Top 10 Recommendations for Good Health

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1. Achieve and Keep a Healthy Weight Being overweight puts a strain on the whole body and damages your health Overweight That is especially stressful for your heart health and all the internal organs that are forced to support excess weight. You must carry excess weight with your spine, hips, knees ankles and feet. These are the mechanical components of …

Organic Foods For Your Improved Health

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Organic Foods For Your Improved Health Organic foods are food that is free from all genetically modified organisms, produced without artificial pesticides and fertilizers and derived from an animal reared without the routine use of antibiotics, growth promoters or other drugs. Once only available in small stores or farmers’ markets, organic foods are becoming much more widely available Organic foods …

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Raw Food Diet is Beneficial to Your Health

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The benefits advocated from eating a raw food diet seem endless: lowering cholesterol and triglyceride levels, eliminating cravings, preventing overeating, purging the body of accumulated toxins, balancing hormones, maintaining blood glucose levels and reversing degenerative diseases. Followers of a raw diet cite numerous health benefits, including increased energy levels, improved appearance of skin, improved digestion, weight loss and reduced risk …

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Recipes are Healthy With These 4 Tips

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Recipes for Health are Easy Recipes that are healthy seem too difficult and time consuming for many people. With some advance planning and some basic knowledge of nutrition, it is easy to create a week’s worth of healthy meals that you and your family will love. The key to creating delicious and healthy meals for the family is planning …and …

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Processed Foods Are Harmful to Your Health

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Have you ever seen a picture of your blood plasma after you’ve eaten a processed foods meal from McDonald’s or Burger King? It’s not a pretty picture. It looks thick and cloudy. Fast foods are loaded with fat and sodium. They use white bread and rolls, which means they’ve used white processed flour, with very few nutrients in them.   …

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Alkaline Diet Benefits Your Metabolism

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The premise of an alkaline diet is that the nutrients found in supplements, alkalizing foods, and water can bring the body back to balance. These vitamins, minerals, and herbs infuse the body with new energy, vitality, and better health. Alkaline diet foods and water must be consumed in order to provide nutrients the body needs to neutralize acids and toxins …

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Mediterranean Diet Plan Has Five Healthy Benefits

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The Mediterranean diet has been around for centuries, but if you don’t live in countries where this diet is prevalent such as Greece or Italy, you may not realize the many benefits of eating healthy foods “Mediterranean” style. According to studies, the Mediterranean diet encourages healthy weight loss and helps to reduce risks of many life-threatening diseases. Below are five …

Heart Health With Essential Fatty Acids

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Salmon for the Heart Heart health depends on our intake of essential fatty acids. That has changed radically in the last century. Our ratio of Omega-6 to Omega-3 should be close to 1:1, but it is now over 10:1 and up to 20:1. This is due to the addition of corn, sunflower, safflower, sesame and other Omega-6 oils to our …

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Healthy Dinners Promote Long Term Fitness

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Healthy dinners require some discipline. Ever wonder how you can possibly lose weight when the average dinner out contains over 1,000 calories? Well, don’t fret! Keeping yourself in shape when dining out is simply a matter of ordering the right menu. Below are 6 tips for having  healthy dinners out (while still enjoying your meal like normal!): – Watch Your …