To develop a healthy eating program to maintain a healthy weight, it’s a good idea to do some research on health and nutrition. If you’re not trying to lose weight but just want to eat well for good health, then it’s important to understand how your body uses food. This makes it easier for you [...]
Weight Loss How To Avoid Malnutrition And Hunger Pains
Two important aspects of weight loss are how to make sure you get proper nutrition and avoid hunger pains. If you’ve tried the starvation or fad diet approach, you probably are familiar with these aspects of weight loss. How do you stay healthy throughout the weight loss how to process? The follow-up question is, how [...]
The Best Way To Make Up A Weight Loss Nutrition Program
You’ve been struggling with your weight and you’re looking for the right weight loss nutrition program, but with all kinds of different diets it’s hard to know what foods you can eat and what to avoid. There are questions, like: whether carbohydrates are good or bad, whether it’s better to avoid fat or only avoid [...]
Weight Loss – Fluid Intake and Nutrition
Diets, especially those that focus on weight loss, often concentrate on what to eat. But fluids are a major part of any healthy, balanced diet as well. Runners know this well, but the same guidelines apply to anyone interested in optimal health. About 60% of the human body is water, muscle tissue almost 70%. An [...]
Vitamins and Supplements – The Pros and Cautions
There are a dozen or more vitamins that play an essential role in a wide variety of our bodies’ functions. Getting these from a healthy, balanced diet is theoretically possible. Many actually do. But it can be difficult, especially today when so many are on the go. Supplements can help fill the gap. Unfortunately, there [...]
The Food Pyramid, Revisited
The USDA Food Pyramid has been controversial since its first appearance in 1992. While it incorporated many valuable features, it led to some confusion. Attempts to clarify the guidelines it contained in 2005 were only partly successful. What’s the scoop? The Original Food Pyramid In an attempt to make dietary guidelines easy to follow, the [...]
Organic Foods, The Pros and Cons
Much of the writing on diet and nutrition is more than just informational. It often veers into the realm of values and ethics, recommendations about what you should (or should not) do. Nowhere is this more evident than in discussions of organic food. But, while advocates can reasonably debate the pros and cons of an [...]
Nutritional Supplements
A supplement, by definition, is something that accompanies something essential. But, in some cases, nutritional supplements can themselves be an essential part of a healthy nutrition regimen. Whether because of a busy life style, or an individual genetic or physiological condition, there are those who benefit from nutritional supplements. Everyone requires a certain amount of [...]
Nutrition 101
In order to optimize your health a good diet is essential. But, with all the fad diets around it can be difficult to know what is ‘good’. Nutrition science to the rescue! Though some things are still controversial, numerous studies reinforce the following basic information. A healthy diet requires not just items from the four [...]
