Category: Nutrition
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Hell’s Kitchen: How to Tell You Shouldn’t Be Eating There
Whether your dining habits tend more toward swanky restaurants or hole-in-the-wall, hidden-gem dives, the chances are that you’ve had at least one bad restaurant experience. Not all bad experiences are sanitary, although a CDC study, conducted on people who had experienced symptoms typical of foodborne illness (vomiting or diarrhea), showed that about 25 percent of…
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8 Fish To Avoid At All Costs
When considering what fish to add to your diet and which should be avoided, there are a number of considerations. Among those – which fish are unhealthy (because of farming, environmental pollutants, or other factors), which fish bring us the greatest benefits per calorie, and, lastly, the consumption of which species poses the greatest threat…
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9 Spices To Improve Your Health
The spice is right. Whether you’re looking to give your dish a spicy kick or build from an aromatic base, chances are you’ll be reaching for your spice rack as you prepare your next meal. But flavor aside, the spices you choose can actually be boosting your health, adding to your daily vitamin and mineral…
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5 Nutrients That Lower Your Risk of Macular Degeneration
A healthy, nutrient-rich diet can help minimize risk factors for countless health conditions, and macular degeneration is an example that certainly proves the rule. This condition, the leading cause of vision loss in the United States, affects more than 10 million Americans according to the American Macular Degeneration Foundation (AMDF). And not only will diet…
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5 Vegetables You Should Be Eating But Aren’t
Kale! Eat more kale! This is a popular message seen all over current news stories, heard over dinner or at the office, and shared all over the social media scene. So yes, we get it. Kale is good for you. But what about the other vegetables that are so often overlooked, passed up or simply…
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Herbal Supplements: Are You in Danger?
You’ve been a bit depressed for weeks now. A concerned friend suggests taking the herbal supplement St. John’s Wort for mild depression. Your concerns are twofold: whether the supplement works and if it will interfere with other medications you take, like birth control or blood thinners. “But this is an all-natural and safe herb,” says…
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Beware! Signs You’re Vitamin B Deficient
Vitamin B deficiency is a condition that affects the body’s ability to make sufficient red blood cells, which can have a number of preventable and unavoidable causes. This condition can be caused by a number of dietary factors, including a lack of animal products (as with vegetarian and vegan diets), poor nutritional intake during pregnancy,…
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You Are What You Eat: 6 Foods That Could Be Killing You
You are what you eat. In recent decades, we’ve been exposed to countless studies confirming or debunking the latest fads in healthy eating – what’s healthy one month has been determined to be cancer-causing the next. Despite our best efforts to make health-conscious choices, there are some foods that are part of our regular diets…
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7 Fruits You Should Be Eating (But Aren’t)
A papaya a day keeps disease at bay? We all know the health benefits of our favorite fruits. Apples are rich in fiber; citrus fruits — from limes to tangerines — are full of vitamin C; and bananas are great for fighting off hunger and a potassium boost. But what about the rainbow of other…
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The Newest Fast Food Offenders
You know how everyone says that breakfast is the most important meal of the day? What if it were your only meal of the day? Well, order Burger King’s Ultimate Breakfast Platter and get nutritionally set for today and perhaps a bit of tomorrow. The number of calories on this platter is three-fourths the daily…