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Low-Salt Diet May Lower Blood Pressure
Salt is essential not only to life, but to good health. The body’s salt:water ratio is critical to metabolism, and salt maintains the electrolyte balance inside and outside of cells. Even human blood...
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Food Writer Defends Goodness of Fat
It takes a contrarian to defend the goodness of fat at a time when obesity has turned into a global epidemic. In her new cookbook, “Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, With Recipes,”...
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Middle School Freshens Up Students’ Diets With Fruits, Vegetables & Other...
Last year, Elvis Cherry, a seventh-grade science teacher at H.G. Hill Middle School, plucked a carrot from the garden he grows outside of his classroom and popped a piece into his mouth. "Eww" and...
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Fiona McCade: Over-egging the crash diet
My husband has had his kilt since he was at university. Like all good kilts, the waist fastening allows plenty of room for growth, but not, however, quite as much growth as my husband has undergone in...
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Fact: Mother’s High-fat Diet Contributes To Obesity In Her Children
New research published online in The FASEB Journal suggests that pregnant women should think twice about high-fat foods. In a study from the University of Cincinnati and the Medical College of...
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Forbes: How To Choose A Diet That Works
Americans are giving up on diets. While weight-loss programs and products are still an estimated $58 billion industry, the number of people dieting is dropping, according to market-research firm NPD...
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10 Ways to Eliminate Sugar In Your Diet
How much sugar you eat every day? Do you know which foods turn to sugar in your digestive system? The main reason for diabetes setting in after age 40 is a direct result of a lifetime of bad eating...
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Which Diet Works Best?
Raw food? Weight Watchers? South Beach? Eating real food (whole grains, vegetables, lean protein) at regular intervals? If diet indecision has you still eating doughnuts for breakfast, non-whole-wheat...
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Anticancer Diet by David Servan-Schreiber
By David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD, Author of Anticancer: A New Way of Life Diet is one of the major risk factors for cancer in Western societies. But it’s not just about what we eat too much of. It’s...
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American Dietetic Association Releases 2008 Nutrition Trends Survey
Increasing numbers of American adults are aware of the importance of nutrition and physical activity and are taking steps to eat a healthy diet and engage in exercise, according to the American...
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