Healthy Diet

Foods to Boost Brain Power

Foods to Boost Brain Power

Brain power is characterized by how alert, energetic, and concentrated your brain is in response to a task. Information in your brain passes through neurotransmitters, which are manufactured by the nerve cells using precursors. Different neurotransmitters will have different impacts on your brain activity. For example, serotonin is the calming neurotransmitter that usually makes you [...]
Choose Red or Black Colored Grapes?

Choose Red or Black Colored Grapes?

Biological Background. Grape is a pulpy, smooth-skinned berry, growing in clusters on vines. Grape was domesticated before 5,000 B.C. and is one of the oldest cultivated fruits. Nutritional Information. Ten seedless grapes (50g) provide 35 calories, 0.3 g protein, 8.9 g carbohydrate, 1.0 g fiber, 105 mg potassium, 5.4 mg vitamin C, 0.05 mg thiamin, 0.03 [...]
Can hot dogs cause brain tumors?

Can hot dogs cause brain tumors?

While there is a correlation between mothers-to-be and childhood brain tumors, that same risk doesn’t extend to the children when they eat hot dogs. Actually, while rates of childhood brain cancer went up in the 1970s through the 1990s, the amount of nitrites used in processed meats actually went down. Hot dogs, franks, wieners or [...]
Healthy Food Choices for Yourself and the Planet

Healthy Food Choices for Yourself and the Planet

If you hate to cook, all that fresh produce you bought may just rot in your refrigerator. You might prefer to purchase prepared foods from markets that specialize in healthier whole foods, or even hire a personal chef to prepare meals that only need to be heated and served. If you have a tighter budget, [...]
Choosing healthy snack foods

Choosing healthy snack foods

Choosing healthy snack foods is just as important at snack time as it is at mealtime. Healthy snacks can add fiber and nutrients to your diet without unwanted calories. They can give you an energy boost during the day and prevent you from overeating at meals. If you are an emotional eater, keep the junk food [...]
How to Assess Your Lifestyle

How to Assess Your Lifestyle

You are free to live your life in the style you choose. You can eat what you want, drink what you like, live where you want to live, work wherever they’ll hire you. (After all, the pursuit of happiness is the American way.) However, although your lifestyle choices may not affect anyone else, you may [...]
How Is Obesity Linked to Heart Disease and Stroke?

How Is Obesity Linked to Heart Disease and Stroke?

Heart disease and stroke are the leading causes of death and disability for people in the U.S. Overweight people are more likely to have high blood pressure, a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke, than people who are not overweight. Very high blood levels of cholesterol can also lead to heart disease and [...]
Fast food: 4 ways to healthier meals

Fast food: 4 ways to healthier meals

1. Keep portion sizes small. If the fast-food restaurant offers several sandwich sizes, pick the smallest or order half a sandwich, if available. By pass hamburgers with two or three beef patties, which can pack more than 1,000 calories and 70 grams of fat. Instead, choose a regular- or children’s-sized hamburger, which has about 250 to [...]
How to improve your dietary habits, just eat a little?

How to improve your dietary habits, just eat a little?

If you eat only of course you’ll feel hungry, then you may give up weigh to lose provisional, just for your mouth and stomach? Therefore, it’s very hard things. To successfully lose weight, you’ve got to get in touch with the powerful forces that shape you’re eating habits? How supposed to suppose and feel about food [...]