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Antibiotics and Travel
If you’ve traveled to exotic places before, then you know how important it is to go abroad fully equipped with your own private medicine chest. Who knows where you’ll be when a bout of diarrhea strikes? Or if your twice yearly migraine decides to make an appearance? Or if your skin breaks out with [...]

4 Foods That Help Lower Cholesterol
There are many foods available that help reduce your cholesterol level and ensure a healthy heart. Read food labels before you purchase any products to make sure you’re consuming the following nutrients:
1. High fiber products - Many studies have found that high fiber products can significantly decrease the LDL (bad cholesterol) cholesterol level. Oats, beans, barley, [...]
The Vegetarian Diet for Low Cholesterol
Research shows that a vegetarian diet can help with lowering your cholesterol levels.
There are 4 different variations in a vegetarian diet:
• Vegan - Vegans only consume foods derived from plant products such as vegetables, fruits, beans, seeds, grain and nuts; and will not eat any foods made from or with any animal products.
• Lacto vegetarian - [...]
What Are Cholesterol Symptoms?
This may come as a surprise, but often there are no cholesterol symptoms. So despite feeling healthy, you can still have high cholesterol levels and not even know it. However, if you ignore high cholesterol, it may eventually lead to serious heart disease. Heart disease is the leading cause of deaths in the U.S according [...]

Turmeric Extract Fights Fat Growth
Could you imagine a common spice that is actually proven to help you lose weight? Well, it may not be so far off for us wanting to lose a bit of excess fat! A recent study has shown that curcumin, the major polyphenol found in turmeric, seems to reduce weight gain in mice and suppress [...]

Probiotics May Prevent Obesity
For those of you who don’t know about them, Probiotics are bacteria that help maintain a healthy bacterial balance in the GI tract by reducing the growth of harmful bacteria, and are part of the normal digestive system. Researchers have for many years been studying the potential of using probiotic supplementation to address a number [...]

Chew Gum, Manage Your Weight
Who doesn’t enjoy a nice piece of chewing gum? Well, I may be jumping the gun a bit here but I do love a nice stick of sugarless cinnamon gum. And now it turns out that chewing may be very good for weight control too! Here’s the deal. In a recent study sponsored by [...]

Lowcal Probiotic Veggie Juice
I’m a huge fan of probiotic products so any new development in this area of the food industry is quite interesting to me. And just last week, some food scientists in China came out with the news that they’re developing a low-calorie, low-sugar vegetable juice that’s custom-designed for the millions out there with diabetes and [...]

Teff: A Gluten-Free Nutritional Powerhouse
If you suffer from Celiac disease or are sensitive to gluten, then you have probably already heard about Teff and if you haven’t, get ready to learn about a nutritional powerhouse of a grain you should seriously consider adding to your diet. Teff is the main ingredient in the Ethiopian and Eritrean engera, which is [...]

Calcium for Weight Loss
A study recently published in the most recent issue of the British Journal of Nutrition has shown that boosting calcium consumption spurs weight loss (who needs those diet pills anyway?!), but only in people whose diets are deficient in the mineral. The 15-week weight loss program was conducted on obese women and the participants consumed [...]

Looking North to the Nordic Diet
We have all heard of the Mediterranean diet which is supported by scientific data showing that people living in countries bordering the Mediterranean have lower levels of cardiovascular disease, obesity and some types of cancer. The diet is rich in large amounts of vegetables, nuts, bread and fish, making the Mediterranean diet very low in [...]

Orthorexia Awareness
This blog is all about healthy and effective diets and related subjects but it turns out there is an extreme form of everything, including the desire to be healthy. It seems like everyone I know is increasingly aware of the importance of a healthier diet and exercise, though everyone implements these changes in their own [...]

Stevia: The Sweet Tooth Savior
For those of us with a major sweet tooth, like me, you’ll try any new sugar substitute that comes out on the market, but end up disappointed by the aftertaste, or even worse, suspicious about its contents and effect on your body. But I have found true happiness in Stevia, especially now that the FDA [...]

No Carb Pasta
I’m a recovering pasta lover. It’s such a taboo thing to be these days with the low carb epidemic but my pasta eating days ended long before, when I noticed that each time I chowed down on a big pasta dinner (my favorite was pasta primavera), I’d crash out about 30 minutes later into what [...]