Food Additives That Can Challenge Your Health
July 26, 2008
There are a number of food additives that can challenge your health. These additives are particular substances that are added to specific foods in order to improve the appearance, the taste, and even to preserve the flavor that the food has. There are natural based additives and there are artificial based food additives. While additives have been used in various types of foods for hundreds of years, medical professionals have recently discovered that some of these substances can actually challenge... Read more »
The Secret to Top Cancer Fighting Foods
July 25, 2008
There are many top cancer fighting foods out there. You just have to know where to look and to be informed. The main thing to remember when you are battling this disease or trying to prevent it, is to just keep it simple. Eating a healthy diet is so important. Try to avoid any kind of processed or prepared foods. If at all possible try to do some home cooking. When buying vegetables, buy organic. I know it’s expensive, but I can’t stress enough how important that is. When fighting... Read more »
Type 2 Diabetes Can Be Better Managed With Low Glycemic Diet
July 25, 2008
Foods with low GI values contain carbohydrates that are digested and absorbed more slowly, thereby result in a moderate increase in blood glucose levels. It is recommended that carbohydrate intake should fall between 45% - 65% of your daily energy intake; and it should be predominantly from low energy density and/or low GI foods. 1. What is type II diabetes? Diabetes Mellitus is a metabolic disorder characterized by chronically elevated blood glucose levels (hyperglycaemia), and abnormal metabolism... Read more »
Do Americans Know What Nutrition Is?
July 23, 2008
The state of your health depends largely on your lifestyle and the food that you eat. If you do not eat well, your body will not be able to function perfectly and you can easily become sick. According to studies, more than 50% of the people in the United States do not eat a balanced diet. It’s not that Americans do not know what nutrition is, it’s that most Americans choose junk food and processed foods because they are cheaper and more convenient than healthy food. In other words,... Read more »
Dietetics and the Basic Needs of the Body
July 23, 2008
Life is only earned on by virtue of the continuous changes and expenditures which create the corresponding alimentary wants A full grown man, in good active health, uses up each day, calculated in the fresh state, about 500 grms of his flesh or of other albuminous compounds which form his blood and his tissues. He burns a part of his fats and furnishes by their combustion, and by that of sugars and starches, which foods put at his disposal or which his organs provide him with, a quantity of energy... Read more »
The Affects of Starch and Fat in the Diet
July 23, 2008
In the production of glucose by the hydrolysis of starch, a considerable quantity of fat occurs in the glucose liquor. From the previous treatment of the raw starch this fat appears to be an inherent part of the starch itself. This investigation was undertaken to determine whether fat is really combined with the carbohydrate in the starch molecule. It was shown that: (a) Fat is liberated upon the hydrolysis of starch. (b) Although no definite compound of carbohydrate and fat was isolated in pure... Read more »
What Makes An Adequate Diet
July 23, 2008
The past few years have been a period of great and fruitful activity for the biological chemist. When one surveys the results that have been amassed, one feels that the requisites of diet are so numerous as to make failure in nutrition altogether more probable than success; it seems scarcely possible that all the known demands shall be satisfied. But as a corrective upon this impression, we have before us the fact that the human race, without scientific guidance, has maintained through the ages a... Read more »
Dietetics and Its Affect on Physical and Mental Health
July 23, 2008
Life is a perpetual function; it has for its seat the organs which, working and modifying themselves incessantly, have a constant tendency to revert to their primitive type Thence a continual current of exchanges, the upkeep of which is borne by alimentation. According to its nature, it preserves in a normal state the composition and the texture of the organs, or rather transforms slowly then: substance and, with it the functional acts. Nothing therefore is of greater importance than to know how... Read more »
Factors to Consider for a Diet for Health
July 23, 2008
Food is the matter that is taken into the body to supply nourishment or to replace tissue-waste. Every physical act consumes a part of the force that has been derived from food. The maintenance of the body-heat consumes another part, and in growing individuals a certain amount is utilized in building up the new tissues. Food as it is taken into the body differs very much in composition from the material that can be utilized in cell-growth and in replacing the tissue-waste. The function of digestion... Read more »
Water Filtration System - What The Government Is Not Telling You
July 22, 2008
Tap water is not as safe for drinking as many people assume in many places and as many governments tell us. Government bureaucrats make it seem as if their regulatory efforts are perfect and complete, but there are many gaping holes in them. Tap water is often “cleansed” with chlorine. Once thought to be a great and benign water cleanser even for drinking water, chlorine has now been linked in numerous studies to causing cancer if consumed for an extended period of time. Tap water delivery... Read more »
