A few years ago, a magazine editor asked me to write about the 10 “best” foods for families. How could I choose? No one food supplies everything the body needs, and each food brings its own unique combination of important nutrients. Then I came up with the idea of “magic carpet” foods, foods that are …
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Go Nuts About Almonds
Almond is a highly nutritious, effective health-building food both for the body and mind and a valuable food remedy for common ailments. The thin-skinned among the sweet variety is best for use. It is one of the best nut and seed foods. The best way to consume almonds is eating it without the skin.
Almond milk …
Vegetarian Diet: Great For Weight Loss, Health And The Planet
“Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends” was how George Bernard Shaw explained his vegetarian diet. Albert Einstein said that the adoption of “the vegetarian manner of living…would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.”
Whether you are interested in vegetarianism because of lofty moral ideals such as those held by Shaw and …
Healthy Dining Out
With our busy lives these days we are more apt to dine out, pick up take out food, or have food delivered to us. The problem is we are not aware of the calories and fat we are consuming when we continually eat food other than what we, ourselves have prepared.
The average dinner meal …
An Overview of the B5 Vitamin
The B5 vitamin is also known as Pantothenic Acid. The B5 vitamin is the most prolific of all the vitamins and is found in every type of food. In fact, it is impossible for a person to consume less B5 vitamin than they need. That means that there is no little possibility that a person …
Healthy Diet with fruits and vegetables
The importance of fruits and vegetables to a healthy diet has been known for quite some time, but studies have shown that very few people eat the amount of fruits and vegetables recommended for a healthy diet.
The revised USDA food pyramid contains five major food groups grains, vegetables, fruits, milk and dairy, and meat …