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Post Holiday Nutrition: Back on Track -- A couple of weeks ago, it was turkey, dressing, candied yams, pumpkin and pecan pie, and all the trimmings. In a couple weeks more, there will be glazed ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, devil's eggs, fruit cake (heaven forbid!), and the all-too-not-low-calorie egg nog! Within a few days after that, mixed drinks, horsdouvres and champagne. Just a few days after that comes the guilt when we get on the scale.
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Eating Better: Part One - Getting Started -- This series of articles will give you some tips on how to improve your eating too improve your health. The basic pieces to the nutrition puzzle will be laid out. Some of these ideas may be covered in future or past articles in detail, but I think it is important to see the overall goals to reach for. Be patient with yourself this is not a diet to loose a few pounds and then quit.
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Eating Better: Part Two - Evaluating Your Diet -- This is the second article in the series Eating Better for the New Millennium. This article is about evaluating your diet. In the first article Getting Started I gave you some web sites dealing with making resolutions and eating better. I also pointed out that there are stages to change and that it is important to know where you are and work from there.
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Eating Better: Part Three - Eating 101 -- This is the third and last article in the series Eating Better. The first article discussed getting started. The second article looked at evaluating your diet. This article covers the basic components of eating carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water. The basics and some pitfalls of each will be examined.
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Eating to Prevent Disease -- It has been said that the best way to treat a disease is to prevent it. There are two reasons for this article. The first is to help you prevent disease. The second is to help you understand what a basic good diet is and help you to understand nutrition.
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Decrease Your Risk of Cancer: A 7-Step Action Plan -- You’ve seen them everywhere: people you know, people you love, celebrities, athletes, even children--diagnosed with the dreaded disease: Cancer. According to the Center For Disease Control and Prevention there are over one million new cases of cancer diagnosed every year. But did you know that in many cases cancer is highly preventable?
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Calories, Exercising and You -- Calorie is a term defined, in science, by the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius. We do not say "burning calories" for anything. When we exercise, we elevate the temperature in our body, which in turn burns calories in our body.
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Fruits: The Perfect Health Food -- Move over, tomato. You aren’t the only source of lycopene. Here comes the watermelon and grapefruit. Lycopene can lower the risk of prostate cancer. In America the two major causes of death are heart disease and cancer. I once heard a physician say, “If heart disease doesn’t get you, then cancer will.”
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Choosing Organic for Health -- We come from a society where growing organic and just growing produce and livestock for food Was once one of the same. Small, family farms still grow their own food using traditional methods passed down through the generations.
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Quick Meal Planning -- Quick and healthy menu planning can definitely be a challenge. But, there are some really easy steps you can take to make healthy meal planning a breeze!
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