How To Cheat the Hunger? 20 simple but effective ways

var bz_url='http://diets-and-health.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-to-cheat-hunger-20-simple-but.html'; People say: hunger is not a lady. But if it does not fly away, we are well able to help it. For this to your attention the 20 easiest ways.1. Drink, drink and more drink Cheat your stomach with fluid. Drink a glass of mineral water with a slice of lemon, tomato juice or a cup of green tea. The liquid will fill your empty stomach and blunt...

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Healthy Eating Tips For a Healthier Lifestyle

var bz_url='http://diets-and-health.blogspot.com/2009/11/healthy-eating-tips-for-healthier.html'; Everyone is talking about eating right and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. There are shows dedicated to watching your weight and exercising. While these shows are extremely helpful with providing the healthy eating tips you need in order to live a healthier lifestyle, not all of them are living in reality. When you are working 50 to 60 hours a week, and trying to run a household, most of the tips just do not seem like they would fit...

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8 Embarrassing Sleep Secrets

If you're confiding in a friend about sleep problems, the conversation might turn to topics like not getting enough rest or tossing and turning at night. But what about things your body does during sleep - like drooling, snoring, bedwetting, or passing gas - that you might be embarrassed to talk about by the light of day? For example, take Kindra Hall, vice president of sales at a network marketing firm in Phoenix. She admits that drooling excessively while sleeping is a major source of embarrassment, especially when she's been caught in...

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The role of sugar and salt in a healthy diet

Sugary Drinks and Sweets It is natural to like sweets. And it is okay to enjoy them as an occasional treat, but it is vital to keep consumption to a minimum. Refined sugar is one of the bad carbs mentioned above. Not only does it cause problems with our blood sugar level, but it also uses up stored resources within our body (such as minerals and enzymes) in order to process the sugar. In addition there are many negative health effects that sugar ...

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Healthy Fats and Oils to support brain and body functions

Foods rich in certain omega-3 fats called EPA and DHA can reduce cardiovascular disease, improve your mood and help prevent dementia. The best sources for the EPA and DHA omega-3 fats are fatty fish such salmon, herring, mackerel, anchovies, sardines, and some cold water fish oil supplements. Canned albacore tuna and lake trout can also be good sources...

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Fats: avoid the bad fats and enjoy the good fats

Fats are another vital part to a healthy diet. Good fats are needed to nourish your brain, heart, nerves, hormones and all your cells, as well as your hair, skin, and nails. Fat also satisfies us and makes us feel full. It’s the type of fat that matters in addition to how much you consume. Saturated fats, primarily found in animal sources including red meat and whole milk dairy products, raise the low-density lipoprotein (LDL or "bad") ...

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Dairy products and other sources for calcium and vitamin D

Dairy products provide a rich source of calcium, necessary for bone health. Most are fortified with vitamin D, which helps the small intestine absorb calcium. Calcium can also be found in dark green, leafy vegetables, such as kale and collard greens, as well as in dried beans and legumes. Recommended calcium levels are 1000 mg per day, 1200 mg if you are...

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Putting protein into perspective

!----> During digestion, protein in food is broken down into the 20 amino acids that are the basic building blocks our bodies use to create its own protein. Our bodies need protein to maintain our cells, tissues and organs. A lack of protein in our diets can result in slow growth, reduced muscle mass, lower immunity, and weaken the heart and ...

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Fiber

Dietary fiber is found in plant foods (fruit, vegetables and whole grains) and is essential for maintaining a healthy digestive system. Fiber helps support a healthy diet by: Helping you feel fuller faster and longer, which can help prevent overeating. Keeping blood sugar levels even, by slowing digestion and absorption ...

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Carbohydrates clarified

Carbohydrates Carbohydrates – food composed of some combination of starches, sugar and fiber - provide the body with fuel it needs for physical activity by breaking down into glucose, a type of sugar our cells use as a universal energy source. Bad carbs are foods that have been “stripped” of all bran, fiber, and nutrients. They have been processed in order...

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Tips for a Healthy Diet and Better Nutrition

Healthy eating is not about strict nutrition philosophies, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the foods you love. Rather, it’s about feeling great, having more energy, and keeping yourself as healthy as possible – all which can be achieved by learning some nutrition basics and incorporating them in a way that works for you. Choose the...

