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Nutrition

All You Need to Know About Fish Oil Supplements

March 16, 2010

Some years back, a couple of Danish epidemiologists wondered why Greenland’s native Inuit had such a low rate of heart attacks when their diet actually consisted of fatty whale and seal meat. When the two researchers flew to the land and collected blood samples from the natives, they found that the cholesterol levels of these .....

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To Supplement or not to Supplement?

February 1, 2010
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A highly debatable question with plenty of information out there which might just leave you confused in the end. Follow these guidelines if you are stuck up with this important question… 1)      If you are pregnant, or nursing a baby, or have some chronic medical condition such as diabetes, hypertension or heart disease consider talking .....

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Reading Labels on food products- Part 2

January 30, 2010
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In part-1, we talked about serving size, the number of servings per container, the total calories per serving and different kinds of fats and how to interpret them on the nutrition facts label. We will continue our way down the list and talk about the remaining parts on the label and interpret them accordingly. 1) .....

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Reading Labels on food products – Part 1

January 30, 2010
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If your goal for the year 2010 is to lose weight, exercise regularly and live a healthy life… there is only one simple rule you need to follow relentlessly- eating right. If you need to eat right, you have to consume more of the good stuff and eat none or less of the bad stuff. .....

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What’s wrong in being a vegetarian?

January 29, 2010
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Be it a part of their weight loss campaign or for health benefits, an increasing number of people are adopting a vegetarian lifestyle into their mainstream of living. Statistically, as many as 12 million people in the US and 4 million in the UK are consuming vegetarian diets and working hard to follow their vegan .....

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