Trans fats, those inflammation boosting, heart-disease-promoting nutritional nightmares, are rapidly disappearing from store shelves and restaurant menus as health-minded consumers become increasingly savvy about what’s in their food. The poster children for bad nutrition, trans fats are banned from use in restaurants from New York City to the state of California, and food manufacturers are [...]
In the last couple of decades, scientists have discovered more reasons (beyond vitamins and fiber) to pack your diet with fruits and vegetables: phytochemicals. All plants contain these compounds, which protect them from a variety of dangers—from harmful UV rays to predatory pests. We take in phytochemicals when we eat fruits and vegetables and, as [...]
The old phrase ‘aging gracefully” has taken a new meaning these days. With so much research showing that foods that are high in antioxidants will actually reduce or even stop the aging process, we all want to stay young, and now we can! The first sign of a wrinkle around your smile, or the drooping [...]
As a broad number of folks are searching ways to lose their weight and as most of the diet pills available in the marketplace have more side effects than benefits, steady searches have been followed out to search for the safest diet pills. The side effects induced by most of the diet pills include nausea, [...]