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How to Improve Your Sense of Smell

There are many reasons you may wish to improve your sense of smell. For one thing, it's closely linked to your sense of taste. Try tasting food with your nose pinched! And in general, being able to smell the subtleties in the scent of a flower, or someone's skin, or autumn leaves, can offer a deeper dimension of enjoyment. Plus, did you know that the average human nose can detect nearly 10,000 distinct scen...

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How to Be Healthy

As a student, heard a lot about health! Many people do not care about their health and are busy working and are taking calories in excess.The rate of obesity has risen due to the intake of sweets,chocolate and many food containing loads of fats. We also fail to exercise for the right amount of time which can add to excess fat. There are many ways to improve health that we need to accomplish every day besides good diet and exercise, and this article gives a good start.(1)To be in good physical health, good mental health is important as well....

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10 Food Rules for Pain Patients

The fibro-food connectionFibromyalgia is notoriously difficult to treat. Medication tends to reduce muscle pain, fatigue, and other symptoms of the chronic condition by just 30% to 50%. As a result, many patients turn to diet and lifestyle changes for added relief.Learning which foods to avoid is a good place to start, since fibro patients often have food sensitivities that may not show up in food allergy tests. In one survey, 42% reported that certain...

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6 Ways to Change How You Eat - Forever

Avoid foods you see advertised on television. Food marketers are ingenious at turning criticisms of their products—and rules like these—into new ways to sell slightly different versions of the same processed foods: They simply reformulate (to be low-fat, have no HFCS [high fructose corn syrup] or trans fats, or to contain fewer ingredients) and then boast about their implied healthfulness, whether the boast is meaningful or not.The best way to escape...

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Facial Fitness Exercises

Normal 0 Being beautiful on the outside is all about keeping the face young and looking healthy. We know that the absence of wrinkles and sags, as well as having taut, toned, smooth and glowing skin are the signs of youthful and healthy beauty. Some go through so much just to maintain the vigor and agelessness of their faces, so much that they would spend a fortune on face lifts and other procedures that would keep them looking as close to 18 years old as possible. There is, however, an inexpensive way of retaining youthful beauty,...

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Children's Health: 5 Ways Parents Can Help Children Lead Healthier Lifestyles

Believe it or not, you impart a legacy of health to your children that goes well beyond the genes you give them. You also pass along health beliefs and model health-related choices.Here are 5 tips that will set your kids up on a path towards a healthy life.1. Instill a sense of wonder about the body.Many adults fear and distrust their bodies. They believe that the body is fragile, and illness is just around the corner. The myth that you will catch a cold if you go outside without a coat persists. Your kids are listening when you look...

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4 Reasons More Recess Helps Kids Do Better in School

There's one thing that's almost guaranteed to make your child do better in school: more recess. Not only do children do better academically if they get outside to play, but they have fewer behavior problems. That's the word from none other than the principals of America, who know all there is to know about bad behavior at school. I write this having just returned from a stint as recess volunteer at my daughter's elementary school, where I zipped...

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Key components of Mediterranean diet that keep heart healthy

Washington, Feb 12: It is known that eating a Mediterranean diet similar to Italians or Greeks is beneficial for the heart. Now, the February issue of Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource has covered key components of this diet as well as reasons why this approach is known as a heart-healthy eating plan.Key components include:1. Eating generous amounts of fruits and vegetables and whole grains. In most Mediterranean countries, fruits and vegetables are part of every meal. They are naturally low in fat and sodium and have no cholesterol. Many are loaded...

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Chemicals in food 'can lead to obesity'

Washington, Feb 12: Certain toxins found in common food can make you fat, says an expert.According to Stephen Perrine, author of "New American Diet," there are all sorts of chemicals in foods, pesticides, growth hormones, antibiotics, and plastic pollutants, to name a few.He says they are not only bad for the environment, but can also harm human bodies.The chemicals that disrupt the function of our hormonal system are called obesogens, reports CBS News.Obesogens can cause heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and high cholesterol.These chemicals can...

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Just a single espresso a day 'can damage heart'

London, Feb 12 : A single espresso every day can have damaging effect on your heart, claims a new study.The study, published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that one cup of the caffeine-rich beverage was enough to reduce blood flow to the heart by 22 per cent within an hour of being consumed, reports The Telegraph.Team scientists said the study's finding confirms that the high levels of caffeine found in a single espresso do have unfavourable cardiovascular effects.To reach the conclusion, the team at the University of...

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