Browsing articles on "Diet and Nutrition" category

The Relation Between Diet and Heart Diseases

Nutritionists and cardiologists have come to the conclusion that a healthy and equilibrated diet can influence in a positive way heart conditions ( both in preventing and curing them ).
A healthy lifestyle combined with the right diet can reduce in a significant manner heart problems. If the cholesterol level in blood drops, chances of developing […]

Craving for French fries?

Tasty, easy to make, can be found in all restaurants and menus, French fries have become as common as drinking water.

A research within America revealed the fact that 25 % of the vegetables Americans eat are potatoes.
Even so, French fries are not recommended if you want to follow a healthy diet and here are some […]

What Color Is Your Diet ?

Colored diet is a recommended diet especially for preventing cancer or other critical disease. It is not necessarily a diet meant to help people lose weight. Its author is Mr. David Heber, the managing director of UCLA Center for Human Nutrition.
Allowed products:
All the products that are intensely colored can be eaten. The author refers rather […]

Vitamins

Vitamins are a group of natural organic substances. They are necessary to the human organism in order to properly complete some essential metabolic processes.
Vitamins do not release energy and they do not have plastic roles. Because most of these vitamins are not made by the organism itself, they have to be supplemented by a vitamin […]

Vegetarianism

Vegetarianism is a way of living and an usual dietary practice in which the individual has a diet which completely or partially excludes any type of meat (including fish or poultry) or any other animal meat, the menu being only made of vegetables.
There are different types of vegetarianism depending on the menu:
- Vegan : which […]

The new Beverly Hills Diet

This new type of diet is based on the intelligent combination of alimentary products – eating the right food at the right moment. The classical diets are quite strict and may last more than a month.
The Beverly Hills diet consists in eating three times a day , making sure you do not mix carbohydrates with […]

Juvenile obesity - Nice and chubby ?

If during past years all mothers wanted their children to be chubby, nowadays, due to the alarming obesity rate and the problems it brings about, the perspective has changed.
Lately, people became more and more aware of the inevitable dangers obesity causes. It is a known fact that if it not kept under control and cut […]

The Importance of Calcium in the diet

Calcium is one of the most essential minerals in the human body, with such an important role that if at a certain point it would completely vanish, the human body would be made only of skin and muscles, with no consistence whatsoever.
This is due to the fact that calcium is present in the structures which […]

Why do I keep being hungry ?

I am sure that lots of you who are reading this article have felt at least once in your lives the need to grab a little snack minutes after you’ve finished eating.
Most of the times this feeling of hunger is caused by the sudden variation of the sugar in the blood. After eating, the sugar […]

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