most consumers, particularly younger consumers, have no sense of where their food actually comes from or who produces it.
New American food system part 2
In recent years soy has emerged as a ‘near perfect’ food, with supporters claiming it can provide an ideal source of protein, lower cholesterol, protect against cancer and heart disease, reduce menopause symptoms, and prevent osteoporosis, among other things. But how did such a ‘perfect’ food emerge from a product that in 1913 was listed in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) handbook not as a food but as an industrial product?
Store food and water in glass not plastic
Environmental exposure to a widespread compound used to make common plastic food containers and baby bottles and to line tin cans interferes with cell division in the eggs of female mice, according to research.