A recent study on over 1,900 French men and women analyzed diet, sun exposure, physical activity, age, and geographic location. The study followed participants for over two and a half years and found that those with the lowest levels of ...
Olive oil has been in the news lately. Both the Guardian and the Daily Mail in the UK reported that some Italian extra virgin olive oil producers have been lying about their products. Italy has a much greater demand for olive oil than the ...
EFAs are essential fatty acids, which we need to live but our bodies cannot create. So we need take EFAs from outside sources. Johanna Budwig, the creator of the Budwig Diet for successfully treating cancer, claimed before she died at age ...
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Followers of the popular Mediterranean diet have known for years that eating fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds and plenty of extra virgin olive oil is beneficial to health. Recent studies have continued to bolster this eating ...
Coconuts are a versatile superfood providing nutrition, health benefits, and amazing medicinal properties all wrapped in one delicious package. Coconuts are totally natural, easily available and affordable; and every part of the fruit is ...
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Polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) is the technical term for a type of fat (fatty acid) with two or more (poly) double bonds (unsaturated). They exist in many different forms, varying in chain length, degree of unsaturation, and rotation ...
Essential oils have been used for thousands of years for their healing and purifying effects on the body. There are 188 references to these precious oils in the Bible. They have always held extreme value by ancient doctors and medicine men ...
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Being overweight or obese are risk factors for heart attack and heart disease even if people don't have metabolic syndrome, Danish researchers say. Dr. Borge G. Nordestgaard, chief physician in clinical biochemistry at Copenhagen ...
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There is a lot of controversy in nutrition and it often seems like people can’t agree on anything. But there are a few exceptions to this. Here are the top 10 nutrition facts that everyone actually agrees on (well, almost ...
LabStyle Innovations, the developer of Dario, has announced the official European launch date for the Dario iOS mobile application. Dario is a cloud-based, mobile health (mHealth) platform for diabetes and related blood glucose ...
The colon is an essential organ that contributes greatly to the proper digestion of foods and the excretion of waste. Without a properly working colon, bacteria, toxins, fats, cholesterol, and other potentially harmful substances could ...
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Glucose is produced by the conversion of carbohydrates into sugar in the body. This is a normal process in a normal person but can the process can be entirely different for a person suffering from diabetes. Patients that suffer from ...
Traditional Chinese medicine may be the latest sector to benefit from cosmic farming as 150 grams of space-exposed ginseng seeds were delivered to a State lab on Friday. "We hope the space ginseng will be bigger, more resistant to disease ...
Nutrition Dried fruits retain most of the nutritional value of fresh fruits, and so are included with fresh fruit in dietary recommendations by U.S. and world health agencies. The specific nutrient content of the different dried fruits ...
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Summer sun increases the risk of age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in adults. A number of steps can help prevent that disease, as well as your risk of developing cataracts, diabetic retinopathy, and glaucoma. ...
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