Why You Should Go Nuts for Nuts If nuts aren’t in your regular snack rotation, you’re missing out on major disease-fighting nutrients that protect your heart, boost brainpower, and more. Nuts are underrated as nutritious snacks — and walnuts may get the shortest shrift of the bunch. New research has crowned the walnut the healthiest nut, with almost twice as many heart-healthy antioxidants as other kinds. But even though walnuts may... 

“You need to eat your breakfast,” “that’s enough soda,” “please lose the junk food and eat some real food.” If you’re a typical teenager with parents who always nag you about what you eat, how you eat, when you eat or don’t eat, and the amount of junk food you consume, these comments will sound familiar to you. Give your parents a break, they are just doing their job. They want you to eat properly... 

Common foods that people need to add to their diets are plants high in the sterols and phytosterols. This is a cholesterol type compound that is mostly found in vegetables, legumes, oils and nuts. In plants today, there are a total of forty known types of sterols. You have to know, you can not completely deplete your storage of cholesterol. Your brain has to have a certain amount of cholesterol to help your body function normally and help in the creation... 

Eating disorder is very common nowadays and increasingly more people are suffering from it nowadays. While those people generally show specific symptoms which are somewhat similar, there are actually a lot of possible causes that may result in this condition. If you know someone in real life who is suffering from this medical condition and you intend to help them get out from it, the best thing you can do now is to understand what may actually cause... 

Overcoming binge eating may be a little difficult to achieve as this eating disorder, like any other eating disorders, can be deep-rooted in the mind and may be difficult to get rid of. Most often, binge eaters are eating too much when they are depressed or sad, or they want comfort. Instead of dealing with their emotions healthily, they tend to divert their focus on food until it becomes a habit to overeat. With the many health risks that may result... 

As kids, it is natural to be picky and stubborn. And as parents we know that raising kids in optimum physical and mental health is not an easy task. A major problem with most of the kids is that, they do not seem to eat enough of fruits and vegetables, which makes up a major nutrition portion of their daily diet. We are known to the fact that these are filled with nutrition. But the green color on their platter will make them run for shelter in all... 

As mentioned earlier, almost 1% of the global adolescent population is currently suffering from eating disorders. The most common among them is anorexia nervosa. The typical symptoms of a person suffering from this are: • When a person refuses to maintain normal body weight for age and height, consistently weighing 85% or less than normal for her height and weight. • Menstrual problems occur in young girls, often menstruation fails to start normally.... 

Most of us lead really busy lives and in the business it is easy to forget the importance of living a healthy life so that we settle for what’s convenient rather than what is good for us. However, it is worth making healthy eating a priority because the benefits are enormous. Here are seven healthy eating tips that you can use to improve your health and happiness and enjoy life more: 1. Eat Plenty of fresh food Take a look at the proportion...