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The Ten Healthiest Foods

Bad diets and sever diseases are strongly connected. In order to avoid having cancer, ulcer, vascular disturbances, insomnia or milkleg, it is enough to eat some foods that should always be on a healthy daily diet. Mark Glen, a famous British dietitian, recommends the following ten healthiest foods:

Apples - an excellent source of pectin, fibers […]

Lemon Juice Diet

Cultivated in China since 3,000 years ago, the lemon tree is very well known thanks to the therapeutic properties of its fruits and leafs.

Lemon has two important properties: it’s an antibacterial agent with plenty of vitamin C, the juice from a fruit covers 50% from the daily recommended dose of an adult. It contains potassium […]

15 Myths about Diets

The land of slimming diets, is with no doubt the United States of America. New diets appear all the time; maybe because America has the greatest number of overweight and obese persons in the world, (almost 45-50 % of Americans are fat and obese).
In Europe, Britain is the fattest country. Figures show that 23% of […]

Chocolate Diet

It is known that alcohol and narcotics create addiction, but the chocolate addiction can be treated easily.

Yes, chocolate contains substances that creates addiction. Besides sugar and stimulative substances (like caffeine), the chocolate contains many fats, which explains why chocolate addiction often leads to fatness. This is a low fat diet with few calories, that […]

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 […]

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